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Recently at a convention on FOREX Hedging there were people in the audience who had spent as much as 80,000 or more on trading courses. None of them had any success with trying to predict trends as directional traders. Most lost a lot of money in the process.

Apparently there are about 250,000 FOREX traders. I would guess that 98% of them are directional traders. Yes, 250,000 traders in a 3.2 Trillion/day market while there are 144 Million stock traders in a much smaller market place. The New York stock exchange is about 30 million a day and comes nowhere near the liquidity of the decentralized FOREX market.

So, why so few are hedging the FOREX market? I believe this is mostly because of a lack of a system that consistently works.

Most directional traders with any experience have thought of hedging the market but most come to the conclusion the hedge just cancels itself out over time. So, most just give up on it not knowing how to make it work. But, what if, instead of zeroing out all profits you could actually double your profits with the hedge?

Let’s take the EURUSD and the CHFUSD pairs.

These pairs are historically negatively 93-98% of the time. That is when one pair goes up the other goes down, and vice versa, up to 98% of the time. Now, over time these would pretty much just cancel each other out and you would not be left with much of a profit and maybe would even see a slight loss if the hedge was not in your favor.

Now what if you could ALWAYS buy low when one pair went down and sell high when the other correlated pair went up? And when the market corrected do the same in the opposite direction over and over and over again?

This is how I ‘trade’ the market. Really it is more like ‘investing’ since I do not look at charts, do no analysis of markets, care very little about fundamentals as long as the hedge is sticking. I also only spend about 5-15 minutes a week resetting my buy and sell limits. The rest is done automatically.

Now, that is the ONE of the ways that I build my equity. The other is daily interest paid at special negotiated rates from some of the biggest brokers in the US and Switzerland. Not all brokers are alike in the rates that they pay even though they are based on the rates set by the respective central banks.

Because the system I use is so consistent and works so well the brokers are not only willing to bend over backwards to give us the best interest rates available they are also willing to give us 400:1 leveraging. Some brokers extend this 400:1 leveraging up to one million dollars. Note that no other system to my knowledge gets this kind of leverage on that kind of money. It is a first in FOREX retail history and there is a good reason why.

Now, at first blush you may think that 400:1 leveraging is increasing our risk. In directional trading it certainly would be putting you in grave danger of losing your capital all that much quicker.

But, in fact, when you hedge the market as we do 400:1 leverage actually DECREASES your risk. Hence, the brokers are quite happy to provide this kind of leverage for this style of trading because it actually reduces the risk of a margin call and it makes the brokers that much more money.

Now, why is 400:1 so important to hedging the market in the way we do it? Well, because of the daily interest!

Let’s take an example and say you have $5000 in your trading account and a 10% margin set.

That means you have $500 allocated to the market. If the net interest we receive is 1.11% annually then this would not be a lot of money. We could do better at the bank! …well maybe…

But, what happens when this $500 is leveraged at 400:1? All of a sudden this 1.11% interest becomes 44% per annum! Now, I am sure you would agree that this is a return worth looking at and that most money managers would sell their mothers for this kind of return!

But, this return does not include the buy low/sell high profits. Add these all together and you have a system that on fairly conservative margin can produce very handsome and consistent profits without risking your shirt and without needing to sit in front of a computer all day and night watching charts until you go cross-eyed.

There is one more way that equity can increase or decrease. That is via the market fluctuations in the hedge. Sometimes the hedge will work in your favor and sometimes it will go against you. When it is in your favor you can see windfall profits beyond the daily interest and buy and selling process. If it goes against you it will cause a pullback in your equity for a period of time.

Compounding is also possible. When your balance and equity increase significantly over time your margin is going down. That means it is getting more conservative and safer if you just let it grow. But, if you want to keep your margin at say 10% then you can reallocate your portfolio and buy more lots which bring more interest and more buy low/sell profits.

Now, if you think that daily interest at 400:1 and 100% winning transactions makes sense what would you think if we could smooth out the fluctuations that give us the big profits and big pullbacks, i.e. volatility?

Well, we could up our margin could we not? We could increase our margin without incurring much more risk and in fact may even be able to reduce it when we hedge the hedge. The net result means more interest, more profit, and less risk while freeing up our time to spend the money we are making instead of ignoring our family stuck to a chart on a screen.

