Some of my readers/subscribers might have noticed that I have deleted all my videos in previous posts. When Steemit was getting started, I really wanted to promote this site and help others to grow there crypto balances. I made many video blogs to teach others to trade on exchanges and use the Coinigy platform for charting.
I actually enjoyed making these videos for everyone
and I recieve tons of positive feedback in the comments here and on my youtube channel. I try very hard to respond to every question I recieve, and trust me, there are alot of questions I answer over and over. But im happy to do it because trading has been so good to me, and I live a great life due to the my trading experience.
But I've had a little trouble with my Internet security a few weeks ago. Being so public with my trading has put a big target on my back for hackers, and the less ethical out there. As a knee jerk reaction to this, I DELETED my Youtube Channel and stopped posting all together. Then I took some time off and worked on my security.
Im considering returning to this steemit blog and starting up a new video series on trading. Since I have already deleted all my old videos, I cant get those back. But I can start fresh, and this time use a little more caution with what I share.
Right now we are having a beautiful dip in ETH.
When should you buy? How can you read the chart and know where to get in or get out? I have been trading for a living for many years, full time and these are easy answers for me. Thats why I have shared my experience with everyone in the past. But I'm on the fence about returning to video blogs.
I would love to hear back from any of my followers, and please offer me suggestions on how you think I should proceed.
Thanks,
Luc
Yeah, Luc is BACK!
Welcome back Luc!
Sorry to hear about the security issues you've been having. That's really terrible, how they decided to attack you directly like that, when all you wanted to do was help everyone out with their trading.
Please DO come back and make videos again, your trading videos were unquestionably the BEST you could find anywhere online. I find myself repeatedly rewatching a lot of your videos, because of this reason (which I will quote from "Rich Dad, Poor Dad"):
It's really sad they pushed you to delete your videos (I was hoping you only made them private). But I guess you had to do what you had to do to protect yourself online. It really does take only a few bad persons acting in bad faith to ruin a great thing for everyone.
But I'm really glad to see you haven't given up on the idea of helping everyone learn how to trade better, and I'm excited for any new content you are about to release.
Welcome back!
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Thank you for the kind words and understanding.. I do think I was pretty quick to delete everything.. and I will start searching to see if i saved any of those videos anywhere.. but for now there are still a few of my videos on the Coinigy Youtube channel.. so you can find them.. Coinigy asked me to join there channel a while back, and since there channel is not linked to my private accounts in any way, I left those videos up.. But I will try to get back to making them soon.. there was such a nice dip in ETH to the $200 level a few days ago.. what a great trade.. wish I would have alerted everyone..
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Those videos were gold to me. I have so many questions I wanted to ask you but I felt you would just be to busy. I have never found more knowledge nor confidence to trade until I stumbled upon you. I have decided to stop working and go all in using your strategy while trading and it has amazing results. I still tend to break some rules trying to get in on those crazy spikes that seem to come out of nowhere but like you said, no one knows when and how high it will go. I had to rewatch your videos again to put me in check and start making smart trades again but honestly if there was a way I could absorb every piece of knowledge I would pay whatever I can do to know it. I wish you the best of luck on your internet security because its just another reminder how even good and just people are still attacked. I wish there was some way we could still hear your words of wisdom again!
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Thanks for the feedback.. No worries, I will get remaking the videos starting this weekend.. I'll make a few videos on the basics and then start answering questions in video.
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Also, I noticed you were asking for suggestions on how to proceed. Well, my basic OpSec is to either never mention anything about my finances (and instead talk only about percentages in gains/losses, or the price I bought/sold at), but I guess you've already let that info out. Also, I avoid using any identity traceable to my trading accounts/logins or my personal accounts (social media, email for password recovery, or otherwise). Like I'd probably avoid using quickfingersluc or Lucky36Luc @gmail/hotmail/yahoo for signing up to exchanges, Paypal, and the like. But again, it's also probably too late for this as you've already established those as your trading online persona.
From here, I'd guess an idea would be to first go with "Unlisted" YouTube videos embedded in your Steemit posts. As being listed publicly on YouTube would probably paint a bigger target than just blogging on Steemit.
