This is a new feature since Turning Points is going monthly from March 2013. This is a part of the erstwhile weekly update.

The Top Line: All the three trends are down. Stay out.

Primary Trend: Down
Intermediate Trend: Down
Short-term Trend: Down
Key words: Investors, hold up to 100 % in cash.
Traders, Be on the sideline.
Support levels: 5710 and 5625.
Resistance levels: 5830 and 5890 

Reversal of short-term down trend to up above 5830.

Reversal of intermediate-term up trend to down to be reaffirmed if market violates 5900
Primary trend is down as long as market is below 6400.

8:35 28 February 2013 Nifty 5793

Sometimes I wonder how come bad news coincide with technical reversal. Today STI actually gap down and broke its short term support. I am looking at next support at 3,160-3,170. For those who haven’t seen my earlier posting, please take a look at the posting of STI 22 Feb 13 (weekly/ daily) on my analysis of STI in near term. Let’s wait to see if STI gets supported at 3,160 – 3,170. I would also expect evening star candlestick pattern to form at the end of the week in the weekly chart.

So after two no trades weeks, we get nice reversal setup in EUR/USD on D time frame. The pair was  bullish from 2nd week of July 2012 till beginning of February 2013. It had consolidation last quarter of 2012, when finally made additional 700 pips move. Then we got clear indecision candle. We entered short and collect around 100 pips of this pull.

We have long been bearish on both the precious metals and we are on the dot at almost all turns in the last 18 months since we began the update on the two precious metals. The previous issue dated 11 January 2013 observed the following:
“Gold and Silver currently face resistance at USD 1700 and USD 33/ ounce resp.The trend continues to be down and as long as prices are below the indicated resistance levels (which are also the reversal levels),  Gold and Silver can come down in the current declining trend to USD 1575-1600/ ounce and USD.27-28/ounce region resp. in the coming days.”
The Major trend remains bearish in both the metals. Gold has a support of USD 1540/ounce and Sliver at USD 26/ounce.
Any rally of USD 90/ounce and USD 3/ounce in Gold and Silver resp. from a bottom will be a reversal level of the downtrend.
Support: Gold USD 1540/ ounce and Silver USD 26/ounce
Resistance: Gold USD 1600 and 1640/ounce and Silver USD 30 and 32/ounce.  

Vol.2 # 52
21 February 2013

This is the final issue of  Volume 2 in the weekly update format.“Turning Points” will go monthly from March 2013.
The monthly format will be published on every first Thursday of the month.

Primary Trend: Down
Intermediate Trend: Corrective (turning from up to down)
Short-term Trend: Down
Key words: Investors, hold up to 100 % in cash.
Traders, Be on the sideline.
Support levels: 5845, 5700 and 5650.
Resistance levels: 6000 and 6070 

Reversal of short-term down trend to up above 6000.

Reversal of intermediate-term up trend to down to be reaffirmed if market violates 5845

The Top Line: Major turn in the market, stay out.

Stock market: It is increasingly clear with each lower tops that the intermediate-term trend is turning down. Besides crude oil prices, the risk now is of a strong USD/INR (Rupee becoming weak)
The expectations on budget and from the government is so high that any adverse news may be detrimental for the market. We remain bearish  for the coming few months. Stay 100 % in cash.

The short-term trend is down watch for rallies to exit.

The Intermediate-term trend  Violation of 5845 will not only mean downtrend reaffirmation but market will also gain downside momentum. 6070 is important resistance level for this trend.

Primary trend  remains down (or in a large Bear market since 2008 top) as long as Nifty is below the 6400 levels. 5350 is a major support.

Long-term investors  stay 100 % in cash.

12:15 hr. Thursday 21 February 2013 Nifty 5890

Potential Reversal Trades Setup

(Updated 2013/02/01)
The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 69 in the Fall of 2013. The smoothed sunspot number has already reached 67 (in February 2012)due to the strong peak in late 2011 so the official maximum will be at least this high and this late. We are currently over four years into Cycle 24. The current predicted and observed size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle since Cycle 14 which had a maximum of 64.2 in February of 1906.

