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Thursday, August 4, 2016
ART_WORK_BY_OUR_BUDDING_ARTISTS

ART_WORK_BY_OUR_BUDDING_ARTISTS

1. NATURAL BEAUTY ON GITAM CAMPUS
        BY MR. ANUBHAV BHATT, BBA (CIMA) I YEAR.




2. SKETCHES BY MR. KRISHNA, MBA I YEAR



3. SKETCH BY MR. V. STANLEY EDWARD, MBA I YEAR


4. SKETCH BY MR. K. MUHAMMAD SWALIH, MBA I YEAR




5. SKETCHES BY MS. SUDHA SRI, MBA I YEAR





The_Perils_of_Indifference

The_Perils_of_Indifference

“The perils of indifference” was a speech given by Elie Wiesel, a NOBEL peace prize winner at the White House Millenium Evening, 1999, commemorating the onset of the new millennium. It was my first day at GITAM and I stumbled upon this speech at the KRC and the thoughts which lingered on I wanted to share.
Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor at the Jewish concentration camps in Nazi Germany, was separated from his mother and sister, and lost his father to malnutrition and exposure in those. Later he founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation and always spoke against the oppression around the world, including the soviet Jews, the ‘disappeared’ in Argentina, refugees in Cambodia, the Kurds, native Indians in Nicaragua and famine victims. He wrote books such as La Nuit, L’ Aube(Dawn), Le Jour(The Accident), and many more drawing from his own life and experience as a victim.  Elie Wiesel passed away this year on July 2nd.
When you ask what is indifference, Siri or Google say it is a lack of interest, concern or sympathy. Is everything understood in that small sentence, or is there more to it? Do we really know how much indifference affects people around us? Elie Wiesel says,” the opposite of Love is Indifference and not Hate”.
Indifference is always tempting, as we would want nothing to do with things with which we are not affected. We always have our own goals and works to do. There could be a bomb killing tens of people, or a flood destroying hundreds of lives or even a community wiped away for ‘developmental’ projects. But no, we want nothing of that. Thinking we could never take the place of the ‘victim’, is betraying our own self. We see suffering in the news, on the roads even, and forget they are people just like us with families like we have.
Wiesel said “Anger and hatred even are a virtue, as they elicit a response. But indifference is always a friend of the oppressor”. He spoke about children, and how it broke hearts to see them suffer on the television, and I could only wonder, has anything changed today? How many children are we seeing, suffering in wars in the Middle East, bodies from upturned boats in Europe, trafficking all over the world, natural calamities, and what do we do about them?
I always thought, what CAN we do about them? Going around fighting all of these is definitely not pragmatic. But that day, I found an answer. If God has given us one voice to speak, technology today has given us numerous voices. When people are hurt, we should let them know we are with them. When we see suffering and we write a beautiful piece, or a symphony, many more will come and stand with us.

 It isn’t true that none of us do anything. People react and BRAVO to them. But if we aren’t reacting, we should. We must be holding hands against the oppression around us. When the whole world, ‘our world’, crumbles around us, don’t we want a hand on our shoulder, and a voice saying ‘’ We are with you”.
Being indifferent in this day and age is much more easy, and fashionable even, to say, “I have got nothing to do with people”. But let’s not forget we are all together as part of humanity. Ignoring the human in us is what makes us inhuman.

P.S. The speech by Elie Wiesel is in  “Speeches that changed the world”, by Simon Sebag Montefiere, and is a wonderful read.

- Mr. V. Stanley Edward
MBA I year.

ENNUI

ENNUI

Are you bored?
The immense pleasure you get when you realise you have nothing to do
To the stage of cognizance where you really have nothing to do..
It’s a journey of a full circle, filled with petite realizations.
You will be preoccupied for that second, but don’t take that moment for granted,
‘Cause you never know when work will leave your side.
Once again you will become a solitary reaper, Left to your own imagination.
The mind shifts from one scenario to another,
Few are clear sailing, few not so..
The idea of becoming a winner to the idea of being called by the devil... 
This is what boredom does to you..
The most mundane consequences become intriguing...
And the most intriguing become prosaic..

Are you still bored??

