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Printed Date: 26/Jun/2024 at 10:28pm
Topic: Post your suggestions to improve forum
Posted By: vijay
Subject: Post your suggestions to improve forum
Date Posted: 18/Jul/2006 at 11:22am
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Hi friends,
As you know that this is a new forum and we are trying our best to make it the most active, informative and usefu4l forum where members can interact and can seek advice related to stocks, equities and other investment tools.
We solely believe that there is no idea which cannot be further improved and this is just the starting so I am sure there will be many suggestions from our member friends.
So this section is for you all to post your suggestions for improvement and if any idea which we can work on to make it even better.
Post your comments and feedbacks here.
Cheers,
Vijay ------------- http://www.india-forums.com/ - India Forums | http://vijay.bhatter.com/ - Vijay Bhatter |
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Posted By: Vivek Sukhani
Date Posted: 27/Jul/2006 at 8:46pm
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I liked your style. I have just one request. there must a provision tomload charts on the forum. Actually we are all learners, with due respect to Mr. Basant as well.Let this be an oracle for learning...thats all what I want.
regards,
vivek
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Posted By: TEAM-EQUITYDESK
Date Posted: 27/Jul/2006 at 8:24am
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Thank you for bringing it up. In fact a couple of other participants have also pressed on the same issue but our technical guys tell us that allowing uploading of charts from different userscould create problems in terms of virus. Nevertheless we would ask them to see if an alternative can be worked out.
Regards,
Team-EQUITYDESK
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Posted By: Vivek Sukhani
Date Posted: 27/Jul/2006 at 9:32am
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Dear Gentleman,
I would again like to re-iterate my request for a place where I can load scanned pages of Annual Reports, which I find worth passing over. In case that is not possible, you can send me e-mail at mailto:[email protected] - [email protected] and I will be glad if I can be of any help to you.
Regards,
Vivek
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Posted By: Vivek Sukhani
Date Posted: 31/Jul/2006 at 8:12pm
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hey guys, Kindly participate...silence is golden, I know.... but how much gold will you collect?????Throw your views, initiate discussion, point out mistakes. Do something.
Regards,
Vivek
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Posted By: prashantmohta
Date Posted: 01/Aug/2006 at 5:10pm
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thank you very much m.r basant for opening this wonderful site which seems to very educative.i would like to request to write a book on stock market. |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 01/Aug/2006 at 5:37pm
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Thank you for your kind words but you know as I mentioned a book would have been a one way communication and in today’s world we can add a great deal of education by going in a two way communication mode. Now we have just started and what I find is that the people who have been visiting this forum are the ones who want to know more of the why's rather then the what's. If you read some of the write ups from the regulars like Sajan, Vivek, mamta, Shuchi or maybe Ambarish (he seems to be becoming more of a Bschool specialist) Vineet (joined today)and also you for opening up that big silver debate one would find that there is a passion to both know and tell. We do have consistent differences of opinion but that is what the purpose is. Had we agreed on a common set of stocks there was no need to get into this mode.
Normally I do not think that anyone is competent enough to answer all questions so it makes great sense for all of us to sit down and interact from our living rooms. Thank the technology guys for that and here you may thank Sajan (ex Infy and presently running his own software co.) and Veenit (working in Wipro) as they are the rightful representatives of the software industry at theequitydesk.com. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: Vivek Sukhani
Date Posted: 03/Aug/2006 at 4:00pm
| I beleive we need to be more multi-faceted in our approach. Mere talking on concepts, I beleive will be insufficient. Let there be something more concrete.Also, i beleive we must form a group on orkut, which will enable us to increase our batch strength. i request mr. basant, to make a community on orkut where we it will be easy to attract more and more minds, and hence more and more diverse views and opinions. |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 03/Aug/2006 at 4:30pm
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Thanks Vivek. While this can be done I feel that if we have our contents in place and do not make this site a tips and kya lagta hai den people will come. we are less then 2 weeks old and the google search engine has started indexing us.If you click on the active users tab you will see the google search robot quite frequesntly. Once pages get indexed we will have a flood of visitors that would add more interest and intellect to this place. While yahoo has already indexed 40pages google is normally a bit slow in starting the indexing job. Our average hits is about 1300 - 1500 per day and over a period of time thgis would increase. I will try and talk to some other members and see how we can get that community thing working on orkut.