The full colour version:

Now take a look at the Solen site – The Solar terrestrial activity report.

The link will take you to the current date but on the 17th the monthly Solar Cycle Data looked like this

The Solen site uses the same NASA data and yes the smoothed sunspot number was (rounded) 67 in February 2012 but has not been higher since and is falling, and this despite that fact the NASA are counting specs that by their own rules should not be counted.

A much more realistic figure comes from the Layman’s Sunspot Count

January Update: This month saw extremes of activity but overall is measured as low. Most of the action was again recorded in the north which puts some doubt on the likelyhood of a second peak occurring from the south. A southern pole reversal is still looking difficult at this stage. The speck ratio was slightly lower than last month and continues to demonstrate the higher proportion of small spots to large spots during SC24. The LSC was measured at 40.1, SIDC 62.9, NOAA unadjusted at 99.9 (prov). The SIDC for the 21th straight month over counting compared with NOAA.The SIDC/NOAA and LSC/SIDC comparison graph showing a growing difference with the general trend continuing to rise over SC24.

SC24 is still on track to matching SC5.

Even if the south pole has not reversed polarity we seem to be passed max as far as sunspots and flux are concerned.

As sun flips polarity, scientists are bemused. (Posted April 23, 2012)

“Right now, there’s an imbalance between the north and the south poles,” says Jonathan Cirtain, NASA project scientist for Japan’s Hinode solar mission.

“The north is already in transition, well ahead of the south pole, and we don’t understand why.”

Daikou Shiota, a solar scientist at RIKEN Institute of Physics and Chemical Research, and his team used Hinode’s high resolution Solar Optical Telescope to observe the magnetic map of the poles every month since September of 2008……………….

…………..Typical models of the magnetic flip suggest that as active regions rotate around the equator, their higher, trailing edge – which is almost always the opposite polarity from the pole in their hemisphere – drift upward, eventually dominating the status quo and turning positive to negative or negative to positive.

But the Hinode data show that this transition at the north began before such drifting had a chance to occur.

“This is one of the most interesting things in this Hinode paper to me,” says principal investigator for Hinode’s Solar Optical Telescope Ted Tarbell.

“How did the polar reversal start so early, even though the onset of the solar cycle, that is, increased activity at lower latitudes, hadn’t begun yet?”

See also
Sun’s poles to go quadrupolar in May leading to global cooling

According to scientists at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Riken research foundation, current sunspot activity resembles a period in the 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, the coldest part of the Little Ice Age.

Vol.2 # 51
14 February 2013

“Turning Points” will go monthly from March 2013.

Primary Trend: Down
Intermediate Trend: Corrective (turning from up to down)
Short-term Trend: Corrective
Key words: Investors, hold up to 100 % in cash.
Traders, Be on the sideline.
Support levels: 5750.
Resistance levels: 6000, 6070 and 6140

Reversal of short-term corrective trend to up above 6140.

Reversal of intermediate-term up trend to down to be reaffirmed if market violates 5875

The Top Line: Major turn in the market, stay out.

Stock market: The intermediate-term trend is now turning from up to down. Last week there was a violation of the reversal level of 5910 indicating early sign of turn. There is distinct weakness in the market and it may at the most rally but with low breadth. Any surprises in the budget will be short-lived. With the three trends in the down and/or corrective mode, long side position even for short-term will be fraught with risk.

We continue to remain cautious in the event of a downside break out from a wedge-type tapering price pattern  on the indexes over the last two months which leads to sharp slumps in the market. Very often this formation takes initial time of hesitation before the downside implications. Stay 100 % in cash.

The short-term trend  is distinctively down. Rallies may not last and 6000 level of Nifty is a strong resistance. Due to changes in intermediate-term trend, support levels may be elusive.

The Intermediate-term trend  Violation of 5910 is a confirmation to an intermediate-term trend change. Just see how so many stocks have sharply retraced their entire year’s rally even before the confirmation of trend-change. We were wary of this with some early indications of the Elliott wave structure and hence we have been warning of trend change and asking to book profit as early as in December 2012. With the Primary trend already down, it is prudent to be with the majority trend of stocks rather than stay invested with the very few stocks which will rally (there will be few of them).Medium term investors must book profit.

