Stocks, Forex and Other Money Matters

Everyone has heard about a friend of a friend who knew a guy that had a sister who got involved with a company just before they went public, made a small seed investment and when the company went public she made millions.

Real Pre – Public investments in companies that are built to last with solid executive management and board of directors all wrapped in a industry that can still flourish in a recession are extremely difficult to find and impossible to be part of unless you are ‘in the know’, meaning you are the auditing or contract attorney for the company filing with the SEC, the accounting firm doing the third party audit, the consulting firm who is putting together the corporate strategies for the company or the investor relations industry that is gearing up for the publicity and promotions campaign to run in a post offering environment.

Typically the invitation to invest in a pre-public company comes in the form of a Direct Public Offering after the company is divided into shares with a private placement memorandum and before the third party audit and before and during the comments stage of the S1 filing. If you are fortunate enough to invest in a company with the above description you will most likely being offered deeply discounted stock (cheaper than what will be offered in the public market) which means you will (if the offering goes as planned) increase your initial investment amount by 200+ percent.

This is not at all a rare instance. Getting invited to invest in the pre-public, seed capital stage is actually quite simple if you know who to talk to. The best companies to become aligned with are ‘go public’ facilitation consultants and corporate turnaround consultants. These groups take companies public for a living and can usually plug you right in when the company is qualifying with the SEC and needs to have 40 investors on the book to qualify to go public (on the OTCBB). Simply contact the company and they will typically give you a quick information form to fill out to collect your name, phone, investment history and investment threshold.

It’s a fact, once you started investing in solid pre-IPO stock investments, you will dump your broker and never buy stock the traditional way again. Now get out there and experience the power of seed capital investment!

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Regulation D, Under Sections 4(2) and 3(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, the SEC adopted Regulation D to coordinate the various limited offering exemptions and to streamline the existing requirements applicable to private offers and sales of securities. The Regulation establishes three exemptions from registration in Rules 504, 505, and 506.

Rule 504, which provides an exemption for non-reporting companies unless they are “blank check” issuers or certain “shells”, stipulates that: The sale of up to $1,000,000 of securities in a 12-month period is permitted provided that there is no general solicitation, the securities sold are restricted securities and cannot be resold except pursuant to a registration statement or exemption, and a notice must be filed with the SEC within 15 days after the first sale. Rule 504 does not provide an exemption under any state laws. In certain limited circumstances where an offering is conducted under state accredited investor exemptions, securities offered under Rule 504 may be freely transferrable. Unlike Rules 505 and 506, Rule 504 does not mandate that specified disclosure be provided to purchasers. Nonetheless, the business person should take care that sufficient information is provided to meet the full disclosure obligations which exist under the antifraud provisions of the securities laws.

Rule 505 was adopted by the SEC to provide small businesses more flexibility in raising capital than under Rule 504 – but without the uncertainty of determining the quality of the purchasers that generally is involved in using Rule 506. Rule 505 provides issuers a limited offering exemption for sales of securities totaling up to $5 million in any 12-month period.

Rule 505 contains certain restrictions regarding “accredited investors” and non-accredited persons. The-term “accredited investor” includes:

Banks, insurance companies, registered investment companies, business development companies, or small business investment companies; Certain employee benefit plans for which investment decisions are made by a bank, insurance company, or registered investment adviser; Any employee benefit plan (Within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act) with total assets in excess of $5 million; Charitable organizations, corporations or partnerships with assets in excess of $5 million; Directors, executive officers, and general partners of the issuer; Any entity in which all the equity owners are accredited investors; Natural persons with a net worth of at least $1 million; Any natural person with an income in excess of $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse in excess of $300,000 for those years and a reasonable expectation of the same income level in the current year; and Trusts with assets of at least $5 million, not formed to acquire the securities offered, and whose purchases are directed by a sophisticated person.

If the issuer sells any securities to non-accredited investors, it must furnish to all investors the same type of information as required by Regulation A. It must also furnish audited financial statements.

If an issuer other than a limited partnership cannot obtain audited financial statements without unreasonable effort or expense, only the issuer’s balance sheet (to be dated within 120 days of the start of the offering) must be audited.

