Now available with Google Apps: Google Translator Toolkit

[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]

Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.



Welcome to Google Translator Toolkit
As the world’s citizens come online, more and more businesses are seeing the value of offering their services in multiple languages. Translation, however, can be costly and time-consuming, making it hard for businesses to take the first step. Whether you have an in-house translator or are a small translation service yourself, we think you will be excited by the newest addition to Google Apps: Google Translator Toolkit.

Translator Toolkit is a web-based translation editor that makes it easier and faster for translators to translate documents, web pages, and other content into dozens of other languages. To begin, upload a document from your desktop or enter the URL of a website that you want to translate. Translator Toolkit will then automatically load the text and generate a machine translation.


Once the translated content appears in Translator Toolkit, a user can easily make changes directly to the text or use tools designed to help make the translation process easier – such as the ability to see previous translations provided by others or the ability to reference bilingual dictionaries. Using Translator Toolkit with your Google Apps account makes it easy to collaborate on translations with colleagues. Others you share translations with can access your document and contribute in real-time, much like collaboration works in Google Docs.



Many professionals, individuals, and institutions have already started using Translator Toolkit to help bring their content into other languages and reach new markets. For example, within Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org, the Health Speaks team uses Translator Toolkit to make public health education more widely accessible across languages. In the coming weeks we plan to translate critical public health information into Arabic, Hindi and Swahili – all with the help of Translator Toolkit.

Learn more and get started
Google Translator Toolkit can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.

You can learn more about Google Translator Toolkit in the Help Center or stay up-to-date on the latest launches on the Google Translate Blog.

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Posted by Mike Galvez, Product Manager, Google Translator Toolkit

Note: Google Translator Toolkit may not be available in all areas.

Trading Price

When I first started trading, I was lucky enough to find the book by Edwards and Magee .There is a new edition which I haven't seen here. This is how I started in technical analysis. Later on, as I became more successful (it was really easy in those days), I hired a "chartist" who had big pieces of graph paper which he updated every day on the stocks I was interested in. That gave me the confidence in technical analysis.

In 1979/1980 I started using computers to draw charts- initially gold and then lots of other futures markets. That's where I found indicators, mainly the stochastic, which was developed by George Lane- a member of a group of technical analysts that I belonged to.

In talking to newer traders, one of the things that I notice is that as soon as they discover indicators they fall into the trap of trading the indicators rather than the price.

It's the price we trade, and we should use the indicators to make the unclear, clearer. The indicator should confirm what you are seeing in price. Failure to focus on the top part of the chart is a road to failure in discretionary trading.

Between Mr Trichet and the other news, we got a great 6E trade today. Watching price kept me in the trade. I did scale out at the first red candle. Price just kept making higher Highs and higher Lows.

Now available with Google Apps: YouTube

[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]

Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.



Welcome to YouTube
With more than 1 billion subscribers and 2 billion video views per day, YouTube is one of the top destinations for watching, uploading, and discussing video. Now, your company can benefit from the tools and scale provided by YouTube integrated with your users’ Google Apps accounts.

Many companies are already using YouTube in interesting ways to promote communication, both within the organization and to external audiences. Here are some examples:

• Build a public YouTube channel for your brand or product: You can maintain a public YouTube channel for your entire organization or for individual departments. For example, your marketing team can create a brand channel on YouTube to advertise your company to external customers. Take a look at HP's brand channel for a nice example of how a business can use YouTube to build a community around the exchange of product knowledge.


• Build an archive of all your company’s videos in one place: From training videos to strategy updates, you can centralize both externally-facing and internally-facing video in one video archive. YouTube’s sharing options let you choose whether you want your videos to be accessible publicly on YouTube or privately to people who you individually invite to watch, giving you control over your content.


• Build a channel to support your business processes: Customers and employees can stay up-to-date on new videos and channel activity by subscribing to the appropriate channels. Recent activity from those channels, such as new video content uploads, will then be delivered automatically to the subscriber’s homepage or to their email inbox, if they choose. For example, P&G maintains a hiring channel on YouTube targeting potential employees, so interested candidates can subscribe to the channel and ensure they don’t miss P&G’s latest hiring updates.

End users can also engage in conversations relating to the video content using the YouTube Moderator feature, which provides a forum for questions and answers directly in the video interface. This type of conversation can bring invaluable product or service feedback directly from customers to your organization.

YouTube provides a platform on which your organization can manage and archive video communications and control how those videos are shared both internally and externally. YouTube's features also allow for easy and intuitive uploading, viewing, collaboration, and conversation covering all of your organization’s video collateral. And now that YouTube is integrated with Google Apps, sharing content with colleagues and distribution lists is easy with contact list integration.

Learn more and get started
YouTube sign-in can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.

For the latest information on YouTube features and updates, check out the Official YouTube Channel and the YouTube Blog.

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Posted by Becky Chappell, YouTube Team

Note: YouTube may not be available in all areas.

Charts, Parameters and Methodology

I get lots of questions about chart set-ups.

I trade one chart with one periodicity (time frame) within a Market Profile context. I trade the order flow. I read the order flow using the elements that I have on my charts.

Each market has it's own fingerprint, just as each trader has their own in built rhythm. The idea is to match the two. Some of us need to slow things down and others need to speed things up.