Primary trend  remains down (or in a large Bear market since 2008 top) as long as Nifty is below the 6400 levels.

Long-term investors  stay 100 % in cash.

8:50 hr. Thursday 14 February 2013 Nifty 5932

Vol.2 # 50
7 February 2013

With this issue we  have completed the second volume and two years of the blog. We have perhaps missed updating the sequence of  issue numbers. We once more invite feedback from subscribers/followers and readers!

Primary Trend: Down
Intermediate Trend: Up
Short-term Trend: Corrective (reaffirmed).
Key words: Investors, hold up to 100 % in cash.
Traders, Be on the sideline.
Support levels: 5910 and 5750
Resistance levels: 6000, 6070 and 6140

Reversal of short-term corrective trend to up above 6140.

Reversal of intermediate-term up trend to down if market violates 5910

The Top Line: Slow initial fall can gain momentum. Stay out.

Stock market: While Nifty and Sensex seem to be holding the intermediate-term support levels, several stocks have sharply declined and many Blue-chip stocks which are out of favor are either heading in to 52 week new lows or are in new lows. Mid-cap euphoria seems to be over.
There is a mixed trend in among the pivotal stocks. It is likely that the funds will next flow in to a handful of defensive all-time favorite stocks (like HDFC Bank) some of which are yet to make a final new peak in the current running up trend or in the corrective rallies of the next declining trend.

There is too much focus on the budget but like the RBI rate cut, the event could be a dampener. Budget has been a non-event for several years of the last few decades. The superlative force is the flow of foreign funds more than the local events.
We remain cautious in the event of a downside break out from a wedge-type tapering price pattern which has developed on the indexes over the last two months with very high activity and hope which more often than not leads to sharp slumps in the market. Stay 100 % in cash.

The short-term trend  Nifty has violated the support of 5980 and has reaffirmed the corrective trend which is on for the last few weeks. Reversal of the corrective trend is at a level above 6140. 

The Intermediate-term trend  is up but exhausting. 5910 is the reversal level for the week. Medium-term investors are to watch this level as confirmation. However individual stocks will have their own levels which would be needed to be followed individually. 

Primary trend  remains down (or in a large Bear market since 2008 top) as long as Nifty is below the 6400 levels.

Long-term investors with qualified long-term investments (holding of over 366 days and with significantly large gains) are to continue booking profits and moving to 100 % in cash.

10:10 hr. Thursday 7 February 2013 Nifty 5972

I am now at that stage. I admit it. You have a problem.

No, wait. It’s me with the problem. Let’s roll again.

I have a problem.

Good. Now, to elaborate, my problem is, as  the title would suggest, utter day-night reversal.

One could argue it’s a mental health problem, or just a causation of the issues discussed in my earlier post, remarking the fluctuation of mental states regarding the start of the NHL season.

Let’s put it this way: Just a couple of weeks ago I was up and away at seven or eight in the morning, for no apparent reason, doing what I always do; read, write, watch hockey and play video games. Today was the first day in a long time that I also woke up at eight. But, yes, you guessed it, in the night.

During these couple of weeks, I have, aided by the NHL (which in Europe’s times is played at night), completely cocked up my sleeping rhythms.

It’s not that big of a deal, though. In addition to my normal activities, I don’t currently have a real purpose, so I have just decided to do what I fancy, when I fancy, and sleep when I feel sleepy, and sleep as much as I want. To me this sounds like a sweet deal.

Furthermore, pardon me for digressing, I always want, assuming it’s possible, to sleep until I wake up. Now, bear with me. I mean that I don’t want to wake myself with an alarm, but sleep until I naturally snap out of my slumber. That is because, as a writer, I value my dreams. Like most people, I, too, have the most exquisite dreams. Usually they are unbelievably detailed, and create stories, sometimes extremely convoluted ones, with well-imagined characters and plot twists. Believe me when I say this is all true. (Although I have yet to hear anyone say, “I had this really ordinary dream last night!”)

