Conversation Techniques That Generate Wealth And Respect

Average employees USE THE SECRETS to advance their career to become president or CEO.

Middle class Americans USE THE SECRETS to make millions, retire early, and live the life of their dreams.

Socially average people USE THE SECRETS to become the life of the party, with too many friends to count.

And now YOU can USE THE SECRETS to absolutely achieve everything you want in life with ZERO limit to your own success!
Dear Henk Matthee ,
These SECRETS contain the most powerful, life-changing skill you'll ever learn. Discovering these secrets not only improves one area of your life — it improves multiple areas of your life.
The areas in your life that count: Your career. Your wealth. Your relationships. Your happiness. Yourself.
I bet you'd like to know the secrets, wouldn't you? In fact, I'll reveal them shortly. But first, think back to a time when you've been totally engrossed in a conversation.
You're there talking, and you feel great rapport with this person, when suddenly you find yourself totally absorbed in the moment. Your breathing slows down, you feel a warmth inside, and the person has your complete attention.
It's an incredible connection. You feel as if this person really understands you, almost as if you are long, lost friends reconnecting after 20 years. You listen and hear every word. You say something and there's instant understanding. It's almost as if time is slowing down and you are feeling a type of friendship and respect that is beyond words.
Discover the Power of Social Intelligence
How much richer would your life be if you were to experience that kind of connection with nearly everyone you met? Better yet, let's look at a scenario in which one person doesn't have that kind of skill, but another one does:
Picture a guy named John at his job. His phone rings. It's the boss. "Be in my office in five minutes. I want to talk to you about something."
"That didn't sound good," John thinks. "I've been doing a good job. I wonder what this is about?"
As he walks into his boss's office, he sees his boss and a co-worker named Brian, a guy who has been with the company for about six months. John's familiar with him because up to now Brian has been reporting to him. They all acknowledge each other and sit down.
The boss says, "I've got some news, John. We've created a new position for Brian, and you will now be reporting to him."
What a slap in the face! John has more experience than Brian. He has a better education and a stronger skill set, from a technical point of view. He can't imagine how this could have happened.
Well let me tell you, things like that happen all the time in business. How do you think all those people who never went to college became millionaires? Experience? Education?
Neither. What it comes down to is social intelligence. When you have a high level of it, you can:
  • Get preferential treatment, whether you're traveling, working, socializing, or buying something.

  • Establish instant rapport with other people, even total strangers, and learn how to control their attitude, emotions, and actions.

  • Deepen your rapport with your family and friends, and experience profound emotional fulfillment.

  • Correct the behavior of a co-worker, friend, or family member without causing resentment.

  • Deal with difficult or angry people (all you have to do is listen, then ask one important question).

  • Get yourself noticed, stand out from the crowd, and gain the success and respect that will make you the envy of others.
Think about what you're missing out on in life if you lack social intelligence.
So how would you rate your social intelligence? Can you walk into a room full of strangers and strike up an engaging conversation with anyone in the room? If you notice someone of the opposite sex, can you start a conversation that causes that person to accept you and express interest? If you want to get a job or a raise, make a sale, or close a business deal, can you get what you want every time? If you want to get your children, spouse, or friends to do something, can you get them to do it willingly and cheerfully?
If you're 100 percent successful in all these areas, you can stop reading right now. Because if you are, you are probably a millionaire with a dream home who takes four months off each year just to travel or explore your various interests.
That's what Peter Thomson does. Starting in business in 1972, he built three successful companies, selling the last one (which was five years old) to a public company for $6.5 million. That enabled him to retire at the age of 42. Peter Thomson Shows You How to Follow in His Footsteps to Achieve Success
Since that time, Peter has concentrated on sharing his proven methods for business and personal success. And today he is regarded as one of the world's leading strategists on personal and business growth.
According to Peter, skill in communication is what allowed him to get where he is today. It's the most powerful, life-changing skill anyone can learn. That's why he teaches the secrets of the world's greatest communicators.
For example, several years ago, there was a young woman named Ruth who worked in Peter's organization. When Ruth joined them, she was extremely nervous and shy. She would even get embarrassed when she walked across a road and her heels clicked on the pavement.
Within a few years of learning the secrets of the world's greatest communicators, she'd grown to take a management role in Peter's organization, gotten married, and then left and moved to Canada. There she became the personal assistant for a real estate mogul - flying around the world in his jet helicopter, negotiating deals, and making a success out of her life.
In just a few short years she took herself from a shy young girl to a mature, powerful, and successful woman.
Your Communication Skills Determine What You Achieve in Life
You see, every communication is an attempt to persuade someone else to do or avoid doing something, either now or in the future. You either ask outright or you imply your message in various ways. How effective you are at both the overt and covert ways of communication determines how successful you will be in any area of life.
The hardest part of communication is learning to use language in the first place. But you already did that as a child. When it comes to refining your already remarkable gift for communication - that's just icing on the cake.
Of course, it's the icing that makes the difference. Just as champion sprinters are only a few hundredths of a second faster than the rest of the pack, so the great communicators are men and women who've mastered just a few techniques unknown to the rest of us.
This is the secret highly successful people have always known. From boardroom tycoons to those "life of the party" people, getting what you want is always about using words to get other people to open up to you - to want to help you.
And that's a lot easier than it may sound. Because the fact is, people are programmed to help you. . . as soon as you talk to them in the right way.
That's all explained in "The Subconscious Encoding Process," which is session three of Peter Thomson's audio program The Best-Kept Secrets of Great Communicators. This encoding process forms the basis of many of Peter Thomson's most powerful techniques - all of which seem so simple once they're explained.
A Snapshot of Your Life IF You Are Fortunate Enough to Listen to the Program
And the best news is that you can develop your own highly persuasive conversation power very quickly indeed.
For example:
  • Imagine you walk into a room full of strangers and you can instantly tell which people are waiting to talk to you and what you should say to them to put them at their ease and make a great first impression. (In fact, you'll know 16 things to say to start an effective conversation!)...

  • Imagine you're a salesperson facing a group of difficult, closed-up customers. But you're not worried because you know exactly how to find out what they're really thinking - and then how to get them on your side...

  • Imagine you've gone to ask your boss for a pay raise or promotion. By reading his body language, you know whether or not he's ready to say yes - and more important, you know how to feel out exactly how much you should ask for...

  • Imagine you're a parent of teenage children and you need them to clean their rooms or help with chores. Fortunately, you now know how to get them to do what you want without all the arguments - simply by the way you tap into their thought processes...

  • Imagine you're in an important meeting at work or with clients and you come away with a report for your boss to read. You know exactly how to persuade him to do that immediately, and make it look as if it was his decision...

  • Imagine you're negotiating the deal of your life but your customers just won't come to a decision. No problem, you're still in control because you have six proven ways to get them to agree to the deal before you even think of using your final nuclear option...

