Trading PPC

Well I'm back to trading crypto-currencies. This time I decided on something called PPC. It stands for Peer to Peer coin.
I got out of Lite coin because I felt that it would move more as a percentage than the the Lite Coin. I was probably wrong. It bounces around a lot but I feel that the Lite Coin would have been better.
This morning I was watching the currencies and there was a big move up. That was after the bad news from India. I felt that it demonstrated the strength in these coins. So I jumped into Lite Coin. I noticed that PPC moved more on a percentage basis so I got into it instead. PPC has been a disappointment.
I'm going to leave it overnight and I hope it goes up in my sleep.
On a different topic, a guy told me that he knew where I could buy an old van that would be able to tow a trailer for $800. I think I'll put it off until the currency collapses. I might be able to get a trailer and a different van at low prices then. I've just got to be patient. If I can make money on crypto-currencies I'll be able to buy something then.
Something that could help the process is to sell my etchings on this blog for Bit Coins or Lite Coins. I think I'll show some of the etchings here.

These are just three of the etchings that I have by Malcolm Childers. I have around 10 or 12 different etchings. If you are interested in them you can leave a comment and we can arrange payment by bitcoin or litecoin. Malcolm has a website at Roadsongs.com. I have most of his less expensive etchings.

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Don't know why crypto-currencies are as strong as they are.

I'm back to trading crypto-currencies. I'm in NMC now. It's a smaller, more volatile currency. I've been in and out a couple of times this morning. Each time I get in and out I lose money on the spread (the difference between the ask and bid price). That means that it costs me money just getting in and out of a position. I need to stop over trading.
Yesterday I was thinking that the situation in India would drive the crypto-currencies down but I was wrong. They are going up again, So today I'm back in.
On a different topic, I'm thinking about trading my gold for a motor home. I feel that gold will be useless in a real SHTF situation. People may be bartering for ammo and food but I think gold is just too expensive to be a good medium of exchange. Therefore I would be better off trading it for my bugout RV. I could also use the RV to go panning for gold. I hope to do that in a couple of years.
I may have some changes in my employment situation. I still haven't heard about rather I've been re certified as being poor enough for my present job. It looks like I'll be able to stay on for another month if I'm not. Other part time job opportunities are showing up so I'll be OK for now. I'm just concerned about getting enough money to do a good job of preparing for the financial collapse.
Unfortunately, I don't think there is any way of really preparing adequately. It's just too expensive for a poor person and preparing is a bottomless pit for money.
I not only don't have the money to prepare; I also don't have the space to store stuff. I might look into getting a storage space for water, ammo, and food. That will set me back by about $50/month. Maybe I can get Jim and Sherry to go in with me. I talked with Sherry about prepping, last night. She recently read a book about having someone set off an EMP or electro-magnetic-pulse, and taking down the entire grid. I suppose it could happen. I feel that a currency collapse is certain. I don't feel that we'll be at war with anyone else. The public is just sick and tired of wasting money on military spending.
Of course, if a person is preparing for one contingency he is also preparing for others as well. You have to set back the same food and water and stuff for all possible events.
Oh well, I'm going back to watching crypto-currencies. NMC moved down whilest I've been blogging.
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Giving up Hope on Bitcoin

Well it looks to me that Bitcoin is a bust. Not only is the Chinese government making it impossible to put money into a Bitcoin account but now the Indian government is arresting people for trading Bitcoins. For over 30% of the world's population it's illegal to trade Bitcoins. The worst  part of this is the precedence that it sets for the rest of the world's repressive governments. It looks like Bitcoins will be made illegal everywhere. Governments just can't have competing currencies. That would upset their ponzi scheme currencies.
I had my hopes up that I would be able to finance my getting off the grid using profits from Bitcoins. Now I have to face reality. I'll be doing good to just maintain my level of income and buy some more gold and silver.
Prepping is so expensive that I'll never be able to do a good job of getting ready for the currency collapse. All I can do is all that I can do.
I had to forget about getting a trailer last week. A mechanic told me that my van was too rusty to pull a trailer. I'm tempted to try to find a cheap old motor home. That would probably be better than a trailer, anyway.
I still want to get out and prospect for gold. Not only would I be off of the grid but I would be accumulating gold.
I feel that gold will retain it's value in currency collapse. Right now gold and silver prices are very manipulated. They are being held down so that the dollar looks better than it is.
I might lose my job at Experience Works. I'm having troubles with the re certifying process. Maybe I can work part time at other places if I lose that job. We'll see.
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Snow Day Sunday

