March 19, 2010
How To Improve Online Get Paid To Survey Models For More Profits!
As somebody who has spent the last 2 years doing online surveys, I have come to notice a few things wrong with most of the current online survey models. The behavior of my affiliates and visitors to my online survey review website (http://www.extra-income-ideas.com/paid-to-survey.html) also gives me unique perspective in the industry.
I know for me some of the things wrong with the current online survey model have reduced the number of surveys I currently take. I have no doubt its discouraging a lot of the people that came online to take surveys as a way of making extra money.
I believe the current model is causing a lot of attrition in the business. This needs to be reversed if online paid survey companies want to continue to thrive. Making these changes will help reduce the turnover of survey takers.
Below are the things I feel need to be changed:
1. The current model of taking surveys for a chance to win prices should be changed. This model makes online paid to surveys look like a lottery or gamble. Its frustrating for people looking to make extra income to have to rely on luck to make that income.
A person that signs up for online get paid to surveys to help pay a kids karate or piano lesson can not depend on luck to pay the bill. He/She wants to be able to know that at the end of the month, the money will be there to pay the bill.
What happens is that after a few months of taking online paid to survey for a chance to win money or price and not winning anything, they think online paid to survey is a scam. They stop taking the surveys and start looking for other ways to make extra money.
What I recommend is a model that guarantees every survey taker some money or price. If an online survey company is going to give a luck winner out of all survey takers $10000.00, why not use a model that guarantees every survey taker some money or price.
For example, the survey company could use 400 people in the survey and pay every survey taker $25.00. A sample size of 400 people is enough to get the answer youre looking for in the survey.
Like one internet guru said, if I find out what 100 people think, I can takeover the world. So a sample size of 400 people is more than enough to get the information needed.
2. Online paid to survey companies should reduce the number of qualifying surveys. For those new to the business, a qualifying survey is the survey they give you to see if you qualify for a survey theyre conducting.
Even though most online survey companies make you fill out a profile when you register with them, they still send you a qualifying survey. Granted there are surveys that require this, I dont thin it should be done in each and every survey.
I have a survey company that regularly sends me qualifying survey about buying computer system for the company I work for. They have my profile that shows my background yet they constantly send me this qualifying survey.
The qualifying survey will ask if Im the CIO of the company I work for. My answer is always No. Then they further ask, are you in charge of buying the computer system where you work. My answer again is always No. Then I get sorry you do not qualify for this survey.
After a few times of getting this, it starts getting irritating. I have since started ignoring their surveys. I just feel theyre wasting my time when I could be earning extra income in other ways. I dont think Im the only one that feels this way.
It may take a little work initially, but all it takes is a database that has the profile of your registered survey takers. Then when a survey comes up, you run a program that calls the database for people that fit the profile you want. Armed with this information, youll then only send the survey invitation to these people. I dont believe thats too much to ask.
In the end, all it will take is to send out a newsletter reminding your registered users to update their profile when it changes. They should be reminded that doing this will increase their earning power.
In conclusion, I firmly believe doing the above things will improve the online survey experience. Improvement of this experience, will help the industry to continue to grow.
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March 14, 2010
In this article I will explain to you how to develop a profitable day trading system in five steps:
Step 1: Select a market and a timeframe
Step 2: Define entry rules
Step 3: Define exit rules
Step 4: Evaluate your day trading system
Step 5: Improving the day trading system
Lets take a closer look at these steps.
Step 1: Select a market and a timeframe
Every market and every timeframe can be traded with a day trading system. But if you want to look at 50 different futures markets and 6 major timeframes (e.g. 5min, 10min, 15min, 30min, 60min and daily), then you need to evaluate 300 possible options. Here are some hints on how to limit your choices:
Though you can trade every futures markets, we recommend that you stick to the electronic markets (e.g. e-mini S&P and other indices, Treasury Bonds and Notes, Currencies, etc). Usually these markets are very liquid, and you wont have a problem entering and exiting a trade. Another advantage of electronic markets is lower commissions: Expect to pay at least half the commissions you pay on non-electronic markets. Sometimes the difference can be as high as 75%.
When you select a smaller timeframes (less than 60min) your average profit per trade is usually comparably low. On the other hand you get more trading opportunities. When trading on a larger timeframe your profits per trade will be bigger, but you will have less trading opportunities. Its up to you to decide which timeframe suits you best.
