About: Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets
March 22nd, 2007UPDATE: The Post Is Now Public
Of the three people who have written in to ask for access to the post so far, two of them asked if their Amazon purchases counted.
Well, they obviously should! Since I have no way of telling who bought what (except for a couple of examples where you guys have told me), I have to open the post up to everyone.
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The post below is a look at three interesting and risky trading strategies that I’ve kept to myself over the past several years. I made decent money using one of them, another one came to me after looking at a real time FOREX simulator for about 200 hours, and almost getting decapitated by a big Wall Street firm gave me the idea for the last one.
I’m not saying that this information IS valuable, but it might be to some people, or not. I wanted to give Cryptogon contributors a crack at using this information before I release it to the general public (if I ever decide to). While more people are contributing to Cryptogon lately, there are a shocking number of freeloaders out there. I generally don’t care, with most of the stuff I post, except as it affects my ability to meet basic financial requirements for survival. But I’m not going to give away strategies that MIGHT be valuable to the wealthy freeloaders, knowledge about trading that I learned over years, and at incredible cost in terms of time.
This information is technical and describes strategies that are very risky. This information is not intended for “investors.” I was desperate when I devised these strategies, and even though the stock play I used worked several times, I couldn’t tolerate the risk. All of this stuff, though, would be interesting in terms of automated strategy design and backtesting, if you have the head for that kind of thing, the right tools and the time.
If you’re interested in reading the post, send me an email with the subject “TRADING STRATEGIES” along with your name and the date of your last PayPal contribution. If you have signed up for hosting with BlueHost via Cryptogon, send me an email from the domain you registered when you signed up.
maybe if i hadn’t spent the last 3.5 years of college smoking away my measly earnings.
getting out of the ‘man’s’ pocket comes first.
I need to change the story to read “wealthy freeloaders” which is really the crowd I’m keeping this from.
Believe me, if you’re broke, this won’t help you. I don’t trade any of this stuff anymore. I’m in no position to tolerate the risks.
Re: Being broke. I noticed that the more money I gave away, the more I’d make, or, more accurately, the less I’d need. Needing less is a much more desirable state for me than making more. Even when I was really REALLY broke, I’d give some away. I still give it away to people who are doing good things, even though doing so can’t really be justified from an “economic security” perspective.
I’m not saying that you should give it to me! But try giving money to someone, or an organization you appreciate. You might be surprised.
I know that this seems counterintuitive, but things that work sometimes are.
Fair enough, I’ll see what I can do.
After the Cramer/thestreets.com video I don’t think I’d buy into the market anyway, definitely the last straw. Did you notice the video is starting to catch some MSM attention (via googlenews) & 100,000+ hits on youtube? (not that it matters much at this point, but interesting nonetheless)
What book do you recommend as a first read on permaculture? Is ‘Introduction to Permaculture’ still the best? That I WILL buy through your site/’s ad.
Bookman,
I’ve actually only read these two Bill Mollison books on Permaculture:
Introduction to Permaculture
PERMACULTURE: A Designers’ Manual
The Introduction to Permaculture is very good. The Designers’ Manual is a phonebook sized tome with meditations on, well, pretty much you name it.
It might be worth it to check these out at a library before taking the plunge. They’re expensive books.
The Designers’ Manual really feels like a wizard’s manual. It explains a lot of the underlying processes that are happening. The intro is good to get you up to speed on basic concepts, but to understand how to build integrated systems, the Designers’ Manual is the one. It has FAR more detail.
Very much appreciate this and other info.
Thank you!
@bookman:
Mollison’s “Introduction” is all-round a better book than the Designer Manual.
After the “Introduction”, I would /strongly/ recommend David Holmgren’s “Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability”.