Echoes of the Rainbow – 8 June, 9.45pm @ Cathay AMK Hub (SG)

Love in a Puff – 10 June, 11.00pm @ GSC One Utama (KL)

The Karate Kid – 14 June, 6.25pm @ Cathay Cineleisure (SG)

The A-Team – 16 June, 3.50pm @ GV Marina (SG)

Toy Story 3 – 20 June, 3.00pm @ GV Plaza (SG)

Knight and Day – 24 June, 12.10am @ GSC Gardens Signature (KL)

The Legend is Born – Ip Man – 24 June, 11.40pm @ GSC Times Square (KL)

Sex and the City 2 – 30 June, 3.00pm @ GSC Dataran Palawan

Once and again, I would like to extend my gratitude to our participants at our Forex Asia Congress 2010.

I thank all of you for the kind participation and I would like to share some of the great feedbacks emailed from the audiences in commerating our presenters. Thank you for writing in!

“‘Da Shi Xiong’ Chee Seng and Yeanjie (Ipoh guy) really impressed me in the Forex Asia Congress. Their sincerity attracted many interest and this must the reason why the 2 of them got the loudest applause.”

“Ram, watched your Kallang Roar movie before… didn’t expect to see you in person, and definitely not in a forex event… great to meet you in person, your session enlighten our mood throughout the meaningful congress…”

“Out of the sea of fx trading, i didn’t expect you guys can use forex as a tool to invest in aussie properties. hope KS can come more to malaysia to enlighten us…”

“Mr Loh really ‘li hai’ – wow no tech indicator wor, what he draw on the flipchart really appear on the chart on the friday gathering before congress… his theorist method (hope i spell correct) really really ‘li hai’… and also thanks for the USD50 trading credit.”

(on Elvis) “Despite not having EA or fanciful indicators, you really share a lot more than with his fibo lines and fractal. tq for ur kind sharing and was very impressed by ur unique strategies…”

“even though Billy have limited time in sharing his speed strategy, but i can sense the passion from him in scalping.. looking forward to the course conducted by him and you…”

Words from the Financial Experts!

“Koon Lip, Congrats to your Seminar in KL, Very Successful.”
- Peter Tai, Founder / CEO, PT Investment Academy (via Facebook)

“kawan, take care.. lets do a bigger one.. Your Singapore gang is all gear up for it . .. I believe so.”
- Kee Wah Soong, President, Malaysia Financial Planning Council (via Facebook)

…and finally, a thumb up for my admin and logistics team!

Finally, our Forex Asia Congress finally ended with a high note!

Thank you everyone and our always supportive graduates for coming to Forex Asia Congress! I really hope you people learnt a great deal!

Thank You Mr Kee Wah Soong and our media friends for gracing the event.

Thank you my presenters (Chee Seng, KS, Loh, Yean Jie, Billy & Elvis) and emcee-host Santhanaram Jayaram and Lily Chee.

You guys were great! Solid contents, great chemistry!

Thank you Lowie, Ong Bak Yam, Mei Chen, Gavin Chong, Lee Wai Chon & Ken Chin on helping out in the admin, logistics and everything else.

The whole team really worked hard mainly due to the intense preparation (which included lack of sleep and meal!!) in preparing for the Friday gathering and Saturday Congress for the both weekends.

Thank you thank you.

Iron Man 2 – 4 May, 4.45pm @ GV Vivocity (SG)

Ip Man 2 – 19 May, 9.20pm @ Cathay City Square (JB)

Prince of Persia – The Sands of Times – 26 May, 9.35pm @ GV Vivocity (SG)

I was in a fortunate position where I control myself better (and no trade to indulge myself in the thrills of trading).

Let me tell you what happened today to myself: I entered a short position into EURUSD in the morning around 1130am with a profit target at 1.222 and stop loss at 1.241 which is near the high of the last 8 hours. I anticipate the price will go back to the downtrend with confirmation from the indicators.

It hit stop loss at around 245pm. Although the loss was realized, I actually feel happier that I have a stop loss (as the price is at xxx already at the time of writing) and I really feel happy despite i’m wrong! :p

Many would think of him as a tyrant, a dictator and one that is cruel, in short a bad guy. History tells us that Qin is a man of great talent and bold vision.  He has great leadership strategies, though not good leadership qualities (which are 2 different concepts).