Smaller timeframes mean smaller profits, but usually smaller risk, too. When you are starting with a small trading account, then you might want to select a small timeframe to make sure that you are not overtrading your account.
Most profitable day trading systems use larger timeframes like daily and weekly. These systems work, too, but, be prepared for less trading action and bigger drawdowns.
Step 2: Define entry rules
Lets simplify the myths of entry rules:
Basically there are 2 different kinds of entry setups:
Trend-following
When prices are moving up, you buy, and when prices are going down, you sell.
Trend-fading
When prices are trading at an extreme (e.g. upper band of a channel), you sell, and you try to catch the small move while prices are moving back into normalcy. The same applies for selling.
In my opinion swing trading is actually one of the best trading strategies for the beginning trader to get his or her feet wet. By contrast, trend trading offers greater profit potential if a trader is able to catch a major market trend of weeks or months, but few are the traders with sufficient discipline to hold a position for that period of time without getting distracted.
Most indicators that you will find in your charting software belong to one of these two categories: You have either indicators for identifying trends (e.g. Moving Averages) or indicators that define overbought or oversold situations and therefore offer you a trade setup for a short term swing trade.
So dont become confused by all the possibilities of entering a trade. Just make sure that you understand why you are using a certain indicator or what the indicator is measuring. An example of a simple swing daytrading strategy can be found in the next chapter.
Step 3: Define exit rules
Lets keep it simple here, too: There are two different exit rules you want to apply:
Stop Loss Rules to protect your capital and
Profit Taking Exits to realize your profits
Both exit rules can be expressed in four ways:
A fixed dollar amount (e.g. $1,000)
A percentage of the current price (e.g. 1% of the entry price)
A percentage of the volatility (e.g. 50% of the average daily movement) or
A time stop (e.g. exit after 3 days)
We dont recommend using a fixed dollar amount, because markets are too different. For example, natural gas changes an average of a few thousand dollars per day per contract; however, Eurodollars change an average of a few hundred dollars a day per contract. You need to balance and normalize this difference when developing a day trading system and testing it on different markets. Thats why you should always use percentages for stops and profit targets (e.g. 1% stop) or a volatility stop instead of a fixed dollar amount.
A time stop gets you out of a trade if it is not moving in any direction, therefore freeing your capital for other trades.
Step 4: Evaluate your day trading system
The first figure to look for is the net profit. Obviously you want your system to generate profits. But dont be frustrated when during the development stage your day trading system shows a loss; try to reverse your entry signals. On our website www.rockwelltrading.com you already learned that trading is a zero sum game: So if you are going long at a certain price level, and you lose, then try to go short instead. Many times this is the easiest way to turn a losing system into a winning one.
The next figure you want to look at is the average profit per trade. Make sure this number is greater than slippage and commissions, and that it makes your day trading worthwhile. Day trading is all about risk and reward, and you want to make sure you get a decent reward for your risk.
Take a look at the Profit Factor (Gross Profit / Gross Loss). This will tell you how many dollars you are likely to win for every dollar you lose. The higher the profit factor the better the day trading system. A system should have a profit factor of 1.5 or more, but watch out when you see profit factors above 3.0, because it might be that you over-optimized the system.
Here are some more characteristics you might want to consider besides the net profit of a system:
Winning percentage
Many profitable day trading systems achieve a nice net profit with a rather small winning percentage, sometimes even below 30%. These systems follow the principle Cut your losses short and let your profits run. However, YOU need to decide whether you can stand 7 losers and only 3 winners in 10 trades. If you want to be right most of the time, then you should pick a system with a high winning percentage.
Number of Trades per Month
Do you need daily action? If you want to see something happening every day, then you should pick a day trading system with a high number of trades per month. Many profitable day trading systems generate only 2-3 trades per month, but if you are not patient enough to wait for it, then you should select a day trading system with a higher trading frequency.
Average Time in Trade
Some people get really nervous when they are in a trade. I have heard of people who cant even sleep at night when they have an open position. If thats you, then you should make sure that the average time in a trade is as short as possible. You might want to choose a system that does not hold any positions overnight.
Maximum Drawdown
A famous trader once said: If you want your system to double or triple your account, you should expect a drawdown of up to 30% on your way to trading riches. Not every trader can stand a 30% drawdown. Look at the maximum drawdown the system produced so far, and double it. If you can stand this drawdown, then you found the right day trading system. Why doubling? Remember: your worst drawdown is always ahead of you.
