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Shares / Re: ?MAYBE? the future of investing? What do you think?
« on: June 24, 2017, 11:49:25 am »
 :D

posted this on the 12th on your writer of books thread

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Fawkes, take a look at steemit.com. Might be a good (and more profitable) outlet for your writing and to promote what you doing on youtube or whatever. I have been there for a week and find it a lot of fun. If you do, my user name is life-of-al, link up.

that said, seemed to have blanked out your post from the 20th may - think I had traded steem but not looked into it fully.

What's your user name? There is a steemit meet up in CT on the 8th if you interested - was thinking about going.



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Off topic / Live chat
« on: June 21, 2017, 10:31:22 am »
champix you two...

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Off topic / Live chat
« on: June 15, 2017, 12:23:06 pm »
Starting to become an unhappy Taste holder...

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The Investor Challenge / Re: EXPOSED: #InvestorChallengeLeaks What Patrick spends in an average month
« on: June 14, 2017, 07:24:20 am »
Weirdly, I am still chugging along spending around R5k p/m. Of course, don't have kids and house is paid off - the only thing lacking is a medical aid. Wife is still working - we halve the bills and food - my half is R1500 each - so have R2000 to play with a month which I don't come close to spending. Probably helps that we still planning to travel full time - so more trying to get rid of stuff than accumulate things.

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Off topic / Re: My Story as a Seller of Books
« on: June 12, 2017, 08:28:48 am »
Fawkes, take a look at steemit.com. Might be a good (and more profitable) outlet for your writing and to promote what you doing on youtube or whatever. I have been there for a week and find it a lot of fun. If you do, my user name is life-of-al, link up.

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Shares / Re: My retirement blog.
« on: June 06, 2017, 06:55:42 pm »
Thoughts are with you Orca.

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Off topic / Live chat
« on: May 25, 2017, 06:58:04 am »
Thoughts are with you Orca

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Off topic / Live chat
« on: May 21, 2017, 05:56:04 pm »
leave again!!! and I thought I had lot's of time off!

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Shares / Re: ?MAYBE? the future of investing? What do you think?
« on: May 21, 2017, 03:25:02 pm »
fawkes - have bought and traded steem. But like what they doing and some will probably make it into my long term crypto portfolio - which from now on, shall be called LTCP :)

Just to distinguish it from my CTP. Getting my head around the swings - who needs a margin account!

But have managed to make some sort of plan for the LTCP - as you would any portfolio - trying to pick the best out sectors as well as balance between big, mid and small caps. Still need lot's of research.

Also sizing has been a problem - my biggest holding is down round 20% - stupidly enough was around 30% of invested cash, but one of my smallest (way smaller than the biggest unfortunately, is up 500%) - but overall, after  a week - am up slightly.

Will not be selling any shares - nether will I use excess dividend cash (mainly earmarked for my TFSA) - but still seem to get trickles of cash from arbitrary things - after 6 months or so should be worth something.


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Shares / Re: ?MAYBE? the future of investing? What do you think?
« on: May 15, 2017, 07:37:07 am »
Fawke - weirdly we on the same path again. Spent all last week looking into crypto - found it very interesting and have decided to trickle in some cash. My findings/feelings:

GPU/CPU mining - not really for me, could not really get an acceptable ROI - personally, I cannot include the 2nd hand value of the card. Of course, is sounds so appealing as it sounds like you've started a little business. But really you are in direct competition with absolutely zero advantage against some seriously clever guys with bucks to burn. Not sure even already having a card is worth it vs elec costs - you really want to be running 3-6 cards.

H/Drive: Looks fun and a way to mine with no added resources and no real costs, Not worth buying extra hardware or leaving the computer on for any long longer than you would normally. Did wipe out an unused Lynx partitian yesterday so have 400gb to plot with and a 500gb external. Will just do it for fun and to atually mine something.

Might be worth looking at nicehash.com Basically you renting out others hash power - if I was to mine would consider/give this a go.

For me, I am going to give trading altcoin a go. Will use my trading methods that I have been using - opening a Luno account now - then will give the first exchange on my list BITTREX a go. Serious volatility - should be fun.

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Shares / Re: I Need Broker Suggestions. I'm Looking to Buy shares that Pay Monthly Dividends.
« on: April 25, 2017, 05:13:46 pm »
Did do a bit of looking a while back it seemed you had to have an overseas bank account - please let us know if find out differently.

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Shares / Re: I Need Broker Suggestions. I'm Looking to Buy shares that Pay Monthly Dividends.
« on: April 25, 2017, 03:15:30 pm »
9.5% p/month - wouldn't that be great. in dollars nogal. There are ponzi schemes that offer less!

I doubt it - must be per year, even then, that's a pretty good div/yield for the states. in sa there are a couple of REITs paying around 11% per year.

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Shares / US shares - for those with EE accounts
« on: April 24, 2017, 09:51:03 am »
From todays sens:

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Over the next six months we will be adding US shares to the platform and retirement
wrappers, amongst other exciting enhancements that will no doubt continue to
attract new clients and assets to the platform and bring us closer to our vision of
democratising investing for all South Africans.

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Off topic / Re: My Story as a Seller of Books
« on: April 12, 2017, 07:35:42 am »
Never spend money!

Shotcut and Resolve are both free - and for titles and photos - Inkscape and Gimp.

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Off topic / Re: My Story as a Seller of Books
« on: April 11, 2017, 09:45:14 pm »
Very interesting, we really seem to have a very similar way of thinking. That said, I am still a happy holder of both Tex and RPL - and have added more. I have also looked at starting a youtube channel - more a travel vlog. For a few reasons, bad memory, meeting other travellers, freebee's and then a bit of extra cash are the main reasons. But, as you say, it's a fun hobby.

Must say, I have never seen youtube video's quite like yours - intriguing - have subscribed.

What are you editing on? Have been playing with shotcut myself, did try resolve but my puny 4gb of ram made it pretty unstable. Really need to get another 4gb in it.


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