Anyway, I'm greatly looking forward on any new content you release here, of course considering that you will be keeping your future online security in mind in future releases.
It's great to have you back! :D
....also one last thing....
Please do tell us lol.
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I stumbled upon your first post "turning 300$ into 50000$" when looking for information about cryptos and trading and it really hyped me. I created an account on kraken and steemit thx to it.
I've always been lurking on trading but never got involved. I was a bit disappointed when I discovered you deleted all your vids.
Would love to see some new ones to learn how to read charts. I really enjoyed those on the coinigy channel!
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Thanks, Im glad my videos helped.. Yeah, in hindsight, I feel bad that I deleted them .. I do still have a few on Coinigy channel, maybe ill post a link for everyone..
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I would love to see you get some instructional videos back up. They were well-made, clear, and provided easy-to-follow general rules for anyone looking to get into exchange trading.
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Thanks, that has always been my goal..
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I just found your Coinigy youtube channel and would love to see more!
All the best to you!
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I'm very excited to hear that you are back and going to be doing more videos. I love your teaching style. I just learned of your channel about a week ago. So I missed your older videos. Thank you, you made my week. I would love to hear some tips on reading charts what research/methods you use to determine when to buy and sell while minimizing risk.
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Sorry theres not much for you so far, but go have a look at the Coinigy Youtube channel.. I still have a few videos there
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I discovered your posts today as i am looking to get into crypto currency trading. I managed to find couple of your videos on Youtube and they were excellent, but sadly others were deleted due to security risks as you mentioned. I am very excited to see this post of yours and hope you will start a new series. This part of territory is very exciting and it would be awesome if we could follow your lead.
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Im glad to help.. I am pretty confident that I have resolved any security threats now, so I am looking forward to helping others again :) Trading is soo rewarding and actually simpler than most people think.. You just have to see those charts the right way.. The chart really tells all..
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Hi Luc,
For me, the reason i loved your content was because of the level of authenticity and transparency contained within. I found your trading videos really useful but the fact you genuinely want to help people and give back, so to speak, is what sets you apart from many others. So, like many people here, I would love to see you back into uploading your trading videos and genuinely appreciate your willingness to share your wisdom of the markets.
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Thanks you, I wish the best for everyone. And in the markets you can make as much $$ as you want.. There really is no need to ask others for anything.. Especially with cryptos, wow, we have a huge huge trading opportunity, like I have never seen anywhere.
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Hello Luc, i just stumled on your post a few days ago and i felt i have missed out on a lot of the information you have shared to your followers.However, i woud love for you to continue sharing useful inof and videos on crypto trading when you finally restore your internet securities.Some of us here are newbies and would love to learn from you how to read charts and make trade decisions.You could share videos without necessarily putting your live trading accounts so as not to jeopardize it.You could also share texts materials as well.
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Please start your blog again! You are the kind of trader i want to be! :D
Ps i also joined STEEMIT because of you and loving it. Thanks :)
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Great :) Yeah ill get back into the swing of making videos
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Please continue uploading videos Mr Luc, I'm a newbie in cyrpto trading and I just saw your video the other day and I've learned so much...
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Dude, always loved your videos, easy to follow and very informative.
So sorry to hear about your security issues, i hope you've worked them out!
Would love to see more youtube videos from you, but do whats best for you too.
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Thanks for understanding.. I hate getting burned, trying to help others.. Thats the worst, but its a lesson learned, gotta be cautious with personal information.
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Without compromising your self, maybe a post on how to boost your own internet security would be a good one, i'd definitely be interested in that.
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That is a good idea.. I will work on a detailed post about internet security.. But some of the basic things are: Make your cold wallets offline.. Keep your password file, for all accounts on a separate device that has no internet conection.. Don't hold much of your crypto on any one exchange.. Be careful using services that hold your keys for you (like blockchain.info), would be better to keep your coins on cold wallets where you have the keys.. Copy and paste you passwords and private keys, rather than type them on your keyboard.. Dont keep any bitcoin related files on your harddrive, and maybe even reinstal windows from scratch every so often, reformating all drives.. ... ... and so on and so on..
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But if you really want security, what influenced you to keep Windows since they are so vulnerable?