Most consecutive losses
The amount of most consecutive losses has a huge impact on your trading, especially when you are using certain types of money management techniques. Five or six consecutive losses can cause you a lot of trouble when using an aggressive money management.
In addition this number will help you to determine whether you have enough discipline to trade the system: Will you still trade the system after you have experienced 10 losses in a row? Its not unusual for a profitable trading system to have 10-12 losses in a row.
Step 5: Improving your system
There is a difference between improving and curve-fitting a system. You can improve your day trading system by testing different exit methods: If you are using a fixed stop, try a trailing stop instead. Add a time stop and evaluate the results again. Dont look at the net profit only; look also at the profit factor, average profit per trade and maximum drawdown. Many times you will see that the net profit slightly decreases when you add different stops, but the other figures might improve dramatically.
Dont fall into the trap of over-optimizing: You can eliminate almost all losers by adding enough rules. Simple example: If you see that on Tuesdays you had more losers than on the other weekdays, you might be tempted to add a filter that prevents your day trading system from entering trades on Tuesdays. Next you find that in January you had much worse results than in other months, so you add a filter that enters trades only from February December. You add more and more filters to avoid losses, and eventually you end up with a trading rule that I saw recently:
IF FVE > -1 And Regression Slope (Close , 35) / Close.35 * 100 > -.35 And Regression Slope (Close , 35) / Close.35 * 100 < .4 And Regression Slope (Close , 70) / Close.70 * 100 > -.4 And Regression Slope (Close , 70) / Close.70 * 100 < .4 And Regression Slope (Close , 170) / Close.170 * 100 > -.2 And MACD Diff (Close , 12 , 26 , 9) > -.003 And Not Tuesday And Not DayOfMonth = 12 and not Month = August and Time > 9:30 …
Though you eliminated all possibilities of losing (in the past) and this trading system is now producing fantastic profits, its very unlikely that it will continue to do so when it hits reality.
Authors name
Markus Heitkoetter
Author’s Info:
Markus Heitkoetter is a 19 year veteran of the markets and the CEO of Rockwell Trading. For more free information and tips and trick how to make consistent profits with online daytrading, visit his website www.rockwelltrading.com.
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March 14, 2010
How to Create your own ebook and profit from it…WITHOUT EVER WRITING A SINGLE WORD!
Many people are making serious money online through eBooks. However, many who have tried to do so as well have failed because writing a quality ebook is very hard to do. The good news is, you can now have your own ebook, sell it, and make great profit without having to write a single word yourself! I assure you will make profits in a week! It has worked for me, and it has worked for many other people as well! Here are some tips that will help you get started:
1.First, find a niche.
Finding a niche is the hardest thing youll have to do, and its not difficult at all! To find a great topic to write about, spend some time on Google. Search for things like major concerns of Americans (or the country where your target audience is located), or Popular topics. Also try checking out Amazons best-selling books, and get some ideas. Your niche can be about anything you want: from chicken soup recipes, to bike riding in Ontario just make sure there is an audience ready to spend money on that information.
2.Find a ghost writer.
This is the special part. Its hard to write a quality ebook, so why not have someone else write it for you? First thing to do before you start looking is a budget. Once you have one, its time to find your freelancer. The best place to get a freelancer to do the job for you is at Elance. There you can look for writers available for hire, or post an offer and wait for someone to accept it. Other places to search for writers include forums like v7n and Digitalpoint.
3.Sell your ebook.
After you had your book written, its time to sell it and make a profit! Start by getting a domain name and a webhost, and setting up your landing page. Remember to make it catchy! When youre done, try marketing your ebook though paid advertisements, forums, etc. and wait for your first sales. If you do it correctly, you should start gaining profit in a week!
Now that Ive given you enough information to get started, why not take it further and learn more about the topic? Find out more information on how to more about creating your own ebook and profiting from it without writing a single word yourself, and start making money online instantly!
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March 13, 2010
How To Make More Money Using Options In Online Investment
Learn how to make more money using options in online investment techniques. After all for years savvy investors have been using option trading strategies to increase their portfolio profits. Options are the key to financial freedom so you should learn how to trade them for yourself.
Up until the 1990s options was a game for the rich who loved the large profit potential. Today electronic option trading is offered at very affordable rates and you need to learn make more money using options in online investment techniques. The game that once belonged to the rich is now open to anyone.
