2012 IN REVIEW

Finally, 2012 has elapsed. There were so many events we had experienced. Some of them would be always remembered. Some of them were considered momentous because of the popularity for people in the world. I myself have some preferences to be considered as an important events for 2012:

SPORTS:

1.      Some of my favorite teams were successful to be a champion of season 2011/2012: Real Madrid (Liga BBVA), they even broke a record to be a team with most goals scored and a team with most points of all time in La Liga. Ajax Amsterdam (KPN Eredivisie) finally was a champion after they finished in 6^th position in half-season.

2.      Manchester City (MC),champion of FA Premiership, had better luck than Manchester United (MU) in this season. After beating MU in both leg 1 and leg 2, MC  finished with the same point as MU; 89. But MC had more goal scored than MU.

3.      Juventus made a new record as the only invincible team in Serie A and finished as a champion with 84 points. Dortmund showed their supremacy of Bayern Munich for two years in a row after grabbed a Bundesliga title. Dortmund even succeeded in achieving both Bundesliga and DFB Pokal trophy.

4.      Congratulation to Montpellier! They could grab a French Ligue 1 title vigorously. It’s not easy to be a champion because there was a great competitor with  full ammunition; Paris Saint Germain.

5.      Chelsea, grabbed their first trophy in UEFA Champion League 2011/2012 after defeating the host, Bayern Munich! It made them as the first team from London who can win this competition. But then, they lost their power after Atletico Madrid (champion of Uefa Cup) beat them 4-1 in UEFA Supercup.

6.      Spain grabbed their 3^rd title of EURO CUP after defeating Italy 4-0. They also made a new record as a team who could be a champion twice in a row.

7.      Zambia gave Ivory Coast an unforgettable nightmare in Africa Cup final stage, February this year. FYI, Zambia was a new champion in this competition.

8.      Chorintians, a champion of Copa Libertadores 2012, beat Chelsea 1-0 in a tremendous final stage of FIFA Club World Cup 2012.

9.      Mexico claimed gold for Men Football in 2012 London Olympic after smashed Brazil 2-1.

10. United States, claimed a gold medal for Woman Football cup in 2012 London Olympic.

11. Singapore succeeded in making them as a champion of AFF Cup with most trophies after drowning Thailand with 3-2.

12. Sriwijaya FC was successful in grabbing both Indonesia Super League and Indonesia Inter Island Cup 2012.

13. London 2012 Olympic was the best Olympic to me although Indonesia claimed no gold medal this year. The US was the best team in this Olympic followed by China. Don’t forget about Jamaica! The country ruled the running track.

14. Michael Phelps was considered as the most successful Olympian of all time with 18 gold medals.

15. Miami Heat was a champion of NBA for this season.

16. Sebastian Vettel  was considered as the youngest F1 racer who could be the number one in a season three times in a row.

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17. Jorge Lorenzo was the number one of Moto GP 2012.

18. Lance Armstrong’s scandal brought him to the   fall of his career. His previous title were removed.

19. Indonesia retrieved their gold medal this year in All England. Tontowi/ Liliyana made it!

INTERNATIONAL:

1.      Syrian crisis along this year seemed not to come to the end.

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2.      Norodom Sihanouk, former king of Cambodia, died at age of 89 years old

3.      Barrack Obama was elected to be the president of USA for a second time.

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4.      Neil Armstrong, the first man walking in moon, died at age of 82 years old

5.      Windows 8 was released this year.

6.   The Dark Knight Rises Premiere in USA was attacked by a gunman and killed some people. There was also an Indonesian wounded.

7.      Sandy storm attacked Manhattan several days before president election.

8.      Bopha storm in Philippines killed hundreds people.

9.      Newsweek released its last print issue due to the developing of technology. Newsweek will focus on digital edition next year.

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10.  Euro crisis and the increasing of unemployment rate in some countries (especially Spain) colored the world’s economic condition.

11.  Francois Hollande was elected as a new Prime Minister of France.

12. North Pole had the worst shrinkage this year and threatening most animals there.

13. Psy’s Gangnam Style influenced the world by its phenomenal dance. Its video recently had been the most-viewed-video in Youtube with more than 1 billion viewers.

14. Palestine finally got their new status, that is a non-observer country in the United Nations (UN). In a voting held in UN headquarter, New York, only 9 countries said no including Israel.

15. Marvel’s The Avenger was the most successful movie this year followed by The Dark Knight Rises.

16. Walt Disney bought “Lucasfilm”. As we knew, Lucasfilm was known for its Star Wars.

17. “Innocence of Moslem”, a film by a Jewish, rose moslem’s rage over the world. This film was supposed to insult Prophet Mohammed.

18. Rohingya conflict in Myanmar made a number of moslem evicted from there.

19. US “Fiscal Cliff” had been the most popular economic issue this end of the year.

Well, I hope this 2013 everything will be better. I have some plans this year and I hope I can make them happen. Last, I wish the world would be more peaceful and I wish there would be more people aware of environment issue.

