How to Play the News in the Stock Market

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We have all been there, I certainly have. I bought a stock I really thought was a winner, like the perfect first date, it looked good, it felt good, it sounded good, it smelled right, and most of all it acted right. Even when it came to paying the bill, she paid. The bill of course was the earnings report. Earnings were great, the chart looked good, the fundamentals looked great, it had an order book of new contracts in a booming economy, an industry leader delivering a good service. Yet when the excellent earnings were reported, beating estimates no less; the stock plummeted by 50% in one day.

I guess my free news sources including Routers and other sources saw me as the last drop off point for their baggage. Did you know that unless you pay for the premium services offered by Bloomberg and Reuters you receive the news with at least a 30 minute delay? On release of the earnings the company decided to issue more new stock to the market, the stock price had quadrupled in the previous 4 months to over $2 and the future was rosy, yet my delay in news hurt me. When this charlatan of a company decided to issue extra stock to raise capital for one of its new mega projects it issued them at 50% of the value of the stock available on the market. This immediately involved carnage to the stock price. In fact the price although eventually recovering, has again slumped to under $1.

I was not playing the news, the news played me. However there are those that play the news with some success. The problem with playing the news is it is not hard and cold facts it is feelings, interpretation and an abstract appreciation for how the public interprets news events.

How often does it happen that when a good earnings report is announced the stock falls? Too often! Why? There is a saying on Wall Street that you “buy the rumor sell the news”. That’s great if you mingle in the rumor circles that might pay, insiders, employees, good buddies with the CEO. However for us mere mortals we might not have these advantages. I have also heard of too many rumors that have backfired, tips from a friend in the industry, the nod from the supplier to a new startup company with a bright future. Apart from being illegal, insider trading of this nature especially when second hand is completely unreliable.

But to some extent we all play the news. One way or another it gets us. Turn on any news channels and the reporters are constantly overstating the meaning of things. We should not believe everything we read. One of my favorite headlines was from USA Today.

“Gas price decline may spur inflation” here

Honestly, really!

Of course economists can rationalize anything, but I am not buying it.

The fact is if we take news with a pinch of salt and make our own minds up it can be useful. But too much news can drag you in with the sheep on the road to the slaughter house. Try to imagine how important the news “really” is. Big headlines equal big readerships, big readerships mean more advertising revenue. Only you can decide what news is really important and what impact it will have on the stock market and your investments.

The Four Basic Methods of Fine Art Printing: Refief, Intaglio, Planographic and Screen Printing

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Fine art printing is about printing images using artistic tools that have a long tradition behind them and therefore excludes the new digital printing technologies such as the giclee print which is a fancy ink-jet print. Fine art prints include those by the great masters of the last five centuries as well as a multitude of talented artists whose work is less known.The four basic methods at the disposal of fine art artists are relief, intaglio, planographic and screenprinting.Relief printing is the oldest of the four. The artist uses sharp tools to cut away at the surface of a material they want to use to print with. At first artists used wood and created the woodcut. They would gouge out slivers of wood out of a woodblock using their knives to leave only raised edges. These raised portions could receive ink which with a laid piece of paper on them could transfer an image on to the paper, creating a print. To get an even pressure on the wood to transfer the ink a press would be used. One could also use a spoon or rounded tool to put pressure on the paper to receive the inks. Centuries later linoleum would be used as well creating the linocut print.Intaglio printing is pronounced “in-Tah-lee-oh”. It is essentially the opposite of relief printing as ink is in the grooves rather than on the raised relief of a woodcut. The prints made using intaglio printing are mainly engravings and etchings.Engravers use sharp tools called burins to cut into a metal plate made of copper and later steel. By incising minuscule grooves in the metal the engraver creates an image that can be printed. Ink is rolled onto the metal plate, the ink penetrates the incisions and the excess wiped off. Paper is applied to the metal plate and under great pressure from a press an engraving is pulled.An etching is another type of intaglio print in which the artist applies a varnish substance to a metal plate and then draws with needle-like tools on the metal plate. The tools expose the metal by removing the varnish, called ground. Acid is then applied to the metal plate and the acid cuts into the areas of the plate that have been exposed by the removed ground. The metal plate is then inked and an etching is pulled from a press.Planographic prints is the domain of lithography, which uses a stone to apply the art work. The artist can draw immediately on a lithographic stone with oily pencils and crayons. A substance is then layered on top of the drawing that will allow the drawn area to accept inks. The stone is then inked and then a lithograph print is pulled. This method was discovered in 1796 by Alois Senefelder in Austria.Screenprinting is the most recent addition to fine art printing, it is also known as a serigraph. It is much like a stencil in which the artist stomps out the area not to be printed on a screen with special glues. Screenprinting is often associated with commercial printing but American pop artists loved the ease it offered in creating art.

Show Off Your Creativity With the Black and White Digital Photography

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Black-and-white photography is the construction of neutral imagery by means of pictorial practices. Throughout the utilization of a usual movie camera or digital photographic equipment, the artiste rendering an icon media, for instance, film or a digital image antenna, towards brightness. The brightness afterward has an effect on the picture media in such a means as to depart a stable impression of the prospect on that communication. This media is then practiced to generate a finishing representation or picture.Black and white picture making is an imaginative structure. An original black and white taking picture, as fine art, seeks out to blend the characteristic of the person and social group. Inspired black and white taking photographs do not simply entertain nor beautify. It articulates to the spirit in all its differences.1. Study essential camera processes and perform. You have to be aware of how brightness decodes throughout the optical device and against a completed indication. F-Stop, mechanical device rapidity, focal point and movie speed are gears to organize the absolute representation and your message regarding that picture.2. Experimentation with dried up film recording. Twirl your camera on a large mixture of matters. Conduct test with “seeing” in an integrative sense. Envisage the numerous personal effects of worth and quality. What do you see throughout your optical device? How do the fundamentals of your subject matter approach mutually? No one “perceives” how you do. That is the foundation of fine art.3. Exit from certainty. Truthful advances to taking photos vary in that they are corporeality-based. Inspired conceptualizations turn away from the object as it is, to the object as it could be. A resourceful formulation launches a principle to disclose impressive regarding the subject matter. In black and white picture making, the tale is informed by means of brightness and shadows of gray. If, for instance, you desire to tell a tale of secrecy, you may light a subject matter so that it exudes in more ordinary gray scenery. The potentials are restricted only by thoughts and ability.4. Examine your topic. Perform envisioning what is motivating regarding the subject matter. Does it have possible to attain public with the significance you desire to converse or that the topic essentially corresponds? Can you generate an esthetically stimulating representation throughout masterpiece and camera and lens have power over?5. Observe camera and lens manage. Beyond all, imaginative black and white taking photos request rising camera abilities and practice. A lens man ought to be a clever skilled worker with her camera and in the darkroom. It starts with the capability to correct camera scenery to organize brightness. Make use of brightness for its special effects on and approximately in your topic.6. Make simpler. The more easily and straight your report, the broader and tougher it will converse. Insulate the topic.7. Build up your personal movie. Consider the subtleness of black and white cinematography; you have to grow your personal black and white movie to preserve brightness dissimilarity. A normal photo workplace will diminish shadows of gray to a middle gray and subtleness will be lost –your art will be doomed.A lot of digital lens man essentially desires to shoot imagery for Black and White in little dissimilarity conditions. So a shady or inclemency day can be an enormous moment to shoot exterior shots.Paradoxically these are the times that persons who shoot simply in color be seated at home complaining concerning the ‘poor light’. Thus next moment you discover yourself with a dim and overcast day – shoot several black and white shots.