My 2 Indexes Compete Well with S&P 500... kaChing!

Here are the links:
Index of selected Californian Companies CArtuM,
and
Index of Digital Photography and Video.

Enjoy,

ArtuM
Portfolio Manager with SEC Registered
Investment Adviser http://www.kaching.com/,
Co-founder of WishTheBest.com

kaChing... CArtuM - Index of Californian Companies

Follow the CArtuM chart from the link.

The reasoning behind the CArtuM is described here.

Enjoy,

ArtuM

CArtuM on kaChing.com

Charting CArtuM index performance on my own was excellent experience, but it takes too much time. I started looking around for the web site which allows to chart my own Total portfolio (not single stock). It was quite a challenge. Mike Havrilla, expert on ETF development, referred his blog subscribers to kaChing.com and ... "kaChing is here to rock the investing world". The web site is current creation of the investment team, which includes world's greatest entrepreneur Marc Andreessen.

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kaChing.com allows to chart Portfolio Total in its comparison to S&P 500 or Russell 3000. So, I placed CArtuM index on kaChing.com and from now on CArtuM performance will be posted of the following web page.

Here we go:

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I will repost the CArtuM chart here time from time, but you are also welcome to follow the link.

Enjoy!

ArtuM

CArtum25 on Feb.14, 2009

For description see previous post.

Enjoy!

Art

CArtuM25 - educational CA based Index

(press chart to enlarge)

We know how tough traders work load is... Do you love taking risks? Are you ready to handle them? On the conversational level we all are, but "facing the lion in the pit" is eye opening experience. It requires high level of knowledge, quality planning, developed intuition and prime energies in the action. Your head is not the only instrument taking place in this real-time contest...

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I am excited to share with you my new development: researching and creating CA based Index. This path allows to converge knowledge from different areas and search for ways to market such indexes. With inspiration, guidance and assistance from author of ETF Innovators, I may securely move forward and dedicate myself to historical back-testing of the CArtum25, becoming proficient at its charting and comparing it with selected benchmark indexes. I started with DOW as the benchmark. Current research is more or less an educational one and few months it will stay this way. As things will progress and Index(es) will gain maturity, I will start exploring their marketing in the ETF realm. Meanwhile, stay with me on the exciting education of Index creation and their research.

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Here we have chart of CArtum25 and DOW, presented in relative % values. This charting format became standard in comparing few different charts and it will be used from now on. CArtuM25 consists of 25 CA based stocks and will be disclosed in future after my historical back-testing and related research.

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Initial idea for creating my own ETF came from allowing few country-based ETFs to compete on a one chart during daily trading sessions. It is an awesome and inspiring experience. Here is the sample of such run: http://wishswish.blogspot.com/2008/12/olympic-like-competition-based-on.html and here the chart only.

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Hope you like the idea and will come back for more. I am open for partnering with creative investment professionals, educators and sport minded people. My starting point in merging sports with investments is as follows:

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As basketball coach design the play and players deliver it, the same way investor operates in the investment world of options trading. It’s strategy. If the designed plan does not include enough protection, or adjustments, investor-player gets burned as we had in recent market collapse. But if investor-player has a game plan which places protective positions or goes with straddle strategy to play market volatility, then the player is covered. The same goes in sports. If the athlete-player design protective points and deliver them, than flow of the game is in control.

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Art

WishTheBest.com, Member of Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce,
Basketball coach of NBA sponsored Los Angeles Summer Pro League,

Programmer-Researcher of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, 1977-1987

Our Foundation - Research, Publications, Education Work, TV Programs

This post collects our research, publications, creative thinking and education work in one place for the future referrences.

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PUBLICATIONS:

B.S. "Music and Technologic Achievement"; Lithuanian journal "Domains of Culture" [ "Kulturos Barai" ], 1984, July, pp.18-19. [ Lithuanian Music Academy ]

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Library of Congress Online Catalog: search for Ar. Medonis

1985: A. Medonis. "Several Topical Aspects of Pitch Determination”, Abstracts of Communications, p.163-164, XXVIIth Conference of the Lithuanian Mathematical Society

1986: refereed conference article at XII ICMC Proceedings pp 187-191 (ICMC - International Computer Music Conference)

http://www.amazon.com/Proceedings-International-Computer-Music-Conference/dp/B006OSWMTY. 

