MONEY HUNTER

Petrol prices hit US consumer mood

2006-05-13T05:37:00.000+08:00

Figures from the US have shown that consumer optimism fell in May under the weight of higher petrol prices and rising mortgage interest rates.

Earlier, the US government offered some positive news on the economy as the US trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in March based on a surge in export demand - but rising import prices kept alive jitters about inflation. The figures sent Wall Street shares even lower after a heavy sell-off on Thursday.

The University of Michigan's sentiment survey slumped to 79 in May from April's final 87.4, far below Wall Street forecasts for a reading of 86.1.

The Michigan reading was the lowest since 1993, excluding a one-month plunge in October in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The report was consistent with ideas on Wall Street that the Federal Reserve will end its almost two-year run of interest rate increases in June to brace for a slowdown in economic growth.

Earlier, the Commerce Department said record high export demand pushed the US trade deficit down to $62 billion in March, its lowest since August and a second straight month of narrowing.

Exports, including those to China, climbed to new highs - suggesting a weaker dollar is having the desired effect of boosting demand for American-made goods. Wall Street analysts had expected the gap to widen to about $67 billion on the back of higher oil import volumes.

Still, the overall U.S. trade deficit for the first quarter of 2006 was $196.2 billion, on track to exceed last year's record of $723.6 billion. The politically sensitive trade gap with China - which hit a record $202 billion in 2005 - widened in March to $15.6 billion. US exports to China were a record $5 billion, while imports from that country were $20.5 billion.

The Labor Department reported that the cost of imported petroleum jumped 11.5% in April, the biggest gain since March 2005. The increase boosted overall US import prices by an unexpectedly sharp 2.1% in April.

Ahead of the figures, the euro pushed past $1.29 against the dollar, though it fell back slightly to $1.2880 on Friday evening.

Google's Gmail inspires imaginative 'hacks'

2006-05-12T04:39:00.000+08:00

A number of ingenious uses for Google's capacious free email service Gmail have surfaced since the service’s launch.

Gmail was created by the web search company Google in April 2004 amid much excitement as every user is promised an unprecedented gigabyte of storage space for messages. Google encourages users to keep all their old messages and automatically searches these to determine what kind of web advertisements might interest users.

But Gmail's copious storage space has inspired a number of programmers to come up with completely novel ways of using the service.

These include a "weblog" or online message board that uses Gmail to store postings and a desktop file system that plugs straight into the Gmail system.

These projects were largely started for fun, but might perhaps provide a glimpse of new features that Google could eventually add to the service for itself, according to some observers.

"The great thing about web applications is that people can extend them, and there's a real community out there to do it," says William Crawford, a programmer and author for the computer publisher O'Reilly. "A lot of people will just do it because it's fun, or to make their lives easier, or both. That's why programmers are such interesting people to hang around with."

Independent community

Crawford adds that Google would do well to encourage this creativity. "Having an independent developer community is a great way to gather creative ideas cheaply," he says.

A number of simple and reusable tools for interacting with Gmail, written in different programming languages, sprang up on the internet within months of the service's launch.

Jonathan Hernandez, a Mexican programmer, took advantage of one such "library", built for the scripting language PHP, to turn his Gmail account into a fully functional online diary or "blog". Sending an email to his account automatically posts a message to the blog, called Gallina.

Introduction to Domain Names

2006-05-11T03:06:00.000+08:00

Domain names are basically pointers that direct visitors to a server, or a set of specific servers. You can think of a domain name as a license plate in relation to a car -- the license plate is purchased, but it isn't attached to the car yet. When it is attached, you can find a certain car by using the license plate number.

Every computer that is on the internet is assigned a number by their Internet Service Provider (ISP). This number is referred to as an "IP Address" and is a string of numbers. The IP address for Bravenet.com is 65.39.176.100. If we did not have domain names you would have to know the IP address of every single website that you wanted to visit.

Domain names are organized into levels. These levels can go as far as you would like to add them, although "Top Level Domain" (TLD), "Domain", and "Sub Domain" are the most commonly used. Below is an exampleof how the domain name www.bravenet.com is broken into levels.

www. bravenet. com

Blue = Sub Domain (aka Third Level)
Red = Domain (aka Second Level)
Green = Top Level Domain

Every domain name must be assigned a set of "Name Servers". Name servers tell computers around the world what IP address a certain domain name is pointing to. If you do not assign the proper name servers to your domain name, computers will not know where to find the server that hosts your website.

If you purchase a domain name with your hosting provider, then the name servers for your domain name will probably be set automatically. If you purchase a domain name from one company and purchase hosting from another company, you will more than likely have to modify the name servers for your domain.