  • Imagine you're about to get a parking ticket, but since you know what to say to win the officer over, you don't get one. Instead, the officer escorts you to a preferred parking place! This happened to Peter Thomson recently, in fact.
Imagine, in short, that you could ACHIEVE EVERYTHING YOU WANTED in life, with NO LIMIT TO YOUR SUCCESS except your willingness to strike up a conversation. That's what The Best-Kept Secrets of Great Communicators offers you. Guaranteed!
What's more, this program is for everyone. Peter Thomson's students include high-powered businesspeople and their PAs, salespeople and self-employed people of all kinds, blue-collar workers, including police officers, and more.
And there are just as many people putting Peter Thomson's powerful conversation techniques to good use in social situations. Returning defective merchandise to a store...getting a refund or a better table in a restaurant...getting prompt attention from a mechanic...even getting through to government officials!
So, Are You Ready to Begin?
The first thing to understand is that a conversation gives you access to another person's subconscious mind. The way you phrase your questions — the way you dip into another person's memory files — can profoundly influence the way the other person feels about you and your request.
Meanwhile, once you're armed with the secrets of active listening and body-language monitoring that you will pick up from the program, you'll know what the person you're talking to is really thinking...often before he or she does! As you progress to the more advanced lessons, you'll discover how you can even change somebody's mind in the middle of his or her decision-making process so the outcome is what you want it to be!
If you're concerned about whether this is manipulative, know first of all that the information is neutral; what makes it manipulative or not is the person using it.
Second, the reason the program was created was to help you build rapport and create win-win outcomes. You'll be helping people to see the truth of each situation clearly, which in the long run works to their advantage as much as yours. That's why, when you use your conversation skills, you'll be creating lasting friendships and business relationships that are built on honesty and respect.
I want to show you some more of the proven, practical techniques you can use. In all, the program has more than 300 ideas, techniques, and methods. And Peter Thomson didn't just think them up one day; he has used each one extensively.
Over the years, Peter studied as many of the great communicators as he could - from political leaders to great salespeople to CEOs to the people he knew and worked with every day. He's read speeches and books, he's attended seminars, he's listened to tapes and CDs, and he's also gained insight from more than 30 years in business.
He was never interested in ideas for their own sake - he had to prove the ideas worked in multiple settings and in myriad situations. He found out what worked and what didn't work. He taught his staff, and together they honed and polished the ideas until they had isolated the best-kept secrets - the ones that really worked. And that passion is still with him today.
A Glimpse into the Power of This Program
There's not room in this email to tell you about all 300-plus ideas you'll find in The Best-Kept Secrets of Great Communicators. So how about I pick out 30 of the skills you're about to learn when you order - that works, doesn't it? That's less than one-tenth of all the ideas you can use to bring a new dimension of prosperity into your life.
  1. How to complain effectively. One magic add-on sentence lets you get waiters, cashiers, suppliers, and service representatives moving quickly to give you what you want.

  2. How to spot liars. You'll learn several foolproof ways to tell if someone's lying to you - including how to tell when someone is lying to you over the phone.

  3. How to remember names. The RR technique helps you recall someone's name even weeks after you've met him or her.

  4. How to predispose people toward saying yes to you. You can always get someone to say yes. And the more yes answers you get, the more favorably people will be disposed toward you.

  5. The perfect all-situation conversation opener. What to say to get strangers, officials, even your boss, to open up to you.

  6. Three commonly used introductions or replies you must never use. More than 90 percent of people make these mistakes. By avoiding them, you put yourself in the elite group of people who are given the most preferential treatment.

  7. Six ways to turn a weak excuse into a strong, respected response. Learn what to say when you're criticized - even when you're at fault - and come out looking good.

  8. How to offer incentives that get results. So many business people waste money and squander goodwill by setting up incentive programs that don't work. If you want people to respond to an incentive, there's something you can do that works every time — even if you're a parent dealing with a teenager!

  9. How to script important meetings in advance. A unique self-questioning technique shows you how to blueprint the outcomes you want in such a way that you have a head start every time you enter a negotiating situation.

  10. How to understand and use the Rosenthal Effect. For boosting performance and confidence, this is the favorite technique of the world's most successful business people and athletes. You might call it the lazy person's way to outstanding success!

  11. How to change a negative response into a positive one. How to see a no coming and turn it around...before the word is even spoken.

  12. How to break an embarrassing silence. Now you can instantly open people up without putting them on the spot.

  13. How to master the 55 percent of communication that never gets spoken. This is about body language, and it's worth looking at a little more closely:

    On session seven of The Best-Kept Secrets of Great Communicators, Peter Thomson gives you what might be the most practical guide to body language ever recorded. Research has shown that 55 percent of person-to-person communication is unspoken - that our bodies give out a constant stream of involuntary signals you can learn to recognize instantly. After learning these secrets, you'll be able to influence what people think of you, as you control the way they move their bodies! The handshake alone shows you how to identify the type of person you're dealing with as well as how to handle him or her in conversation.

  14. How to make yourself look like a winner in meetings — and move quickly up the pecking order. It's all in where you sit and the way you move around the meeting. People will naturally respond more favorably to you even if you don't say anything!

  15. The difference between open and closed questions. The way you ask questions and the type of questions you ask can have enormous impact. This is one of the keys to controlling the outcome of any verbal encounter.

  16. How to get people to help you jump to the front of the line. Scientific experiments have demonstrated that one word causes people to let you cut in front of them 94 percent of the time!

  17. The master salesperson's four most powerful sales techniques. Use them equally as effectively in business, social, and family situations. These are easy to understand and use.

  18. The GOLDEN RULE of all negotiations. This is incredible. Follow this rule and you will always get people to give you what you want.

  19. How to pay people compliments. Most people are either too shy to offer compliments, or do it in a way that causes embarrassment, and even resentment. Yet it's so easy to pay people compliments in a way they'll enjoy and remember. The program shows you how.

  20. How to make any conversation move forward like a train - one direction only - the direction you want it to go! You'll learn how to structure your words to give you complete control over any conversation.

  21. How to talk to the three different "home base vocabulary" types. When you speak to people using their vocabulary, you gain instant rapport with them.

  22. How to deal with "the awkward squad." Peter Thomson makes a point of winning over "challenging" people because once you've built rapport with them, these people can be your best allies and advocates. Find out how it's done and the words you should use.

  23. How to spot the REAL QUESTIONS that lurk behind objections. Warning: What people say and what they really think are often very different. After decades of experience in high-level negotiation, Peter Thomson will tell you how to tell the two apart.

  24. The five different types of objections and how to overcome them. When someone objects to something you say, it's always a request for more information. This secret will show you how to give the right information to a person.

  25. The best way to ask for a job, promotion, or raise. You'll hear specific conversations you can plan in advance, to massively boost your chances of getting what you want. (Plus, discover how to tell when your boss is bluffing.)

  26. The importance of using "and" instead of "but." This is actually a huge mistake most people make but never realize...oops...AND never realize. The program will tell you why it's a mistake in conversation.

  27. How to close the deal. Use these cut-to-the-chase professional closes in business or whenever you need to get a decision. Learn what people really mean when they "want to think it over." Plus, learn how to boost your confidence when it's time to close the sale.

  28. Why you should stop saying "yes" and start saying "if" when negotiating. This is a must whenever you want to influence anyone in any way.

