Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

Edmund Wehrles wrote a book about missionary riot in China that concerns me very much - I have a burning question and felt he might have the answer.  So I googled him on the web and fired an e-mail immediately.  Quickly I got a reply, “.. I think you’re looking for my father ..”  Geee, the [...]

This Wednesday two high schoolers showed up to play!  Yapeeee.  They are good.  Sunny B. and I had to work extra hard to carve out a win, thinly, 3:1 after 14 all.  Simon went to play his 5-week long USTA 4.0 league, but left a box of delicious pineapple cookies fm Singapore.  

Kinglazy is playing Beethoven’s sonata, the one Golfer played a while ago.  Poor kid, he’s pretty good at practicing, without nagging.  Or I’ve nagged him too much, so he’d rather play than hearing me?  He wants to do jazz band in the summer.

It wasn’t long ago, if I found a tiny piece of news about China, it had to be on the International page of the NYT, on weekend.  Now … those few are just from the FT, today.

Few lingos you have to know . . .
ghost shares - are highly risky
black horses - shares that beaten expectations
fighting for the hat - buying cheap to sell high
meat slicing - selling at a loss to avoid furhter losses
lifting the sedan chair - a news that will boost prices
rat investors - insider traders
deer market - [...]

FT: The number of Asians sitting for the west’s benchmark qualification for financial market literacy has outstripped candidates from the US - marking another milestone in the region’s rapidly growing influence on global markets.
This year’s crop of candidates for the Chartered Financial Analyst exam will mark a dramatic reversal from earlier decades, when candidates from [...]

Guten Morgen … DAX is doing well for me this morning … caught both the up on a zlr and down (on Nicker’s rabbit ears) movements - got out too soon, I was fumbling with auto exits; but collecting gold dust so far, lol …

Got in gold at 6:45am out by 7:23 with a tiny profit barely covers the round trip commission, due to boredom, hence missed this big surge, :(, lol …  … decisions and money management, just like in any other biz.  Oh ya, sure there is a better trade down the road, pls rub in.