You're now ready to be a proud owner of a domain name! Click here to get a domain name for as low as $8.95 a year!

Get Going on Ebay 2

2006-05-11T03:00:00.000+08:00

In closing here is a list of tips on how to sell your products:

Always provide a picture (would you buy something you hadn't seen?).
Take the time to take a GOOD picture from appropriate angles and with good lighting.
Seek out tutorials on how to present information for sales and advertising.
Use text formatting to grab the user's eye -bold titles, smaller sub titles and then details. This creates a hierarchy of information on the page that is easy to follow. People read titles first.
Invest time and energy in writing an effective sales pitch and titles.
Avoid using too much text. A user can only take so much in before they make a decision as to whether they will stay or move on.
A text heavy page is a drag to read and most people on the internet will leave it behind.
If you can, back-up your products with a website. Having a website is one step loser to having the brick and mortar space that people trust. In other words it adds to your credibility.
Always answer your customers emails in a friendly and timely fashion but try to keep it short so you don't get overwhelmed. Your customers can comment on you as a seller for other customers to see so practice good communication and honesty.

Get Going on Ebay 1

2006-05-11T02:06:00.001+08:00

E-bay does most of the technological stuff for you but they can't help you compete with the millions of other sellers who huddle under their mantle. E-bay will send traffic your way and keep your advertising costs down but if you don't have a good worm on the end of your line chances are you won't catch anything.

If you are new to E-bay how are you going to compete with those seasoned veterans who have hunkered down over a market niche and are equipped to defend it? The answer is the same one that you will hear for many online projects whose final goal is to make money . Quality of CONTENT.

Selling online at E-bay is a retail business just like any brick and mortar establishment. You need to have a business plan and most importantly a marketing strategy. On top of planning your strategy you need to have an abundance of enthusiasm for what you are doing and what you are selling. Know your product and relay that information to your users with gusto. You are a salesperson and must think like one.

Where do you fit into the E-bay community and what category shall you list your self under? This is important and you may be a part of more groups than you would initially think. Spend time brainstorming on who would be interested in your product -write a list. In addition write a list of interests and qualities that these people may possess.

You should be able to cover a bit more ground than you first thought. Always consider how many other auctions are listed in a category because this is a reflection of how much activity is ongoing in that area. The more active that category is, the more people are being driven there. Don't post in categories that aren't very active.

A very important part of listing auctions on E-bay is staying organized and keeping good records. Record EVERYTHING, item number, url , listing date, price, category, status, auction winner, shipping address, billing address -all dates and transactions. Protect yourself by keeping good records.

Accepting Credit Cards Online

2006-05-10T10:27:00.000+08:00

Customers visiting your site like the online purchase protection offered through credit card companies and will be much more likely to purchase your product or service using their credit card, than purchasing through other means like money orders or personal checks.

Merchants prefer credit card purchases too, since the payment is immediate and usually does not require clearance through a bank or other financial institution.

Until recently, though, setting up an online credit card processing system was prohibitively complicated and expensive for most web entrepreneurs. At one time each Merchant had to secure a Merchant Account with an authorized financial agent, purchase special software to process credit cards, and so on.

Setting up a business with credit card processing has become infinitely easier now with online processing companies like PayPal, StormPay, Moneybank and 2checkOut providing simple and easy payment processing services that anyone with an email address can access and setup on their website.

You can even get extended payment processing options like full featured shopping carts that you can add to your site, through many of these service providers. What used to take many thousands of dollars, and months of preparation, to do now takes little more than a few minutes of your time to accomplish.

However, these providers do levy a small fee (usually on a per-transaction basis) and may also have additional service fees depending on the number of transactions you generate or the overall amount of money charged through their system.

While the ease and convenience of these systems is very attractive to the average new web entrepreneur with a limited budget, it is important to make sure you read the User Agreements carefully so that you are always aware of any service charges or conditions that may occur in your account. Nobody wants unexpected surprises!

If you are careful and stay informed about your providers services, this can be a very easy and profitable way to provide credit card processing to your customers on your website!

This are the most popular programs which provide users to use credit cards:

http://www.paypal.com
http://www.alertpay.com
http://www.stormpay.com

Introduction to MySQL

2006-05-10T09:13:00.000+08:00

Summary : This article will teach you what MySQL is, what it is used for, and how to use it yourself.

MySQL is an open source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) based around the Structured Query Language (SQL). In short, MySQL is software that allows you to manage your databases.