  29. Why enough is the ultimate magic word. The program will show you how to use it to its full effect.

  30. How anticipation influences the results of conversations. Studies have shown that your anticipation of the results of an encounter actually has significant impact on those results.
That's 30 original and effective ideas...just a fraction of the powerful techniques you'll soon be using to your immediate advantage...making this one of the most exciting personal development programs you can ever own.
Audio: The Most Effective Way to Learn
And you couldn't have a better way to learn your new advanced conversation skills!
By definition, conversation skills are about talking - whether face-to-face or over the telephone (though you also find out a lot about watching people in the body language section). So what better way could there be to learn the skills of a great conversationalist than by having him talk to you, one-on-one?
The 6 CDs in this program convey more information than books ever can, because you can pick up on the tone being used - itself a vital element in communication skills. And you can listen to each CD as many times as you like, each time picking up something new.
You'll also benefit from all the emotional involvement of actually listening to a real personality, directly sharing his experience and knowledge in a highly focused, personal conversation. And whether you listen while you drive, walk, jog, travel to work, tend the garden - even lie on the beach - you can pick up valuable new information each time you listen.
As Peter Thomson says: "If I were going to start learning any communication skill today, knowing everything I know now, I'd go for an audio program every time. It gives you the information in the easiest, clearest, and friendliest form, with no ambiguity."
Another Tremendous Advantage of the Program
Do you ever suffer from stress? The Best-Kept Secrets of Great Communicators can reduce or eliminate the stress in your life. Stress is frequently caused by frustration - which is frequently the result of not being able to communicate effectively!
When you master Peter Thomson's simple techniques, you will know how to get a lot more of what you want in life, more easily. Naturally, you'll know how to deal with difficult people and difficult situations; how to question your bills effectively; how to smooth over and prevent family disagreements; how to handle ANY situation that comes your way.
When you master the techniques outlined in this program, you'll be far better prepared to avoid confrontation and uncertainty. This will translate into that much less stress you have to deal with on a daily basis.
My 3 Favorite Tips...
I want to make sure you receive an immediate boost to your conversation power, just from having read this email. So let me pick out just three of my favorite tips from the program.
  • NEVER, NEVER start a conversation in which you are trying to persuade the other person by saying the following:"I'm sorry to bother you, but..." or "I could be wrong, but..." or "Perhaps I'm being unfair, but..."
  • FORGET ALL THESE WORDS AND PHRASES, which are almost always unnecessary and only weaken your position: Surely, maybe, kind of, sort of, like.

  • NEVER answer "Fine" when someone asks you how you are. Almost everybody does it...but you're well advised to stop doing it. When you respond in this way, you are communicating something to your listeners that significantly detracts from your ability to influence them. The program explains how and why it works like that.
FREE Bonus CD: Lying Exposed
If you order now, you will also get a FREE bonus CD to teach you how to tell if someone is lying, entitled Lying Exposed. Everyone who lies gives off certain unconscious signals when lying. From noticing their physical movements and posture, to picking up on their voice tone and inflection, you will always be able to spot a liar once you have this bonus recording.
So even if you run into someone who is a master of conversation, if that person is trying to manipulate you, this bonus CD will clue you in to what's really going on. No one will ever be able to take advantage of you in any way ever again.
The fact that you're reading this email proves you've mastered language that you already know 99 percent of what you need to know to be a highly successful communicator and reap all the rewards that go to the conversation winners. Isn't it worth spending a moment of your time now to find out the secrets of the elite 1 percent which makes all the difference?
I'm waiting to send you The Best-Kept Secrets of Great Communicators, along with your FREE bonus CD, Lying Exposed. Just one of Peter Thomson's powerful communication secrets could change your life... and in this package you'll find more than 300 of them!
All you need to do is say YES while this offer is open. Simply click on the link below. Then start looking forward to all the fun you're going to have...and how much you're going to achieve... when you have your own, hyper-persuasive conversation power working for you.
Sincerely,
Vic Conant
Chairman, Nightingale-Conant

Yes, I want to learn how I can gain the verbal advantage in any encounter to advance my career, build great wealth, all while having the respect and admiration of a tremendous number of friends!
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The Secret to Your Success in 2014

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As 2014 has swiftly arrived, we are brought to that time of the season when most of us take to planning and plotting the next 12 months of our lives. If you’re already considering your to-do lists and new years resolutions, then you’re on the right track, but you’ll need to be careful in making your plans in order to be sure that you’re able to use them to your advantage!

Set Goals
The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.

Whether you’re planning positive changes to your work or personal life, take note of the things that you want to achieve by the end of the year, and what you’ll need to do in order to get there. With these goals firmly in heart and mind, you’ll have just what you need to propel you in the right direction.
But wait…

Set Reasonable Goals
Goals are great, but what if those goals are only barely achievable? Like a high-risk gambler, you stand to gain the most when you meet sky-high expectations, but your chances of any success at all are well below par.

In order to limit your risk of perceived failure, be sure not to aim too high when setting your goals. Take the time to consider your history and your present circumstances, planning to hit milestones that are within reach instead of shooting for the stars and coming up short.
That’s not to say that you’ll never reach the stars, mind you – only that you’ll need to get to them in incremental steps.

Set Reasonable, Incremental Goals
Alright, you’ve got goals set that are useful, reachable, and will serve to take your endeavors to the next level throughout 2014. With the whole year plotted out ahead of you, it may seem that you’re ready to close the books on another successful year planned and get started with the heavy lifting.
 Not so fast.

You may feel particularly pumped up about achieving your goals now, but what about that inevitable day when inspiration is lacking and your goals seem further away than they did the day before? Whether it’s a day, a week, or a month away, that time will come, and you’ve got to narrow your plans even further if you want to get yourself on the right track without fear of hitting a serious bump.

Overarching goals are a necessary thing when you’re taking in the big picture, but life isn’t a big picture; on the contrary, life happens minute by minute, and that means that you’ll also need a more focused view. In order to achieve maximum momentum and build the kind of habits that lead to long-term success, be sure to set incremental goals that take you from point to point towards the place you visualize yourself being at the end of 2014.

No matter what your goals are and what aspect of your life they apply to, good planning and hard work will get you there – good luck!

Why you must move from Facebook to Google+

Right now is an extremely interesting time as there is a massive swing from Facebook to Google+ happening. This post will examine some trends and aspects of the migration that will fascinate you. I am not going to show you a whole lot of user number graphs. These are my personal experiences and I have documented them in various ways for you. Some of the content in this blog post is live and you can interact with it.

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Advertising
Google is now allowing you to create a Google+ post and promoted it as an adsense advertisement. People on any website using adsense can +1 it and interact on it. They will be shown in Gmail. Think of the possibilities.


Organization tools
Google+ is light years ahead of Facebook for tools and analytics. Learn all about your account and anybody elses` with Circle Count. Circle people, message circles and create events that are actually seen by the people you invite to them. Ripples will show you who your key engagers and sharers are. Communities where you can divide posts into categories.make your circles with Circloscope.

Analyse your account with Steady Demand (use the code michaelqtodd when you join to get a discount).
Here is an example of a Ripple from a circle share a friend did yesterday. See how at the bottom you can actually “play” the ripple of shares.

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Reaction to posts
I have 5,000 highly engaged Facebook friends and a fairly popular profile. My analytics tell me that I get around 1500 Facebook comments and 3000 “like” clicks a week. I have run 2 tests with almost identical pieces of content at the same time on Google+ and facebook in the past week. In both cases the Google+ post got over 10 times the +1`s (as compared to likes), comments and shares. Yes over 10 times. If we are not prepared to pay to promote our content Facebook is hiding it. This is particularly the case if you post a link or even if anyone posts a link in the comment thread. If you try to show a You Tube video you can completely forget about it getting seen.

SEO
The default search option for Google is social. I just reached the number 2 and 3 spot on the front page for a search for the word Wenyard (new online stockmarket game) with Google+ posts. The third place one is a share by Bernard Piette of my Christmas You Tube video. The second place one I simply added the URL to my blog post about Wenyard to a Google+ post. If you add a URL into your post, any +1s you get will be credited to that link. I am averaging around 7–8,000 +1s for my site each week. Enough said. because Google will now show your posts about certain keywords to people who circle you you need to have as many people circling you as possible. You also need to have people with many circling them sharing your posts.

