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Kogni was derived from the word 'Cognisance' meaning a 'scope of knowledge'

Kogni Event is a newly established event management outfit to provide Events Publicity, Full Event Management and Event Publications via our online portal.

Our organisation: is driven by a team of enthusiastic and skilled student professionals; who have proven to be very good at what they do. Each member of Kogni Events is specially trained and equipped to meet the specific needs of each task ahead.

In other to deliver premium quality events,

We at Kogni made sure our team comprises of a wide diversity of skills and expertise across different fields related to events management.

We make it our business to be knowledgeable and well reckoned with as we attend to every detail that contributes to the success of your events.

Our Mission at Kogni Events is to be host first class events and leaving a mark in those events making us well recognised within the four walls of Ife and even beyond.

Our Strengths at Kogni Events include a strong team of skilled & experienced student professionals tested and trusted in there respective fields with an efficiency in delivering desired result within time and budget.

Our target at Kogni Events is for presently limited to student/campus events as well as students organisations/associations both outside and within campus, corporate bodies, both private and public and even private individuals events. We hope to expand in due time.

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Foreign exchange trading was once just something that people had to do when traveling to other countries. They would exchange some of their home countries currency for another and endure the current currency exchange rate.

These days, when you hear someone refer to foreign exchange trading, they are usually referring to a type of investment trading that has now become common. Traders can now speculate on the fluctuating values of currencies between two countries. It's done for sport and profit.

Keep in mind that forex trading is a "trading" arena, generally not for investors. It's very fast and highly leveraged. Your first objective in the beginning will be to de-leverage and not trade at 100:1 leverage.

Investors use leverage to profit from the fluctuations in exchange rates between two different countries. The leverage that is achievable in the forex market is one of the highest that investors can obtain. Leverage is a loan that is provided to an investor by the broker that is handling his or her forex account

You can download NinjaTrader for free and get forex and futures data feed for free also another option is the GTB forex trading demo. They will let you try it out for several months before depositing any money, and you can trade the simulator and develop a trading plan and try it out, see how you do before investing your money. They also have the lowest margin rates to trade most futures.

Here are some of the most common currency pairs:

1.EUR/USD - Euro/U.S. Dollar

2.GBP/USD - Great British Pound/U.S. Dollar

3.USD/CHF –- U.S. Dollar/Swiss Franc

4.USD/JPY –- U.S. Dollar/Japanese Yen

5.USD/CAD –- U.S. Dollar/Canadian Dollar

6.AUD/USD - Australian Dollar/U.S. Dollar

7.EUR/GBP - Euro/Great British Pound

8.EUR/JPY - Euro/Japanese Yen

9.EUR/CHF - Euro/Swiss Franc

10.GBP/CHF - Great British Pound/Swiss Franc

11.GBP/JPY - Great British Pound/Japanese Yen

12.CHF/JPY - Swiss Franc/Japanese Yen

13.NZD/USD - New Zealand Dollar/US Dollar

14.EUR/CAD - Euro/Canadian Dollar

15.AUD/CAD - Australian Dollar/Canadian Dollar

16.AUD/JPY - Australian Dollar/Japanese Yen

17.EUR/AUD - Euro/Australian Dollar

NOTE: Of the above 17 currency pairs, six of them are deemed the “major currency pairs” in the FOREX market because they account for about 80 percent of FOREX transactions:

1.EUR/USD - Euro/U.S. Dollar

2.GBP/USD - Great British Pound/U.S. Dollar

3.USD/CHF –- U.S. Dollar/Swiss Franc

4.USD/JPY –- U.S. Dollar/Japanese Yen

5.USD/CAD –- U.S. Dollar/Canadian Dollar

6.AUD/USD - Australian Dollar/U.S. Dollar

As you can see, there is a currency on the left and one on the right. The one on the left is referred to as the base, and the one listed on the right is known as the cross. The format, once again, is as follows. BASE/CROSS, or EUR/USD. The EUR is the BASE and the USD is the CROSS.

TERMINOLOGY:

•PIPS- Price Interest Point. This is the smallest unit price for any Foreign Currency.

