--W. Stekel
--W. Stekel
It's been said that Jesse Lauriston Livermore was the greatest stock market operator in history - the only operator who ever made and lost four stock market fortunes. He did it all on a ``small bankroll, a stock ticker and a telephone.''[1]
Jesse Livermore stock picking techniques are still applicable today. In fact, if you do a careful read, you'll see that some well-know authors have actually stolen his techniques. Livermore's techniques worked well for him, when he followed them. Unfortunately, he got emotionally wrapped up in the marketed and departed from his rules. He died by suicide in 1940.
Livermore had a number of rules: Never by on a tip alone; Stocks reaching new highs tend to go higher; Never trade in stocks under $15. Have an exit strategy before you buy, etc.
Stock Prices
There's a program stock.tar.gz that grabs current stock price data from yahoo finance. Below is an example usage getting the stock price for Redhat. By the way take a look at this price. It's starting to hit new highs, and it volume follows through on the new high it could be a good buy. Oh, first rule: Never buy on a tip alone.
$ stock rhat "RHAT",29.01,"3/3/2006","4:00pm",+0.76,28.10,29.28,28.00,3339778
This program[1] can do multiple stocks and or indexes as well. See the man page on the program for more help. The source is very simple using socket, bind, connect. It can easily be adjusted for scraping other pages, sending mail (you'll have to change the port), or other desired tasks.
Email Alerts
I use Gmail; but, but it's a custom setup with the local MTA (Postfix) and Fetchmail. The advantage here is being able to run any standard shell scripts for sending out mail, on your home system, where you might not have a dedicated IP address.
References
Xen is cooking up nice on Fedora Core 5. I didn't have any problem installing this on a Dell OptiPlex GX520, Pentium 4 (3.00 GHz), with 1G of RAM, Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express, Linksys Gigabit Network Adapter (Model No. EG1032,rev 10).
It was actually only a matter of minutes before I had everything running, which I think is the best way to learn about Xen. That is, first have a running system with multiple guest systems. And, for each guest account have networking functional. One quick note, it certainly helps if you have 1G of RAM, so that each guest account can use the minimum default of 256MB. Take a look at the FC5 Xen Quick Start Instructions for how it's all done.
What's missing in these instructions is how to ssh into a guest xm and run kde remotely. I'll detail here what worked for me.
Xen and remote KDE
From the computer you are sitting at, with a monitor,keyboard and KDE or Gnome loaded and running, you'll connect via ssh to the Xen guest system. But before you can do this, walk through the step 1, with the computer in front of you.
Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified
To enable magic cookies from the shell, issue the following commands.
$ MCOOKIE=$(mcookie) $ xauth add $(hostname)/unix:1 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 $MCOOKIE $ xauth add localhost/unix:1 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 $MCOOKIE
$ xinit -- :1 vt12
$ ssh -Y -l root vm0.domain.com
$ startkde
I didn't have to change anything for KDE, but Gnome takes a few tweaks.
Reference
You may want to reference Linux Tips (TIP 195)
Now, in my opinion, it's instructive to look at the FC4 Xen Quick Start, and hack away the working Xen configuration. The FC4 documentation goes into the mechanics of the process.
"Higher Order Perl: transforming Programs with Programs", by Mark Jason Dominus.
Mark put a lot of time into this book, and it shows. It was 5 years in the making, with free versions passed out for review. Examples can be found here (scroll down the page) .
Mark plans to take the book public, in Wiki form.
I would agree that "writing functions that modify other functions" is a very powerful programming technique found in Lisp, Mathematica, Java, and C++ to name a few languages, but it's not generally associated with Perl. Well, Mark will open your eyes here. The book is fun to read. It has depth; however, it is not written like a text book. Compare it to hacking with friends rather than sitting in a CS class.
That's it. The leap second was added. You'll see it in your logs.
Dec 31 18:59:59 squeezel kernel: Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC Dec 31 18:59:59 livingroom kernel: Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
The last time we had a leap second was 1998. This is exciting! We're going to have another one.
For me this will occur Dec 31, 7:00pm EST. Unlike the New Year, the whole planet experiences this transition at once, when the UTC clock ticks 23:59:60.
Below, is what the last leap second looked like in 1998
Date Time TAI NTP Leap NTP Seconds 1. Dec 31 98 23:59:59 31 01 3,124,137,599 2. Dec 31 98 23:59:60 31 01 3,124,137,600 3. Jan 01 98 00:00:00 32 00 3,124,137,600 4. Jan 01 99 00:00:01 33 00 3,124,137,601
By the way, this is the 23rd leap second. Yes, I know what you're thinking. The number 23 is interesting because it's the first intersection of Pi and e.
