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Getting involved in currencies trading is one of the many ways to make money through the foreign exchange market, or forex.  There is only one way to lose money on a long-term basis and that is to let your small losses get out of control.  95% of traders face this issue and quickly give up in an effort to prevent losing more money.  The reason why such a high percentage of traders lose is because they simply do not understand how to place stops or manage equity.  The result of a lack of knowledge in these critical departments is the loss of money.

Understand, first of all, that placing a stop does not eliminate or even reduce risk.  It is folly to risk 10 or even 20 ticks in this way because all that happens to most traders is that they get stopped out.  Of course, in order to win in anything like currencies trading, you must be willing to make a risk.  The key is making a calculated risk instead of being rash.  When placing a stop, you should be looking to risk between 50 and 100 ticks in a trade that would make you three to five times more than that amount at the very least.  Otherwise, you are simply throwing your money away. 

If you have experienced currencies trading before, you have probably gathered that this technique of stop placement will not be desirable for day traders or scalpers.  However, the better way to trade is by swing trading or long term trend trading anyway, in which case the profit potential is much higher if you use this stop placement method.  The goal is to get the odds on your side, increasing your chances for a profit.  Of course, a profit is always the goal with currencies trading or any other potential money-making opportunity online.

The question, then, is how much money should be risked in a single trade?  Many experienced traders will tell you to try to stay around a 2% risk.  These traders are dealing with huge accounts that have thousands of dollars, if not more, to trade.  For this reason, they will tell beginners with small currencies trading accounts that in order to get started making real money sooner rather than next year risking only 2%, you need to be bold and risk between 5% and 10%.  In cases where you risk this much, be very selective about the trades you get involved in.  Hit the best trades hard to come away with a win.

As you trade and begin making wins, do not succumb to what makes casinos so rich.  Players believe they are on a roll and want the winnings to keep coming in.  If you see that your equity has risen 20%, stop, take your earnings, and take a break from trading for a while.  Lucky streaks will always run out, so recall the old adage and quit while you are ahead.  If you keep these tips in mind, you will maximize your potential for earning money in the currencies trading arena.

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Personal Finance – Three Quick & Simple Ways To Improve Your Personal Finances…
Many Americans and people in countries where ready credit is available find themselves in greater debt then ever before and this makes you wonder whether you are working for yourself or for your creditors. This ends up being a problem of financial spending & control and if you take a short moment to reconsider your own financial health, you might be able to correct your financial situation today.

You will find that many people today are living from paycheck to paycheck and running from payday loan provider to another. This article suggests three simple & quick ways to improve your personal finances.

Firstly, you might want to draw up a Cash flow statement for yourself. This is quite simple to do actually. Just take a blank sheet of paper and draw a line in the middle and consider how much money you are earning each month and list all the sources on the left and total it up at the bottom. Next on the right column figure out how much money you are spending each month, including how much interest and debt you need to repay. Take your credit card statements out and use it to work through this section. Once you figure this out, then you will be better able to manage your own finances or at least have a better idea about your spending habits.

Secondly, budget to save before you spend. This idea is taken from many millionaires who recommend that you use auto-transfer each month a sum of your money and either save it or invest it into some thing like real estate. My personal favourite idea is to take a sum of money each month and use it to purchase my favourite Exchange Traded Fund which works like a mutual fund only that it just buys up the entire index of stocks. This way you do not need to work about over performing or underperforming the market and the management fees for these funds are really low.

Finally, now that you know how much money you have left to spend each month, budget how much you want to spend each month. As terrible as it may seem, try to pay for things with cash and with a debt card so that you are kept in touch with how much you are actually spending. Its so easy to flash a credit card and then lose sense of reality and you only get hit with it at the end of the month when the bill arrives. So try to remind yourself constantly about the need to avoid spending exuberance.

In conclusion, doing a simple cash flow statement ever so often helps to keep yourself reminded of how your spending and investing patterns are each month. Budgeting to save before you spend will ensure that you will retire quite well off and budgeting before you spend will help you figure out how you want to use your available funds each month. Remember that the more credit you use on consumer products which drop in value really fast, the most the credit card companies are going to make from you and the less you will have to spend in the longer term. Take control of your finances today and you will find your life starting to look brighter and happier.

7 Proven Steps to Fix Your Personal Finances That You Can Implement Right Now…
Fixing your personal finances is not rocket science. You can do it if you apply some commitment and are prepared to stick to the plan. Imagine how your world could open up if you were debt free. Imagine all the options. Quit your job, work fewer hours, have more holidays or just help others.

The proven methods listed below will work for you if you are determined to succeed and implement them in your own circumstances.

