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Tim Sykes
5 Reasons Penny Stock Trading
Obliterates Forex Trading
1. The unlimited profit
potential in the hugely liquid and leveraged forex market is pure
marketing and deception, designed to lure the most desperate and
greediest people into playing a game where the odds of success are very
low similar to playing the lottery. If you look at the actual
statistics, they point to the vast majority of traders not just blowing
up their entire account within a few months, but also owing money due to
the easy-to-use leverage. Unless you are illiterate and a complete
moron, it is extremely difficult to blow up a penny stock trading
account, mainly because the trading rules I teach are very conservative,
designed to keep traders learning and earning gradually over time.
2. Because Forex is so liquid and leveraged, those who
succeed are the smartest, richest and most well informed people on the
planet, aka George Soros and his friends. You simply do not have the
intelligence, wealth or access to quality information and analysis that
they do so why try to compete against them? As evidenced by the recent
fraud case against SpongeTech and PennyStockChaser, those promoters and
management have the intelligence level of Forrest Gump. I can make a
thousand analogies explaining why it's SO much easier to trade against
these morons, but after you try out my free video lessons and begin to
see it all yourself, you won't need me to teach you anymore, you'll be
self-sufficient which is my entire goal!
3. Forex prices move very quickly and the reaction to
breaking news happens within seconds and minutes. Because penny stock
manipulation takes time to plan and enact and the people trading the
stocks are practically illiterate, it takes hours and days for price to
fulfill their predictable patterns giving you plenty of time to prepare
and participate in each trade. The best analogy is penny stocks are like
Little League whereas Forex is the Major Leagues. When you're coming up
to bat would you like a 100mph fastball or a floater thrown by a
nine-year old?
4. Penny stocks are simpler. While forex prices gyrate
wildly due to rumors, news and those anticipating the rumors and news,
volatile penny stock chart patterns are truly straight up and then
straight down with very little variation. That is the beauty of trading
pump and dumps, the chart patterns are like pendulums and you just need
to learn how to buy on the way up and short sell on the way down. Or
choose one side and specialize in that.
5. Penny stocks have greater odds of success. Sure, sure,
it's far less money and you don't get the gambling thrill you do with
Forex since down here in the gutter it's more like taking candy from
babies (or those who are have the intelligence of babies), but we are
winning approximately 75% of the time.
I’ve put together an in-depth (and free) video lesson series
that will teach you everything I know about Pennystocks. Rather than
just hearing me talk about my strategy and my thoughts, signup to my
free video lesson series so you can learn from the specific trades and
patterns themselves.
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![]() Steve Selengut Professional Investment Management from 1979 Author of: "The Brainwashing of the American Investor: The Book that Wall Street Does Not Want YOU to Read,", and "A Millionaire's Secret Investment Strategy" http://www.kiawahgolfinvestmentseminars.com/ |
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May The Investment Force Be With You Investment markets got you down, Bunkie? Been blown away by It's time to overthrow the evil Masters of the Universe and deactivate It's time to exorcize the Wall Street demons and return to stocks Speculating is complicated, even for financial rocket scientists. A return to plain vanilla investing strategies with operating procedures As bad as things have been since this black hole appeared, investment One - Higher lows during market downturns: Equity portfolios managed Constant cash flow, even if not reinvested, places a floor under market Two - Moves to cash or other sectors before bubbles burst: Disciplined Investors feel better when no profits have been left on the table. Three - Maintenance of planned income streams during financial crises: Most financial plans focus so strongly on growing market values that they lose touch with the need for planning a dependable retirement income. They rely on selling equity fund units or inflated indices for cash flow, instead of generating stable income with less exciting cash producing staples. Steadily increasing annual income can be placed on "cruise control" Four - Faster movement to new all time market value highs: When investors have a reasonable understanding of the various cycles impacting their investment portfolios, they develop valid expectations about the market value "performance" of their portfolios. They are less likely to initiate knee-jerk or panic driven transactions and Five - Steady growth in working capital in all market environments: Working capital is measured in terms of cost basis instead of market price. As a result, all income generated from interest, dividends, and realized gains grow working capital regardless of the direction of market prices. A treasury bond generates the same income at $85 as at $115. Most Six - Annual growth in realized "base income" in standard portfolios: WCM portfolios are income machines by design. No security is ever purchased if it does not produce regular dividend or interest payments; at least 30% of all base income should be reallocated to income-objective securities. Similarly, every dollar of capital gains income, and net portfolio