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I've always use windows.. only this time there is nothing for anyone to get at.. I keep 3 computers running.. one only for writing orders (never browsing websites).. and one for all internet activities.. and the last one offline, for anything sensitive.. i guess thats my current process.
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thanks for the encouragement .. Yeah, im gonna take alot more precautions.. but im back :)
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Hi. I am really happy that you have considered to return to teach us. First of all, this is my story. For many years I read all books and courses that I've downloaded from the torrents. My PC was almost full of this content I tried every strategy in a forex account. But the result was almost the same. I always lose money. The best strategy was price action for me (I barely made some money). After sometime I discovered you blog . I think I complete this in a day. It was the best trading training I ever take. I learn real skills and I applied this to my trading. That was the first time I could make money (it was about $100). Everything that I learnt from you is gold. Again. Thank for all, your videos are the best by far. (Sorry for my grammar I speak Spanish)
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Thanks for letting me know that my videos helped.. I will get busy making them again.. Hopefully this weekend I will get the first one out.. I know that there is alot of snake oil salesmen out there, teaching new traders all the wrong information, and charging them to do it.. Sad.. But thats why I started this blog/video series in the begining, to show there is an easier way.
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In addition to that, there are also big name traders out there that teach by example through live videos, but their trade predictions are solidified by their followers doing it alongside them. So are you actually learning anything or is it more pump and dump : \
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Hi, thank you for your so many videos. I am using Linux for better security (Ubuntu) and router Mikrotik ( using Linux as firmware). But the best option is to use separate PC with special version of Linux acting as router. Friend of mine is using this ( he is sysadmin). Hope this might be useful. KK
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LUC is here!!!
Aw man, we have missed you. I would've never guessed hackers would be an issue for you but it makes perfect sense considering the circumstances.
Hopefully, you haven't had to deal with any nuisances. What a pain in the ass to deal with.
Although, I can't think of any particular methods to fully secure your teachings. Maybe you can set up an account that does not have direct personal information on it and be regarded as quickfingersluc rather than your real name.
I can't prove this will work since hackers become more and more sophisticated with their methods, but I can say do whatever in your power to protect yourself from such an issue. Once you have figured out the safest way to do things, then maybe jump back into it since we all miss your dearly.
Anyways best of luck to you man and I'm glad to hear everything is ok with you.
Welcome back, teach! ;)
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thats exactly what I did for this new YouTube channel I am starting.. Its just called quickfingersluc and has no link to my personal info .. and thats just the tip of the security measures ive taken.. im pretty confident i will be able to sleep better now.. :)
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Hi. Luc,
You enjoyed making videos? And I enjoyed watching them. Thanks a lot.
I am bit unlucky, I did not watch them all, because you deleted them.
But, you'd better make new videos. Right?
Happy trading
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Hey Luc, I discovered your videos few days before they were taken down. I really liked them; there is a lot of advice on the internet in terms of investing in crypto, but it's difficult to find useful information for trading. Tons of people seem to think that it's a mere gamble, and beyond "buy low sell high" you can rarely find any good advice...Personally I'm really interested in trading crypto in the short term and trying to grow the capital from small sums like a thousand dollars. Without understanding trading I can at most roll the dice like in the casino. If you are able to get past the security issues and would like to share your knowledge, then I would be eternally thankful.
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Also, as you probably know, people might have downloaded your videos. I don't know your security issues, but you should assume that people who wanted to have these videos still have them.
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Hey Luc, i would love it, if you restart your series on how to trade. I spent hours to find any of your old videos. I really would appreciate to learn trading by just looking over your shoulder and learn when to enter and when to exit a trade.
I would be so happy if you could start teaching me/us!!! (alone reading your post today made me happy) keep it going ;)
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Hey, thanks for your encouragement.. Ill get busy making those vids, this weekend
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Looking forward to it!
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Hi Luc !! Thank you for all you teached on your videos ! Thanks to you I decided to start into trade ! Although I have some questions regarding to this Cryptos !
