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Friday, January 17, 2025
Earnings Date Jan 17 2025 | SLB | 6% gain | PE 14.25
D chart
Long singal - D Chart - SLB
Green - long area
Blue color - short area
Review D chart of SLB, I should have reviewed the chart and then decide to purchase stocks before the earning.
Earnings
2025 - Signal digit gain
Compared to double digit gain stock, like tech stocks, SLB will have not too much growth.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Cal-Maine Foods Inc.
Cal-Maine Foods Inc.
Technology eggs Cal-Maine Foods to success
- Written by: Christine Fisher
- Produced by: Zachary Brann
- Estimated reading time: 6 mins
Cal-Maine Foods Inc. has more than 45 million employees. That is, if you count the roughly 36.1 million egg layers and 9.5 million pullets—young female chickens—and breeders, which make Cal-Maine Foods the largest producer and marketer of shell eggs in the U.S.
That’s a lot of birds to keep track of and each comes with a host of data points—feed consumption, ideal laying temperature, productivity—which is why technology has become increasingly important to the company.
Headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, Cal-Maine Foods has facilities in 15 states and distributes eggs to retailers like Walmart, Publix and Costco, essentially anyone looking to resell eggs in the shell and in the carton. It also sells to egg product companies that separate the yokes and whites for further processing. Cal-Maine owns two egg product companies, American Egg Products and Texas Egg Products.
Not long ago, Cal-Maine Foods was in the dark ages when it came to technology. Much like other farm-based producers in the early 2000s, it had few desktop computers—everything from financials to flock management was stored on standalone, legacy computers—and employees were running individual email accounts through providers like AOL. There was no intranet.
Shining a light on technology
That started to change in 2000, when Cal-Maine Foods hired Bob Gilmore, now the company’s IT director.
“They thought they needed somebody to come fix PCs,” Gilmore says. “There wasn’t a vision as to what they needed from IT. I saw this as an opportunity to take an agriculture company out of the 20th century and into the 21st century because I just knew there were tremendous needs here.”
Naturally, there were practical improvements to be made. With farms located in rural areas, connectivity was a challenge. Bob established a relationship with Southern Telecommunications to more reliably manage all of Cal-Maine’s voice and data functions. But Gilmore began to ask questions of the data itself: Where does it come from? Where does it go? Who uses it? How is it created?
“I was able to present an answer to their problems that they just really hadn’t comprehended before because they operated as a collection of silos at that time,” he says. “Every location did its own thing.”
The company didn’t entirely understand how it could use automated, consolidated data to analyze its business and run more efficiently.
Grading the systems
To demonstrate how technology could improve business operations, Gilmore began to look at how Cal-Maine Foods handled orders for one of its larger customers. At the time, the company had a manual system. All orders were sent to a facility in Texas as electronic data interchange (EDI), printed out, written up on order sheets, and finally, faxed to the various locations which supplied the customer’s local warehouses.
In a presentation he called “The Fax in the Hen House,” Gilmore suggested automating that system. Orders would come in via EDI, data would be extracted automatically, ingested into databases and presented through web views for each individual location. Cal-Maine Foods agreed to try it, and in doing so, the company saved $1.5 million in just one year.
With that success under his belt, Gilmore was able to convince Cal-Maine Foods to make other considerable changes. Among them, Cal-Maine Foods now has a company-wide ERP system (Aeros from Cultura), through which all orders are processed automatically, as well as an animal inventory management system (Aeros Live). Thanks to those systems, data is consolidated and employees, regardless of location, have uniform access.
Major improvements were made to keep the management team informed. Cal-Maine adopted CafoPro® from Enviro-Ag to enhance compliance with governmental agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency.
In similar fashion, mobile forms were designed and implemented with the Forms on Fire app, enabling Cal-Maine employees to collect the information offline and automatically sync with database servers when their tablets are back within wireless range.
Flying the coop
Once the ERP system was up and running, Gilmore recommended that Cal-Maine Foods needed to revamp its data center. He also realized that doing so in the company’s Jackson, Mississippi, headquarters would be costly, and it didn’t make much sense to invest in the 50-year-old facility, which, as Gilmore puts it, left a lot to be desired.
Instead, Gilmore opted to move Cal-Maine Foods’ data to a private cloud offered through M3COM, a cloud infrastructure provider based in Ashburn, Virginia. Then, Gilmore and his IT team, which now consists of nine employees, assembled a data recovery center in Cal-Maine Foods’ headquarters.
“We felt like we were going to get the best attention and response from a smaller, boutique cloud provider, and that’s what M3COM was,” Gilmore says. “From a financial standpoint, we saved about a half million dollars in the first three years.”