Thank you gain for your suggestion. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: Vivek Sukhani
Date Posted: 03/Aug/2006 at 4:36pm
| Thanks Mr. basant. Actually, I am very young to you and hence it is very inapproriate for me to advise to you, yet I simply see a lot of potential in our networking.I simply want to know why cant we be Zacks in Indian equities. i belive we have the right infrastructure. we have a wonderful analyst in you, excellent support staff like us.then why not something big????? |
Posted By: Ambarish
Date Posted: 03/Aug/2006 at 4:57pm
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hi vivek if we form a comunity in orkut we will have a clash of intrest
as being a online forum ourselves and as we provide almost the same
sevice as an orkut community will. what i think is a good idea is that we should spread the word around in the simmilar community of which we r already a member of in orkut about this site
so that more people can benfit of this place as we have started forming
a strong group here and if people from orkut join us with support of
members like yourself we will be able ro perfom miracles in cyber
space
------------- www.halwasiya.uni.cc “Wining is not everything, it is the only thing” |
Posted By: Vivek Sukhani
Date Posted: 03/Aug/2006 at 5:29pm
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Got your point,buddy, but I want this forum to get even more constructive in its approach. Word of mouth wont attract the desired number.And I dont see any competition between orkut and this site. Orkut is basically for business networking. However, i will ponder over what you have said.
Thanks buddy.... do keep on writing
Vivek
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Posted By: wba5261
Date Posted: 06/Sep/2006 at 6:05pm
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Sir,
Its becoming very difficult to obtain back dated posts and very difficult to locate the stock ideas.
Kindly organise the posts in a manner that it becomes easier to navigate.
Regards
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Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 06/Sep/2006 at 6:11pm
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You may do either of the following 1) USE active topicsay look for posts one day old to since beiging here.
2) Use the search button on the top right hand corner of the page if you are looking at some specific topic/stock
3) Search for stocks in Investment ideas forum that is 2nd from the start at the forum index page. That section is divided into 3 parts Large caps, emerging multibaggers and value picks
4) If you are looking for posts from aspecific person please go into the member list and click on that person's nameand serach for all posts by him.
Please do suggest if something else/specifically needs to be done so that navigation is not a proble. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 08/Sep/2006 at 10:14pm
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Hello Basant jee,
http://www.theequitydesk.com/dreaming_with_number.asp - http://www.theequitydesk.com/dreaming_with_number.asp
This page seems to have an error mistake. I guess there may be some numerical limit to the "Final Total".
Try doing the following as n example:
1) Upfront amount: 1 lac
2) regular amount: 0 rupees
3) number of years: 30
4) Annual rate: 1%
The final total is wrong. I think it calculates in the above case simple interest for one year only or something like that, instead of compounded interest for 30 years. If only an upfront amount is put in, to keep compounding, without any additional monthly instalments, this calculation shows wrong values. It is a small mistake, but I thought I should let you know. Even though it was meant to be an exercise in showing what a small amount can grow to over time, I guess it should work nevertheless!
Hope this helps! ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 08/Sep/2006 at 10:21pm
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YEs it has still not been put in order. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 09/Sep/2006 at 2:09pm
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Thanks sir. Was just providing my feedback. Hope its okay. ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: kulman
Date Posted: 10/Sep/2006 at 5:06pm
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Basantjee
There are far too many forum topics making searching or locating the subjects too difficult. Could you think about reducing the number to manageable/browsable current relevant topics only.
Please thinkover....
------------- Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 10/Sep/2006 at 5:17pm
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Thanks.I would. in fact I have been thinking of streamlining the topics into sub forums also.. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 10/Sep/2006 at 8:18pm
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Whenever I visit the pages first time in the day, I simply go to "Active Topics" and select "last 9-10 hours" and just go thru all the topics. However, any streamlining of topics would be even better. Thanks basant jee ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: kulman
Date Posted: 10/Sep/2006 at 11:55am
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Basantjee
I have one request....can we start a topic about "what to read" to keep updated on investments, business, companies.
For example, I read ET, Business India, India Today, surf the net to visit sites like moneycontrol, bloomberg, theequitydesk. I do company research on myiris.com, religare.in
The books I like are "Intelligent Investor", "One up on wall street", "The warren buffet way".
Would like to hear from you.
Thanks ------------- Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 11/Sep/2006 at 12:11pm
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check investment resources section under words of wisdom did it now. Is there anything that needs to be changed there? ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: prosperity
Date Posted: 12/Sep/2006 at 9:26pm
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Basantji,
The promotions of members based on quantity of messages posted -
while this might be an easy-to-follow criteria .. it leads into manipulations
Manipulations by members to use more messages to say the same things
Some members are NOT using the edit button to edit their messages - they just shoot off another messages ..
The QUALITY of discussion - which is and should continue to be the USP (universal selling point) of theequitydesk - so QUALITY ALSO DETEORIATES - coz members have some recognition if they post max. no. of messages ..
