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untuk terlepas daripada pandangan kita.
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ekonomi, sains, nasional dan juga Islam untuk memastikan anda pembaca Iluminasi
dapat mengikuti berita-berita ini dengan mudah.
Berikut
adalah berita-berita menarik yang dapat kami kongsikan untuk anda minggu ini
1. Donald
Trump mengamuk dengan wartawan
Dalam satu insiden melibatkan POTUS, Donald Trump dan
sekumpulan wartawan media, Donald Trump secara terbuka menyerang semula seorang
wartawan CNN bernama Jim Acosta, ekoran soalan-soalan yang dinyatakan semasa
sesi media tersebut.
Kemarahan Trump yang memuncak walau bagaimanapun tidak dihiraukan
Jim Acosta yang terus bertindak mengeluarkan soalan demi soalan yang tidak
dijawab Trump.
Selepas Trump mengamuk, seorang lagi wartawan bangun
mempertahankan tindakan Acosta. Ini mengakibatkan Trump kembali berang.
Akhirnya pas masuk Jim Acosta untuk ke Rumah Putih telah ditarik balik atas
insiden itu.
2. Lukisan paling tua dunia ditemui
di Kepulauan Borneo
Sebuah lukisan memaparkan seekor lembu yang ditemui di
dinding sebuah gua di Kepulauan Borneo, bahagian Sangkulirang, Kalimantan Utara
dianggarkan adalah lukisan paling tua pernah ditemui setakat ini. Usianya
diramalkan sekitar 40,000 tahun dahulu.
Penemuan ini membuka kepada beberapa teori baru dengan
persoalan paling membingungkan penyelidik adalah - bagaimana teknik yang
digunakan pelukis itu 40,000 tahun dahulu serupa dengan teknik yang digunakan
bagi menghasilkan lukisan-lukisan lain yang turut sama ditemui di benua Eropah.
3. Harga minyak dunia turun mendadak
Harga minyak dunia telah turun mendadak sehingga mengalami
penurunan sebanyak 20 peratus dan dianggarkan terus menurun dalam tempoh
terdekat. Penurunan ini merupakan kali pertama harga minyak mentah Brent turun
melepasi $70 dollar satu tong, semenjak April 2018.
Penurunan ini disebabkan pengeluaran minyak yang terlalu
tinggi oleh negara-negara pengeluar menyebabkan lebihan bekalan dan juga
beberapa faktor lain, seperti pengaruh sekatan eksport minyak oleh negara Iran
yang diperkenalkan pada 5 November 2018.
Kami berharap penurunan ini tidak menjejaskan ekonomi negara
kita kerana jelas belanjawan yang dibentangkan tempohari, sangat bergantung
dengan faktor harga minyak yang stabil.
4. Samsung umumkan telefon lipat pertama mereka
Gergasi teknologi Samsung dari Korea Selatan mengumumkan
peranti terbaru mereka, sebuah telefon pintar yang mempunyai teknologi skrin
yang boleh dilipat, digelarkan sebagai Infinity Flex Display.
Telefon pintar itu yang mempunyai saiz telefon biasa boleh
dibuka 'lipatannya' bagi mengubah saiz skrin supaya lebih mirip dengan sebuah
tablet yang dua kali ganda saiz paparannya. Samsung turut sama mengumumkan
mereka akan cuba memasarkan peranti yang menggunakan teknologi tersebut dalam
beberapa bulan akan datang.
Pengumuman ini turut mendapat sokongan Google yang
mengumumkan sistem operasi Android akan turut sama ditambah baik bagi
mengadaptasi teknologi baru ini dengan berkesan.
5. Gangster bergaduh dalam sekolah di Johor
Dalam satu insiden melibatkan dua kumpulan samseng, seorang
lelaki terbunuh dan seorang lagi cedera parah selepas berlaku pertembungan di
antara kedua-dua kumpulan itu.
Malangnya, kejadian buruk itu berlaku semasa sebuah karnival
sekolah yang diadakan di SJKC Kuo Kuang 1. Mangsa yang meninggal dunia adalah
bekas pelajar sekolah itu yang kini berusia 21 tahun sementara seorang lagi
berusia 15 tahun.
