Le rating de la Grèce et du Portugal abaissé

+25 pips , mais c'est un peu faible vu le mouvement engendré par la baisse de rating. Enfin on va pas se plaindre.
La volatilité importante m'a permis de constater que les cours d'un de mes courtiers ne suivaient pas, il y avait un lag de 10 pips par moment.
J'ai appliqué la sanction: clôture du compte dans l'heure.

e-Forex

e-Forex: le meilleur magazine trimestriel pour se tenir au courant de tout ce qui touche l'industrie du forex: courtiers, programmes de trading, interview de traders, régulation de l'activité etc...

Grèce/FMI: enfin !

+ 56 pips pour récupérer une partie des pertes de la veille. La moitié seulement a été récupérée car la valeur affectée aux trades était de moitié celles d'hier. Une journée satisfaisante malgré tout.
L'euro fait un petit rallye pour l'instant à 1.3376.
Le biais short eurusd est conservé.

IFO: 101.6 au plus haut depuis Mai 2008

-60 pips dans la journée d'hier. Surpris par le mouvement de cisaille repris sur le graphe.Cela m'apprendra à trader sans stoploss.
Essayé de récupérer la perte dans la période de 18h00 à 23h00 avec autre résultat que de doubler la perte initiale. Un grand classique...

déclarations politiques

Avec certaines déclarations du côté allemand, on se demande comment l'euro n'a pas perdu 200 pips...
" Il faut changer les Traités Européens pour réguler l'insolvabilité des Etats"
"On doit empêcher les pays Membres de devenir insolvables"
" Maitriser la crise avec le Traité de Maastricht "


+8 pips pour terminer cet après-midi. Situation à réévaluer ce soir, la baisse ne m'a pas l'air bien franche.

Flou sur la Grèce

D'après le Ministre Allemand de l'Economie la Grèce n'a toujours pas fait appel officiellement à une assistance de ses partenaires européens.
« Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra » (Cicéron) « Jusqu' à quand, Catilina, abuseras-tu de notre patience ? »
On voit mal comment la Grèce pourrait s'en sortir autrement. Trainer les pieds pour mettre en oeuvre des réformes et ne pas assumer ses responsabilités ne fait que décrédibiliser les responsables grecs et déprimer l'euro.
+33 pips dans un short tenu trois jours, mais prudence : une annonce d'un accord en bonne voie de se conclure pourrait faire remonter le cours de 100/150 pips en quelques heures.

The Benefits of Using Wordpress

Wordpress is amazing and flexible blogging engine; so flexible in fact that it can be used as a CMS, and often is. There are so many advantages with using Wordpress, for one, it's user friendly, and if you aren't comfortable messing with PHP, there's no need! These features just make blogging that much more enjoyable.

Some Advantages:

Can be installed in any subdomain or domain
Multitude of Fantastic Plugins
1-2-3 Theme and Plugin Install
Its Totally Free!
User Friendly
Easy to Template
Can be used as a CMS to make a static site
Posts + Pages

...And plenty more. Wordpress proves to be flexible and easy to work with, wherever your a serious n00b or a PHP Expert. So if your looking for an easy and great software for your blog, WP is one great way to go!

What's your favorite CMS/Blogging Engine? Do you use Wordpress?

How to use Grids in Your Design and Why - Part I

This post was Written by Juan Sebastián Celis Maya, of Evolucionemos.com and Sebascelis.com.


Have you ever wondered why some websites looks so neatly organized and styled? Maybe the information is very well distributed...but what make those websites special?

Well, actually there is a secret!

Most of them use something called "grids". So what's a grid?

In Web Design, a grid is composed of just a CSS file; and it's purpose is to provide a framework for specially sized content containers for text, images, or whatever else that would go on your site.

The most famous, and perhaps best grid system is the 960 Grid System created by Nathan Smith.

But before you start with your own, I will explain the grid and how to use it.

What really defines this grid system is the width: 960 pixels wide.

This width is great because 960 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 30, 32, 40, 48, 60, 64, 80, 96, 120, 160, 192, 240, 320 and 480. This makes it a highly flexible base number to work with.

Let me clarify that there are two versions of this grid to work with; the 12 Column grid and the 16 Column.

I personally like the 12 Column grid, but you can use whichever you suites your needs.

How to Do It
To make things more easy, its best to start with a new design.

The next step is to download the grid's css: 960 Grid System CSS File

Create a new HTML file that looks something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Your Title Here</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="960.css" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body>
<div class="content">
the content will be here
</div>
</body>

</html>


As you can see, we added this line in the section to call the 960.css file:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="960.css" type="text/css" />


It depends on where you have the file, but if it's at the same folder than the index.html file you can leave it as such.

And then, we need to start adding the content to our file.

There are set blocks (divs) of different sizes:

grid_1, grid_2, grid_3, grid_4, grid_5, grid_6, grid_7, grid_8, grid_9, grid_10, grid_11, grid_12


Each number indicates the relative size of the block. Because we are using a 12 Column Grid, we have 12 different sizes to use.