Great, but what is a database? In this case, a database is a table of information stored on a server. When you have a table in your MySQL database, you can use PHP to pull that information from the database to your website, which would then make your website dynamic!

We have a MySQL server running for those of you with paid hosting accounts. There are a few ways that you can access and use your MySQL server.

We have phpMyAdmin installed for our members. phpMyAdmin is an interface that resembles a website that you can use to administrate your databases. It might seem confusing at first, but once you've had a look through our MySQL articles and tutorials, you will have a better understanding of what means what.

As the name implies, MySQL servers are based off of the Structured Query Language and you use queries to create, delete, and alter your databases and tables.

Trading List for Tuesday, May 9

2006-05-10T09:05:00.000+08:00

Testing a cool feature from stocktickr.com.

FSH: FISHER SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL INC

Outlook: Long Industry: Scientific Tech Instrmnts

New high on 22.55 times average volume: 17,489,700 vs. 775,500

(tags: long, New High on Huge Volume)
GDW: GOLDEN WEST FINANCIAL CORPORATION

Outlook: Long Industry: Savings and Loans

New high on 17.47 times average volume: 22,590,300 vs. 1,292,905

(tags: long, New High on Huge Volume)
CHU: CHINA UNICOM LTD

Outlook: Long Industry: Wireless Communications

New high on 14.78 times average volume: 3,120,500 vs. 211,124

(tags: long, New High on Huge Volume)
N: INCO LTD

Outlook: Long Industry: Industrial Metals Mineral

New high on 7.78 times average volume: 18,019,500 vs. 2,314,695

(tags: long, New High on Huge Volume)
WPSC: WHEELING-PITTSBURGH CORPORATION

Outlook: Long Industry: Steel and Iron

New high on 4.47 times average volume: 1,909,595 vs. 426,818

(tags: long, New High on Huge Volume)
SGG: SGL CARBON AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Outlook: Long Industry: Industrial Electrical Eqp

New high on 90.59 times average volume: 4,697,433 vs. 51,852

(tags: long, New High on Huge Volume)

The Secret : Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code 5

2006-05-07T05:27:00.000+08:00

LEFT : Virgin of the Rocks(version rejected by the nuns)
RIGHT : Virgin of the Rocks(version accepted by the nuns)

But what is this code telling us?

Simply that in-order to give birth to our own messiah or anointing, or in-order to save ourselves, we need to be in union with wisdom, which is symbolized as both water and the serpent - hence Arthur Pendragon and his wife the Queen of Serpents, or the early Enki and Ninkhursag, who were serpent deities or Shining Ones and were therefore symbols of enlightenment.

As God was upon the face of the waters of the deep in Genesis, so too must we submerge ourselves in wisdom in-order to bring about the divine creation within us.

So, now we understand that Jesus and Mary in union could be a metaphor or indeed a copy of this ancient system, what are we left with?

The truth of the Da Vinci Code is in fact more real than people know. Jesus and Mary did marry, in the Gnostic sense and not the literal sense. They did spawn a child and he was known simply as Gnosis. However, the evil twin brother known as Catholicism tried to wipe him out, like Set tried to destroy Osiris, or Mordred killed Arthur or the Sheriff of Nottingham killed Robin. In the end Set, Mordred and the Sheriff were themselves brought down, so what will be the verdict on the Catholic Church?

This hidden truth behind the veil of the literal Christianity hides the real truth of the Holy Grail, that it, like alchemy, is a work on the self. The question now is, who does it serve?

Well, one thing we do know, the organisations spoken of in the Da Vinci Code, such as the Jesuits and the Opus Dei, have indeed tried to keep this self empowering truth from mankind. The reason for this is simple, with the knowledge of our own god-head we no longer need a priest or a church and so they lose wealth and power. Let’s take a look at some of these organisations and see just what they have been up to.

The Society of Jesus or Jesuits was founded in 1540 by St. Ignatius Loyola and since then has grown from the original seven to nearly 30000 members who work out of nearly 2000 houses in over 100 countries. According to J. Parnell McCarter in his Puritan News Service, Ignatius was himself a Gnostic illuminist – a member of the Alumbrados of Spain, his home. These Alumbrados were quite simply the Spanish version of the infamous Illuminati – bringing full circle the Jesuits being created by an Illuminati and then going on to create an Illuminati. All of this was occurring at the same time as the rise in Freemasonic thought.

What is known about Ignatius is that he was a Spanish Basque soldier who then supposedly underwent an extraordinary conversion while recuperating from a broken leg. His experiences were written down and he called them Spiritual Exercises, going on later to found the Society of Jesus or Jesuits with the approval of Pope Paul III in 1540. Strangely upon the printing of his Spiritual Exercises in 1548 he was brought before the Inquisition, but was later released.