The EL trading methodology comprises two types of trades: inside out and outside in. This represents trading with the trend when it is identifiable and fading the trend when the market becomes so overbought or so oversold that a change of trend is probable.

These are two distinct modes and require different considerations, very different context and a different mental preparation.

I use the different elements on my charts to provide the information that I process and come to a conclusion at the end of every bar. It is an ongoing process. Two of the elements I use are the 33 and 99 EMAs. The EMAs have parameters that are written in stone, no matter what periodicity I use, no matter what market I am looking at. They work best for me, ALWAYS.

I then have the other main tool for looking at momentum: the CCI. I use a fast CCI and a slow CCI, and I look at them both individually and then the relationship between the two. I can adjust the parameters of the CCIs to suit my requirements for information.

Then there are the range bars. In the ES I use both 1.25 and 1.50 depending on what I want to see.

This idea of magic numbers for parameters is a fiction, unless you are talking autotrading. As a discretionary trader, I am trading PRICE and I am using the indicators to help me see more clearly. Many people do not succeed because they trade indicators, not price. It would be like an F1 driver staring at his car's instruments/dashboard instead of the track. I am showing a Renko chart today so you can see what I am trying to say. It gets rid of the noise from the market and it does the job. I'm looking at order flow and as long as I can get the information and process it, I can trade effectively.

Now available with Google Apps: Google Alerts

[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]

Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.



Welcome to Google Alerts
No organization is an island. If you’re in business, it’s critical to be connected to what’s happening in your market and to hear what your customers are saying. If you’re in education, you need to stay on top of the latest announcements and innovations within your field. But given the immense amount of data being created every day on the Web, how can you possibly keep track of new information as it's published?

Now Google Apps customers can tackle this problem using Google Alerts with their Apps accounts. Google Alerts is a content monitoring service that notifies you when Google’s search engine encounters new content - such as web pages, newspaper articles, or blogs - that you’re interested in from all across the Web. Simply enter your search terms and Google Alerts will notify you via email whenever Google finds new results that match your terms. To avoid information overload, you can configure Google Alerts to send one email per day or per week, compressing the most important results into a brief message.


Once you’re up and running with Google Alerts, try setting up an alert on the name of your organization or industry. Use quotes if your search term is longer than one word (for example, “small business financing” or “solar power”) - you’ll get more accurate results. Then wait and see what turns up in your inbox. You might be surprised to find out who’s writing about you!

Learn more and get started
Google Alerts can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.

For more information or answers to specific questions about Alerts, visit our Help Center pages.

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Posted by Oli Gaymond, Product Manager, Google Alerts

Note: Google Alerts may not be available in all areas.

Automated Trading - Updates

In our continuing quest to improve Flo, we have tried many things. The difficulty was to make an improvement that was not a curve fit, so apart from a drop dead stop loss most of what we have been doing is market action related.

As you can see from all the charts and videos on the blog, entries are pretty easy. It's the money management and exits that are more difficult to translate into an algo. When I'm trading, I look at so many things that contribute to the order flow. There are things I do in processing all the information - deciding which piece of information is more important than another - that I can't always make into rules. It just happens.

Flo paints with a broad brush. She copes with all types of markets and gives an average trading result. Her win rate is well above 60% over time, but she has more losing days than I do in my discretionary trading, even a losing month very occasionally.

To handle exits, we decided to treat them like entries. We knew that it would have to be simple. We made great strides when we ran the exits off a different data stream to that of the entries. Entries can be a little late, but the timing of exits is more critical once you have an entry in place, as otherwise you lose the profit from the entry. Sounds logical, simple but very important. We use a much shorter periodicity to time the exits and rely on Flo's re-entry techniques to get back into a trade that has a longer trend.

Below are Flo's trades during the London morning from our test sub-account trading 1 lot. The result of a profit of $561 after commissions is the result of implementing a better exit. I can't emphasise enough how critical the exits are to an algo strategy, as the exit will impact the next entry too if you only allow a single position at a time.

Flo's entries are pretty good. Flo was running on 3 markets this morning (London time) and didn't make a trade in either the ES or FESX, which was a good thing.

Tell Us Your Biggest Wish for 2011

Today the Google Small Business team is kicking off a conversation about the hopes and wishes you have for your business next year. We are working on a project to help small businesses succeed in 2011 and we want to hear from you.

We’ll start by asking, if you had one wish for your small business in 2011, what would it be? This is just the beginning and we’ll be looking for common themes to share with everyone. We'll pull out the common themes from submissions all over the web or via the form below and share them, anonymously, in aggregate.

Think big and audacious, or be more practical – but narrow it down to just one single wish. We're trying to understand what's most important to small businesses in general, so your wish doesn't have to be specific to Google. It might be something that helps your business prosper and grow. Or, it might be something that gives you personal peace of mind.

Just complete the form below. Or, tell us on Facebook or Twitter using the hashtag #Wish2011. We would like to share some of the specific wishes we hear from businesses. If you'd like us to share your wish (not anonymously) on our blog, please provide us your email and we'll be in touch.

Spread the word and tell your friends -- we want to know their wish too. Let’s get this conversation started.

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Posted by Leslie Hernandez, Product Marketing Manager, Google Small Businesses Team