http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm Okane Capital Blog en-us Sat, 19 May 2012 17:21:14 -0500 Fri, 18 May 2012 14:06:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "Okane Capital"<info@okanecapital.com> "Okane Capital"<info@okanecapital.com> http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/18/FaceBook-FB-1st-Day--disappoints--Gap--Crap- Take a look at the FaceBook Chart for it&acute;s first day ! &nbsp; ONE WORD; disappoints ! Take a look at a classic GAP &amp; Crap ! &nbsp; Wait until the Investment Banks remove their huge $38.00 BID. $35 should come soon ! &nbsp; &ldquo;Good Luck Trading&rdquo; &nbsp; Articulos Fri, 18 May 2012 14:06:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/18/FaceBook-FB-1st-Day--disappoints--Gap--Crap- http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/18/10year-Treasury-bond-yield--WOW---Dont-buy-Bonds- For some perspective on all-important long-term interest rates, today&#39;s chart illustrates the 112-year trend of the 10-year Treasury bond yield (thick blue line). Escalating concerns over Europe in addition to a struggling global economy have encouraged investors, institutions and governments alike to move a portion of their investment dollars to the relative safety of the US. This has resulted in a significant decline of the 10-year Treasury bond yield. In fact, the 10-year yield has declined a fairly dramatic 340 basis points (i.e. 3.4%) since the peak of the credit bubble. This decline has brought the 10-year Treasury bond yield to a 112-year low. The decline of the 10-year Treasury bond yield has been significant enough to bring the 10-year yield near resistance of what is a 26-year downtrend channel. &nbsp; If you are buying Bonds now, be carefull, you could suffer HUGE PRINCIPAL LOSES to you Capital ! &nbsp; Source: http://www.chartoftheday.com/20120518.htm?T &nbsp; Chart of the Day Fri, 18 May 2012 06:19:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/18/10year-Treasury-bond-yield--WOW---Dont-buy-Bonds- http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/17/Letter-from-ZUCK--Facebook-to-start-trading-at-11am-tomorrow-morning MENLO PARK, CA (The Borowitz Report) &ndash; On the eve of Facebook&rsquo;s IPO, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published the following letter to potential investors: Dear Potential Investor: For years, you&rsquo;ve wasted your time on Facebook.&nbsp; Now here&rsquo;s your chance to waste your money on it, too. Tomorrow is Facebook&rsquo;s IPO, and I know what some of you are thinking.&nbsp; How will Facebook be any different from the dot-com bubble of the early 2000&rsquo;s? For one thing, those bad dot-com stocks were all speculation and hype, and weren&rsquo;t based on real businesses.&nbsp; Facebook, on the other hand, is based on a solid foundation of angry birds and imaginary sheep. Second, Facebook is the most successful social network in the world, enabling millions to share information of no interest with people they barely know. Third, every time someone clicks on a Facebook ad, Facebook makes money.&nbsp; And while no one has ever done this on purpose, millions have done it by mistake while drunk.&nbsp; We totally stole this idea from iTunes. Finally, if you invest in Facebook, you&rsquo;ll be far from alone.&nbsp; As a result of using Facebook for the past few years, over 900 million people in the world have suffered mild to moderate brain damage, impairing their ability to make reasoned judgments.&nbsp; These will be your fellow Facebook investors. With your help, if all goes as planned tomorrow, Facebook&rsquo;s IPO will net $100 billion.&nbsp; To put that number in context, it would take JP Morgan four or five trades to lose that much money. One last thing: what will, I, Mark Zuckerberg, do with the $18 billion I&rsquo;m expected to earn from Facebook&rsquo;s IPO?&nbsp; Well, I&rsquo;m considering buying Greece, but that would still leave me with $18 billion.