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Some List Builders Dream, Others Build
You may have a decent-sized list, but they just don't buy. Could you have the wrong list? How did you come by the folks who joined? Are they from sort of free advertising, or did you build them by placing ads in ezines? Do you know what they want? How do you know which items to sell them? All of these questions are important.We'll discuss them in order.First, how did you come by the folks who joined? If you're building a list from free traffic sources, chances are that your list won't be very responsive. Most people who use these are complete newbies, or they're just people who jump from program to program, looking to make their first million dollars. They don't buy because they bought into the myth that people find overnight riches, with no investment. They aren't business people and don't know that the first rule of business is that you have to spend money to make money. You're better off building a list somewhere where people are serious about building a business.Though organic traffic is a

vehicle for day-traders than the equity markets.

Low Transaction Costs

A currency transaction typically incurs no commission or transaction fees. For a forex trader, the spread is the only cost he or she needs to cover in taking on a position. In addition, because of the currency market's efficiency, there is little or no ‘slippage' costs.

‘Slippage' is the cost involved when traders enter the market at a price worse than the level they wanted to get into. For example, a trader wants to buy a share at $2.00 but by the time, the order gets executed, his gets to buy the shares at $2.50. That fifty cents difference is his slippage cost. Slippage cost affects large-volume traders a lot. When they buy large quantities of a commodity, it oversupplies the market with buy orders. This applies a pressure for the price to go up. By the time they get to buy all the quantities they wanted, the average price they got their commodities would be higher than the price they intended to get them for. Conversely, when they sell large quantities of a commodity, they oversupply the market with sell orders. This applies a pressure for the price to go down. By the time they

Decking the Halls While Running Your Business
It’s the holiday season, and, with all the decking of halls, jingling of bells and lighting of candles, it’s getting harder and harder to keep your mind on work.What to do when business still must move forward, but your heart is really on wrapping presents, holiday parties, and relaxing by a chestnut-roasting fire?This is a time of year for reflecting, spending time with family, and taking in the sights and sounds of the holidays. I actually recommend that you do as much of that as possible. Yes, you must attend to your obligations, keep your business moving forward and do actual work, but you can have the best of both worlds. Here are five things you can do to get your work done and have a great holiday season.1. Get up earlier. I know, that alarm clock already goes off way too soon. But, if you get up even 30 minutes earlier, you can get your day started and get more accomplished sooner. This will allow time in the middle or end of your day to take in the sites, get some shopping done, or ju

Historically, the FX market was available most to major banks, multinational corporations and other participants who traded in large transaction sizes and volumes. Small-scale traders including individuals like you and I, had little access to this market for such a long time. Now with the advent of the Internet and technology, FX trading is becoming an increasingly popular investment alternative for the general public.

The benefits of trading the currency market:

It is open 24-hours and it closes only on the weekends;

It is very liquid and efficient;

It is very volatile;

It has very low transaction costs;

You can use a high level of leverage (borrowed money) with ease; and

You can profit from a bull or a bear market.

Continuous, 24-Hour Trading

The currency exchange is a 24-hour market. You may decide to trade after you come home from work. Regardless of what time-frame you want to trade at whatever time of the day, there would be enough buyers and sellers to take the other side of your trade. This feature of the market gives you enough flexibility to manage your trading around your daily routine.

Liquidity And Efficiency

When there are a lot of buyers and a lot of sellers, you can expect to buy or sell at a price that is very close to the last market price. The currency market is the most liquid market in the world. Trading volume in the currency markets can be between 50 and 100 times larger than the New York Stock Exchange (Source: Oanda.)

When you are trading stocks, you may have experienced events where one piece of news accelerates or decelerates the price of the underlying stock you may have bought into. Perhaps a director has been kicked out by the shareholders of a company or the company has just released a new product and big investors are buying the shares of a particular company. Share prices can be drastically affected by the actions or inactions of one or a few individuals. So if you are relying on television reports and newspapers to get your news, most of the opportunities or warnings will have come too late for you to take advantage by the time you get them.