Presently such an enhancement is in testing and may soon to be released to the public if tests are successful. If you want to keep updated on this new development be sure to subscribe to my update list.

By learning how to HEDGE the FOREX you not only increase your profit and reduce your risk. You can also get a life! That to me is the most attractive part of this whole system.

The great thing is it is not difficult to learn either. I personally coach people in the system I use and it usually takes a couple of hours and about 10 minutes a week to monitor before my students are on their own.

Wayne Nash is a semi-retired investment professional, FOREX trader, and online entrepreneur with over 15 Years of online marketing, coaching, and investing experience and serves a large international investors network from almost every country in the world. Wayne speaks fluent Japanese and has lived in Japan since 1985 and spends part of the year in his native BC in Canada.

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As a follow up to my previous posts on this blog, I’ll continue to assert the fact that Nigeria is a force to be reckoned with as regards every known endeavor on the face of this planet called Earth, and the internet is no exception, it is left for the rest of the world most especially the United States to fathom this cold hard fact out. Well I would have titled this piece ‘the online conspiracies of the west against Nigeria’ well that would sound cynic and inane. It will look as we are beggars at the rich man’s table waiting for crumbs that falls off his table; when we are kings in the making. However, it has become imperative that we will take on destiny instead of waiting lazily for it to come beckoning at us. But do you know one thing my friend? Your destiny cannot come to you except you shrug off the ashes of defeat, rise to your feet, and then take what rightly belongs to you. Sorry if I have digressed from the main topic of the day, well I was trying to crave your indulgence as is always the case with me. Like I said earlier on, Nigeria remains the biggest internet estate and can compete favorably with India on the third world country category and in the real sense can give the west a run for their money; and as a member of cyber world is not immune to the fistful of online fallacies that pervades the internet daily. But I’ll only deal with this ill wind the as it concerns we Nigerian.

One thing that has remained obvious to we Nigerians especially those who wants to make a decent living doing decent business online is that we are greatly disadvantaged because of some pre-conceived notion of the developed economies against Africa and Nigeria in particular, but I wont dwell much on the bad side as an optimist but will deal on the possible and well established side as a realist. What do I mean by this? The internet has become a real estate and as such many people world wide are reaping the benefits of this innovation and smiling to the bank every other day, so my main concern is to get you acquainted with the common myth that pervades the internet daily and the obvious.

Recently, online FOREX TRADING has become a niche that every person with little or no experience on money matters wants to get involved in within a short period of time (most attend one to two days seminar) and want to start reaping from it, stop! I’ll love to ask, why is it that we still have few people that are rich from trading FOREX with all the hype associated with it? Well have you stooped to think this over? But my friend like I titled this article I’ll love to list the myths, facts and the reality of online FOREX trading. Personally I don’t trade FOREX but I know of an array of people who do; and from the fillers I get daily, it is not as rosy as it sounds. You loose money and you gain money, however the tendency of loosing far out weighs that of gaining if you don’t know the fundamentals of the trade. Knowing the fundamentals is not some thing you gain the knowledge in 1, 2, 3 or even 7 days as those who advertise it in dailies will tell you. What the organizers of various FOREX seminars are after is to gain back what they have loosed trading through levying outrageous seminar fees on the participants. At the seminar they don’t take the time to explain the technical and fundamentals of the market, terms like pips, bull traps, Fibonacci analysis etc are not well explained: leaving the participant more confused than ever. But like I said earlier on, trading with no fore knowledge of the aforementioned points makes trading an experience not worth the venture.

Still on online FOREX trading, it will be unfair if I don’t mention the benefits of this online money making venture even if I’m not trading this very lucrative market (yet). Basically FOREX trading exceeds about 1.3 trillion dollars daily, so it will be mediocre of a person to jump into a market as large as this with no formal knowledge of the happenings. However ,it becomes expedient of the person to get fully into the know of this liquid market before getting his hands burnt in the process of wanting to make 100 pips a day as most of the self acclaimed FOREX experts promise you when you trade on their systems. Like I always do when posting any article, I try to make detailed research (even if I know little or not) before coming to press, and when I do it is in the form of a personal experience. While this FOREX rave reached fever pitch, every person wanted to tap into this market to reap bountifully; I decided to make my own in road. Daily, I hit every search engine on the net for a detailed report, I subscribed to every ezine, news letter, and every available publication that deals with the subject. From my findings I observed that the requirements of this market is quite tasking, however if all these requirements are met, the market is worth the venture, what are the requirements I’m talking of: they include a laptop computer connected to the internet; as you need this to enhance the mobility of the market, a domiciliary account, and a form of identity which could come in form of an international passport or national identity card and a plat form to trade on.