Now, we can add the divs as follows:

<div class="grid_1"></div>

The class, "grid_1" is defined as 60px wide in the css file.


Those divs are styled as blocks so you can put one next to another and they will float to the left and distribute themselves correctly.

We have to be sure that we add blocks which size adds up to 960px, or 12.

For example this one:


<div class="grid_4"></div>
<div class="grid_4"></div>
<div class="grid_4"></div>

(Each "grid_4" is 300px wide, so 300 times 4 is 12)

Or this one


<div class="grid_4"></div>
<div class="grid_2"></div>
<div class="grid_6"></div>

(4 + 2 + 6 = 12)

Maybe even this one:


<div class="grid_2"></div>
<div class="grid_2"></div>
<div class="grid_4"></div>
<div class="grid_4"></div>

(2 + 2 + 4 + 4)

Or finally this one:




<div class="grid_6"></div>
<div class="grid_6"></div>

All of the sizes add up to 12, so that we make sure that the screen is filled.

After every row we add (blocks which size sums 12) we need to add one div more to tell the browser to clear the blocks below.

<div class="clear"></div>


Then our code would be like this:


<div class="grid_6"></div>
<div class="grid_6"></div>

<div class="clear"></div>


<div class="grid_2"></div>
<div class="grid_2"></div>
<div class="grid_4"></div>
<div class="grid_4"></div>

<div class="clear"></div>


In the next part of this series, we will see how we can use grids inside grids and how we can fill in spaces without having to add divs with the specified size. Grids prove to be very useful tools when designing excellent websites.

Examples

I leave you here some websites designed with 960 Grid System... enjoy!

Gantry Framework



Onehub



TabBots



You can find more examples here.

See you next time!

La SEC accuse Goldman Sachs de fraude

Trader sans écran Reuters ou Bloomberg, c'est comme regarder un film sans le son. Vers 16h40, l'eurusd commence à s'agiter nerveusement et le Dow plonge sans que j'en comprenne la raison. Finalement, une dépêche Dow Jones attire mon attention sur le cours de Goldman qui perd 10 %.
Une vingtaine de pips dans un short ouvert immédiatement.

routine de hedging

Tant que l'euro monte, je passe mon temps à faire des trades opportunistes pour financer le short que j'ai ouvert il y a une semaine.
Bilan équilibré pour l'instant. Le bénéfice se fera lors de la descente.
En dessous de 1.38 , je ne vois pas de risque de short squeeze.
Wait and see...

Or et pétrole en repli

Toujours le même dilemme : couper une pose pour assurer un gain de 48 pips ou risquer de le voir s'envoler ? Ici, opéré le bon choix: un tiens vaut mieux...

I can't do it all guys.

I'm about to make you an offer you can't turn down! (JK.)

Well, seeing that I am only one person, and am dedicating my time to guest blogging elsewhere as well, I need some help with this blog. I don't need people to make layouts or themes, just one or two people who would be willing to write a post once a week.


Why?

Because my dream for SoDevious is to give teens interested in art and design a place to thrive, and that isn't something I can accomplish by myself.

Are you up for the challenge?


If you are interested, email me at sodevious.net at gmail.com. You'll be getting full credits, and permanent ad spots to your blog or portfolio. (If SD ever becomes rich and famous, you'll get a cut :P)

I hope someone can come through, I can't just watch SD die.

Fitch downgrades Greece to BBB-

Merci Fitch ! +40 pips d'un coup qui tombent bien à point pour financer mon short d'hier. ah , le week-end s'annonce bien :-)

J-C Trichet se veut rassurant sur la Grèce

+45 pips sur deux jours.
Biais toujours short eur-usd; détention de poses short overnight.
Hedge à un endroit adéquat déterminé en session de trading si remontée du cours de +100/200 pips.

How to Create Business Cards with InDesign

This guest post was written by Phil Boyd, of InDesignTemplate.Com.



The business card is one of the most important ways for young designers and entrepreneurs to locally promote themselves.

If you have already started doing freelance work or are thinking about doing it in the near future, I highly suggest having a business card to hand to potential clients.

Why?



Credibility

For a young professional, having a business card adds a ton of credibility to your cause.
If you claim to be a designer-for-hire but cannot easily give a business card to your client, it will seem unprofessional and you will probably be forgotten.

However, if you can back up your claim by giving them a card, it will give the impression that you are professional and dedicated.

Nobody wants an inexperienced kid working for them. Show them that you are serious about your work. It goes a long way, trust me!

Ease of Contact

Your business card holds all of the most important ways to contact you. Your phone number, e-mail address, and anything else which is important to you.

The business card lets you give all of this information to somebody directly and easily. No more searching for a pen and a napkin when you see the opportunity for work.

Your potential client will be much more inclined to contact you if you make it easy for them.

Remember - if you give a personal phone number, answer the phone professionally! No "Hey"s and "Yo"s!


