Mobile Warz!!

Mood snapshot: random tag from mail

1. What is your occupation?

Part Time Vella 2 Full Time Vella

2. What color are your shoes right now?

Black

3. What are you listening to right now ?

Weird Mobile Ringtones buzzing in & around the office

4. What was the last thing that you ate?

Doggy Bun

5. Can you drive a stick shift?

Yes

6. Last person you spoke to on the phone?

ICICI Direct Guy

7. Do you like the person who sent this to you?

No

8. How old are you today?

23

9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV?

Cricket

10. Have you ever dyed your hair?

Nope

11. Favorite food?

Rajma Chawal :)

12. What is the last movie you watched?

Rocket Singh

13. Favorite night of the year?

New Year's Eve...i guess… don't know... :(

14. How do you vent anger?

I hate getting angry!!

15. What was your favorite toy as a child?

Battery operated Robot

16. What is your favorite season?

Chilly winters

17. Cherries or Blueberries?

Cherries

18. Do you want your friends to e-mail you back?

I hardly reply to any email. I would rather call him sumtime.

19. Who is the most likely to respond?

Someone more Vella dan me!!

20. Who is least likely to respond?

My boss!!

21. Living arrangements?

Company Accco… Awesum for many a reasons!!

22. When was the last time you cried?

Recently. Had to do away with the guilt of breaking up…hehehe

23. What is on the floor of your closet?

Clothes… I guess!!

24. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending to?

No one Specific.

25. What did you do last night?

Sleep

26. What are you most afraid of?

Road Accidents – being back some of the most ugly memories of my life :(

27. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburger?

Spicy Chicken Burger with tons of cheese!

28. Favorite dog breed?

German shepherd – the only pet I ever had.

29. Favorite day of the week?

Friday for sure!!

30. How many states have you lived in?

9

31. Diamonds or pearls?

Depends on the person wearing dem!!

32. What is your favorite flower?

Orchids.

Adieu :)

Cornflakes of Thoughts!!

It has been four months since I shifted my base to this city. But a lot has changed in these four months. Random thoughts cruise through my mind as I sit along the beach, gazing at the dark sea, hearing its rumbling thunder. This place is unique, much different from the places I have known for years.   The people, the culture, even the pace of life.

But one thing that certainly deserves a mention about this city is the care…..less behavior of the people. People hardly acknowledge your presence unless you get in their way. They hardly recognize the people living next doors. All of them are busy running a race, a kind of race we used to run in nursery, holding a spoon in the mouth, and a lemon placed on it. If you don’t come first, you lose, but if you lose the lemon, you lose the cause of running the race.

Don’t know how this lemon race fits in over here, but wrote it because everything is just so arbit. I sometimes miss home, being with friends I have grown up with, had fun, and roamed about sharing brightest of memories and darkest of secrets. But, even I have chosen to run this lemon race. Hope I would hold on to the lemon and the cause.

Adieu.

Care......less!!

If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don't care, nothing matters, so you are never upset
- Calvin

Determination of Opening Price of a Stock

With the opening bell of stock exchange every morning, we usually find an unusual disparity between the opening prices of a stock from its previous day’s closing. Have you ever wondered what causes this variation?

Well, the reason for this difference in prices might be attributed to the role played by the media. Even though the stock exchange closes at 3.30pm, the news channels go round the clock. The investors/traders (buyers & sellers), based on the impact of these news items, place their orders with their respective brokers. Since the exchanges are not active during these non-working hours, these orders have to be settled with the opening of markets. The entire list of the buy and sell orders is being received by the respective exchanges before the opening of the market.

So how do the exchanges narrow down on the opening price of a particular stock? Here the law of supply and demand comes into the picture. Let me try to explain this using the below tabulated data.

	Buyer Data			Seller Data
No. of Shares	Limit Price	Cumulative No. of Shares	No. of Shares	Limit Price	Cumulative No. of Shares
100	105	100	50	101	50
200	104	300	100	102	150
400	103	700	350	103	500
100	102	800	500	104	1000
500	101	1300	100	105	1100

Limit price for a buyer is the maximum price the buyer is willing to pay for a particular stock. Similarly, the limit price for a seller is the minimum price a seller is seeking for a particular stock. The buyer side of table clearly shows the maximum price a buyer is willing for this stock is Rs. 105. On the other hand, the lowest price at which a seller is willing to sell is Rs. 101. 

But the aim of the exchanges is to maximize their profits i.e. greater would be the settlements, greater would be the revenue generated. So let us try to understand how this opening price of stock is determined?

Suppose the stock opens @ Rs 101, then we have 1300 potential buyers but only 50 potential sellers. So settlement of only 50 shares can be carried out at this price. Certainly not a very profitable price for stock exchanges. This price clearly demonstrates an excess of demand but a short of supply. Thus, the price chosen is too low as per law of demand & supply.

Had the opening price of stock would have been Rs 105, we would have had 1100 potential sellers but only 100 potential buyers. In this case, supply exceeds demands, showing the opening price is on a higher side.

If the stock would have opened @ 102, we would have had 800 buyers versus 150 sellers. Now, @ 103, we have 700 buyers as compared to 500 sellers. Clearly, we are narrowing down on demand-supply mismatch.

Similarly, @ 104, there would have been 1000 sellers but only 150 buyers. So for the exchanges to maximize their revenue, Rs. 103 seems the most appropriate price resulting in the settlement of 500 shares.

Here only a simple table has been taken to demonstrate the entire process of determination of opening price. In reality, the quantum of pre-market orders is quite large and large networks of computers are used to calculate the opening price based on above mechanism.

So, even in something as volatile as share market, the archaic law of demand and supply holds true! 

[via optionsatoz.com]

Missing something in Life?

I came across this quote y'day:

"We should not go through life as some tourists go through places- so anxious to see the next sight; the next temple; the next picture; the next mountain peak; that we never stop to fill our sense with the beauty of the present one." This four simple lines left me so dazed, I was pondering what I was missing in my life everyday... All my life I had been working towards an end, but never enjoying the journey... While in school, working towards a good college... All through college, slogging for a cushy job... When will this cycle end? Working for something, after getting which I toil still harder for the next milestone... After I settle down? 2 years? 5 years? 10? I guess not, for then I would have still more grave responsibilities and much more onus on my part to push harder and harder... Brrrr.... horrifying thoughts :( So what's the panacea for this? Search for the simple joys in everything you do... Talk often to those who you love and talk still more frequently to those who love you... Call up a friend you haven't talked to in an year... Just say " I love you and thanks for everything" to your parents and see their faces glow up Talk to your first teacher and tell them how you owe a chunk of your success to them Hang out a bit longer with your friends and thank them for their sweet company Ring up your beloved when he/she least expects it and say how much you are missing them, even if you have met them y'day You will slowly see that life isn't as burdened as it would seem to be... For you have found out the most potent nectar of all... Love... It throws down barriers, helps you cross mountains, reach hearts of those hundreds of miles away... But Love's a funny thing... The love you give out, you will get back double...   "Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent. A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;      Your life will bring heaven to earth." -Sutta Nipata, a Buddhist Scripture Try it and tell me if it works