Welcome to 17and17.

Welcome and thank you for looking at 17and17.  This blog is about accumlating capital.  I personally focus mostly on the U.S. Stock Market at this time.  I am developing a strategy to position trade and swing trade securities.  I am still new to the game so to speak;  I know the basics.  Every week I am learning more though and I will become an expert in time.

I will also write about politics, budgeting and other misc. subjects if they relate to becoming successful.  This blog is about making money into more money.

I will not give out specific stock tips however.  There are too many idiots in the world who would actually take a stock 'tip' from some blog that some guy they don't know wrote and buy the stock with out even knowing what MACD is.  Tips are for waiters, not for purchasing or selling stocks.  I may write about bad stocks or stocks that I don't like anymore at times.  This is justifiable because if you can short a stock and understand the mechanics behind shorting stocks or buying puts then you BETTER know not to take random stock tips from strangers. 

Feel free to write me suggestions, criticisms or other comments.  A couple ground rules for that: 1. Don't be abusive because my Mother reads this blog.  She wanted to run on the football field and stab the other children in the neck when I played little league football and I got knocked over.  Enough said on #1 then.  2.) Don't say horribly bad things about Jim Cramer!  Criticism is okay but keep it respectful.  3.)  Don't try to post stock tips in the comments on this page!  4.) Be courteous to others.  Debate is welcome, hiding behind keyboard tough guys are not.

Lastly, because I work for a television station let me say that the U.S. Constitution doesn't give you the right to say or do anything on this page, and I do not believe that you have a lawyer to sue me if I change, add, or break a rule.  Plus whether I own, buy, or sell a stock I discuss on my blog is my business.  That being said I will always do my best to be ethical, I live 1,700 miles from Manhattan.