...Notes on STOCK-TRAK 1. Think of yourself as having a ten week internship as a commodity futures trader. You are a commodity trading advisor (CTA) and I am a commodity pool operator (CPO). You have $1,000,000 of my money to use for margin. 2. At the end of the ten week trading period, you are required to write me a report explaining why you should be retained as a CTA. A first draft of the report is due Thursday, March 22nd. This draft will be returned with suggestions for improvements. I expect the first draft to be an honest attempt to meet the requirements of the assignment. If I conclude that this draft is not salvageable you will forfeit your right to submit the final report. 3. Your grade will be based upon the quality of the report and not on your trading results. 4. For the report to receive a high grade it must be 1. Well written i.e. no spelling, punctuation, or grammatical mistakes. 2. Convince me (it is my money after all) that you were serious and thoughtful about what you did. What approach did you take? How did you acquire the information required. 3. Explain your approach to risk management. 5. You can only trade commodity futures and commodity futures options. That is commodities like corn, copper, oil, pork bellies, wheat, coffee, sugar, cotton, etc. You CANNOT trade interest rate futures, stock futures, stock index futures, or currency futures. It is my money and all you are authorized...
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...semi-conductor and pharmaceutical industries, the food sector and the energy industry. Due to rapid population growth and the trend toward urbanization, there is growing demand for clean water throughout the world, including in India, and this demand is set to increase by around a third by 2030, according to recent studies. The rubber chemicals plant features the latest technology and was constructed over a period of less than two years. It will serve the global rubber and mineral oil additive markets as well as the rapidly growing Indian tire and rubber industry with high-quality LANXESS Vulkanox antioxidants. In June 2010, LANXESS India had announced the third production facility in Jhagadia which belongs to the business unit Semi Crystalline Products. On January 13, 2011 LANXESS broke ground for new compounding facilities with a capacity of 20,000 metric tons per year. These facilities will start producing the high-tech plastics Durethan and Pocan at the beginning of 2012. Construction of the new compounding facilities has already begun and they are due to go on stream with a workforce of 60 at the start of 2012. Existing business has outgrown the capacity of the original facilities LANXESS is continuing the expansion of its Indian production site in Jhagadia, in the state of Gujarat.The specialty chemicals group broke ground for...
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..."If it aint broke, don't fix it." One of the most famous sayings many Americans have grown up hearing. A saying that has remained true over the duration of time. Although an object may not be as shiny, nothing can defeat an object that works and gets a job done. The same saying can be used with humans. If we are not sick, don't take the medicine. In all of the fifty states, there are laws about mandatory vaccination for children. Should the schools of America follow the traditional saying that our ancestors followed? With students not being required to take vaccinations students will no longer have the anxiety of shots. speaking personally, I have always been terrified of shots. Although there are tough kids out there, many of American...
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...Athanasia Tzirtzilakis née Manioudakis was born in Neo Chorio, Crete on the 28 January 1952. Growing up post World War II, she lived in poverty and was even a sponsored child. She has four sisters and two brothers, one of whom died because of the lack of adequate medical care available. Growing up with a lot of siblings and in poverty her family didn’t have the money to send her to high school, only one of her siblings (her brother) went and completed his schooling. Instead of going to school she studied to become a hair dresser whilst also helping out at home and working in the family orange orchard and olive grove. In the 1960's a few of her sisters were brought out to New Zealand by the government as New Zealand had a shortage of workers. In the early 1970's she left her home in Crete to come to New Zealand as well. Leaving Greece she only owned one pair of shoes, heels, which broke...
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...Everyone has a barrier in life. They have fears, disability, lack of experience, death in the family. Barriers are things or obstacles that stand in our way to reach our goal. Barriers could be anything. The barrier that i face is the fear of being short. I started noticing that I wasn’t growing much on my birthday last year. I had only grew one inch for the whole year. My grandma on my dad’s side is 5,1’. THen when I stand beside my cousins that are 5,9’ and only in eighth grade. That really makes me look like a dwarf. Jackie Robinson had barriers to go through. Jackie Robinson was a negro that broke the color barrier in 1947. The color barrier was a rule that not negroes could step on a major league field and play. He played for the Brooklyn...
