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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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A brief summary of the Foreign Exchange market will inform stakeholders that it’s vital to own the finest Currency Trading System to penetrate the Forex industry. But what is the best Forex Trading System? How can traders choose the right one for you?

In every Forex transactions and dealings, traders need to fully consider the facets of the market and weigh data in every angle.

This is because a trader can quickly be at lost with all the specifics and details that need to be taken into consideration before making the deal thus spoiling all knowledge and techniques that the Trading System installed on the traders.

There is a lot of Forex Currency Trading System in the market. You can be a member of the Forex Brotherhood to explore your research about the best trading system for you.

The right Trading System for you is the one that can enhance your skills regarding charts and graphs, increase your knowledge about the market and improve your techniques in perceiving the everyday course of the market.

You also want a currency trading system that doesn’t contain difficult jargons or does not require skills in programming. The simplest trading system can be the best for you as it allows you to grow strategies that can be beneficial in your transactions.

A Forex trading System is an important resource for traders and investors in the Forex market. And finding a good one is an investment that can change the financial aspect in your life.

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Is you are just starting out in Forex trading then you may well have been lured into the exciting world of currency trading by one of the hundreds of websites that will tell you that for a very low initial investment you can enjoy high returns in a low or risk free market. Unfortunately, like most things in life, it is not quite as easy as these websites would have you believe and Forex trading, while not as complicated as many other forms of trading, is still a reasonably complicated business.

Many novice traders are tempted to open an account, which is a very easy process these days, and to simply dive head first into trading and, in so doing, they make two basic mistakes. Their first mistake is to begin trading without any clear strategy and their second mistakes is to move one trade to the next being driven on purely by emotion.

In many cases a novice trader will buy a currency pair in the certain belief (based upon nothing but a hunch) that it offers the opportunity for an easy profit and is tempted to buy quickly before the opportunity is lost. Shortly after opening the trade however the market will move in what the novice trader perceives as being the wrong direction and he will panic and close the trade taking a loss. However, he will then continue to watch the market for reassurance that his decision to get out was a wise one and to comfort himself with the knowledge that things could have been worse and his loss far greater. Now sometimes this is exactly what happens but, very often, he will simply watch the market reverse and his currency pair climb quickly into a position which would have made him a nice profit if only he had not panicked.

There are many different groups involved in Forex trading today including governments, banks, investment funds, corporation and of course individual private traders. Leaving the individual traders on one side for a moment, the other players in the market all have very specific objectives for their trading and, most importantly, they also have a very clearly defined set of guidelines and rules for their trading, not least because they will be held accountable for their trading decisions. This means that, for the larger players, trading is an extremely disciplined business and this to a very large degree explains why these large players are so successful.

For the private trader there is of course no accountability issue and so no specific requirement to adopt a trading strategy or to follow a set of trading rules. However, if you wish to succeed in currency trading then there is no doubt that this is one area in which you need to follow the example of the larger players.

Success in the longer term will never come from trading based upon a hunch or on emotion, but will only come from a sound knowledge of the workings of the market combined with a clear trading strategy.

LearningForexTradingOnline.com is the idea place to learn currency trading and provides information on everything from the history of the Forex market to how to operate a Forex mini trading account.

Forex currency predictions are always hard to make, especially in volatile times like the one we are in now. But I will still try to do my best and provide you with my Foreign Exchange prediction for 2008 in the hopes that it will help you make more money in the following month.

Of course, I can’t give a forex prediction for every single currency in the confines of this article, and so will limit myself to just a few.

USD prediction - The US dollar has lost a great deal of its value in relations to all the other major currencies in the world. In recent days it has strengthened somewhat and I’ve even heard evaluations that it will continue to strengthen in the coming months. I disagree. The Fed is likely to continue to reduce interest rates which will make the dollar unattractive in comparison with other currencies. Furthermore, the crisis in the financial sector has still not said its final word, and we’re likely to see more investment institutions declare massive losses in the coming months.

Euro Prediction - The Euro has increased in value in relations to the US dollar and has even broken record high levels. This is a trend which I believe will continue in the near future for a number of reasons: Europe is less affected by the crisis in the financial sector, Europe shows little signs of a recession, the European interest rates are much higher than those in the US, Japan, and other central countries. Therefore, the Euro will continue to rise in value,and I would hold it.

British Pound Prediction - With all the talk about the recession which is looming over America, people miss the fact that the British Pound is also going through a slump. And indeed, the pound is under a great deal of negative pressure. The reason is that London is a huge financial center, and since the crisis is mainly in the financial sector, the British economy is likely to suffer.

To sum up, invest in the Euro, not in the Dollar or the Pound. This is my, shortened, Forex Currency Prediction for 2008.

