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Mar 10, 2010 wealth building
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“What I am about to tell you cost me thousands of dollars. Now, because you are open minded you are about to learn the way money really works and what it takes to create real riches and lasting wealth!
Most Americans are oblivious to the fact that they constantly throw away 30-40% of every dollar earned after paying taxes. The reason for this is because everything you purchase is financed. That is correct! There are two ways you do this; you either lose your money by using someone else’s money and paying them the interest on it; or you lose money by pay cash and forfeiting interest that you would have been able to earn on what you just spent. It’s a choice of lose or lose. This is the essence of the banking equation! This is what keeps you from building lasting wealth for you and your heirs, and it is something that the wealthy recognize and put into practice every day.
Now for the next fact: The wealthy own high premium dividend paying whole life insurance which are written with mutual life insurance companies which supply non-direct recognition cash value loans. Owning dividend paying whole life insurance is the equivalent of having your cake and having it too, in the banking equation some call this over funding, but get real, if you knew you would get back all the money you put in, with the interest which it accumulated, and without having to pay taxes on it, you would go for it too! Well so do the wealthy. The wealthy use those whole life policies to finance everything they need. Because they do this, they realize profits just like the banks and financial institutions realize of most folks right now!
The Infinite Banking Concept, the book written about “Becoming Your Own Banker” (BYOB) by R. Nelson Nash, demonstrates how you can literally use your own money to finance everything that you need in life and get all the interest and principle back into your own pocket! Go ahead, ask any CPA or tax attorney and they will confirm this basic fact: “The return of your money is more important than the rate of return on your money.” That is what the Infinite Banking Concept (aka IBC) is all about. Put that in a tax free inflation offsetting product and if you listen to the right coach, you are on your way to true riches and lasting wealth.
So:
If what you have been told about money is wrong when would you want to find out? Now, or later?
If you had been using your money like banks have been using your money would you have more or less of your money right now?
Start recovering one third of what you spend monthly, then you can take that vacation that you have earned and your family deserves!
Tom McFie with Life Benefits, Inc. is widley recognized as a financial coach that helps people recover the money they spend. Tomas does this by teaching people how to utilize the infinite banking concept as described in the book Becoming Your Own Banker
Mar 10, 2010 Uncategorized
Candlestick Charting is one of the most powerful tools in the trading arsenal of any trader. Candlestick Charts apply to any market no matter what you trade-stocks, forex, futures, options, ETFs, commodities, bonds and others. With one simple glance on the chart, you can figure out the sentiment of the buyers and sellers in the market. There are many candlestick patterns that are used as trading signals. Some are simple while others are complex. Doji Candlestick Pattern is a simple pattern that is very easy to spot. It has no body. It is formed when the opening and the closing prices are the same. So, this pattern is all wicks with no stick. It literally looks like a Cross on the chart. So you can easily spot it. But it is very rare as the security opening and closing prices are seldom equal! Doji has some variations. We will discuss these variations in this article!
In other words, the opening and the closing prices should be the same for a Doji to be formed. So for a Doji to be truly formed on a trading day, throughtout the trading day heavy buying or selling may take place but at the end of the day, the price should be where it had been at the start. In other words, the opening and the closing prices should be the same for a Doji to be formed.
It is a signal that the battle between the bulls and the bears had been a draw during the trading day when a Doji is formed with the opening and the closing prices equal. Soon, either the bulls or the bears are going to previal. In other words, a trend reversal is about to take place.
A Dragonfly Doji pattern is unique in the sense that the opening, closing and the high prices are all the same or equal. A Dragonfly Doji is formed when the stocks opens, trades down during first part of the day. During some part of the day, the price starts to climb again and eventually closing on the high which is the same as the open.
When a Dragonfly Doji is formed, bears initially decide to rule the market. But at some point the bulls step in and decide to buy again. When the bulls step in, they start pushing the price up. As the bulls dominate the trading day, the security price ends up right where it had started.
