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s10czar
Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 60
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:57 pm Post subject: Top Secret? |
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Cheers,
Several people have posted questions about the work schedule at ILA (including me recently) and never seem to get a response. I've even emailed ILA directly about this topic and was completely ignored.
What's up? Is it top secret info or something? I'm not peeved, just curious.
So I've given up on actually getting a straight answer, but can anyone at least tell me WHY we can't get an answer?
My previous posting has 100 views so obviously lots of people besides me are interested in this subject.
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dmaxon
Joined: 05 Aug 2009 Posts: 7
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:00 am Post subject: |
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ILA work schedule is like almost every other school's work schedule: nights and weekends. About 20 hours a week is full time. Usually one or two weekdays off. Never weekends off. But you can take leave whenever you want - they'll get subs. |
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s10czar
Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 60
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks dmaxon!
Reason I ask is that I trade Forex and would want to keep that up over there. While the FX market is "open" 24 hours, it's only active during certain times.
The best windows for trading are:
1) 11am - 2pm Vietnam time (London open) and
2) 7pm - 10pm Vietnam time (after news comes out in New York)
Are either of these windows doable on an ILA schedule? (meaning you're not at work but are home and logged on to the internet) |
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beetlil
Joined: 20 Dec 2008 Posts: 53 Location: Hanoi
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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window 1 is open weekdays and during long lunch break on weekends.
window 2 only the days you're not teaching. But.... you could use the computers at the school before class, in breaks etc. Depends on how time consuming trading is.
Sorry have been away and only answered your other post tonight. |
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mark_in_saigon
Joined: 20 Sep 2009 Posts: 837
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:41 pm Post subject: about trading |
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not sure about Forex, but I have traded normal securities here (NYSE & NASDAQ) and I question if it will work due to connectivity, bandwidth, and who knows what other issues. I will never forget the first time I messed with it, the word ETRADE was blocked, I was doing a remote thing with my brother, and the only way we could discuss it was first figure out that the word was not going thru, then create a goofy word which did not get blocked, we used TRADEE. It was crazy, but it happened. Then you have all the virus/spyware issues here, so you have extra fear of a compromised system, network, ISP and account. It may be best to set up a system in your own country that you can remotely access and trade off of it, esp if you have superior bandwidth there. Bandwidth here is kinda sad in most places. I was trading off a remote machine in the states using gotomypc. |
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s10czar
Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 60
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 4:43 am Post subject: |
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beetlil- thanks bro
hey Mark, thanks man, exactly what I needed to know. Is connectivity really that bad in HCMC??? wow, could be a game changer for me. Guess there's always Korea! |
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blateson
Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 144
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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Vietnamese are routinely secretive and disregard your need for information, a common occurance whenever I've dealt with them throughout the society. Inside esl and out. |
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mark_in_saigon
Joined: 20 Sep 2009 Posts: 837
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:48 pm Post subject: CONNECTIIVTY, BANDWIDTH, ETC |
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If you are serious about the need for bandwidth, you need to test it with your own system BEFORE you sign off on a lease. They may TELL YOU it is 5 MBPS or whatever, they don't even know what that means, or know what the speed really is if they do know what it is supposed to mean. Everywhere I go I test, and normal is about 850 kbps down, maybe 300 to 350 up. I think very high priced hotels have decent speeds, but normal places do not, in my experience. Connectivity seems to be getting better, but I have not factored in the blackouts or the rainy season, right now it has been staying on most of the time. But you cannot really be certain you can get out of a trade after you made it, because you never know for sure if you will stay on. Like I said, it is running most of the time right now.
The virus spyware issues are terrible here. If someone attaches his USB to your machine to copy something, it will have a virus about 90% ot the time (the USB drive). Very big discussion about dealing with all that, but if you know about this stuff, you already know what to do, if you don't, you are in trouble. The best way to manage trading from here (in my opinion) is to have your trading machine in the west and access it with something like gotomypc (that one is pretty good) or maybe pcanywhere, or whatever you like for that kind of task. Do some smaller trades at first and see how market orders work, see if your fills are in line with what it looked like it should have been. Too much lag means a price you were not expecting, as you well know. I have been able to trade NASDAQ and NYSE effectively from here, but it certainly adds more challenge to the whole process. You will also find that it is nice to have a system in the west for other purposes, like having all the stuff you might ever need to access available, both from your own files, and also online. Like, that would be a way to get U.S. google, for example. Over here they flip you over to VN google, you can get an English version, but it is still not what we get over there. |
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Tainan
Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Posts: 120
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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ILA seems pretty secretive about lots of stuff, don't they! For one thing, they don't talk about their salary in their ad. I don't understand what employers think they are accomplishing by putting "competitive salary" in their ads; these phrases are so vague as to be meaningless. Not only that, but the don't give any information about the cost of the training programs they offer! They even have a button that says "cost of program" or some such thing, but when one clicks on it, all one gets is information about discounts and refunds for people who work at ILA after completing the course; nothing about the actual price.
If you wrote to them and they completely ignored you, that doesn't speak very well of them, now does it? |
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