In addition to the cost savings, the move to M3COM’s cloud offered “phenomenal” broadband connectivity. As Gilmore explains, M3COM is connected to almost every carrier known to man, but when Cal-Maine Foods was moving to the cloud, fiber wasn’t even an option at the corporate headquarters in Jackson, Mississippi.
There’s another benefit to the cloud: scalability.
While the egg business isn’t as seasonal as, say, corn or wheat production, demand nevertheless fluctuates. It skyrockets at Easter, slacks off in the summer and jumps back up around the holidays. By operating in the cloud, Cal-Maine Foods can simply pick up the phone and ask M3COM to “spin up” more servers during peak sales and then turn them off in slower times.
Improving averages
Since Gilmore joined the company in 2000, these tech-based changes are among the many that have helped Cal-Maine Foods to grow from $200 million in sales to $2 billion, and today, technology is an integral part of the business.
For instance, there are five different market regions in the U.S. where egg prices are set on a daily basis. Cal-Maine Foods has customers in each of those regions, so with the daily fluctuations, there is endless data to gather and analyze. That’s all made possible through the systems Gilmore and his adaptable team have built.
While Cal-Maine runs a lean IT environment the need for application development to support all areas of the enterprise is vast. Cal-Maine’s app development team of two programmers had been challenged to meet those needs until they partnered with Zudy. Vinyl, an application development platform from Zudy has reduced the time to create and deploy apps by as much as 75 percent.
The company produces for the specialty egg business, too, which includes nutritionally enhanced, cage free, free range and organic eggs. Those prices are not set daily, as are conventional egg prices, so Cal-Maine Foods is constantly watching demand between specialty and commodity eggs to determine which hens to have in production.
Then there are metrics for feed consumption, or how many pounds of feed an average bird in a specific henhouse consumes in order to produce a dozen eggs. Because feed represents 40 percent of the company’s costs, being able to analyze consumption is extremely important, Gilmore says.
Conveyed potential
Many of the carefully-monitored factors, like henhouse lighting and temperature, can be controlled remotely through automated environmental controls.
In fact, processes are so automated, that on many egg farms, as a hen lays an egg it’s carried via a conveyor belt to a central processing facility cleaned, graded and packaged without being touched by a person.
To market over 1 billion dozen eggs each year Cal-Maine employs sophisticated grading and packing machines made by Moba that crank out up to 500 cases per hour with 98 percent Grade A quality.
With all of these technology innovations in place, there’s certainly no going back to the days before Gilmore joined Cal-Maine in 2000.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Stackoverflow | HttpHandler and HttpModule in Real Scenario: Few Examples of HttpHandler
webconfig - Telerik API - study notes
Saturday, January 11, 2025
DAN RASMUSSEN
DAN RASMUSSEN
FOUNDER, PORTFOLIO MANAGER
Before starting Verdad, Dan worked at Bain Capital Private Equity and Bridgewater Associates. He is the Chairman of the Investment Committee for Plymouth Rock Companies, is a member of the investment committee of the Trustees of Donations of the Episcopal Church, is the New York Times bestselling author of American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt, and in 2017, was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list. Dan is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and his investment research has been featured in multiple volumes of The Best Investment Writing. Dan earned an AB from Harvard College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Friday, January 10, 2025
RBLX stock | MarketSurge | Uptrend | Double digit gain in 2025
D chart
W chart
MarketSurge | Earnings next year 2025 | Double digit gain
Dan Fitzpatrick | IBD Live guest
Dan Fitzpatrick is an established technical analyst and trader. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, and his work is regularly featured on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money television show. Dan is also a senior contributor to RealMoney.com and produces the daily video series, ” Three Stocks I Saw on TV”. Fitzpatrick is a former hedge fund manager and has lectured throughout the United States on stock and options trading with an emphasis on technical analysis. He is a member of the Market Technicians Association and his take on the market has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal.
Dan Fitzpatrick’s Stock Market Mentor is the culmination of more than a decade of teaching and corresponding with thousands of aspiring traders and investors with one common goal — to develop the skills necessary to succeed in the stock market. While all traders and investors share the common goal of success, most also make the same mistakes that prevent them from reaching that goal. They take big losses; they are cautious and under-invested at the wrong time, or aggressive and over-invested at the wrong time; they own the wrong stocks at the wrong time, or the right stocks at the wrong time, and they fail to take profits and instead allow large gains to become small gains. The Stock Market Mentor teaches Members how to avoid these common mistakes. Most aspiring traders have heard the Wall Street maxim “Cut your losses short and let your profits run.” Nevertheless, few traders are skilled in using the two essential tools necessary to follow that rule — trailing stops and scaled entries and exits. Mentor Members learn how to use these tools and develop the skill and discipline necessary to succeed in the stock market.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Tradingview.com | Supertrend
Supertrend
Definition
Supertrend is a trend-following indicator based on Average True Range (ATR). The calculation of its single line combines trend detection and volatility. It can be used to detect changes in trend direction and to position stops.