Limited partnerships unable to obtain required financial statements without unreasonable effort or expense may furnish financial statements prepared on the basis of federal income tax requirements and examined and reported on by an independent public or certified accountant in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards; and The issuer must also be available to answer questions by prospective purchasers about the issuer or the offering.

Further restrictions under Rule 505 include:

The total offering price of each issue of securities may not exceed $5 million. The offering may not be made by means of general solicitation or general advertising. The issuer may sell the securities to an unlimited number of “accredited investors” and to 35 non-accredited persons. There are no requirements of “sophistication” or “wealth” for persons to whom the securities are sold. A company must take any necessary steps to ensure that the purchasers are acquiring securities for investment only, not for resale. The securities are thus “restricted” and investors must be informed that they may not be able to sell except pursuant to a registration statement or exemption from registration. The issuer is not required to file any offering materials with the Commission. Fifteen days after the first sale in the offering, the issuer must file a notice of sales on Form D. The notice also contains an undertaking under this Rule for the issuer to furnish the Commission, upon its staff s request, any information given to non-accredited purchasers in connection with the offering. Rule 505 does not provide an exemption from state securities laws.

SEC Rule 506 offers and sales of securities by an issuer that satisfy the conditions stated below are deemed transactions not involving any public offering within the meaning of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. For an offering to be considered exempt from the registration requirements, Rule 506 stipulates: There is no ceiling on the amount of money which may be raised. No general solicitation or general advertising is permitted. The issuer may sell its securities to an unlimited number of accredited investors and 35 non accredited purchasers. Unlike Rule 505, all non-accredited purchasers (either alone or with a purchaser representative) must be sophisticated – that is, have sufficient knowledge and experience in financial and business matters to render them capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment. The term “accredited investor” is defined under Rule 505.

If the issuer sells any securities to non-accredited investors, it must furnish to all investors the same type of information as required by Regulation A. It must also furnish the same financial information as would be required by registration on Form S-1.

If the issuer cannot obtain audited financial statements without unreasonable effort or expense, then financial statements may be provided in accordance with the special treatment described under Rule 505.

The securities sold are “restricted” under the same stipulations in Rule 505.

A company is required to file a notice of the offering on Form D at SEC headquarters within 15 days after the first sale in the offering. All states except New York provide an exemption from state securities laws for offerings under Rule 506 but the company must file a copy of the Form D and pay a filing fee in each state. New York has a distinctive law which makes a Rule 506 offering within that state impractical.

Accredited Investor Exemption

The Small Business Investment Incentive Act of 1980 created a new statutory exemption from registration under the Securities Act for transactions involving offers and sales of securities by any issuer solely to one or more “accredited investors.” Under Section 4(6):

The total offering price of each issue of securities under the exemption may not exceed the limit on small offerings set by Section 3(b) the Securities Act, which currently is $5 million per issue. The offering may not be made by means of any form of advertising or public solicitation.

The term “accredited investor” is defined to include the same individuals and entities as included for purposes of Rules 505 and 506. The issuer is required to file a notice of sales on Form D with the Commission 15 days after the initial sale is made in reliance on the exemption.

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Many entrepreneurs and executives want to move forward with the process of going public merely for the ability to raise capital through the sale of stock. They usually don’t think of the strategies necessary to keep the momentum going such as how much equity to give up initially, how much equity to sell ongoing, how to capitalize off of the use of the securities as collateral for loans and lines of credit and so on.

One of the most profound strategies companies can use to retain company equity while capitalizing off of their public entity is to put up portions of their securities as temporary collateral for loans and to use securities to grow through acquisition of strategic alliances.

Stock should be looked at as cash and designated for appropriate purchasing strategies. Stock monetized through collateralized lending can work wonders as long as the exit strategy is in place and secure. Your attorney should be well versed in this activity and audit the contract for convertible aspects which could strip the transaction of its advantageous nature.