The low on this pattern can be taken as the support level because this was the level at which the bears entered the market and started buying. Dragonfly Doji is considered to be a bullish candlestick pattern.
A bearish Gravestone Doji Pattern is formed when the open and close of the day is equal to the low of the day. This is the most bearish of the Doji patterns. A bearish Gravestone Doji pattern signals the start of a prolonged downtrend in the security price.
As said before, this pattern is rare but very easy to spot on the chart. When it does form, get ready for a trend change!
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Mar 9, 2010 Uncategorized
Short Selling Stocks is one of the favorite day or swing trading strategy. Many traders short stocks. Now many stock brokers make it very easy for the investors and traders to short stocks. Now a days, most of the trading is being done online. When you sell a stock, a message will ask you whether you are selling stocks that you own or you are selling short. With one click, you tell the broker that you are short selling. The broker than goes about and arranges the shares for you to short sell. These shares are a loan to your account.
Now, you cannot always short a stock instantly. Most of the investors work on rumors. In some cases,a stock gets so much shorted that there are no more shares of that stock left for you or your broker to borrow anymore. In that case, you simple will have to cross your fingers and see how the other short sellers do on that stock while you search for another stock to short!
Now, shorting is one of the favorite strategies employed by day traders. A day trader may short stock on the mundane reason like its price had been going up for three days and it’s time to come down! Day traders are not fundamental traders. Day traders are simply interested in the daily volatility in the stock. Most even don’t do any financial or fundamental analysis of the companies whose stocks they are trading. Almost all are technicians or what you call technical analysis experts.
Now, you cannot straight away short a stock as there are mechanisms in place employed by msot of the stock exchanges that don’t want a massive shorting attack on a stock. There is the famous Uptick Rule that has been put in place to prevent that from happening. What the Uptick Rule means is that you cannot short a stock unless it moves up on the last trade. This rule has been placed to prevent a stock from being driven down to almost zero by short sellers. In simple words, once the stock starts to move down, you cannot short it. You will have to wait for its price to move up on the last trade, before your short selling order can be executed by the broker.
Now you have to be careful when shorting a stock as certain risks are involved. In theory, there is no limit on how high a stock price can go high. So when betting on something going wrong, if you yourself go wrong, the potential loss in case of a stock price going up can be immense.
There is something known as Short Squeeze. A short squeeze happens when the stock of the company that you have shorted has some good news that drives the stock prices high. Now if this happens, many short sellers might lose money and even get margin calls. When they get desperate to buy back the stock, its prices go even higher hurting them more.
If you have already shorted that stock, you might get a call from your broker to return that stock immediately. In such a case, you will have to immediately return the stock even if it doesn’t make any sense to you!As said before, companies, investors and many brokers hate short sellers. They think that short sellers had intentionally driven down the stock prices. So sometimes, they will spread rumors of good news to create a momentary short squeeze. Sometimes, a campaign will be started by the owners of a particular stock instructing their brokers not to loan out their stocks to short sellers.
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Mar 7, 2010 Uncategorized
If you are planning on running a business online where you are selling services or products, you will need to find a way to accept credit cards. In fact when was the last time you saw a company selling products online that took money orders or checks?
If you just place another hurdle for them to jump over, they will get fed up and leave your site. Instant payment is expected by every internet user so whether you are supplying a service or product you need to be able to send it out as soon as payment is made.
They know that by providing this service, people will keep returning to order more products. It doesn’t matter how new your website is, you will need to arrange online payments this way as soon as possible.
Trying to run an e-commerce site without this type of electronic payment facility will be difficult at the very least and could mean that it will ultimately fail. As it is possible to use more than one method to accept credit cards online, many larger internet businesses use more than one to attract additional customers.
One of the systems becoming very popular with internet users is Paypal although there are others that are very similar to types you will find at any establishment that accepts cards. Paypal is not as common as the first method, but it is gaining in popularity.
With Paypal, an account is created to speed up the payment process and a number of credit and debit cards can be used within the account. This is something you must be prepared to provide.