&nbsp; LOL. Friend me, Mark Articulos Thu, 17 May 2012 14:48:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/17/Letter-from-ZUCK--Facebook-to-start-trading-at-11am-tomorrow-morning http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/17/Eleven-11-Short-Putt-Candidates--Take-advantage-of-a-higher-vol- Boys &amp; Girls: &nbsp; This is what we were waiting for... &nbsp; Here are some Short Putt Candidates that could make you smile, (If we ever get a Rally) REMEMBER all these trades are &ldquo;undefined risk&rdquo;, so be careful. The following are just for illustrative purposes only, they are not in any way trade recommendations ! &nbsp; &nbsp; ANF &ndash; @ $36.55 - Sell June 33 puts for $0.91 &ndash; get 23% Return on Capital in 29 days &ndash; 71% Prob of Profit. &nbsp; AKS &ndash; @ $6.27 - Sell June 6 puts for $0.31 &ndash; get 30% Return on Capital in 29 days &ndash; 56% Prob of Profit. &nbsp; BAC &ndash; @ $7.00 - Sell June 7 puts for $0.43 &ndash; get 30% Return on Capital in 29 days &ndash; 53% Prob of Profit. &nbsp; CHK &ndash; @ $13.55 - Sell June 10 puts for $0.50 &ndash; get 49% Return on Capital in 29 days &ndash; 74% Prob of Profit. &nbsp; HPQ &ndash; @ $22.06 - Sell June 22 puts for $1.11 &ndash; get 25% Return on Capital in 29 days &ndash; 52% Prob of Profit. &nbsp; NFLX &ndash; @ $71.97 - Sell June 62.5 puts for $1.87 &ndash; get 29% Return on Capital in 29 days &ndash; 72% Prob of Profit. &nbsp; TBT&ndash; @ $16.39 - Sell June 16 puts for $0.50 &ndash; get 17% Return on Capital in 29 days &ndash; 58% Prob of Profit. &nbsp; WLT &ndash; @ $53.40 - Sell June 45 puts for $1.34 &ndash; get 29% Return on Capital in 29 days &ndash; 75% Prob of Profit. &nbsp; &nbsp; Now some trades &ldquo;for the BIG BOYS&rdquo; (Require much more capital to do) &nbsp; AAPL&ndash; @ $530.12 - Sell June 480 puts for $5.20 &ndash; get 9% Return on Capital in 29 days &ndash; 72% Prob of Profit. &nbsp; BIDU &ndash; @ $117.86 - Sell June 100 puts for $1.44 &ndash; get 14% Return on Capital in 29 days &ndash; 83% Prob of Profit. &nbsp; BIDU &ndash; @ $117.86 - Sell June 100 puts for $1.44 &ndash; get 14% Return on Capital in 29 days &ndash; 83% Prob of Profit. &nbsp; &nbsp; ------------------------------------ &nbsp; ONE LAST THING..... If you haven&#39;t seen the GET TASTED program, staring two of the best options traders of all times Tom Sosnoff and Tony Battista, you are missing out. It is very funny, informative, educational and best of all it will improve your &quot;probability of success&quot;. Programming starts at 7:00am to 12:00pm CST. VISIT www.tastytrade.com &nbsp; Articulos Thu, 17 May 2012 14:28:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/17/Eleven-11-Short-Putt-Candidates--Take-advantage-of-a-higher-vol- http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/11/Eduardo-Saverin-Facebook-Founder--Renounces-US-Citizenship Well that&rsquo;s some slick timing.&nbsp;Eduardo Saverin, who is best known for co-founding Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg back in their college days at Harvard, has given up his United States citizenship. His name appeared on&nbsp;a list&nbsp;published on April 30 by the United States Office of the Federal Register, which issues a quarterly list of people who have given up their U.S. citizenship. The news was first&nbsp;picked up&nbsp;by Bloomberg earlier today. The switch will almost certainly decrease the number of American taxes he owes on the $3.84 billion or so he isreportedly in line to make&nbsp;once Facebook&nbsp;goes public, which is widely expected to happen next week. As Bloomberg&nbsp;reported: &ldquo;Renouncing your citizenship well in advance of an IPO is &lsquo;a very smart idea&rsquo; from a tax standpoint, said [University of Michigan international tax law professor Reuven] Avi-Yonah.&rdquo; On the surface, this might seem like an opportunistic move. In many ways, Facebook&rsquo;s story is the most modern example of the American dream gone right. Some would argue that those who have gotten rich from the company should pay some dues back into the system that enabled that success. As billionaire&nbsp;Mark Cuban&nbsp;has written on&nbsp;his blog, the &ldquo;most patriotic thing you can do&rdquo; is &ldquo;bust your ass and get rich. Make a boatload of money. Pay your taxes.&rdquo; But to be fair, Saverin is a pretty unique case: He was born in Brazil in 1982, became a U.S. citizen at age 16, and has lived for the past several years&nbsp;in Singapore&nbsp;(where he&nbsp;reportedly&nbsp;drives a Bentley, parties at posh members-only clubs, and prefers the company of supermodels.) He&rsquo;s also said to be investing in lots of South American and Asian companies at the moment. By all accounts his footprint is legitimately a global one. And anyway, this isn&rsquo;t the first time Saverin has made a savvy move in regards to complicated international financial regulations. In a&nbsp;widely published&nbsp;IM conversation from his college days, Mark Zuckerberg described Saverin like this: &ldquo;My friend who wants to sponsor [Facebook] is head of the investment society. Apparently insider trading isn&rsquo;t illegal in Brazil so he&rsquo;s rich lol.