June 8, 2013

• Trading Upda–**** We Interrupt This Post for A Breaking News Announcement ****

  

   

  Ever since Xanga announced that they may be shutting down July 15th, that has taken center stage in my blogging focus and attention. They so “kindly” let everyone know that if they don’t make their pledge drive goals in six weeks, the site will be closing. Furthermore, if they manage to make the pledge amount, they will relaunch with a new “pay only” business model.

  Current information states that anyone not buying a “new version membership” in the form of a minimum $48 pledge and/or not currently having premium level status will lose all their past blogs and will have to manually re-upload them if they wish to continue (once they’ve paid the $48/yr new dues of course).

  In any case, since I don’t feel compelled to pay to blog when there are so many free options, especially when the request comes in the form of a “threat” (pay us or else we will close and take your blogs with us!!), I don’t see myself continuing on this site.

  Frankly, I don’t see how they would expect a “pay us now for a new version you haven’t seen or tried yet” plan to go over well, but enough of that here, that will be the topic of another blog.

  Current tasks now include looking for a new blogging site. I haven’t made up my mind yet, but WordPress is one of the front runners- will update once I decide.

   

  In the remaining time before the “do or die” date of July 15, I’ve decided to make some big changes of my own. The most prevalent questions I’ve gotten since starting this blog was:

   

  1) “Why don’t you blog about other things besides business/trading??”

  2) “How come your blogs are not more personal?”

   

  I’ve blogged about other more personal topics occasionally, but the focus has always been on trying to master trading/investing. It was my primary reason to start a blog. The last couple of years has seen my focus ramped up even more so even a greater percentage of my blogs have been on trading.

  The reason for the focus was/is I desire to be able to trade for a living because like most of us, corporate office life doesn’t thrill me. I thought having a blog to write about my success/failures would help with my progress.

  Going forward, with the Xanga clock ticking down, I’ve decided to change things up and open my blogging to PRIMARILY OTHER SUBJECTS. That’s right, my blogs may not be as dry/boring as usual, haha.

  There have been blogs I’ve always been meaning to write if I had the time, and with time running short, this is the perfect opportunity to do it.

  There are still one or two trading tropics I want to address, plus a few rage/rants against Wall Street arrogance/corruption - but expect to see less of that and more of other things you wouldn’t expect from “Mr. Business”.

   

   

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