Posted in Funny, tagged billion dollar house, Funny on February 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here you go, something you can spend pip proceeds on: a $1 billion house, anyone?
From the good ol’ Huffington Post: What would you do if your net worth were $22 billion? If you were Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani, you might build yourself the world’s most expensive home.
As designed by Chicago architecture firm Perkins + [...]
Posted in Funny, tagged forex, political jokes on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Brandon Chapman (you know, one of the FX coaches) emailed the following, pretty funny:
Nice to see that the politicians setting policy are as informed as, uh…… You fill in the blank.
Wall Street Chuckles Over Kaptur/Bernanke “Confusion”
Posted By:Bob Pisani
Topics:Federal Reserve | Congress | Ben Bernanke | Investment Strategy [...]
Posted in Funny on January 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Oh, and in honor of the tea-leaves reference in the post below, go here to get a real (real virtual) reading! From that page is the following:
A Tea Leaves reading can be used as a focus for your daily meditation, as inspiration for your own writing, or simply as a thought for [...]
Posted in Funny, tagged forex, the truth about ben bernanke! on December 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Thanks to Nick Jensen for revealing the truth about Bernanke!
Enjoy, click here!
Posted in Funny, tagged forex, you've gotta be freaking kidding me on December 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Or, if you want to truly prove the value of your InvestoolsFX education, watch this. This is some guy’s analysis of currencies on CNBC. My jaw was literally on the floor watching this: truly his analysis is what you learn in the beginning of the basic InvestoolsFX course. What [...]
Posted in Funny, U.S. dollar, tagged dollar, forex, Funny, usd on November 28, 2007 | No Comments »
The poor buck, here’s a funny cartoon one of you sent one of us and floated among us in email, courtesy of the commentary section of the Christian Science Monitor:
Speaking of, my adventurous wife and I spent hours last night drooling over our next vacation; we ran into a website (homeexchange.com) that hooks [...]
Posted in Funny on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Currencies-unrelated: I thought this was pretty funny, a Malaysian automaker is rolling out a vehicle targeting Muslim consumers in the Middle East which features a compass that always points toward Mecca and a compartment to keep the Koran and scarves in (in the U.S. our special compartment is for gloves - I’ve never actually seen [...]
Posted in Funny, tagged forex on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I am working on filling in the sections up top (”Economics” I’ll save for last, doesn’t that just sound like a beast?) And I got a little done tonight. I can add other sections and fill in more of what’s there, but my question to you is: what would [...]
Posted in Funny, U.S. stocks, tagged carry, forex, stocks, Carry trade, U.S. stocks, Risk, support, world clock on November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Heads up, stocks are at a long term support level. What’s at stake? Life as we know it. If we crack below, then we challenge the last low which, over the long term on the weekly chart, defines the long term trend. Yikes. Note that stocks are heavily oversold, which correlates to carry being oversold. [...]
Posted in Funny, tagged credit crisis, credit crunch, Funny, howard dean and his freaky yeooowl, mortage, sub-prime on October 28, 2007 | No Comments »
This one is a little bizarre guys, but if you want a good chuckle over a 2 minute youtube joke about the credit fiasco here ya go! One of the best parts is the clip from Jim Cramer’s bizarre, infamous manic moment of ranting how Uncle Ben “has no idea how bad it is out [...]
Posted in Carry trade, Forex basics, Funny, tagged carry, Carry trade, chuck norris kicks butt, forex, stocks on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
What do these have in common? I’m not sure apart from a funny Blooomsberg article I came across. the author draws parallels between Chuck and the financial markets, and www.chucknorrisfacts.com which is a hillarious website of good humored Chuck Norris jokes. Here’s the first four from the article by Mark Gilbert:
Here, then, is the [...]
Posted in Australian dollar, Forex basics, Funny, tagged aud, aussie, Australian dollar, currencies, forex, Funny, high dollar, kangaroo on October 14, 2007 | No Comments »
More on the effects of a currency appreciation this time, here’s a good write-up from a South African newspaper on how the high value of the aussie is affecting the Australian economy.
To sum it up: its exports are more expensive to others, so Australian companies need to be more competitive. If you tune in [...]
Posted in Funny, Japanese yen, Oil, U.S. dollar, tagged dollar, forex, funny iranian policewomen scaling down a wall for the k, iran, jpy, Oil, politics, usd, yen on October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s how this works. Usually, oil is denominated in USD, meaning any random country pays an oil exporting country in greenbacks. However, it’s recently been disclosed that a couple of Japanese oil companies (Japan Energy Corp, the 6th largest, and Cosmo Oil Company - yes, that’s really the name) are buying Iranian oil [...]
Posted in Canadian dollar, Funny, U.S. dollar on September 29, 2007 | No Comments »
The combination of dollar weakness and loonie strength finally has brought the USD/CAD to parity. Today for the first time, the pair closed below it, i.e. the loonie’s worth more than a buck. Wow.
NPR did a funny story on it this week. It mentioned how the loonie used to be a bit of [...]
