Here are this month’s best blog entries about investing and finances. If you have something better, let me know in the comments.

The Simple Dollar is intriguing as always and writes How Consumer Culture Undermines Children’s Well Being. Nice stuff.

The Silicon Valley Blogger thinks it’s time to shift to frugal living. What’s your take?

The super cool blogger Punny Money thinks that budgets are overrated. Your drawings rock, mate.

My Dollar Plan gives 10 ways to eat out for less. 11th tip from me is to eat less outside.

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If you wonder what kind of investments work well for you and suit your character the following quiz should clarify the doubts you have. You may have some fun with the quiz but take the results seriously - many people take wrong investment decisions (as shown in the poll results as well) because they don’t follow the investment style which is most appropriate for them.

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I was researching for new good managed accounts since Galleon, FXCM and FxStreet aren’t doing great. There are several good ones which will be reviewed soon, but their minimums are between $25,000 and $50,000.

I wanted to find something with lower minimum and ended up at Pip City. Let me save you from further stories - this “company” is scam. They are completely anonymous and offer 25% fixed monthly ROI with $10,000 minimum. The “managed account” program is for six months.

How I know this is scam:

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Your main target as an investor is to make your money work for you, rather than you working for money. Most of us usually think about owning assets which can bring entirely passive income for years. And that’s fine.

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But buying ready asset which brings passive income is not always the best option for you. Here are some reasons for that:

• Such assets have high price. Said in another way, it means the assets which can be bought easily rare bring good yields. The easiest thing you can do is to have a bank deposit, but it will bring you just 3%-4% per year.

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I should probably call it super successful. This is a Livesctock futures & options trading account with amazing performance started on small test account.

The program is called MAP and is offered by Roger Show at Livestock CTA, LLC.

The trading is done on USA markets with futures on 25.00% Systematic and 75.00% Discretionary methodology.

Minimum account size: $25,000

Average yearly ROI: 95.84%

The average ROI is very very impressive but there is one important thing to consider. Judging by their charts they have just started accepting deposits and the past performance is based on account of $1,000 . This is at least what I can understand. Even this trading has some large drawdowns of 34% so consider this a really risky investment.

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Would you mind owning 50% in a billion dollar company?

“Then you need at least a half billion”.

No.

Most private investors don’t buy 50% of a billion dollar companies but many of them own such.

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The early bird gets the worm

The key to successful venture investing is to enter it as early as possible. For sure startup investing has made many people millionaires - for example Guy Kawasaki.

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It has been more than six month since this blog started and I think it’s time to know more about you. Why are you reading this blog, what do you want to find? We all struggle to achieve better financial situation, but there are different difficulties for every one. Now I want to know yours.

Please choose from this poll up to 3 major problems that make your way to financial success harder. And know that I am asking this for a reason - I have something in mind and will share it with you very soon.

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As promised in the article The Basics of Domain investing I am going ahead with this topic. It created some buzz which makes me think a lot of people are interested in non-conventional investing. (Which is great, because this is what I like to do and write about most).

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“The Basics” only covered how basically the domainers play the domain names game. Now it’s time to go into more details how you can do like them.

So if you find good domains or sites (how? in another article of course)

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This pick will be slightly different than most shark investment picks - it’s not as aggressive as usual. Irish Forestry Funds (IFS) is a company offering forestry and property investment funds. This pick is not as aggressive as the typical shark investment picks. The ROI is not very attractive - the different funds range between 8.5% and 14.5% per year.

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