This is largely so because Qin Shi Huang unified the number of warring states of China who have been fighting for 800 years.   As we know, history is written by politicians typically paint a lousier picture of their predecessor so as to show people how good they the successors were.

We can definitely learn a lot from his leadership strategies because of this 1 thing: Anyone can conquer lands and unite them with military might, but few can lay down a unified system of governance that is so long lasting until today.  Just like in management, anyone can be promoted to be a manager, but few can establish lasting people strategies that win for the company for a long time.  These are the facts:

1. Qin simplified the Chinese writing into one common writing that we are still using today;

2. Qin also changed the system of governance from one of feudal lords to one of ‘provincial government all reporting to the central government’ system.  This is the same effective method that all subsequent leaders including the current Communist Party, use to govern China;

3. Qin ’sinicised’ or ‘made Chinese’ the non-chinese people from southern China. People from the provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, An Hui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang (present day Shanghai) are now all part of the Chinese culture.

4. Qin brought together talents from all over China to carry out many reforms in systems including weight and measure, road, drainage, building and money.  These things are still effectively in use today.

Enough of the history; I’m heading back to plan for my World Expo trip! Haha…

Clash of the Titans – 2 Apr, 3.30pm @ GV Tiong Bahru (SG)

Date Night – 8 Apr, 3.10pm @ GV Vivocity (SG)

Beauty on Duty – 14 Apr, 9.00pm @ TGV Tebrau City (JB)

Future X-Cops – 15 Apr, 1.25pm @ Cathay City Square (JB)

Ice Kacang Puppy Love – 21 Apr, 11.50pm @ TGV Suria KLCC (KL)

Date Night – 24 Apr, 11.50pm @ TGV Cheras Selatan (KL)

The Bounty Hunter – 26 Apr, 5.15pm @ Cathay Cineleisure (SG)

Crossing Hennessy- 28 Apr, 2.20pm @ GV Plaza (SG)

Ip Man 2 – 30 Apr, 1.45pm @ Cathay City Square (JB)

We just set up another blog at ForexAsiaLive.com where we blog about our forex trades and hence, it has been a while since I regularly updated this blog.

We (as in me an my strategists) are sharing bits and pieces of our trading experiences. Do visit ForexAsiaLive.com and better still, become one of our fans at Facebook!

72 Tenants of Prosperity – 13 Mar, 9.30pm @ GSC Tropicana (PJ)

Here Comes Fortune – 14 Mar, 4.50pm @ GSC Times Square (KL)

The Hurt Locker – 16 Mar, 4.15pm @ Cathay Cineleisure (SG)

The Green Zone – 22 Mar, 9.35pm @ GV Vivocity (SG)

How to Train your Dragon (3D) – 24 Mar, 5.15pm @ Filmgarde Iluma (SG)

Just Another Pandora’s Box – 26 Mar, 9pm++ @ GSC Times Square (KL)

The Green Zone – 28 Mar, 9.40pm @ GSC Times Square (KL)

Yesterday I watched ‘The Green Zone’ starring Matt Damon. I must say this is so Much better than the one (i.e. The Hurt Locker) I watched last week… The pace is good, the story gives us a possible (or perhaps real) dissection of the Iraq warring situation and definitely, the top-notch almost non-stop action by director Paul Greengrass!

Made for more than USD100million, the up-to-date

The production studio did what it could to hide the film’s Iraq setting and pushed it instead as a film from the Jason Bourne guys but audiences didn’t buy into it. With a production cost of more than $100M, The Green Zone grossed a weak ten-day total of only $25M in North America and likely to end up with a domestic take of just $35-40M. The early overseas tally is $20M with many markets still to open, but recovering production and marketing costs internationally will also be a challenging task.

This also brings me to think about how the movie producers think like traders and investors alike. Purely investor complacency. With a superb track record from the 2 Bourne colloboration between Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass, they may think any story will sell across. This movie is definitely a hard sell, but this is definitely one of the year’s best!!!