It's a snowy Sunday. I got up at 4:00 an checked my coins. I had an order to buy coins at a low price. I had a surprise when I saw that the coins were "up" strongly.
I decided that I couldn't watch the coins in my sleep so I decided to try a "bot". That is a software robot that trades my currency for me 24 hrs a day. It seemed like a reasonable price. $89 to get started and $9 a month from then on.
It had as free trial so I tried that. It didn't work. It told me that I had an invalid registration #.
I'll have to try to get that straightened out, tomorrow. Anyway, today was another day of over-trading. I probably lost $100 so far today. I now have my money in the US dollar or "fiat" as it's called by the crypto-currency traders. I have an order in to buy at a ridiculously low price. I'm still expecting the weekend crash that seems to happen regularly.
I shoveled a lot of snow, this morning. I doubt that it will make up for my losses in currency, but it's welcomed.
I gave up on buying a trailer. I wouldn't be able to tow it with my van. It's just too rusty underneath to attach a trailer hitch. I'm looking into buy a motor home. I might be able to get a 20 or 30 year old one at a reasonable price. I'm looking to spend less than $1000. I might be able to find something on EBay. I'll have to see if I can find someone who would take gold instead of fiat. I just don't have that kind of money laying around and I over-invested in gold. I've also got a 10 ounce silver bar that I should be able to convert to $200. I don't think gold or a large bar of silver would be much good for barter when the currency collapses.
I found a dating service for preppers. It's named "Survivalists Singles". I registered but then I couldn't get logged into it. It seems hopeful. I gave up on "OK Cupid" because I didn't want to go into detail about why I'm such a doom and gloomer. Everyone there seems to go out of their way to be upbeat whereas I feel that the whole world's economy is on the brink of collapse. I just didn't fit in there.
There was a matching website for the mentally ill that I used to go to as well. I think the name was something like "NoLongerLonely". I came to the conclusion that just because I'm mentally ill doesn't mean that I want to date someone else who is mentally ill as well. I think I would be better off with a reasonably well person. Actually I would prefer another Christian Scientist. My religion is so different from the accepted that I probably would have a hard time relating with someone who isn't a Christian Scientist.
Anyway so much for crypto-currencies, dating, and getting an RV.
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The Master Manipulators are at Bitcoin

The manipulators have invaded the trading at Bitcoin. I read a couple of articles on Bloomberg and Yahoo. They were both slamming Bitcoin. It showed me that the same people who manipulate the stock market were pulling their tricks on Bitcoin as well. They play me for the fool that I am, They drive the market up to appeal to our greed and wishful thinking. Then they drive the prices down sharply to scare us out of the market.
Since I'm trying to catch a trend I am a sucker for these moves. I've been on the wrong side except for a few days ago when I caught a nice move up in my sleep.
I bought a coin named NWC last night. I saw the market move up and couldn't stand to miss the move, It's been fluctuating since then. I'll try to stick with it at least until the beginning of the new year, The Chinese ban on transferring money from banks to Bitcoins goes into effect, then. That might drive the market down. The Chinese people might find a way to buy Bitcoins without banks by then. I'll probably be forced out of the market by then.
Without digital currency I feel rather hopeless. Maybe I'll get back to my plan of going prospecting for gold. I can't get a trailer but I have a van that I can load up with camping gear. I could just live out of my van.
I called Paypal last night to see if I could take Bitcoin for payment for my etchtings. They said that they were working on it but they weren't there yet. I think there is a chance to get high prices for art from Chinese people who will be stuck holding Bitcoins and no way to convert them to currency. At least that is my hope.
On a different subject, we had freezing rain last night. All I've been able to do with it is to spead some salt. I can't even get the car running because I can't get the ice off the windows. I had to walk to the home that I shovel snow for.
Well I have to go.
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Overtrading Litecoin