One day I saw an advert on a daily on a FOREX seminar that’ll last for about two days, and within these two days you will be taught all the basics required to start making between 30 to 40 pips daily (note: a pip is worth about 10 dollars). I did not attend the seminar as the seminar fee was too much, not that I can’t afford it but because the money was too much for a seminar that will last a couple of days. So I took the address of the FOREX firm and decided to pay them a visit and perhaps make more inquiries. On getting there I met a lady who looked more like a cleaner than a FOREX expert, as I was expecting to see a person who looked like those who work in wall street or if I want to sound modest like some one who works for one of the banks, then how can such a person teach me the basics of the trade for me to start making 50 pips every day!. I thought may be if she really is an expert as she claims, I figure she should be making good money as a FOREX expert and at least look good for her troubles. Is not like I’m saying that there aren’t people here in Nigeria who are doing good trading FOREX, but what I’m saying is that they are very few, this is the fact and the sooner it downs on you the better. I don’t want to sound cynical but in this business is very good for you to be very truthful to your audience, telling them the reality of every situation, instead of leading them falsely by reporting fallacies and stuff.

On the contrary, FOREX trading is a niche and can not be ignored as it has enriched many Nigerians (the few who know the rudiments of the business) as I know of a guy who takes home close to 30 to 40 pips any time he trades, do you know his secret? He sells when others are buying, and sells when others are buying. He knows where to make his stop loss and quit when it really mattered, he understands the basic trends mostly the fundamental, since with it you have a clue as to how the currencies are performing in the market relative to how the various big economies are faring. One other fact in relation to a myth pervading the scenario is that FOREX is not a vocation as the ‘experts’ will tell you. It is not some thing you do on a part time basis; rather I will say it is more of a career, since most traders do it full time. Why this is so is that you can dwell on a chart a whole day waiting for a favorable signal to begin trading, while you are in your office waiting for the required signal, your boss will be telling the secretary to prepare your sack letter and pay-off. But if you learn the ropes you work smart as a FOREX trader, knowing the best times to trade; then you can jolly well make it a vocation, rather than a career as earlier speculated. The secret is that most FOREX traders don’t trade every day. This is another fact, you only trade when there are auspicious signs. Another secret is contentment (avoid being unnecessarily greedy), when you make a good move that gives you 20 to 30 pips, is usually advisable to quit at that juncture even if you see another favorable trend. Usually such trends end with you loosing the money you already made. So be careful, as it could be very enticing as well as deceitful

The fact about this market is that you make money if you avoid bull traps and interpret the market trends both fundamental and technical, looking at the charts, knowing when to buy and when to sell, knowing the best currency pair (e.g. euro/dollar), knowing when to enter and when to quit and Fibonacci analysis. If you get your self acquainted with all these, then your venture into this market will be worth the while, on the contrary the myth is that you don’t, make 30-40 pips daily by just taking part in a 2 day seminar or workshop as most will call it, most self acclaimed experts introduce you to robots that trade on your behalf, well the truth about robots is that they only function according to how they are programmed. Most robots are programmed using technical analysis, but this market is very volatile and economic trends in most leading economies especially the US can affect the market negatively or positively, for example the recent recession so experienced in the US resulted into a weak dollar and like a virus it spread to other economy especially the Euro zone and Japan: so if your robot was programmed following the reverse you can figure out what happens. The reality here is that you can only make it in FOREX when you master the ropes of the market as it has been noted that about 90 percent of those who go into FOREX exit after a short period of venturing. The fact then is that FOREX trading can be lucrative as well unprofitable. Which ever side of the divide you belong the choice is yours. But I assure you that you can make a difference if you believe in your self, since many plat forms reject registration from Nigeria (another western conspiracy), for example FXSOL no longer accepts registration from Nigeria. So it is left to you to decide how to take this market by storm as I promise to give frequent updates as regards my online experiences since I’ve decided to join the trend of Nigerians making dollars form FOREX trading.