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I wanted to take the time to share with you a little about forex trading with the news. I started into this a few years ago and I had a pretty rough ride. I lost a lot of money because I just didn’t even have the instinct for it. That’s not to say I didn’t learn it, but if it wasn’t for my strong determination, I wouldn’t of made it to the point where I could quit my job and do this full time. This is a tough business, but if you’re willing to put in the time and energy, you will do good.

The news is extremely important to how I trade. There is so much great information in there, the only problem is that it isn’t tailored to the currency trading viewer. But the fact is that it is easy to figure out how it will apply to currency.

You’re going to get the typical economic news. This is always released at scheduled times and is never “breaking” news. Information will be released, such as GDP, consumer spending, inflation, etc and all of them will play a roll on the price of currency. Typically if it is good for the economy, it is good for the currency and vice versa.

The central bank is also of interest because it controls the supply of money. Their goal is to put out enough to balance supply and demand, but as you can tell that is next to impossible. When they change interest rates, the price of currency changes. A decrease in interest rates, means that the price of currency will go down. An increase in interest rates, means the price of currency will go up.

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Is you are just starting out in Forex trading then you may well have been lured into the exciting world of currency trading by one of the hundreds of websites that will tell you that for a very low initial investment you can enjoy high returns in a low or risk free market. Unfortunately, like most things in life, it is not quite as easy as these websites would have you believe and Forex trading, while not as complicated as many other forms of trading, is still a reasonably complicated business.

Many novice traders are tempted to open an account, which is a very easy process these days, and to simply dive head first into trading and, in so doing, they make two basic mistakes. Their first mistake is to begin trading without any clear strategy and their second mistakes is to move one trade to the next being driven on purely by emotion.

In many cases a novice trader will buy a currency pair in the certain belief (based upon nothing but a hunch) that it offers the opportunity for an easy profit and is tempted to buy quickly before the opportunity is lost. Shortly after opening the trade however the market will move in what the novice trader perceives as being the wrong direction and he will panic and close the trade taking a loss. However, he will then continue to watch the market for reassurance that his decision to get out was a wise one and to comfort himself with the knowledge that things could have been worse and his loss far greater. Now sometimes this is exactly what happens but, very often, he will simply watch the market reverse and his currency pair climb quickly into a position which would have made him a nice profit if only he had not panicked.

There are many different groups involved in Forex trading today including governments, banks, investment funds, corporation and of course individual private traders. Leaving the individual traders on one side for a moment, the other players in the market all have very specific objectives for their trading and, most importantly, they also have a very clearly defined set of guidelines and rules for their trading, not least because they will be held accountable for their trading decisions. This means that, for the larger players, trading is an extremely disciplined business and this to a very large degree explains why these large players are so successful.

For the private trader there is of course no accountability issue and so no specific requirement to adopt a trading strategy or to follow a set of trading rules. However, if you wish to succeed in currency trading then there is no doubt that this is one area in which you need to follow the example of the larger players.

Success in the longer term will never come from trading based upon a hunch or on emotion, but will only come from a sound knowledge of the workings of the market combined with a clear trading strategy.

LearningForexTradingOnline.com is the idea place to learn currency trading and provides information on everything from the history of the Forex market to how to operate a Forex mini trading account.

You can trade for a living anyone has the opportunity but you won’t make a lot of money if you listen to the so called expert advice online. Understand the key points enclosed and the opportunity is open to you…

Before we look at the key reasons, let’s look at a famous experiment that proved anyone can learn to trade regardless of - their age, sex or educational background.

Richard Dennis conducted one of the most famous experiments of all time, when he taught a group of people with no previous experience to trade in 14 days. The result?

They went on to make $100 million in four years and the experiment when down in trading history.

Now let’s look at a paradox:

Anyone can learn to trade but 95% of traders fail and that’s a huge percentage so what makes a successful trader?

The problem for most traders is they think they can follow a so called expert and think forex trading is easy and the market teaches them some manners.

On the other hand, there are traders who think working hard and being clever guarantees success and of course this is not true. You are judged on one criteria only - the accuracy of your market timing.

Let’s start with your key points that you need to understand for trading success.

1. You Are Responsible

No one is going to make you rich. As in all areas of life you are in control of your destiny. Accept this and you are on to the next steps.

2. You Need to Know the Basics

You often here you can make money by following others and not knowing what you are doing and in no area of life is this true. You have to know the basics and understand how and why markets move and avoid the myths.

3. You Need to keep it Simple

Complexity is seen as the route to profits by many but its not. This is proven by the fact that 95% of people lost 30 or 50 years ago and the ratio remains the same today, despite all the advances we have seen in software, computers, news and forecasting.