But, and there is always a but, if I snap out of the dream too quickly, as in to the sound of an alarm clock, I can never, and I mean never, remember my dreams. If I let the dream play itself out, so to speak, and naturally wake up, there is a good chance that I do remember it. I sometimes have trouble creating things from pure imagination when writing, so I value the things I subconsciously create, because, let’s face it, they are more me than what I consciously create. Hence, I use them to my advantage.

Anyway, where was I, yes, the sleeping rhythms.

There is a part of me that wants to wake up at eight in the morning and use the daylight in the way I see fit, but there is an issue with that. I am not a morning person, and I am never energetic in the morning, even if I had slept for ten or twelve hours. I just can’t do it. My body and brain simply can’t cope with the early hours of the day.

And, I know I’m not the only person to argue this, the night is by far the most creative of times. And as a self-proclaimed (I feel like I’ve used this word a bit too much recently. An audience is probably due.) creative person, I need all the creativity I can find to be productive.

Vol.2 # 49
31 January 2013

Primary Trend: Down
Intermediate Trend: Up
Short-term Trend: Corrective.
Key words: Investors, hold up to 100 % in cash.
Traders, Be on the sideline.

Support levels: 5980 and 5870
Resistance levels: 6150 and 6250
Reversal of short-term corrective trend to up:above 6150.
Reversal of intermediate-term up trend to down if market violates 5870

The Top Line: Mixed short-term trend at the peak. Stay on the sideline

Stock market: There is an effort to hold the fort of Sensex 20000 and Nifty 6000 to satiate the global appetite by way of QIP and other placement. How otherwise can the market’s fatigue at the Nifty 6000 level be explained when over USD 3 billion has flown in to the markets! In the last two months one would have marginal out-performance in one’s portfolio as against being in cash.

Since the inception of this blog ( we are close to completing two years), when the Nifty was at 5750, we have recommended to be in cash from 66-100 %. Our strategy has always been not only to protect principal amount but to see little draw-down in the holding NAV  as also have superior-than-market returns whichever way the market goes.
Had one followed exactly the way we recommended, the hypothetical tax-efficient NAV (at 35 % tax level and 7 % interest rate for the cash held, gross return are much more) would be well over 6500 without going through the draw-down when Nifty touched 4531 during 2011 . If one had held 100 % cash for two years the NAV would be 6300. But if one were in 100 % equity, the NAV would only be the current market level of 6050 with all the pain and threat of liquidating when Nifty was at 4531 during December 2011.
Why we have mentioned this at this juncture is, we feel there is a risk of market going down significantly from here. While if we are wrong the risk is only above the Nifty all-time high level above 6400 (which also is our NAV. Although we see the chance of a new bull market as minimum at current juncture, our strategy to go 100 % cash is supported by our present NAV without having to miss a Bull market) But if we are on the right side we will not only protect our capital but also get opportunities for windfall gains.We have a win-win situation on either side of the market whichever way it moves if we are 100 % in cash right now.
Markets, if one ignores the false sense of euphoria, is actually doing well only very selectively.  
Watch the reversal levels for confirmation of trend change.

The short-term trend  On the downside violation of 5980 will reaffirm the correction. Reversal of the corrective trend is at a level above 6150. There is a chance we may see one more up move above 6115.

The Intermediate-term trend  is up but exhausting. 5870 is the reversal level for the week. Medium-term investors are to watch this level as confirmation.

Primary trend  remains down (or in a large Bear market since 2008 top) as long as Nifty is below the 6400 levels.

Long-term investors with qualified long-term investments (holding of over 366 days and with significantly large gains) are to continue booking profits and moving to 100 % in cash.