&rdquo; &nbsp; Souce: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/11/eduardo-saverin-facebook-ipo-us-citizenshi/ **** Eduardo Saverin was born in Brazil to a Jewish family, but moved to Miami, Florida in the mid 1990s. Eduardo studied Economics as an undergraduate at Harvard College, where he received his BA in 2006. While at Harvard, Eduardo served as Harvard Investment Association&rsquo;s President, and was known for making over three hundred thousand dollars betting on weather and oil futures. He met Mark Zuckerberg in his sophomore year while punching the Phoenix S.K. Club and later co-founded Facebook... Articulos Fri, 11 May 2012 13:07:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/11/Eduardo-Saverin-Facebook-Founder--Renounces-US-Citizenship http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/11/THE-LUNACY-OF-AMERICAS-TAX-CODE- The US Tax code, running to thousands of pages, which no one has ever read and which few understand, the code is so filled with loopholes and black holes that it is simply not that good at raising money. &nbsp; The richest 1% of American wage and/or income earners, pay 28% of their income in federal taxes but that is far below the 35% margin tax rate levied upon that group. A simpler, more balanced, less loop-hole laden tax code would have the top 1% paying 30% of their incomes in taxes and that would be their margin tax rate, or very near to it. &nbsp; And while on this topic, we note once again that &ldquo;bottom&rdquo; 85% of American wage/income earners pay an average tax rate of 12% on their incomes and that the bottom 25% pay less than 1% of their incomes to the Federal government, or about $77/family. The 1% pays the freight; the bottom 25% has little if any tax &ldquo;skin-in-the game.&rdquo; Lunacy; this is sheer lunacy. &nbsp; Source, The Gartman Letter Articulos Fri, 11 May 2012 06:26:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/11/THE-LUNACY-OF-AMERICAS-TAX-CODE- http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/9/Facebook-IPO-Could-be-worth-100-Billion- Facebook Inc. pulled back the curtain on how much it thinks it is worth, targeting a valuation as rich as $96 billion in what would be a record debut for an American company. The filing starts the clock for Facebook&#39;s executives to persuade investors ahead of a scheduled May 18 initial public offering that the social network deserves such a lofty price. Eight-year-old Facebook would become the most valuable U.S. technology company at the time of an IPO, exceeding Google Inc.&#39;s $23 billion valuation in 2004. At nearly $100 billion, it would also rival the current market values of more established companies including Amazon.com Inc. and McDonald&#39;s Corp., and longtime tech giants like Hewlett-Packard Co., despite having a fraction of the revenue&mdash;or profit. Currently, the largest valuation for a U.S. company at the time of an IPO was United Parcel Service, in 1999, at $60.2 billion, according to Dealogic. The only U.S. issuers that have raised more money in an IPO were Visa Inc. at $19.7 billion in 2008 and General Motors Co. at $18.1 billion in 2010. Facebook&#39;s IPO will be a watershed moment for Silicon Valley, spawning a new generation of millionaires, and a handful of billionaires, including founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, whose stake is worth as much as $18.7 billion. It will also stand out even among the wave of high-profile Internet IPOs in the past year from companies such as LinkedIn Corp. and Zynga Inc. But while the social network is growing rapidly&mdash;more than 900 million people now use the site&mdash;there are questions whether its trajectory is slowing. Its revenue in the latest quarter rose 45% from a year ago, but fell 6% from the previous three months. Among Facebook&#39;s challenges will be convincing skeptical marketers that ads on its site lead to people buying products. In addition, Facebook lags in the fast-growing mobile market, where Google has gained significant influence with its Android software. And Facebook has little presence in China, home to the world&#39;s largest population of Internet users. View the full articule at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304746604577382210530114498.html?mod=djm_nf_novis_May_Link1 Articulos Wed, 09 May 2012 15:14:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/9/Facebook-IPO-Could-be-worth-100-Billion- http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/8/US-Millionaires-Told-Go-Away-as-Tax-Evasion-Rule-Looms Source. