"Blog" Posts
How Heavy Is My Sabre?
By Lawrence
Answering one of the many odd questions I received, “How heavy is the sabre you mentioned in your post about your exercise practice?” What they are referring to is a piece I wrote last year, Back to Rigorous Exercise Regime and Planning for Next Year. Obviously these readers must be some kind of exercise or […]
False Sense of Security and Reality
By Lawrence
Talked to many people lately who said they are now interested in buying a safe to put in their homes. Some of them heard the news about Japanese people have bought so many safes that many places are out of stock. Some of them learned that in Europe the trouble caused by the refugees has […]
What’s Next for the Site,Money Management Requests and How am I Doing
By Lawrence
To answer a number of questions all along similar line of thoughts, here are my answers. My current spam to actual email ratio is about 15 to 1. My spam filter could only catch 50% of the spam mail. The actual number of emails that I need to response to personally is now about 50 […]
From Flying Fighter Jet to Trading as Life Long Career
By Lawrence
I have been exchanging email with Ron, an old friend from Netherland, lately and here is a short story of his path to establish his trading career. Ron was part of the Dutch Air Force. Since then his career had been revolving around airplanes until he tried his hands on silver and gold contracts. That […]
How Strong Is Strong Enough
By Lawrence
Last year when I was training my son on some classic exercise routines, the topic of how strong one has to become so that it is sufficient for normal and unusual situations was raised. I responded with an interesting set of answers. I am sure many people who exercise regularly would love to know about […]
Interesting Effects of Taking Blackstrap Molasses as a Dietary Supplement
By Lawrence
I started taking blackstrap molasses as a dietary supplement about five years ago. I did that not because of me reading some information from random sources on the net about the benefits of blackstrap molasses. I did it to show my support for my late girlfriend who started taking it back then as recommended by […]
Tough Trading In Coming Few Months
By Lawrence
US election is early November. Olympic occupies pretty much all August. Although they are completely independent events, yet their schedules are set to happen together every four years. This combination creates a very interesting trading environment that happens only once every four years. From August to October during US Election year, we usually experience exceptionally […]
My Disturbing Birthday Week
By Lawrence
Posted on Wednesday on what happened to my friend. Am still handling her matters until early next week when her brother comes back. The words “being affected” cannot fully describe how I feel. I guess “deeply disturbed” better explain the state of my mind. Many thoughts sparked in my head and I like to share […]
Looking at Trading Income from an Entrepreneur’s Point of View
By Lawrence
Most people who are not interested in trading (or day trading) think of it as some kind of gambling. Many who work in the financial industry worship traders as some of them legendarily making millions every year. Yet, some others who are more familiar with the trading world know that majority of traders, especially retail […]
Allergy Hell, Lapse of Judgement and Value of Time
By Lawrence
I have not had a food allergy episode for many years. These things are bounded to happen though and I have lived through one this week. It is a good reminder than I need to be much more careful when I dine out. More importantly, I have relearned my lessons about lapse of judgement and […]