Your personal wealth is tied to how well you are educated in investments which are the key to that wealth. So learning make more money using options in online investment techniques is critical. Stock options are simply an option to buy or sell stocks at a future date for specific price. These investments can be complicated and a little bit risky but you can make more money using options in online investment techniques.
Each stock option will list the name of the stock, strike price, premium paid for the option, and the expiration date. Calls and Puts are the two types that are most popular. Calls allow you to purchase the stock at the strike price at any point before the option expires but there is no obligation to do so. After an option expires it is worthless. Puts are the exact image of the call except instead of purchasing you are selling. You will want to learn make more money using options in online investment techniques.
The object is not to exercise the option and buy or sell the security. Instead if you originally wrote a put you would buy back the option or if you originally bought a call you would sell the option. Doing this saves all the commissions and added expenses. Leaning how to make more money using options in online investment techniques will show you how to exercise this option.
There is no question that options are risky but they can also be very profitable. A good way to get involved in options is to start by taking an options course and learn make more money using options in online investment techniques. Begin by writing covered call options for stocks that are currently trading below the options strike price. Its time to make more money using options in online investment techniques. Are you ready?
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March 10, 2010
How To Broker JV Deals For Fantastic Profit, Without Having To Spend A Single Cent
Lets try this hypothetical scenario. Supposing youre in this position:
1. You dont have a single cent in your account.
2. You dont have enough marketing skills to catapult a digital product to the height of prominence.
3. You dont have a mailing list composed of hundreds, if not thousands, of potential customers.
4. You dont have any money at all to fund the creation and promotion of a digital product online.
5. You dont have the brand name that commands credibility and immediately increases consumer confidence.
Should you give up on internet marketing? Should you walk away from the potentials of making tons of cash online?
The uninitiated will say, any of the scenarios above and more so all of them combined would be enough to make you surrender the dream of making it big online. But what do these people know? Their imaginations are limited. Their fears are doing all the talking.
You shouldnt be one of them. You shouldnt lose hope.
All you need is an IDEA.
Yes, an IDEA.
Just one great idea can lead you to an online goldmine, and potentially, a windfall of profits that could come your way.
How can this be done when you dont have the resources, financial or otherwise, to see your idea into actuality?
Have you heard about joint ventures (JV), dear friend?
Joint ventures are partnerships between online marketers who will pull their resources together for the success of one project. For example, they could promote one product in all of their mailing lists for maximum exposure. Or they could chip in their own products for one mega-package to increase its value and its salability. They could promote this in their respective mailing lists with a system that would allow the members of each list to subscribe in the mailing list of the other members. The effects of this could be long term.
Joint venture partners usually employ some sort of profit sharing scheme which they will agree on beforehand, so that each partner would know how much his share of the pie will be.
Joint ventures are encouraging options for any online businessman for the following reasons:
They could trim down the expenses since they will be pooling their resources together.
They could minimize the losses, if ever, since a lot of them would bear the same.
They could promote the project to a wider audience through their combined number of subscribers.
Less renowned personalities can piggyback on the credible names of their more popular partners. This is great for branding purposes and for winning consumer confidence.
Much can be learned from one another, especially from the more experienced partners.
So, given the scenarios in the first part of this article, where could you fit in with a joint venture?
Well, if you have a great idea, you could become a JV broker. JV brokering is one of the few online opportunities that would help you garner a lot of profit without having to invest a single cent for as long as you have the right connections.
If you have befriended established online marketers, or if you know how to contact them the right way, then JV brokering may be the option perfect for you. All you need, as we have mentioned earlier, is an idea. It may be your own idea, or someone elses idea and youd want to help him make it a reality.
With this idea, you could create a proposal. This proposal is what you will present to the prospective JV partners youd want to pool together. If you proposal is viable and profitable, then there is no reason why your prospects would say no.
How will you get paid? You could be paid directly based on a rate you have stated beforehand, or you could be paid via the profit sharing scheme that the partners would decide on. Either way, youll get a piece of a pie.
Not bad for someone who only started with plan, right?
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March 10, 2010
How to Boost Your Website Traffic and Profits with Content!
Are you aware of how vitally important and valuable CONTENT is to your online business? In fact, content can do more to build your business and profits than just about any other resource or service available.
