Today while attending the 2012 outlook conference at The Economist Intelligence Unit and HSBC Bank, I naturally celebrated Chinese New Year. Kung Hai Fat Choy. The hotel was designed by my neighbor, I.M. Pei.

I also did a stock trade based on a limit order, but of course I was not aware of it at the conference where cellphones and their latest clones were compulsorily turned off. I used a limit order because I thought the stock was rather toppy. The writer, Frida Ghitis sort of admitted it too, as did at least one Texas reader, RH. No, I do not tell people in advance about my limit orders lest they gazumph me by offering a mere penny more.

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