Somehow - there needs to be a way where QUALITY of messages in addition to QUANTITY of messages needs to be factored into promoting members..
I agree that QUALITY of messages is SUBJECTIVE ..
But something like moneycontrol messageboard is doing can be done - Other Members can RATE messages ..
Even if message count remains the ONLY criteria - then 1-2 liner messages should not be counted ..
Please give more thought on this...
It would go a long way to maintain QUALITY at theequitydesk forum ------------- |
Posted By: kulman
Date Posted: 12/Sep/2006 at 9:39pm
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Prosperity
Good idea, we must make sure crap is kept out of this forum. Let this forum become a model for investors, and not speculators or for that matter who are looking at get-rich-quick formulae or stock tips.
I dont know this rating system on moneycontrol.com, bcoz I do not chat there nor do I chat on any other site (including RD) precisely bcoz I find lots of such elements there.
Lets vow to make theequitydesk a grand success!! ------------- Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 12/Sep/2006 at 10:12pm
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I have got the point. Thanks. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 12/Sep/2006 at 11:33pm
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I agree too. And to be honest, I think I may have done it mistakengly myself too in some messages(it didnt come to my mind), though in lots of other messages I have edited it instead of adding a new reply. I dont know, just did what came in my mind at that time. But will be careful next time onwards...at least shall try my best! As I said long time back, misreants will always find ways to get into every forum, system but our focus should be on stocks and not something else. In fact almost every person I have seen here except Basant jee, has posted at least one extra message where he/she could have simply edited his/her earlier message but I didnt think about it till now, as I would like to give them the benefit of doubt that it was unintentional. Also case in point about moneycontrol, they dont have a promotion system there at all and hence their model is not the same as ours here. In fact, most forums like EquitDesk have the same system: "number of messages" leads to promotions. In fact, on moneycontrol, I have seen that miscreants do something else, for example: 1) A and B have an arguement, and A is talking more sense whereas B is just posting messages like "buy xxx, sure going to shoot up in next week".
2) B goes out and derates any message from A. In fact, it takes this "B" guy hardly 5-10 minutes to create another id and he comes in and again gives a low rating to A's messages.
So no system is foolproof. However moneycontrol messageboard doesnt have any promotion method and hence that model is different to this model.
What we can do is increase the number of messages needed to promote someone to senior. From newbie to groupie can be in 50 messages probably, but from groupie to senior the person WILL need to post 1000 messages, so the miscreant doesnt think about that and since almost everyone would be in the groupie group, there wont be too many comparisons and hence not too much temptation try to get promoted.
You MAY demote all the new "seniors" to groupie so that the rule applies to all, in a fair way and since 1000 messages would be far off, maybe the miscreants wont think about it too much!
However, in all fairness, if someone is thinking of getting a promotion here or is focusing on who is getting promoted and all, and not focusing on stocks and how to make money out of it, then that person is literally wasting their time and he should be warned twice privately or on board, and then banned simple! Applies to everyone, including me of course!
However, basant jee, you are the boss and have to decide after taking into consideration all aspects! ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: ashwin.adsouza
Date Posted: 12/Sep/2006 at 9:46am
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Hi Vijay,
The forums are really good with some really outstanding posters.
One major improvement that I would suggest is that, can a poster have a link to view all his posts and see all the replies to his posts. Also maybe the poster also has the facility to view his frequently visited forums, etc.
All said and done, One request is that this forum should not be allowed to go the moneycontrol.com way where miscreants have managed to destroy the investor confidence by reckless posts.
Thanks,
Ashwin
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Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 12/Sep/2006 at 10:10am
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Hi Ashwin,
Thank you so much for your advise. Yes, a poster could go to the member list and click on the "find all posts" search button to look for all posts from specific members.
We would certainly keep your advise on record and see that quality of posts are maintained at the highest order.If you see the announcements section we have taken some steps in that regard today.
Regards,
Basant ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: prosperity
Date Posted: 21/Sep/2006 at 8:50pm
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The flashing quotes on the website has typo - the words patient and impatient should be interchanged. It is making the meaning completely opposite. Not sure if Buffet said this.
Investing is transferring value from the patient to the impatient – http://www.theequitydesk.com/warren_buffet.asp - Warren Buffet
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Posted By: prosperity
Date Posted: 23/Sep/2006 at 3:22pm
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One more feedback, Can you pls. make the default as "Newest Post First"..
Even if i do NOT logout, after some time it changes back to "Oldest Post First". Everytime, i have to change it back.
All regular folks on equity desk, would want to read the latest post - i believe "Newest Post First" is the sensible and good default !