Pi = 3.141592653589793-23-84 e = 2.718281828459045-23-53
Also, the earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees...hmm there's that number again. Ramsey Theory? Maybe, probably.
Wouldn't it be nice to have all the network interfaces, in modern C++, for Linux, Windows, OS X and Solaris?
asio is under review for Boost inclusion, with SSL support and the future possibility for rawsockets.
It is a good C++ learning execise reviewing this library. There is active discussion now on the developers mailing list.
Below are two highly recommended C++ books.
Effective C++ Third Edition: 55 Specific Ways in Improve Your Programs and Designs, by Scott MeyersC++ Common Knowledge: Essential Intermediate Programming, by Stephen C. Dewhurst.
I've repeatedly gone through all examples. My copies are less then a year old; yet, with repeated daily readings and dog eared pages, my books are beginning to show some wear. In my opinion, you won't go wrong with these two books. One of the books requred a few minor, technical corrections; but, these corrections can be found on the author's errata page.
Postfix 2nd Instance for Sender-based Routing: Multiple Gmail and Comcast Accounts
Sender-based routing allows delivery actions on email to be made based on the sending address. This makes it possible for each Gmail and or Comcast account to have separate authentication rules. In summary, your home Postfix system can support Gmail and Comcast accounts for all of your family and friends. This tutorial walks you through an example using Gmail and Comcast, but the setup is similar for any ISP specific emails.
I have 2 Linux boxes. One runs Fedora 4 [closet.squeezel.com] and the other Fedora 3 [squeezel.squeezel.com]. The monitor is physically attached to FC3.
It's convienent to run both, yes both, gnome and kde on the same monitor, in the same window. The menu bar for the FC3 is at the top, and FC4 is at the bottom of the screen. Here's how I set this up. This setup is run from [squeezel.squeezel.com] , the computer with FC3, in a gnome-terminal:
$ ssh -Y closet.squeezel.com
By default FC3 and FC4 are configured for X11 forwarding. The ``-Y'' option is for trust forwarding. After running the command above, I'm connected to closet.squeezel.com. Next, I just load the KDE session.
$ startkde Or, if you want gnome instead. $ gnome-session
You may get a few errors above on sound cards. On my configuration, I had to setup the monitor for the correct resolution. But, that was pretty straight forward. Also, you'll want to set the menu bar for each computer for different parts of the screen. That was it. You can do this through firewalls as well - reference ``Breaking Firewalls with OpenSSH''
Ctl-Alt-F12 (What if you wanted FC4 on vt12?)
Well, of course you can have your cake and eat it too. Even with the above configuration, it's possible to run a complete session on vt12. Above, I chose startkde for the second session, but sometimes I like the gnome-session on a complete terminal, so I put that (the gnome-session) on virtual terminal 12.
The following commands are executed from the computer with the physical monitor in an xterm, which is squeezel.squeezel.com. Do it in an xterm, so you can lock the display should you walk away from it.
$ xinit -- :1 vt12
Note above that's ``xinit [space] -- [space] :1 [space] vt12''. If you want to add even more virtual terminals, execute the command above with :2 and the desired vt[number]. Now, the screen get's a little funky, but you want to type in the following comand: ``ssh -Y [remote server]''. This is the command I use.
$ ssh -Y closet.squeezle.com After it logs in. $ gnome-session
The above will take a few second to load. Now you just switch to the correct virtaul terminal. In my case it was as follows:
Switch to the new virtual terminal Ctl-Alt-F12 To get back Ctl-Alt-F7
If I've missed anything, I'll update it in Linux Tips (TIP 195 - Trusted X11 Forwarding).
I do this with computers across the Internet as well. If you're doing the same you may want to reference (TIP 13 - Securing sshd), which shows you how to limit only certain accounts access to ssh. Also, block IP address with iptables for locations that you will never connect from..
Why do this?
The biggest advantage of this setup - you save money. No expensive KVM switches, no additional monitors. Save your money for faster hardware. The boxes can mount NFS over OpenVPN so that files are accessible from both computers.
Want more ideas?
If you comb through the more than 100 pages of Linux Tips, you'll see tips for setting up OpenVPN, NFS, securing ssh and a lot of other stuff...free of course.
Hope this helps...
Mike Chirico
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