Don’t get me wrong, I respect Seth a lot. In fact he’s one of the very few bloggers almost never make me feel bored. But sometimes advice like this one comes a bit too much to me. It’s not only Seth of course. How many blogs advice you to work or study every minute? Techniques for speed reading, speed eating, speed sex, speed working, speed living… give me a break.

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I’ve been thinking about moving away from the big city for years and now we are starting some action. We are currently living in a city with around 3 million population which is the biggest in our country. Our plan is to relocate to a small satellite town about 40km away. Why are we doing this and how useful can such move be for you?

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Financial Benefits Of Moving Away

Probably one of the main reasons to consider moving away are the possible financial benefits by it. Most people would agree that living in small town can be cheaper but the idea is quite vague. Let’s try to break down the benefits:

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The financial situation all over the world doesn’t seem to bright, but that doesn’t kill the optimism of the personal finance bloggers. Maybe because your own wealth depends more on yourself than on anything else. Maybe because we just like to believe so.

Tricia @ Blogging Away Debt has published some interesting thoughts about the other costs of making homemade food. With the everyday increasing energy prices will it become cheaper to buy ready food?

On the contrary Jim @ Blueprint For Financial Prosperity has discovered that home grown vegetables taste better.

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If you are reading this blog from the beginning you may remember that it had a strong focus on managed trading accounts and especially forex. I invested quite a lot of time and energy to research, review and follow the performance of various managed accounts.

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Many times I write about various investment opportunities or about how regular saving can impact your financial life I feel the need to illustrate it. So we came up here with a handy investment calculator which lets you play with the numbers and see the magic of compounding in action.

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I know many other bloggers have similar needs so I won’t keep this work for myself. There is investment calculator Wordpress plugin that you can download for free and install on your blog. Its usage is as simple as including one special tag in your blog. It can be embedded in a post or page.

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This pick is here thanks to our mate Jerome who mentioned it in my post about Getfolio.

Condor Options is not a managed account or other kind of investment program where you send your money and wait to be traded.

What Condor Options offers is similar to the trading signal services. They send alerts on trading indexes by their Iron Condors strategy. The company claims that you need no more than 10 minutes per week, so it is almost a passive investment. There is even an auto trading option which makes it entirely passive.

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It’s been a while since the last pick I have posted because I am focusing more on conceptual articles and supplemental income ideas due to the results of this poll.

But I know many readers have free money and want to invest them for good profits, so I have not forgotten what gathers us all here. I’ve been quite disappointed by most managed forex accounts I am observing, that’s why I am looking more into other kind of trading programs (like Futures and Options).

So, here we go:

Balanced Volatility Program by Crescent Bay Capital Management (David Bedford)

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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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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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I was a bit hesitant if to present you these managed accounts at all. To be frank, I don’t think these guys are very professional. On the other hand their un-leveraged program has been bringing stable conservative ROI since 2006 which makes me think they must have a decent system. So, let me go ahead and present you the FX Street Managed Forex Account in short:

MAP 8304 CYCLE FX UNLEVERAGED

This is their conservative program running since 2006. The minimum investment here is $100,000 and the return since inception is 24.23%. This makes 1.62% monthly ROI - nothing hot, but stable if you can afford such big investment.

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