For new folks, if they are reading the topic for the first time and they want oldest post first, let them change the new default 'coz thatz not the most often scenario !
Thanx
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Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 23/Sep/2006 at 3:28pm
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I will try to and that seems more sensible also. But I would need to ask the guy from whom I bought this software from. Also if you click on the extreme right hand corner of the active topics (there is a very small arrow there) where the name of the member who has made the last post appears you would be taken to the last post directly. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: prosperity
Date Posted: 23/Sep/2006 at 3:45pm
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Thanks Basantji, the small arrow which you told also does the same sensible thing which i was expecting. So even if the default cannot be made, i have learnt from you (small arrow) on how to get what i want !
Thanks for mentioning that - i had not observed it earlier..
And if you are asking your software guy, also ask and LMK about - how can "sending emails" option selected in the profile be made functional..
I have selected "send emails" but i have never gotten any emails as replies to my post, new post, etc... I would love to have these features - which the website claimed but seems they are not functional now.. maybe its a placeholder for future things to come..
kindly let me know....
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Posted By: Equity Buff
Date Posted: 23/Sep/2006 at 10:14am
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Prosperity,
If you tick the box Email notify me of replies, when you post a message, it works as I have been getting email replies to my posts.
Rgds.
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Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 23/Sep/2006 at 10:27am
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Prosperity have you put in your email ID at the time of registration.Just check up by getting into the settings tab and if not tryb and update it. It works that way! ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: Equity Buff
Date Posted: 28/Sep/2006 at 5:22pm
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Dear Basant,
I have been a member of this forum for a little less than a month and today I have become a Senior Member. But my humble suggestion to you is that you must consider changing the criteria of 100 posts for Senior Membership. Because just posting 100 messgaes should not make anybody a Senior member, including myself. It is all about quality of posts, stock ideas a person gives and the help a person gives to other members in the forum in terms of clarifing doubts etc etc that is most important.
I would like to congratulate you for starting this wonderful forum. I think we are having some very good meaningful discussions and also discussing some wonderful stock ideas.
Keep up the good work.
Thank You & Warm Regards
Equity Buff
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Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 28/Sep/2006 at 5:33pm
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Equity, with due respect to you. That way the promotions would become very subjective. That is why I suggested to change the criteria from 100 to 1000 posts or maybe something like "minimum 3 months since registration" AND "500 posts" for senior member.
Anyhow, I dont think we should concentrate too much on this seniority and stuff. Let's focus on stocks. ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 28/Sep/2006 at 5:36pm
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Firstly apologies for not having created a congratulation page for your becoming a senior member. Will do that right away. ANd yes, we would look up to that because as the audiance increases the "100" figure looks very small.
------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: Equity Buff
Date Posted: 28/Sep/2006 at 5:47pm
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Om,
I think there is no need for any kind of promotion(Senior, Super Senior etc there is no need). Members of the forum in a very short time will see posts from different members and will easily figure out who they want to track(automatic Senior for them) and who they dont.
It is all about contributing to the forum for the benefit of all.
Rgds.
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Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 28/Sep/2006 at 5:49pm
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In fact that is an xcellent suggestion. No promotions nothing! That solves the problem to a large extent. Nice suggestion equity. Let's see what Basant jee thinks. ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: T-REX
Date Posted: 10/Oct/2006 at 1:07pm
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My first impressions of the website. You may take these with a pinch of salt.
Cheers T-REX |
Posted By: prashantstk
Date Posted: 08/Jan/2007 at 12:15pm
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add a scroll bar for the articles that are big in size as person could not read such articles.
I've been member of this site since long , but recently found this problem |
Posted By: us121
Date Posted: 09/Jan/2007 at 10:25pm
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i need some help. when i open any of the topic, generally it opens with 'Oldest post first' .
if i watn it to open with 'Newest post First' on the very first instnace, how can i do it?
will appreciate if some one tells me the way out.
thanks
------------- ABILITY will get u at d top. CHARACTER will retain u at d top |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 09/Jan/2007 at 6:38am
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WHen you are at the active topics section click on the small arrow that is located at the extreme right hand corner of the screen. That should take you to the last post. Clicking on the topic will take you to the oldest post first. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: deveshkayal
Date Posted: 24/Jan/2007 at 11:46pm
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Basantji,plz check the time.It is half an hour back,plz correct it. ------------- "You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beat the guy with a 130 IQ. Rationality is essential"- Warren Buffett |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 24/Jan/2007 at 8:13am
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Unfortunately the forum allows us to set a time by hourly counts only. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: tggyp
Date Posted: 27/Jan/2007 at 2:58pm
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Dear All,
Firstly congratulation to all of you for this wonderful site and its contribuors. This website is a good compilations of useful thots and views on stocks. I would like to track a few boarders only is there any way in which i could subscribe to all posts by a particular boarder. IT will be useful if we can do it as as the no of users of this site goes up it will be increasingly difficult for a newbie(like me) to navigate to useful posts.