History
The Supertrend indicator was created by Olivier Seban.
Calculations
To calculate bands of the Supertrend, use the following formulas:
hl2 = (high + low) / 2
basicUpperBand = hl2 + (multiplier × ATR)
basicLowerBand = hl2 - (multiplier × ATR)
upperBand = basicUpperBand < prev upperBand or
prev close > prev upperBand ? basicUpperBand : prev upperBand
lowerBand = basicLowerBand > prev lowerBand or
prev close < prev lowerBand ? basicLowerBand : prev lowerBand
superTrend = trendDirection == isUpTrend ? lowerBand : upperBandThe trendDirection is determined based on the fulfillment of the following conditions:
Until the ATR value is calculated trendDirection = isDownTrend
else if prev superTrend == prev upperBand
trendDirection := close > upperBand ? isUpTrend : isDownTrend
else
trendDirection := close < lowerBand ? isDownTrend : isUpTrendThe basics
The Supertrend is a trend-following indicator. It is overlaid on the main chart and their plots indicate the current trend. A Supertrend can be used with varying periods (daily, weekly, intraday etc.) and on varying instruments (stocks, futures or forex).
The Supertrend has several inputs that you can adjust to match your trading strategy. Adjusting these settings allows you to make the indicator more or less sensitive to price changes.
For the Supertrend inputs, you can adjust atrLength and multiplier:
- the atrLength setting is the lookback length for the ATR calculation;
- multiplier is what the ATR is multiplied by to offset the bands from price.
What to look for
When the price falls below the indicator curve, it turns red and indicates a downtrend. Conversely, when the price rises above the curve, the indicator turns green and indicates an uptrend. After each close above or below Supertrend, a new trend appears.
Summary
The Supertrend helps you make the right trading decisions. However, there are times when it generates false signals. Therefore, it is best to use the right combination of several indicators. Like any other indicator, Supertrend works best when used with other indicators such as MACD, Parabolic SAR, or RSI.
DevExpress | DevExpress in 2020s
DevExpress in 2020s
The Future of .NET and JavaScript Development
Welcome to the 2020s. In the software development world we see a major evolution in the .NET space to providing more inclusive scenarios. Blazor has certainly arrived promising full integration between server and client (and with the assurance of minimizing the amount of web technologies to learn and apply). For us, we have already added the standard controls needed in enterprise apps and are continuing to integrate these Blazor components with our XAF, Dashboard and Reporting libraries.
Even so, the non-.NET web development world is still of major importance. DevExtreme - our pure HTML/JavaScript library - continues to grow and we are investing more time and effort to supporting React, Angular, and Vue as well as working towards better SCSS and TypeScript integration.
Another major push from Microsoft is the .NET MAUI platform for mobile devices. We have already started to provide our usual library of controls for that space. Of course, the big issue that needs mastering for mobile devices is that of an adaptive UI. We have been concentrating on improving that functionality in DevExtreme and this work will naturally continue.
Needless to say, the desktop development field isn't going away and continues to grow, especially with the recent releases of .NET Core and Windows 11. Our work on adding .NET Core support to our WinForms and WPF products continues apace, and we have started on a new undertaking of enhancing our WinForms offering by integrating other platforms' features, such as HTML/CSS formatting, DirectX rendering, and MVVM support.
The 2020s have only just begun but certainly promise to be exciting within our development arena. We thank all our loyal customers for your support over the years, and you can certainly count on us continuing to serve your development needs.
Blazorise | The fastest & easiest Blazor UI components
The fastest & easiest Blazor UI components
Quickly design and customize responsive sites with Blazorise, the world’s most popular front-end open source Blazor components, featuring support for multiple CSS frameworks, extensive prebuilt components, and many more.