Following is a list of 5 key ways that content can help build your website traffic, subscribers, and customers starting today!…
1. Boost your search engine ranking and daily visitor count by posting keyword rich articles and content on your website. For example, if your business involves offering products and services related to internet marketing, posting internet marketing related articles and content will attract unlimited prospective customers on a regular basis!
2. Generate double or even triple the number of newsletter subscribers you do currently, simply by offering content in the form of “special reports” or manuals as bonuses for subscribing to your publication. People love freebies, so give them what they want and watch as your results increase!
3. Create an automated cashflow by using content to formulate multi-part email training courses with related website or affiliate links “sprinkled” throughout each course. Use an autoresponder service to automate the delivery of your training course (such as a 5 part training course delivered over a 5 day period).
Training courses can also serve as excellent bonus offers for your prospective newsletter subscribers.
4. One of the most important keys to a successful online business is not JUST having a list of mailing list or newsletter subscribers… It’s about building a trusting relationship with your subscribers (ie, “cultivating” your list)…
By sending informative articles (content) to your list on a regular basis you will establish yourself as an expert on your topic of business, as well as gain the trust of your subscribers over time. As a result, your subscribers will be EAGER to take advantage of your “paid” product and service offers. (Just make sure that you NEVER take advantage of the relationship you develop with your list by offering products or services of poor quality just to make a quick buck!)
If there is one “constant” in Internet marketing, it’s this: A cultivated list of subscribers is as good as money in the bank. Write that down and never forget it!
5. Another excellent way to generate no cost website traffic is by submitting ready-made articles to “content hungry” website and newsletter publishers with your “resource box” attached. A resource box is nothing more than a little 3-6 line “bio” about you and/or your web-site – including a link to your site (or even instructions on how to subscribe to your newsletter)…
When submitting or offering your article(s) for reprint purposes, just make sure to specify that each article is to be reprinted “as is” with your resource box attached.
…Even one article can go a LONG way towards generating no cost website traffic and visitors for you. Just imagine your article being sent out to a newsletter subscriber base of 100,000 individuals – many of whom will be reading YOUR included resource box and clicking on your URL to learn more about what you have to offer!
Well there you have it, 5 sure ways to build your online business exponentially with the help of articles and content…
With the declining effectiveness of many of the online advertising methods that we’ve relied on in past years, content is only strengthening its position as the ultimate KEY to generating unlimited website traffic, subscribers, and customers!
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March 9, 2010
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How to Boost Your Traffic and Profits with Content
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The importance of article marketing to create targeted inbound links and hits to your website.
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Article Body:
Are you aware of how vitally important and valuable CONTENT is to your online business? In fact, content can do more to build your business and profits than just about any other resource or service available.
Following is a list of 5 key ways that content can help build your traffic, subscribers, and customers starting today!…
1. Boost your search engine ranking and daily visitor count by posting keyword rich articles and content on your web-site. For example, if your business involves offering products and services related to fitness, posting fitness related articles and content will attract unlimited prospective customers on a regular basis!
2. Generate double or even triple the number of newsletter subscribers you do currently, simply by offering content in the form of “special reports” or manuals as bonuses for subscribing to your publication. People love freebies, so give them what they want and watch as your results increase!
3. Create an automated cashflow by using content to formulate multi-part email training courses with related web-site or affiliate links “sprinkled” throughout each course. Use an autoresponder service to automate the delivery of your training course (such as a 5 part training course delivered over a 5 day period).
Training courses can also serve as excellent bonus offers for your prospective newsletter subscribers.
4. One of the most important keys to a successful online business is not JUST having a mailing list or newsletter subscribers… It’s about building a trusting relationship with your subscribers (ie, “cultivating” your list)…
By sending informative articles (content) to your list on a regular basis you will establish yourself as an expert on your topic of business, as well as gain the trust of your subscribers over time. As a result, your subscribers will be EAGER to take advantage of your “paid” product and service offers. (Just make sure that you NEVER take advantage of the relationship you develop with your list by offering products or services of poor quality just to make a quick buck!)
If there is one “constant” in Internet marketing, it’s this: A cultivated list of subscribers is as good as money in the bank. Write that down and never forget it!
5. Another excellent way to generate no cost traffic is by submitting ready-made articles to “content hungry” web-site and newsletter publishers with your “resource box” attached. A resource box is nothing more than a little 3-6 line “bio” about you and/or your web-site – including a link to your site (or even instructions on how to subscribe to your newsletter)…
When submitting or offering your article(s) for reprint purposes, just make sure to specify that each article is to be reprinted “as is” with your resource box attached.