I wish to continue and contrbute fruitfully on this site as i find it not too overclogged.
What brought me here on this site was a google search on RJ. My indian idols of stock market investing are Ramesh Damani and RJ.
Cheers and all the best to all..
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Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 27/Jan/2007 at 8:21am
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Thanks for joining. I am not sure if we have that system right now but as with other things I could talk to the software people who handle this site.
It is really interesting to know that google has indexed us on Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.
We do look forward to receiving your posts on this site as often as we can. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: India_Bull
Date Posted: 28/Jan/2007 at 2:04am
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Basantji,
I have to do a lot of research on the new posts posted by members or new topics added.
 Could you pls check with the Tech guys , as my email Id has been provided while doing registration, I should get mail alerts for any new posts or new topics , that way I can be always in touch with the TED and atleast view what the other members are saying. In fact for any other message boards in yahoo etc, this is what happens.
Something needs to be done on this front as I think most boarders would be facing similar issues. ------------- India_Bull forever Bull ! www.kapilcomedynights.com |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 28/Jan/2007 at 7:54am
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In any topic there is an option which reads
"Toggle email notification for this Topic"
If you click on this the system should send you an email on the latest posts for that (existing) topic. But for new topics I would have to check up as to whether it works.
------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: deveshkayal
Date Posted: 28/Jan/2007 at 10:55am
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Basantji,if u could add specific cities in Location inspite of Country or u could do both cities and country so we can know Indian members in detail. ------------- "You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beat the guy with a 130 IQ. Rationality is essential"- Warren Buffett |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 28/Jan/2007 at 11:15am
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We are contemplating a change in the forum structure. Shall try and take in all those suggestions. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: deveshkayal
Date Posted: 28/Jan/2007 at 11:33am
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You could also provide related link.For eg: just now bullzi did not know where his post in Yes Bank has gone, so you can provide Which bank will foreigners buy on that Yes BANK page.you can provide Pick Axe Theme in Pantaloon page, just link. ------------- "You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beat the guy with a 130 IQ. Rationality is essential"- Warren Buffett |
Posted By: manishkayal
Date Posted: 04/Feb/2007 at 9:34pm
Basantji, even I would like to contribute in this matter by loading the Files which I have....I think those can be very useful as a resources to many ppl on this forum. What do you think. Till now I was loading it on E-Snips or any GoogleGroup...but I think TED have a better base of Investors...so why not have everything at one location.
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Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 04/Feb/2007 at 10:51pm
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Sounds like a good idea kayal ji. Let's see what Basant sir says. ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: BubbleVision
Date Posted: 04/Feb/2007 at 7:09am
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A link for adding attachments of an unlimited size should help ...... ------------- You can't make money if you are unwilling to lose...It's like willing to breathe in but not willing to breathe out. -- ED SEYKOTA ....Read Disclaimer! |
Posted By: PrashantS
Date Posted: 04/Feb/2007 at 8:09am
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The problem in india is people love to buy the same stock they had bought at high rate....so one starts to sell ...everyone sells................it is liek a pack of cards.......one starts falling.......the whole thing collapses .......but the guys who make money is people who understand the value of the company .........so we have to equip ourselves ..........with loads of knowledge.... I think Ted could be a huge community if we can split it in departments and manage it ........Only Basantji could trigger this......... |
Posted By: SORUB
Date Posted: 06/Feb/2007 at 10:56am
1 small request..we could all communicate in english as people like me dont understand hindi...we miss some part of the conversation 
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Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 06/Feb/2007 at 11:27am
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Good point whenever we use Hindi we would try and put the translation in brackets.!!! ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 06/Feb/2007 at 11:39am
I am not too sure any TEDdy is ready yet to take charge of any particular department as such, at least till sometime.
If deptts. have to be formed, let them be formed on Basant sir's admin side first, if and only if he feels there is any need!