According to the Catholic Church the Jesuits have become renowned for their sanctity, which basically means that they have had many members Canonised or Blessed. They have been involved in many scientific discoveries and in the exploration or indeed exploitation of the New World.

From the start the Pope was overwhelmed with the Jesuit service, becoming his secret police, collector of information and general bully-boys, much akin to the history of the Alumbrados (Illuminated Ones.) On the face of it the Jesuits were opening schools, making amazing discoveries and sending missionaries out across the world. In fact it is claimed by the Catholic Church that no Order has ever had so many martyrs. However all this reveals is simply how far they pushed and how close to danger they always were. Stamping out a culture or pagan religion often brings dangers and martyrdom.

The skill of Ignatius Loyola was in the gathering around him of an energetic band of well-educated and determined men. Ignatius had the concept of supplying the Church with missionaries such as Francis Xavier, who would preach and administer the sacraments, whilst growing the Church’s membership and gathering huge amounts of information.

Ignatius soon discovered that colleges and universities offered the greatest service to the church, for by and through religious instruction, the Jesuits could manipulate the thinkers in addition to the masses manipulated in church on a Sunday.

These Jesuit schools of learning sprang up everywhere and became an influential part of Catholic reform called "a rebirth of the infant church". So influential were the Jesuits that they threatened the Royalty and they were "asked to leave" several countries.

To see just how influential the Jesuits have been we need to look at what the Catholic Church claim on their behalf.

By 1750, 30 of the world's 130 astronomical observatories were run by Jesuit astronomers and indeed 35 lunar craters have been named to honour Jesuit scientists.

The "Gregorian" Calendar instigated by the Jesuit Christopher Clavius, sometimes called the "most influential teacher of the Renaissance".

Ferdinand Verbiest, a Jesuit, worked out the Russo-Chinese border and according to the Catholics until recent times no foreign name was as well known in China as the Jesuit Matteo Ricci, "Li-ma-teu".

Five of the major rivers of the world were first charted by Jesuit explorers; two of the statues in the Washington are Jesuits; the Jesuits founded Sao Paulo; Spanish Jesuits built settlements in Paraguay which lasted from 1607 to 1767; they taught agriculture, architecture, metallurgy, farming, music, ranching and printing to the indigenous people of each country the occupied – how better to build wealth.

In 1773 Pope Clement XIV yielded to Bourbon pressure and reduced the power of the Jesuits on the surface. The Jesuits followed orders and disbanded temporarily until 1814 when they were brought back together again. Like the Knights Templar before them the Jesuits simply assumed other roles. As if to prove that the Jesuits were ultimately obedient to the Pope in 1590 Pope Sixtus V wanted to take out the name Jesus from the official name of the society, to which the Jesuits duly complied – although Sixtus then surprisingly died – the questions arise who killed him and does this really show obedience to the Pope?

Today the Jesuits are back in force, with schools, colleges and universities across the world. At any one time they are educating over half a million people. Ex-President Mitterand of France was himself a Jesuit and it was he who instigated the infamous pyramid of light at the Louvre in Paris.

There is a subtle undercurrent running beneath the cover of this Catholic Order – it is a current of illumination now bastardised as a secret truth and hidden from our eyes by the clever manipulating of religion for the masses. But they also have links in the world of commerce and politics.

The Secret : Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code 4

2006-05-07T05:05:00.000+08:00

Da Vinci self-portrait
Did Jesus and Mary marry and have children?

Who would have thought that such a simple question would raise such a controversy and even be taken seriously? To answer this one we need to break it down.

Firstly, if Jesus married Mary Magdalene then we have to admit that Jesus and Mary existed in the first place. Although we have a substantial amount of textual evidence for these biblical characters, this is due to the sheer amount of copying being carried out hundreds of years after the supposed event. We have no actual texts naming either character from the period, most of the texts date hundreds of years after.

Even if we do admit that these people were real, then we would have to admit that Jesus did walk on water, cast out demons into pigs and die and resurrect. That, or we would have another option: That the character of Jesus, just like that of Robin Hood and King Arthur, was based upon a real man somewhere and all the extra mythical and mystical elements were added into the story. Just as Robin married Marion (Mary) and Arthur married Guinevere, so too in this way - that is mythical - Jesus may have married Mary - even though there is no textual evidence for this.