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LET'S TRADE! LET'S BUILD OUR FUTURE Forex Trading Tips (4)

Finally, after a long time I didn't post the trading tips, I missed it. So now, I'd like to tell you how I gain profit. It's okay to buy or sell a pair based on the trend. If the pair has an upward trend, just follow the market, you buy it! On the contrary if the "change" turns red, or the pair is in negative trend, you sell it. But, I always do this to maximize my profit; I place a pair in both buy and sell. It's an effective strategy when the price suddenly goes down from the uptrend or or on the contrary.

The most important thing to remember in this strategy is to set an "exit-target". So, we make a "profit" target, at least it's a 8 pips to set a target. To do this, just click on an active/ open pair, and then click change, and set an exit target as you wish. Your transaction will be automatically touched when the price touches the exit-target. There is also "exit stop-loss" feature. This lets you close the pair when you gain a loss. It's the same as exit target, it has a minimal spread, that is 8 pips.

We know, that making a transaction according to market condition is the simple way. But, it won't make a big profit. You can double your profit by placing both buy and sell pair. Just remember, all of trading methods contain a risk (and of course a return). I'll tell you about fundamental analysis on the next post. See you......and I hope my post is quite helpful for your forex trading activity :)

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LET'S TRADE! LET'S BUILD OUR FUTURE Forex Trading Tips (3)

Hello, guys. I'm sorry for the late post, this is all because there's a mid semester test in my college. So, just sign up AGEA now and grab your bright future!

Today I'd explain you how to trade forex via AGEA Streamster. Still remember what the "Bid" and "Offer" mean? Bid means you sell a pair and hope profit from the loss of the price. For example: EUR/USD is 1.2764 now, you place a sell order (click Bid) at that price. And then, when the price goes down, you'd gain profit. If you close the transaction at 1.2750, it means you get 14 pips of profit. Don't forget to close the transaction, because if the price still open, you can't take your profit.

  

Meanwhile, if you buy a pair (click Offer), you will gain profit when the price moves up. For example, when you buy EUR/USD at 1.2775, and it turns out, the price touches 1.2795, it means you gain 20 pips of profit. Yes, "pips" is the term to mention the profit we get. Don't forget to watch the change movement. It is because, it can help you make a decision whether you want to buy or sell. The change table has two colors; the green represents the rise of the price and the red one represents the fall of the price.

Some traders buy a pair when the change is positive/ when the change turns green. Because green means the price is in the "uptrend". So, they gain profit when the price moves up. Some others sell a pair when the price falls, therefore when the change turns red (or when the price is downtrend), they'd place a sell order and hope some profit when the price weakens. we can conclude that some traders just follow the trend to make a transaction.

And when will be the right time to start trading? Some experts recommend us to start trading when it is morning in Europe, the world's largest continent economy and continued when the sun rises in US, the world's largest national economy. The main thing is, when the people start to work and of course when it's in weekday. They also recommend us to be a "fundamental analyst" in forex trading which means we must be aware of the world's economic condition especially the US. It is good to follow and accurate enough for predicting the price movement.

I'm so glad I can tell you much about forex trading. But it doesn't end here, I have still more tips for you. Just keep in touch with this blog and I'll write more post for you. THX

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TONY FERNANDES’ PRINCIPLES (Metro TV Oct 27th 2012 with Desi Anwar)

He is a Malaysian and he used to be a musician. But his childhood dream, changed his profession. When he was 6 years old, he was dreaming about having an airline. Now, he is the owner of Air Asia. If you love football, then you must know QPR, a football club sponsored by Air Asia.

His first office was in KL, but now it’s in Jakarta. He founded his office in Jakarta because the growth of Indonesia’s GDP is promising. He loves beer and Blok M is his favorite place to drink. People firstly despised him when they knew that he changed his business from music to airline. But now, you can see that it became the biggest “low-cost” and “no-frills” airline with a big profit. He has a good principle of implementing a business. He makes the cost as low as possible to obtain a reasonable price for everyone.

“Now everyone can fly” is the tagline of Air Asia. It doesn’t lead his company to bankruptcy because with the cheap fare, he can intensify the sales of the ticket that he can make big profit. He said that the bigger the volume of sales, the cheaper price of the ticket people could buy, and  the more profit he would get.

And how can he do that? Apparently, he enhances the efficiency of the flight, such as the efficiency of the pilot, the simplification of the cuisine, the efficiency of the fuel, etc. He said that all Air Asia’s pilots had to consider the shortest way to the destination. To make a low fare, he also eliminated the French cuisine. Yes, he didn’t use a French chef, he just offered the passengers with a traditional food. He created only one class/type of the aircraft, that was economic class. He didn’t create business class or executive class, but only economic class to minimize the overhead expenses.

Talking about the employee, he prefers a young-enthusiastic employee. He prefers an employee who has a good commitment and good loyalty to employee with a high education. For him, education is number two. He has a good sense of problem-solving. He always tell the employees who have a problem, not to hide it. The employees have to tell their own problem and solve the problem straight away. Tony Fernandes doesn’t want his employees to be unhappy. Because for him, employees are the main key to reach success.

Last, Tony Fernandes hoped that he could build a business school in Jakarta. He also wished he could build a hospital which had a total service for the poor people. That’s all what I got by watching the interview between Desi Anwar with Tony Fernandes in Metro TV. Hope it can be a good reference for all readers.

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