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-08/u-dot-s-dot-millionaires-told-go-away-as-tax-evasion-rule-looms &nbsp; Go away, American millionaires. That&rsquo;s what some of the world&rsquo;s largest wealth-management firms are saying ahead of Washington&rsquo;s implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, known as Fatca, which seeks to prevent tax evasion by Americans with offshore accounts. HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA), Deutsche Bank AG, Bank of Singapore Ltd. and DBS Group Holdings Ltd. (DBS) all say they have turned away business. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t open U.S. accounts, period,&rdquo; said Su Shan Tan, head of private banking at Singapore-based DBS, Southeast Asia&rsquo;s largest lender, who described regulatory attitudes toward U.S. clients as &ldquo;Draconian.&rdquo; The 2010 law, to be phased in starting Jan. 1, 2013, requires financial institutions based outside the U.S. to obtain and report information about income and interest payments accrued to the accounts of American clients. It means additional compliance costs for banks and fewer investment options and advisers for all U.S. citizens living abroad, which could affect their ability to generate returns. &ldquo;In the long run, if Americans have less and less opportunities to invest overseas, it would be a disadvantage,&rdquo; Marc Faber, the fund manager and publisher of the Gloom, Boom and Doom report, said last month in Singapore. The almost 400 pages of proposed rules issued by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in February create &ldquo;unnecessary burdens and costs,&rdquo; the Institute of International Bankers and the European Banking Federation said in an April 30 letter to the IRS, one of more than 200 submitted to the agency. The IRS plans to hold a hearing May 15 and could amend how and when some aspects of the rules are implemented. It can&rsquo;t rescind the law. Rejecting Americans At industry meetings he attends in Singapore, not accepting U.S. clients is &ldquo;quite a prevailing sentiment,&rdquo; de Guzman said. There are 18 private banks operating in Singapore, including units run by UBS, Credit Suisse Group AG, Deutsche Bank (DBK) and HSBC, he said. &ldquo;We have enough business in Asia, so we don&rsquo;t want to make our lives too difficult,&rdquo; de Guzman said. Asia has the world&rsquo;s fastest-growing number of people with more than $1 million in investable assets, according to a report last year by&nbsp;Bank of America Corp. (BAC) (BAC)&nbsp;and Capgemini SA. Singapore is Asia&rsquo;s largest wealth-management center, with $512 billion in offshore assets in 2010, data compiled by the Boston Consulting Group show. Bank of America is the world&rsquo;s No. 1 wealth manager, with $1.9 trillion under management, followed by Morgan Stanley and UBS, with $1.6 trillion, according to Scorpio. &nbsp; Articulos Tue, 08 May 2012 14:18:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/8/US-Millionaires-Told-Go-Away-as-Tax-Evasion-Rule-Looms http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/4/Mexican-Peso-Exchange-Rate-Presidential-Terms Take a look at the Exchange rates for the Mexican Peso during the different administrations. &nbsp; PRI PARTY&nbsp;- Presidents Lic. Luis Echeverr&iacute;a Alvarez (1970 a 1976) Tipo de Cambio al inicio de su mandato $ 12.50 Tipo de Cambio al final de su mandato $ 22.69 82% Lic. Jos&eacute; Lopez Portillo (1976 a 1982) Tipo de Cambio al inicio de su mandato $ 22.69 Tipo de Cambio al final de su mandato $ 150.29 562% Lic. Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (1982 a 1988) Tipo de Cambio al inicio de su mandato $ 150.29 Tipo de Cambio al final de su mandato $ 2,483.00 1552% Dr. Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988 a 1994) Tipo de Cambio al inicio de su mandato $ 2,483.00 Tipo de Cambio al final de su mandato $ 3,375.00 36% Dr. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Le&oacute;n (1994 a 2000) Tipo de Cambio al inicio de su mandato (a) $ 3.37 (a)= &iquest;Recuerdan?: ! Cuando se le quitaron tres ceros al peso ! Tipo de Cambio al final de su mandato (a) $ 9.45 180% &nbsp; &nbsp; PAN PARTY- Presidents &nbsp; Lic. Vicente Fox Quezada (2000 a 2006) Tipo de Cambio al inicio de su mandato $ 9.45 Tipo de Cambio al final de su mandato $ 10.90 15% Lic. Felipe Calder&oacute;n Hinojoza (2006 a la fecha) Tipo de Cambio al inicio de su mandato $ 10.90 Tipo de Cambio a casi concluir su mandato (abril 2012) $ 12.98 18% Very Interesting.. &nbsp; Articulos Fri, 04 May 2012 06:10:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/5/4/Mexican-Peso-Exchange-Rate-Presidential-Terms http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/28/Familiar-Pattern-on-The-SPX---Break-Down--Consolidate--Big-Up-Move For the past two years we have seen a very similar pattern on the SPX. Every time we have had a pull back in the past 18 months, it has normally&nbsp;been followed by a &quot;consolidation period&quot;, and&nbsp;after that&nbsp;SPX has broken out to the upside with a lot of strength. &nbsp; It happened in NOV-DEC 2010, where the break out lasted three painful months. It happened again in June 2011, where the break out only lasted about 40 days. and Now it seems to be happening again....&nbsp; (Hope not) &nbsp; ** Please see attached chart. &nbsp; If this pattern hold true we could be headed to 1,450 on the SPX and maybe even 1,500. &nbsp; ONE LAST THING..... If you haven&#39;t seen the GET TASTED program, staring two of the best options traders of all times Tom Sosnoff and Tony Battista, you are missing out. It is very funny, informative, educational and best of all it will improve your &quot;probability of success&quot;. Programming starts at 7:00am to 12:00pm CST. VISIT www.tastytrade.com Articulos Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:14:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/28/Familiar-Pattern-on-The-SPX---Break-Down--Consolidate--Big-Up-Move http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/26/What-to-do-After-You-Make-a-Zillion-Dollars Source: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/04/note-to-facebook-shareholders-what-to-do-after-you-make-a-zillion-dollars/ 1.)&nbsp;The One-Year Rule.&nbsp;Don&rsquo;t change your lifestyle at all for at least one year. No new house or apartment. Don&rsquo;t buy a fancy car. Don&rsquo;t buy expensive artwork. Don&rsquo;t take on a mistress. Don&rsquo;t get her pregnant. Don&rsquo;t then stalk her after the abortion. This is not to say these things are bad. It&rsquo;s just that you need to let the new wealth marinate your soul a little bit. &nbsp; Get comfortable with it before you try on new clothes that might not fit yet. Once you buy some massively expensive toys or homes, it changes your whole perspective and might make you much more foolish than you were when you were first climbing the ladder of success. Remember: One year. 2.)&nbsp;The No-Friends Rule.&nbsp;Don&rsquo;t lend money to old friends. Don&rsquo;t be so quick to make new friends. Once you make money, everyone will approach you about new investments you can make. Or people will want to borrow money from you. And everyone will want to be your friend. You went from being the dorkiest kid in class to prom king. You went from being a community activist to President of the United States. Don&rsquo;t do either. It&rsquo;s very hard, of course, to deny a friend who says, &ldquo;listen, I just need to borrow $100,000 for 90 days.&rdquo; Or &ldquo;I have a great new start-up that looks like Twitter but better. I&rsquo;m just raising $500,000 and I left $300,000 for you to come into the round.&rdquo; I probably lost a few hundred thousand in loans that were going to be repaid the next day. Here&rsquo;s what you can say, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d love to do it. It sounds great. Right now everything is tied up with my financial adviser and you can talk to him. I have to go by what he says because of all the legal stuff I don&rsquo;t understand.&rdquo; And you aren&rsquo;t lying. Make your wife or husband or mother or whoever your financial adviser and tell them to say no to everything. But it&rsquo;s necessary if you want to keep your friends. Particularly in Year One (see previous rule). 3.)&nbsp;Don&rsquo;t Invest.&nbsp;What&rsquo;s the rush? You just made your money. Put it in a savings account for one year at least. Or under your mattress. No stocks. No paintings. No private investments. Try not to start a business again so quickly. A friend of mine recently won $3 million in a poker tournament after being broke for many years (all his life). Right away he wanted to buy a hotel. In Brooklyn. Where nobody has ever stayed in a hotel before. Don&rsquo;t do it. This was right before the entire housing crisis and recession that followed. Thank God he took my advice.