What do you consider a good percentage to get per day ? I'm asking this because I literally live from Internet, E-commerce to be exact, so I have all day to work in trades too, but I would like to make profits of about 20% - 30% do you think this is possible ? and how ? I imagine that you do trades ALL day ! but I would like to know too the percentages you look in every trade and how much time you expect for trades, you look to make daily profits too ? Or you maybe look trades of %2 and make several of those a day ? jajajaj this type of questions have me always thinking !!. Hope you make a new video again about your recent trades !!
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its true i think in percentages when im trading, but not so much how much i can make for the day. I just trade the charts that are safe, and I base my trade size on how safe they are, not on how much I could make.. Ill explain all this in the upcoming videos.. there really is plenty to talk about when it comes to trading.. but its much much easier that you might think, and you can make as much as you want, and after your account gets big enough, you wont worry about how much you can make today, it will be more about how safe is the trade your looking at..
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Hi Luc - I discovered your videos the other day. I'm just getting into cryptocurrenceis and really appreciate your approach to trading. I cast my vote for you to pick it back up assuming you can keep yourself secure!
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thanks for the vote
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Hi Luc, I'll just add myself to the list of people who would like to see more of your videos! I like your style and the format.
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Hi there! Welcome back! I also joined steemit after seeing your video that still is up. The ultimate answer to any situation is to continue communicating. You inspired so many of us with the truth and simplicity of actual trading, without any vested interest, thank you for doing this and please do continue if you can! Let's all flourish and prosper :)
J.
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I'm happy i followed you ,in my journey to learn trading cryptocurrency. Looking forward to your video post
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Hey, thanks.. Im glad you found my videos helpful.. I really regret deleting them all.. I was just a little frustrated at the time..
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Hope you find your way again
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I would love for you to create videos for us beginners. I've tried looking for help on the internet but a lot looks like scams or just contradictory information. It's rather frustrating. It doesn't help that recent hacking attacks (e.g. WannaCry) give cryptocurrency a bad reputation which scares many of us who want to learn more the subject.
I think a lot of early-adopters of cryptocurrency are technologists, hackers, and computer scientists who have little idea on trading and whose trading methods lead to more volatility. Lastly, I think help from financial professionals can go a long way because sooner or later big institutional investors will takeover and they'll definitely wipe the nest-eggs of many who are unprepared.
Just my two cents. Thanks!
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Trading stocks is pretty easy, but trading cryptos is like childsplay. Honestly there is so much opportunity for trading in cryptos right now, I cant even remember the last losing trade in cryptos for me.
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Hi Luc,
I'm very appreciative of the information you've put out so far and I'm sorry about the security issues you've been having.
If you do decide to come back (which I'm hoping you do) and teach us up-and-coming crypto traders, but have to do it through chart images rather than video, then I'm sure that we'd not only benefit from that, but you would also benefit in terms of internet security and keeping everything on steemit.
I've been learning how to read charts (via forex) off and on for the past 4 years and if my memory serves me correctly, I believe you've entered your trade on ETH/USDT at $199.55, set a stop loss at $180.59, and looking to take profit at $388.93. Which would be a risk-to-reward ratio of 10 to 1 (I think). And you entered in the trade at that price point due to prior support at that level.
Looking forward to learning more from you!
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I actually dont use stop losses.. like ever.. Just imagine you had a stop loss set up on Gdax the other day when they had the flash crash in ETH all the way down to .11 cents.. holy crap.. you would probably have a sell executed far far below where you planned to take a loss.. Very risky.. I trade a different way.. I buy dips, on surprise drops, on stock/cryptos that have a perfect bouncing history.. Then if I believe in the coin, I leave my profits in, and take back my principle, therefor only creating free coins in my bank.. Otherwise, if I was just planning to trade for profit, then I take it all off and reset an alarm for the next possible dip.. No stop loss.. Everytrade is a win or a loss, with the odds way way in my favor.. so its almost never a loss.. less then 5% losers
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Interesting...I've always heard of recommendations for using a stop loss to manage risk in a trade, but the example you gave makes a lot of sense.
I originally learned about trading by way of price action from Nial Fuller (http://www.learntotradethemarket.com/) using tactics like pin bar reversals and inside bar breakouts, but I'm open to learning new strategies like the ones you use.
