Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Quote for the day

“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values – carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.” - Stephen Covey

16-Apr-2014 CSE Trade Summary


Company Fact Sheet: The Lanka Hospital Corporation PLC - LHCL:N0000

About the company:

Established: 1997                   Quoted Date: 2003-01-10              Sector: Health Care

The Lanka Hospitals Corporation PLC is a Sri Lanka-based company engaged in providing healthcare services. The Company's Fertility Centre service portfolio includes sub-fertility counselling, follicular monitoring scan, semen analysis (SFA), intrauterine insemination (IUI), in vitro fertilization (IVF), intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), testicular sperm aspiration (TESA), embryo freezing and semen freezing. Its Kidney Care Centre service portfolio comprises haemodialysis, peritoneal analysis, adult and paediatric-renal transplant, 12 new dialysis machines, counselling for transplant patients and donors, among others. As of December 31, 2013, the Company's ultimate parent undertaking and controlling party was Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Limited.
 
Chairman: Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Deputy Chairman: Mrs R.S. Cabraal

Chief Operating Officer: Dr K.M.P. Karunaratne
 

Board of Directors:
Prof Dayasiri Fernando 
Dr G.W.K. Wickramasinge
Mr 
P.A. Lionel 
Mr Malvinder Mohan Singh 
Mr Daljit Singh (Alternate Director to Mr. S.M. Singh)
Mr Sunil Godhwani
Dr N.N.A.P.Bandula Chandranath Wijesiriwardena
Dr Nihal Jayathilaka
Mr Sandeep Puri  (Alternate Director to Mr. S. Godhwani)
Mr Shivinder Mohan Singh 
Dr Kanishka Karunarathne

52 Weeks Low: 36.00                                                                52 Weeks High: 48.00
Average Trading Volume: 47,980

Company Financial at a glance:
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Total Voting shares in Issue: 223,732,169

Notes:
1. 67,119,651 Ordinary Shares of the company were allotted on 28th December 2007, pursuant to a 3:7 Rights issue @ Rs. 15.00.

Top 20 Shareholders as at 31/12/2013

Percentage of public holding as at 31st December 2013 was 16.73%

The percentage of Foreign Holding as at 31st March 2014 was 29.53%

Quote for the day

“Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time, or he'll soon have no job to be on.” – Jesse Livermore

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

10 Trading Lessons You Can Learn From George Bernard Shaw

Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1856, George Bernard Shaw grew to become one of Great Britain’s greatest and most controversial playwrights. Shaw’s father, a corn merchant, was an alcoholic and therefore there was very little money to spend on George’s education. George went to local schools but never went to university and was largely self-taught.

He was also a co-founder of the London School of Economics, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Pygmalion) in 1938.

G. Bernard Shaw had quite a bit to say during his lifetime, so here are 10 of his many quotes and what we, as traders, can learn from


1. Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Don’t believe everything you find on the Internet. There are thousands of trading related websites out there and many of them are created by people who know little or nothing about what they’re talking about or – worse – what they want you to buy. Remember to always do your due diligence. In trading, delusion costs you time and money.
2. Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Patience is very important. Don’t expect to achieve your goals in just a few weeks or months. It takes time and dedication to learn what you need to know in order to survive the market.

3. He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
It’s no secret that most traders fail and quit trading relatively fast. We should accept the fact that trading is not for everyone. Kind of like politics, burglary, pest control, high-rise window washing, surgery, quantitative engineering etc. – just insert other dangerous, high skill requiring or even disgusting jobs that only a few people are able to do.
Will you be one of those to quit trading someday? Here is a good exit plan for those who eventually accept the fact that trading is not for them: Did you learn a lot of things about trading, although it didn't work out, but can be helpful for some people? – Then write a book or a trading course and sell it :)

4. Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long
There are cycles everywhere. Being successful is a cycle which, sooner or later – or on a long enough timeline – always comes to an end. Enjoy it and do good things while it lasts.

5. People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
If you finally find something that works for you and you enjoy what you do, don’t let other people tell you that you are doing it wrong.

6. Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
What are your biggest trading mistakes? Do you remember them? It’s always a good idea to write them down on a list and check that list on a regular basis. Try to find patterns as there’s often a tight relation between smaller mistakes – resulting in trading mistakes of greater magnitude.

7. The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
More than 90% of traders lose and that’s a fact. Do you believe that doing exactly the same things they do, trading exactly the same way they trade, expecting the same thing they expect – will make you one of the few that are successful? Then you are most likely wrong.

8. We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
Details matter, but try to see the forest for the trees. Don’t let the gigantic river of news, opinions, rumours influence your beliefs, plans and strategies.

9. If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
Unless you found the “holy grail of trading”, it’s a good idea to share information with others. Sometimes many small ideas equal a big one.

10. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything
Always adapt: understand new market dynamics and be ready to go with the flow.
Source: http://www.innerfx.com/

Quote for the day

“Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity – or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.” -  Robert J. Shiller

Monday, 14 April 2014

Happy New Year


Srilankan Share Market wishes 
Its readers 
A peaceful and Prosperous New Year