Both Marion and Mary are the same and imply water and wisdom. Guinevere comes from similar roots especially as the queen of heaven, which was a title for Mary the Mother of Jesus and Isis the Mother of Horus- and as many scholars have pointed out the two Mary’s may in fact be amalgamations of a much older myth.

Guinevere is also the ‘queen of serpents’ and therefore knowledge and wisdom and her name is related in etymology to Eve which means female serpent and is an indication of wisdom.

Just as the early Christian church was forming groups such as the Gnostic Ophites or serpent worshippers, raising their communion cup to the good serpent they were also splitting the threefold mother goddess - Mary - into distinct parts. First the Mother Mary, then the Sister Mary and then Mary Magdalene, a mysterious element and we shall see why.

Mary the mother is Isis the mother of Horus. As Horus is the son and in fact reincarnation of Osiris, so Isis or Mary is also his sister and lover. She is all three, the feminine trinity. Mary Magdalene therefore is the hidden lover of Jesus who is both God and the Son of God, just like Horus. And all of this mystery tradition relates back to the ancient serpent cult as Isis, Osiris and Horus had strong associations with the creative, wise and immortal serpent. The same feminine trinity can in fact also be found in Celtic myth and even India with Kali.

Jesus was eventually likened to the Mosaic "brazen serpent in the wilderness" and imaged hundreds of times as a serpent upon the cross. Here we have that parallel with Arthur, whose name, Pendragon, means "head serpent" or "head of the serpent."

Now that we can see with just these few examples there is a real code afoot. An ancient code going right back into ancient Egypt and beyond, through Osiris and Isis and to Enki and Ninkhursag in Sumeria and Mesopotamia who were known themselves as serpent priests or doctors.

The Secret : Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code 3

2006-05-07T05:01:00.000+08:00

Codex with reverse handwriting

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci So, now that we know the true etymology of san graal and that the Priory of Sion never in fact existed, we should also know that Leonardo could not have been a grand master of a none existing order that protected a secret that also didn‘t exist.

In fact, all the historical background and information on Leonardo reveals that he was a skilled and wonderful artist - so no great revelation there then.

However, there are those strange elements of his paintings, which the Da Vinci Code and others pick up on. Take the female looking character in the Last Supper for instance. Many have pointed to the fact that this individual looks remarkably feminine. Well, he does. Others have pointed to the Mona Lisa as being not quite feminine enough and that surely the sitter must have been a boy. Using these assumptions many have claimed that Leonardo was therefore homosexual. It is more and more amusing by the day just how far this rubber band can be stretched, before it comes hurtling back and hits somebody in the face.

So what is the truth? Is that a lady in the Last Supper? No.

There was a tradition of painting the disciple that Christ loved, John the Evangelist, as a slightly boyish individual, thereby bringing questions to the mind of many as to whether Jesus himself was gay. In fact I discovered this to be part of an ancient Gnostic tradition whereby the two Johns, John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, were two sides to the duality – male and female, positive and negative, which needed to be rejoined in-order to be complete. Therefore John the Evangelist was perceived as the feminine principle in this relation, whereas John the Baptist was the manly bearded wild figure.

It was also part of the hidden tradition of the painter’s guild of the time to include androgynous elements within their paintings for this very reason. This androgynous element is there as a symbol of the the union of opposites mentioned before, of man and woman, of male and female, of the two sides of our mind which need bringing into union once again to form the perfect human.

The Secret : Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code 2

2006-05-07T04:59:00.000+08:00

The Vitruvian Man
Priory of Sion

This supposedly ancient and enigmatic group allegedly once had Leonardo da Vinci himself as a Grand Master, not to mention several other notables such as Nicolas Flamel and Isaac Newton. However, there is no truth in it at all. Sion was the name of a hill nearby the residences of Pierre Plantard and Gerade de Sede – two of the original creators of the Priory of Sion hoax.

The documents of the Priory secreted in the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris have been proven to be forgeries. In fact the only truthful copies of anything for Mr Plantard in the Paris Library are newsletters from the 1950’s for a rather boring housing association, complaining about the state of the streets, and even this is in extremely poor French.

All the instigators of this surrealist hoax have admitted their creation on record. On the one hand they said it was a surrealist joke and on the other a kind of egotistical ploy to be accepted by society. And yet the world still goes mad with every new bloodline myth.