Feel free to post your comments and views on this topic, you can also get a free FOREX manual by one of the world’s best FOREX experts, contact me by email if you are in need of this manual, it is free of charge and will come as an email attachment sent free of charge to your box. You can also get e-books on how to build your internet empire for a token fee, more so many freebies are also included like the e-book ‘as a man thinketh’ by James Allen and another free e-book by Wallace D Wattles titled ‘the science of getting rich’. Just contact me via email for these rich books that will enrich your online money making experience.

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Niche Annihilation Method is yet another success story of digital products available from Clickbank with thousands of copies sold, but do you need your own copy and will this product set you on the road to internet millions?

When I brought Niche Annihilation method I thought I would be getting another ebook or digital product that was going to tell me how to make it as an affiliate. I was wrong. Niche Annihilation Method is about how to make it as a publisher. This means it is likely to appeal to a much small audience. Those who are serious enough to create their own digital product and market it online.

You get the normal ebook with lots of links. In review of the ebook I thought it was lacking in depth and did not provide enough information on the topics covered. Its only 49 pages long and there was a bug down loading it. I was disappointed at this stage and considered asking for a refund, but then I started to go through the videos. This is where the real product is. Rob Benwell takes you through every step in producing an online product, and I mean every step. You can watch video after video showing you how to do it all in 30 days, from idea selection, market selection, product creation, doing clickbank publishing, to article marketing, link building, sales copy and graphics and more. The fact is if you want to create your own Clickbank product and have no idea how - THIS is the product to buy. It will take you by the hand every step of the way. This is the meat of the niche annihilation method offering and it is worth the $47 he charges. In fact if you want to make serious money online, you’ve got to think about creating your own product to market and sell. Create an in demand product and you will have your own personal ATM.

Niche annihilation method comes with so many bonus products its going take me months to go through them all. Rob obviously knows his stuff as he gives you great links to free must have tools to help in your online adventure. Want to start making serious money online - niche annihilation method gives you the information to create your own online digital product income.

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Introduction to Owning an RV
Until we bought our first ‘RV’ in December of 1963 we had been habitual campers. Although my assignments caused us to change our residence many times, we always found a way to go camping - usually on weekends. In December of 1963 we acquired a used, 1948 Flxible Clipper with a stick shift, 200 pound clutch and a wimpy Buick engine. The Flxible was ‘cheap’, but gutting the inside and outfitting it as a mobile office, kitchen, half bath and bedroom was not. Then that Buick engine had to go, followed by almost everything else in the drive train and we found we had quite an expensive investment. Fine. Then you make sure you get good use out of it. We put over 160,000 miles on that motor coach and enjoyed most of them.

More must be Better (wrong!)
In 2000 I retired (for the second time). The kids were married off and had their own kids so we decided to take the plunge. We took advantage of a rare opportunity to acquire a customized 1997 MCI motor coach at a huge discount from a pair of wannabe country singers. Their audiences liked them (so they said) but they didn’t like each other. We had thoughts of selling our house (which, now, was way too big for two people neither of whom enjoy housework) and, instead, live full time in the MCI. The MCI was a deluxe job but, a) awkward to drive, b) very expensive to operate, and c) we were too spoiled to enjoy living in it full time. Even with just the two of us, we’ve got to have a big freezer and a huge refrigerator. And, quite frankly, it was like living in a hallway (we hadn’t heard of slide-outs, yet).

Good Bye Motor Coach
We kept the MCI almost five years but the last two we didn’t use it much. And we really missed RVing. In the Spring of 2005 I was approached by a chap who had seen the MCI sitting by the house. He desperately wanted to buy it. He had never owned an RV of any kind, before, and I really tried to discourage him. The more negative I was the more he salivated. We made a good profit on that sale (we had lost money on the Flxible so we figured we are now even).

Introduction to Owning a Fifth Wheel Trailer
A few days later, on a whim, I dropped by a local RV dealer to see what he might have and was introduced to the fifth wheel trailer. Oh, we had seen them; we had even been inside them when visiting friends in RV parks. I’ve always been afraid of trailers. I’ve seen too many accidents involving trailers on our highways. Plus, how do you haul kids around in a pickup truck towing a fifth wheel trailer. This salesman had an answer for every objection and a long list of very happy customers to boot. I gave him a specification sheet of the changes we would require (which included the addition of a 12 volt upright freezer which he miraculously found). We sold our toad (a 1952 Henry J which is now a classic; it was considered junk when we bought it) and bought a Ford 250 4-door pickup. At first, driving that thing was almost as bad as driving an RV but we couldn’t get the short bed because it impaired the turning ability of the combination. (There is now a company manufacturing fifth wheels which can be hooked up to short bed pickups without impairment of turning radius.)