A Correction: Our long-term investment call  was actually made in the 17 May 2012 issue of Turning Point between Nifty range of 4750-4950 and not during February 2012. During December 2011 and February 2012 we had shown intention of long-term investing but we recommended only during May 2012. All such investments if made are qualifying as long-term only after May 2013. There is an option to sell early but pay more taxes for short-term gains. Error is regretted 

10:45 hr. Thursday 31 January 2013 Nifty 6050

In and out of this job

Turning a different way that knob

Still, I am a mother’s child

I can go home, if I want to

In God’s time, I will

Just knowing she’s there and true

An aching heart she would always fill

Like a vagabond were my shoes

My back so bad, I couldn’t bend

Shuffling along, picking up more blues

Trying to get along so I don’t offend

Days like this

What mother could have a child

Who misses her sweet kiss

However so gently and or mild

Maybe I missed her birthday

Always saying I’m on my way

Maybe showing up three days late

Always a place to sit and a really big plate

She would keep a place for me

Even to just to lay my head

So tired near blind I could barely see

In her eyes I never saw red

Yes, I’ve said it time and time before

Lord, I know I’m my mother’s child

The seed am I she bore

The wild child who wants to be mild

Days like this

What mother could have a child

Who misses her sweet kiss

However so gently and or mild

But what does the future hold for a radical feminist media-critical project, once its author realizes that exposure to this propaganda itself, for any reason — even to critique it — is actually a harmful cultural practice that’s best avoided?

We previously discussed a study conducted by researcher Ann Becker (the “Fiji study“) where television programming was “naturally” introduced into a population for the first time, and within 3 short years, (between 1995-1998) nearly 70% of the female population were dieting to lose weight, and nearly 75% “felt too fat.”  A critical observer, after reading the study and its methodology would notice that this gynocidal, misogynistic effect was surely anticipated: why else would American researchers — well-versed in the effects of media exposure themselves — have swooped into the area just weeks after television was introduced to make their baseline observations, and come back 3 years later to see what had changed?

The researchers knew what was going to happen, and importantly, they did nothing to stop it.  If gynocide were taken as seriously as other genocides, and if parallels were made between destroying the health and lives of girls and women and destroying the health and lives of human beings, this method of data collection would be seen as problematic, and similar to studying the known-effects of politicized torture on an oppressed people in real time, as it’s happening, instead of activating against it.

And indeed, American researchers have done this before — in the Tuskegee experiment, between 1932 and 1972, researchers observed the progress of syphilis in 399 rural American black men who had contracted the disease elsewhere, but who were never told they had syphilis and were never treated for it.  The differences in the public and academic perception of these experiments are obvious: the Tuskegee experiment is an example of a harmful practice stemming from racism and classism against poor black men (and necrophilia) and the experiments are now an embarrassing blight on medical science, demonstrating the reprehensible ethical shortcoming in obtaining data via observing the destruction of non-consenting human subjects producing tainted “research” from which legal and ethical changes were rightly forthcoming.

Meanwhile, the Fiji study — experimenting on non-American black girls and women, and relatively recently at that — is seen and treated as something else entirely.

In fact, media exposure for girls and women functions as politicized torture from which there are known negative outcomes for the victims that are very serious indeed — we know this, and we have known this for a long time.  Interestingly, unlike the Tuskegee experiment, where the progression of a disease-state functioned as the politicized torture of an oppressed group, in the case of media exposure, it is politicized torture that functions as politicized torture — media imagery does not exist outside its political purpose and function.  In other words, unlike a disease-state which would exist regardless of oppressive social structures or unethical researchers being jerks, patriarchal media does not exist in nature and has no other function but to harm and politically oppress girls and women and to support male power.

Indeed, because it is not a natural process or a disease-state, observing the effects of media exposure is more akin to and as scientifically valid as objectively “observing” non-medicalized torture of political prisoners — causing pain and damage for the sake of causing pain and damage, with absolutely no pretense made, for example of its medical or scientific value — than it is akin to Tuskegee or even the medical or quasi-medical experiments of the Nazis who tested, for example, the effects of extreme heat and cold, albeit (obviously) in an unethical and politically oppressive way.  Like torturing political prisoners for the sake of physically, psychologically and politically damaging them, exposing girls and women to media imagery (or objectively observing it without intervening) should be dispositively adjudged to be unethical on its face, but of course it generally isn’t.