additions are partially allocated to income producers--- and the use of a cost based asset allocation formula insures annual income growth. Few financial professionals begin their careers with any encouragement to become comfortable with individual equity securities and the surprisingly large variety of individual, relatively uncomplicated, and generally safe(r) income producers available for their clients. Financial products are far more lucrative for their institutional employers The Dark Side of investing beckons like a Siren's song, luring the majority of professional advisors away from the safety and simplicity of QDI. Institutional propaganda, projections, predictions, and hype have the same affect on unsuspecting boatloads of speculators who most often become shipwrecked on the derivative rocks. Investors and their professionals need to re-evaluate their product orientation and plot a global escape from the Dark Side of investing. Contact the "Skywalker" foundation for emotional and financial support while making the transition--- and may the force be with you. Steve Selengut |
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Three Tips to Help Investors Manage Their Own Portfolios As the federal government bails out “too big to fail” companies like AIG and Merrill Lynch, investors are worried that the big brokerage firms they depended on to safeguard their futures aren’t up to the task anymore. As a result, many investors – big and small – are taking their portfolios away from their advisors and brokers and managing their investments themselves. That’s what John O’Donnell, Chief Knowledge Officer of Online Trading Academy (www.tradingacademy.com) said is happening, based on what he sees as a dramatic influx of people who are taking steps to learn about navigating the markets’ waters themselves. “It’s raining hard and heavy out there, and people are afraid that the people who have been guiding their investments aren’t up to avoiding the deep puddles anymore,” O’Donnell said. “Their 401Ks are turning into 201Ks, and 50 percent of the homes in
Online · Franchise locations are booming – The Company opened 12 new offices during the last 15 months – during the deepest recession in decades. That constitutes a 33 percent increase in the number of locations. · Enrollments – The number of students enrolled at the school has doubled every year for four consecutive years. · Age of enrollees – New students coming in are averaging in the 60-year-old range, a demographic that has traditionally hired brokers or advisors to help manage their money. “The average individual investor has been led to believe that ‘buy and hold’ is the best approach, that mutual funds are a smart investment, and that professionals will do a better job of managing their money,” O’Donnell said. “The most important lesson the market has taught us is that those basic strategies don’t hold water anymore. Buy and hold just isn’t enough. The word ‘trading’ has traditionally been associated with risky behavior, but the truth is the average buy and hold investor has lost more than 40 percent of their life’s savings.” O’Donnell believes that three guiding principles can help investors take control successfully:
“The old rules don’t apply anymore,” he added. “The old rulebook doesn’t work. Down is up and left is right, so people are figuring out the fact that the only way to better invest their money is to know, for themselves, how the markets work and decide independently where they should stake their futures.” ### Alarmingly, 75% of the largest percent gainers were ETFs, and Earlier in March, while we were all sunning ourselves in the What is a hedge fund, and just what does it try to accomplish? Initially, hedging was used as a risk mollifier in the securities markets Naked shorting, shorting baskets of securities, and shorting indices, The new definition of hedge fund speaks of an aggressively managed Hedge funds have never been regulated like their open-end mutual fund cousins--- the rationale being that they cater to a wealthy and Investopedia refers to them as mutual funds for the super rich, but the But regulating the hedge fund is clearly a too late closing of a barn door encrusted with diamonds (no pun intended). A few years ago, the masters of the universe rediscovered, redefined, and complicated the world of closed end mutual funds by creating many different forms of passively managed index/hedge funds. As innocent as these funds may appear, they too have altered the Additionally, many individual stocks fall into several indices, and most Today, it appears that every passive fund has two or three accompanying short/bear ETFs plus an equal number of bull/long funds to choose from. Apparently, the SEC has not taken the trouble to look inside the Wall Street wants all CEFs (index, hedge, bond, equity, real estate, And the real crime is this: investors as naive as the wet-diapered E-Trade spokesbaby can push a button and buy operational hedge funds more bizarre and sophisticated than any ever imagined buy the rich and famous. If an ETF harbors a hedge fund, but doesn't call it a hedge fund, is it Shouldn't the regulators be smart enough (and brave enough) to put an A search at ETF-Connect for US Equity ETFs finds roughly 500 potential speculations that absolutely anyone can buy into. All are self-directed So long as we tolerate Wall Street attorneys circumventing the intent Index ETFs (and the no doubt about it hedge fund casinos they front) The ETF derivative market requires a fresh new breed of big picture aware, loophole fillers --- the Obama team is accepting applications. Whatever happened to stocks and bonds?
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