Inexpensive survival basics While I wouldn't call myself a prepper and I'm not an expert in survival, I have noticed a marked decline in society in the west which has made me more aware of my surroundings

Gold backed crypto? How about crypto-backed gold? Yesterday I responded to a post from @X22report which was a good interview but with some confused terminology. For example the interviewee talked about

In this report I cover the early market activity from London on Friday, April 6th, 2018. I note how the Dow and S & P futures dropped sharply overnight after President Trump announced he is looking

Fasting and Muscle Building – My experiences In the past I've read about how fasting can destroy muscle gains unless you are careful to take amino acids while you fast. Well, I've been doing fasting and

Silver / Gold ratio at 83/1 – Extreme levels Silver is being smashed at the time of writing with gold showing some resilience. However, this has pushed the Silver / Gold ratio to 83/1. This is extreme

In this report I cover the early market action from London on Monday, April 2nd, 2018. I look at the precious metals, the stock market, bonds and the dollar. I also look into a very interesting story about

US to introduce new dollar gold standard? Bill HR5404 HR5404 bill introduced to congress HR 5404 A bill to define the dollar as a fixed weight of gold was introduced to the Committee on Financial Services

Build strength with progressive overload I took a few months off weight training over Christmas, partly down to a virus, partly because I had some other priorities to attend to but now I'm back. I've been

In this report I talk about financial markets and how they function and my experiences in the markets. I start from the beginning and how I worked in the back office settling trades and how the mechanism

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I've spent some time today analysing dates, events and moon phases in the calendar to see if there is any correlation that is worthy of predictive analysis. Have a look at the major turn dates below and

Gold – the perfect bullish flag formation completing Gold: As I draw more imaginary lines onto charts I am struck by the almost perfect linearity of the flag formation forming in gold at the moment. Look

In this report I cover the early market activity from London on Tuesday, March 27th, 2018. I look closely at the stock market and gold and the technical picture for both and I also do a rundown of where

Gold about to enter strong resistance zone (again!) Here we go again, gold is entering strong resistance at around 1360. The last few times it has failed to decisively break through and take the metal

Black Monday tomorrow? Something tells me that Friday's market action is going to accelerate when the markets open on Monday morning. Friday's downward move didn't quite break the trend line formed since

Abusing your data I've been reading with interest many of the positive #deletefacebook and #joinsteemit messages recently in light of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal where peoples personal

In this report I do a brief review of the markets for the week ending on Friday, March 23rd, 2018. I look at the precarious technical picture for the Dow Jones Industrial average and note how precious

Gold / Silver ratio getting out of whack As gold rises on news of tariffs it has become apparent that silver is not so enthusiastic, perhaps the fear of reduced solar panel imports is holding silver back,

Dow Carnage – It begins! ...and so the dead cat bounced and then continued it's fall. Looking at the the Dow Jones this evening it looks like the big fall that I was expecting has begun. As we entered

Silver - A beautiful fake out! I didn't post on the precious metals earlier in the week as I was watching carefully to see whether the break down would be confirmed. I was more or less convinced that it