The value of currencies on the other hand is affected by so many factors and so many participants that the likelihood of any one individual or group of individuals drastically affecting the value of a currency is minute. Because of its sheer size, the currency market is hard to manipulate. The ability for people to engage in ‘insider trading' is virtually eliminated. As an average trader, you are less disadvantaged. You are likely to be playing on relatively equal ground along with all the other traders and investors whom you are competing against.

Note about price gaps:

For those people who have already traded other markets, you probably know about price ‘gaps'. ‘Gaps' occur when prices ‘jump' from one price level to another without having taken any incremental steps to get there. For example, you may be trading a share that closes at $10 at the end of today but due to some event that happens overnight; it opens tomorrow at $5 and continues to go downwards for the rest of the day.

Gaps bring about another degree of uncertainty that may meddle with a trader's strategy. Probably one of the most worrying aspects of this is when a trader uses stop-losses. In this case, if a trader puts a stop-loss at $7 because he no longer wants to be in a trade if the share price hits $7, his trade will remain open overnight and the trader wakes up tomorrow with a loss bigger than he may have been prepared for.

After looking at a couple of forex charts, you will realize that there are little price ‘gaps' or none at all, especially on the longer-term charts like the 3-hour, 4-hour or the daily charts.

Volatility

Trading opportunities exist when prices fluctuate. If you buy a share for $2 and it stays there, there is no opportunity to make a profit. The magnitude of level of this fluctuation and its frequency is referred to as volatility. As a trader, it is volatility that you profit from. Large volume transactions and high liquidity combined with fewer trading instruments generate greater intra-day volatility in the currency market that can be exploited by day-traders. The high volatility of the currency market indicates that a trader can potentially earn 5 times more money from currency trading than trading the most liquid shares.

Volatility is a measure of maximum return that a trader can generate with perfect foresight. Volatility for the most liquid stocks are between 60 to 100. Volatility for currency trading is 500. (Source: Oanda.)

In this respect, currencies make a better trading vehicle for day-traders than the equity markets.

Low Transaction Costs

How To Make Your Site RSS User-Friendly
Despite all the hype and fuss surrounding RSS recently, for the majority of mainstream Internet users, RSS still remains a mysterious orange button sitting on your web site. They are totally unaware of this new method of syndicating information on the web.This is not necessarily bad news!For many Internet users are enjoying the benefits of RSS while remaining totally clueless as to its function or how it works. Programs like 'MyYahoo' and the RSS empowered Firefox Browser are letting surfers access RSS and enjoy its major benefits without having any or no knowledge of it.In the very near future when Microsoft introduces its new RSS powered Longhorn Browser and operating system - this situation will hopefully continue. Internet users should be able to enjoy all the benefits of RSS without having to know what it is!Users don't have to know 'DOS' or even 'HTML' to enjoy the full benefits of the Internet and their computers. RSS should fall into this same category. It woul

Efficiency

Note about price gaps:

After looking at a couple of forex charts, you will realize that there are little price ‘gaps' or none at all, especially on the longer-term charts like the 3-hour, 4-hour or the daily charts.

Volatility

In this respect, currencies make a better trading vehicle for day-traders than the equity markets.

Low Transaction Costs

Multiple Parcel Tracking & Management
The whole concept of parcel delivery has changed drastically over just a few generations. People send enormous quantities of goods all over the world every day.Back in the old days, people would write long letters to their friends and family overseas and then they would pass those envelopes to sailors who were heading off in the right direction. Somehow, unbelievably, some of those letters actually made it to their destinations! The journey took months or years, the envelopes and ships were often lost at sea and the addressee was sometimes never found.These days we are very fortunate in that we have all manner of super-fast, super-advanced means of transport available. In theory, we can safely send anything around the world, be it as small as a book or as big and complicated as an entire star-wars toy collection numbering thousands of individual pieces. This is made possible by the growing efficiency of both hardware and software in our private and working lives.Why bother to track each par

the value of a currency is minute. Because of its sheer size, the currency market is hard to manipulate. The ability for people to engage in ‘insider trading' is virtually eliminated. As an average trader, you are less disadvantaged. You are likely to be playing on relatively equal ground along with all the other traders and investors whom you are competing against.

