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Forex? What is it, anyway?

Written by Jimmy on Dec 31st, 2007 | Filed under: Articles, Highly Recommended, Online Money

The market
The currency trading (FOREX) market is the biggest and the fastest growing market on earth. Its daily turnover is more than 2.5 trillion dollars, which is 100 times greater than the NASDAQ daily turnover. (click here to read full market background by Easy-Forex™).

Markets are places to trade goods. The same goes with FOREX. The Forex goods (or merchandise) are the currencies of various countries. You buy Euro, paying with US dollars, or you sell Japanese Yens for Canadian dollars. That’s all.

How does one profit in Forex?
Very simple and obvious: buy cheap and sell for more! The profit is generated from the fluctuations (changes) in the currency exchange market.

The nice thing about the FOREX market, is that regular daily fluctuations, say - around 1%, are multiplied by 100! (in general, Easy-Forex™ offers trading ratios from 1:50 to 1:200). If, for example, the exchange rate of “your” pair of currencies increased by 0.6% in the last 4 hours, your profit will be 60% on your investment! Such can happen in one business day, or in a few hours, even minutes.

Moreover, you cannot lose more than your “margin”! You may profit unlimited amounts, but you never lose more than what you initially risked and invested.

You can implement your choice (the pair of currencies, the volume amount) under any direction to which the market is moving, and yet make profit. It does not matter whether the exchange rate is going up or down: you can always decide to buy Euro and sell dollar, or vice versa - buy dollar and sell Euro. You don’t have to physically possess certain currencies in order to perform “buy” or “sell” with them.

How do I start?
Register (Easy-Forex™ offers the simplest and quickest registration process, no obligation); deposit your first trading “margin” amount (credit cards are welcome, only by Easy-Forex™); start trading.

It can’t be simpler or easier than that. Need help? We’ll provide you with 1-on-1 training and service, as much as necessary (Easy-Forex™ offers real people service, live, in your own language).

How do I trade Forex?
You select the pair of currencies with which you wish to make a Forex deal. You determine the volume (the amount of the deal). You deposit the “margin” (collateral needed to facilitate the deal. Usually - only a very small portion of the whole deal, say: 1% or 1:100).

Before you finally activate the deal, you can still “freeze” it for a few seconds. That enables you to either change the terms, or accept it as is, or altogether regret the whole idea. The “freeze” feature is a unique service by Easy-Forex™.

When your Forex deal is running (you hold an “open position”), you can monitor its status and check scenarios online, whenever you wish. You may change some terms in the deal, or close it (and cash the profit, if any, or minimize the loss, if any). Moreover, Easy-Forex™ lets you determine a “take-profit” rate, with which the deal will close automatically for you, when and if such rate occurs in the market. Meaning: you do not have to stay near your computer when you hold open positions.

Want to know more? Want to get on-line training? Register here (simple, quick, no obligation), we’ll be glad to guide you, every step of the way.

Good luck!

Happy money making on the internet!

Forex trading involves substantial risk of loss, and may not be suitable for everyone.


Cash Advance Payday Loans

Written by Jimmy on Dec 24th, 2007 | Filed under: Articles

Do you have an emergency that requires you to have some cash in your hands immediately? Are you in the need of some cash right now to avoid some late payment penalties? Whatever you need the money for, when you need some cash, you can use the Cash Advance service.

Cash Advance Payday Loans are for those who need emergency cash. Now, thanks to the internet, you can use online Payday Loan so you can apply quickly and effortlessly. Once your application is approved, the money will be deposited right into your checking account. The money you can borrow ranges from $100 to $1500.

Of course, as you are applying for a loan on online payday loans, the lenders require you as the applicants to meet some criteria in order to successfully complete the application. The minimum requirement usually consist of:

  • Being Employed for at least 3 consecutive months.
  • Earning at least $1,000 per month in income.
  • Having a valid checking account open for at least 3 months.

An advantage of online payday loans to most consumers is that they are offered to people with no credit, poor credit or bankruptcies and they can be done anonymously to the public and in the comfort of one’s home. Unlike traditional lenders, online payday loans lenders do not require credit bureau reports from Experian, TRW, or Equifax. Online Payday Loans provide many advantages over applying at an offline traditional payday loan storefront.

Here are some more advantages of Cash Advance Payday Loan:

  • Cash advance checks usually processed faster.
  • As stated above, you can apply anonymously from the public.
  • 100% privace! You can complete the application in the privacy of your own home.
  • No difficult handwriting that may confuse the lender. It’s all online, remember?
  • Have time to find ALL the cash advance information you need at home.
  • No standing in line at a store for hours.

So, whenever you need some emergency cash, you already know where to go. Cash Advance Payday Loans!.