For a site accepting credit cards online, it must ensure that every transaction is encrypted so personal details of the card user cannot be used at another time for dishonest purposes. Any website that accepts credit cards online will be a secure site with the first letters of the website address being https://, This provides peace of mind to the user, so if you do not have this facility your customers will go elsewhere. Your customers want their credit card details to be safe from prying eyes so you need to make sure you do everything you can to keep their credit card details secure to make them feel at ease about ordering through your site.
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Mar 6, 2010 Uncategorized
Hanging Man and the Hammer are two different candlestick patterns. The patterns are not identical. Hanging Man is considered to be bearish and the Hammer is considered to be bullish.
How to spot the Hanging Man and the Hammer? These candlestick patterns are easy to spot on the chart. When you spot a very small candle body accompanied by a pretty long wick on the bottom, it is a Hanging Man if it appears at the top of the uptrend and it is a Hammer if it appears at the bottom of the downtrend.
Now, in most of the cases, you will also find a small wick on the top of the candle body. Now suppose, you find the Hammer or the Hanging Man. What you need is to look for the confirmation the next day!
Now suppose, you think that you have spotted the Hanging Man in an uptrend. Wait for the confirmation the next day with the opening price. If the opening price on the next day is less than the previous day’s close, you have a true Hanging Man. If not, then that was not a true Hanging Man.
Similarly, if you spot a Hammer at the bottom of a downtrend, you need to confirm it with the opening price on the following day. If the opening price on the next day is higher than the closing price on the last day, the Hammer formed was a true Hammer.
When you trade candlestick patterns, you need to look for the confirmation on the following day to confirm that the candlestick pattern formed was indeed true. Once you have the confirmation signal, you can safely trade on that candlestick pattern. If you cannot get the confirmation, you should ignore that pattern considering it to be false. Most of these candlestick patterns are ideally suited for the daily charts.
A Spinning Top is another candlestick pattern that reveals a tight battle between the bulls and the bears. Whenever, the battle between the bulls and the bears ends in a draw on a trading day, the following day, one side has to give in. When this happens an explosive move in one direction is highly likely.
Spinning tops appear much more frequently and are very easy to spot with a very small body in the middle of the candlestick and almost equal wicks on the two sides. A spinning top is a nice indication that the trend is about to change direction. Knowing about a trend change early is a highly profitable trading signal.
Mr. Ahmad Hassam has done Masters from Harvard University. Get this 49 page Quantum Swing Trading Report FREE. Master Candlestick Charting with this 82 page PDF FREE Candlestick Guide!
Mar 6, 2010 Uncategorized
The accumulation of wealth entails a great deal of effort. Were it not the case, obviously, we would have far more millionaires in existence. Mind you, I am aware of the fact that there are more millionaires in existences today than at any time previously in history. This means either it has become easier to be a millionaire, or there are more people putting forth a great deal of effort.
Unfortunately, there is no alternative to hard work. Indeed, though it has long been a component in any meaningful human endeavor, never has it paid off as well as it seems to this day in age. The key seems to be a firm grasp on the tools of finance. If this seems rather vague, indeed, to some point it is meant to be vague. Vagueness tends to keep the easily distracted at bay and the unadventurous a home.
Those eager few who wish to peer behind the veil of high finance must have at least a modicum of self-discipline. The agony of learning about derivatives, equity swaps, and gearing ratios is bound to crush lesser men and women. Bit those who wish to climb the pay scale must endure. And endure they can should they have the benefit of wealth manage course or intensive training regime.
I must make it abundantly clear that I do not mean to imply that only an elite cadre of applicants can ever hope to succeed in high finance. Indeed, anyone who has the aptitude and is willing to apply themselves can become highly skilled at the prediction of markets, stock market investment and perhaps even the commodities market. The financial sky is wide open, as they say.
It would prudent for all would-be financiers and advisers to be as educated as possible. It is not enough to simply know when and how to make an investment, but why. The ability to assuage fears by explaining straightforward procedural is crucial. Not only will a straight answer soothe the savage question, but it will go a long way towards building invaluable trust.
