I find the entire field of crypto assets incredibly fascinating as it really is one deep rabbit hole. One of the aspects that have captured the imagination of millions worldwide is crypto trading. We’ve all seen stories of young people who found incredible riches through trading cryptocurrencies, although there undoubtedly are many (less publicized) failures too.

Trading can be a brutal job though, requiring long hours of looking at screens and usually inflicting a significant emotional toll. I was looking into how things can be simplified and structured when I came across Coinrule. I eventually interviewed the founders on the Mastermind.fm podcast.

I ended up going down the crypto trading bot rabbit hole and became fascinated by how they work.

Here are the best trading bot services available today:

• Cryptohopper
• Coinrule
• Tradesanta
• Shrimpy
• 3Commas
• Haasonline

In today’s world, more than half of cryptocurrency trading volume is driven by complex trading bots. Yet, 75% of all hobbyist traders cannot write a single line of code. Coinrule empowers regular traders to compete with professional algorithmic traders and Hedge funds: a smart assistant to build automated rules for crypto exchanges without having to code.

Clearly, bots can be of great help with crypto trading.

Bots use technical indicators and tools to study market prices, charts, trends and other factors to derive optimum conditions for entry or exit in a trade. The algorithm passes the order for a trade to a cryptocurrency exchange platform through application processing interface (API), which acts as a link between the exchange and algorithm. Additionally, bots facilitate automated trading in 24/7 operational cryptocurrency markets at a much faster scale than humanly possible.

Furthermore, bots can be leveraged in multiple ways to facilitate trading in crypto markets. The functionalities of cryptocurrency robots extend far beyond automated cryptocurrency trading. Novice traders, as well as experts, can access crypto bots for multiple purposes that can facilitate a seamless, effective and smooth trading experience.

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Over the years, I’ve been experimenting with finding the best brands for different scenarios. I tend to focus on brands that produce natural cosmetics and for clothing those that focus on natural materials like merino wool.

This exercise is important for me because once I know which are my favorite brands I can reduce my options and know that whatever I buy from these brands will fit me well and feel good. Having many options to choose from is a huge time sink for me and one of my main enemies in the quest for high productivity.

Here’s a list of the clothing brands I love and typically stick to.

Underwear

• Icebreaker
• Polo boxers (for sleeping in)
• Under Armour
• Smartwool
• Lacoste
• Odlo, Puma, Under Armour for Tennis and Padel

Sportswear

• Nike
• Icebreaker
• Salomon
• Gore
• The North Face

Jackets

• The North Face

Footwear

• Asics & Wilson – Tennis and Padel
• Nike – casual shoes, football
• Xpand laces
• Salomon – hiking shoes
• Timberland – winter boots
• Lacoste

Socks

• Smartwool
• Icebreaker
• Falke
• Vitalsox
• Vincere for Beach Tennis

Cosmetics

Using the right products around the house and for personal hygiene and care is very important. So you can say that every product I own has been carefully selected to make sure there are no harmful chemicals present and that it does what it says. I’ve honed this process over many years, so I wanted to document my process in a few lines here.

I use the following apps and websites for research into ingredients:

• INCI Decoder – tells you what ingredients do in layman form
• EWG Skin Deep – ingredient and product research
• Skin Carisma
• Skin Safe

These are some of my favorite brands:

• Weleda
• L’Occitane
• La Roche Posay
• ISDIN
• Sebamed
• Satin Naturel
• Procoal
• Lush
• Golden Beards – beard care
• Mr Natty
• Suavecito
  Hanz de Fuko
• Cellar Door
• L’Occitaine – most daily care products

This PDF is worth a look at for understanding the basics on product safety and how to pick better products.

Essential Oils

I like using essential oils or blends of them in diffusers while I work. The world of aromatherapy and oils is quite an interesting one, although it can also be quite scammy in terms of claims and products.

When buying essential oils you need to make sure you’re buying the right quality, which means products that are 100% natural. If the price looks too good and it comes from suspicious vendors (looking at the Chinese ones on Amazon especially here) you should look away.

In the United States, companies like Doterra have quite a bad reputation due to their MLM-type structure and outlandish health claims, so be aware of things that are too good to be true.

In Spain, I’ve encountered a few reputable brands:

• Essenciales – only available from their online store
• Sisen – high-end brand with excellent info about each oil
• Phytofrance – very good French brand
• Pranarom – French brand found in many local shops
• Terpenic – a Spanish brand

In Barcelona a good shop for essential oils is Arke.

Electric Vehicles and Toys

• Brompton
• Other brands found on this site

Further reading

• Best Merino Wool brands
• Best outdoor brands

Here’s a list of newsletters that I am subscribed to. I save most of the articles I receive into Pocket and then read the best of those during any downtime I have during the day. Apart from these newsletters, I also consume a lot of content through podcasts and through RSS aggregation websites such as Euro Finance Blogs.

Spirituality / Deeper Thinking

• Sloww
• Farnam Street Brain Food
• Raptitude
• Motherfucking Monday

Investments

• Collaborative Fund
• CryptoCompare’s Crypto Roundup
• Spanish Property Insight
• Bitwise Monthly Newsletter

Health & Sport

• Healthline Nutrition

Parenthood

• Daily Dad

General Knowledge

• ThoughtCo’s What I Learnt About Today
• The Loop
• 3-2-1 Thursday
• 5 Bullet Friday

WordPress

• Post Status

If you are launching a business in Spain and don’t intend to expand beyond this country, it would be a very good idea to get the .es domain suffix as Google and other search engines give preference to such domains in geolocated searches.

That means that with all other things being equal, if a user searches from Spain, Google will give more prominence to mydomain.es than to mydomain.com.

Registering a .es domain is quite straightforward.

You can go to the government’s own website that handles registrations, however, I would not recommend it as it’s a hassle to register there and it’s not that user-friendly.

I would instead recommend any of the following registrars:

• Namecheap
• Siteground

The Registrant, Technical and Billing Contacts of an .ES domain name may either be a natural person/individual or a company. The Admin Contact must be a natural person/individual only.

While registering a .ES domain, you need to provide an identification number (DNI/NIE/passport), and if registering as a business, the VAT number.

The cost of .es domains is usually between 10 and 15 Euro depending on the registrar, and it is renewed every year.

Buy a .es domain