In fact - simple forex trading systems work best, as they are more robust in the brutal ever changing world of forex.

Dennis proved this in his experiment the system was easy to learn but a method by itself is not enough and that leads me to my next point.

4. You Need Confidence and an Edge

You need to have confidence in a trading edge - that is what will lead you to success when most others fail. If you don’t know your edge, you don’t have one!

5. Discipline is the Key

If you have confidence in what you are doing then you can obtain discipline and this is the trait very few traders achieve.

You need discipline to trade through losing periods of weeks on end and keep going until you hit a home run. Forget all the rubbish you are told you can trade with 90% accuracy etc - you will face a long losing period and that’s a fact. This doesn’t mean you won’t win, you can but you must ride out the period and stay n course.

The people Richard Dennis taught often said the system was easy to learn, the hard part was executing it with discipline.

If you think discipline is easy - you haven’t traded! It’s hard but if you know what you are doing and have confidence, you can do it and it will lead you to Forex trading success.

6. How Much do you Want Success?

This is really a key question, because if you have a burning desire to succeed, you will do what it takes to succeed and accept that you can change your financial future if you want to by taking note of the key points noted above.

Forex trading is simple to learn but beware method is not enough it is the discipline to execute your method, that separates out the few who win big.

Can You Trade For a Living?

Of course you can - but don’t believe it’s easy - its not, that’s why the rewards are so high. You need the right mindset and forex education and you need too believe in yourself. If you can do this you can trade for a living.

Always keep in mind the market doesn’t beat the trader, the trader beats himself.

If you want success the door is open - how much do you want it?

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This is the second book in the Rich Dad series. Robert introduces the four quadrants and shares with the reader how each person in each quadrant operates. He goes on to explain the changes needed for a person to get from the E or S side of the quadrant to the B and I side. He cited the benefits which come from being on the B and I side which will lead to financial freedom compared to being on the E or S side. The last seven chapters illustrate how you and I can get onto the financial fast track through constant and consistent actions recommended by Robert.

After reading this book, I am well informed of the type of changes I need to undergo and what it takes to get to the B and I side of the quadrant. It’s a total mindset and behavioral change as I myself operate out of the E quadrant. The activities carried out by a person on the B and I side will not make any sense to the person on the E or S side. Some of the many new ways of thinking emphasized in the book that I have to adopt are:

• Working for free: There will not be any positive cash flow coming in during the initial period of a startup.
• Delayed gratification: Many people want to solve their money woes instantly. But it’s only through patience and diligently increasing our financial intelligence that we will be rewarded later on by taking small steps each day.
• Investing is not risky: Without the proper knowledge and skill, many people will find investing risky as they have lost money previously in the stock market or mutual funds through some unreliable source. To them investing is like gambling.
• Finding mentors: They are there to guide you through your journey. They are people who you can turn to when you run into trouble.
• Making mistakes: Expect things to go wrong and learn from the mistakes made. Losing is part of winning.
• Time is your most valuable asset: The rich spend money to save time whereas the poor and middle class spend time to save money.

This book is a must read for people who are thinking of embarking on the process of becoming financially free. I would also like to recommend that you read Rich Dad Poor Dad first if you have not done so. Rich Dad Poor Dad provides the financial basics and fundamental concepts needed for Rich Dad’s Cash Flow Quadrant Get it now!

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I’m going to take the time to share with you some forex currency trading beginner tactics that I’ve developed over the last few years. This is a big global market with over three trillion dollars a day being moved around. Just getting a tiny slice of that pie would be enough for you to retire on. This is what attracts a lot of traders to this market. The problem with that assumption is that it doesn’t take into the fact that you need to be smart. You just can’t join in and get rich quick. People have lost a lot of money in this market because they didn’t know what they were doing. I’m going to share a little of what I’ve learned during my time.

I think one of the most important things you have to understand is how you will sabotage yourself. What I’m talking about is your emotions. They have this way of making you reject logic and reason, for a feeling. Obviously this isn’t a smart move and always has bad consequence in the long term. If you’re someone that gets gut feelings, or stresses out easily, you need to learn to control it. If these feelings start to influence trades, you’ve just turned this from a business into gambling.

Another important forex currency trading beginner tactic is having the right tools to get the job done. A lot of people try to avoid getting trading software because they want to “do it themselves”. There’s just too much information to take in this market to do it completely on your own. It’s open 24hrs a day, so eventually you’ll have to sleep and you need software to watch over the market and your trades.

The Secret Forex Code is a great place to start. Not only does it give you a complete course on how to profitably trade, it comes will all the tools you will need, including trading software.

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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.