Take care to enroll yourself in a wealth management course that enjoys some level of standing.
Mar 5, 2010 Uncategorized
Have you ever given a gold ring to your friend as a token of your true love? Gold has been the most precious metal from the dawn of civilization. It is still considered to be the ultimate currency and the ultimate store of value in times of political uncertainity. For the last ten years, the gold market is in a secular uptrend with the spot prices having recently breached the historical barrier of $1,200 per troy ounce. After that there was a retracement and the prices did come down to around $1,100 per ounce but this uptrend is expected to continue for sometime.
In the last decade, many investors turned towards forex after the historic crash in the stock market. Many small investors lost more than 60-70% of their saving accounts in the stock market crash. Now, forex is a great money making opportunity. It is being said that forex trading will make many millionaires in this decade.
Many people don’t know this that you can trade gold on forex too. Many forex broker platforms that you use to trade forex, allow trading of gold and silver against the US Dollar (USD) from the same platform. Both these precious metals have high demand in the industrial sector and as the global economy recovers from the recession, the prices of gold and silver are expected to skyrockets as industrial production picks up and consumers start buying again. When you trade a currency pair, you go long on one currency and short on the other. In other words, you simply buy one and sell the other.
There are many currency pairs that you can trade like the GBPUSD, EURUSD, UADUSD, NZDUSD, JPYUSD. Spot trading gold on forex is almost similar with gold replacing one currency in the pair and the other currency is always USD. In case of spot gold trading on forex, you trade one ounce of gold in the spot market againt US Dollar (USD). So just like when you trade a currency pair, when you trade gold on forex, you are taking either a long or a short position in gold against USD.
Now, suppoe the price quote in the spot market is 1100 XAUUSD. What this means is that one troy ounce of gold in the spot market right now is equal to $1,100 USD. So, in spot gold trading on forex, you are trading one troy ounce of gold against USD. Interestingly the symbol for this is also XAUUSD with XAU representing one ounce of gold.
Just like any currency pairs, stock or for that matter any security, the price quote in the spot gold market has got a bid-ask spread. Suppose the price quote in the spot market is 1110/1115. This means is that you can buy one ounce of gold at a rate of $1,115 and sell one ounce at the rate of $1,110 to your broker. Now, spot gold trading on forex is a fast moving market. Due to the fast moving nature of the spot gold market, the spread keeps on changing throughout the day!
Now a standard lot in currency trading is equal to $100,000. But in case of gold on forex, a standard lot is equal to 10 troy ounces of gold. So, if you find the price quote to be 1112/1117 and you are interested in going long. In that case you will have to buy 1 lot of gold that is equal to $11,170. Spot gold market is a fast moving market and the price quotes keep on changing. So, suppose just after 60 minutes, you find the quote to be 1120/1126. You see a profit and decide to get out selling at $11,200 making a profit of $30. Now if you had used leverage, you would have needed a much lower initial investment to make a profit of $30 in just 60 minutes.
Gold and USD have an inverse correlation relationship. What this means is that the gold prices and USD move in opposite direction in the long term. This inverse relationship may not hold in the short term. But if you are a trend trader or a position trader, you can hedge your position in currency pairs that have correlation with gold prices by taking opposite positions in the spot gold on forex market.
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Mar 4, 2010 Uncategorized
One of the main reasons people write to me is due to not having enough money. Is that an issue with you, as well? If you lack money in your life, it is because of not having an understanding of that area.
Do you believe that lack of money is the reason for your unhappiness? Are you dissatisfied with your current financial situation? Most kind hearted people think that lack of money is the cause of their unhappiness. This is not the case at all.
Your unhappiness is caused from a lack of understanding. You can be happy when you understand things.
It is your thinking that makes money valuable. I explain in my books that what gives you confidence are simply the paper, metal, and numbers you see on your bank statements that make these things real.
The basic understanding of wealth accumulation is based upon the fact that money simply represents the result of production and communication. The more a person produces and communicates with others, the greater wealth that individual possesses. Many times this “production” and “communication” is in the form of a product or service.
