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How Credit Card Works:
Credit cards are generally issued by banks to the card holders, after proper scrutiny of their accounts. These cards are also issued by a business, for example, a department store or an oil company that permits the user to purchase products or goods from their stores or franchises on credit. Once the purchase is made, the card is swiped and the customer is given a bill. The customer in turn promises to pay the purchase amount alongwith the interest payment by signing a receipt. At the end of the credit period, the customer receives a statement of the amount due for payment.
Credit Card Configuration:
All credit cards are more or less of same size and shape as specified by the ISO/IEC/7810 standard as ID 1. Normally the card is 85.60*53.98 mm in size. Credit card can be of the following types:
- Standard Credit Card- most common type that allows the user to have revolving balance upto a certain credit limit.
- Premium Credit Card- offers rewards and incentives to the user over what a standard credit card offers.
- Store Credit Card- also called retail credit card, issued by businesses/companies which is meant to be used for their products only.
- Secured Credit Card- generally issued to those without a cash history in exchange of a deposit amount.
Credit Card Vs Charge Card:
The main line of division between a credit card and a charge card lies in their methods of payment. In case of credit card, a customer is required to pay a minimum amount at the end of the credit period. However, the bank charges an interest on the unpaid amount.
On the other hand, consumers using charge cards will have to pay the total purchasing amount at the end of the period.
Credit card Vs Debit Card:
Credit card, basically, is a form of borrowing which allows the user to buy items on credit. The user is required to pay a certain minimum amount at the end of the credit period after which bank charges an interest rest on the remaining balance.
On the other hand, the debit card is directly linked to the user's account. Here, the payment amount is right away deducted from the user's account, unlike a credit card where there is a free credit period.
Advantages of Credit Card:
- Credit Period: Free credit period of 50-55 days makes it easy for the consumers to buy articles or shop in a cashless way.
- Mode of Marketing for Brands: Banks issuing credit cards, often tie up with various brands and companies, which provides discount to the credit card holders buying their products.
- Online Shopping: Online shopping has become popular overtime because it is quick and reduces effort. Credit card facilitates this mode of shopping.
- ATMs: A consumer can withdraw cash from ATM by using credit cards.
- Creates Incentives for Buyers: Marketing innovations like providing reward points to buyers on purchases creates incentives for the customers. The consumers can redeem those points later in return of discounts or gifts.
Drawbacks of Credit Card:
- High Interest Rates: A major fallout is the high interest charges associated with payment of original amount. It becomes a greater pain to the debtors when the interest rates shoot up abnormally after a certain period of time. Sometimes, it results in bankruptcy of the customers.
- Overblown Price for Card Holders: Often card holders are charged above normal prices on account of interchange fees that the merchants have to pay to the banks.
The Participants:
The parties involved in credit card market are:
- The Card Holder
- The Bank/The Card Issuer
- Merchant
- Acquiring Bank (the bank who accepts payments for the merchants)
- Independent Sales Organization (ISO- resellers to the merchant)
- Transaction Network (transactions via electronic medium)
- The Credit Card Association (it sets terms and conditions for the credit card issuers)


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I don't know what I did yesterday trigger that message , i was trying a couple of things but I put the code back to what it was. I think it is unrelated and I have a pretty good idea where it happened. I then took a look at my run function and I did find 1 object created there who's parent is the QThread (first and only one). What I don't understand is: aren't they the same thread? The parent of the object declared in run is QThread and moveToThread has been called previously to entering run. I removed the parent but I still can't trigger slots in the qthread without an event loop.Warning: QObject: Cannot create children for a parent that is in a different thread.
I think you can boil it all down to this: Where is your object created? If it's in "QThread::run()", then it got it's own concurrent OS-based thread. If not, then it's all in Qt's main GUI thread.
Even if you create a QThread object, its signals and slots basically "live" in the main thread (as in: the thread where you created the QThread).
QThread is not so much a real OS-thread, but more like "A wrapper / container which provides a method run, which will be executed in its own thread".
So you either go the "low level road", re-implement run(), preferrably don't call exec(), and do your processing. Data exchange will have to be protected (by mutexes, semaphores, etc.).
Or, you could leave run()'s default implementation (which calls exec()). Then you call, from your main (GUI) thread, .moveToThread() on some objects. Specifically: On those objects, whose events (slots) you want to have processed by another OS thread.
So if you have an QObject MyWorker, and a slot "doWork()", and then you do:
- MyWorker someWorker;
- // now connect some signal to SLOT("doWork()") of someWorker
- QThread workingThread;
- someWorker.moveToThread(workingThread);
- workingThread.start();
Then this means, whenever the doWork() slot is called, it will be executed in the context of it's own OS thread (the workingThread's thread).