Insiden itu berlaku dipercayai bermula daripada pertengkaran
yang tercetus sebelum mereka tiba dikarnival tersebut lagi, mengakibatkan
kejadian huru-hara berlaku. Lebih 500 orang tetamu sedang berada di sekolah
tersebut semasa kejadian. 12 suspek telah ditahan dan senjata yang digunakan
masih lagi dicari.
Sumber : Iluminasi.com
Forex Trading Scams to Watch
The
forex market involves very active trading of over $1 trillion each day, not
including futures and currency options, which put the trading at closer to $5
trillion daily. The market does not have
much in the way of regulation, although things have started to improve
recently.
The
opportunity still exists for many forex scams, which tempt new investors with a
promise of quick fortunes through "secret trading formulas" or
algorithm-based "proprietary" trading methodologies. Before choosing
a broker or platform, go through your own due diligence by visiting BASIC, or
the Background Affiliation Status Information Center, created by the
self-regulatory NFA (National Futures Association).
01
Signal Sellers
Stock
Market Illustration
One
of the challenges a rookie forex investor faces is determining which operators
to trust in the forex market and which to avoid. Signal sellers make a good
example.
Basically,
a signal seller is offering a system that purports to identify favorable times
for buying or selling a currency pair. The system may be manual, where the
trader enters the info and gets a result, or it may be automated.
Some
systems rely on technical analysis, others rely on breaking news and many
employ some combination of the two. But they all purport to provide information
that leads to favorable trading opportunities. Signal sellers usually charge a
daily, weekly or monthly fee for their services.
Some
analysts propose that many or even most signal sellers are scam artists. A
frequent criticism is that if it were really possible to use a system to beat
the market, why would the individual or firm that has this information make it
widely available? Wouldn't it make more sense to use this incredible signaling
system to make huge profits?
Other
analysts distinguish between known scammers and more reputable information
sources such as Metatrader, that offer a well-thought-out signaling service.
Behind
these opposing views lies a larger difference of opinion about whether anyone
can predict the next move in a trading market. This fundamental disagreement
won't be settled any time soon. Nobel Prize-winning Economist Eugene Fama
proposes in his well-regarded Efficient Market Hypothesis that finding these
kinds of momentary market advantages really isn't possible.
His
economist colleague, Robert Shiller, also a Nobel Prize winner, believes
differently, citing evidence that investor sentiment creates booms and busts
that can provide investment and trading opportunities.
The
best way to determine if a signal seller can benefit you is to open a paper
money or practice trading account with one of the better-known forex brokers.
Be patient, and eventually, you'll determine whether predictive signaling works
for you or doesn't.
02
Phony Forex Investment Management Funds
In
the world of investing, outrageous claims are the surest sign of potential
fraud
In
the past few years, forex management funds have proliferated. Most of these, if
not all, are scams. They offer an investor the "opportunity" to have
his forex trades managed by highly-skilled forex traders who can offer
outstanding market returns in return for a share of the profits.
The
problem is, this "management" offer requires the investor to give up
control over his money and to hand it to someone he knows little about other
than the hyped-up and often completely false record of success available on the
scammer's website and brochures.
The
investor often ends up getting nothing, while the scammer uses investors' funds
to buy yachts and private islands.
A
good rule of thumb in the forex market, as with other investments, is that if
it sounds almost too good to be true, such as annual returns of more than 100
percent, for example, it's almost certainly a scam.
03
Dishonest Brokers
Trader
watching stocks crash on screen
Although the forex market is not entirely
unregulated, it has no central regulating authority. The forex spot market is
completely unregulated and accounts for the majority of trades. Unsurprisingly,
some forex brokers do not deal fairly with their customers and, in some
instances, defraud them.
You
have two ways to avoid bad brokers. Before engaging a forex broker, look the
brokerage up on a website that identifies dishonest forex brokers. Better yet,
trade with a broker that also handles other stock market trades and is subject
to SEC and FINRA oversight. While the forex trade itself may be unregulated, no
broker subject to such oversight would risk its license for other securities by
defrauding its forex customers.
