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      "body": "![1.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSwqp5W1DCepEZF6nvpg5ysfGF4ADkztgoRYoVxVa9SzR/1.png)\n\n\nSo the man himself published a book about his life. Yes, in his list of professions (singer, airline pilot, radio show host, DJ, historian, television presenter, fencer, writer and songwriter), he has found a little spare time to write an autobiography.\n\nNow, is it worth your 20 Dollars?\n\n## Short Answer.\n\nOf course it is!! We are talking about Bruce Dickinson, the man with the 4 octave vocal tone range, one of the big voices of Classic Heavy Metal, and such a charismatic frontman.\n\n![2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYoJwRkLM3fMzb7j8kmFzk4Xtf4WVztQss5TEfTNyxXBA/2.jpg)\n \n \n\nSlap your money on the counter of your nearest bookstore or get it on-line with a few clicks. 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I wish that number was a little bigger, but that's what we have here in the south of Spain, lots of sunshine, but few big concerts.\n\nMy work more or less forces me to dress like a 'normal' person (for whatever that means), but every once in a while, on some casual Friday I put on a Maiden shirt to the office.\n\nBy the way, I designed some Maiden shirts myself (check them out [here](https://inthekeyofa.com/collections/t-shirts) ), so I could wear more Maiden shirts at the office.  They don't come with a colourful, full chest-sized Eddies, but are a bit subtler. Except for the one with Dickinson in Spandex on the front and run to the hills in times new roman 150, leave that one for Fridays \n\nAnyways, back to the subject.\n\n \n\n## The Man\n\n![3.jpeg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmavyLSdWitSnA9cZVSBjEznApNa4RPjzDXhtGK7KfZCQ1/3.jpeg)\n\n\n How on earth does this man find the time to write an over 400 page counting autobiography? 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He wrote a novel named The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace”, during an Iron Maiden tour in the late eighties and even a sequel to to that book named The Missionary Position.\n\n \n![6.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZ2mHTTKAwLJ5NXd8PAh8ieFq5KsCC5Ke19T26qZT8MnF/6.jpg)\n\n\n \n\nRegarding the writing style, I have to say the book reads very easily. It took me 2 sleepless nights to get through It’s very loosely written and has the typical touch of Bruce Dickinson.\n\nHe has a way of getting things trough. In an article with the Rolling Stone, he replied to a question about a statement he once made like this:\n\n\"So is it arrogant? Uh, yeah. You're the lead singer of Iron Maiden, and you're going to be arrogant every now and again, because it kind of goes with the territory, yeah. Mick Jagger, is he arrogant? Yeah, probably – it's Mick Jagger, for fuck's sake. Do I make a distinction between me walking down the street and me onstage with Iron Maiden? Yeah”\",\n\nPhrases like this can be found throughout the book.\n\nAs a downside I would mention that he doesn´t go too much into his personal life, just some slight touches. Regarding this he commented: \n\n“I think if you throw marriages and things like that in, you automatically have to throw in divorces and all the rest of it. It's part of your life, but not part of your life that's any relevance to other people. I think you open a big can of worms there, which I don't see as any point in doing. The point of the book is to tell some great stories.”\n\nAnd he´s right, his personal life is his own, but if you buy an autobiography about a public personality, you kind of expect some insights in their personal lives right?\n\nSome referrals or explanations that could help to understand some of his mayor life changing decisions he made throughout his life. 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When i hear some short dark riff, it´s all coming from Tommy Iomi.\n\n ![03.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTGm7a1EBJnDRirAmookvSnFmpQ6oyiHxCv7NnZBpSN4U/03.png)\n\n\nMaybe i´m getting just old, and it´s getting hard for me to realise that the glorious days of heavy metal and rock and roll are long gone. It had something special to take a disc out of the package, read the booklet..hmm.\n\nI used to think 4 times before spending 30 of my hard earned euros on a new record. I could do that once every 2 months at best. Now I hear people say that paying 9,99EUR (About 12 dollars) for a Spotify account is too much money. For just 12 bucks you have access to more then 30 million songs!, limitless!, on the go! Perhaps 12 dollars is expensive after all, when you can listen to most of it free anyways. (youtube).\n\nThe way people listen to music has changed. Not only the format (physical to digitalI), but in the actual way they listen to the songs. My generation used to listen to complete albums.