For now, I feel this spontaneity should be flowing as usual(go with the flow), as we all have a long way to go still. ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: xbox
Date Posted: 06/Feb/2007 at 11:42am
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Basant jee,
How about making profession and location mandatory for all members. ------------- Don't bet on pig after all bull & bear in circle. |
Posted By: SORUB
Date Posted: 07/Feb/2007 at 12:59pm
puting the translation in brackets will be a great  ------------- K.I.S.S(keep it simple silly) is the most easy management formula i ever came across!!! but it is very hard to follow!!! |
Posted By: tigershark
Date Posted: 07/Feb/2007 at 2:07pm
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we need a column where we can just type the co name and we get all the posts made reg the co for ex just type punjab tractors and we get all the posts reg this co so searching among midcaps large caps emerging stars bcoms quite easy ------------- understanding both the power of compound return and the difficulty getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 07/Feb/2007 at 3:37pm
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I understand what you are saying but you could also use the search button on the top right hand side of the page ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: tigershark
Date Posted: 07/Feb/2007 at 8:17pm
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ok boss got it thxs ------------- understanding both the power of compound return and the difficulty getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 07/Feb/2007 at 8:34pm
I have no problems at all searching for any company and I have done many searches. It is good to have it this way, as that way we work harder to get what we want.
SOME THINGS ARE BEST KEPT AS IT IS ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: us121
Date Posted: 14/Feb/2007 at 11:58pm
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posting reply through eamail: i receive email intimation for every new post. can we reply the same so that the reply gets posted in that thread. many community groups allows this. this is easy when at times we want to reply extempo while reading posting in thread thro email.
------------- ABILITY will get u at d top. CHARACTER will retain u at d top |
Posted By: India_Bull
Date Posted: 14/Feb/2007 at 1:08am
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I dont receive email intimation for every new post. (That was my demand since long...) Basantjee, I desparately need this as I might not access TED site many a times but should be able to read what TED says on other mailbox..
Is it possible now ? I guess or I am under the impression that I will receive notification to the topic I have posted ..and have to search for new topics etc raised by TED members !!
------------- India_Bull forever Bull ! www.kapilcomedynights.com |
Posted By: PrashantS
Date Posted: 15/Feb/2007 at 7:09pm
| We need a chat box like an IM...may be on the left hand corner..everyone should be able to chat in a single box..and that should clean up automatically every 24 hours.. |
Posted By: BubbleVision
Date Posted: 21/Feb/2007 at 12:32pm
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BasantJi....some thing is compeletly wrong regarding the "Time" of the post on the site ...
Take a look at post by PrashantS http://theequitydesk.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=646&PN=7 - here ...
The time given is 12:05 AM ....
My question : How is 12:05 AM is calculated
 ... It should be either 00:05 AM or 12:05 PM------------- You can't make money if you are unwilling to lose...It's like willing to breathe in but not willing to breathe out. -- ED SEYKOTA ....Read Disclaimer! |
Posted By: Vivek Sukhani
Date Posted: 21/Feb/2007 at 7:15am
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Bubble,
12.05 AM is possible. 00:05 AM should be read as 00.05 hours.
Regards,
Vivek
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Posted By: BubbleVision
Date Posted: 21/Feb/2007 at 10:30am
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Vivek -- How is 12:05 AM possiable.... what time is that .. after the 00:00 midnight (when the date changes) or after 12:00 noon (when the AM changes to PM).
There is NO time as 12:05 AM ...
We in forex markets have to know the global time zones and i can instantly tell you time in any major financial center which you want at any given point of time.
00:05 hours may also be interpretted as 00:03 AM ...
I can send you the calculation sheet if you want..in that case just PM me.
------------- You can't make money if you are unwilling to lose...It's like willing to breathe in but not willing to breathe out. -- ED SEYKOTA ....Read Disclaimer! |
Posted By: tigershark
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 1:24pm
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yes thks just wanted your opinion ,hdfc bank is doing well today do people other than teddy bears visit equitydesk is there away to find out who quietly visits ------------- understanding both the power of compound return and the difficulty getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 1:49pm
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I wish I knew that. But close to 10,000 people (unique visitors) come here each month! ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 1:57pm
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Well Basant sir, I think we should respect people's privacy. I think even if some of those guys do come around, I hope that they would have the courtesy to anonymously send advertisers on this website at least. Not bcoz we want it, but bcoz of showing their thanks.
If they come and enjoy and get informed and yet don't put anything back into TED in any form, by george...remember that Rule of the Universe: "It all comes back 10-times fold" and it comes only when "we least expect it" or in negative case, "when we are the weakest".
So, advertisers bhejo, enjoy karo...nahin to hohoho hahahaah hehehehe
 ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: kulman
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 4:42pm
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But close to 10,000 people (unique visitors) come here each month!
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That's great! Basant jee, pls implement members only access as soon as possible. At least let them register with pseudonym.
