Top 10 Blogger Hacks and Tips

1. Removing The Blogger Bar
All you need to do is add the following CSS to your template under edit
HTML. You need to put in anywhere in your template between the <style> tags.
#navbar-iframe { height:0px; visibility:hidden; display:none; }

2. Use Feedburner

Feedburner lets you "burn your feed" and add feed flare. Before they
were a Google company they were awesome but now that they are a part of
the Google they are even better. I use Feedburner for feed statistics,
monitoring users subscriptions, managing our daily email blast list and
adding feed flare enhancements to your feed. This is a MUST do for any
blog. Almost a no brainer. Blogger lets you specify your Feedburner
information in their 'Site Feed' tab inside your dashboard. Once there
you will see a place to plug in your Feedburners URL.

3.Use a real domain name instead of blogger's default naming conventions
In the beginning before we knew any better we though using a free
service like Blogger meant being locked into certain things like the
sub-domain name off of Blogspot. Google lets you "Brand" your blog and
link up a real domain name to forward to your Blogspot address. But they
did one better and redirect their address's to yours. So even if you
type in http://askTheAdmin.blogspot.com you will wind up at

http://www.askTheAdmin.com! Sweet.
4.Add Instant Messaging to your Blogger blog.
Want to chat with your users real time? I added Plugoo to my site,
linked it up with my AIM account and I am in constant contact with users
looking for help or just wanting to say what's up. This is not for
everyone but I found it so cool I now turn my AOL IM mobile when I am
AFK and my IM's hit me via Text message on my Smart Phone.

5. Update you blog daily and have quality content.
And the last but certainly not least Blogger tip/hack is not a hack at
all but a piece of advice . Update your blog on a daily basis. Because
that is all the readers want now isn't it? Would you read your own site
- if it wasn't yours?? If your answer is no, then you got some serious
re-thinking to do!

Sector wise Stocks which make you crorepati in future! Believe it ! Hold for &7 Years

A. Commodities

• Reliance Industries – Perennially evergreen company

• Reliance Petroleum – Largest refinery with very high Nelson complexity index  that will lead to highest gross refining margins, GRMs

• NRE Coke – integration from coking coal to coke

• Tata Steel – formerly Tisco; lowest cost producer of steel plus large value addition through Corus acquisition

• Hindalco – lowest cost producer of aluminium plus large value addition through Novelis Fusion Technology

• Sterlite Industries – commodity powerhouse at a time when globally commodities are in a super cycle

• Sesa Goa – largest reserves of iron ore in private sector

 

B. Telecom

• RCom – marketing aggressiveness plus financial engineering plus political acumen

 

C. Auto

• Tata Motors – from world's cheapest car to luxury Jaguar to SUV Landrover to trucks -- will be in global top five in 5 years

 

D. Finance

• ICICI Bank – proactive, aggressive fund raising and lending taking full advantage of slow decision making at PSU banks

• Reliance Capital – straddling all areas of non-banking financial services
• Sbi: Going to became Public sector largest bank
  

 

E. Infrastructure

• L&T – another evergreen company, value unlocking through listing of subsidiaries, very strong core business

• Patel Engineering –  strong position in high margin high technology construction sector, real estate development
• Punj lloyd: A Very large corpus of order in pipeline &likely to become next L&T

  
  

F. Pharma

• Glenmark – innovator, out-licensor of drugs in fast growing therapeutic areas like lifestyle diseases

• Cipla – innovator copier, low cost supplier of essential medicines people can't do without

 

G. Realty

• DLF – proxy for the Indian real estate sector

• Unitech – number 2 and tries harder than number 1

• Sobha Developers – fully integrated real estate contractor who graduated to property developer status

Lanco Infra achieved financial closure for two road projects.

Lanco Infratech shares are trading at Rs.459. Lanco Infratech Ltd has
announced that the financial closures for the two road projects awarded
by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to LANCO at Karnataka to
be developed on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis have been
successfully achieved.

The debt requirement for these projects has been tied up with State Bank
of India and its Associate Banks with State Bank of India being at the
lead. The two road projects are the 81 Km Bangalore-Hoskote-Mudbagal
stretch on National Highway 4 and 82 Km Neelamangla — Devihalli stretch
on National Highway 48. The project involves six laning of 16 Km stretch
and four laning of the remaining stretches. The total project cost is
estimated at Rs 13,480 million.

