HOME Eclectic	My blog I have a Facebook account, but with no friends and I accept none. The last time I had a Facebook friend, the guy turned out to be a deranged troll AWOL from his asylum and looking for someone to feed him. Since I did not see myself in this role, I eventually kicked him out. No more Facebook crowd. I don't get it and I even don't like it. I keep my account there, though, and post to it from time to time, even if infrequently.  I also have a Twitter account to which I post a few times a week, mainly about the KING results as I report them here,  and related stuff, predominantly of business nature. As of late April 2011, I have 106 followers, some of whom follow hundreds more, but I follow nobody. I don't have time for that nor do I think it makes much sense. When I launched this website in December 2005, I also created a Yahoo group that was meant as a repository of some free trading materials that I had collected over the years. The group was meant just for that, and not for a discussion. I would not have much time for that. Heck, I even have a YouTube channel. Check it out here. And now I also have a blog. Actually, I have had this blog for a while. I had started it a few months before launching this site. I think I can safely claim to be a blogging veteran as I started blogging in early 2001, at the time when the word "blog" was still largely unknown. It was on LiveJournal.com, but did not last very long. I suppose it's because it was too early for that: the Web had yet to fully embrace the concept of blogging.  What's the blog about?  As you can see, it's about trading e-mini futures, and that, in particular, may include what's happening on this site and plans for my world domination, but it may also turn out to be an outlet for some broader ruminations and not only about trading, just like this site, originally meant to be dedicated to trading eminis, ended up becoming more than that with sections like "Eclectic" or "Meet HOBO." It's likely that some of the blog posts will find their way to this site, perhaps slightly changed or not at all.  It's easier to post to a blog than to write an article for a regular site, and that, I suspect, is the main reason why blogs are so popular. Another reason is that things can be better organized on the blog, using tags and dates. This is largely impossible, or at least cannot be automatically done for you, with simple, static websites like this one, and hence after a while and dozens (if not hundreds as is the case with this site) of pages, things can get pretty dense. I don't think I will be posting to it more often than twice or thrice a month on average, which is not that often at all. What this also means is that the comments may not be allowed as I don't want to give anyone the impression that I will reply to them in a timely manner. If you want to reach me, you can always do it via email, which I check frequently and can reply to in a timely manner. Unlike most people running similar websites, I trade for a living, and whatever time I have left I first use it to help my clients and to enjoy my life, and so not much of it is left for communication over many channels.  The blog is somewhat experimental, so I don't know how long I will keep it running. Ultimately, I want to have a forum for a two-way communication, so when the forum is up and running I really doubt I will have time for updating the blog. But until then, why not give it a try. Once again, the blog is here.
	Disclaimer: HYPOTHETICAL OR SIMULATED PERFORMANCE RESULTS HAVE CERTAIN INHERENT LIMITATIONS UNLIKE AN ACTUAL PERFORMANCE RECORD. SIMULATED RESULTS DO NOT REPRESENT ACTUAL TRADING. ALSO, SINCE THE TRADES HAVE NOT BEEN EXECUTED, THE RESULTS MAY HAVE UNDER OR OVER COMPENSATED FOR THE IMPACT, IF ANY, OF CERTAIN MARKET FACTORS, SUCH AS LACK OF LIQUIDITY. SIMULATED TRADING PROGRAMS IN GENERAL ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE DESIGNED WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR TO THOSE SHOWN.