&nbsp; If you feel absolutely compelled to do some investing then follow the next rule. 4.)&nbsp;The 2% Rule.&nbsp;If you really feel that Google is going to $5,000 per share and you have to buy some stock at $600, don&rsquo;t put more than 2% of your money into it. Then, if it all goes to hell, you&rsquo;ve only lost 2% of your money (or more likely, 1%, since Google will probably never go down more than 50%). This is hard for entrepreneurs who come into sudden wealth because they are used to making their money by having most of their net worth tied up in one investment (their business). But this is probably the most important rule on the list. After the other six rules of course. 5.)&nbsp;The Good Health Rule.&nbsp;Believe it or not,&nbsp;your health is now at serious risk&nbsp;if you just came into sudden wealth. More risk than ever before. A friend of mine had a very stressful business in the online gambling space. He was worried the Feds were going to outlaw him and arrest him. He was broke and the business was always in a state of running out of money. High, high, stress. I thought he was going to have a stroke or a heart attack but he always stayed in great health. Then he sold his business and made about $50 million. Three months later he was on a ski slope in Aspen, enjoying the fruits of his labor, when he suddenly had a major heart attack and only survived because of immediate medical care. He was essentially dead for five minutes on the operating table. Your body, in a high adrenalin situation, will postpone punishing you until the situation is over. But don&rsquo;t think when the stress is over that your body will forget. It doesn&rsquo;t. You must focus on health after achieving sudden wealth. Here is the key thing to remember. When you are mugged, your body goes into a fight or flight mode. Adrenaline shoots up.&nbsp;The same thing happens when you start a business. Only difference is: you are mugged every day and you sit immobile at your computer. So once that adrenaline calms down your body is going to do some very weird things. Unless you keep in good health. &nbsp; 6.)&nbsp;Try Not To Burn Out.&nbsp;You worked hard to get here. You worked 120 hours a week. You gave up watching &ldquo;Mad Men&rdquo;. Your girlfriend cheated on you. Your missed your parents 50th anniversary. I get it. Congratulations. All of that pain and suffering now have led to a few moments of happiness. For a few seconds you might even think you are smart in every aspect of life. And then&hellip;FLAME OUT. But don&rsquo;t burn out just yet. You need to be responsible and show the people around you that they all made the right decision in trusting you, hiring you, paying you, inspiring you, feeding you. You have few chances in life to demonstrate that you&rsquo;re made of the right stuff and this is one of them. And what to do if you lose it all? Don&rsquo;t worry. Do the next item: 7) The Daily Practice Should you happen to implode and lose everything, here is the technique I used to get off the floor and get motivated again and start new businesses and go from failure to success (and I had to repeat that a few times). Basically, I view the body as four bodies interconnected: physical,&nbsp; emotional, mental, and spiritual. They are all connected. It&rsquo;s like if one path to your heart is blocked then blood and oxygen won&rsquo;t flow through your body properly and you will get sick. It&rsquo;s the same here, if everything isn&rsquo;t flowing properly then you&rsquo;ll get sick, lose all your money, and die. But if you check the boxes on&nbsp;what I call The Daily Practice, your life will be completely different in six months, no matter how badly you fell apart before. Trust me, my life still changes completely ever six months. Articulos Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:27:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/26/What-to-do-After-You-Make-a-Zillion-Dollars http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/24/Mexican-Imigration-to-the-US-has-slowed- &nbsp; The largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United States has come to a standstill. After four decades that brought 12 million current immigrants&mdash;more than half of whom came illegally&mdash;the net migration flow from Mexico to