Khelostocks.com – a Free Virtual Trading Gaming Portal

Khelostocks.com is a “free” web based “virtual trading portal”. Khelostocks provides a real time trading environment with all the trading ingredients of a cash market segment such as Intra-day trade, Delivery trade, Margin trading, Limit and Market type orders, Transfer of intraday trade position to delivery.

Are these terms are alien to you ?

Don’t worry, Khelostocks has hosted a number of Trading Tutorials that help investors to learn the basics of trading. Khelostocks gives explanation to niche market terms that helps evolving investor to understand the market lingo. It also facilitates clients to ask their queries and doubts.

How it works:

Every client, on signing up, is provided with “virtual” one million rupees. Market data is streamed on a real time basis into the Khelostocks systems from National Stock Exchange (NSE) for 400 companies listed.

Painted Platters @ Koramangala

[Image above: Painted Platters @ Koramangala]

I am sure everybody in Bangalore has been to the Corner House ice cream parlours and also had the very famous mouth-watering DBC (Death By Chocolate). But few know about this hidden dessert parlour called Painted Platters in Koramangala, Bangalore.

Here, each plate used to serve the desserts is spray painted with chocolate paint and comes decorated with witty messages like “You can never make a crab walk straight” (on our plates), “My reality check has bounced,” “If there’s a will, I want to be in it,” etc.. Hence the name, Painted Platters.

Printo – the one-stop printing store at Bangalore

[Image above: Printo's flagship store in Koramangala, Bangalore]

The nice-looking (good logo) store in Koramangala with an aptly named printo (simple and well communicating name) aroused my curiosity to check-out what the store was all about. On entering the store, I was quite impressed by the BPO kindoff ambiance (with youngsters) behind the counter on their respective terminals. Anyways, my excuse to be there was a simple color printout for a project report. I was totally surprised when the sales person brought up a form on the terminal and started filling up an online form where she needed to fill my name and contact details (whhyyy.. I just needed a simple single print). Then I was given a choice of paper size (reasonable question) and various paper types (which reminded me of selecting a Cappuccino, Macchiato, Chococinno or Espresso at a coffee day). When I asked for the price, I was told she would have to look it up (how tough is it to remember that ??). On enquiring, I was told that the price varied with the number of pages (ah !! that way). Then, she fired the print and it took about 10 mins for the printer to warm up before it printed out my precious page. The quality was very good actually, no complaints there. Then it was time for the billing and I thought, there would be no more surprises. But like true printing professionals, the lady pulled out an adobe software for the bill and kinda checked it for something (alignment/formatting maybe) and fired a print.