Which brings us to the task at hand: identifying and examining the intent and effect of media imagery to further feminist understanding of patriarchy and oppressive social structures that benefit men at women’s expense — with the endgame being women’s liberation from male dominance.

If media imagery really does function as politicized torture — and I think there is excellent evidence that it does — then it is harmful and serves its political purpose well whenever girls and women are exposed to it.  There is no safe level of exposure, and no way to “observe” it objectively without being harmed by it — so a project such as Radfem-ological Images might serve its media-critical purpose, but it also serves another purpose, which is to further expose its audience to harmful political propaganda that is actually damaging to girls and women in real time.

Radical feminists have long struggled with this in fact, and at one point a deliberate decision was made, for example in anti-pornography work, to show women actual pornographic imagery in order that women would really know what we were up against — what men were producing and how they imagined and viewed us, and what they were doing *to us* in the pornography industry.  The idea was that what men are doing is so awful, so brutal and so woman-hating that it is literally incomprehensible and unimaginable to most women, who simply do not imagine the same things men imagine, for whatever reason.  The idea was to take the blinders off, so that we could understand men for what they are and what they do, and male culture for what it is and what it does.

The idea was to get real about men, and to know the truth about women’s lives and the truth about what men do to us.  So now that we know, what do we do with that knowledge?  Are we just supposed to keep viewing this imagery endlessly, even though we know what it does and (therefore) what it’s for?  Or is there an actual point to all of this that goes beyond “understanding” it intellectually — where we start to implement what we know, and make real changes in our lives and in the lives of other girls and women?

That is the question isn’t it?  To take radical feminist thought to its logical ends is to make the leap from radical feminism to female separatism, if not in practice (yet) then in theory.  Isn’t it?  In the case of critically examining media exposure, our logical ends is to understand that there is no safe way to interact with media imagery as it currently stands, and very little chance that we will be able to successfully change the imagery in a fundamental way; in fact it would be reasonable to conclude that despite our best efforts, the gynocidal intent and effect of media imagery has gotten worse, not better — for example, both pornography and advertising have become increasingly violent and degrading over time.

We can and should thank the women who came before for proving, with their female blood, sweat and tears, that reforming the patriarchal media so that it does not harm girls and women cannot be done, or that it is so unlikely to be successful as to be an unreasonable goal — and then respect their contributions (and our own) by using this knowledge constructively.

Under patriarchy, “constructively” means grounded in reality (unwinding and discarding reversals, including unclear and wishful thinking about boys and men) and acting in a way that is supportive of girls and women, and/or undermining to male power.  In the case of media imagery, because exposure actually, actively harms us, including traumatizing us which creates known chemical and physical changes in the mind and body including trauma-bonding us to men, reducing exposure rather than viewing it with a critical eye will likely move us toward success and will be endemic to our female-only safe space.

Instead of engaging in media criticism, even radical feminist media criticism, it might be more constructive to turn off the TV; at the very least, now that we understand how and why *men* use this imagery, we could spend that time examining how and why girls and women (apparently) voluntarily use politicized torture as recreation, or as relatively-benign material with which to unwind after an average day.  Now that’s interesting, isn’t it?

Please see our “About,” “Why Radfem?” and “The Gears” pages for additional information about this project.

Common themes represented here:

Joke’s on women.  Pigs humiliating women.  Literally everyone — all humans (men of all races) and even some animals — are better and smarter than women, because women are the worst and stupidest.  Har!

Male bonding over misogyny.  Men of all races can bond over their shared hatred of and contempt for women, and by mocking, humiliating and dominating women.

Reversal.  Implying that women are more stupid and more sexually aggressive than men is a reversal of reality.

“Anger is the most destructive of all emotions”

>In “The 48 Laws of Power” Robert Greene mentions several times that emotions are the single greatest hindrance in the game of power. Now, if you have that mentality of thinking that life isn’t a game, it’s cruel to play the game of power, this post isn’t for you and there is a 97% chance you are a player of the Game. It’s useless to opt out of the game of power, if you do, you become nothing.