Note about price gaps:

After looking at a couple of forex charts, you will realize that there are little price ‘gaps' or none at all, especially on the longer-term charts like the 3-hour, 4-hour or the daily charts.

Volatility

In this respect, currencies make a better trading vehicle for day-traders than the equity markets.

Low Transaction Costs

Why You Should Always Ask
I had an e-mail from Karon of Wollongong, Australia who finally plucked up the courage to ask her employer for some outside professional development training to be attended in working hours. Here is what she had to say.Encouraged by your newsletter I thought I would check if my company was willing to pay for training in company time so that I could advance my career within the company.I enjoy my job and I know they value my expertise, but they had never thought of staff development and although surprised by my request, and my sales pitch as to how it can benefit them, they said yes. That was the beginning of a nightmare. I knew I wanted to do Project Management, but had no idea how to look for an accredited course, if possible.I tried the Universities and TAFE colleges. None offered courses specifically dealing with Project Management, so I turned to the Internet. It soon became apparent that you needed to belong to an Industry Association or Professional Organization to find relevant train

orrow with a loss bigger than he may have been prepared for.

After looking at a couple of forex charts, you will realize that there are little price ‘gaps' or none at all, especially on the longer-term charts like the 3-hour, 4-hour or the daily charts.

Volatility

In this respect, currencies make a better trading vehicle for day-traders than the equity markets.

Low Transaction Costs

E-currency Exchange: Can Darwing be Applied to It?
How would you feel if you doubled your invesment within your first month? Do you know this is possible with E-currency Exchange ?To some people it may sound like it's not something they can do. I actually hadn't given it much though, but I must say I was pleasantly surprised when I realized I had actually doubled my investment in less than 30 days. The only reason why you wouldn't be able to get this results for yourself would be because you don't get the proper education for yourself.Most people don't realize that when a pro teaches you directly in his area of expertise, you start to learn much faster and gain understanding of things that could take you years to learn for yourself. The same can be applied when you want to get into E-currency Trading. What takes months to figure out you can learn in hours when you decide to learn directly from a pro.This is one crucial principle most people must start applying it into their lives to become succesful: Learning from others means becoming succesf

vehicle for day-traders than the equity markets.

Low Transaction Costs

Due to lower transaction costs, minimum slippage and strong intra-day volatility, individuals can trade frequently at small costs. As an approximate, you may only expect to have a spread of 0.03% of your position size. To give you an example, you can buy and sell 10,000 US Dollars and this will only incur a 3-point spread, equivalent to $3.

Leverage

There are not a lot of banks or people who would lend you money so that you can use it to trade shares. And if there are, it would be very hard for you to convince them to invest in you and in your idea that a certain share is going to go up or down. Therefore, most of the time, if you have a $10,000 account, you can only really afford to buy $10,000 worth of stocks.

In currency trading however, because you use ‘borrowed money', you can trade $10,000 of a currency and you only need anywhere between fifty (For a margin lending ratio of 200:1) to two hundred dollars ( For a margin lending ratio of 50:1) in your trading account. This makes it possible for an average trader with a small trading account, under $10,000 to be able to profit sufficiently from the movements of the currency exchange rates. This concept is explained further in The Part-Time Currency Trader.

Profit From A Bull And Bear Market

When you are trading shares, you can only profit when the price of a stock goes up. When you suspect that it is about to go down or that it is just going to be moving sideways, then the only thing you can do is sell your shares and stand aside. One of the frustrations of trading shares is that an individual cannot profit when prices are going down. In the currency market, it is easy for you to trade a currency downward so that you can profit when you think it is going to loose value. This is easy to do because currency trading simply involves buying one currency and selling another, there is no structural bias that makes it difficult to trade ‘downwards'. This is why the currency market has been occasionally referred to as the eternal bull market.

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