How to Improve SEO For Your Website in 4 Easy Steps

Anyone who is in the process of creating a website will eventually run into the scariest and most important three letters for your site: SEO. The acronym SEO stands for "Search Engine Optimization." The higher your search engine rank, the more potential customers you will draw to your website.

So, the secret to good website marketing is to use words that will improve your search engine ranking, so that you standout when a person searches the Internet for a topic, product or service similar to yours. Instead of letting search engine optimization bully you and your site around, utilize these 4 easy steps to empower yourself in the battle to increase your website's search engine rank.

1. Clean Up Your Site
Nothing is more frustrating for users than dead links, error messages, or poor site design and layout. People will not stay long on your site either, and all these things will be counted as negatives for Google's ranking algorithm. Fix any broken links, delete duplicate content, and optimize the experience the user has when coming to your site.

2. Improve the Structure of your Content
In order to improve the scan-ability of your content, be sure to have titles in H1 form, important text in bold, and anchor text with links to support your content. People digest information at alarming rates, so make it easy for them to find the information they want quickly.

3. Keyword-Rich Titles and URL's Go Along Way
It is important to understand which keywords will rank highest for your particular niche market. If you are not familiar with key words and rankings, do some keyword research and see what people are searching for and how competitive those terms are. Once these are known, your titles and URLs for posts and pages should be rich with the keywords you want to rank highly in whenever someone does a web search. This way, Google can easily understand what your content is about and reward you for that.

4. Content Drives Traffic
There is a lot of information floating out there. So, how can you establish yours as worth reading? The first step is to establish yourself as an authority and expert in a certain area, i.e. travel, healthcare, etc. Then begin providing useful, relevant, and informative content to people searching in your niche. Lists and how-to's are good starting points when creating content, because people love good lists and they are easy to read.

This is just the tip of the SEO-iceberg, but this is a good starting point and you shouldn't feel too overwhelmed. The last piece of advice that you should keep in mind, when publishing a website or fresh content, is to create your content for your audience, not the search engines. If you have something important and useful to say, people will find it.

Jeffrey DeArmond is the co-owner of Best Edge SEO, the leading internet marketing company in Tampa, Florida. Best Edge has helped many companies succeed online through successful search engine optimization techniques and marketing.


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Selfies, the latest rage in town

(Selfies, the latest rage…)
Though they have been pertinent since the 1900s when box cameras hit the shelves, selfies created quite a stir in India when a certain Sherlyn Chopra posted her topless pictures on a social networking site. 



Her less notorious competitors followed suit and suddenly, selfies were everywhere. People who once took lazy, reluctant pictures of their own through a poorly pixilated mobile camera to mostly kill time, discovered that self-help was the best help.


Then, the next thing we knew was all the display-pictures spaces being filled with selfies. And now, the word has conquered a new feat by getting selected as the word of the year by editors of Oxford dictionaries. Not to forget, "selfie", the underdog, beat heavyweight honoraries like "twerking" and "binge-watch."
Quite surprisingly, selfies enjoy a fan-following from all ages. Forty-nine-year old housewife Astha Kumar does not wait for anyone to take a snap of her when she is dolled up. "Why should I when I can take it on my cell phone? Most of the pictures that I take on social networking sites are selfies," she claims. In fact, she says that she has mastered the art so well that now she can take a "selfie with a group and fit all the members into the frame."

Twenty-one-year old college student Hari Prasanth is a dancer and likes to click his own pictures prior to taking the stage. "It has become a habit. I know it is a bit narcissist, but I cannot have people around all the time to ask to click it for me. So I just take my phone out and pose for myself," justifies Prasanth.

Self-obsession, you say? Well, Rijitha M has an argument to counter that. "I like to put on makeup and click my pictures. I do that whenever I am out with my friends. It is because I like to capture moments and since I have a good camera in my phone, it just makes taking pictures easier," she says. Kumar explains her obsession in other words. "I do that when I get bored," she says firmly.

While some deny being self-obsessed, there are quite a few who openly admit to being narcissists. "I have seen that my selfies are more popular among my friends than those taken by others. They fetch more "likes" and "comments" for me. It's fine till you know your best posing angles. Your selfies turn out to be good in that case," quips 23-year old management student Manisha Karn.
All said and done, 'selfie' is the word of the day, quite literally. So what are you waiting for? Shed those inhibitions and click away to glory.

Celebrity selfies
Some of the famous selfie experts on social networking sites are RiRi (bathtub selfies), Kim Kardashian (trial room selfie expert), Justin Beiber (who likes to capture his hungover look more than often), Kelly Brook (holiday selfies), Lady Gaga (sans makeup selfies) and Miley Cyrus (new hairdo selfies until it all ended with a mohawk). Closer home, the believers are quite a few like Trisha, Amala Paul, Lakshmi Rai, Amyra Dastur and Ileana D'Cruz.

While fans of SRK, Priyanka Chopra, Sonam Kapor, Anushka Sharma, Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhatt are treated to pleasant (and at times, crazy selfies), stars like Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan, Nargis Fakhri, Jacqueline Fernandes, Soha Ali Khan, Minissha Lamba and Sunny Leone enjoy shocking their fans from time to time with their no makeup looks.

How to Buy Gold Coins

Learn How to Buy Gold Coins As an Investment


Knowing how to buy gold coins can provide you with diversification in your investment portfolio and the ability to build a collection of gold coins that you can enjoy. There are many different ways to own gold and it can get quite confusing. This article will help you understand the variety of options that are available and different ways of how you can buy gold coins. I am not an investment advisor, but this article will answer your questions on how to buy gold coins.

Gold Bullion Bars and Ingots

One Troy Ounce Swiss Credit Gold Bar FrontImage Courtesy of: Heritage Auction Galleries, Ha.com
When most people think of gold, they think of large gold bars stored in vaults deep below the surface of the earth. In fact, gold bars come in many different shapes and sizes in order to meet the needs of different investors. Gold bullion bars are sold by the troy ounce and are sold in common sizes of one troy ounce, 10 troy ounces, 100 troy ounces or larger sized gold bars. Most gold dealers will sell these bars for a percentage over the spot price of gold. The smaller the bar the larger the percentage (or premium) you will pay. This form of gold is usually purchased by people or corporations looking to make large investments in gold.
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Bullion Gold Coins

2006 Gold American Eagle Uncirculated Coin ObverseImage Courtesy of: Heritage Auction Galleries, Ha.com
Countries and private entities also produce gold bullion in a round shape that resembles a coin. Some of them look like coins, but they are not coins since they do not carry a monetary value. Others are considered coins, but derive their value from their precious metal content and are not intended for common circulation with in a country's economy. Gold bullion coins come in sizes starting as small as 1/25 troy ounce, 1/10 troy ounce, one quarter troy ounce, half a troy ounce, one troy ounce and as large as five troy ounce sizes. Some gigantic novelty gold coins have been made that weigh up to one troy ton of gold.
For the small investor that is not looking to purchase gold that has numismatic value, gold bullion coins issued by a predominant country or respected private entity would be the ideal choice. These include: U.S. Gold Eagles, U.S. Gold Buffaloes, South African Krugerrands, Canadian Gold Maple Leafs and Austrian Philharmonic gold bullion coins. There are variety of sizes that can be purchased for a reasonable premium over the spot price of gold.