Reference to this 1986 ICMC article is at Stanford University PhD dissertation, 
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~cnichols/pdf/vBowDissertation2003.pdf, p 152

Also: Observatoire Musical Francais, Bibliographie Systematique Des Periodiques En Musique Et Technologie, www.omf.paris4.sorbonne.fr/EARS-MINT/PERIODIC01_MINT/icmc74-89.htm

1987: refereed conference article at XIth ICPhS (International Congress of Phonetic Sciences), Proceedings Vol.5, pp 178-182;

1990: our research was evaluated and supported by Prof. A. A., renown former JPL researcher, a recipient of NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1980) for unmanned space exploration, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (1985), UCLA Professor of the Computer Science Department. His teaching and research interests lies in computer system architecture and fault-tolerant computing. For more about Professor and his research read here:

- Fault-tolerant system,

- A.A. Avizienis, “The Methodology of N-version Programming”, Software Fault Tolerance, edited by M. Lyu, John Wiley & Sons, 1995,

- Professor Algirdas_Antanas Avižienis.

1993: sponsored article "Computer Accompaniment in Violin Teaching", registered with U.S. Copyright Office Reg.# PA 735-970;

1990-current: private business in academic enrichment studies; development of research related web sites, online research articles, publications;

1991-current: educational TV program "Enjoy Music With Birute";

1999: SDB Teachers Recognition by The Johns Hopkins University Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth;

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WEB BASED PUBLICATIONS

1994: A. Medonis. Dynamic Fractals application in original composition "Labyrinth", education TV show "Computers In Music by Arthur", 1994,

wishswish.blogspot.com/2008/07/enjoying-yodio.html

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2005: A.Medonis. Basketball as a Science: www.geocities.com/skymus/

2005: A.Medonis. Computer Accompaniment for Music Teaching at Santa Monica and SMC: www.geocities.com/creative_teacher, wishswish.blogspot.com/2008/07/sing-or-play-along.html

2006: A.Medonis. Playful Math: Even Double
www.amazon.com/Playful-Math-Even-Double-Personal/dp/1847283675,

www.lulu.com/content/670911

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2008: A.Medonis. Count Your Swishes...Excel in Math and Hoops,

www.lulu.com/content/459170

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Professional Memberships:

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1989-1996: Member of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA);

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1997-2009: Member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, NCTM.org;

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Member of Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce, 2008 – 2012.

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Enjoy!

Art

Send Out Cards (SOC) GROWS UP...

Check our newest image galleries at WishTheBest.blogspot.com.

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SOC is currently sending out millions of dollars per year in commissions to it’s independent representatives. ... SOC PASSES MANY BENEFITS to YOU :)

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HERE ARE THE REVENUES FROM 2004-2008:
2004 REVENUE: $200,000
2005 REVENUE: $2.4 MILLION
2006 REVENUE: $10 MILLION
2007 REVENUE: $24 MILLION
2008 REVENUE: $41 MILLION
2009( PROJECTED): 90 MILLION

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SOC is built on advanced digital photo trend, generous payments for everyone involved and opportunity to grow in a friendly environment.

Three things amazes me:

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1. With explosion in a greeting card business, most card companies force customers to pay for their shipping twice: from card company to customer and from customer to final destination. SOC does it once. Ask us how!

2. You know that convenient management of client addresses is crucial. Some companies charge you $30+ per month for online data management system. If you cancel the service after 1 year, you are loosing your data base.
With SOC you have peace of mind: no additional payment for unlimited access to excellent data management system with reminders and many other features in place.

3. Google Picasa promotes 4 vendors on the ouset of its excellent program to make photo/greeting cards and other related products. We compared the prices for greeting cards with your own pictures or collages and guess what? Try to find better prices than SOC's and you still won't find it.

Check the slide video below to see samples of cards you may use or create for your business:

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Now go to http://www.wishthebest.com/ and send a complimentary card on us. You will smile :)... you will become the fan for a lifetime.

If you are interested in how to make money with SOC and how to have fun, here is the video explaining SOC business strukture !

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If you read to this point and watched the videos, you should have questions. Birute and I are always here to answer them: ask@wishthebest.com

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Enjoy!

Art

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http://www.wishthebest.com/ - place your photo into a greeting card for <$1... Take a Tour or press Red button "Click To Send a FREE card!" and you will get into your own Gift account. Here Kody will walk you through a simple way to select and send your own real card. It takes ~10 minutes. PicturePlus Demonstration explains how to place your own photos into the card. Just try it and you will have fun for a lifetime!

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