THECHINASTORY dot ORG

The Secret Of Want Want – Revelation

thechinastory — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:28:32 +0000

On August 1, I post a short article about the unusual price movement of Want Want. The share price rose steadily throughout the day despite in a very bad Hong Kong market trading day. It is now three weeks later today. The price shoots up 7% because of a news stating that Want Want’s profit rises 54%. The effect seem on the August 1 can be due to the below reasons :

1. The Taiwan Effect. Within the past three weeks, there are many stories about Taiwan e.g. The Taiwan government invites Taiwan company to list in TSE including Want Want, Taiwan business is expect to improve due to improve relationship with the mainland.

2. Insiders could have know about the improve in profit and started buying shares. Three weeks is about the correct timing that it takes for accountant to calculate the report and then announce it.

《業績解碼》旺旺(0151.HK)上半年毛利率跌至37.2%
8月 27日星期三 10:20 更新

中國旺旺(0151.HK)(0151.HK – 新聞 – 公司資料)公布，上半年乳品及飲料類產品的毛利率下降，拖累整體毛利率按年減少1.8個百分點至37.2%。

期內銷售總額為7.1億美元，其中米果銷售佔32%，同比上升53.7%至2.3億美元。乳品及飲料佔銷售額約34.4%，由於生產成本增加，毛利率下降5.4個百分點。另外，休閒食品類產品，由於白糖、明膠價格回落，加上產品結構改善，毛利率上升0.4個百分點至44.4%。(da)

The Secret Of Want Want

thechinastory — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:00:57 +0000

The Dow Fell 205 points dragging down the Hang Seng Index. However Want Want steadly rises 5% today, totally unaffected by the market. I search but cannot find any related news. I am sure something is happening. There is a stream of steady buying pushing the price up constantly. I am sure next week we will find out what that news is. For now I can rest assure Want Want share price will rocket up in the coming weeks. It is likely to test the previous high at $3.60.

Start of the suckers rally

thechinastory — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:37:10 +0000

Commodities price falling from the parabolic rise. Dollar rising. The stock market is bouncing back. This is the suckers rally jim rogers was talking about.

In time the dollar will drop again from the rally. So will the dollar. So will the commodities but that might take a bit longer to regain momentum.

Iphone 3G Mocha VNC Lite

thechinastory — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:28:13 +0000

APPLICATION DESCRIPTION

Mocha VNC provides access to a VNC Server. Using your iPhone, you can connect to a Windows PC or Mac OS X and see the files, programs, and resources exactly as you would if you were sitting at your desk, just on a smaller screen.

LITE VERSION

Compared to the Lite version the full version has:
- Another cool key board
- Support for right mouse button
- Macro support
- Ctrl+alt+del key. Needed if using Win 200x as a VNC Server

FEATURES

- Standard VNC protocol with encrypted password signon
- 8 and 32 bit color modes
- Server screen resolution up to 1680×1200
- Local Mouse support
- Zoom and scroll as the Safari browser
- Landscape mode
- Can handle 6 different Host configurations
- Has been tested with RealVNC, TightVNC, UltrVNC on Windows, and Apple Remote Management, which is included with the Mac OS X.

Testing Iphone 3G on my way to the office

thechinastory — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:38:06 +0000

Global Position Satellite

I go to work from Kennedy Town to Central on a bus. I was expecting the GPS system to indicate the direction to Central as the bus move like any car GPS system would do. This is not the case. The GPS does not keep tracking the location, you have to keep refreshing it. Once refresh, it is zoom out and you have to zoom in again. It does not have anything to show turn left, etc. It is simply a google map with a GPS locator that needs refreshing.

3G Reception

On my way to work, I couldn’t get 3G reception. But on my way back home in evening I have 3G for the entire journey. I don’t know what happen. Perhaps many people use the waveband in the morning.

The Standard

Normally I would pick up a freebie newspaper as I get off the bus. I thought I will read online on the bus. This can also save paper.

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/

However I like to read the pdf version from http://202.66.86.27/. But iphone can not read the pdf off the site for some reason.

To test if iphone can read pdf files I email one to myself via Yahoo mail. Iphone can read pdf, excel, etc via email but does not appear to be able to read off the web.