Debt that converts to equity means giving up a huge bartering chip for future transactions. Don’t give up equity unless you have to. There are scores of companies that will lend against your securities without having to give up long term equity. Use this strategy wisely and you’ll never have a problem getting capital.

Also, using stock to purchase strategic partners is more relevant now than ever. Purchasing a company with stock that can be monetized over time is an incredible way to grow through acquisition. Going public on the OTCBB is a quick and easy way to start using the countless capabilities for capitalization with a public entity. Going public simply to raise capital with your market maker or broker dealer would be selling yourself short. Take advantage of the countless ways your securities can work for you.

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Spartan Gold is the first in a new series by New York Times bestseller Clive Cussler in cooperation with action novel writer Grant Blackwood.

The new series is referred to as “Fargo Adventures,” based on its action heroes, a married couple named Sam and Remi Fargo.

Having fulfilled the American dream early in life to become independently wealthy, the Fargos now devote themselves to archeological treasure hunting; and they let nothing stand in their way of finding what they search for.

The Fargo Adventures feature a new set of characters and a new approach in the form of archeological treasure hunting. (New in terms of being the main focus.) But as with any Cussler-novel, we can still expect a lot of the action to take place in and around water, as well as plenty of exotic cars, foods and drinks.

In Spartan Gold, Sam and Remi Fargo pursue a trail of clues left on the labels of twelve wine bottles from the lost wine cellar of Napoleon Bonaparte, written in a code they must first decipher.

Of course there are also adversaries to be faced and dealt with. A former Soviet freedom fighter turned mafia billionaire sends his hired hooligans to interfere with the Fargos’ investigation, several times imperiling their very lives.

Bondaruk believes the end of the trail will lead to an ancient Greek gold-treasure once conquered by his ancestor, the Persian ruler Xerxes the Great. A treasure which Bondaruk has convinced himself is his rightful heritage, and no one will be allowed to stand in his way of getting it.

The riddles on the wine-bottles lead the Fargos and their adversaries from a WWII German submarine in the Great Pocomoke Swamp of Maryland to the Bahamas and through much of Europe including Monaco, Croatia, Italy, Germany, and Ukraine: not necessarily in that sequence.

Spartan Gold is a solid, action-filled treasure hunting novel in the spirit of The Da Vinci Code. It is also distinctly a Clive Cussler novel with all of what that entails. Another guaranteed New York Times bestseller, in other words.

Britt Hellman lives in North Carolina with her husband and three children. She runs her own copywriting business out of her home. Clive Cussler is a long time favorite author. Visit her Cussler book site to order the Spartan Gold novel or read her review of the most recent Dirk Pitt novel, Arctic Drift.

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If you scan the internet, you will find out that a new trading robot gets released almost every month.

With a market that is essentially flooded with these programs, it becomes such a task to find just the right one. I have found out that a few of these programs are quite similar except for a few others.

Recently I was able to encounter Forex Autopilot, an automated forex trading program that employs the metatrader platform.

This trading bot was created by a professional day trader by the name of Marcus Leary. The program claims that it can make inexperienced traders filthy rich just by doing nothing.

What person could resist the thought of essentially becoming a millionaire just by doing nothing but a few simple clicks? This can be really tempting but before you purchase Forex Autopilot, you must be aware of a few basic things first.

Before you take the program for a spin, it is important that you understand a few aspects of it.

First, Forex Autopilot is an automated currency trading robot that will do trades using the fund that you set up without any necessary supervision which means that you can leave the program to run on its own.

However, before you the program go on autopilot, you have to set the parameters of the program first which may require a little knowledge about the foreign exchange.

But if you are uncertain of the entire program, there is a demonstration mode that you can access which includes a dummy account that you can run for as long as you want which you can use to practice on until you get the hang of things and progress to using real money.

As advertised, I have found out that Forex Autopilot is an accurate trading bot and that losses do not usually happen. However, when they do, the loss is usually a significant amount which can damage your profits.

To prevent this from happening, one should never bet more than 50% of one’s capital so that you cut your losses even if the gains may not be that high.

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To become a professional forex trader you need to have sufficient knowledge of the Forex market, excellent skills in money management and a little experience managing operations in Forex. To succeed in forex need to be prepared and plan your strategy carefully.