Sang Real

One of the main pieces of evidence for the books about the bloodline of Christ, from Holy Blood, Holy Grail to The Templar Revelation has been the interpretation of the original term used for the Holy Grail - San Graal. In the 80’s book, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent et al, we find that they interpret this differently, placing the g from graal onto the end of san, making sang real. This then translates as royal or holy blood. Mistaking a simple error by a 15th century writer - the only ever time the error was made until the 1980’s - they based an entire theory upon something that was simply not true. Sir Walter Skeat, one of the greatest etymologists England has ever created even said a hundred years ago that this error was "very early falsified" and for what ends he did not know. He pointed out that in fact the original concept meant mixing bowl, which of course relates entirely with the theory I put forward in The Serpent Grail.

The Secret : Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code 1

2006-05-07T04:32:00.000+08:00

The Mona Lisa

The Da Vinci Code and the madness that surrounds it is indicative of one thing – the fact that in the 21st century mankind is still in the dark about a great many things. We may have sent rockets into space; we may be able to develop nano-technology and we can even heat up food with micro-wave radiation, but we are still no closer to the truth about our own religions and the secretive organisations that surround them. The most powerful of them all is of course the Catholic Church and it is this Empire building religion that lies at the heart of the book.

To begin with we do need to take a look at the claims made in the Da Vinci Code in relationship to the Holy Grail in-order to understand what the reality of the matter really is.

The Da Vinci Code Fiasco

One question regarding the Holy Grail that the early medieval writers asked was "who does it serve?" Well, let's have a look at the current Grail world and see if it is serving us, or are we serving it?

Very briefly and for those among us who have been on the planet Sanity for the last few of years, the Da Vinci Code is a fiction based around a man who discovers a code that reveals the true identity of the Holy Grail to be nothing more than the very bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene.

Unfortunately the author, Dan Brown, claimed his now infamous book to be based upon real factual organisations and events. This however could not be farther from the truth.

Intolerance Masquerades as Tolerance

2006-05-04T04:41:00.000+08:00

It was, of course, never about freedom of speech and tolerance for divergent opinions. What it was about was to test the limits that intolerance and xenophobia can be carried to. It seems that those limits have finally been reached and breached.

I think Europe may come to regret this latest shameful indiscretion. Its attempt to humiliate Moslems has backfired, revealing instead some of its own deeply-entrenched hypocrisies. The Empire has no clothes.

While touting the "tolerance" of their societies, Europeans have been busily defending, nay celebrating, the intolerance exhibited by the Danish newspaper. If this kind of bigoted insensitivity is an example of European tolerance, then give me the "narrow-minded intolerance" of the Moslem protesters. They, at least, have the clarity of mind to see what is right, along with the courage to fight for it.

$$ Earn Money : FOREX 5

2006-05-04T04:39:00.000+08:00

WHY TRADE FOREIGN CURRENCIES?

There are many benefits and advantages to trading Forex. Here are just a few reasons why so many people are choosing this market:

No commissions. No clearing fees, no exchange fees, no government fees, no brokerage fees. Brokers are compensated for its services through the bid-ask spread.
No middlemen. Spot currency trading away with the middlemen and allows clients to interact directly with the market responsible for the pricing on a particular currency pair.
No fixed lot size. In the futures markets, lot or contract sizes are determined by the exchanges. A standard-size contract for silver futures is 5000 ounces. In spot Forex, you determine the lot size. This allows traders to participate with accounts as small as $300.
Low transaction cost. The retail transaction cost (the bid/ask spread) is typically less than 0.1 percent under normal market conditions. At larger dealers, the spread could be as low as .07 percent. This will be explained later.
A 24-hour market. There is no waiting for the opening bell. From Sunday evening to Friday afternoon EST, the Forex market never sleeps. This is very desirable for those who want to trade on a part-time basis, because you can choose when you want to trade--morning, noon or night.
No one can corner the market. The forex market is so huge and has so many participants that no single entity, not even a central bank, can control the market price for an extended period of time. Even interventions by mighty central banks are becoming increasingly ineffective and short-lived. Central banks are becoming less and less inclined to intervene to manipulate market prices.
Leverage. In Forex trading, a small margin deposit can control a much larger total contract value. Leverage gives the trader the ability to make extraordinary profits and at the same time keep risk capital to a minimum. For example, Forex brokers offer 200 to 1 leverage, which means that a $50 dollar margin deposit would enable a trader to buy or sell $10,000 worth of currencies. Similarly, with $500 dollars, one could trade with $100,000 dollars and so on. But leverage is a double-edged sword. Without proper risk management, this high degree of leverage can lead to large losses as well as gains.
High Liquidity. Because the Forex Market is so humongous, it is also extremely liquid. This means that with a click of a mouse, under normal market conditions, you can instantaneously buy and sell at will. You are never "stuck" in a trade. You can even set your online trading platform to automatically close your position at your desired profit level (limit order), and/or close a trade if a trade is going against you (stop loss order).
Free “Demo” Accounts, News, Charts, and Analysis. Most online Forex brokers offer free 'Demo' accounts to practice trading, along with breaking Forex news and charting services. These are very valuable resources for “poor” traders who would like to hone their trading skills with 'virtual' money before opening a live trading account.
'Mini' Trading: You would think that getting started as a currency trader would cost a lot of money. The fact is, it doesn't. Online Forex brokers offer "mini" trading accounts with a minimum account deposit of $1. This makes Forex much more accessible to the average individual who doesn't have a lot of start-up trading capital.

