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100 Notable Books of 2009 - The New York Times

100 Notable Books of 2009 - The New York Times: "Nonfiction"

How to Do Laundry While Traveling

How to Do Laundry While Traveling

Movie Review - The Sun - When Dusk Finally Settled on the Emperor - NYTimes.com

Movie Review - The Sun - When Dusk Finally Settled on the Emperor - NYTimes.com: "When Dusk Finally Settled on the Emperor"

Yield curve system claims to beat the markets - FP Trading Desk

Yield curve system claims to beat the markets - FP Trading Desk: "Yield curve system claims to beat the markets"

Berkshire buys Nestle, Exxon; ups Wal-Mart stake - Yahoo! News

Berkshire buys Nestle, Exxon; ups Wal-Mart stake - Yahoo! News: "Berkshire buys Nestle, Exxon; ups Wal-Mart stake"

Do-It-Yourself RV - NYTimes.com

Do-It-Yourself RV - NYTimes.com:
"Do-It-Yourself RV"

CNBC Stock Blog — Bear-Market Rally Has 'Turned Over': Elliot Wave's Hochberg — CNBC.com Investing News - CNBC Stock Blog - CNBC.com

CNBC Stock Blog — Bear-Market Rally Has 'Turned Over': Elliot Wave's
Hochberg — CNBC.com Investing News - CNBC Stock Blog - CNBC.com:
"This Bear-Market Rally Has 'Turned': Elliot Wave's Hochberg"
Nov 8, 2009

Oct 30, 30, 2009 Selling ramps up at RIM - The Globe and Mail

Selling ramps up at RIM - The Globe and Mail:

"Insider selling at Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM-T62.411.021.66%) has picked up.
Over the past three months, RIM officers and directors who are insiders sold, as
a group, 541,341 shares in the public market, net of any shares acquired through
the exercise of options or public-market purchases. Co-CEO James Balsillie was a
net seller of 438,490 shares while co-CEO and board member Michael Lazaridis was
a net seller of 126,152 shares during the period"

Charts Custom Indicators

Charts Custom Indicators:

"!!! McGinley Dynamic

ExpAvg12offset1 is expavg([close], 12, 1).

Dynamic is (expavg12offset1 + ([close] - expavg12offset1)) / (([close] / expavg12offset1) * 125)."

Exponential Moving Average (EMA)
(Click here for a live example of an Exponential Moving Average)

In order to reduce the lag in simple moving averages, technicians often use exponential moving averages (also called exponentially weighted moving averages). EMA's reduce the lag by applying more weight to recent prices relative to older prices. The weighting applied to the most recent price depends on the specified period of the moving average. The shorter the EMA's period, the more weight that will be applied to the most recent price. For example: a 10-period exponential moving average weighs the most recent price 18.18% while a 20-period EMA weighs the most recent price 9.52%. As we'll see, the calculating and EMA is much harder than calculating an SMA. The important thing to remember is that the exponential moving average puts more weight on recent prices. As such, it will react quicker to recent price changes than a simple moving average. Here's the calculation formula.

Exponential Moving Average Calculation
Exponential Moving Averages can be specified in two ways - as a percent-based EMA or as a period-based EMA. A percent-based EMA has a percentage as it's single parameter while a period-based EMA has a parameter that represents the duration of the EMA.

The formula for an exponential moving average is:


EMA(current) = ( (Price(current) - EMA(prev) ) x Multiplier) + EMA(prev)

For a percentage-based EMA, "Multiplier" is equal to the EMA's specified percentage. For a period-based EMA, "Multiplier" is equal to 2 / (1 + N) where N is the specified number of periods.

For example, a 10-period EMA's Multiplier is calculated like this:


(2 / (Time periods + 1) ) = (2 / (10 + 1) ) = 0.1818 (18.18%)

This means that a 10-period EMA is equivalent to an 18.18% EMA.

Note: StockCharts.com only support period-based EMA's.

Below is a table with the results of an exponential moving average calculation for Eastman Kodak. For the first period's exponential moving average, the simple moving average was used as the previous period's exponential moving average (yellow highlight for the 10th period). From period 11 onward, the previous period's EMA was used. The calculation in period 11 breaks down as follows:


(C - P) = (57.15 - 59.439) = -2.289


(C - P) x K = -2.289 x .181818 = -0.4162


( (C - P) x K) + P = -0.4162 + 59.439 = 59.023

Vixen... Another Jewel by Merwin

Vixen~ by W. S. Merwin

Comet of stillness princess of what is over

high note held without trembling without voice without sound

aura of complete darkness keeper of the kept secrets

of the destroyed stories the escaped dreams the sentences

never caught in words warden of where the river went

touch of its surface sibyl of the extinguished

window onto the hidden place and the other time

at the foot of the wall by the road patient without waiting

in the full moonlight of autumn at the hour when I was born

you no longer go out like a flame at the sight of me

you are still warmer than the moonlight gleaming on you

even now you are unharmed even now perfect

as you have always been now when your light paws are running

on the breathless night on the bridge with one end I remember you

when I have heard you the soles of my feet have made answer

when I have seen you I have waked and slipped from the calendars

from the creeds of difference and the contradictions

that were my life and all the crumbling fabrications

as long as it lasted until something that we were

had ended when you are no longer anything

let me catch sight of you again going over the wall

and before the garden is extinct and the woods are figures

guttering on a screen let my words find their own

places in the silence after the animals

The Beam of a Lightless Star ~ Merwin

Another Pulitzer winner... this one - a two-timer

Winning one Pulitzer is amazing.. two is very rare

His book - The Shadow of Sirius was written without punctuation and in free verse, and its poems are among the most autobiographical of his career. They touch on themes of memory, wisdom and childhood.

He described the collection as having a first section about childhood and remembering childhood, “not from a distance, but from inside.” The middle section is a collection of elegies to dogs, and the final section is about later life.

For The Anniversary Of My Death by W. S. Merwin

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me

And the silence will set out

Tireless traveller

Like the beam of a lightless star

Then I will no longer

Find myself in life as in a strange garment

Surprised at the earth

And the love of one woman

And the shamelessness of men

As today writing after three days of rain

Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease

And bowing not knowing to what

Just in case you sometimes wonder... what the heck is he talking about... here is my take..
The central idea of this poem is simple: each year contains the date on which the poet will finally die.

But the implications of this premise are complex. They involve nothing less than the total breakdown of conventional modes of understanding time. Viewing time sub specie aeteritatis... Merwin labels the linear sense of time as illusory.

The beam of a lightless star is in one sense a metaphor of his own language of silence, the silence of death, the silence on meaningless. A beam emanating from a lightless star also suggests that from a detached perspective a dead star can appear alive.

This is indeed a fine symbol of the eternal longing of all of us. It is a great symbol of time as relative in a world of absolute being.

Merwin perceives his death has already taken place in the precisely the same sense that the present exists externally.The temporal distinction is false.

In the second stanza, he sets up a new distinction to replace the old. He will no longer find himself in life as in a strange garment. He will lose his divisive perception that isolate him. He will no longer be surprised at the earth and the love of one woman.

It is finally to this human universe that Merwin must return.