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...Farewell to Manzanar essay Imagine growing up with most of your childhood being in a camp and being discriminated against. Being young through many tragic events and not understanding. Your own identity feels foreign to you. Not having anyone to turn to because of the quiet silence between your family. That was the life of Jeanne Wakatsuki. During World War II, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor which caused America to join the war. The incident caused Americans to be scared of Japanese people, thinking they would attack again, which led to Japanese people being put into camps. Separated from others just because of assumptions. Throughout the Autobiography, Farewell To Manzanar, many occurrences have happened that led up to the events of the Wakatsuki family growing apart and...
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...Holes “There is no lake at Camp Green lake”. (The ather is Louis Sttancher on page 3). The theme of Holes is growing up because Stanly luring ,he shows youth ,and respasblitte. Instead of a lake it is a dry wasteland that is covered in holes. There was a lake, but it dry up with the town. “There is no lake at Camp Green Lake”(stancher pg3) One way that Stanley is growing up by learning that Camp Green Lake is not a lake it is dry and hot. Stanley thought that Camp Green Lake was a fun place, but it is not it is an awful place to be. He thought that the first hole was hard, but it is not it gets harder and eraser. “There was no time to think, he climbed in the truck and started it”(stretch pg 147) Tise shows yout because a person they...
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...The Challenger’s Memory Remains but NASA Never Changes On January 28th, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger erupted into a ball of fire and broke apart after seventy-three seconds of its launch. Ending its tenth mission into space and killing all seven crew members, including a New Hampshire school teacher named Christa McAuliffe. Despite the warnings of engineers that warned NASA before the liftoff date of the dangers and risks of the cold air temperatures could produce, they were ignored and NASA ended up paying the ultimate price. The effects of space travel learned from the Challenger accident can guide NASA to enhance its system on safety, protocol, and emergencies, to actually be concerned about the shuttle's design and training for astronauts,...
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...Reflections: When Billy Broke His Head Billy Golfus, who suffered brain damage in a motorcycle accident, struggles to find ways to rejoin society and understand disability as a social category (Aufderheide, 1997). Challenge of Personal Belief The theory “a person may be impaired, but it is society which causes disability” resonates with me. I agree with the concept of placing the person before the disorder. This assignment has made me take a hard look at how American culture describes impairment. A search on the Web for a synonym of “disability” finds words like: affliction, ailment, complaint, defect, disablement, disorder, handicap, impairment, infirmity. These are not positive words. Perhaps one day we will have the utopia Karl Marx envisioned, a classless society where everyone is equal regardless of gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, religion or impairment. Until then, a definite shift is required in the perception and definition of disability. Portrayals of PWD Interviews were conducted with highly intelligent people who engaged in political activism, who were artists and individuals who wanted control over their lives and destinies. These are atypical of how PWD are portrayed in western mainstream society. In every person there exists the innate human power to overcome challenges, the will to succeed, the desire to feel accepted by peers, and the desire to be treated with respect. The quality of “overcoming” cannot be measured. In each individual case, the...
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...bay area and California. The number of people apposed to the laws changing in favor of same gender marriage is large but the number of people supporting same gender marriage is vastly growing and the youth are leading the way. The media aids in portrayal of same gender couples as if they were a style with widespread footage shown on the Internet and television. Although the media plasters traces of same gender passion throughout the Internet and television for all adolescence to see, the fact still exist that it is the civil right of each individual in the country to be treated upon fairly by the government regardless of their gender, race, and sexual preference. The majority of people in California in favor of The California protection act that is a ballot proposition and Constitution amendment that passed by means of state election better known as proposition eight, involves the band on same couple marriage in California. The majority of people who have apposed the measure on same gender marriage may be large but the number of people in favor of same gender marriage is growing and especially among our youth in California. The trend of same gender passion is all throughout the media and television shows. One movie that exploded throughout mainstream media and society was Broke Back Mountain. Broke Back Mountain is a controversial movie that depicts a sexual relationship between two men in the American west. President George W. Bush announced to a crowd that he had seen the movie...
