I came upon your site almost accidentally, but I found it interesting that we both have facets to our personalities that might be worth mentioning.

1. – We both are very interested in corporate stocks, the pursuit of which, and knowledge about, is a serious, informative, focus for us.

2. – We both own shares in companies active in Vietnam. I myself am a “Vietnam veteran” who many years ago served military duty there, and was fortunate to do a reasonable amount of travelling around the former “South” Vietnam. I’m sorry that Nguyen Ai Quoc…whoops, I mean Ho Chi Minh… isn’t around anymore to see Saigon renamed Ho Chi Minh City, after him.

I of course own shares in and or follow many companies in the U.S. and around the world – Canada, Australia, China (where my son lived and worked for over a decade) Japan, etc. But I have to admit that I couldn’t resist shares in a small company situated in Vietnam. First of all, there’s a part of my soul still back there after all these years. And as well I have a personal saying that I’m sure most of my friends are tired of hearing – it goes like this: Someday Vietnam is going to be China’s Florida!

I spent a number of visits to Shanghai and half the time I thought I was back in my hometown New York! When folks in China get a yen (whoops, sorry, that’s Japanese isn’t it? for a tropical beach vacation, it’s just a short hop to some of the most beautiful tropical countryside and beaches imaginable.

I made my living as the Creative Director of a New York advertising agency, but now all I do is observe the corporate goings on around the world, and the patterns of stocks everywhere. I spent many years investigating share markets from many angles, but I now utilize a personal discovery of a pattern that a stock will form when it is preparing for a profitable move – something like 20 – 50 %, sometimes more.

I just wanted to compliment you on your attitude and methodology regarding stocks, and wish you the very best in market success and your website enterprise.