A More In-Depth Look At Intentional Communities

Kibbutz - A Jewish (faith-based) form of communal living

Kolkhoz - A Soviet/Russian form of collective farming

And of course, the usual Quakers, Mennonites, Amish, etc.

There are also many modern communities such as:

Twin Oaks Community

Acorn Community

Kommune Niederkaufungen

For quite an enormous listing, check here:

Intentional Communities Directory

The Blogs They Are A-Changing

Hey everyone,

I regret to announce that I will be shifting my focus from forex back to the stock market.

After 3 or 4 consistent losing weeks, and losing even while trying something new and playing it safe, I think it’s fairly clear that whatever I was doing before to achieve phenomenal results has stopped working, and I will be moving back to trading the US and Canadian stock markets instead. This also means I will be taking all my money out of forex and putting it back into stocks.

I may still trade forex in a demo account, but no longer live. I will also no longer post my forex predictions or results, unless there is a huge demand asking for them (and the number of people who actually read my blog has dropped dramatically anyway.) All previous posts will remain up, but there won’t be any more in the future. One exception is that I removed the “how-to” basic outline of my system over a month ago that will stay off the site.

This blog may or may not be used for stock predictions or tracking my own trades in the future, once again dependant on what kind of response I get from people. If nobody is interested I will probably just turn this into a general “Miscellanious” blog of my entire life rather than just financial stuff.

I will be trading primarily ETFs and some individual stocks… I may eventually get into options.

Trades Sept 11, 2008!

First time in a while I’ve had time to make some trades…

I just shorted both USDJPY @ 107.15 & EURCHF @ 1.5932. Take a look at the new Dinapoli template and see what you think… I’m money ahead straight out of the gates as I’m typing this already.

Major trend shifts?

*Please read my previous post about my switch to the Dinapoli template if you haven’t already.*

Well I took a look at the charts tonight, but things are looking kind of funky… big gaps (0.01+) no matter what pair you are looking at. I’m just going to hold off for tonight. Although I think EURUSD looks like a great sell right now, I’m going to wait and see if it rises any more by tomorrow.

A Paradigm Shift

Okay so things are starting to settle down now, I’m all moved in and I should start to post and trade on a fairly regular basis again… I’m going to try to get my predictions and results out at least once per week like I’ve always done.

What have been doing this week in terms of trading? Well for one thing I haven’t looked at or used my Lucre 3.0 template - AT ALL - I don’t think I’ve even opened it. I’ve been using a template that comes with MT4 called Dinapoli. It is certainly similar to my Lucre template, but I find it better illustrates trends and especially the right moments to buy and sell. It uses a 25 day SMA, and MACD and Stochastic with different settings than my template (and no RSI.)

How I trade with this template is a bit different than my Lucre 3.0. Rather than just buying/selling all at once at the beginning of a week, I buy and sell continually throughout the week. Typical trades last 1-2 days at most.

Take a look at the template, experiment around with it a little bit and let me know what you think. I can make a video if anybody wants some clarification on how to use it.

I’m gonna be busy tomorrow, but hopefully I can start the week off right with some predictions as the market opens at 6 pm EST.

Basically The Lucre Producer has been a great system up until now, always producing consistent profits… but now after 3-4 straight weeks of losses I think it is time to look into other alternatives, or at least determine why the system has begun to lack all of a sudden and modify it accordingly.

Week 5 Results

First of all, sorry for the delay… I just finished moving into my residence at university today…. new school, new city, first time away from home so I haven’t really had a lot of time for forex in the past couple of days :P.

No predictions today… I might have more time… Tuesday?

Anyway here are my delayed results from last week. Yes another negative week… hopefully the last. I’ve talked with another trader who thinks that I am trading against the long-term trend… I didn’t think I was, but upon closer inspection with a different chart template, I think I might be. It looks like I traded against the long-term trend in all cases this week. So basically I  was correct but it didn’t go quite as high as I expected and turned against me before I had a chance to take a profit.

Anyway…

CHFJPY - Sold early at 99.62 - $28.26 profit
GBPCHF - Sold at 2.0030 - -$242.30
EURAUD - 1.7134 - -$78.23
EURGBP - 0.8071 - -$160.51

So from now on I’ll have one more criteria and be a bit more selective. My trading style might change a little bit with trades only lasting 1 day or so…

Predictions August 25 - 29, 2008

After a several-week hiatus, my predictions are back…. in VIDEO FORM! It was the easiest way that I could show all of my charts. The red “prediction line” isn’t showing up that great but you can see it… I don’t want to edit it for a third time.

Give some feedback as to what you think… if you like to see the charts like this, or if you just want the plain old list.

Predictions Delayed

I won’t be starting off this week with predictions as expected, I have been ridiculously busy getting ready for university today and I will be doing the same all of tomorrow as well, no time for forex at the moment. Hoping to be back into the market by Wednesday, if not I will be staying out until the weekend.

Week 4 Results

-$1552.24 (-28.9%)
Epic fail.

There will be no predictions for this week… after 2 weeks of losses I think it’s time to take a break. It’s also making me not really be that interested in forex. If I make predictions right now it’s going to be half-assed attempt which will probably lead to more losses, so I’d rather just do nothing.

This is my last week at work before I’m done for the summer, then I will have almost 2 weeks off before I have to go to university for some really hardcore forex predictions, but for this week I’m just taking a holiday.

Week 4 - Update 1

Just liquidated my trades on:
EURUSD @1.5624 for a $93 profit
USDCHF @1.0445 for a $75 profit.
Currently open positions are down about twice that much.