------------- Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 6:06pm
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On a serious note, yes Kulman jee...I think TED is close to implementing that. Basant sir mentioned of increasing the base just a bit more. ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: tigershark
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 8:46pm
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basantji could yu pl elaborate if its no big deal what is meant by unique visitors.how do yu know these r unique ------------- understanding both the power of compound return and the difficulty getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things |
Posted By: BubbleVision
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 9:06pm
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Tigershark ---
http://www.indextools.com - www.indextools.com is a paid webtracking service which tracks the hits on particular pages and unique visitors. They also say that how many users have typed in the address and how many have visited directly from Favorites menu.
Unique Visitors mean first time visitors on any website. I would now classify as Repeat visitor since i visit the site often.
TED is Almost my "Web Home"  ------------- You can't make money if you are unwilling to lose...It's like willing to breathe in but not willing to breathe out. -- ED SEYKOTA ....Read Disclaimer! |
Posted By: BubbleVision
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 9:11pm
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1% (approx) of TED visitors are from Poland and 1% from HongKong. I have not seen anyone here with Location "Poland" or "HongKong"... I guess all the Fund Managers are based there. ------------- You can't make money if you are unwilling to lose...It's like willing to breathe in but not willing to breathe out. -- ED SEYKOTA ....Read Disclaimer! |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 9:28pm
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Bubble ji,
I have heard of a website called http://www.stayinvisible.com/ - http://www.stayinvisible.com/
Thru this people can visit website anonymously to an extent. They have proxy IP addresses. So, even though you may be visiting from Mumbai, you can use a proxy address from the several servers on stayinvisible and the browsers will show that you are from US or Poland or Sri Lanka hehe
But there are tracking devices which can track even these free proxies and extract the real IP address and country, city from the top layered proxy address. ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 9:33pm
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I saw for example a proxy server here:
http://nntime.com/ - http://nntime.com/
So, try putting the above IP adress in your proxy address(if using win98) or lan address if using Windows Xp, server, ME etc.
Then go to: http://www.stayinvisible.com/cgi-bin/iptest.cgi - http://www.stayinvisible.com/cgi-bin/iptest.cgi and see if your real ip has been shiedled or not.
I just followed what this website said...rest you can find out I am sure. Press Ctrl+A for heading of table. ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 10:08pm
These are minor details that are available at alexa also.But yes as Bubble mentioned we have put up a web tracking service that lets us know about visitors and other details.
http://info.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?p=TBChrome_T_t_40_L1&amzn_id=alexa65-tb-20&url=theequitydesk.com/forum - http://info.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?p=TBChrome_T_t_40_L1&amzn_id=alexa65-tb-20&url=theequitydesk.com/forum
About making access password and identity based it tends to obstructs the search engines when they are crawling the sites hence lower indexatiuon in google for example if you search google with the key words such as rakesh jhunjhunwala, equity multibaggers etc . this site is prominently represented.
That is why I do not want to make pawword mandatory for seeing this site. Look at moneycontrol it is free for all!
------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 10:23pm
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I am sure you have the best people in the business working for you, but if any of us is needed in anyway, do let us know Basant sir. This much we owe at least to TED. We are all just a click away. ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 10:30pm
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Yes very true sir, you are the best judge. Basant sir, why dont we just make some part of page 1 of every thread public: it would include, the names such as jhunhjhunwala, the company name, basic idea etc. or better still, every thread's 1st page can be made duplicate(automatically), which can be given for indexing on google.com
If you are targeting MC message boarders, then please also see the quality of posts there on any company. I think TED's targeted audience should be only a selected few of MC, who really mean business and have the temperament.
Of course, it is all upto you. ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: BubbleVision
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 10:41pm
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Om - Duplicating pages would cause the site to slow down ... as it will block up a lot of web space and also searching for pages would take longer. Webtracking services also dont accept that...from what I know. ------------- You can't make money if you are unwilling to lose...It's like willing to breathe in but not willing to breathe out. -- ED SEYKOTA ....Read Disclaimer! |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 10:41pm
Thanks a lot for those words. We did get that Access changed into SQL from the feedback on this forum. I would like to see the speed go up so we are able to open up pages in lesser time. Would be talking to the person who handles this site. ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: BubbleVision
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 10:44pm
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AND I am just a phone call or a SMS away!
I use BSNL Broadband at office and VSNL Broadband at home. ------------- You can't make money if you are unwilling to lose...It's like willing to breathe in but not willing to breathe out. -- ED SEYKOTA ....Read Disclaimer! |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 10:44pm
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Thanks very much sir. I however have no problems with opening the website. In case the tech. guys wanna know my speed: "It's DSL broadband, 256KBps" ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 01/Mar/2007 at 10:48pm
I however feel that the website free is the best idea...though the stocks ideas should in someway be kept only for members.
