My experiences from the Czech Republic RMS market Is, that price depend only on the SPAD market. Price is usually 0.5% up or down SPAD (if SPAD go up, it’s up the SPAD price…). It’s good for selling, when the market going up, because you may sell it with higher profit, but if you will miss the turn-over point you will claim high punch .

Liquidity is good, but problem is, that you don’t know If you will sell or not, it’s the auction. I’m someone trying sell for 100, not sell cancel it and go down to 99.8, 99.5…, and still not sell. In the SPAD market the brokers which creating market must buy from you!

Problem is too, that if you not trading with BAACEZ (ČEZ), which is the top one stock on the Czech market, and you trading with BAATELEC (O2) or BAAUNIPE (UNIPETROL) the market is slow and someone selling only, for example, once per 30 minutes . So you looking on graph, which not changing, and you don’t know where the price is right now…

I asked my FIO broker , if they may lower his own stock commission (I’m trading daily now) on Czech Republic RMS market from the 0,29% (RoundTrip 2*0,29%) to something lower as is 0.1% (RT 2*0.1%). Commission of the 0.1%, Is for example on the EU XETRA market via InterractiveBroker .

FIO is owner of this RMS market! So sure they may do it and lower my commission, but they rejected this my request and wrote me, that this commission is one of the lowest on the Czech market. It’s right, but try trade daily with the RoundTrip commission of 0.58% . If you will trade only once per day it’s something like 200 day * 0.58% commission = 116 % of the your whole property per year payed to your broker . So If you trading with 2k € you will pay each year 2.32k € to your broker LOL. Try be in profit in this situation…

For example I bought 26. 9. 2008 250* BAAUNIPE at 189,4 and sell it same day for 189,9 and I was in LOSS, yes loss! of 150 CZK .

Problem of the high broker commission is too , that if you are in the situation, that you must sell right now, you don’t sell only because your broker commission will kill you, and yourself, that the price must go little up …

Graph (FIO broker) is from big SPAD (EU – Czech Republic) market. My orders was placed on the small RMS market, where the price fluctuate heavy +-5 CZK around SPAD . At RMS I usually buy better than on the SPAD market, but I must sell quicker, when the price go up at the SPAD. If the price start falling down at the SPAD the RMS accepting only very low price .

Buy:

Firstly I draw red line under minimums and green line at the expected profit .

The minimum for 24. 9. 2008 was from  596 to +-597, the price go down to 593, i place order and bought at 591,3 .

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Sell:

Now I must little wait and look market very carefully, if it will go down i will sell! This is the most difficult part !!! I must be strong, and if market not return to usual limits, it’s regular breakout and price will FALL DOWN HEAVY!

Market go up for whole day, with large correction in 15-16 hours (as everyday…, everyone ending in this hour his positions).

Today 25. 9. 2008 I watch the USA market (USA storing lot of money in the CR market…), which fall down to -0.27% (NASDAQ 0%), so i can’t expect any large push up in price! At the 11 hours I meet my internal goal of +-400 (410 wasn’t realistic according to the USA results), so i placed sell order at the nice 399,7 and wait. If someone will buy it, or the price will go up (if go up, i will cancel the order and wait). Someone buy my stocks at the 401 and i realized nice profit .

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So this is way, how I’m today make some money

MKV Matroska video container is like bank . It working so well, but what is inside?

I did some research, with focus on my own HD content in the MKV files.

Video:

• h.264 /AVC1 – nice video codec usually encoded by x264 , his quality is very, very good .

Audio:

• DD DolbyDigital 5.1 6.1, which is internally marked as a/52 or AC-3 (this confused me for the very long time ), DD Is the classic one and very popular, but quality isn’t top.
• DTS Digital Theater System 5.1, DTS-ES 6.1 – DTS is better than the DD. Especially in concerts is DTS the must (or pure uncompressed LPCM).

Subtitle:

• SRT – text subtitles
• IDX – VobSub subtitles
• SUB

Subtitle is usually inside the MKV file (this was news for me too, firstly I’m looking only for audio and video inside the MKV, and what i find, that i don’t need search subtitles on web, firstly i must look deeply inside the MKV container, if subtitle isn’t inside it), but if someone forget margin it inside, you will find .IDX or .SUB file together with the Matroska file.

Tools:

One of the best free tool to display detailed audio and video specification (not only of the .MKV file) is MediaInfo . It working nice and accurate. It’s easy to right-click on any video file, and take instantly all this detailed information about bitrates, resolutions,…

Player:

And finally the good player is VLC . Try new VLC betas with tons of new features. And don’t forget to set S/PDIF to your audio receiver (if your receiver support direct digital stream), the audio quality will be the top one.

It’s extremely ugly weather . Raining for days , i don’t like this never-ending rain .

Sun is covered by tons of clouds, day-light shorting.

It’s very easy to fall into depression .

As the solution i will start visiting of town big swimming-pool, focus on my work success and light up my 5*120 W light bulbs (it’s the saving ones, which consume only 5*24 W). This may really help.

I’m missing only sunbathing very much , but what i may do…

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