$$ Earn Money : FOREX 4

2006-05-04T04:21:00.000+08:00

THE FOREX MARKET (OTC)

The Forex OTC market is by far the biggest and most popular financial market in the world, traded globally by a large number of individuals and organizations. In the OTC market, participants determine who they want to trade with depending on trading conditions, attractiveness of prices and reputation of the trading counterparty.

The chart below shows global foreign exchange activity. It represents the results of a study conducted in 1998 by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). In comparison, while the total daily trading volume worldwide was estimated at about US$1.5 trillion, only about 12 billion dollars was estimated for currency futures - less than a tenth of one percent!

From the chart below, it is evident that the UK provides the greatest portion of worldwide forex activity. This is despite the fact that the British Pound is only the fourth most widely traded foreign currency in the world.

WHAT TOOLS DO I NEED TO START TRADING FOREX?

A computer with a high-speed Internet connection and all the information on this site is all that is needed to begin trading currencies.

WHAT DOES IT COST TO TRADE FOREX?

An online currency trading (a “mini-account”) may be opened for as little as $1. Do not laugh – mini-accounts are good way to get your feet wet without taking a bath. In Forex, you select how much of any particular currency you wish to buy or sell. There is a program that give you free $5 to start trading with forex but I'll tell you later. Make sure you are understand about forex first.

Just a Joke...

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An Iraqi, an American and a British man were sitting in a Cafe, drinking Coffee together.

The American drank his coffee and then took out his pistol, shot the cup and laughed saying, we have many of these in the states and an american needn't drink in the same cup twice!

The British finished his coffee too and took the pistol from his pocket, shot the cup and said, we have sand in the UK and the british man never drinks in the same cup twice..!

The Iraqi finished drinking the coffee and took out his pistol directed it at the American and the british and said laughingly, we have many of you in Iraq, and an Iraqi man never drinks coffee with the same American and British people again...

War againts war!!!

Just a Dream ??

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Well there are some cars that you just can't help dreaming about...for instance my personal favourite...THE Mercedes SLR McLaren...it's simply out of this world. period.

You have cars, you have better cars, and then you have the Mercedes. Some may brag about their fast and furious Ferraris, others may go ga-ga over their starry Maybachs and Rolls Royces, but the truth is....Mercedes was, is, and will always be the Numero Uno.

The SLR McLaren is a beauty. Great looks along with superior performance. Its not only eye catching but also delivers the power, speed and thrill of a true supercar...Dream on....and if you end up getting one, you're a lucky species!! Joys!!

$$ Earn Money : FOREX 3

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WHAT IS A SPOT MARKET?

A spot market is any market that deals in the current price of a financial instrument.

WHICH CURRENCIES ARE TRADED?

Any currency backed by an existing nation can be traded at the larger brokers. The most popular currencies along with their symbols are show below:

Symbol	Country	Currency
USD	United States	Dollar
EUR	Euro members	Euro
JPY	Japan	Yen
GBP	Great Britain	Pound
CHF	Switzerland	Franc
CAD	Canada	Dollar
AUD	Australia	Dollar

Forex currency symbols are always three letters, where the first two letters identify the name of the country and the third letter identifies the name of that country’s currency.

WHEN CAN CURRENCIES BE TRADED?

The spot FX market is unique to any other market in the world. It’s like a Super Wal-Mart where the market is open 24-hours a day. Somewhere around the world, a financial center is open for business, and banks and other institutions exchange currencies, every hour of the day and night with generally only minor gaps on the weekend.

The foreign exchange markets follows the sun around the world, so you can trade late at night if you’re a vampire or in the morning if you’re an early bird. Keep in the mind though, the early bird doesn’t necessarily get the worm in this market. You might get the worm but a bigger nastier falcon can sneak up and eat you too.

