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Internet businesses: work from home

by Larry Miller

These days, it seems like everyone is in search of a good high potential home based work opportunity. A good home based business opportunity might become a potent secondary source of income, or a new business that can change your life. Let’s take a look at a few of the businesses that could be the home based opportunity you’re looking for.

Many of the best home based career opportunities out there are internet based businesses. A web based venture has a lot of appealing aspects when sized up to various other categories of home based opportunities. With a web based venture, there are some nice advantages that you won’t find in other fields.

A good observation is that the strongest thing about a well designed internet operation is that it will work for you all day, all year. That one advantage, by itself, makes an online company a powerful place to look for a home based business opportunity. Just think about how nice it would be having a business that creates money during the time you’re away from the computer.

You will come across a selection of typical methods that anyone can choose from to make a living with an online business. We will break this list of possibilities apart into two specific categories. The groups are one, having an online job, and second, working for your self.

The first list will involve the sort of work that you work for, and get paid by, someone. You will see that there are a lot of different categories of online based, work from home, employment possibilities out there for you. Jobs on this list would be comprised of, accounting, telemarketing, and writing adds.

There is very little needed to get one of the jobs like these. Definitely, you need to be qualified, or prepared to learn, to perform the deeds involved. You will have to have phone services for nearly all of these types of work opportunities.

The final item that you will be required to have is a personal computer. If you’re good, most companies are very happy with a work from home arrangement. Your employer is aided not just from your effort, and your equipment, but also doesn’t need to give up office space.

The second group has online business options that should be for those of you who want to create their own business. The various opportunities that are out there are comprised of, consulting work affiliate selling, and publishing. This short list is only a few of all the possible ways to make a living that can be found.

With these endeavors, you will be self employed. You will have to decide how much time you put in, and you will be doing everything yourself in your new business. The rewards are great, but so are the responsibilities, when working your very own business venture.

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Posted in Investments on Oct 31st, 2008, 4:00 am by Larry Miller     

What’s Next with the Markets? Volatility Will Show the Way

by D. R. Barton, Jr.

It would be hard to imagine a more interesting and chaotic time in the financial markets.

We are seeing market characteristics (reversal patterns, daily ranges, etc.) that are literally unprecedented. The volatility (as measured by Average True Range or ATR) of almost every major trading instrument is at all time highs. It doesn’t matter if you’re looking at stock indexes, bonds, gold, oil, currencies, etc. It seems that the only broad groups of instruments not trading at their highest volatilities ever are the smaller commodities that don’t have big hedge fund and institutional interest- things like coffee and orange juice.

This volatility expansion is significant for several reasons:

It is broad-reaching. As mentioned above, it is hitting practically every traded instrument.

It is persistent. The markets are no strangers to volatility spikes. We see them come and go when particularly juicy reasons for fear or greed enter the markets. But this volatility explosion has not subsided. Depending on how you measure “persistence”; the volatility “spike” has lasted four to six weeks, not just for a few days.

It is huge. Back in April of 2000, we made the previous volatility highs when the Internet bubble started to collapse. Then volatility (as measured by 14 day ATR) was 3.0% of price. Last Wednesday, this same ratio showed ATR at an astonishing 8.3% of price!!

As if to punctuate the truly wild nature of the recent market volatility-here is an interesting market tidbit: today is a “Fed Day” (FOMC meeting announcement) and after dropping both key rates by 50 basis points, it looks like the market will have a day within only 2/3rds of its recent range!

I think that the market is giving us some really important information through this language of high volatility. The message is this: the uncertainty of where the markets are heading next has never been higher. With the slightest whiff of negative news, the market free falls. When even a shimmer of hope comes along (like the Fed strongly hinting that the rate cut was real yesterday, sending the markets up 10%), the markets jump through the roof.

It’s like a cat on a hot tin roof… after drinking a can of Red Bull. Every move is over exaggerated.

One of the questions that I get most often is “when will the market return to some sense of normalcy?” It’s difficult to predict this, of course. But one key indicator will be when the volatility settles way down from its current unprecedented highs. It’s okay if the market is directional; I don’t think we’ll see a traditional basing / consolidation period from here. But what IS needed is a sense that the markets don’t jump every time someone whispers, “Boo”. And a volatility contraction will be a good (and maybe the best) indication that this is happening.

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Posted in Investments on Oct 31st, 2008, 3:41 am by D. R. Barton, Jr.     

Can Running your Car on Water be Dangerous for your Automobile?

by Matthew J. Loop, DC

In fact, it can be very dangerous IF you don’t elect to use your brain! Hydrogen or any gas system using hydrogen is not something to mess around with! I’ve heard of some idiots that have tried to ignite hydrogen as a means of amusement… DUMB! “Well, I just needed to see if it would go up in flames,” one woman stated. Of course it ignites, duhh? Hydrogen will blow-up if you put fire of any kind to it and rest assured it will fan rapidly.

Throughout the “Run your Car on Water” conversion manual that I used, there were ample precautionary notes, for all areas that have the capability to harm you or destroy your automobile. Especially when it came to things like toxic glues, etc.., the conversion manuals author placed distinct warnings that it’s impossible to overlook.

Since we now have that out of the way, Hydrogen-On-Demand technology is no more hazardous than traditional cars involving fuel, cooling, etc. For instance, many know the radiator is vital to cool the engine. Without it working, your vehicle would easily smoke all day!

But, if you open the radiator cap when it’s smoking hot, you will get burned, right? The problem is not in the radiator by itself, the problem is in lack of awareness and carelessness. There are simple safety rules and it’s necessary to understand and apply them.

If you choose to undertake this simple conversion of your car to make it run on water, follow the rules that are written in the tested manual. If you do this, the chances of you endangering yourself are almost obsolete. I’ve see this system demonstrated to many people every day and it’s proven to be very safe because the rules are always followed. I’ve never seen or experienced any fires, explosions or meltdowns. For maximum safety, follow the how-to guide word for word!

Ok, check out an example. In the chapter on installation, you will see that you must keep the output hose at minimum 4 feet in length in order to thwart fire dangers. Never cut it short even if the device is closer than 4 feet. Yes, you may lose a few dollars, but it will save you a bunch of hassle!

Important to note, Hydrogen-On-Demand and Water Fuel is not similar to stored Hydrogen! In a normal system, it uses all the hydrogen that is provided immediately. Nowhere is there a hydrogen storage tank to explode in case of a car accident. This water fuel technology has proven to be MUCH SAFER than hydrogen cars or propane gas cars and trucks.

Contrary to popular belief, it is not hazardous for your car / truck at all. Many have noted that they have seen their gas mileage increase by as much as 100% after implementing the hybrid conversion, too.

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Posted in Current Events on Oct 30th, 2008, 3:35 am by Matthew J. Loop, DC     

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