Common U.S. Gold Coins (Pre-1933)

1913 $10 Gold Indian XF-45Image Courtesy of: Heritage Auction Galleries, Ha.com
Another way to invest in gold is to buy United States gold coins that were minted in 1933 or before. Up until 1933, gold coins circulated freely in the U.S. economy until President Franklin D. Roosevelt recalled all gold coins except those with numismatic value. Fortunately, many people did not turn in their gold coins and they are available today to collectors for not much more money than their gold content.
For example, an 1879 $20 Liberty gold coin minted in Philadelphia has 0.9675 Troy ounces of pure gold or AGW. If gold is $1,800 per troy ounce than there is $1,741.50 worth of pure gold and it. As of this writing, an average circulated example is currently selling for approximately $1,865. This is a premium of $123.50 (or approximately 6.6%) over the spot price of gold. You can buy common U.S. gold coins that have a face value of $1, $2.50, $3.00, $5.00, $10.00 and $20.00.

Modern U.S. Commemorative Gold Coins

2008 Bald Eagle Commemorative Five Dollar CoinImage Courtesy of: Heritage Auction Galleries, Ha.com
In 1982 the U.S. mint resumed its commemorative coin program. In 1984 a gold coin that commemorated the Games of the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles was minted. This was first U.S. gold coin minted in the United States since 1933. Unlike the common U.S. gold coins described above, these are not intended for circulation and carry a high numismatic premium. In other words, expect to pay a high premium over the spot price of gold that is contained within the coin. The United States mint continues to make commemorative gold coins and you can purchase them directly from The United States Mint.

Foreign Gold Coins

Mexico 2 Peso Gold Coin 1945Photo courtesy of Don’s World Coin Gallery, www.worldcoingallery.com
Knowing how to buy gold coins can also turn up some unexpected values. There are many gold coins that also circulated in foreign countries over the years. Depending upon the gold content of the coin, available supply and collector demand, prices can vary dramatically. Examples of these coins include: Mexico 2 Pesos, Mexico 50 Pesos, Switzerland 20 Francs, Britain 5 Pound and Austria 100 Corona. Before you buy these coins consult a book on foreign coins to determine the gold content and current market values.

Rare U.S. Gold Coins

1908 $20 Gold St. Gaudens No Motto ObverseImage Courtesy of: Heritage Auction Galleries, Ha.com
If you are unsure of how to buy gold coins, this is one area where you do not want to begin. Quite a few U.S. gold coins have very low mintages and high collector demand. This leads to very high numismatic premiums over and above the intrinsic value of gold contained within the coin. For example, the same 1879 $20 liberty gold coin (mentioned above) minted in New Orleans (1879-O) has a market value of over $23,000 in average circulated condition. And has the same 0.9675 troy ounces of gold as the one minted in Philadelphia.

Selecting a Coin Dealer

A coin dealer at a local coin shop.(c) 2011 James Bucki and GDK Coins www.GDKcoins.com
If you have decided to buy gold coins you now need to choose a coin dealer to purchase your coins from. Finding an honest coin dealer is as simple as looking for five key traits: experience, size, reputation, ethics and guaranty. Also, ask about any restrictions such as minimum amounts, accepted forms of payment (cash, bank wire transfer, cashier's checks, personal check, company check, credit card, etc.) and when you will take possession of your gold coins.
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Types of Dealers to Stay Away from

There are many untrustworthy individuals that will give you advice on how to buy gold coins and sell them to you at the same time. Stay away from the following types of coin dealers;
  • Online dealers selling at big discounts
  • Jewelry stores
  • Television advertisements
  • Pawnshops
  • Craigslist ads
  • Any dealer that only has an e-mail address and no physical store
  • Any online dealer wants cash or bank wire transfers only.

Price of Gold

The price of gold changes by the minute and is influenced by many factors that are well beyond the scope of this article. Gold is priced internationally in U.S. dollars per troy ounce (which equals approximately 31.1035 grams). The current spot price of gold is available on the Internet through many websites.
Spot Price of Gold:

Storing Gold Coins

Now that you have bought your gold coins and have taken physical delivery of them, you must protect your gold coins from fire and theft. If you can't store your gold coins in a safe deposit box at a bank you must take adequate steps to secure them in your home.

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Is Bitcoin about to change the world?

If you want to buy drugs or guns anonymously online, virtual currency Bitcoin is better than hard cash. Canny speculators have been hoarding it like digital gold. Now the world's leading bankers are even talking about as a rival for real money. How does it work, where can you get it and is it the future?
 
A sign above a bar in Germany.
A sign above a bar in Germany. Photograph: Alamy
The past weeks have seen a surprising meeting of minds between chairman of the US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, the Bank of England, the Olympic-rowing and Zuckerberg-bothering Winklevoss twins, and the US Department of Homeland Security. The connection? All have decided it's time to take Bitcoin seriously.

Until now, what pundits called in a rolling-eye fashion "the new peer-to-peer cryptocurrency" had been seen just as a digital form of gold, with all the associated speculation, stake-claiming and even "mining"; perfect for the digital wild west of the internet, but no use for real transactions.

Bitcoins are mined by computers solving fiendishly hard mathematical problems. The "coin" doesn't exist physically: it is a virtual currency that exists only as a computer file. No one computer controls the currency. A network keeps track of all transactions made using Bitcoins but it doesn't know what they were used for – just the ID of the computer "wallet" they move from and to.

Right now the currency is tricky to use, both in terms of the technological nous required to actually acquire Bitcoins, and finding somewhere to spend them. To get them, you have to first set up a wallet, probably online at a site such as Blockchain.info, and then pay someone hard currency to get them to transfer the coins into that wallet.

A Bitcoin payment address is a short string of random characters, and if used carefully, it's possible to make transactions anonymously. That's what made it the currency of choice for sites such as the Silk Road and Black Market Reloaded, which let users buy drugs anonymously over the internet. It also makes it very hard to tax transactions, despite the best efforts of countries such as Germany, which in August declared that Bitcoin was "private money" in which transactions should be taxed as normal.

It doesn't have all the advantages of cash, though the fact you can't forge it is a definite plus: Bitcoin is "peer-to-peer" and every coin "spent" is authenticated with the network. Thus you can't spend the same coin in two different places. (But nor can you spend it without an internet connection.) You don't have to spend whole Bitcoins: each one can be split into 100m pieces (each known as a satoshi), and spent separately.

Although most people have now vaguely heard of Bitcoin, you're unlikely to find someone outside the tech community who really understands it in detail, let alone accepts it as payment. Nobody knows who invented it; its pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, hasn't come forward. He or she may not even be Japanese but certainly knows a lot about cryptography, economics and computing.

It was first presented in November 2008 in an academic paper shared with a cryptography mailing list. It caught the attention of that community but took years to take off as a niche transaction tool. The first Bitcoin boom and bust came in 2011, and signalled that it had caught the attention of enough people for real money to get involved – but also posed the question of whether it could ever be more than a novelty.

The algorithm for mining Bitcoins means the number in circulation will never exceed 21m and this limit will be reached in around 2140. Already 57% of all Bitcoins have been created; by 2017, 75% will have been. If you tried to create a Bitcoin in 2141, every other computer on the network would reject it as fake because it would not have been made according to the rules of currency.

The number of companies taking Bitcoin payments is increasing from a small base, and a few payment processors such as Atlanta-based Bitpay are making real money from the currency. But it's difficult to get accurate numbers on conventional transactions, and it still seems that the most popular uses of Bitcoins are buying drugs in the shadier parts of the internet, as people did on the Silk Road website, and buying the currency in the hope that in a few weeks' time you will be able to sell it at a profit.