-MS. U.AKANSHA
BBM Final Year

ALGO_TRADING

ALGO_TRADING

Trading and investing has become the norm for individual investors and traders as an alternative investment apart from gold and land, since late 1990s as brokers offer their services via a wide variety of online trading platforms.Trading is nothing but an activity of buying and selling securities on stock exchanges. Trading in securities can be done on long term basis referred usually as delivery trading and a very short term trading which is usually within a day, referred normally as Intraday-trading. A trading strategyisa plan designed to achieve a profitable return by taking eitherlong or shortpositions in the stock market. The online trading strategy through BSE and NBSE clicked mainly due to its verifiability, quantify-ability, consistency, and objectivity which come with a package of immense research that highlights its effective and efficient use of infrastructure to bring in better returns for the investments made in stock markets for investors.
As many of us are aware, trading is done either by Individuals as ‘self’ or through broker agents or by equity advisors of a broking firm. Similar in these lines we have another type of trading called Bulk trading or block-trading or black-box trading that is often done only by some of the broking firms especially in US, UK and European countries. Usually this type of trading is also referred to as High-frequency trading (HFT) especially in India which deals with trading done in huge quantities or at a large scale. The high-frequency trading strategy was first initiated by a company called Renaissance Technologies, USA. The other major high-frequency trading firms in USA include Chicago Trading, Virtu Financial, Timber Hill, ATD, GETCO, Tradebot and Citadel LLC.
Investopedia defines HFT as “High-frequency trading is a program trading platform that uses powerful computers to transact a large number of orders at very fast speeds using complex algorithms to analyze multiple markets and execute orders based on market conditions. Typically, the traders with the fastest execution speeds will be more profitable than traders with slower execution speeds”. Computerized trading is used primarily by institutional investors typically for large-volume trades. Orders from the trader's computer are entered directly into the market's computer system and executed automatically. This type of trading involves trading strategies based on algorithms or complex mathematical formulae, which is carried out by computers to move in and out of heavy or large positions in seconds or fractions of a second. The algorithms are closely guarded and executed by their owners (broking firms) and are known as "algos" hence this type of trading is referred as Algo-trading (Algorithmic trading). Analgorithm is a specific set of clearly defined instructions aimed to carry out a task or process. The algorithm one company uses is not similar to the algorithm used by another company hence the effective ones churns out the best returns/profits out of their investments.
Algorithmic trading is a process that uses computer programming which follow a defined set of instructions while placing a trade in order to generate profits at a certain speed and certain frequency that is impossible for a human trader. These defined set of rules are based on timing, price, quantity or any mathematical model based on either simple or complex strategy it involves as per requirements of a broking firm. Apart from profit opportunities for the trader, algo-trading makes markets more liquid and makes trading more systematic by ruling out emotional human impacts on trading activities.Algorithmic trading is widely used by investment banks, mutual funds, and other institutional traders, to divide large trades into several smaller trades to manage market impact and risk. Algorithmic trading is appealing to buy-side firms because they can measure their trading results against industry-standard benchmarks such as volume weighted average price (VWAP) or the S&P 500 and Russell 3000 indices in US.
Algorithmic trading volumes are also currently driven by sell-side proprietary traders and quantitative hedge funds which thrive with a never ending quest to please their high end customers in order to acquire great deals from them. Such traders continuously work on ways and means to attract their customers with their innovative and die-hard spirit. The first to innovate broker gets a significant advantage over the others in such competition, in both ways of capturing large orders and a reputation of being a innovative thought leader. This scenario is possible only when best algorithm is put in place to enjoy a significant time window ahead of the competition if that algorithm addresses a really unique execution strategy.
HFT firms do not consume significant amounts of capital, accumulate positions or hold their portfolios overnight.These HFT firms make up low margins with incredibly high volumes of trades usually in millions.As a result, HFT has greater and higher risk than traditional buy-and-hold strategies have. A High-frequency trader usually competes against other HFT, and not on long-term investors. Members of the financial industry generally claim that high-frequency trading substantially improves market liquidity, lowers volatility and makes trading and investing cheaper for other market participants.
On the flip side, research body argues that HFT and electronic trading pose new types of challenges to the financial system and the trading discipline which is very much grounded in the market since decades.Several European countries have proposals to ban HFT due to concerns about volatility which is experienced sometimes with sharp spikes. High-frequency trading has been the subject of intense public focus and debate since the May 6, 2010 Flash Crash. Regulators claim that these practices only contributed to volatility in the May 6, 2010 Flash Crash and found that risk controls are much less rigorous for faster trades. Nobel Prize–winning economist, Michael Spence, believes that HFT should be banned keeping healthy trading and long term perspective in mind.
In India, the debate over the use of HFT has resurfaced after the recent release of Michael Lewis' book Flash Boys, which is critical of the system. The discussion within SEBI is that stock exchanges should implement its guidelines which statethat there should be a two-queue system for orders coming from co-location and other mode. Such architecture will provide orders generated from a space not co-located. This way there is a fair chance of execution and also addresses the concerns related to being crowded-out by orders placed from co-location, a SEBI official said. Co-location is like proximity hosting, where the exchange hosts the subscriber's server at its data center i.e near the master trading engine and helps in faster movement of data and execution of trades. Not all traders can use co-location as setting up the infrastructure as it involves huge costs.