Step 1. Imagine how good life will be once the debt is paid.

Imagine for a minute how good life would be to if you were debt free. Think what you could do with the money you currently use to pay off those credits cards. You could use it to save for your future, save for your retirement, hit the sales with a clear conscience, go on holidays or save for your children’s college education. Think on this often and visualize in your mind’s eye how your life would change for the better once the debt was gone. If you seriously want this to happen to you it will be easier to follow the next steps.

Step 2. Do a budget.

Unless you know what your financial position is currently you won’t know what targets to set, will you. Agreed? Good. The best, most simple way to do this is to set up a personal or family budget. A lot of people stop here and don’t progress any further. Bad idea! This can be done very simply. Just follow the points listed below:

a) Get out your latest credit card statements. Add up all the unpaid balances.
b) If there are any other unpaid debts (not home or car) include these balances as well.
c) Calculate your (or family) monthly income – just the amount brought home each month.
d) Calculate your monthly spending. Work out where all the money goes. Don’t leave any thing out.
e) Take the monthly spending total away from the monthly income total and review the answer.

Are you living beyond your means? Are you spending more than you earn each month? Are you putting any money aside for emergencies or saving to replace costly items such as the car or some major electrical appliances? Do you have any money left over to increase your monthly credit card payments? Set your self a goal of paying off your credit cards within a certain time.

The questions raised here can be addressed by putting Steps 3-7 into practice.

Step 3. Live within your means.

You can never get your finances under control if you continue to live beyond your means. The cost of living this way is the interest charged by the credit card provider. This is one of the major reasons you are suffering now. Commit yourself to live within your means. Once you have done the budget as outlined in Step 2 you can easily see what you have available to spend.

Step 4. Cut up your credit cards. (Well, maybe keep 1 for emergencies, if you have to.)

It is really important not to add more debt. Read that again. If you can live within your means, you can cut up your credit cards and focus on paying off the credit card balance as soon as possible. You may have items around the house that can be sold. Maybe a second car that is not a necessity. Sell these things and use the funds to pay down the credit card balances. Take on some extra hours at work, think of ways to earn extra income so that these extra funds can be applied to those credit card balances.

Step 5. Find bargains – have fun.

If this whole process becomes a drudgery then it will all become too hard and you won’t keep going. Don’t let this happen! Set some money aside so that you can, occasionally, buy those things you want. Learn how to only buy things you need and ensure they are at the cheapest price possible. Here are some hints that will help:

a) Look for sale items
b) Don’t buy on impulse
c) Only use free cash funds to buy – not by credit card
d) Ask yourself “Do I really need this?” twice or three times before you hand over your hard-earned cash.
e) If there is something you really want – wait for it to go on sale.
f) Don’t buy your items at the height of the fashion or the fad, wait a few weeks.

Step 6. Set aside a savings amount.

A target of 20% of your take-home salary is recommended. However, saving any of your salary is a good start. Set your goal and stick to it. The idea is to match your lifestyle to your income. Having some savings can help in emergencies, pay a larger deposit on your next car or be the beginnings of your holiday or retirement nest egg.

Step 7. Don’t compare yourself with others.

Your task of living within your means will be made easier if you don’t compare your lifestyle with others. You don’t know, but their finances may be in a worse state than yours. If you want a better lifestyle, then save for it and/or work out ways to increase your income.

These are just the very beginning steps that you can take towards getting your finances in shape. With a little commitment and the right tools, you will succeed.

“This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you awake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember: all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more.” – Morpheus, from the film “The Matrix”

Simply put, we are at the tipping point of a major investment crisis today and the opportunity to radically reallocate our portfolios to make a fortune is quickly evaporating. Though I offer investors the opportunity to see how deep the rabbit-hole goes, most investors will shy away, gladly ingest the blue pill and remain firmly grounded in Kansas. Why? The secret of building wealth from this coming crisis is not knowledge itself, but rather an understanding of how your brain processes information that is granted to you. Once we understand that we have been programmed to believe certain investment falsehoods, this will clear our path to truly “see” the current investment crisis that is unfolding.

Most of us have no understanding of the triggers that drive our investment behavior. We are like the people that live in the fantasy computer generated world of the Matrix, constrained by the delusional statistics and reports produced by the commercial investment industry and governments that eventually filter down to us through the media. The great majority of us have come to blindly accept certain investment “soundbites” as truth without ever having questioned the validity of these truths. So today, I encourage you to challenge these beliefs if you have never before done so.