…Even one article can go a LONG way towards generating no cost traffic and visitors for you. Just imagine your article being sent out to a newsletter subscriber base of 100,000 individuals – many of whom will be reading YOUR included resource box and clicking on your URL to learn more about what you have to offer!
Well there you have it, 5 sure ways to build your online business exponentially with the help of articles and content…
With the declining effectiveness of many of the online advertising methods that we’ve relied on in past years, content is only strengthening its position as the ultimate KEY to generating unlimited traffic, subscribers, and customers!
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March 4, 2010
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Every webmaster knows that highly targeted traffic can be converted into online earnings but for most online entrepreneurs, acquiring visitors is a huge challenge.
One of the best ways to ensure a steady flow of targeted traffic to your website is by ranking high in the search engines for particular keywords and key phrases that define your business. Backlinks are one of the vital tools that can help you rank higher but you dont have to spend hours each day on trading links manually.
The alternative comes from automated link exchange software and directories. Websites offer you such opportunities like getting links from other webmasters who have joined the same program. A few examples of these link exchange directories are:
o http://www.Gotlinks.com
o http://www.Linkdiy.com
One of the most interesting offers on the market today is, however, automated linking, which follows the same lazy linking theme but also creates extra incentive for its members: when someone signs up, they get a 50% monthly commission from everyone who signs up under them.
o http://www.MyLinkMachine.com
Lazy linking versus manual link exchanges
One of the cons associated to automated linking websites is that you dont have so much control over who your link partners are and on the status of your backlinks. While this was a real problem a few years ago, when the links were directed to your site in bulk and you had absolutely no way of filtering them, today all great automated link exchange websites offer 100% control over your link partners.
In other words, you can filter out website link exchange partners that are not related to the topic your website is on (this is really important with the search engines, who want to see backlinks from related websites).
Since this major argument against automated link exchanges has been eliminated, we are mostly left with the benefits:
* Save time since everything is automated, you dont have to check your email, get the code from a link partner, go into your web editing software, do the exchange and then send confirmation to the other webmaster. With link directories like MyLinkMachine.com, the website does all that for you.
* Get more link partners its so much easier to find link partners in a common area such as the link exchange directories, rather than emailing individual webmasters who might not even be interested in an exchange.
* Get more links than you could ever get with manual link exchange the truth is that manual link exchange demands a lot of time and patience, not to mention an excellent organizational skill to manage all your link exchanges.
Automated link exchanges eliminate all these difficulties and it will only take you minutes to accomplish what a manual link exchange campaign would take at least a few hours.
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March 3, 2010
How do you Maximise your Profits in Any Trade on the Stock Market?
In trading the stock market, no-one has a crystal ball. The price of stocks can go down, as well as up. What is needed is an exit strategy that will enable you to survive the bad stocks, and make a good profit on the good stocks.
The method that I have found to work the best is a trailing stop loss. For those who dont know what a stop loss is, I shall explain briefly. A stop loss is an order for your stock broker to sell your shares if the price dips to the level that you have specified.
There are two ways of doing this. The simplest method is to decide on how much you are willing to lose as a percentage of your investment. A good rule is not to go less than 10%. Work out the price of the stock at this level and set that as your stop loss. As the price of the stock increases, keep moving the level of the stop up to keep the percentage gap the same. Some brokers offer a trailing stop loss service, where you tell them what percentage to set the loss at and they do it for you.
The second method is slightly more complicated, and comes from Nicolas Darvas in his book How I made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market. The markets tend to flow in stages. a stock on the rise will reach a peak, and then dip back down. It may do this several times at each stage. The idea is to follow the chart of the stock and see where the dips are the lowest, and set the stop loss just below them. A second part which Nicolas propounds is that when the stock breaks out of the sideways trend, to buy more of the stock, and when the stock starts going sideways again to move the stop loss up again to just below the lowest part of the dip.
Using the stop loss as an exit strategy, only works if you stick to it, and not lower it, thinking that the price will go up again in a few days. In a few cases you will be right, but what usually happens is the price keeps moving against you, and you loose even more money. As a secondary to this, the money still tied up in the first stock that is falling cant be used on another trade.