The concession periods are 20 and 25 years for the two projects
respectively including 30 months of construction period. The contracts
were awarded through a competitive bidding process. The projects would
be financed through a mix of Equity, Debt and Grant from NHAI.At
present, the power portfolio includes an operating capacity of 519 MW
and additional capacities under construction aggregating to more than
3,400 MW with plans under advanced stages of finalization for beginning
of construction of another 3600 MW. The construction and EPC wing has an
order book worth Rs 114 billion.

Bloglines - Stock Idea - Aban Offshore

Bloglines user raman_bel@yahoo.com has sent this item to you, with the following personal message:

Buy

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Stock Recommendations for Indian Share Markets

Stock Idea - Aban Offshore By Gemini Recommendation: Buy (again!!!) CMP = Rs 3,780 Price target: Rs 5,420 Key points: Aban Offshore has received a letter of intent from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation for the deployment of drillship, Aban Ice, on a three-year contract worth Rs 657 crore. As per the new contract, the day rate works out to around $154,000, which is much higher than our estimate of $110,000 per day. The ongoing contract, which was at a rate of $43,000 per day, is set to expire in March 2008. As can be noticed, the new rates are almost 258% higher than the previous contract, clearly indicating the strong uptrend in the day rates.  Also, it is important to note that the contract has been struck in rupee terms, protecting the company against any fluctuations on the foreign exchange front. I would also factor in the impact of this contract at higher day rates for Aban Ice in our next update, along with the impact of the recent acquisition of an offshore rig, Bulford, for a consideration of $211 million. All this would add to the company's growth from the next year onwards. Furthermore, the company might also announce its contract for the newly-built jack-up rig, Aban VIII, in February 2008, which may provide further upside to our numbers. It should be noted that the current correction in its stock price should be used as an opportunity to buy the stock. At the current market price of Rs 3,780, the stock is discounting its FY2009E earnings by 9.7x and FY2010E earnings by 7.5x. I believe that its valuations are extremely attractive at the current levels. Also, the listing of its subsidiary would act as an important trigger for the stock going ahead. I maintain Buy recommendation on the stock with a price target of Rs 5,420 with a time frame of 9-12 months.

Golden Moments to Pick Valuable Gold Stocks ! Don't miss it!

Name of stocks to pick: 1. Radico Khaitan 2. Alok Industries 3. JP
Associates 4. Inox 5. Noida Toll Bridge 6. Aban Offshore

While the correction has been deep and painful, there is still room to
make money in select stocks. It has been a sharp knock for all the
midcap or smallcap stocks. But there are still some very interesting
stocks to pick up.

Radico Khaitan is one of them, with a current market price around Rs
130. The stock has corrected nearly 45%, from its all-time highs or
52-week high, of around Rs 220. Reliance Capital has bought nearly 37.67
lakh shares, which is around 4% stake, at a value of around Rs 150. So,
one is getting around 15% discount to the level, which Reliance Mutual
has bought into.

Alok Industries is another stock, where the stock has corrected nearly
25%, from its 52-week high of around Rs 110. The most interesting thing
is that the company has issued warrants to the promoters at Rs 102 per
share, which is again a 15% discount to the prevailing market price.

JP Associates is another stock, where the current market price is
hovering around Rs 400. The stock has corrected nearly 21%, from its
52-week high, of around Rs 510. There has been a bullish brokerage
report on the stock. Merrill Lynch's target is at Rs 530 per share.
Merrill Lynch reiterated buy on value creation via subsidiary JP
Infratech & Power.

Inox is another stock, which has seen correction. The stock has
corrected 30%, from a 52-week high, of around Rs 242. Again, Reliance
Capital has bought nearly 43 lakh shares or nearly 5% stake at Rs 143
per share on an average.

Noida Toll Bridge, where the stock had seen exceptional run up, has
corrected 28% from its 52-week of around Rs 85. India Infoline's price
target is at Rs 107.