DiscountClick - Boost Your Online Business

Written by Jimmy on Oct 15th, 2007 | Filed under: Articles, Internet

DiscountClickWebsite owners must know that driving traffic to their websites is not an easy task. Whether they’re personal websites, or business websites, one of the biggest challenge is how to drive traffic to the websites so people know about them. If you’re a website owner, I’m sure you’re aware of this matter.

If your website is a business website, for example, you’re selling your products, it will be meaningless if no one visits your website. You won’t sell a thing! That’s why driving traffic to your website is one of the most important thing to do. The other important thing is how you market your products.

When you want more traffic, that means your website must have a good ranking in search engines (your website must be optimized for search engines), and you should have links that point to your website. And when you want to market your products, there are numerous ways to do. This is where DiscountClick comes in play.

DiscountClick offers services to market your products and to drive traffic to your website to boost your online business at an affordable price. They’re doing this by providing SEO Consulting, Natural Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click Management, Keyword Analysis, Link Building Services, Non Reciprocal Link programs, Code Optimization, Affordable, Content Writing, Monitoring and Reporting, Search Engine Marketing for you. You can useDiscountClick’s SEO tools to get higher rankings in popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Inktomi, and more!

Actually, there are still many features that DiscountClick offers, but it will be a very long post if I write them all here :D . Just visit DiscountClick for all the details. The best part is, you will see the results in about 2 to 4 weeks, that’s less in a month!

Click here to go to DiscountClick and start to boost your online business!

Happy making money on the internet!


11 Common Mistakes People Make When Creating Web Pages

Written by Jimmy on Jul 10th, 2007 | Filed under: Tips & How Tos

1. Graphic Laden.
A web page should load in a reasonable amount of time. If you use too many graphics, or graphics that are not scaled and saved in an efficient format, your pages will take too long to load. Impatient users will bail out and go to another site. Clean and fast should be your goal when making web pages. You can usually make a very nice layout using HTML and CSS without the whole page being a sliced up graphic. Of course I’ve built sites for people who insisted on pages based entirely on graphics and in that case I usually try to get the Adobe Photoshop files from the graphic artist and slice them and save the slices myself. This way I can mix and match file formats. For example, sections with few colors can be saved as gifs which are usually very small, especially if you tweak the number of colors. Sections that contain more colors or photographs work best as jpg image files. Mixing file types like this, especially of slices of the same image, can cause issues that you should be aware of: colors may not match exactly between a gif and a jpg. For example if you have a background color in the images of adjoining cells you may have trouble getting a gif and jpg to look seamless because of slight color shifts.

2. Poor Color Choices.
Just because it looks cool to you doesn’t mean everyone will find it easy to read. Test your color choices out on a mix of people before you get too far into your design. You don’t want to turn people away just because they have trouble reading the text on your site. There are colors for backgrounds and text that perform better than others for some types of sites, do your research!

3. Too Many Animated Graphics.
You want your visitors to concentrate on whatever your site is about. You don’t want your pages look like the arcade at an amusement park with animated gifs everywhere. A little animation goes a long way.

4. Flash Welcome/Splash Screens.
Flash is big these days and very useful for a lot of tasks, however, one thing you want to avoid is to put a big flash welcome page as the default page of your web site. Most people find it annoying. Their time is valuable and to make them sit through it, or have to click a skip button is just irritating.

5. Cross Browser Compatible Issues.
Always check out your site by viewing it in the main browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, and Opera) and on a PC and Mac if possible. You’d be surprised how each web browser has its quirks. Sometimes a page will look really bad or completely wrong in one browser and you’ll have to spend time correcting the problem. But, you won’t know unless you test it, don’t rely on your visitors to tell you.

6. Broken Links
This one should be obvious, check you site’s navigation and all the links occasionally. There are tools available to do this for you if you have a really large site.

7. Disjointed Layout and Poor Navigation.
Make sure your site is easy to use. Have someone that’s not familiar with your site try to locate something. Ask them to place an order, or find the page for sending in support questions, etc. Watch them. Listen to what they have to say and adjust your site to make it work better.

8. Missing or Incomplete Contact Information.
Make sure the contact information on your site is kept current and complete.

9. Text in Graphics to Make ‘Pretty’ vs. Real Text
The font styles are somewhat limited for web pages. Some people want their site to look really good with fonts like you can use in Microsoft Word or other word processor packages. So how do you do that? You make it in Adobe PhotoShop or another graphic package and save out your text, words, paragraphs, etc as images. This works really well as far as good looking text goes, however, because images are larger than text, the pages load slower. The bigger drawback is that you have the words, which tell what your site is about, locked up in images. It’s not accessible to search engines that crawl web sites and catalog them. What does that mean? It means that if you’re relying on getting traffic to your site from search engines you want real text on your site that the search engines can read, not images of text that only humans can read. If your site is not dependant on search engine traffic, then this may not matter other than the slower load time for the image laden pages.