Hopefully I can become a successful swing/day trader with enough real-world practice and experience (I'm tired of paper trading lol).
Thanks Luc!
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yup, Ill start making the videos and hopefully that will help. I dont have much time, since I am a full time trader, but ill get started on them asap
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YES! :)
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Hi Luc,
Found you on the Coinigy Channel on Youtube today, your video was awesome, tried to find your other videos on Youtube but found out they were deleted, sorry to hear about your security issues. You seem like a really cool dude, glad to hear you're back making videos. You just gained 1 more follower and supporter.
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Yeah, I just created my New Youtube Channel.. So I will try to get into a regular routine of making videos again, to help the community.
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Would you be able to provide a link to your new youtube channel please?
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I have been brought to your page from your initial blog about turning $300 into $50k. I was bummed that none of your videos were available, so I went searching and read this post. I would love to see new videos or archived if you have them backed up. It is hard to find good content for people brand new into trading and just don't trust the shills out there that charge for their "courses". I am a firm believer in bringing value to someone, before asking for money. That being said, I would gladly pay for a course that you offer. From what I see, I haven't seen you asking for money for your advise. Perhaps, when you make people money from trading crypto, they will want to give you donations...
Hope you get some tutorials back again soon and thanks for bringing valuable content to the steemit community. This is my first comment on steemit, FYI.
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Thank you for giving me some feedback.. I remember when I was new to trading, and looking for some instruction.. But honestly its very difficult to make money from most of the trading styles sold to everyone out there.. I make money EVERY day, and not from selling courses, only from trading my personal accounts.. So Im happy to teach everyone how I do it, and I would never charge anyone a dime to watch my videos, or get answers from me..
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Hey Luc!
I think your stuff is awesome and I do not want it to stop anytime soon. I have a couple ideas in mind, if you are interested, I would like to share via email. Let me know what you think?
Thanks,
Brandi M
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Brandi,
Sorry, since I dont know you, and I have had security issues lately, the email sharing is out for now.. But feel free to offer your suggestions here.. and ill let you know what I think.
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Hi Luc,
First I really appreciate you taking the time to respond to this reply. I definitely can understand that and I am sorry you had to go through those issues.
I would like to help, I am a Web Developer and people have come to me with numerous security issues ranging from social media to their own personal site being down/hacked.
Have you ever thought about a private secure site to share your videos on? This is something I can definitely do for you.
And don't worry, I am not trying to sell you something or one of my services. This one is on me, because I truly think have something here with your videos.
I can give you my phone number if you would like to discuss this more :)
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Not to be rude, I don't see any reason why he should trust you considering those are the only two things you've ever posted on here. Doing so would be foolish on his part no matter what you say or do. I recommend providing more proof you are who you say you are here for everyone to see. If you have a great idea you should share it with everyone, we would love to see it =)
I don't want to be hypocritical and not provide some sort of evidence that I'm worth listening to since I also haven't posted much and I'm pretty new to Steemit. So I'll give a bit of background on myself here since I've never posted an introduction anywhere. I'm also an experienced web developer who has had people come to me with hacked sites which I've unhacked and secured for them. I can program in Java, C#, PHP, JavaScript, BASH, Python, Perl, and others. I'm also now a game developer and have been working on my first big game for the past year. I also maintain several open source projects for various things. I maintain a number of Linux servers for people. I've written extremely complex software on some of them. One example of such an application is for video encoding and even works for videos created with multiple audio tracks which seems to happen especially a lot on a Mac when recording peoples calls on Skype. You can upload the video through WordPress and then it goes to the video encoding server, and once encoded to multiple formats for HTML5 playback it sends it to Amazon S3 where it's served from Amazon CloudFront for streaming. You can also place files in a specific folder in Dropbox and it will encode those videos automatically or you can import files from Dropbox to encode. It can then display hotspots above the videos that can be clicked to open popups or do various other things like pause the video or skip to a certain time or numerous other things. You can create those hotspots through the backend interface when creating a new page for the video with states and actions sort of like a state machine. I've also ran various communities and understand how to build them and maintain them, including communities for open source projects and gaming communities. On the other side of the equation, I've also had websites #1 in Google for chosen keywords and have made well over $10k from AdSense in the past and continue making money from affiliate programs and providing various services to people.