Cost and Convenience Comparisons
We have used the fifth wheel frequently and really have enjoyed it. It has a small bunkroom in the rear for our great grandchildren (we only take two at a time), a beautiful master bedroom for us and privacy for all. The slide-outs eliminate the ‘living-in-a-hallway’ feel and the cost of operating both the truck and the trailer are a fraction of what the MCI was costing (just the insurance, alone, is significantly less expensive).

Knowing Your Real Needs AND Wants
So, what is the moral to all of this? Simply, listen to your heart before you decide. Sit down and talk to your spouse about what you like and what you don’t like in your household environment. Especially important (at least it was with us) is the kitchen. Living in an RV is not like camping out. Do you do a lot of baking or stove-top cooking or do you use mostly microwave ovens? We are addicted to microwaves and have units that not only microwave but bake, roast and barbeque (on an electrical rotisserie). We have two microwaves (would you be content cooking on a one- or two-burner stove?). When you have two kids to feed the menu expands exponentially, — and kids do like ice cream!

Do Your Research and Listen to Your Heart
We did a lot of research on the Internet and talked to a lot of fifth-wheel owners plus several families who no longer own fifth wheel trailers. And remember, people are more inclined to complain than to praise but they rarely complain about what they currently own unless it is really a lemon.

Having the Right Salesperson
Finally, but maybe even most importantly, latch onto a salesperson with whom you can relate and in whom you can trust. While we have had very few problems with our fifth wheel, we have had two occasions which could have been disasters. A long distance call to our dealer got things moving at another dealer 2,000 miles away. A company’s warrantee is no better than the dealer that honors it. Oh yes, that extra space behind the Ford’s front seat is a true blessing if you’re carrying kids of any age though it would be nice, sometimes, if there were a roll-up window between the front and the back. If the truck isn’t comfortable, you will be miserable.

Bob Masters started RVing in a converted 1958 Flxible bus in the 1960s. He has traveled extensively throughout the 48 states and has written many ‘travel logs’ describing some of his journeys. Having traveled extensively with children, and, later, grandchildren, he has become very familiar with the best places to stop and enjoy what a local community has to offer. Recently he started the RV Guide project to make available to RVers a graphic directory of the locations of RV parks and campgrounds near the Interstate highways ( e.g., http://www.rv-park-guide.org) including locations of RV sales and service centers.) including locations of RV sales and service centers.

There are many ways to learn to make money online. However, finding the right opportunity can be difficult. It’s important to find a home business where they teach people to make money online with their business. This means having access to training websites and webinars that not only teach people to learn to make money but also to motivate so they can enjoy their life.

A legitimate home based business opportunity will have certain elements in place for you to learn to make money online:

1. Team training websites and webinars. These are designed for you to utilize the training and mentoring of industry giants to create an incredible lifestyle. This is done through cutting edge advanced marketing systems and methods that allows anyone to create massive success without being a marketing guru. If they don’t have it, avoid it.

2. Has a powerful automated system already in place to produce a substantial income. This is also important for connecting and following up with your prospects.

3. Live calls that teach you how to create leverage for yourself to increase your profits and give you incredible freedom.

4. How to attract the right people to your business. This is known as your target audience. Finding a highly marketable product that everyone loves and craves is a great way to get started.

5. Ongoing support with your upline and sponsor. This will help you to develop entrepreneurial skills that enable you to be self- sufficient and can then duplicate the system with your own business associates. Too often there is little or no support, which leaves you out in the cold to fend for yourself. This is why most newbie online marketers fail or jump ship.

Any legitimate business will inform you of these elements ahead of time before you make a commitment. If they have these things in place for you to learn to make money online then you should seriously consider getting on board with the opportunity.

Also consider the following when looking for a home business to learn to make money:

1. A strong binary compensation plan that leverages the power of network marketing, will provide a true residual income and longevity of your business.

2. Allows enough entrepreneurial independence to be a true traditional business.

So if you want to learn to make money online, make sure the necessary training models and support are in place. Without them you will surely fail.

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