I personally wouldn't mix those two. EITHER don't subclass QThread at all, don't touch its constructor etc. Do everything signal-slot based, and with .moveToThread().
OR, you do implement QThread and run(), but you don't call exec() and don't do .moveToThread with this specific class. Edit: or, if you have to, call exec() from this current QThread::run() context, but don't do moveToThread on other objects.
Just my 2 cents :-)
GUI thread. Even if you create a QThread object, its signals and slots basically "live" in the main thread (as in: the thread where you created the QThread).I think you can boil it all down to this: Where is your object created? If it's in "QThread::run()", then it got it's own concurrent OS-based thread. If not, then it's all in Qt's main
What you are saying is true ONLY if you do not call moveToThread.
If you don't call moveToThread on QThread then both the main thread and QThread will have the same address, if you do call moveToThread then QThread has the same address as objects created inside the run function. I just did the test I can confirm this.
if you want to test it out just put this in the run function:
- QUdpSocket * FcpSocket; // I declared this pointer in the class but the new is in run so it doesn't matter
and before this either call moveToThread or not and see the difference, with and without the call to moveToThread.
Also, I called moveToThread and I do not call exec inside run on purpose, that is how I needed it to be.
That is why you should call moveToThread when using functions that should not be called from the mainthread.
Gerolf, from my previous post you can see that in deed, if you do not call moveToThread, then you should never use this as parent to objects created in run, if you do then both the object parent and QThread will have same address.
Not the same adress, the same thread affinity :-)
If you do not use signal/slot inside a thread, you need no mopveToThread to access QObejsct inside other threads as their attached one. moveToThread is only needed for signal&slot; stuff and auto connections or to find the correct event loop for a queued slot or function.
By the way, moveToThread is not a method inside QThread, it's inside QObject sao it can be called in any QObject. But why do you need the QThread to be assigned to it's own hosted thread? A better sollution (from my POV) is to give the thread slots and signals. The users of the thread can connect to the slots, which itself emit a signal that is attached inmsidethe run method with objects that live inside run. Then each object has the correctr thread affinity and it works.
I am doing this to separate the QThread from the main thread because I am using:
These functions should not be used in a QThread that has the same thread affinity as the main thread. Notice the warning about these functions:
Warning: Calling this function from the main (GUI) thread might cause your user interface to freeze.
I have seen other things happen as well: it can create dereferencing errors, somehow qt gets confused and tries for example to delete memory that has a dereferencing count of 0 which causes an exception. By changing the thread affinity of my QThread, I take its memory out of the main thread which eliminated this problem.
So basically I have done this to protect data.
I am doing this to separate the QThread from the main thread because I am using:
As I understand it, in this case it would be better to use the signals "bytesWritten" and "readyRead". See http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Threads_Events_QObjects#2b40afeff6025af55f25a6c7ea5ab3bc
well it is not safe. And I know this from experience. I had spent a lot of time on this a while back when I was developing that part and I can assure you that it was causing problems. The code without moveToThread would crash once in a while (though it was a rare occurrence it was still unacceptable). The code with moveToThread never crashed. I refer you to the documentation once more:
This function can operate without an event loop. It is useful when writing non-GUI applications and when performing I/O operations in a non-GUI thread.
Now if it is not safe but is supposed to then there is a Qt bug that needs to be resolved. I reported it but nothing was ever done about it so I took the QThread out of there.
As I understand it, in this case it would be better to use the signals "bytesWritten" and "readyRead".
Not when a polling technique is used, which is my case. There is no reason why I should not be allowed to do this otherwise, might as well take those functions out of the Qt. If you look at the Blocking Fortune Client example from Qt you will see that this is how they implemented it.
Hi Ak@sh, see http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.1/qtcore/qthread.html
By the way, this thread is 2 years old. It's best to start a new thread next time.
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We've been looking for a shake of the trees. All we got were a few gusts of wind. One of the reasons last week was mostly bullish was China, which finally got off the schneid and put in 140 points the first 2 days last week. Since the jobs number a week ago Friday, the market has been higher even as the slope of the move has leveled off. But Friday was incredibly interesting.
Europe finally growled. Most of it came from Greece initially as negotiations broke down. The rest of it came from S&P which downgraded the whole lot. This is the same rating agency that gave all of the mortgage derivatives a pass six years ago. Never forget that charade. The financial media with their incessant 24/7 reporting is out to scare you. I suppose very good or bad news translates to ratings.