Finally, a word of warning about using the stop loss system to protect your capital. There are times when the markets undergoes a fast fall in price, there are regulations about how far a price can fall in one-day. If it falls this maximum distance, it can bypass your stop loss, and you may be unable to sell. Although these situations are rare, it is better that you know about them. So that they are not a shock when they do happen to you.
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March 2, 2010
How Cyclical Patterns Can Help You Make Great Profits From Shares And The Forex
A stock or currency that is at its own yearly high must be judged for the possibility of going higher. It would quite possibly be a risky buy unless the upward momentum were pronounced and the indications of further progress were clear.
The width of the range also has a bearing. A stock near the high of a 10-point spread between high and low is likely to be less volatile than one near the high of a 50- or 60-point range.
The implication is that if a stock can cruise upward through a range of 50 points, it can with equal ease slide that far downward. Obviously, stocks do not operate forever within predictable ranges. But an issue that has caught investors’ eyes, and has started to run ahead of itself, its group, and the market can be considered to have a future. Its high-low levels of the past can be viewed as less significant, and the investor’s effort can be bent toward determining how far the run will go.
A stock at mid-range presumably has a demonstrated potential for achieving a higher level, but the course of its action should be plotted to see whether it is at mid-range through a series of small ups and downs, or whether mid-range is simply the current point of a downward slideor, for that matter, the current point of a gradual climb.
A stock or currency at its low should also be examined for hints as to the reasons for this state of affairs. It might best be shunnedbut not too quickly.
For if it seems inherently sound, although low in relation to its group or the market as a whole, it may be a sleeper, the kind of depressed, overlooked, out-of-favor stock that offers a fine opportunity for the investor who is not afraid to run against the tide.
Theoretically, at least, this is the kind of bargain that diligent investors are supposed to dig up for themselves. Be clearheaded; most depressed stocks are hovering at low levels for a reason. But the market is capricious enough to low-rate many issues for reasons having nothing to do with fundamental values.
The depressed issue usually offers a better possibility for improvement than the generally depressed group. If oils or chemicals or rails are unfashionable as a whole, there is, in most cases, a large reason for it. Customers are over inventoried, sales are down, a competing industry has cut into a market something has occurred which requires a fundamental correction before the industry will again seem attractive.
The depressed market, like the depressed stock, often has great possibilitiesif the investor can satisfy himself that he is getting in at an appropriately low level. The low of 1953 was a lovely opportunity. DuPont was under 100, General Dynamics was in the 30’s, Union Carbide in the 60’s, Central & Southwest was at 19 everything that is solid, glamorous, and soaring today was at bargain basement prices.
The alternatives are many. The combination of factors that bear on any one issue at any one time is almost incalculable.
One final point is personal. Some rigor must also enter into the investor’s calculations. Caution is necessary and praiseworthy. But once an investor has decided he is operating as soundly as he knows how, he must be prepared to act. It is a human failing to want to be right.
There are few feelings more discomfiting than knowing one has figured wrong. In investment, however, this can be an extremely hampering element. The unhappiest kind of wrongness of all is to be unable to take the bold step, and then find that one has missed the boat.
Decisions infected or paralyzed by doubt and fear are no decisions at all. The point comes in all investment decisions when there is no more figuring to do, when no more answers can be squeezed from the facts, when results can only be revealed in an unknowable-future. At that point, the investor must take his courage in his own two hands and act.
Selling is not necessarily the opposite of buying. While there are the usual factors about the stock, the industry, and the market to weigh, one crucial fact is known: the price you paid. The amount of profit or loss, therefore, is always settled for the investor approaching a decision to sell. If the profit is satisfactory, or the loss insupportable, sell.
There may be further profit to be gleaned; the loser may turn around and cut the loss a few points. But if you believe you have an ample return on your investment and are ready to realize on it, don’t delay. Sell. Or, if you are thoroughly convinced that there is no advantage in waiting for the sour performer to improve, sell. Take the loss as a tax deduction, and use the funds you have salvaged to get into something better.
Beyond these fairly clear-cut situations, the confusions mount.
Many investors these days avoid them by taking no action at all, arguing that any considerable profit they have realized will be so heavily reduced by taxes that it’s just as well to ride along and see what happens and in a rising market, what happens is often very pleasant.
You should also make use of software in shares and Forex to help you plan your sales. This is becuase modern software has years of information in its database and can help you to predict the best time to sell for a good profit.
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