CongratsTeddies on the new look "TED"
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Topic: CongratsTeddies on the new look "TED"
Posted By: deepaktripathi
Subject: CongratsTeddies on the new look "TED"
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 7:55pm
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Hi Basant ji... I see the site has a new layout and really like it. The look and feel of the new site is beautiful and practical. Congratulations and thanks for the wonderful medium of communication and sharing of knowledge. It is a boon for investor like me who do not have a finance back ground. Hope it improves and keeps growing for years to come. Cheers ------------- "Buy businesses, not stocks, businesses you would be willing to own forever" - Warren Buffett |
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Posted By: Hitesh Shah
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 8:04pm
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Basantji, I've just viewed TED with Internet Explorer 6, Google Chrome, the latest Firefox and another browser, K-Meleon. Except for IE6, the others had a problem with ads overlapping the topic area. With IE6, it is okay but designed for a broad screen which is not really necessary, in my humble opinion. That's all for now... ------------- |
Posted By: dibyendu
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 8:28pm
| Wow! congrats for the new look TED. A great news among all round gloom. Thanks Mr. Basant. |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 8:44pm
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Thanks, there are still some small bugs here and there but I am sure the backend guys wil be able to fix them up. I am listing the changes that have happened:
1) A blog where I will try and write something more frequently (as if I do not right now)!
2) The forum gets more coverage on the home page with the three main subforums being listed with the 20 most active topics of each of these sub forums.
3) Most Active Teddies as per a) All time and b) Last one month so it would be nice if peole can upload their photos instead of the images. Many fund managers visit the site so maybe they would be able to spot you while you are crossing the road. But Teddies who have been more critical of that so called "expert" better watch out for that fund manager who is on the wheels with an accelerator before you cross that road!
4) Most participated Topics since the forum has been born. Needless to say we have PRIL and TV18 there.
5) In (4) above the listing narrows down as you move to the subforums to the most active topics within the subforum.
6) Teddies who have started new topics can view them in terms of participation on the forum pages.
7) We have a space for bookmarking and emailing the pages and sharing it on yahoo, diggit etc.
8) A couple of new features are still being added and should be up soon.
9) Plus we have the advertisements flowing more freely then before.  ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: omshivaya
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 8:50pm
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Basant jee, I dont think I need to mention it again but TED is going the right way. Looks great & I am sure the bits and pieces here and there that need to be improved will be changed as time goes by. I would be eagerly looking out for that "self-blog" of yours and your thoughts from time to time.
Very Happy for TED. Jai Ho TEDdies!!!  ------------- The most important quality for an investor is temperament,not intellect.A temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd nor against it |
Posted By: rapidriser
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 10:19pm
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Basant ji
The forum seems to be observing Pacific Standard Time. Is that because our markets are heavily infuenced by what happens in the US of A?
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Posted By: Hitesh Shah
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 10:26pm
 Example of Global Cues! ------------- |
Posted By: HallaBol
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 7:34am
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Basant ji,
Congrates on a great new TED look. One suggestion here - in earlier version, after visiting a link, colour of the link was changed which was very helpful to track if a page was already visited by me. Now in the New TED, both the new links and the already visited link colour is same. Now it is a bit hard to figure out if a link has already been visited as the colour of the link does not change. ------------- The future is never clear, you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cherry consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values. - Warren Buffet |
Posted By: kulman
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 7:40am
 Or is it that some TEDdies trade online on NYSE & Nasdaq? ------------- Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 8:13am
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Those suggestions should be carried out please put in your comments whenever you all get some time or are able to spot anything!
------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: investor
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 8:17am
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Congrats Basant on the new look TED! Its a refreshing change! Some suggestions from my side: 1. When we go to any thread, it shows the first page, i think its better it goes to the last page. 2. Time needs to be changed to IST, as kulman has mentioned above. ------------- The market is a place where people with money meet people with experience. The people with experience get the money while people with money get experience! |
Posted By: catchsudipto
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 8:38am
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Congrats Basantji for the grand new look TED. Its really great. I love the getup of the front page. I will explore the site properly and then post my suggestion. Congrats again. ------------- Make your Life as simple as possible. |
Posted By: shivkumar
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 10:25am
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Nice look and easier to navigate. Suggestions: How about content page in alphabetical order with a window on the opening page? New topics started should come with a flashing red indicator and stay that way for a month or so. Pages need to be made compatible with Firefox. |
Posted By: smartcat
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 11:05am
If Kulman ji and myself upload our real photos, it will ruin the overall look and feel of the home page.