•LOT- A lot of currency is one denomination for a trade (100K or mini account). This is similar to purchasing one stock or one contract in the futures market.

•LONG to buy

•SHORT to sell

•BID-The price at which you sell

•ASK-The price at which you buy

Price Interest Point - (PIP)

Profits are made in the FOREX by gaining PIPS. A pip is the last digit from the decimal point. This value is 1/100th of a cent. You may now be asking yourself, how do I make money off of 1/100th of a cent? The answer is leverage. The FOREX market is highly leveraged and should be respected. That said, it can also provide for a tremendous return on your investment. The average leverage in the FOREX is 100 to 1. Basically this indicates that for every dollar you invest in a trade you are controlling $100 of value.

Calculated PIP

Calculated PIP – shows the Price Interest Point (PIP) value for the selected currency pair based upon your trading account margin. For example, a standard 1 percent margin trading account controlling $100,000 in currency would show the EUR/USD with a PIP value of 10.

PIP VALUE-Fixed or Floating

FIXED- When the USD is the cross currency (right side of the pair), the PIP value is fixed at $10 in a 100k account.

FOATING- When the USD is the base currency (left side of the pair), the PIP value is based upon the exchange rate of the cross currency (i.e., USD/CAD.). Also, the PIP value is floating when the pair consists of foreign currencies (i.e., EUR/ GBP).

LOT

A lot is the normal unit of trading in the FOREX market. Trades are made in lot increments, similar to share increments in the stock market.

Standard (or 100k) FOREX account- has a 100:1 leverage ratio

1 LOT= $1,000 investment= ratio leveraged 100 to 1, which = $100,000 in buying power.

Mini FOREX account- has a 200:1 leverage ratio

1 LOT= $50 investment= ratio leveraged 200 to 1, which = $10,000 in buying power.

TRADING HOURS (EST)

•Trades 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. The market is open from Sunday at 5pm EST to Friday at 4pm EST.

On my time (CST), Forex trading begins Sunday evening in Sydney (open 5:00pm – 1:00am), and moves around the globe as the business day begins in each financial center, first to Tokyo (7:00pm – 4:00am), [then Europe (12:00am – 9:00am)], then London (2:00am – 11:00am), and finally Canada and New York (7:00am – 4:00pm).

Although the ability to earn significant profits by using leverage is substantial, leverage can also work against investors. For example, if the currency underlying one of your trades moves in the opposite direction of what you believed would happen, leverage will greatly amplify the potential losses. To avoid such a catastrophe, forex traders usually implement a strict trading style that includes the use of stop and limit orders.

Practice on a forex trading demo first, and start small when you start using real money. Always allow yourself to be wrong and learn how to move on from it when it happens.

I hope you've it helped?

The first step on how to use our brain more effectively is by learning at least a little bit about this fantastic ‘thing’ we have within our heads. Unfortunately it doesn’t come with a manual – it would be so helpful!

Within our heads we keep this precious and incredible organ that represents just 2% of our total weight and is always switched on, never turns off, since we were born to until death no rest, even when we are sleeping.

Made of 100 billion very small cells called neurons. These neurons work in groups and the groups interact with each other forming a huge network of information. When you think about a lime, one group has the green information, another one has the round information, another has the texture information and another has the sour flavour bit and so on. You can even have groups of neurons that store other information about lime connecting it with a sad or happy memory that can make you have some other emotions attached to a lime.

The point is every one of us has our own memories, beliefs, skills, abilities stored in these groups of neurons. Therefore every time we encounter a situation in our lives these groups in connection with other groups are going to fire off and make us respond in a certain way. It can make us react in exactly the same way every time we have a specific stimulus.

However when we do something new a group of neurons will form new groups connections creating a new network of neurons. If we do it only once it will not create strong connections in these networks. If you repeat it again and again it will form stronger connections that will last. This is the process that the brain uses to learn and can serve us immensely but it can also make it difficulty to break unwanted connections i.e. bad habits. Luckily neuroscience tells us that we can also break the unwanted connections. If we are really willing to stop any mental or physical pattern we just have to continuously interrupt the pattern until we get the neurons network to stop working together in that particular way.

