Author: quantofasia

I’ve only had the pleasure of visiting Vietnam once so far, and I am the only tourist I know whose #1 priority […]

Friday is usually when I try and make travel plans, and since returning to Hong Kong after the summer, no destination has […]

Following my earlier series of posts “The Importance of Speaking English” and “6 Reasons not to learn Chinese“, I wanted to say […]

64 years ago today, or 2 1/8 years after the founding of the Republic of India, Mao celebrated the start of China’s […]

One main difference between an FX trader and a trader of physical goods is that the former usually requires at least some […]

This website is no longer being updated, but will probably remain up for as long as WordPress.com continues to host it for free. […]

If time were no object, I would like to make my next Pacific crossing by sea.  Unfortunately time is a very scarce […]

Last weekend was mid-Autumn festival across the Sinosphere, and that I almost as often call it “mooncake festival” probably shows that I […]

This is a holiday weekend in Hong Kong, and while I don’t know as many families making road trip plans as they […]

In the first half of 2010, I advocated the “Yen Convergence trade” as an alternative to the Yen Carry trade in a […]