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The Eastland Camp Moc. The sole is extremely durable. The sole also seems to be very well attached to the leather. The one draw back is lack of arch support. I wore my pair daily to work for at least five years. I then wore them for two or three years after irregularly. Think carefully about shoe po...

In my experience, the points raised by Solvent ring true. One, countries tax in very different ways. You could benefit if you were thoughtful. For example, in the country of my residence taxes employment income. For those not employed, it notes your bank and credit card balances, if they pass a cert...

@Bryan - good advice. Thank you especially for the coin market cap markets link. It was a good reminder of rule number one in any currency exchange - get the most currency possible in the other currency after fees. In other words, while minimizing fees is important, the actual amount of coins purcha...

Goal: Purchase about $500 each of the top 30 (by market cap) cryptocurrencies. I then hold the currencies in cold storage off the exchange. In my initial experiments with moving the equivalent of $1500 out of coinbase, I have already spent $44 on fees. The fees seem to fall into three categories: wi...

The video reminded me of the old wall street adage from John Templeton: "Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.” Up until now, we had largely avoided euphoria in this bull market. However, I know that I personally am starting to feel some...

Paul Novell at Investing for a Living posted the following link to 1997 video from Frontlines on the then current views of that bull market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ2Y3lrGKRg&feature=youtu.be The video is titled "Betting on the Market". Any time they mention the word, 'mutual...

I am an expat in Latin America. If you are going to be one, consider Ecuador. It has the most friendly visa program. If you are already FI, go to any Lat Am country and just stay there for for as long as your tourist visa allows to see if you generally like it or not, then weigh pros and cons. It's ...

So I ask the forum do you spend as much time and effort to reach/maintain fi as you spend time and effort to become/stay fit and healthy? While I was healthy and worked to maintain my health pre-FI, post FI I have the time to focus on health. I could not work and lift the very heavy weight I am now...

What has worked for me. One, Starting Strength (a big shout out to Spartan Warrior who mentioned it on the forum and got me pointed in the right direction). One thing is just working out another is Starting Strength. I was just 'working out' for year before and frankly nothing happened to my body. T...

I too am a big fan of the Buddha's wisdom on money. If you have not read them, in two of the earliest jatakas, tales of the Buddha's previous lives, the Buddha narrates at least two stories of his early lives a merchant where he makes a ton of money and then, as some translations put it, puts aside ...

@ Dragline thanks for the video. I always appreciated another take on FU money. As to the barbell strategy, I look forward to the day when there is some income from the low risk side and when I have the wisdom to figure out the long volality side. @JennyPenny ahh so true. The rules in the trader uni...

https://medium.com/@chicagosean/the-career-risk-traders-are-unaware-of-c012eaa38ccb As I try to make the move from asset allocation investor who sometimes goes back to work for a month or two a year to automated algorithmic trader who wants to spend the rest of his life on his passion (the markets),...

Thank you both for the replies. I think the idea of backtesting and using the same platform was the attraction. Then I skip the possible bugs from going back testing to implementation. The free data is was also mesmerizing. No free lunch I guess. That said, the old guys usually just had their system...

Anyone have experience with tradestation and coding in easylanguage? I trying to get a feel for how prevalent the language is among algorithmic traders. Subjective feedback on coding in the language would also be interesting. I am principally interested in developing some backtesting skills and trad...

@Halfmoon, brilliant then jump right in. There are many models out there and the more you have the more you can try on to different situations to see which fits.

First of all thank you all for the replies. I can see that my first error was anchoring to a number that may not be as accurate indicator of reality, the yahoo last price number. The BATS top of the book and last ten trades is a more comprehensive view of reality from moment to moment. The second er...

I have been using Fidelity as brokerage. I have had an alarming amount of slippage on my buy orders both market orders and limit orders. The amount seems to hover around .015 (amount of slippage / price quoted at time of order on yahoo and Fidelity itself). Now, I know the easy answer is 'use limit ...

Excellent reminder about the need to guard what enters the mind because I am not as good as I think I am at discerning objective reality.

It seems to me that Kahneman's System 1 and System 2 are currently the model in vogue for thinking about the issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow System 01 is the automatic reaction. System 02 is the considered response. In my opinion, we, as humans, thought we used System 02...

@Tyler - Perfectly stated.