In India, both National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the BSE do not follow any separate queue system currently. If implemented, this two-queue system would ensure stockbrokers who are not co-located to have a fair and equitable access to the stock exchange's trading systems, said SEBI. The regulator had said distribution ratio of orders from terminals/servers that are not co-located to the orders from co-located servers may be kept at 1:1 and, in future, it may be reviewed based on the feedback from market participants.As per the latest data on NSE, HFT constitutes 17.15 per cent of the overall trading volumes. HF proponents say "SEBI's suggestion cannot be implemented as Co-location is mainly for time priority. It gives liquidity to markets with high number of passive orders. If orders that come first may not go first, then people will stop using it. Separate order queues will close down co-location".Only time will tell the future and implementation of Algo trading but without strict compliance and guidelines it would be calling in for a financial disaster if implemented in India. 




-          Ms. E. Madhavi

                                                        PhD Scholar, GIM. 
Body_Lies!!!

Body_Lies!!!

Seeking your kind attention to the two words above, what on this holy earth do they even mean?  What in the name of the various actions we all get into, is all this body lies about?
Now, whatever you would read in the next few sentences, I am sure, you would have experienced in some or the other time of your life.  Wait for it, keep on reading.
“You are such a wonderful student of mine! How beautiful you look! What a perfect answer! Hey, I am just your friend okay! Hahahahahahahahahahah! It is real pain when you don’t message me! You are the best of all I had ever seen in my life! You are Awesome! You are beyond comparisons! We are the best! Sweetest friend ever! Closest buddy! If you do this, I will pay you this! Please do not try to compare me with anyone! It’s a deal! Get out of my home!”
Yes, slowly, these dialogues, from somewhere, deep down your sub conscious, suddenly sprouted into your now conscious, didn’t they?
This is what I would want to write today. The immense amounts of emotions, feelings, ideas and ideologies we all go through at each and every single given point of time and how these are indirectly not allowed into the scene with body lies!!!
This is what I call it, with what I had seen in my past 23 years of my life. All those expressions, fewest of the few, in the third paragraph are in some sense related to you. Someone would have told you the same or in a bit better or a morbid way, makes no difference.
Can you actually identify any sentence which could have been said with hidden intentions? Yes, I know you are counting hundreds of them, already! Keep them all aside for a moment. Now think, could any of these statements mean the same when someone said to you that way! Oh yes, you might count few of them!
Lately, I had some shocking realizations about how people can lie! Nerve impulses are so strong, god, I feel as if they really carry some electric current in them to keep us tortured every single time with these thoughts. We all tend to imagine, re clipping the whole conversation all together, trying to observe how the other person was talking in the interaction.
Selective perception and contrastive understanding, human minds, we cannot do anything! Can’t we? When a person speaks, we try to decipher him in the most modern way, better than anything you have known till date!
When a person speaks up something, wait, still wait, again wait, wait for a minute, and then possibly give them a comeback. This doesn’t mean one has to sit looking like a dumbfounded creature before them. It means, one has to try looking into the depth of the sentences that they pass on into your brain cells. Decipher them using your codes, no problem. But, do not fall prey to the body lies they create.
Their body sways, moves, flagellates, rocks, travels, waves the way exactly you are about to understand it in. That is definitely what they do not intend to tell. There is something hidden. There is something you have to demystify.
Your Father, for example, might say “Get out of my home” with an angry body gesture. Instead of just reacting, wait and try to decode his body language.  He is body lying. His body lies have made you misunderstand his anguish. This is where we are all failing.
Body lies is the new generation problem of many people. Even we do this. Yeah, just think of one, woof, you got it. See, told you!
Sales, one of the most happening, ever continuing phenomenon has to do something with body lies. You go to a guy, he has this suit and tie, perfectly shaven chin, neatly pulled up hair, serious grin on his face, well dressed, extremely well spoken. That could possibly be his first day!
First days are always crucial; one has to decipher the logics and codes used by the client or the customer. Getting into shoes is an old phenomenon, you will have to get into his socks, you will have to become his shoe horn, you will have to become his polish and you will have to become his perfectly crafted, extremely comforting shoe sole. Getting into one’s shoes is not just enough.
Salesman: Blah Blah blah (Routine Sales Pitch)
Him (client): Super, we will plan for it
Salesman: Wonderful sir! Will call you back after some time. 
Salesman: Hello sir! Shall we decide on terms and conditions?
Him(client): No, We already gave it to some other company
Salesman: Doomed!
You might have deciphered him wrongly when he said, “Yes, let’s plan for it.” You might have taken his body lies for granted. You might have acted according to his body lies. He was hiding his intentions in his body language. Winner, towards the end would be him. Of course, you will have to make him a winner, but not at the cost of you losing the game. Your body lies and his should negate, and synergy is to be created. How? I am not yet sure, I’m learning still.
This could happen with your parents, twins, elders, friends and dear ones. Do not fall prey to the endless talk sessions, or the body lies anybody would get you into. Disaster, it would lead you to.
But towards the end, I do understand that this is what is completely my perception and might not be true in all cases. But watch out for body lies people.
That was one simple example of what I could narrate to you. I can already imagine you connecting the dots in many of your cases, with different stakeholders in your lives. Please carry on!!!
Happy living !!!