Equity research tools purchased | Updated on January 9 2025 | Stock research
January 9 2024
- Morningstar.com $240 US dollars/ year, renew on May 29, 2024 / Renewed on June 11 2024
- Tipranks.com - $360 US dollars annual fee | renew in July 2024/ Renewed on June 11 2024
- IBD digital -> Switch to annual subscription $329/ annual, starting from August 24, 2024
- MarketWatch.com $2 - 5/ month
- Barron.com $2 - 5/ month
- Investing.com pro $140/ annual CAD, renew on Nov. 13, 2024
- SeekingAlpha.com - $239 annual cost | Renewed on Dec. 14, 2023
- TradingView.com Essential version | one year | $108/ first year, 40% discount | Renew on July 13, 2024 $155.40
- Upgrade Tradingview.com version
- IBD live
- IBD MarketSurge
- IBD LeaderBoard
- IBD SwingTrader
IBD subscriptions - Here is the blog.
Equity research tools purchased | Updated on July 26 2024 | Stock research
#EquityTools #StockResearch #PaidStockResearch #PaidTools
The following are the websites I paid for my equity research.
- Morningstar.com
- SeekingAlpha.com
- Tipranks.com
- Investing.com pro
- IBD digital
- MarketWatch.com
- Barron.com
- CNBC investing club - By Jim Cramer
- Morningstar.com $240 US dollars/ year, renew on May 29, 2024 / Renewed on June 11 2024
- Tipranks.com - $360 US dollars annual fee | renew in July 2024/ Renewed on June 11 2024
- IBD Digital $49/ month USD, renew in July 2023, IBD digital including Barron's, market watch - Stopped monthly subscription
- IBD digital -> Switch to annual subscription $329/ annual, starting from August 24, 2024
- MarketWatch.com $2 - 5/ month
- Barron.com $2 - 5/ month
- Investing.com pro $140/ annual CAD, renew on Nov. 13, 2024
- CNBC investing club by Jim Cramer - $249/ annual us. dollars -> $399/ annual cost, renew on Nov. 24, 2024
- SeekingAlpha.com - $239 annual cost | Renewed on Dec. 14, 2023
- Motley fool stock advisor, US version, Jan. 2023, $99 US dollars | Renewed $199 in Jan. 2024
- TradingView.com Essential version | one year | $108/ first year, 40% discount | Renew on July 13, 2024 $155.40
Work on research to see if I should pay for subscription called LuxAlgo
July 26, 2024
Switch IBD digital to annual subscription $329/annual, starting from August 24, 2024.
August 8 2024
Microsoft office - Annual subscription
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
IBD live ready stock
The IBD Live ready stock list is a compilation of stocks that Investor's Business Daily (IBD) focuses on during their real-time streaming video broadcast. IBD Live is a show where IBD's investing experts analyze and identify leading stocks, and the IBD Live ready stock list is the list of stocks that they focus on during the show.
IBD focuses on stocks that have strong fundamentals, are outperforming the market, and are forming chart patterns. They don't focus on stocks that are illiquid, under $10, or have poor fundamentals. However, when growth stocks are affected by market rotation, IBD focuses more on forward-looking estimates and technical strength.
IBD is a resource for investors that provides market insights and research to help improve trading performance. IBD also offers curated stock lists, expert market analysis, and exclusive stock ratings through IBD Digital.
Japanese chipmaker Renesas (RNECY -0.60%)
Renesas lays off 5% of its workforce
Last night, Japanese chipmaker Renesas (RNECY -0.60%) announced it would be laying off a little less than 5% of its workforce. While that may not sound like much, Renesas is one of the larger players in the automotive and industrial chip sector, with a $24 billion market cap. The total number of layoffs would amount to about 1,000 employees.
The layoffs are a sign of continued awful demand for auto and industrial-related chips. And keep in mind, this is despite these markets having already been in a downturn for almost three years now. Semiconductor cycles typically last about one and a half to two years, so the fact that Renesas is laying off 5% of its workforce at this seemingly late stage of the downcycle is quite worrying. Given the length of this downcycle, one would think an upturn might be imminent, but apparently that's not the case.
SABR stock | Dec. 17 - January 8 | D chart | What I learned from the chart
D chart - Volume - Open and close price, high and low
Jan 6 - Open price is the same as close price at $3.55, highest price $3.62, and the lowest price is $3.52
Jan 6 - showing down trend, so I should sell all my position, since the gap between highest price and close price 0.07 is bigger than the gap between close price and lowest price.
The gap between open and close price is 0.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Known Issues | the most common Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX issues
Known Issues
This article provides links to specific Knowledge Base articles covering scenarios for handling some of the most common Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX issues.
For faster navigation, the links are grouped into the following sets:
- Installation
- General
- Web Resources
- Identifying the Error
- Design-Time
- Visual Studio ToolBox
- Skins
- jQuery Integration
- NuGet
For more information on using Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX and Microsoft AJAX with the strict Content Security Policy mode, refer to the Content Security Policy Mode article.
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