It will help in someway later on(better that we take the pain now and do some changes in this front. change is always painful). However, I am 10000% for keeping website free for most other wisdom words and a tidbit of stock idea to give a taste of what TED is about in the indexed pages. It's difficult to implement I know, but that's the job of the tech. guys , not our business or pain to handle!  ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: kulman
Date Posted: 14/Mar/2007 at 6:23pm
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Time on server needs to be updated. Earlier it was 30 minutes behind, now it is 30 mins ahead of IST.
Something like Nifty futures trading at premium or discount to spot?
 ------------- Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards |
Posted By: BubbleVision
Date Posted: 14/Mar/2007 at 6:55pm
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This is because of US shifting its EST time zone from GMT - 5 Hours to GMT - 4 Hours. This change came from Sunday, 11-Mar-07 0200 GMT.
I rembember the same thing happened in Nov also when the US changed to winter time.. However the matter was updated as the US server also changed its time.
I think that things will get back to a discount as soon as the server readjusts its time once again. ------------- You can't make money if you are unwilling to lose...It's like willing to breathe in but not willing to breathe out. -- ED SEYKOTA ....Read Disclaimer! |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 14/Mar/2007 at 6:58pm
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The US has time zones divided into gaps hourly intervels from the GMT so this forum can have only one hour differentiating times from the GMT while India is 5 hrd 30 mins from the GMT - This is what the back end people said! ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: BubbleVision
Date Posted: 14/Mar/2007 at 7:05pm
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Note Australia changes to winter time from 1400 GMT on 24-Mar, while the EU and the UK will change to summer time from 0100 GMT on 25-March.
Australia will shift from GMT + 11 to GMT + 10
UK will shift from GMT to GMT + 1
EU will shift from GMT + 1 to GMT + 2
------------- You can't make money if you are unwilling to lose...It's like willing to breathe in but not willing to breathe out. -- ED SEYKOTA ....Read Disclaimer! |
Posted By: kulman
Date Posted: 14/Mar/2007 at 7:07pm
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The US has time zones divided into gaps hourly intervels from the GMT so this forum can have only one hour differentiating times from the GMT while India is 5 hrd 30 mins from the GMT
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That is throwing an excellent Arbitrage opportunity! I wish that futures on "time difference" were traded on CME/MCX/NYMEX!
 ------------- Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards |
Posted By: kulman
Date Posted: 17/Mar/2007 at 4:14pm
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Basant jee
Few days ago, I had suggested making TED accessible to registered members only.
Any development on that front? ------------- Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards |
Posted By: India_Bull
Date Posted: 17/Mar/2007 at 4:26pm
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Kulmanji, If that is being implemented then I might be out of TED (as I am not sure about the frequency at which I can/will access TED/Post the messages ) Kabhi haan kabhi Naa !!!I am in touch with TED because of my gmail account ,wherein I get notification of the new post ..but the prob is I only get notified for the topics where I have posted and dont get to know ant any new topics and posts by members
 Garib logon ke uper raham karo jee------------- India_Bull forever Bull ! www.kapilcomedynights.com |
Posted By: India_Bull
Date Posted: 17/Mar/2007 at 4:29pm
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Kulmanji,
Just realised its about registered members that you mentioned
I am probably talking abt some suggestion by TED member to keep it accessible to only those who are puting posts ..I think its OM.. ------------- India_Bull forever Bull ! www.kapilcomedynights.com |
Posted By: BubbleVision
Date Posted: 17/Mar/2007 at 4:36pm
Sandy -- Swiss Franc kamane wale kabhi Garib nahin hote. We know that you have a swiss bank account. 
Frankly I think that TED should be accessible to everyone! ------------- You can't make money if you are unwilling to lose...It's like willing to breathe in but not willing to breathe out. -- ED SEYKOTA ....Read Disclaimer! |
Posted By: India_Bull
Date Posted: 17/Mar/2007 at 4:40pm
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Bubblevisionjee,
Swiss franc garib ho raha hai aur India Rupee Amir ho raha hai.
1 CHF was equivalent to 39 Rs 5-6 months back, now its 36 Rs.
Indian economy boom is becoming harmful for Indians stayong abroad..
(Though its a financial loss for me , I would love to see it grow)
------------- India_Bull forever Bull ! www.kapilcomedynights.com |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 17/Mar/2007 at 4:47pm
You know I was told that the simple we keep easier it gets for the search engine web spiders to crawl! So just kind of going slow on that for the moment. once we get a good reach then that is always on the cards
Sandeepji: Bubble is right. Swiss Bank A/c walle always khush (amir)
------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |