亲爱的朋友们，
想象一下：一位来自热带四十多岁，略显超重的亚洲女性的人生第一次单板滑雪。
并不是一个美景，对吗？
是的，这正是我在2019年的第一天选择做的事情：在离芝加哥几个小时之外的Chestnut Mountain Resort滑雪。值得庆幸的是，尽管可笑， 我现还是得到了一些好处。虽然我带回家的不仅仅是受伤的自尊心，还有身体上的伤痕，我还带回了一些人生课程与你分享。

Dear Friends,  

Picture this: a forty-something, slightly overweight, Asian woman from the tropics snowboarding for the first time in her life. 

Not a pretty sight, right?  

Yes, that is precisely what I chose to do on the first day of 2019:  to snowboard at Chestnut Mountain Resort in Galena, a couple hours away from Chicago. Thankfully, I can now laugh about this experience with the benefit of hindsight. While I took home not just a bruised ego but also physical bruises, I also took home some life lessons that I will share with you.

Gift Ideas For the Traders in Your Life

You may be familiar with Oprah’s “The O List”. Well, below is PhillipCapital’s version: 

In the old days, you could spot traders miles away from the bright colorful coded jackets they wore; but now traders come in all shapes and forms- and not one size fits all.  This makes buying a gift for the trader in your life tricky. So here are some gift ideas for you.  As a bonus, we have also two versions of each gift according to budget. These gifts are bound to delight you or the traders in your life!

TAKING THE PULSE OF DR. COPPER FOR 2019

Copper prices could be driven by a confluence of factors in 2019. Among them being the pace of growth in China, which has been taking on more debt to stimulate the economy. The strength of the U.S. dollar in relation to the Fed’s rate hikes, growing budget deficit, Brexit and Italy’s debt could also play pivotal roles.

Highlights

• Copper rose 72% in 2016-17 on Chinese growth but is down 18% so far in 2018

• Supply likely continued to grow in 2018 as mining profitability remained strong

Get One Step Ahead – After-Hour Trading of Hong Kong Equity Index Derivatives

HKEX added Mini-Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (HSCEI) Options to its after-hours trading session on 3 December, completing the rollout of eight major stock index products – Hang Seng Index (HSI) futures and options, Mini-HSI futures and options, HSCEI futures and options and Mini-HSCEI futures and options – in its after-hours trading.The average daily volume (ADV) of index futures traded after market hours has reached 82,146 contacts in 2018*, more than 12 times of that recorded in 2013, the first ye

Dear Friends,

In this special Christmas edition, we are including our unique gift ideas for that hard-to-buy-for-trader in your life. We really hope you enjoy reading it!

The tradition of giving and receiving gifts during the holiday season is a recent custom I adopted upon moving to the US. I do not recall my siblings and I ever receiving any presents from my parents for Christmas or on our birthdays. It just wasn’t a custom to give or receive gifts on a specified date.