![]() ![]() Mohammed al-Hamidi, managing director at AM Financials, says that for average Lebanese people without a large capital base to invest from, online trading can be a tempting way to make money.Īiding the surge in online brokerage is the rapidly expanding access to Internet across the region. “Everyone can have access to the markets and trade all types of financial instruments for as low as $500,” says Walid Abousleiman, chairman of Aksys Capital, referring to the standard minimum deposit required to open an online account. What online brokers offer investors is easy access to the financial markets and the opportunity to trade a wide variety of securities from anywhere in the world, through a desktop, laptop or smartphone. Also offering online trading platforms are many of Lebanon’s other financial institutions, including the major banks. ![]() Banque du Liban (BDL), Lebanon’s central bank, has 13 registered financial brokers, of which nine have online services. The number of online brokerages in Lebanon has been steadily swelling in recent years, with four launched in 2011 alone. ![]() As with everything that seems too good to be true, however, the pitfalls are plentiful and inexperienced traders will quickly find themselves prey to the sharks of the market. Juste note thatthere are many references to things that appear only later, like early references to the Gallimaufry or the Winslow, showing that there was a plan and the author was not just making things on the go.The lure of an easy buck is tempting for many, and as online trading becomes ever more accessible in Lebanon there are many who are ready to put their savings on the table. It is in this third arc that most of the truly HFY moments are to be found, but I cannot reveal more without spoiling the many surprises. To give an idea, the Teleporter is classified as a class 8 power, while humanity is only class 12 (the *individual* teleporter is a class 8, not its species), but it is mentioned that our hero has managed a class 3 before, using help from *the* class 1Īfter that is the PSmiTH arc, but more important the series then turn to politics in a big space station with the Gallimaufry arc where humanity will face new challenge to survive in the galactic community and Buck will be in the middle of the events. In the X-Tel arc, Buck Godot has to deal with former employers who want to capture a unique alien called "The Teleporter". ![]() The story starts with a short story with a classic "damsel hire a bodyguard" theme, nothing really great at first, but after that and despite the parody style of the series, it has in fact great world building and story arcs.Īfter the initial short story, there are two medium arcs and after that the big major arc that makes 80% of the story. Note : despite the looks Buck Godot is not fat, he is muscled and big boned, coming from a high gravity world where humans evolved (or where modified) to better handle the local conditions. The graphic style is rather old and might seems ugly to some people, but Phil Foglio art has something that is in-temporal, and it serves the general story well. The story was posted in full on the author website, but was later lost after a website update, but thankfully webarchive has a complete copy available : After having referenced it recently in a post comments, I realized that the old scifi comics "Buck Godot" was in fact very HFY and that others might not know of it. ![]()
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