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...religion with his own religions but to do this he knew that he would first have to eliminate the other religions. This essay will analyse the ways in which Hitler aimed to do this. The first action that Hitler took was only six months after her became Chancellor in July 1933. This was when he signed a concordat with Pope Pius XI which meant Hitler promised that he would leave catholic schools and the Catholic Church alone and in return the Catholic Church would not interfere in politics. When Hitler did this he was attempting to get the Catholic faith on his side so that it would be easier to eliminate them completely in the future. However, in 1936 Hitler broke his trust with the Catholic Church. Hitler decided to shut down all Catholic schools. They had not been teaching Nazi propaganda and as a result Hitler saw them as a growing threat towards him and hi control over the young in Germany. From this point onwards Hitler continued to try and get rid of the Catholic religion. In 1937, Hitler banned the Catholic Youth League, insisting that the only group a child should attend was the Hitler Youth Organisation. In the same year, Hitler also began to confiscate Catholic Church funds and accuse priests and monks of sexual malpractices. By doing this Hitler tried to turn the Catholic congregation against the Church and towards his organisations. Some people tried to stand up towards Hitler. One example of this was in 1937 when Pope Pius XI wrote ‘With burning anxiety’. This expressed...
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...INCA CREATION In the beginning, Pachacamac the sun rose slowly from Lake Titicaca. Pachacamac was so bright that nothing else could be seen in the sky but him. However the sky night was empty so he made the planets, stars and the moon. The moon became his wife and they both rules over the earth and heavens. Pachacamac made from stone the first humans who were creatures that knew nothing about the world or even how to survive in it. The sun and moon had a daughter and son and sent them to the earth to help the humans. The son taught the men how to plant fields and build houses and the daughter taught the women how to weave and make food. Pachacamac’s son became the first Inca, he and his wife went to find a place for their people to settle down. They stuck their fathers golden rods in the earth. Each rod would act as a symbol for his people to build a city. In the valley of Huanacauri another rod was planted and this became the first temple of the sun and this would be the place where people would settle. Then Inca and his wife went to gather his people. Inca went north and his wife south. In the small villages the husband and wife were both admired that people moved to the valley of Huanacauri. Incas wife’s followers settled in the south whilst Inca’s followers settle in the north. All of the cities were divided into northern and southern halves that represented males and female forces. What is its message? That men and women cannot be compared as being the same. They...
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...I write to you today because I very much disagree with your article Legalizing illegal immigrants a bad idea. In this article, you give your reasons on why you think that immigrants shouldn’t have to opportunity to become legal citizens of the United States. You say that once an immigrant becomes a citizen they will bring the rest of their family to the US. The article says that immigrants will take away the job opportunities from American people. It also states that most immigrants will live off welfare. Lastly, you say that the immigrants who broke the law shouldn’t get the same reward as other people who waited many years for their green card. The following is a quote from your article Legalizing illegal immigrants a bad idea: Any plan that provides the same prize to those who flouted the law is a mistake. The message to the hundreds of millions around the world who aspire to live in the U.S. will be clear: Those who broke the law still got green cards. Their decision to come illegally...
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...this is most recently in response to speculative reports on ESPN. However, this is addressing a growing narrative over the past few years: Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls are heading down a rocky road to an inevitable divorce. The kid from Chicago will leave – or be driven out – possibly to a place as far away and as opposite as Los Angeles. I’m not here to say Derrick Rose is going to become an MVP-caliber player again, or retire a Chicago Bull, but I do want to address the situation right now, at this specific time in Rose’s career with his hometown team. After the first three-game stretch with less than ten points per game of his career, reporters, analysts, and fans alike are questioning Rose’s fit in new coach, Fred Hoiberg’s, system. The system is more up-tempo, far more offensively oriented than Tom Thibodeau’s was....
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...these companies rooted in the Shenandoah Valley of Pennsylvania. This company provides specialized custom made parts to fix failed parts on machines that produce corrugated cardboard used in the construction of cardboard boxes. However, due to the downturn in the economy and advances in new materials used for shipping, it has had a negative effect on Edmunds Corrugated Parts & Services. Edmunds Corrugated Parts & Services have been around for many years, growing from a barn sized building to a 50,000 square-foot factory. The company has employed locals from around the area, many of which are ready to retire. One of Larry Edmunds’ main concerns is how he will replace these highly skilled and experienced individuals once they retire. Larry feels if there are new hires the quality of the finished product may decrease significantly, having a negative on Edmunds Corrugated bottom line. Larry Edmunds’ second major concern and causal for some loss in profits, was the emergence of new technology (which broke less), and the advancement in alternative packaging materials other than the traditional cardboard box, strategies which he failed to adopt. Further, this new technology put many smaller companies out of business or forced them to merge with other companies, making a shift and almost forced...
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