>Anyways, back to the post. Out of all these emotions, Robert says that “Anger” is the most destructive of emotions. It makes sense, if you think about it; your thoughts are rash and unwarranted, you act out of violence and will think illogically. But, would you trust someone who never showed anger? Who seemed too perfect or never showed any emotion?

>The game of power does not always refer to the battlefield, it is a common game played everyday between school children and business tycoons alike. But, a lack of emotion can make you seem apathetic and confused. Another rule is “to play to the people’s need to believe in something.” If you are never angry, either at a loss or near victory or what have you, then it will appear to your followers that you do not believe in your own cause and as their leader and as a person in power, you need to believe, or appear to believe, as much as they do.

>So this is a pretty simple tip:

A short and occasional outburst of anger and/or emotion can boost morale, reignite lost hope, and assert your position of power.

As I think back over the congregations I have served in my life thus far and those I will serve in the future I am caught by a potentially divisive conflict in this call for radical hospitality.  Of course on one hand we are called by God to welcome the stranger, but deeply seeded US-American pragmatism also tells us from within that we should protect those in our flock.  This protection instinct of keeping our children safe from predators, caring for our communities weak, and guiding our young people to become productive future leaders is also biblically sound.

So what do we do with the tension between welcoming the stranger and protecting the flock?  I suggest three things.

1. Say ‘NO’ to xenophobia.  Xenophobia is the fear of the other.  While it is good to be cautious about new people that should not prevent us from being hospitable and inviting to new people.
2. Set some ‘Requirements’.  As much as I hate the time it takes to wait on background checks and references before I can volunteer somewhere I also recognize the importance of these things.  Tools such as the Oxford background check and Safe Sanctuaries training are not just in place to protect the church from a sue happy society but to preemptively protect those we serve from criminals and sexual predators.
3. Smile, stay calm and explain.  It can be hard to be on the stranger’s side of the situation.  A smile and a calm tone will reassure someone that they are not on trial or guilty until proven innocent.  As long as you stay calm and explain the reason for your process a reasonable person will be content to understand that you are simply a community that really cares about each other and wants the best for everyone.

 These guidelines are not all conclusive but they are ones that can help the more protective of us in letting go and sharing a little radical hospitality.

I recognize that life contains a lot of gray area and these guidelines are not perfect.  What are your guiding principles for radical hospitality that allow you to care for all your neighbors, not just those that are like you?

 Add your list to the comments section!

int string_length(char*);

void reverse(char*);

The first function is to return the length of the char string that is entered by the user and then we are presented with the reverse function that we will be implementing. First let’s look at the string_length function.

int string_length(char *pointer)

{

int counter = 0;

while( *(pointer+counter) != ” )

counter++;

return counter;

}

This function is pretty simple to understand. We declare a new integer value called counter which is then used in a while loop that iterates through a char pointer named pointer here and increments counter on each iteration and then we return it. Simple stuff.

Now to get onto the main point of view of this post, reversing a char:

void reverse(char *string)

{

int length, counter;

char *begin, *end, temp;

length = string_length(string);

begin = string;

end = string;

for ( counter = 0 ; counter < ( length – 1 ) ; counter++ )

{

end++;

}

for ( counter = 0 ; counter < length/2 ; counter++ )

{

temp = *end;

*end = *begin;

*begin = temp;

begin++;

end–;

}

}

This is the function which makes the magic happen and we start off with a few new declarations that will be used. We start off with two new integers called length and counter. Length is later given the size of the char we are aiming to reverse and counter is used in the two for loops we have declared.

Next up is the char variables we need for the function, we declare two pointer variables called begin and end then a final char titled temp.

The next line involves assigning the length of the string to our length variable declared in the reverse function and then assign the string variable to the begin and end variables we had just declared.

We now move on to our iteration loops, the first loop iterates through with the counter and while counter is greater than the length of the string then the end variable will increment through the word we are reversing.

The second loop uses the counter to iterate through the length of the word and then assigns end to temp, the begin variable to end and then temp to begin, the final two lines increment through the start of begin variable and decrements from the end using the end variable.