10. Using Something Just To Be Using It.
Don’t use flash, or background sounds, or videos that automatically load and start playing, or JavaScript that opens 900 windows. Only use these things when they are necessary and serve a valid purpose, don’t use them just because you may know how and want to show off.

11. Not Updating the Site Regularly.
As you or your organization changes you should modify your site to reflect those changes. As you add new products or announce new products, etc. you should add them to your site. Your web site can be a tremendous asset in your marketing toolkit, but not if it’s stale and outdated.

This article is taken from The Warrior Forum.

Happy money making on the internet!


Verifying your Credit Card on Payment Processors

Written by Jimmy on Jun 16th, 2007 | Filed under: Articles

Credit Cards

Before you can use your credit card to load / receive funds, you need to verify your credit card. Why? So those companies will know that it is really you who are holding the credit card, and of course, to avoid fraud.

Here’s what to do to verify your credit card after you signed up on a payment processor website and after you enter your credit card information:

Your credit card will be charged a little amount of money, which will appear on your next credit card billing statement. After you have your statement, you will know how much you were charged, you then login to the payment processor website again and enter the amount of money you were charged. If it’s correct, your credit card will be verified.

OR

Some payment processors may add a code to the transaction description on your credit card billing statement, and to verify your credit card, you need to enter the code.

Don’t worry, after your credit card is verified, the money will be credited back to your credit card, or on some payment processors the money will go to your account balance. So actually you don’t spend a dime to do this.

Before you verify your credit card, you can’t make any transactions. So you have to wait until your credit card billing statement to arrive. Hmm… it can take some time, maybe weeks! This is where you can use your credit card company’s hotline number. Usually on the next day you can ask the operator of how much you were charged so you can verify your credit card right away. But some payment processors forbid you to do this because it will no longer be a secret. So please carefully read your payment processors’ terms and instructions before you verify your credit card.

Happy making money on the internet!


People who continue to buy to let mortgages take care of the rest often get trapped in mighty personal loans. Since they aren’t cheap loans, there is no option of remortgage. Often in order to avoid interest only mortgage, people continue with credit card consolidation, which is the worst financial move ever. Even getting a cheap insurance would have been a smarted step.



Payment Processors

Written by Jimmy on Jun 16th, 2007 | Filed under: Articles

PayPal e-gold ePassporte Moneybookers

Payment processors are the services we use on the internet to send and receive money. There are a lot of payment processors on the net, such as PayPal, Moneybookers, Epassporte, E-Gold, AlertPay and a lot more.

Without payment processors, you can’t send and receive money from / to others on the internet. Maybe you can still use your bank’s online features to do that, but what if you’re in the US and the other is in Singapore, for example? Using payment processors, you can send and receive money instantly, without any geographical limitations.

So, yes, payment processors are like banks, except their features are only to be used online. You have your own account just like your bank account number. And it should be noted that both parties (sender and receiver) should use the same payment processor to make transactions. PayPal users cannot send money to E-Gold users. There are some websites that can make you send / receive money through different payment processors, but for the most comfortable and safe transactions, please use the same payment processor.

How do you load money into your account? The main method is using your credit card. Let’s say you need to pay an eBay item for $5 using PayPal, and you have $0 balance in your PayPal account. So you just load your PayPal account using your credit card. You now have $5 in your PayPal account, and you will be charged $5 on your next credit card statement.

When you use your credit card to load money into your accounts, your credit card should have been verified first. Click here to read about verifying your credit card on payment processors.

Besides using credit cards, you can also load money into your account using bank transfers, or even you buy from other people. It’s like this, you need to load $5 to your E-Gold account, and someone you know has $5 in his E-Gold account, so you ask him to transfer $5 of E-Gold to your E-Gold account, and you pay him in cash. There are many websites that do this, they buy and sell e-currencies, just like the E-Gold case above. You should read your payment processors’ terms to find out how to load money into your account.

OK, that’s about loading money into your account, how about withdraw money? It’s the same as loading money into your account. It can be through your credit card, your bank via wire transfer, or through those e-currencies seller (except this time, you’re the one who sells the e-currency and they’re the one who pay you cash).

Different money making websites are using different payment processors. So you should open an account on each payment processor that you will use. You should also read the terms and agreement on each payment processor you’re about to use. Some have their own limitations. Like PayPal, in some Asian countries, you can only send money using PayPal, you can’t receive any money.

Happy making money online!