Now you may believe I'm telling the truth or not, but you should still be skeptical about me since I could have just made that all up. The point is that you can also find yourself in situations where there are "griefers" or scammers who will try to gain your trust in very elaborate ways and then cause some sort of damages to you later on. I'm not saying that brandimac is someone like that, they very well may be legit and feel they want to help in some way. However, as you've found, you can never be too cautious. I think sometimes griefers or scammers don't even realize that what they're doing is harmful or that they are setting people up to try to scam them but there are also definitely some interesting and different people out there who would "screw their grandma for a nickle", as they say. In some cases that's just how they were raised, in some cases they've learned it to get by, to make more money, and I'm sure in some cases they just get a sense of accomplishment or get a rush to know they successfully screwed someone over. Either way, there will likely always be people like this and it seems like all you can do is be cautious and remember that not everyone is going to be nice to you, even if you are the nicest person you can be. People may still find a way in, either remotely, physically or emotionally. A lot of people have been screwed over by other people and that's kind of sad but as far as I know we haven't discovered the ultimate solution to stupidity. It's possible that the whole debate is about whether the person being stupid is the person being screwed over or the person doing the screwing over.
I think if you want to use Steemit and YouTube for reaching your social network then that's perfectly ok both for social interaction and building a community as well as monetization and allowing you to get something in return for your knowledge, time and effort. Sure with a website maybe you could create some pages, get them ranked in search engines and collect peoples emails to market to them or find other ways to monetize your website but this isn't really necessary since you'll have followers and subscribers on Steemit and YouTube and can reach them at any point you want just by posting. These pages are already monetized and your audience is at your fingertips ready and eager to listen and gobble up your content.
Getting someone to make a website, even if they do it for free, also comes at a hefty cost of time and effort and will most certainly cost you a lot of money over time, be it from your hosting provider, or your web developer, or your designer, or software licences, etc. While you may have money and be able to pay, the current method of using Steemit and YouTube should work perfectly fine without any extra time or financial cost and with the added bonus of not having to risk in trusting other people, services, or software.
To conclude, at this point it seems like a good idea to not break that layer of security that has been built up due to recent circumstances. You probably won't make millions either way any time soon, but you also won't spend thousands or tens of thousands either by sticking to your current method and you most likely won't spend extra your time on it than you're already used to. However if you ever feel in the future that you ever wish to have a website, you definitely can look into it further. Just don't ever trust it because it could also be hacked at any given moment no matter how tight your security is. There are new flaws coming out constantly and there are constantly people and bots attempting to exploit any and all known and unknown flaws, and they do. To some people that might seem like exaggeration but unfortunately it's not.
Ok, that's all I have to say about that for now. Sorry for the long comment!
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following to learn from you. I would like to start trading for the first time and gain an income from it to support my family.
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Well depending on your starting capital, thats very doable.. Trading has been my only source of income for 11+ years..
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I don't want to ask too personal of a questions but would your income be enough to be the only income to support a family? I'm sure it is doable either way. What is a good amount of capital to start with?
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yes, you can make enough to support a family. But I wouldnt just quit your job today.. You should make sure you have saved up a safety net worth of income .. maybe 6months worth to give yourself a real chance.. and you can start trading with any amount of money, but depending on your present income, I would begin trading with 5 times what you want to make per month.. that way you just have to grow your capital by 20% per month, which is pretty doable.. and with a 6 month coushion you should be able to have a few bad months without running into trouble..
Honestly, i prefer trading without any number to reach.. I just take what the market gives me.. and if i dont make anything today, thats fine by me..
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I meant only trading part time. I enjoy my job but would like to have an additional source of income. Is it worth trading part time or would I miss the good market changes?
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you only have to change you chart timeframe.. 1 hour bars .. you can easily swing trade off that, and hold for a few hours to a few days
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Yeah br0, do it! I just found you on Youtube while using Coinigy to look at SiaCoin using the Fibonacci retracement tool! I would love to have some buds to check on Steemit too!