\n\nWe just inserted the disc and let it play. Nowadays people tend to skip faster, from one song to another, from one artist to another. On some discs I really loved song 3 and 5. Then, after some time (weeks) i suddenly loved nº4. It was just the-song-in-between, that had time time to convince me, only because i was to lazy to get up and push the next button.\n\nNow everything is at hand with online streaming services, just a click away. Listeners have changed. (Can we still call them listeners when they really stop listening?)  Perhaps some masterpiece of a the next big Nordic metalband, is just \"skipped\" away. We used to really listen and analize music. Some songs are like coffee*, the first sip is bitter, not very convincing, but later you cannot live without it. \n\nMaybe just because you can have 30 million songs at your disposal makes you less openminded about listening to something that, at first, doesn't get you from the first few seconds. \n\nPlease understand me correct, I do think there is good music out there, there are some really high quality groups making fantastic songs. It just really hard to stand out. Internet has opened an enormous international market. Where before bands only got listened to locally, or nationally if they were lucky, now they can be heard worldwide. But they also have worldwide competition. \n\n\n![04.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQWr85sEL4STonHRyzB19YPZ3MktA3tX16chng7VuEVyU/04.jpg)\n<sub>Photo: Ralph Arvesen</sub\nWhat is the next supergroup? The next Metallica, the next Iron Maiden? These groups are still touring yes, Metallica being especially popular, and seem to still have some gas to give. But they are no youngsters. Where are the new guys?\n\nWill I someday teach my children or grandchildren heavy-metal music, just like my father thought me to love the Blues? Will metal go the same route as the Blues?\n\nBlues was the music to listen too decades to go, it´s definitely not dead. It cannot be, as it is the origin of most of the genres. But how many blues songs do you hear on popular radios?, probably the same amount as true heavy metal music.\n\nTo quote Zoltán Báthory, guitarist for Five Finger Death Punch, from an article last year on observer.com:\n\n>“Every genre has a cycle. Metal and hard rock has gone through various phases, and I think we’re going to experience those phases again,” \n\n“In the ’80s,” Zoltán continues, “hard rock and heavy metal was in the spotlight and was probably the most important genre at the time. It was a voice of rebellion, the voice of a new young generation going up against the establishment. It became a passionate movement that eventually had so many followers that it became its own micro economy. All of a sudden some young, longhaired, tattooed guys could become extremely popular and sell millions of records.”\n\nI couldn't agree more. Heavy Metal and Rock (as Blues), were underground movements. Gatherings of angry people, rebellious people. Just listen to the rage in the voice of Paul Di'Anno in \"Running Free\".\n\n ![05.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXqNqcihXQapWdSyRH5eLNeFaYHLvfiRbshjUB5ZvuhGA/05.jpg)\n\nHas the world suddenly become a perfect place? Is everybody living in perfect harmony, happy flowers growing everywhere?. I don´t think so, the world is different, but there are some problems that keep existing. Racism is still here, unemployment never left, wars are raging. Where are the angry people?, or is nobody angry anymore? 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I guess coffee will do fine as well. </sub>\n\n <sub>p.d.: You probably think i´m near 60. Nope i´m under 40. Just a tiny little bit under 40, but under 40 I am :)</sub>",
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      "body": "Hi all,\n\n**Newby alert! :)**\n\n\nThis is my  **first** post on Steemit. I´ve been *\"leeching\"* for some while now, but I would now also like to  contribute to this amazing community.\n\n**Let me first quickly introduce myself.**\n\nI´m just a normal guy in his late 30´s. Born in the Netherlands and living in the south of Spain for over 12 years now.\nI have a normal office job and my interest are mainly (metal) music and new technologies.\n\nI´ve been looking into trading and investing for quite some while now and was introduced to it by a friend. He was giving some introduction clases on day trading and as this was (and partly still is) a mystical and unknown area for me, I decided to take the clases and learn something along the way.\n\n**Forex papertrading**\n\nThat was about two years ago.  Since then i´ve been reading and papertrading in Forex. \nThe course was oriented on day trading de SP500, but I switched to forex, both for its high volatility as it being a 24h market which fitted way better in my daily schedule. 4 hour charts, allowed me check the charts before going to work, at breakfast and lunch break as well as the bar (candlestick) from the afternoon and evening. I would only mis a bar at 3 or 4 in the morning, depending on wether it was summer or wintertime.