Time Zone	New York	GMT
Tokyo Open	7:00 pm	0:00
Tokyo Close	4:00 am	9:00
London Open	3:00 am	8:00
London Close	12:00 pm	17:00
New York Open	8:00 am	13:00
New York Close	5:00 pm	22:00

The New Earth's Species!!

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The Quarterhorse
Guess how to ride???

Phone Bill : $218,000,000,000. Would you like to pay??

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This from the Associated Press:

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.

Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father's phone line in January after he died and settled the 84 ringgit ($23) bill, the New Straits Times reported.

But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit ($218 trillion) bill for recent telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the newspaper reported.

It wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya's father's phone line was used illegally after after his death.

"If the company wants to seek legal action as mentioned in the letter, I'm ready to face it," the paper quoted Yahaya as saying. "In fact, I can't wait to face it," he said.

Yahaya, from northern Kedah state, received a notice from the company's debt-collection agency in early April, the paper said. Yahaya said he nearly fainted when he saw the new bill.

Government-linked Telekom Malaysia Bhd. is the country's largest telecommunications company.

A company official, who declined to be identified as she was not authorized to speak to the media, said Telekom Malaysia was aware of Yahaya's case and would address it. She did not provide further details.

And to think I complained when I got a $400 phone bill! What really cracks me up is the dingbat reporter saying, "It wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya's father's phone line was used illegally after after his death." Well let's see... if you called every single man, woman and child on the planet (assuming each had access to a telephone) and talked until you ran up $25,000 in charges on every single call, you would still not run up a bill that huge!
Yeah, it was a mistake.

$$ Earn Money : FOREX 2

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WHAT IS FOREX?

The Foreign Exchange, also referred to as the "FOREX" or "Forex" or “FX” or "Spot FX" market is the largest financial market in the world, with a volume over $1.95 trillion a day. If you compare that to the $25 billion a day volume that the New York Stock Exchange trades, you see how giant the Foreign Exchange really is. It's actually more than three times the total amount of the stocks and futures markets combined!

What is traded on the Foreign Exchange? The answer is money. Forex trading is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another. Currencies are traded through a broker or dealer and are traded in pairs; for example the Euro dollar and the US dollar (EUR/USD) or the British pound and the Japanese Yen (GBP/JPY).

This kind of trading is often very confusing to people because they are not buying anything physical. Think of buying a currency as buying a share in a particular country. When you buy, say, Japanese Yen, you are in effect buying a share in the Japanese economy, as the price of the currency is a direct reflection of what the market thinks about the current and future health of the country's economy.

In general, the exchange rate of a currency versus other currencies is a reflection of the condition of that country's economy compared to the other countries' economies.

Unlike other financial markets like the New York Stock Exchange, the Forex spot market has neither a physical location nor a central exchange. The Forex market is considered an Over-the-Counter (OTC) or 'Interbank' market, due to the fact that the entire market is run electronically, within a network of banks, continuously over a 24-hour period.

Until the late 1990’s, only the “big guys” could play this game. The initial requirement was that you could trade only if you had about ten to fifty million bucks to start. Forex was originally intended to be used by bankers and large institutions and not by us “little guys”. However, because of the rise of the Internet, online Forex trading firms are now able to offer trading accounts to 'retail' traders like us.

All you need to get started is a computer, a high-speed Internet connection, and the information contained within this site. BabyPips.com was created to introduce beginning traders to all the essential aspects of foreign exchange in a fun and easy-to-understand manner.

$$ Earn Money : FOREX 1

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INTRODUCTION

That’s it! No employees. No advertising. No cold calling. No inventory. Imagine a business with just you, your computer, and a high-speed Internet connection?! That’s all you need trade in the foreign exchange market!! In other words...
A properly trained Forex trader can potentially earn BIG PROFITS in every single month, week, or day! (Of course a poorly trained Forex trader can suffer big losses as well.)
What do you need to do??

Walk few steps
Sit in front of your computer or laptop
Turn on computer and make sure Internet connection is working
Open charts and trading platform
Trade currencies
Make money!

Consider the Following and Judge for Yourself

YOU ARE YOUR BOSS!
You don’t need any customers!
You don’t need employees!
You can operate from home, work, vacation or anywhere else in the world as long as you have an Internet connection.
You never have to worry about job security, harassment or any other employment-related anxiety.
YOU ARE YOUR OWN BOSS!
You never need to worry about employer payroll, strikes, theft, rent increases, health inspectors, lease problems, being sued, etc…
You don't need to do any cold calling.
You decide which days you wish to work - You make the decision to take a vacation at a moment's notice.
YOU ARE YOUR OWN BOSS!

From the First Words.....

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