This may come across as the most simple algorithm to look at but in the moment in that interview my mind gave up on me and remembering something like this could have got me a role in the industry.

Next time we look at implementing stacks and a new update will be put up soon looking at my new XNA titles and projects.

Vol.2 # 48
24 January 2013

Primary Trend: Down
Intermediate Trend: Up
Short-term Trend: Corrective.
Key words: Investors, hold up to 100 % in cash.
Traders, Be on the sideline.

Support levels: 5980 and 5850
Resistance levels: 6130 and 6180
Reversal of short-term corrective trend to up:above 6130.
Reversal of intermediate-term up trend to down if market violates 5850

The Top Line: Stay put, stay out of the market.

Stock market: We have said enough to describe what is happening in the market over the last few weeks. Despite record FII flows during two of the last five years of Bear market within the Nifty highs of 6300 odd points i.e. in 2010 and 2012, markets have not been able to unfold in to any meaningful long-term Bull market. With all the hoopla about the Bull we should have been way, way beyond 6400. Moreover while everyone is comfortable about the future most people see the market not beyond 6300 or 6400. Is it then a Bull market? No. A bull market is a sustained rise with many-fold, multi-year appreciation in prices.
What to expect if market has peaked? A sharp first decline below the intermediate term reversal level of 5850 and which would surprise everyone. Already this last week we have seen sharp cracks in many pivotal stocks despite big brokerage houses’ BUY reports. There is little doubt that the markets are exhausting in the almost 14-month long intermediate-term rise. Gov efforts to boost the market is only but creating short-lived flurries – not a good sign. What one may see in the rallies with lower tops is some sectors and stocks which are yet in the intermediate-term up trend going into one more new high whereas aggregate market may not scale  new high if the reversal levels are violated soon. Staying out or shifting to and remaining in cash, 100 %, is most optimum.

The short-term trend continues to be corrective as also the rise is tapering with what we term as an “irregular top” within the corrective trend. On the downside violation of 5980 will reaffirm the correction. Reversal of the corrective trend is at a level above 6100

The Intermediate-term trend  is up but exhausting. 5850 is the reversal level for the week. Medium-term investors are to watch this level as confirmation.

Primary trend  remains down (or in a large Bear market since 2008 top) as long as Nifty is below the 6400 levels.

Long-term investors with qualified long-term investments (holding of over 366 days and with significantly large gains) are to continue booking profits and moving to 100 % in cash.
A Correction: Our long-term investment call  was actually made in the 17 May 2012 issue of Turning Point between Nifty range of 4750-4950 and not during February 2012. During December 2011 and February 2012 we had shown intention of long-term investing but we recommended only during May 2012. All such investments if made are qualifying as long-term only after May 2013. There is an option to sell early but pay more taxes for short-term gains. Error is regretted 

11:55 hr. Thursday 24 January 2013 Nifty 6016

Her hair was tussled and knotted, and she rolled onto her stomach to get a better look at him. His eyes were closed, ignoring her, pretending she wasn’t examining him as the morning light licked across the room. I’ve done worse, she thought.

She reached for her shirt, just off the side of the bed. She shimmied into her clothes quietly, pausing only when she was at the door to look back at him, lying too still, too rigid to actually be asleep. Yes, she thought, I have definitely done worse.

USD/INR: The previous issue observed “USD/INR may find support at Rs.53.25 and resistance at Rs. 56.25- 57 with an upward bias in the coming weeks”.

The USD/INR is currently close to thelower end or the support level as mentioned above. A rally of over Re.1.00 from any bottom in the current decline of the USD/INR pair will mean a reversal to the decline or the current falling trend from the top of Rs.55.95 made in the month of November 2012.
USD/INR may once again resume the up trend from the current levels. Long positions may be taken with a risk of Re 0.75 or USD/INR 52.75 level. In the coming days we may see the  short-term strength in Rupee receding.

So USD/INR has a support of Rs.53.25. Reversal of the current falling trend is a rally of Re. 1.00 from a bottom in the current trend. Market may once again test the top level.