If you want to become a good forex trader please don’t believe you could just step in and start buying and selling currencies and you will make money, please reconsider your thought process if that is the case. If you want to be a successful trader you need to necessary skills, experience and knowledge of the markets.

In their first year traders have been able to turn small amounts of money into large nest eggs but the fact of the matter is most of the time within just three months new traders loss their entire trading account and blow out. Think about what is important and do not be in a rush to loss any money, you can begin under a demo account before trading live.

To become better trader you must grow in confidence and knowledge which comes from one thing and one thing only, experience. The difference in a trader really comes once they focus on money management and risk to reward ratios.

It may not sound like it but one of the major steps a trader takes is blowing out an account by getting into a pile of the wrong trades and then getting struck powerless by hear watching a lot of money disappear with an empty feeling in their stomach. While you need above all to be fearless at the same time you have to be very risk adverse.

There are many good ways to learn forex and save a lot of money in losses learning like forex courses, books, training and mentors. Forex trading with other people who know how to make money trading will help you become the best trader possible in the shortest amount of time.

Once you are able manage and control your emotions while trading then begin to find ways to make consistent profits in the market. Using a forex trading system or signals is a good way to make money and get a feel for the markets as well is using a forex robot to help you have consistent gains.

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One of the best ways to increase the chances of success with trading is for a trader to try and match their own individual personality with the specific techniques employed in the field.

Day trading is the practice of buying and selling financial instruments, such as securities, within the same trading day. Traders who practice day trading are called active traders or day traders. This field used to reserve for financial firms, fund mangers, investment firms, and banks. With the advent of electronic and online day trading, however, it has become accessible to almost anybody interested in the practice.

Day Trading Strategies

There are a wide variety of strategies and techniques used by day traders to help them make good profit. The basic day trading strategies are as follows:

Contrarian Investing, News Playing, Rebate Trading, Trend Following

Contrarian investing is the day trading strategy that follows the ideology that assumes that financial securities that have been steadily rising will later on reverse and fall. The opposite view is applied to already falling securities.

News playing is basically a technique used to buy and sell securities based primarily on news which has been made available by a specific company.

Rebate trading is generally a strategy that relies on ECN rebates as the main source of income. Generally speaking, traders who use this strategy will usually purchase large quantities of low priced securities.

Scalping is a technique which involves buying securities and then selling them within minutes, or even seconds. As a result, traders who use this strategy aim to profit from the small price gaps which occur almost immediately after a purchase.

Trend following is basically the opposite of contrarian investing, in that the strategy is based on the principle that securities which have been rising steadily will continue to do so, while those securities which have been falling steadily will continue to fall.

Other popular trading strategies include the likes of Short Sells and Range Trading.

Determining What The Best Strategy Is

Interestingly enough, statistics seem to suggest that approximately 80% of traders end up losing their available capital even before they’ve managed to learn about the various strategies. This is exactly why it’s so important to begin slowly, and to only take small risks in the beginning. Likewise, it’s of paramount importance to find the ideal strategy so that a profit can be made. Below are a few tips regarding how one should go about finding the right trading strategy.

Matching the right strategy with the right trader – one of the most important things to bear in mind is that it’s essential to match a trader’s individual personality, their strengths, and also their comfort level, with the correct strategy. In other words, those who feel uncomfortable taking risks should rather consider scalping or news playing, rather than becoming involved with contrarian investing, which for the most part is best suited to those who are willing to take risks.

Starting mall and treading lightly – newcomers in particular should start out slowly by making small investments, as this will afford them an opportunity to learn about the different advantages and disadvantages regarding the different strategies.

Day traders can of course also benefit financially from using multiple strategies at the same time. For example, you could consider investing the majority of your capital using one of the low risk strategies, while at the same time investing some capital using one of the high yielding strategies.

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Day trading is becoming increasingly popular with people interested in making money from home. Building a successful trading career involves understanding how the market works; for instance, the fact that not every stock which is traded on the market will be moving in the same direction as the index.