This is remarkable because there's no fundamental reason why Bitcoin should have any value at all. The only reason people are willing to pay money for the currency is because other people are willing to as well. (Try not to think about it too hard.) Now, though, sensible economists are saying that Bitcoin might become part of our future economy. That's quite a shift from October last year, when the European Central Bank said that Bitcoin was "characteristic of a Ponzi [pyramid] scheme". This month, the Chicago Federal Reserve commented that the currency was "a remarkable conceptual and technical achievement, which may well be used by existing financial institutions (which could issue their own bitcoins) or even by governments themselves".


The First Bitcoin ATM, in Canada. The First Bitcoin ATM, in Canada. Photograph: REUTERS 
  It might not sound thrilling. But for a central banker, that's like yelling "BITCOIIINNNN!" from the rooftops. And Bernanke, in a carefully dull letter to the US Senate committee on Homeland Security, said that when it came to virtual currencies (read: Bitcoin), the US Federal Reserve had "ongoing initiatives" to "identify additional areas of … concern that require heightened attention by the banking organisations we supervise".
In other words, Bernanke is ready to make Bitcoin part of US currency regulation – the key step towards legitimacy.

Most reporting about Bitcoin until now has been of its extraordinary price ramp – from a low of $1 in 2011 to more than $900 earlier this month. That massive increase has sparked a classic speculative rush, with more and more people hoping to get a piece of the pie by buying and then selling Bitcoins. Others are investing thousands of pounds in custom "mining rigs", computers specially built to solve the mathematical problems necessary to confirm a Bitcoin transaction.

But bubbles can burst: in 2011 it went from $33 to $1. The day after hitting that $900 high, Bitcoin's value halved on MtGox, the biggest exchange. Then it rose again.
Speculative bubbles happen everywhere, though, from stock markets to Beanie Babies. All that's needed is enough people who think that they are the smart money, and that everyone else is sufficiently stupid to buy from them. But the Bitcoin bubbles tell us as much about the usefulness of the currency itself as the tulip mania of 17th century Holland did about flower-arranging.

History does provide some lessons. While the Dutch were selling single tulip bulbs for 10 times a craftsman's annual income, the British were panicking about their own economic crisis. The silver coinage that had been the basis of the national economy for centuries was rapidly becoming unfit for purpose: it was constrained in supply and too easy to forge. The economy was taking on the features of a modern capitalist state, and the currency simply couldn't catch up.

Describing the problem Britain faced then, David Birch, a consultant specialising in electronic transactions, says: "We had a problem in matching the nature of the economy to the nature of the money we used." Birch has been talking about electronic money for over two decades and is convinced that we find ourselves on the edge of the same shift that occurred 400 years ago.

A Bitcoin wallet on a smartphone.  
 
A Bitcoin wallet on a smartphone. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images The cause of that shift is the internet, because even though you might want to, you can't use cash – untraceable, no-fee-charged cash – online. Existing payment systems such as PayPal and credit cards demand a cut. So for individuals looking for a digital equivalent of cash – no middleman, quick, easy – Bitcoin looks pretty good.

In 1613, as people looked for a replacement for silver, Birch says, "we might have been saying 'the idea of tulip bulbs as an asset class looks pretty good, but this central bank nonsense will never catch on.' We knew we needed a change, but we couldn't tell which made sense." Back then, the currency crisis was solved with the introduction first of Isaac Newton's Royal Mint ("official" silver and gold) and later with the creation of the Bank of England ("official" paper money that could in theory be swapped for official silver or gold).
And now? Bitcoin offers unprecedented flexibility compared with what has gone before. "Some people in the mid-90s asked: 'Why do we need the web when we have AOL and CompuServe?'" says Mike Hearn, who works on the programs that underpin Bitcoin. "And so now people ask the same of Bitcoin.

The web came to dominate because it was flexible and open, so anyone could take part, innovate and build interesting applications like YouTube, Facebook or Wikipedia, none of which would have ever happened on the AOL platform. I think the same will be true of Bitcoin."

For a small (but vocal) group in the US, Bitcoin represents the next best alternative to the gold standard, the 19th-century conception that money ought to be backed by precious metals rather than government printing presses and promises. This love of "hard money" is baked into Bitcoin itself, and is the reason why the owners who set computers to do the maths required to make the currency work are known as "miners", and is why the total supply of Bitcoin is capped.

And for Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the twins who sued Mark Zuckerberg (claiming he stole their idea for Facebook; the case was settled out of court), it's a handy vehicle for speculation. The two of them are setting up the "Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust", letting conventional investors gamble on the price of the currency.

Some of the hurdles left between Bitcoin and widespread adoption can be fixed. But until and unless Bitcoin develops a fully fledged banking system, some things that we take for granted with conventional money won't work.
Others are intrinsic to the currency. At some point in the early 22nd century, the last Bitcoin will be generated. Long before that, the creation of new coins will have dropped to near-zero. And through the next 100 or so years, it will follow an economic path laid out by "Nakomoto" in 2009 – a path that rejects the consensus view of modern economics that management by a central bank is beneficial.

For some, that means Bitcoin can never achieve ubiquity. "Economies perform better when they have managed monetary policies," the Bank of England's chief cashier, Chris Salmon, said at an event to discuss Bitcoin last week. "As a result, it will never be more than an alternative [to state-backed money]." To macroeconomists, Bitcoin isn't scary because it enables crime, or eases tax dodging. It's scary because a world where it's used for all transactions is one where the ability of a central bank to guide the economy is destroyed, by design.

For Bitcoin developer Hearn, that's not a concern. "Bitcoin's monetary policy would only be relevant if it were to be adopted by an entire economy, which isn't going to happen any time soon."
Already, alternatives based on Bitcoin have sprung up: for instance, Litecoin speeds up transaction processing and Freicoin introduces measures to stop people hoarding their money, but both are essentially the same technology, "forked" from the original. There's even nothing to stop a nation state declaring its own version of Bitcoin as legal tender.
So even if the currency of the future looks like Bitcoin, it might end up being a distant successor of the pioneer. "Is the technology of Bitcoin a window into the future?" asks Birch. "Yes. Is Bitcoin itself? No."

eToro Changes Pay Terms, Launches Popular Investor Program

eToro's OpenBook, one of the majors in the social Forex trading area, today emerged with new rules for paying the investors who provide signals to other traders to copy. The changed payment terms are summed up under the Popular Investor program, which replaces the old Social Guru model. That's right, if you're a Social Guru you'll have to check whether you qualify to provide your signals under the new program and how much money (if any) you'll get for offering your trading signals. Don't panic – you'll be contacted by eToro's support team soon and you'll get things straight and clear! However, until that happens – we have prepared a brief article on the new terms so that you are not caught by surprise by your next paycheck. 
 

Requirements

 
To qualify for the new program and get some money, you need to:
 
- have a verified and socially connected (e.g., via Facebook) account on eToro's Openbook;
- have an account on the platform that has been active for at least three months;
- have at least 10 copiers;
- each of the copiers should follow you with at least $100;
- provide some description to your account: including stuff like your real name, country, etc.
 
 

Money

 
You will no longer have to worry about virtual money in the form of credits. You'll get real cash into your account in the start of each month which you can withdraw via bank transfer, PayPal and other options.
 
