星期日, 5月 11, 2008

Synchronization between Video and Subtitles

A number of software for synchronizing subtitles with video:
  • Magic Sub Edit
  • Subtitle Workshop
  • BSPlayer Subtitle Editor
I've tried Subtitle Workshop and it's fairly easy to use.

星期一, 5月 05, 2008

Short Sale and the Like

Short Position
  • Benefit if a security's price decreases.
Short - http://riskinstitute.ch/00012816.htm

Short Position can be constructed by:
  1. Short-sale a security, i.e. borrow others' securities and sell them, and return the securities at a later time. Short-sale via brokerage firms is actually 'using' other clients' securities.
(Synthetic short position)
  1. Sale of uncovered call option.
  2. Purchase of put.
  3. Selling of forward/future

Short Sale - http://riskinstitute.ch/00012816.htm
Synthetic Short - http://riskinstitute.ch/00013076.htm

星期日, 5月 04, 2008

Currencies Rubiks

http://www.hsbcnet.com/fxpuzzle demonstrates a few ways of playing with the "Currency Rubik".

FX Triangulation

Triangulation (from http://londonfx.co.uk/trading.html)

Triangulation is an analytical term used to describe the crossing of one currency pair with another. The resulting spread is wider after triangulation because the spreads of the two crossed currency pairs are merged together by multiplication or division. The following three examples show some typical ways that triangulation is calculated:

http://londonfx.co.uk/trading.html