Mr. Avinash Duvvuri
MBA – Alumnus (MBA, 2014 – 16)

THE_PATH_TO_SUCCESS

THE_PATH_TO_SUCCESS

      Success is a small word with a big meaning.  This word decides how much respect we get from the society. One, who is not successful, is the one who has nobody to talk to. Some people say success means having a lot of money, while some say success means being an influential personality. But I say Success means doing what you love and loving what you do.

      Most of the people have less patience than the others, and that’s the reason they give up so easily. No diamond is found easily by just looking in the mine, we’ve got to find it...work hard on it. Suppose success is on Level 10, most of the people work hard till level 9 and they give up. They give up being so close to their goal. They don’t focus on their actual goal, they forget that where "focus goes, energy flows". For them, success means everything. It’s just that they don’t want to work hard.

      Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Robert Kiyosaki- all these people never sat on their sofa and played Video games thinking "No problem, I'll get a job somewhere easily". They knew their condition, they started their companies, worked hard 24x7, and now they are the most successful people.


Every student laughed at their innovative ideas back then, who’s laughing now?
98% Billionaires are self-made, in fact most of them started from nothing. They made a perfect plan. They worked hard.
They earned money. They invested it.
They earned it all back again and now they're Billionaires.

          No matter if you fail once twice or thrice, but don’t lose hope. Hope is what pushes you towards the sky. If Bill Gates had lost the hope when he left the college, today he would be selling eatables on the roads but NO, he didn’t. He knew there is something within him which is trying to make him perfect. He found it. He heard the inner voice. He worked real hard.
Failure defeats losers, but inspires winners.
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

              Life is too short to spend it not pursuing you dream. Abraham Lincoln once said, "The best way to predict your future is to create it".
You cannot blame it on your parents, you cannot blame it on your friends, because all that has happened to you, is because of you.
If you don’t work hard, if you sleep 12 hours a day expecting some miracle would happen, buddy boy, you're done. Nothing is going to happen until you start it. Your hand is not going to move on its own, until you allow it. Work hard. Get successful.




Mr. Anubhav Bhatt

BBA (CIMA) 1st YEAR
Value_of_Friendship

Value_of_Friendship

For a person, family proves to be an extraordinary backing in each part of life. In the event that we look through the existence of a person, we can discover numerous individuals who add value to life by backing them now and again. Among those individuals who are included their life, "Friend" is the most precious.
For a person, a friend is the one who stays by his/her side constantly. It's not about difficult times or typical life; we will have either on our side for that specific issue. On the off chance that we are great and act decidedly for each circumstance, there will be somebody or the other who will remain on our side. Just keep one thing in mind- act naturally and individuals will be attracted to you and will want to be your friend. For the most part everybody says that we ought to be insightful in selecting a friend! I think about how we can legitimize a person and choose to make specific individual as friend? In the event that was a right proclamation, we won't have even one friend for our lifetime since we will squander our time on breaking down individuals around us and at last may wind up discovering none!
There is no compelling reason to discover a friend in another spot! Simply act naturally. It can help you to move to a specific gathering or if your method for living is great, individuals will have a tendency to be with you. Up to this point it's about being you, now we push forward intuition diversely to the present situation around us:
In the present society, if one can’t discover a person being with us like a friend for the life time, he/she must not be disheartened. Every person has needs and needs change from time to time. As time goes on we feel solace, even with the general population around us during that period. We are in a society where people usually approach a person only when we have any work with him/her. This mentality keeps us on our guard for we fear that we also might be used and then discarded.
Remember one thing a friend is not a person who makes you learn some things in a good way. A friend is a person who makes you learn numerous things badly.
·         Be with a person where you can chuckle notwithstanding when are crying.
·         Be with a person who teases you all the time by recognizing your shortcoming. This is the way you can improve yourself.
·         Be with individuals who listen to your words without getting exhausted .

Tune in, life is too short and there is no confirmation that you will be alive for the following day. Carry on with your life brightly where you can add appeal to yourself. Be with the people who make you happy, avoid those who overlook you when times changed. Increase the value of your life and the way you live by being unassuming. This is sufficient to draw worthy individuals to you.



- MR. K. VIKAS
MBA FINAL YEAR
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