If a person wants more money, the worst thing that individual could do is concentrate on the money without increasing production and communication. This will result in little change for the person’s financial portfolio or wealth status.
If someone needs more money, what I recommend instead is to concentrate on ways to produce a service or product that others will benefit from. Increase communication of this as well. This technique will aid that person’s overall prosperity quickly.
I have been asked over the year, “What do you consider the most important factor in wealth accumulation?” I always answer simply-communication.
In order to achieve improvement in your financial success, you must improve your communication about your product or service. Concentrate on this communication formula to improve your communication:
You want to set an intention of sending a specific thought to another individual or group and have them replicate that thought as it was in the original person’s mind.
Too many people try to communicate with other people by expecting the receiver to “read their minds” for the message. This is not proper communication and will not result in an increase of communication for your product or service.
Focus on seeing things from the other person’s perspective. This is one of the best ways to apply the communication formula. It is best not to get stuck in your own point of view.
Speaking of not getting trapped in your own point of view
You can’t create peace while concentrating on war. You can’t create health while concentrating on sickness. You can’t create love while concentrating on distrust. You can’t create abundance while concentrating on lack.
When you are mentally programmed for lack, you will continue to produce more of the same. This is your Mental Codes(R). It means your mind is automatically programmed for lack. If you want to change this way of thinking, you will want to change your Mental Coding. As I have explained this in other writings (even wrote a book on this topic), I will continue to give you additional information in the future as well.
This information I have just given you will the short-cut to greater prosperity and upgrading your life. No matter what your current financial situation is now, if you want more prosperity, change your Mental Codes(R) about money, improve communication, and increase your production. This naturally creates a more abundant flow of money into your life.
In Loving Service, Dr. Michael J. Duckett
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Mar 3, 2010 wealth building
Knowing how to repair your Family’s finances is about knowing what constitutes properly run Family finances. You need to know the character of money and how it works. You need understand and comprehend household finances to know the right attitudes to embrace to manage your money for success. You must accept responsibility for the state of your personal finances and empower yourself to repair them.
Your household finances are just one facet of your life that must be managed in harmony with the other aspects of your life. You need to learn how to put it in perspective and maintain that perspective. You need to learn what a Budget and a Balance sheet are. You need to learn how to use these 2 tools to understand the state of your finances. Then you need to use them to plan your household finances. You use them further to monitor and execute your plan.
To repair your Family Finances you need to create and execute a budget that has positive cash flow. This leads you to build a balance sheet that will have a positive and growing net worth. When you achieve these basic goals, you have healthy personal finances. The process of bringing your budget and balance sheet to this situation is repairing your family finances. Prosperity is keeping them in this state and never returning to either negative cash flow or a negative net worth.
To help you repair your Family’s finances there is a host of tools. In return for offering use of these tools, financial institutions will take a little piece of your cash flow as it passes through the their company. The problem is that coaching is optional financial therapy isn’t optional. The company that owns the tools will make more of your money in direct correlation to how little you know about how to properly operate their financial tool. To properly manage your money you need to learn the right way to manage the tools so that they work to improve your budget and balance sheet. You have to take control because if you do not become part of your financial plan you become part of someone else’s retirement plan.
These tools include bank accounts, credit cards, mortgages, insurance, savings accounts, retirement plans and many kinds of loans. There are concepts such as compound interest and compounding your savings that you need to understand and embrace.
To learn how to manage your money is not as easy as it seems. There is a mountain of material available about how to make money. That means that the first step in repairing your family’s finances is to read, read and read some more. Learn how to manage your life priorities. Learn how to make your life successful by believing that you can do it. Then read and learn how to manage your money so that you get what you want out of life. Then practice. You will make mistakes but you will learn how to repair your family’s finances and your life.
Dingle Hoffman writes about financial therapy techniques and has recently been assigned an opportunity to promote the financial tools and coaching at http://www.thinkyourmoney.com
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