I've been overtradiing Litecoin, lately.
The night before last night I made a couple of hundred dollars in my sleep. I sold my digital currency before going to be and placed a buy order at half the price that it was when I went to bed. It was filled and the price  of Lite coin went up from there. Yesterday, I tried to catch trends but I was always on the wrong side of the trades. Last night I tried to repeat my move of the previous night, but I just missed out on a nice move up. I'm still ahead but my trading is hurting me.
Maybe I should just buy and hold. I'm worried about how the government might stop sales of digital currency in China. That didn't seem to affect trading last night.
There is always something to worry about and if a person just sits tight and holds his currency he should be able to ride it out. I wish that I didn't do any trading for the last 2 weeks. I would have been in the same position that I am now. I would have saved on commissions.
One thing I noticed is that Bitcoin seems to lead Litecoin by about 20 minutes. That is Bitcoin does something and 20 minutes later Litecoin follows. Anyway it seems to work that way. I might be fooling myself or grabbing at straws.
I had bad news on the van, yesterday. The mechanic who looked at my van to see if I could put on a trailer hitch told me that there was too much rust under my van to attach the hitch. That puts buying a trailer on hold. I won't be able to tow it.
I bought a tent so I'll be able to camp out in a SHTF situation. I just can't afford this prepping bullshit.
I feel like I'm tied to a railroad track and all I can do is to watch the train coming. That's just the way that it is. It reminds me of my time in the Marine Corps where I never knew when some black guy might kill me.
 I did fairly well in my Spanish class. I got a C+ overall. The final test didn't hurt me as much as I feared that it would. I didn't get as much studying in as I should have. I was busy trading currency over the weekend and Monday it snowed and I had to shovel all day. I don't know how bad I did but I was afraid of getting an F, and I didn't.
I'm thinking of selling my etchings for Bitcoins. I figure that there will be a lot of Chinese who will be trying to get rid of their Bitcoins. I'll look into it. It's worth a shot. They don't seem to move, otherwise.
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Crypto Currencies Crash

Well the crypto currencies are all collapsing. I got caught and lost about $400. I was shoveling snow when the crash happened.
I guess that the lesson is to not trade when I can't watch what is happening on the exchanges. I have to check what the coins are doing every15 minutes or so. No more sleeping while I have money invested. Now that I think about it I was taking final test in my Spanish class while the market tanked. Between shoveling snow and taking the Spanish test I must have spent 3 or 4 hours without checking the price of my Lite Coins.
At least I did better in my Spanish test than I thought I would. A part of the test was me asking and answering questions of my teacher. She said that I did well in that. Some of the test was a complete blank to me. Most of it went pretty well.
I'll know this Wednesday how well I did. I'll check my grades, then. I can get that online.
Tomorrow I'll find out if I can put a trailer hitch on my van. I bought a hitch at Wal-Mart and I'm having a local mechanic try to put it on. There might be too much rust under the van to safely install a hitch. If that happens I'll take the hitch back to Wal-Mart and see about getting another vehicle.
I sent my brother a silver coin for Christmas, today. I overbid on it on EBay. I thought I was bidding on something that was 5 ounces of silver. Instead it was .5 ounces. I was wondering why it went so cheap. It's a nice Canadian coin. It was graded and everything.
They are predicting more snow for tomorrow. Another busy day ahead. I don't really have much else to say.
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