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The purpose of this blog is to provide a real-life look into the world of trading as well as to provide a rich source of ideas for making the most of the money you've got in a world gone mad financially.

Craig has been a small business owner for thirty years and is a former college instructor. He now seeks to thrive in the current economic crisis as an individual investor specializing in trading e-mini futures.

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Couponing – Cut the Price of Your Christmas Dinner in Half

If you’re having a tough time figuring out how you’re going to afford that big Christmas dinner for family and friends, couponing may be the answer.

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Nice Week for Gold Ends Flat

While the last two days were uninspiring, gold did start the week by bouncing off the support we hoped for and turned in a nice performance through Wednesday.

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Financial Tip – Find Ways to Earn Extra Money

One of the essential financial tips during a recession is to find ways that you can earn extra money.

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Gold Solidly Takes Out $1,725, Closes Just North of $1,750

In a move that had to give gold longs some relief, gold decisively broke through resistance and the 50% Fibonacci level

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Gold Gains a Bit on a Spinning Top, or More Indecision

Gold has yet to muster the strength to break out of this trade range.

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Gold and Silver Make Nice Moves Today

Once again, gold bounced where we longs had hoped it would and moved up from there.

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Gold Remains Technically Weak, Holds at 38.2% Fibonacci

Not a whole lot to be said on this trading day after Thanksgiving. Nor any real surprises.

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Gold Consolidation Continues

We’re going to need to see gold decisively break above $1,720 to have some confidence that the bull run will resume.

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Gold Bounced Where We Hoped, but Now What?

Looking back at yesterday’s post, gold did bounce today where we had hoped, and at this late hour is trading a few bucks north of $1,700. A nice relief.

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Another Nasty Day for Gold

We’re still looking for a bottom in this period of weakness in gold. We did hold at bout $1,680 which is near another Fibonacci level. If this fails to hold, the next support on the way down should come in around $1,640 to $1,650. At some point we’ll pick up some buying as gold as [...]

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The Week in Gold Ends with a Spinning Top

After Thursday’s drubbing, the gold futures market decisively registered a signal of indecision – a spinning top with volume that wasn’t all bad.

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Garage Sales – Important Preparation Tips

Any successful garage sale is going to require a certain amount of preparing and organization by you.

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Gold Got Whacked – Along with Silver & Other Precious Metals

There’s just not a lot good someone long gold futures can say about that big, ugly candlestick the market gave us today.

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Repeat After Me: There Has Been No Economic Recovery

You need real, unbiased economic reporting. For that I refer you to John Williams of ShadowStats.

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