All of us have an opportunity to delve deep into the rabbit-hole but less than 1% of us will choose to do so. From a psychological standpoint, the overwhelming majority of us are much more comfortable acting in the same manner as the Smiths and the Joneses. Breaking from the pack and acting independently causes so much discomfort to most of us, that even when we do so, we desire to plunge back into the herd as quickly as possible so as to not stand out from the crowd. Understanding this behavioral trait is the singular most important key to unlocking a fortune from this coming crisis. Why would I say this? Because for most of us, it is clearly not a lack of access to the appropriate knowledge that will prevent us from earning a fortune as this crisis unfolds, but rather our refusal to acknowledge the validity of this information when it is presented to us. The “investment matrix” has conditioned us to believe falsehoods unconditionally and to reject any belief or thought that challenges these falsehoods.

Often when I run into customers of my investment information services, I’ll strike up a friendly conversation to discover if they have been following the guidance that they pay good money to receive. After all, what is the use of paying a significant sum of money for information that will only be ignored, right? Often, I’ll say something like, “You must be doing really well with your portfolio now” just to see how they will respond. More often than not, if they are a newbie to my instructional courses or investment newsletter, they’ll respond, with slight hesitation and a tinge of embarrassment, “We’ll I didn’t exactly follow your guidelines. I wasn’t ready to buy when you told me I should buy and I actually sold out of those stocks you told me to hold on to.”

Such a response actually is quite normal for someone that has dwelled within the “investment matrix” for any extended period of time. For all of us, it is only human nature to desire validation for investment decisions that seemingly no one else is taking. Because the investment decisions I advocate often directly oppose every talking head on TV, every article in every newspaper and every Chief Investment Officer at a large investment firm, I realize that they are eminently difficult to embrace. When a customer can find no validation for my recommended investment decisions among the masses, great distress and panic often results. He or she thinks, “Surely I must be wrong if EVERYONE I know is doing something opposite, right?” WRONG.

Understanding that the great preponderance of information that exists in the “investment matrix” is poor is crucial to our ability to build wealth in distressed and volatile markets. We must realize that the primary goal of investment information distributed through the mainstream media is an end sale, to serve political ends, or both, whereas our goal is one of building wealth. We can logically deduce that if the information distributed through mass information channels constituted great advice, then every investor would be a millionaire by now. As it is, perhaps only 1% of all investors consistently build fortunes year after year. Clearly, these investors, then are doing “something radically different” than the common investor.

As you read this article, I challenge each and every one of you to question the investment “truths” that you have believed for your entire investment lifetimes. Is it possible that these truths were created within a realm where sales is king and thus have become a part of your subconscious thinking merely through bombardment, inundation and repetition? For example, does diversification really build wealth? I challenge you to find one investor that ever turned $250,000 into $1,000,000 in 5 years or less that utilized diversification strategies. I challenge you to find any investor widely considered to be among the world’s top investors that has ever used diversification to build wealth. Is it possible that diversification may be the world’s worst investment strategy and only the world’s best sales strategy?

Today, we are told that oil is selling for more than $100 a barrel because the world is running out of oil. But is this truly all that is going on? If we were to look at the two year charts for the USO graphed against the dollar and the Euro (The United States Oil Fund, LP is a domestic exchange traded security designed to track the movements of light, sweet crude oil. The USO fund issues units that may be purchased and sold on the American Stock Exchange), we would discover that the USO rose 37% against the dollar but actually fell 4.4% against the Euro! Does the incredible shrinking dollar rather than shrinking global oil reserves contribute much more to meteoric increases in the price of oil than we are led to believe? And if so, what does this development portend for the fate of global stock markets?

If we study the inflation formula used to calculate the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) today, it vastly differs from the formula that was used in 1996, just a little over a decade ago. Use the old formula, and inflation may be 5% to 8% higher than the inflation statistic reported today. So was the inflation reported in 1996 wrong or is the inflation being reported today wrong? Clearly one formula must be wrong.

In conclusion, a finely tuned “investment matrix” has been crafted to spew endless statistics, numbers, and strategies – the bulk of which are not credible or particularly useful to guiding our investment decisions. One has to strip away the veneer from the investment matrix and dig deep into the rabbit hole to understand what is truly happening in the global economy. Failure to do so and a blind acceptance of reports as “truth” merely because they are originated by “authorities” will always lead to poor decisions and a great loss of wealth as this crisis deepens.

We have always been told that it is impossible to time markets. On February 18th, I sent a very specific Special Member bulletin to all of my Platinum Level members about an opportunity available in these markets. One of my customers just wrote me the other day to inform me that my specific advice has turned his $8,000 investment into $17,800 in just two days! Is timing the market impossible, or do you just need to dig deep down into the rabbit hole to understand how to do it?

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