 

Pay Terms

 
The changes are significant: putting it bluntly, the payment rules are tighter, fellow traders. The last time we discussed how much Gurus earn on eToro's OpenBook, we've noted that the main criterion for getting paid is the number of copiers. 
 
Old Terms and Conditions
 
Once a Guru had attracted more than 1,000 copiers, he/she had to be content with a fixed remuneration of $10,000. The new terms keep the criterion of a number of copiers, but make it harder to get the $10,000 pay ceiling.
 
New Terms and Conditions
 
You must have noticed that to get $10,000 you need to have at least 10,000 copiers rather than 1,000 as before. Now that's what I call raising the bar. 
 
Another very important change is depicted by the two columns: Basic amount and Top amount. These reflect another factor that comes into play for rewarding gurus: successful performance. 
The broker is introducing four periods that would be crucial in this respect - Last Month, Last 3 months, Last 6 months and Last 12 months. To get the Basic amount, a guru should be profitable in one or two of these periods, while to get the Top amount a guru should be profitable in three or four of these periods. To be profitable means that the gain in the period should be positive. 
 
For that matter, the trader with the following performance should get only the basic amount of pay, as he is successful only in two periods.
 
 
The change comes amid a wide-scale reshuffle of the network – earlier this month eToro's OpenBook waved goodbye to badges. We are wondering what's next – may be an improvement in the performance statistics.

Forex Profit Signals

What is Forex Trading:

Forex Trading is trading currencies from different countries against each other. Forex is an inter-bank market that took shape in 1971 when global trade shifted from fixed exchange rates to floating ones.

This is a set of transactions among Forex market agents involving exchange of specified sums of money in a currency unit of any given nation for currency of another nation at an agreed rate as of any specified date. During exchange, the exchange rate of one currency to another currency is determined simply: by supply and demand - exchange to which both parties agree.

Actually Forex is the financial game between BULLS and BEARS.

The Major currencies pairs are:
EUR/USD
GBP/USD
USD/JPY
USD/CHF
USD/CAD
AUD/USD

And these are the 6 best Forex Markets.
What are Forex Signals?

Forex signals are indicators that let you know when it's a good time to buy or sell a currency pair. They provide you with insight as to what's going on in the Forex market without the necessity to monitor Forex trends throughout the day. If you are self-employed or employed by another company, Forex trading is likely a part-time endeavor for you.

You won't have time to sit at the computer and monitor the Forex market all day. Forex signals can be delivered to you throughout the day by professional Forex traders to give you a heads-up on what's going on in the market. You can receive the signals, and then place the signals for buy or sell.
 
Forex signals are basically "suggested" buy and sell points with price targets and stop-loss levels delivered by fx signal providers to traders. They may be delivered by email, instant messenger, cellphone, live currency trading systems or direct to your Forex signal metatrader on your desktop.

Forex trading is a risky business and it takes some time to master the art of Forex trading signals. There are a number of fx signal providers but before you choose, you need to make sure you have done your homework. Always ask for the Free signals to deliver for 3 to 5 days and test those signals in your Demo Account.
The main characteristics of Forex trading signals to be aware of are as follows;
Cost: monthly subscription

Complexity: Simple "one email a day" OR Full-Service
Control: You keep full control OR the signal provider trades your a/c for you
Most Forex trade signals charge a very modest subscription fee, usually in the region of USD $80 - $400 per month.

If you're new to Forex trading, you probably realize how important it is to make the right trading decisions. One wrong trading move can drastically harm your portfolio while a good move can bring tremendous profits. That's why trading signals are so important. Once you've tried a Forex demo account for practice and created a strategy that works for you, you can add trading signal services as a useful tool in your Forex trading.

With online Forex, finding a trading signal service is easier than ever.
In their simplest form a Forex trading signal will send you a Forex alert email once a day listing trade set ups for the next 24 hours.

Some Forex signal providers offer a free trial service, thus allowing currency traders to sample the signals to assess their worth. This is a helpful step, as it allows the trader to consider the quality and reliability of the signals before paying money. This is a crucial element in the research process, and weeds out the providers who want money upfront as they are not confident in their ability to call profitable trades. This is a good service that you can try for free for 3 to 5 days.

Various fx signal providers offer a few complimentary services along with the featured ones. Look for a fx signal company that provides email support, phone assistance and even mentoring to their clients. This is of great value, especially to new traders.
They assign their time assisting traders in taking buy/sell decisions. Forex traders depend upon and trust the recommendations of these professional signal providers, while making investing decision in the Forex market

Forex signals are not meant to be a magic solution to all your Forex problems. They are designed to inform you about the market.
Forex business timing is extremely crucial; a trader can earn millions or lose even more depending upon the his timely or untimely actions. Besides, being the biggest market on the face of earth - it generates business activity of almost 3 trillion USD, it operates around the clock, all over the globe, making it thus impossible for a trader to stay vigilant all the time about market fluctuation and probable changes therein.

Therefore a trader needs alarms and indicators to get knowledge about the possible opportunities and probable pitch points. Hence the need for Forex signal or alerts. Basically Forex alert or signal is a communication or intimation to the trader indicating the ripe time to buy/sell and the suitable price to pay/ask. Most of the time, such signals and alerts are provided by trained professionals, either individual or companies.

When choosing a Forex signal service, be sure the company offers the type of signal alerts you need. Every person is different. Some require computer or email alerts, while others are not accurate Forex signals are made for both professional traders and although new traders. The best Forex signals trading system is going to cover multiple situations on the Forex market. For instance the best Forex trade signals is going to cover all major currencies like GBP, USD, and EUR at all times the market is open, not only for specific situation. Simply to get the full value of your Forex trade you must know what is happening in regards to all the major currencies. The Forex system should also be able to give you at least 1-3 Forex trading signal alerts a day.

Some Forex trading signals are high volume scalpers, calling many trades in a day aiming to profit a handful of pips on each. Others only call a few trades a day, aiming to profit 20 - 80 pips on each single trade.
Forex trading signal providers help you in minimizing risks or losses in trading.
Forex signals are generally given on a daily updated basis and all are contingent on factual market analysis and behavioral flow and not on mere hearsay and other speculations.

The signals are calculated and generated by using different indicators such as trends, moving average, Elliott waves, Bollinger bands, Fibonacci series, etc. In spite of that, some uses strategies like:
Pip Maximizer Method 1
Pip Maximizer Method 2
Pip Reversal Method
Pip Divergence Method
Instant Pip Method
Pip Retracement Method
Quantum Pip Strategy

... to give profitable and accurate signals.

The following question I wish to raise, is the abundant selection of Forex signals from which we can choose. Because of the variety of service providers, they offer different services, of which we must be aware. The first type of Forex signal provider will just send out trade alerts by email, often daily, sometimes at several intervals throughout the day. Thus you need to have a laptop of email receiving device ready at all times, to gain the most from trading Forex signals.

The next type to consider are through EA/Expert Advisors. These types of signals are not good at all because those are the computer oriented programs which can ruin your money within a few trades. But fortunately this is not such a big problem today, as more traders have email reading devices. The most crucial aspect concerning the format you receive the signals, is to ensure that you receive them immediately, and have the capability to act on them straight away - so you have to have immediate access to your Forex brokerage account, and place the trade as soon as you humanly can.

A unique benefit of trading Forex signals is that it gives guidance and discipline in a Forex currency trader. Forex profit signals service providers send you alerts when the conditions are right for the trade. They use cutting-edge technology which constantly monitor all major currency pairs for generating technical indicators.