The learning process occurs is two ways through our intellect where we have to study long and hard to master a subject or through experience and the latest is the most powerful one. That is why we never forget how to ride a bike or drive.

The frontal lobe is an area of our brain located in the front. The frontal lobe is responsible for our focus and concentration. It allows us to make choices and decisions. It represents our free will.

When making choices we have two ways to do so, first is the biological response that allows us to save our lives in a danger situation the famous fight or flee reaction. The groups of neurons interact with other groups activating an entire network to have a response that will save our lives. However the same applies to habitual behaviours. Which not always are good ones.

The second way to make choices is by using the power of your frontal lobe, the power of focus and concentration and separate ourselves from the environment and observe. Observe as if we are outside the scene of our experience, as if we are a second person. If we, using the power of observation, can unplug unwanted neuron connections and plug new connections than we have the power of building an entire new network. A new ‘me’ and a new ‘you’. Observing we can realise – I have these neuron connections that fires and cause me to blame someone or something else for the unwanted results I have in my life.

Being observers of ourselves we are using our consciousness to make our brain examine all our choices and possibilities. We can make our brain work for us and not against us. Plug and unplug we have the power!

ACTIVITY!!! Trust me you will enjoy it.

Try watching "Brain Games"

National Geographic

Brain Games is a reality television series that discusses and explores the components of the human brain. Hosted by Jason Silva, the show uses experts in cognitive science, neuroscience and psychology. http://braingames.nationalgeographic.com/#

Do you think you are using your brain to its fullest capacity?

http://www.changeyourlifetips.com/how-to-use-our-brain-effectively/

Believe me when I tell you, people once had a life without owning degrees, there many rich business moguls out there today that do not possess a BSc degree or what have you; yet they are making big sense.

With the advent of Massive Open Online Courses and other online programs offering informal credentials, the race is on for alternative forms of certification that would be widely accepted by employers. The rave is gradually spreading across Nigeria.

“Who needs a university anymore?” asked David Wiley, a Brigham Young University professor who is an expert on the new courses, known as MOOCs. “Employers look at degrees because it’s a quick way to evaluate all 300 people who apply for a job. But as soon as there’s some other mechanism that can play that role as well as a degree, the jig is up on the monopoly of degrees.”

By the end of this year, Mr. Wiley predicted, it will become familiar to hear of people who earned alternative credentials online and got high-paying jobs at Google or other high-visibility companies. Mozilla, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and others are working to devise a system of online educational “badges” certifying exactly which skills had been learned. Some companies, like Microsoft, yuh already offer their own certificates for trained computer technicians.

Although there are still a lot of challenges to tackle most especially cheating and operating multiple accounts a lot is still needed to be done.

The biggest challenge so far is confirming the validity of the credential.

Prof Eric Thomas, vice-chancellor of Bristol University and president of Universities UK, is confident that the university experience cannot be easily replaced. "We have never said university is for everyone," he says. "However, I continue to be amazed by the number of graduates who tell me that the educational opportunities, the intellectual challenge and the interactions with their peers at university were hugely important in shaping their future. They can't all be making it up

"I want to live in a world where people are free to make their own choices," he says. "I think not going to university should be an option that you are not judged for. There is nothing wrong with these institutions of learning existing. What is wrong is that people go to them and pay lots of money without realising there are other ways to learn." Dale Stephens. Stephens was given $100,000 (£67,000) two years ago to skip university in America and focus on doing something in the real world instead. Soon the 21-year-old will be opening what he calls an "Uncollege" campus in London, aiming to help other bright young people to shake off the expectations of teachers, parents and politicians and do the same thing. He is confident he is tapping into a growing army of "too-cool-for-uni types" worldwide who want to follow a different path and need some help and encouragement doing it.

Nigerian are fast realising that they do not necessarily have to depend solely on BSc degrees anymore nor neither have to suffer form the never ending annual academic fiesta "ASUU STRIKE ". Should in case you have got no idea of what am taking about, checkup www.iuniversity.org, www.coursera.com.

Now tell me: "would you rather opt for something other than a BSc degree???"

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