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I receive automated calls from Telemarketers and debt collectors every day.  I told the debt collectors that they got the wrong person.  They just kept calling.  I am home 24×7.  This really annoys the heck out of me especially when I am napping.

I have registered on the National Do-Not-Call list. But it does not work well. That list blocks some telemarketers. But there is a long exemption list. So I was on a quest to search for something that could work like our emails.  You know something like you can set up a filter for a particular number that would go straight to your answering machine or simply just block that number.  Speaking of number blocking, a lot of phone companies have call block services. But they have limitations. I heard Verizon does not provide this service to new customers any more. For those that do have this service, they can only place 6-12 phone numbers on the block list.

So I started looking on Amazon for a handset that has the number blocking feature built in.  I thought it was easy. But to my surprise, none of the handsets I found on Amazon has this feature.  Then I started looking for an external device that can be connected with a handset and stop telemarketing.  Finally I found one. What I like about it is that it zaps all automated calls without ringing the bell.  Nowadays, a computer calls you first most of the time.  When you pick up the phone,  it switches to a human caller. Because of this automated nature, it is easy to terminate all the calls before it even rings the bell. The device also has a very sweet feature that can block all calls except emergency ones when I am sleeping.

Ever since I have installed this little thing a week ago,  my phone has become much quieter.  My only gripe is that it cost me 70 dollars. I might be missing something here. But how hard could it be to write a few lines of code in a handset that could block unwanted callers?

As for my trading, I am on a month long vacation.  But I have been working occasionally  on some automated trading algorithms with my husband, which is basically all his idea.   He is a programmer, who likes to automate everything.  We are almost done with back-testing, which is fairly rigorous and extensive.  In a week or 2, he will start trading small positions with it. I will see how it goes in real life trading.  If it is good, I will post his results. Although, he will not reveal his algorithms, we can still take a look at his results for entertainment or  just a laugh, LOL….

I am visiting Atlanta Georgia, which is 6 hours away from where I live.  I bought a citypass online which listed 8 attractions

1. Georgia Aquarium
2. World of Coca-Cola
3. Zoo Atlanta
4. Inside CNN Atlanta Studio Tour
5. Fernbank Museum of Natural History
6. Atlanta Botanical Garden
7. High Museum of Art
8. Atlanta History Center

I do not know if I will have enough time to visit all of thes places since I have only  4 days.  The auqarium and the Zoo are 2 must-visit attractions since I love animals . I aslo like history and museums too. I will be back on Tuesday.  So there will be no trading until Wednesday.

Good luck trading and trade safely.

Do you have a blog? Would you like to attract more traffic to your blog?  Writing a guest post for another blog is an excellent way to expand your readership.  My blog has quite a few thousand readers and generates 50k+ page views every month.  You can see the stats here.  Some people already asked me if guest posts are accepted here.  The answer is “Yes“. 

Since your post will be judged by many readers/traders/investors, it is in your interest to submit the best of your work. If they like your writing, they will likely visit your blog too.  Blatant Product or self promotion posts will be rejected.

Here are the guidelines.

1. Your post must be original and has not been posted anywhere including on your own blog.
2. Once your post is accepted and posted here, you can not post it anywhere else.
3. Your post should be related to trading and investing.  Any trading instrument, such as stocks, Forex,futures and options is fine.
4. War stories are welcome too.
5. Check your spelling and grammars.

In return, I will give you a back link to your blog on the top of your post.  We all know how important backlinks are to Google when it calculates your page rank. You can also have 2-3 lines of bio at the bottom of your post.

Once again, it is in your best interest to submit your best work and think how it can benefit the readers.  Not all guest posts will be accepted. I will let you know If I  accept your post within 48 hours.  If you do not hear form me within 48 hours, you can safely assume that the post is not accepted and you can post it anywhere you want.

If you are intersted , please send your post to satuki (AT) momdaytrader.com .

Ryohoji, a Japanese temple, in suburb Tokyo hired young beautiful girls as temple maids to attract tourists. Temples are normally considered as sacred places. You do not see young beautiful girls in temples every day. Let alone hot maids and sexy cartoon characters.   Japanese men just love nurses, maids and girls in high school uniforms.  Well,I should say all men love those characters.

The number of my Twitter friends has just exceeded 1000.  85% of them are traders and investors alike.  For people who are not very familiar with Twitter, here is a starter.  Twitter is a micro blogging service that allows people to publish 140 characters at a time.  You can follow anyone to receive his/her tweets that might interest you.  And you can unfollow them if you do not like them. It is similar to a chat room since you can publish your thoughts to everyone in a room.  It is different than a chat room because you only follow the tweets of the people who you like.  There are a lot of celebrities such as Obama, Britney and so many others who are on Twitter.  It looks like everyone is tweeting.

I use Twitter mainly for trading.  99% of my tweets are trading related.  I might need to change that a little bit. For example, I could tweet a bit more about cooking,traveling and my home country Japan. There are quite a few good traders on Twitter. You can check out what they think about the markets easily by following them. I have learned a lot of things too on Twitter by interacting with other traders. Stock markets are changing every day. We need to adapt to the changes. Twitter is a very dynamic and vibrant community.

I would like to apologize to some of my followers if I can not anwser your questions quickly during the market hours.   Day trading requires a lot of concentration since I need to capture very small moves with laser point accurcy.   Once an opportunity slips through my fingers,  it will never come back.  There might be only one or 2 opportunities to open a profitable day trade in the entire session.  Therefore, I post only my day trade entries and exits in real time during the market hours.  I will answer your questions after the market is closed.  Thank you for your understanding.

As with all other social networking sites such as Myspace or Facebook,  Twitter  might be blocked at your work site.