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Posted By: 9StockPortfolio
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 11:18am
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The Site looks great Basant Sir Are you taking this site to market by IPO route? Can we have Preferrence shares? regards 9StockPortfolio ------------- Pursuit of Value |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 29/Jan/2009 at 11:26am
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So everyone wants that "10% preferred with convertibles"? How about warrants?
------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: gcpradhan1
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 1:22pm
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WOW !!! Great New Look of TED ! Thanks Basant Jee, for keep on inovating for TED ........ ------------- Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years - Buffet |
Posted By: striker_rage
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 1:36pm
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Love the my topics/most participated topics list on the right.
The new disign is nice too but i m missing the old banner. Also...if the main forum page could show the last topic of each subforum....i think it would be nice. Will keep on updating if i find anything else. |
Posted By: arunshah2k
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 2:22pm
Excellent new look!! I had a suggestion for a feature. Can we have a link at each forum that takes directly to the last page. Currently, I have to scroll the page number dropdown, then select the last page number and then click to reach the last page. |
Posted By: somu0915
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 3:12pm
| Basant Ji, I did not knew you are a computer wizard as well !! |
Posted By: smartcat
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 3:23pm
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The "Contacts" tab next to the "Report Card" tab is linking to http://www.theequitydesk.com/forum/contact.asp - www.theequitydesk.com/forum/contact.asp instead of http://www.theequitydesk.com/contact.asp - http://www.theequitydesk.com/contact.asp . So it gives a 'Page Not Found' error message. You will see this problem only when you click on the 'Forum' link first and then try to click on the 'Contacts' tab. From the home page, the link to 'Contacts' tab seems to be fine.
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Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 4:10pm
I just provided the design the coding was done by the back end people but I did try and learn a lot of those cins and couts when technology was the hot thing around.
------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: shivkumar
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 4:14pm
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The search engine facility of TED sucks. Basant should incorporate the google search engine on the site. Now if I want to say, check up L&T on TED, I go to google and enter L&T and theequitydesk.com and the the appropriate thread comes up. On the other hand entering anything on TED's search box throws up the wrong thread! |
Posted By: deepaktripathi
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 6:01pm
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I hear couple of people had problems using the new site on Firefox...I use Firefox 3.0.5 and every thing seems to be fine...no overlapping or layout issues. My Topic on right is very useful. Don't like the google ads in the centre of the screen below Global Announcements tab. The layout of links at the top of Forum page having Logout, PM and Search can be changed to bring the actual forum links a little up in the page because there are 2 lines of google ads in between them and the contents. ------------- "Buy businesses, not stocks, businesses you would be willing to own forever" - Warren Buffett |
Posted By: Hitesh Shah
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 6:58pm
I used Firefox 3.0.4 and got the problem. I also tried Google's Chrome and had the same problem. Do you have a "wide-screen" set-up? ------------- |
Posted By: kumardiwesh
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 7:32pm
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I've an overlapping problem using Firefox. ------------- "History does not tell you the probability of future financial things happening" - Warren Buffett |
Posted By: kulman
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 7:44pm
 ha ha ha haOn a serious note I agree with you. There is a drastic change in the way I look now as compared to Jan'08. SmartCat: any improvement in you after marriage? ------------- Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards |
Posted By: Hitesh Shah
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 8:03pm
Apropos nothing at all, it may be irreverent to comment on the activity of hallowed seniors but ... 1. SC's frequency of posting has declined.... 2. He has stopped all talk of his chimpanzee, whose performance was reported as being superior to that of the Sensex... ------------- |
Posted By: kulman
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 8:10pm
Grapevine has it that the chimp was last seen wearing a tie sitting with CIO of a leading hedge fund. ------------- Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards |
Posted By: ThinkDifferent
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 9:02pm
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Congrats!!! Great new look. I use firefox and faced issues. I am much indebted to this forum. Keep up the good work. ------------- I am an Amateur in Stocks. |
Posted By: ThinkDifferent
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 9:09pm
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One issue that i have noticed is that there is a horizontal scrollbar in the browser. I am using firefox. I have myself developed a few websites and horizontal scrollbar is an absolute no no. The reason is that if you are reading text that spans from end to end, then you will have to scroll to read each line and that can be very irritating. Just my 2 paisa. ------------- I am an Amateur in Stocks. |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 9:14pm
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I think that the backend enginners are reading the suggestions with great interest and should be able to tide over most of these issues soon! ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: deepaktripathi