By Friday morning the markets were due. It was also day 720 off the March 09 bottom and we at least got SOME reaction. But the market went down for half the session and then bears did what they've done most of the 2nd half of 2011. They disappeared. There were a couple of points the second half of Friday where they could've extended something but had no backbone. If you are trading intraday it's not that big of a deal. But as usual there were plenty of people getting short on Friday morning there and committing big bucks to this Europe spectacle.
All I can tell you is for all the bluster and fear mongering, Friday ends up with a small bearish candle body but a lower tail which means they can't take control of the market.
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This chart gives you a great visual of what is really going on. First condition we can all agree is the bears had their way in Friday's first half. No doubt about it couldn't even get a good trend channel or pitchfork going due to the steepness of the move. But the game isn't won in the first half. The leg off the low went further than I ever dreamed. Now look at that brown line across the screen drawn off the high end of the early part of the drop. I never thought we actually get around to testing line 1 on Friday, not after the big move down. This is a 15 minute chart and to really appreciate the move you should look at a 5 minute, it was straight up. Then we had a pullback leg and it looked like we'd get a retest of the low. But only in hindsight did I realize there was a problem with the bears when the short covering went too high. Look at the afternoon leg up. It went straight to line 1. There were 2 small attempts by bears to take it down which failed miserably. At 5 minutes before the closing bell I thought it could drop because it was a 3 day holiday and didn't think traders would buy into the absolute close. I thought there'd be some nervous people pulling out. However it only went above line 1 AT THE CLOSING BELL. The action above to the extreme materialized AFTER THE CLOSE. All of this materialized after traders already knew they'd downgrade the continent after the close anyway.
What happened to the bears? Now do you see why I regularly put down the bearish case in this space? At the end of the day there really isn't major conviction from them. Yesterday was the kind of day where the Dow might have been down 300-400 only 2 months ago.
To add insult to injury for the bears there was a trading session from Sunday night to Monday morning. By lunchtime on Monday markets were even higher, almost retracing Friday's entire move. It's hard to tell who is taking these short positions but it isn't Aunt Mary and Uncle Bob. With the breadth and speed of how they covered on Friday someone had to lose a bunch of money. But at the end of the day when you look at the V shape of this move most of the short covering took place where bears accelerated the price action lower so some of them ended up breaking even.
Next page: Putting price action in perspective...
Now let's put Friday in perspective. Here's the banking index which looks as good as it has in a long time. We should be hitting some turbulence soon as price action is finally going to hit the ridge of resistance from the latter part of 2010. But this is the best rally banks have had since the 77 week lift-off in the Dow back in the autumn of 2010 when they announced QE2. It has a good chance of testing the 200 week moving average. But the takeaway from this chart is you can't even see Friday's attempt to take the market lower. So is everything rosy? Are we going straight back up? The SPX chart going back to the May high is a very good GPS system. First of all the dark blue line is the median line to the longer term secular bear market I've shown you from time to time. The light blue rising median line is an intermediate from the 2009 bottom. Here's where it gets interesting. The descending brown line is the trend line that has contained the move since the May peak last year. Then we have a couple of brown rising lines which take the form of an ending diagonal triangle right here. There is also a dotted brown line which intersects the longer term median line from 2009. Here are the scenarios. The market can elect to top close to where we are now with the rising wedge. A move like that if validated could take us down to the November low which was the start of the Santa Claus rally. That projection comes from long term observation of what happens after wedges peak. They usually go to the origin. The other scenario if we break through these lines we go a lot higher and meet the rising dotted line somewhere near the median line from 2009. More than likely that would be the retest of the 2011 peak I've mentioned here.
With all of the news coming out of Europe, they didn't celebrate MLK Day on Monday. They were open for business and their markets shrugged off all of the downgrades. Take that for what it's worth. Here's where we are at. The SPX is aiming to create a wedge or it isn't. In terms of sentiment, we are not quite there. The reason for that is bears would not be able to take the market down the way they did if conditions were euphoric. We are not euphoric, nowhere near it. The last time we had real euphoria in the market was the day they hot Osama Bin Laden. If bears can dominate even half a session we are not in a position to judge that the market has only one place to go which is up. There's plenty of doubt about it. Right now we are in the stage of 'wonderment' that the market can survive a day like Friday. In terms of the bigger picture that means there is more to go to this move.
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Jeff Greenblatt is the author of Breakthrough Strategies For Predicting Any Market, editor of the Fibonacci Forecaster, director of Lucas Wave International, LLC. and a private trader for the past eight years.
Lucas Wave International (https://www.lucaswaveinternational.com) provides forecasts of financial markets via the Fibonacci Forecaster and other reports. The company provides coaching/seminars to teach traders around the world about this cutting edge methodology.


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