Forex signal generators produce Forex signals which are indicators of ideal trading opportunities. These are certain algorithmic patterns which have been evident in successful Forex trades throughout the years. These Forex signals are then fed onto the program of Forex automated EA or Expert Advisors. This program will then either make Forex trading decisions for the individual while s/he is away from the computer or advice the individual about what to do. Forex EAs act like wizards which monitor currency ratings through online Forex Trading Platforms. One can look at Forex signals as triggers of commands which allow the automated system to function.

Forex signals can immeasurably add to the profits of a Forex trader.

How to Receive Forex Signals:

Forex signal services are available to provide signals to you around the clock. These services usually have professional Forex traders who monitor the market 24/7 and provide you with up-to-date information. These services often charge a monthly or yearly subscription fee for their services. The methods used to deliver the Forex signals to you can vary from one service to the next. Signals can be sent through email alerts, to your phone or cell phone, through your pager, or even through a pop-up software system that will show a screen on your computer each time a signal is sent. The services also vary in how they present information to you. Some will provide live charts to give you more insight as to what as happening in the market.

Time frame for which the Forex trading signals are generated is equally important. Few trading signals can be valid only for a few minutes or an hour; others may have recommendations that are valid for a day or more. If the Forex trading signal providers generate signals for shorter time frame, you need to monitor the market frequently.
Some Forex signal service providers offer add-on services like email or mobile alerts. The service provider should have end-to-end technical support for the customers.

Even with experienced traders calling your trades, it's prudent risk management to never ever risk more than 3% of your initial capital on any one trade, preferably only 1%. So, if for example your initial capital, (or to put it another way, the maximum you can afford to lose) is let's say 5,000, the position size you take on each trade should be such that if the trade hit your stop loss, your maximum loss would be no more than 1% x 5,000 = 50.

Forex signal providers render Forex business quite a bit easy for traders, especially those who are relatively new in the business. Forex signal generation and provision can be either manual or automated and it provides entry/exit points of the trade streak for major or already chosen currency pairs. In manual signal generation system a simple trade signal is provided by the single provider. In automated signal generation system, the Forex system not only intimates and alerts the trade to either enter or exit the trade, but some times makes the deal by operating in synchronization with the trader's bank or broker.

Initially Forex signals and alerts used to come in the form of telephone calls and facsimiles. Now as we have stepped into the era of information revolution which has brought forth amazingly advanced digital technology, Forex signals and alerts generation and provision system has also advanced and become much more sophisticated and quick.

Now these alerts come in the form of e-mails, SMS (Short Message Service, a way of sending text messages to mobile devices), or desktop software. However with trading Forex signals, there is no such chance to over trade your account. It is absolutely possible to learn the mental aspects of trading, by following a set of rules, and not to deviate from those rules.

Many trading Forex signals provide you with a complete set of instructions in order to take the trade. Frequently the signal will have multiple exits, which enable a trader to take money off the table in small steps. So this enables the currency trader to input all of these prices into his trading platform when he gets the signals, and then to switch off the computer.

As for any purchase, it is essential that the Forex trader first does his research into the more effective trading Forex signal service for him or her. This involves a lot of careful research, and reading various reviews and testimonials of the service in question. Before I go, in conclusion, the trader is strongly advised to practice using the trading Forex signals on a demo account first, so that the Forex trader can totally test out the profitability of the signals. This has an supplementary benefit for a complete new, as it will enable the currency trader to become familiar with the trading platform, and reduce the possibility of making any mistakes.

Whenever possible, go for a free demo account and then try your forex signals for a few days before becoming a paid member. Forex trading does involve some planning and strategy building so be prepared for a steep learning curve before trading with real money!
I'm going to start by telling you some cool facts about the FOREX market.
As you may already know, FOREX is the acronym for "The Foreign Exchange Market." This market concerns itself with the buying and selling of the currencies of just about every country on earth. This market is BIG! So big, in fact, it's hard to wrap your mind around the size of it.

Listen. The daily average volume of FOREX is:
Almost 5 TRILLION Dollars Per Day!
I'm going to try to bring that fact home for you: The New York Stock Exchange has a daily volume of approximately 50 billion dollars. That means the FOREX is 100 times larger than the NYSE

Actually, the daily volume of the FOREX is triple the size of all other investment markets combined!
In spite of its size, the FOREX does not have a physical location or a central exchange. It operates through an electronic network of people, banks and companies that specialize in trading one currency for another.
Almost all FOREX trades are executed on the internet by someone sitting at a computer with a high-speed connection. So, if you don't like working with a computer you may as well stop reading... because... you will be left out.

Still with me? Good.

The Only 24 Hour Financial
Market In The Whole World
Because the FOREX does not have a physical location or a central exchange, it is able to operate on a 24 hour basis leapfrogging from one time zone to another across the major financial centers of the world.
The FOREX market actually follows the sun around the globe... because... as one country is closing for the day, another is just opening up. This market is open 24 hours a day, six days a week from 5:00 PM Sunday (East Coast Time) to 4:00 PM Friday (East Coast Time). This 24 hour access combined with its huge trading volume makes this...

The Most Liquid Market On Earth!

Except for Saturdays, you can enter or exit the FOREX market anytime night or day. This market has virtually no gaps whatsoever and your stop-loss orders are almost guaranteed.
Can you imagine that? The multi-trillion dollar liquidity, combined with 24-hour trading access virtually guarantees your stop-loss orders will be executed without slippage.
Just try to get that kind of guarantee from your stockbroker!
The stock, futures and options markets cannot offer you this guarantee because the limited trading hours create frequent gap opens. Nearly all Forex brokers make sure their hours of operation coincide with the hours of operation of the global FOREX market.

Let's see, what else?
Oh, yeah, no one can corner the market. The FOREX market is so huge and has so many global participants that no single individual nor entity... not even a central bank... can control the market for any significant period of time.

Plus,
There Is No Insider Trading!
Because of the vast size of the global FOREX market and its non-centralized nature, there is no chance whatsoever for disruptions caused by insider trading. There is less chance for fraud in the FOREX than in any other investment market. Best of all forex can never become zero but stocks can become zero and majority of the options expire worthless.

There are no commissions. Yep, you read it right. No exchange fees, no closing fees, no government fees, no brokerage fees. This all adds up to a very low retail transaction cost. If you select your broker properly, your round-trip transaction cost could be as low as .07 percent.

And know this, a very desirable by-product of extremely high liquidity is almost instantaneous transactions executed with blinding speed. You can leverage your trades by a factor of 50 to 1, 100 to 1 and even 400 to 1.
Not only that, you can trade with a very low margin with relative safety compared to the disastrous potential of margin trading found in other financial markets. Also it is tax free income if the country you reside has no capital gain tax.

And finally, if you get really great at currency trading, your potential financial reward is so big it can make your head swim!

As an experienced researcher, my idea is to learn and share everything I can with my readers. Stay tuned for more business, travel and career ideas as I love to write about this subjects and more...
I have the Love and Passion for Trading which force me to spend countless hrs for learning, experimenting & perfecting the Art & Science of Trading. My ultimate purpose is to help you live the life that you deserve. I know how it is, most people work hard to make a living, yet it feels like a never-ending treadmill. After paying the bills, there doesn't seem to be enough left over to enjoy what life has to offer. I know EXACTLY how it feels, because I was there once.

I did my research and discovered how many of the world's richest people had made their fortunes. I modeled my efforts on their example, and invested time, money and energy to learn all I could about Trading

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