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 10:17pm
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I am using the screen resolution 1280x1024 and have a wide 16:9 screen monitor. This might be the reason why I don't see the horizontal scroll bar or overlapping issues. Another layout suggestion would be on home page the Why Join Us box be the same span as Success Stories and the Google ads shifted to the right of The Equity Desk Global Announcement box...this will reduce the wrapping of the text in the 5 points.The current wrapped text is increasing the length of the page. PS: I have a 19'' monitor  hence the display settings and I hate IE.------------- "Buy businesses, not stocks, businesses you would be willing to own forever" - Warren Buffett |
Posted By: Hitesh Shah
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 10:20pm
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Basantji, the problem with the "printable version" still remains. In other words, if a topic is running into several pages, this option currently give us the chance to save approximately the first 12 pages as one catenated file. But there is no option to save subsequently pages of each topic as a catenated file. Saving each page is too cumbersome. Please see what can be done. Because several topics merit reading off-line as well! ------------- |
Posted By: BIKRAM
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 10:41pm
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NICE WORK. KEEP IT UP |
Posted By: mmpcse
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 10:39am
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Basantji,
Overall site is dam neat. Great Effort. The new site has user stickiness and i have one small suggestion to imitate some of ideas from stackoverflow.com for eg: when i post questions in that forum and if i get the answer it will automatically refresh it self [like Gmail] [they are using ajax]. I request you to spend some time on stackoverflow to gain some ideas. Thank you. |
Posted By: Vivek Sukhani
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 10:46am
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Hi Tigershark,
I can buy a closed factory company, if I get it at my price. Here at least some work is happening.
Its like this, when you get a company at discount to book value, it implies a few things:
1.There are certain assets whose realisable values may not be as good as the book value on the balance sheet
And/or
2.There may be certain liabilities which are understanded or contingent liabilities have a fair chances of materialising
And/or
3.There is a very good chance that future losses may be large enough to wipe off the positive difference that exists between book value and market value.
Now, just think about it......what if none of the things hold true, and the company may just amble across with normal profits. the gap will only widen, making it all the more attractive. So, by assuming all the negative things in my calculation, I try to get a decent margin of safety.
Just think about a SRF or a Cosmo films or a Voith Paper. The profits may have remained more or less the same, or there may be a slight drop, but still the profits are in the positive territory. So, with every quarter my game is becoming more and more attractive and I dont mind falling prices at all. SRF actually in buying back and cancelling the shares, and at a time, when most of the companies are diluting equity. Alongwith that, they are setting up capacities in their field when everyone is busy in deferring the plans of capital expenditure.
Cosmo films has announced an acquisition just on 29th of this month. The company is earning quite well. As and when crude prices stabilise, they will make a windfall.
Voith is another company which will also benefit immensely if rupee appreciates. The company is trading at nearly 60 p.c. discount to book, is debt free and is earning well enough for this price.
All i want my companies is to keep eaning profits , big or small and if they are making losses, attempt should be there to contain and stem the losses.And on top of it, I want them cheap. The thing is, you should be so convinced when you make an entry that your conviction only increases on price dips. But for that to happen, that conviction has to be totally your own.
Automobile Corporation would limp back to normalcy as and when the demand for buses come up. My big fear is that the dharwad plant of Tata Marcopolo has started operations. So, I dont know Tatas will be able to justify keeping 2 body building plants in such a scenario and should try to synergise productions. They have put so much money in the rights issue, so i dont think they will allow this company to bleed to death.
I am still to firm up my mind on this one, though. When telco is available at 150, why shall I think about Automobile corporation, is the question I am seeking an answer to.
------------- Jai Guru!!! |
Posted By: leo2007
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 11:09am
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Basantji,
The time setting doe not seem to be correct. Please see the previous post. The time is showm as ' today 10.39 PM '
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Posted By: catcall
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 11:10am
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good change, by the location of the "most vistited topics" area seems problematic.... makes it difficult to click on the reply button( i am using IE for browsing) suggest that the drop down list could be hidden normally and would be visible only on moving the cursor on the link, something like the icons at the bottom bar of Windows.... ------------- There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate-when he can't afford it and when he can-Happy investing! |
Posted By: rider.royal
Date Posted: 30/Jan/2009 at 11:27am
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Don't know where else to post feedback but just logged into new look website and what else to say that its awesome.... really a wonderful job.. kudos !!!! P.S. post move to correct thread by some nice soul :-) |
Posted By: Chetan Panchal
Date Posted: 31/Jan/2009 at 2:09pm
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Congrats Basantji and all TED Members.