\n\nInitially I had bad results as I did not have any good strategy or I did have one, but was not disciplined enough to keep applying the rules. Although I kept hopping from one strategy to another, I did learn everything about moving averages, MACDs, Fibonacci, price action Bollinger bands etc.\n\n**Books**\n\nAfter reading some more books, and especially some of Alexander Elder, I came to the conclusion that strategy is not as important as I thought it was. The money management, risk control, and trading psychology weights allot more then a strategy. With a good money management and a very primitive strategy like a coin flip could already turn out profitable. (Try it!, you can use the random function of excel to generator a list of prices).\n\nBook recommendations:\n![elder 2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSvkQPkMjjBbjiR8Utgwi2bwDWthqJMh1AtGvJm6siLbF/elder%202.jpg)\n\nWith the strategy I had come up with, basically based on engulfing patterns on weekly charts, indicating trade direction, and price action on 4h charts, I started to make some virtual profit (virtual, still paper trading)\nAlthough i´ve had some good results with my strategy (about 18% in 6-7 months), i haven´t made the step to live trading yet. Mainly because with the strategy i have been using i need a capìtal that i do not have availble yet.\nI backtested almost 30 pairs for the last 5 years, and had very good results. I needed to raise capital to start trading\n\n**Cryptocurrencies**\n\nAfter not paper trading for a while, my attention was drawn to the enormous gains of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This was in June of this year, right when all cryptos where peaking out. The fear of missing out (The famous FOMO term), let me to buying into NEM, XRP and Digibyte. Although it was not more then 80 dollars or so, it was a stupid decision. I just entered in a uptrend and was hoping this would continue. Alexander Elder called this the theory of a greater fool. (As you asume a greater fool then you would enter and keep buying, drifting the price up). I entered without any risk strategy or any strategy whatsoever. I just entered for being greedy. \n\n**First serious buy!**\n\nNow, a few months later, I am a little more serious about entering a trade or not. First I only look at coins that are around for a few years, no ICO madness for me. Then I look at coins that are interesting, and have a good website, blog and team to really make it. Last of all I look at coins that came way back from where they peaked. This is because I´m kind of a technical analysis kind of guy, and I like to have some historial date so I can look for support and resistance levels. I would note trade bitcoin that fast, as it is continuously at new heights, at new and unknown levels. A couple of weeks ago I bought some Bitshares. It cought my eye when it was about 0,17ct and marked it as a buy if it would hover around de 6ct area. I finally bought around 6500 BTS at  0.58ct/each.\n\n![transparent_b.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXuk4tQmZXwtzMduRcHvoF8iT1gf55reBoU8r34RThXuA/transparent_b.png)\n\n\n**Money management??**\n\nNow here’s the thing; this, in my eyes this is more longterm, more “investing” as to what I was used to doing in Forex, where I would enter and exit a trade in a maximum of 3-4 days (day trading), sometimes I only needed hours before my stoploss or take profit targets hit. \n\nThe thing that keeps me worrying, is that I had a entrance strategy, but I do not have an exit strategy. What will happen if the price falls below 0,2ct, would I sell, or keep holding?. Or what if price suddenly exploded, and pass historic maximums of 40ct, 50ct, or even 60ct?, would I sell? I would probably sell half of my shares when price action shows a big red bar on an uptrend, but I don’t have any “golden” exit rules like I had with forex trading.\n\nShould I just HODL (what a funny term, in a o so famous [thread](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0) by the way) or should I have a set price level for exiting?\n\nAnother thing that bothers me, is that I do not have any money management of any kind. How do you guys do his? I just spent some 400-ish dollars on a coin that looked good. Whatever happened to the 2% and 6% rules Elder taught me and I applied o so religiously to my forex trading.\n\n*(Elder teaches that only risking 2% of your available capital, would keep you save from the sharks, avoiding large losses, wether the 6% rules forbids to put on any trade when you lost more then 6% that particular month, keeping you save from the “piranhas” nibbling your capital to the bare bone.)*\n\n![sharktophus.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPCWx1ti4o4MjGYmHmsKxFdH3vKxs2QCQvu3bDosDJeRY/sharktophus.jpg)\n<sub><sup>Everything better then the horrifying Pirhanaconda, or the Sharktopus, the Hybrid Horror from the deep!</sup></sub>\n\nI understand that if I had a trading account of 10k or more, I could easily apply these rules but what if my available capital is only 500 dollars or less. It would mean I could only buy 10 dollars of bitshares. 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