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I will migrate this blog in the next few days to www.thebuffalotrader.com, but in the interim (that is for the next few months), I will also keep www.davidbuffalo.com pointed to this blog until folks get used to it and make the change. I will be migrating to WordPress this week.

The reason for it is that I am frustrated with the following things:

1) My inability to manipulate Movable Type to accept blog rolls (for outbound links) so that readers can read the same things I study, if they choose, when making market decisions each day. I feel that I have been selfish in getting nearly 500 inbound links (which is amazing given my limited exposure to blogging) and I cannot share that wealth of interest (for which I am very grateful). I have as many inbound links as many well established pay or free newsletter blogs, and I have only existed for about a year. Again, I want to be able to share that wealth with those who have supported this blog.

2) I want to add metatags effectively so that information can be sorted out in the search engines, which seems never to work in Movable Type. For that reason, no one can find this blog other than a random click on Google (I assume people are curious about something called a Buffalo Trader, and are looking for bison livestock. Yep, I have to change that).

3) I want to make this blog interactive. I will use Discus when I get the WordPress going, because I want to more fully understand what you expect from this blog. It took Movable Type 11.5 months to create an easily accessible reply application (which I used for the first time today). Though I may at some point put advertising on this thing, I want the blog to be a free exchange for traders who are unfamiliar with pattern trading and who might also want to learn about Fibonacci patterns. Free means no cost to you. I am going to host this thing myself, so I want it to cover that cost. I think if I do weekly analysis like you saw on $CTSH and $BMC, I will get advertisers. Some of my best work goes beyond the realm of the 5-15 day trade, but I can make money that way also.

Stay connected to www.davidbuffalo.com until I get the new blog running and set up. I will shoot you a final post when it happens. I hope it will happen by week's end, but in keeping with my status as social media retard, I am doing it the hard way so that I will know what it takes to set up two other blogs. There will be one for ranting, and one for a non-trading related venture. I feel better able to manage things I understand, and I do not understand the set-up of the blogosphere. I will do that in December.

That will have some short-term negative side effects. I will basically be shutting down trading operations (or at least publishing related to that trading, during this time). Do not despair (those 3 1/2 handfuls that represent the core readership and might actually think I am quitting). I am not. It will just take time for me to figure this stuff out. I quit programming HTML in 1999-2000. If I see something important, I will post regarding it.

I also owe you folks the rest of that bloggers to do list and the 3rd post on spotting lows. It is coming. I also hope that I can provide some video content as well when it makes sense. I am not a big fan of video (as unless it is point-specific, videos ramble and, in my view, waste time). Still, a good one now and then could help.

Finally, I want to thank a few folks who have helped me get published when beforehand I was a trader in South Carolina that no one knew existed or understood exactly what I did and do for income. I want to thank:

1) Fred Van Duuren and Shane Hurren for answering my e-mail about 5 years ago and giving me a publishing outlet on www.mrswing.com. There is a lot of useful stuff on that website for traders of all stripes. I hope it has been mutually beneficial. Those guys bust their butts to produce a good trading website.

2) I also want to thank The BizRadio Network (www.bizradio.com) and Vince Rowe (www.vincerowe.com) for allowing me a radio voice for a little over 4 years which should probably have ended 3 years and 364 days sooner. What was once a radio ad for www.mrswing.com turned into a tiny radio career. Though I piddled with radio in my younger days, I never knew I could keep an audience from falling asleep (at least I hope I did not and do not).when discussing swing trading and investing. I think the show is on in at least 5 major U.S. markets. I miss the interactive charts we used to have in the early days, but the conversation is still fun and I hope informative.

3) I also want to thank Howard Lindzon, Dr. Phil Pearlman, and Soren Macbeth of StockTwits.com for giving me a tiny voice in that stream and on www.diebrokeblog.com as its editor. It is a fledgling but I think pretty effective personal finance blog that will deal with real issues and hopefully will be a constant resource of personal finance information. Additional thanks go to Tamela Rich, Barrie Abelard, and Tickerville's (www.tickerville.com) Quint Tatro for doing yeoman's work. If I did not have these folks around, I would be operating the diebrokeblog submarine at 50,000 leagues with the main hatch open, and I cannot hold my breath that long.

4) And last but not least, to you, the readers of this blog. I really appreciate the readership and the comments I have received (no matter how impossible it might have been to receive them at times). You are the reason I invest the time in writing. I hope I have helped you in your journey as traders this year. For the roughly 8,000 visitors, and the roughly 35 to 50 of you who read this blog at least 3 times a week, I really appreciate your patronage. I will do all I can to constantly improve this blog. I think this is the second blog I have ever created, and it has lasted longer than even I thought it might. As long as I see people reading it, I will keep writing it. Let me know what you want to see more of or less of, and I will do my best to provide content you want and need.

For those of you looking for bison calves, you came to the wrong place. I wish you much success in your quest.

For everyone else, have a great month trading this month, and have a fantastic 2010 also.