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Sunday, December 8, 2019

TradeSim Financial Trading Quote Generator Script, Random Stuff, and More

- I've been looking for an offline trading simulator for a while. Haven't been able to find one until recently. Had to build sample quote files for it though because it only had one example simulator file. You can download the file generator here:
- if you don't have access to a Linux system the following is an archive of quote files that were generated for the January - June 2018 period
- description is as follows:
# I found a financial trading game/simulator called TradeSim:
# that had a very similar file format as that used for data 
# from the following website:
# and which is also used by my asx_analyser.sh script. I decided
# to build a script to create suitable quote files for use with TradeSim
# so I could practice my trading skills. To use it download and unzip
# relevant archive files. Then run this script. The quote files that
# can be used with TradeSim will be dumped to the TradSim-Files folder.
#
# As this is the very first version of the program it may be VERY buggy. 
# Please test prior to deployment in a production environment.
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Random Quotes:
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Xi, who did not elaborate on the agreements in his closing remarks, said the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) would "enjoy higher quality and brighter prospects" as "more and more friends and partners" joined the China-led project.
BRI projects to build roads, bridges, pipelines and ports would focus on "open, clean and green development" and be based on market principles, he added.
...
China's central bank chief, Yi Gang, said Thursday that Chinese banks have so far loaned some $440 billion for Belt and Road projects.
The total value of all BRI projects worldwide currently stands at $3.67 trillion, according to data from Refinitiv, a financial markets data provider.
The United States and some of its allies have warned that BRI increases China's global influence over low-income countries by offering them construction project loans they cannot repay. Sri Lanka handed over Hambantota port to China on a 99-year lease in 2017 after it failed to repay its debts.
China vowed this week to "prevent and resolve debt risks" by ensuring long-term financing sustainability in future BRI projects.
The controversy has failed to stop new countries from joining the initiative. China said the number of countries that pledged to support BRI has increased from 65 to 115.
Italy shocked its European Union partners in March when it became the first member of the Group of Seven (G7), a group of rich countries, to sign on to the initiative. Switzerland has also showed interest in joining.
Xi said China needed to "encourage the full participation of more countries and companies."
"I have noted on many occasions that while the BRI was launched by China, its opportunities and outcomes are shared by the world," he said.
- CARACAS (Sputnik) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro described the country’s withdrawal from the Organization of the American States (OAS) as a liberation from the “US ministry of colonies.”
On Saturday, the nation's foreign minister, Jorge Arreaza, said that Venezuela was officially no longer a part of the OAS.

“We became free of the US ministry of colonies, a tool of interference as well as disrespect for democratic principles and international law. Our Bolivarian and independent Motherland says ‘Goodbye’ to the OAS,” Maduro wrote on his Twitter page on Saturday.

Maduro announced the decision to leave the bloc in 2017, supporting immediate withdrawal of the country from the OAS, although the procedure usually takes two years. The OAS does not recognize Maduro's new presidential term that began on 10 January.
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- The relationship between Washington and Canberra might be strong, but there appears to be daylight between them when it comes to responding to the rise of both China and Indonesia, write Brendan Taylor and Peter Dean.
The Prime Minister has every reason to be exceptionally confident in the current state of the Australia–United States strategic partnership.
Public support for the relationship along with bipartisanship from Australia's major parties has coincided with new depths of cooperation. This was best demonstrated by president Barack Obama's announcement of a major shift in US policy towards the Asia-Pacific during a visit to Australian Parliament in November 2011.
One of the most significant outcomes was the establishment of the US Marine Corps Rotational Force in Darwin. In coming years, this force will grow to 2,500 Marines organised as a Marine Expeditionary Unit. Of potentially even greater strategic significance is the 2014 Force Posture Agreement, which enabled the rotation of a US Air Force presence in northern Australia.
But the alliance is not without its challenges from Canberra's perspective. These challenges relate to the changing dynamics of an ascending Asia as well as to what might be described as an 'expectations gap' between Canberra and Washington.
The clearest and perhaps earliest manifestation of this 'expectations gap' related to Australia's declining defence budget. By 2012, defence spending had fallen to its lowest level since 1938 as a proportion of GDP.
In addition, while consistently offering strong political support for the alliance, Canberra has also behaved fairly openly as a free-rider in the relationship. This has become an increasing point of tension between Canberra and Washington; as noted by Mark Thomson, it deeply offends Americans "to think that a friend such as Australia would deliberately take advantage of them".
Canberra is certainly sensitive to these perceptions, and a conscious effort has evidently been made by the Abbott Government to begin to address this particular expectations gap.
As one gap is closed, however, another may open elsewhere. One such area concerns perceived US expectations of how Canberra ought to respond to growing Chinese influence and assertiveness in an ascending Asia. The quite vigorous (although largely abstract) public debate about whether it is possible for Canberra to strike a balance in its relations between China and the United States, particularly should Sino-US relations become more contested, continues unabated in Australia.
In recent months, however, there have been some more practical indications of an expectations gap appearing between Canberra and Washington. Examples include Australia's April 2015 decision to apply for membership of the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Abbott Government's May 2015 denial that B-1 bombers would be coming to Australia to deter Chinese coercion in the South China Sea.
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The following is an excerpt of Lancet's article on health status in Iran:
During last century, Iran has attained remarkable achievements in addressing nationwide inequity and the provision of primary health services to its rural areas.
Remote and rural areas have always had a severe shortage of health professionals because of their reluctance to work in these areas. In 1950, the Regional Director of the WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office estimated that in Iran, there was only one physician per 60,000 people.
This shortage of health professionals and health service provision was most dire in the rural and remote regions of the country.
One of the first and short-lived systematic attempts to address the widespread inequity in healthcare provision was the training of junior health professionals called Behdar (paramedic) in Iran in 1940's.
They were trained for 4 years and became graduates (instead of 7 years required for physicians), and were licensed to practice in rural areas.
This programme achieved little success and was halted completely in 1952 mainly because most Behdars (paramedics) chose to continue their training as physicians and left rural areas for larger cities.
In 1964, a bill was approved by the parliament requiring all male medical graduates to serve 2 years in rural and remote areas, an initiative known at the time as Sepah Behdasht (Health Corps).
A year later, female graduates were also expected to join this service, As a result, approximately 450 health posts were established around the country with the main objective of providing basic health services to the rural population.
Although the design and implementation of these measures before the Islamic Revolution provided some relief in terms of provision of health services in rural areas, in the long-term, they did not prove to be as effective as envisaged.
** Development of public health and contagious disease control strategies
As a result of interventions and socioeconomic development of the country, most major diseases caused by poverty and poor sanitation in the 1950s started to diminish across the country.
The disease pattern shifted from a dominance of infectious diseases in the 1950–70s, to the present status of overwhelming prevalence of non-communicable diseases.
Moreover, in recent years, several successful public health programmes were launched, including the national thalassaemia prevention programme, iodine deficiency control, organ transplantation policies, advances in the pharmaceutical industry and the establishment of the National Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization.
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