Saregama is another very interesting stock, which it has corrected
nearly 34%, from its 52-week high of around Rs 388. It is now trading at
around Rs 250. Reliance MF had bought nearly 7% stake at Rs 250 per
share in September 2007.

Aban Offshore has corrected nearly 25%, from its 52-week high, of around
Rs 5,416. Goldman Sachs has reiterated buy with target of Rs 5,400.

CRITICAL LEVELS FOR INDEX ON 21 JAN 08

FOR INTRADAY TRADING ON  21 JAN  , NIFTY INDEX HAS INITIAL  SUPPORT AROUND 5705   LEVELS  BREACHING OF THIS SUPPORT MAY TAKE NIFTY  TO  MAJOR SUPPORT  LEVELS AT 5677. HOWEVER IF THIS IS BREACHED,  THEN   EXPECT  NIFTY  TO   SLIDE   TOWARDS   5595   &  THEN TO 5515  LEVELS   WHICH  IS   A VERY STRONG BOUNCE BACK POINT  . ON THE UPPER SIDE , IT MAY FIND  INITIAL  RESISTANCE  AT 5724   BREACH OF WHICH CAN TAKE NIFTY TO 5750  ABOVE  WHICH   NIFTY CAN TEST 5783  OR  EVEN 5909 LEVELS

Stock trading works how? Some Tips are

Trade = Buy or Sell

To “trade” means to buy and sell in the jargon of the financial markets. How a system that can accommodate one billion shares trading in a single day works is a mystery to most people. No doubt, our financial markets are marvels of technological efficiency.

Yet, they still must handle your order for 100 shares of Acme Kumquats with the same care and documentation as my order of 100,000 shares of MegaCorp.

You don’t need to know all of the technical details of how you buy and sell stocks, however it is important to have a basic understanding of how the markets work.
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If you want to dig deeper, there are links to articles explaining the technical side of the markets.

Two Basic Methods

There are two basic ways exchanges execute a trade:

    * On the exchange floor
    * Electronically

There is a strong push to move more trading to the networks and off the trading floors, however this push is meeting with some resistance. Most markets, most notably the NASDAQ, trade stocks electronically. The futures’ markets trade in person on the floor of several exchanges, but that’s a different topic.

Exchange Floor

Trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (the NYSE) is the image most people have thanks to television and the movies of how the market works. When the market is open, you see hundreds of people rushing about shouting and gesturing to one another, talking on phones, watching monitors, and entering data into terminals. It could not look any more chaotic.

Yet, at the end of the day, the markets workout all the trades and get ready for the next day. Here is a step-by-step walk through the execution of a simple trade on the NYSE.

1. You tell your broker to buy 100 shares of Acme Kumquats at market.
   
   
2. Your broker’s order department sends the order to their floor clerk on the exchange.
   
   
3. The floor clerk alerts one of the firm’s floor traders who finds another floor trader willing to sell 100 shares of Acme Kumquats. This is easier than is sounds, because the floor trader knows which floor traders make markets in particular stocks.
   
   
4. The two agree on a price and complete the deal. The notification process goes back up the line and your broker calls you back with the final price. The process may take a few minutes or longer depending on the stock and the market. A few days later, you will receive the confirmation notice in the mail.

Of course, this example was a simple trade, complex trades and large blocks of stocks involve considerable more detail.

Electronic Trading

In this fast moving world, some are wondering how long a human-based system like the NYSE can continue to provide the level of service necessary. The NYSE handles a small percentage of its volume electronically, while the rival NASDAQ is completely electronic.

The electronic markets use vast computer networks to match buyers and sellers, rather than human brokers. While this system lacks the romantic and exciting images of the NYSE floor, it is efficient and fast. Many large institutional traders, such as pension funds, mutual funds, and so forth, prefer this method of trading.

For the individual investor, you frequently can get almost instant confirmations on your trades, if that is important to you. It also facilitates further control of online investing by putting you one step closer to the market.

You still need a broker to handle your trades - individuals don’t have access to the electronic markets. Your broker accesses the exchange network and the system finds a buyer or seller depending on your order.

Conclusion

What does this all mean to you? If the system works, and it does most of the time, all of this will be hidden from you, however if something goes wrong it’s important to have an idea of what’s going on behind the scenes.