To Showcase your Talents
If you are a designer, why not incorporate your design skills into your business card?
Your business card is often moulds your client's first impression of you, so take the opportunity to win them over on the spot by showing them your work.

Are you a graphic designer? Create a personal logo for your card! Web designer? Make it look like a website!

Keep it creative yet professional.

Creating a business card

For this exercise, we will be creating a simple business card using Adobe InDesign. This is the best program for bringing together text and images, as well as preparing your document for professional print.

1. Open a New Document in InDesign


Go to File -> New -> Document

Make the document 1 page. Width 3.5 in, Height 2 in. Make the margins 1/8" (0.125 in), as well as the bleed.

Press OK.

2. Create your text.



Click on the text tool or press "T" on your keyboard. Draw a text box.

Write in your name, position, and essential contact information.

3. Import your logo or graphic


This should be created as a vector image in Illustrator, however a 300 PPI jpeg will be sufficient.

Click on the ractangle frame tool or press "F" on your keyboard. Draw a frame.

Go to File -> Place or hit Ctrl+D (Command+D on Mac). Browse for your image, and hit OK.

Right click, and go to Fitting Options -> Fit Content Proportionally. Your image should now fit your frame.

You can adjust the frame size and keep fitting your content proportionally, or you can adjust the image inside the frame by hitting the direct selection tool (A).

I want my image to appear to continue off the business card, so I will ensure the graphic continues until the red bleed line.


4. Choose your color theme.



Do you want the background to be white or colored? White will generally be cheaper to print, however professional printers should have different colored stock - check ahead.

For this card I will use a lightly stained background, and use the two shades of green from my image for consistency.

First, use the rectangle tool to draw a rectangle that fills the entire bleed area. Next choose your background color. Right-click, go to Arrange -> Send to Back.
I chose a brown, which complements the green of the image, and turned the opacity down to 30%.

Next, I highlighted my name, chose the eyedropper tool, and clicked on the darker green color.

5. Perfect your layout



I selected the line tool and drew a green line from the bleed margin up to the tree stump. I right-justified my name and position (using the text bar at the top).

This symbolizes me, chopping down a tree. Suitable for a lumberjack, no?

I highlighted my contact information and made it 8 pt, to give focus to my name.

Finally, I added in the (fake) company name at the top, and gave it the light green color from my image.

6. Print

Now that the layout is complete, print your business cards!
I suggest using a professional printer, especially if you are using colors and images that bleed out of your document.

Trying to print out a large amount of these yourself will be a huge headache, and will cause more problems than good.

Invest the money for professional printing!

As you can see, it is relatively simple to create a professional business card using InDesign. All it takes is a little patience to learn the program!

paradoxe du money management

...ou comment faire 80% sur un compte avec seulement 27 pips de gain ?
C'esl le logiciel forex control center qui a attiré mon attention sur ce que je pensais être une anomalie alors que j'étudiais les statistiques du compte 'Polaris'.
L'explication est bien simple: ce compte a servi à tester plusieurs types de trading: scalping, swing, hedging, EA , ceci avec des valeurs de lots bien différentes: du micro-lot à plusieurs lots.
La conclusion est évidente: parler uniquement en terme de pips pour évoquer les résultats de trading n'a pas de sens si on ne connait pas les sommes qui ont été tradées ou la rentabilité par rapport au capital.
Ainsi, la plateforme Metatrader n'affiche même pas le nombre de pips dans les statistiques qu'elle produit. D'autres systèmes par contre se focalisent essentiellement sur le nombre de pips , ce qui est un non-sens comme nous venons de le voir.

mens sana in corpore sano

Tiens, voila le voisin qui va à la pêche dans son jardin; je ferais peut-être bien de m'aérer également, les marchés sont aussi calmes et sans relief que vendredi passé avant le NFP.

Forex Control Center

forex control center

Un logiciel conçu pour analyser, organiser, comparer tous vos trades en seulement quelques clicks.
Importation aisée de Metatrader-MT4, Oanda et fichiers .csv
Licence gratuite pour analyse d'un seul compte.

US nonfarm payroll +162K v 200KE

Pas de trades, les volumes sont beaucoup trop bas vu les congés sur la plupart des places financières.
J'ai néanmoins profité de l'occasion d'une statistique importante et d'une faible liquidité pour vérifier les écarts de cotation entre trois différents courtiers. Bilan satisfaisant : trois secondes après la stat , les écarts sont de 10 à 15 pips pour se réaligner ensuite très rapidement dans la minute.
Seul un quatrième courtier visualisé sur un deuxième écran ( donc non présent sur la copie ) patine encore lamentablement à 20 pips d'écart plus de trois minutes après la stat.
Toujours bon à savoir pour ne pas avoir de grosse surprise en période volatile. Le courtier le moins réactif n'est pas nécéssairement à écarter, on pourra l'utiliser pour des stratégies de détention de poses sur le moyen-terme.