the U.S. has stopped and may have reversed. According to the report, Mexican immigrants make up 30% of all immigrants living in the US&mdash;and 58% of illegal immigrants. The second largest group, Chinese immigrants (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) amount to only 5% of all immigrants. Of the estimated 11.2 million illegal immigrants living in the US last year, 6.1 million were from Mexico. But that&#39;s&nbsp;down&nbsp;from 7 million in 2007. Legal immigrants from Mexico rose slightly from 5.6 million in 2007 to 5.8 million in 2011. Net effect: 700,000 fewer Mexican immigrants (legal and illegal) in the US. The report points at a number of factors, including the collapse of housing construction where many Mexicans worked. Thus, household formation from Mexican immigrants, after decades of explosive growth&mdash;which created demand mostly at the lower end of the housing spectrum&mdash;has reversed and is now&nbsp;contributing&nbsp;to vacant inventory. But, but.... The US remains by far the most desired country, according to&nbsp;Gallup, which once again excelled in reading the minds of people from around the world. While immigration from Mexico is on the wane, 150 million adults worldwide still dream the American Dream and would still like to move to the US. That&rsquo;s 1 in 30 adults! By contrast, 45 million people would like to move to the second most desired country, the UK, 42 million to Canada, 32 million to France, and 31 million, yes, to Saudi Arabia. Only 6 million people would like to move to Russia. However nervous these astounding numbers may make us, it&rsquo;s good to know that the US is still and by far the most desired country in the world.&nbsp; &nbsp; Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-17-24/immigration-and-housing-quagmire Articulos Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:14:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/24/Mexican-Imigration-to-the-US-has-slowed- http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/20/POSTMASSIVE-Bear-Market-Rallies Today&#39;s chart illustrates rallies that followed massive bear markets. For today&#39;s chart, a &#39;massive&#39; bear market is defined as a decline of greater than 50%. Since the Dow&#39;s inception in 1896, there have been only three bear markets whereby the Dow declined more than 50% (early 1930s, late 1930s until early 1940s, and during the recent financial crisis). &nbsp; Today&#39;s chart also adds the rally that followed the dot-com bust during which the Nasdaq declined 78%. The current Dow rally has followed a somewhat middle of the road path and has followed the post dot-com bust rally of the Nasdaq that began back in 2002 fairly closely -- especially over the past year. &nbsp; If the current rally were to continue to follow the post-massive bear market rally pattern, the market would have to work its way higher during much of the remainder of 2012. &nbsp; Source; www.Chartoftheday.com &nbsp; Chart of the Day Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:30:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/20/POSTMASSIVE-Bear-Market-Rallies http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/17/Possible-Head--Shoulders-Reversal-topn-on-the-SPX-Developing Just wanted to point out that there is a possible &quot;Head and Shoulder&quot; reversal pattern developing on the SPX. The right shoulder is not fully formed yet, but I may happen soon. &nbsp; Articulos Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:47:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/17/Possible-Head--Shoulders-Reversal-topn-on-the-SPX-Developing http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/13/OBAMAS-PAID-205-IN-TAXES-ON-789674-IN-2011 We already know all too well that Buffett had a lower tax rate than this secretary. We however have a question: according to just released data, the Obama&#39;s paid $789,674 in taxes in 2011... OBAMAS PAID 20.5% IN TAXES ON $789,674 IN 2011 From Bloomberg: &quot;President Obama, wife Michelle had adjusted gross income of $789,674 in 2011, paid $162,074 in taxes, according to federal tax returns released by White House.&quot; Source:&nbsp;White House&nbsp; http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/04/13/president-obama-and-vice-president-biden-s-2011-tax-returns Articulos Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:12:00 -0500 http://www.okanecapital.com/index.cfm/2012/4/13/OBAMAS-PAID-205-IN-TAXES-ON-789674-IN-2011