I have one suggestion -
There should be one data file in excel available on TED containing all compnaies discussed here's data in tabular form with CMP,NP ratios for 3 years ,EPS for last three years and current 3 quarters and expected EPS for 2009,10,11 and like other ratios,so it will be easy to understand and compare.
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Posted By: atulbull
Date Posted: 31/Jan/2009 at 7:44pm
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"Change is easy... improvement is far more difficult." says Dr.Ferdinand Porsche ,the founder of the Porsche cars, Looking forward to more such improvements in TED in the future and congratulations to all the tedies and basantji.
------------- Price is what you pay.Value is what you get. |
Posted By: Hitesh Shah
Date Posted: 31/Jan/2009 at 7:47pm
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Basantji, this is what Google throws up if one searches for "The Equity Desk": One can ignore the warning, since Google is right now showing it for all sites, but the 100% free tips ... ???
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Posted By: Bharat B. Sahni
Date Posted: 31/Jan/2009 at 3:03am
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Congrats Basant ji, It is like renovation, a new avtar, ------------- Bharat |
Posted By: Bharat B. Sahni
Date Posted: 31/Jan/2009 at 3:16am
------------- Bharat |
Posted By: HallaBol
Date Posted: 01/Feb/2009 at 10:22pm
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------------- The future is never clear, you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cherry consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values. - Warren Buffet |
Posted By: HallaBol
Date Posted: 01/Feb/2009 at 10:23pm
Reposting if the back end engineer missed it. ------------- The future is never clear, you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cherry consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values. - Warren Buffet |
Posted By: smartcat
Date Posted: 02/Feb/2009 at 3:28pm
Do you pay regular hafta to somebody for being a member of TED?
The world is going to end in 2012. I have to take measures to survive.
Meanwhile, this explains why everybody got the "this site maybe harmful
message on Google - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339959,00.asp - Google Glitch Labels Internet as Malware
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Posted By: Hitesh Shah
Date Posted: 02/Feb/2009 at 6:54pm
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Don't mean to be rude, but the back-end guys still haven't fixed the time issue or the ads overlapping issues! Also my favourite grouse regarding the limitations of the "printable version" links is unattended  ------------- |
Posted By: Hitesh Shah
Date Posted: 03/Feb/2009 at 6:05pm
Overlapping seems fixed.... but the width of the posts area seems less than before???? ------------- |
Posted By: Jaishrikrishna
Date Posted: 03/Feb/2009 at 8:40pm
| well we have changed and changed for good, congrats basantjee, lets make this new year rocking and learn from our mistakes and thrive forward with +ve mind. |
Posted By: Hitesh Shah
Date Posted: 03/Feb/2009 at 8:59pm
Is that maya or Mayan? And my point about the 100% free tips is that a search on Google for "The Equity Desk" throws up the description I posted. So how does Google get the idea that 100% free tips are doled out here? Have Basantji's back-end guys done something with the meta tags or whatever is used nowadays? ------------- |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 03/Feb/2009 at 9:22pm
Better late then never  ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: Hitesh Shah
Date Posted: 04/Feb/2009 at 7:46pm
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Today having posting problems with error messages on hitting the "Post Reply" button. SELECT tblThread.Thread_ID, tblThread.Author_ID, tblThread.Message, tblThread.Show_signature, tblThread.IP_addr, tblThread.Hide, tblThread.File_uploads FROM tblThread WITH (ROWLOCK) WHERE tblThread.Thread_ID=99335; Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80004005' Timeout expired /forum/edit_post.asp, line 541 ------------- |
Posted By: tyler_durden
Date Posted: 22/Feb/2009 at 1:38pm
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i am back after few months...site has changed a lot...awesome work Basant sir ------------- If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. |
Posted By: basant
Date Posted: 22/Feb/2009 at 1:50pm
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Welcome back!!! ------------- 'The Thoughtful Investor: A Journey to Financial Freedom Through Stock Market Investing' - A Book on Equity Investing especially for Indian Investors. Book your copy now: www.thethoughtfulinvestor.in |
Posted By: atulbull
Date Posted: 22/Feb/2009 at 11:50am
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welcome back tylerji
------------- Price is what you pay.Value is what you get. |