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Hi Luc. I just discovered your page and articles about 20 minutes ago, so I'm VERY excited that you will be making youtube videos again. I've only just started becoming interested in cryptocurrencies and its so easy to get overwhelmed by what I don't know. So learning the ropes through your videos sounds perfect! Hopefully with increased security as a focus this time around, you can happily and safely, share your knowledge with all of us. Thanks and I look forward to your new videos!
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No worries, my style of trading is simple and effective.. and easy to teach.. and has been providing me with a healthy income for many years
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Just find your blog and 2 days after was to late. When your vids was deleted I get panic attack :D I trying to find them in YT cached databases but theres nothing. I even wrote to Coinigy and stalk your profile on other site. This is first time when i'm acting like wierd psycho fan, but your ironic and concrete style is gorgeous and i have enjoy your vids and have some hope that your activity helps me to become more independent some days. Thanks for coming back.
IMO deletion will have positive impact, many ppl (inc me) sign up here to cry for you, later we give hugs.
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Hey, thanks for the encouragement.. I did feel bad after I deleted my previous youtube account, because I had loads of followers commenting on my videos and asking questions every day.. But I cant undo the delete, so Ill just start again.. So no worries, you can find me here, and after I do a few videos on the basics of trading my style, then you can ask questions and I can cover them in upcoming videos.. Thanks for the support.
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I am watching your video on coinigy tonight. That is how I found you. Yes, if you can figure out your security I would certainly follow along. I am considering using the coinigy platform to trade and would love to see how you do your day to day to support your family. Cheers!
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Oh sad to read this news.
Hope your security has been improve so we can learn from you and feed the community with these interactions.
Welcome back.
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Welcome back Luc! It's good to see you again.
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Yeah its been a while.. But I have missed posting here.. Im gonna try to get back into it.. I find with all the trading I do, its hard to find time to make up a blog post and attach pictures and video.. but i just have to make it a routine again.. Theres soo much opportunity in crypto trading , man oh man
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Thanks, Im glad to be back.. and ready to get posting ..
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Sorry to hear about your security problems Luc, your videos were absolute best, we have plenty of self-proclamed gurus out there and i think we need more people like you. I was late and just could watch the 2 videos in coinigy channel, it would be great if you could start making those videos again , thumbs up for unlisted youtube videos and speaking in percentage recommendation for your online security. Thanks a lot for what you do , i wish you the best (Sorry for my english by the way, i'm not native speaker)
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Glad to see you're good and back, Luc. I haven't been here for a while myself, but did miss having your videos as reference on YT. Stay safe out here and I hope to learn more from you on both Crypto and pennystock trading.
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Hi Luc,
I have been inspired by your video on Youtube and was horrified when I could not see them over the weekend. Leon F introduced me to your work and you are the person I most trust to provide honest, quality information on the Crypto markets. Sorry to hear about your hacking issues. It's a reminder to us all to be vigilant. Thanks for sticking with us and continuing to share your knowledge. I will now study your later posts :-)
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yes please! we're like sheep without a shepherd!
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Hi. Found your video on Coinigy Youtube channel "what's my 3 step process to sucessful trades?" . I was very happy to have you share your technique. I have been trying to learn about trading for years and this was the best intro and simple strategy I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing. I would be very happy to see more videos. Sorry for your recent troubles with those that are trying to wrong you. Hopefully you are safe and secure and can continue to share your wisdom and knowledge. The fact that your doing it just to share is such a gift.
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Your welcome.. I been doing this same simple trading process for years, and it works.. and after you take these trades a few times you likely wont want to try a risky trade again..
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Welcome back we need you! lol
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Yes!! Yes!! Yes!! Thanks for your willingness to share your information😊 I'm plan on learning this if I can!
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This site could really use someone to help decipher this new info in a helpful fashion. Everyone lately has been freakin out over the dip, yet, i see it as an opportunity! Subbed. Looking forward to your posts. Youtube content creators unite!
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Thanks.. Yeah, I cannot predict the future, ofcourse, but I know trading. And I love buying the dips..
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Yeah, depending on your timeframe, ETH is a real opportutnity at that $200 level.. whoo hoo.. I know i got some just under $200 two days ago.. and already we got a bounce to $280
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