Even if the index is on the decline, it does not mean that each and every stock which makes up the index is also declining in value. At any given time, there are plenty of stocks which are moving against the prevailing trends, rising as the market falls and vice versa.

What is Stock Trading?

In simple terms, stock trading is nothing more than the act of buying a stock at one price and then selling it again once it reaches a predetermined higher price. These differences in trade value form your profits.

People who know how to make money in day trading know that you have to monitor the movements of individual stocks on the market and analyze the movements of stock value. Over time, traders learn how to make profitable trades on the stock market by gaining an understanding of market trends. When a successful day traders identifies a trend, they are able to place sell-trade orders which allow them to sell a stock when it reaches the apex of its upward trend in order to maximize their profits.

Learning Which Stocks To Trade In

Following the latest top pick you read in a magazine or from a friend will not improve your chances of profiting with stock trading. Magazines are written several months before publication date, so the information is already old when you receive it. Friends might be well meaning, but unless they’re already successful stock traders, the information they’re giving you may be based on good intentions rather than good trading knowledge.

Experienced traders are well aware of the advantages of using analytical software to watch the market and their own stock picks. There is software which allows traders to make profitable day trading decisions by monitoring the movements in stock prices.

Charts are used to map the movements of stock prices; almost all day trading platforms offer charting functionality. These charts let traders watch the fluctuations in price of the stocks they’re interested in trading and can chart the progress of the entire exchange as well.

Of course, it’s simply not possible to watch all of the thousands of stocks on the market at once – and day trading experts know it. This is why traders in the know use stock trading robots to keep an eye on their picks and analyze trends.

What is a Trading Robot?

A stock trading robot is a very sophisticated piece of software which can keep an eye on many different stocks simultaneously. These programs can also analyze trends and alert traders as to which stocks are rising in value and which stocks are moving counter to the prevailing trends.

The stock trading robot will then issue a trade indicator, which is your signal to buy stock. However, the trading robot will also issue a separate trade indicator that can also signal when the trend is complete and it’s time to sell.

A complex piece of software like this can be invaluable for anyone who is serious about succeeding with stock trading. Unfortunately buying the licensing rights to your own day trading software can be massively expensive.

How Can I Afford A Day Trading Software?

Most of us don’t have enough cash on hand to buy these very expensive programs outright. However, there are other ways that you can benefit from day trading robots.

Many people who own these expensive programs will permit others to use the stock picks chosen by their trading robots. This is an option which provides you with the benefit of a day trading program’s analytical power without having to pay the many thousands of dollars that this software can cost.

You simply join up and you’ll receive an email giving you the exact stock trading information that the professional day traders use to formulate their own trading strategies.

So if you’re considering building up a stock trading business of your own, having the benefits of a day trading software at your service means you could increase your profitability.

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While day trading can lead to very large profits, anyone that is considering it should remember that there will be a large amount of research that is necessary to begin the process. The trading robot programs that have been developed are making the research much easier to obtain.

To a certain extent, day trading remains a mystery to many people and it really need not be. This is because day trading is a relatively simply concept. It simply involves buying low and quickly selling high. Ok, if it is so simply why is the number of people that earn huge revenues from it so limited? Well, while it is a simple concept, it does involve a lot of proverbial legwork.

Namely, the stock market is a huge entity and that means a significant amount of research and oversight must be conducted in order to know when, where, what, and how to day trade. Thankfully, through the advent of many technological innovations, there are many excellent programs that can help one expand his/her day trading ventures. A day trading robot is such a program.

While the initial thought of a robot may seem like something from a Sci-Fi movie, it is actually far from it. It is actually a type of software that will assist in the exploration of the market and will monitor the variables, the increases and decreases in price, the trends and many other patterns that may present in the market.

By taking advantage of the benefits of a robot, the information that can be compiled will be put together and sent back to the investor very quickly and in a manner that is easy to decipher. The information will be used by the investor to make a very informed decision in regards to their investments in day trading.

Many investors that have been trading for a long amount of time can tell you that prior to the invention of the robots, the data that was needed were virtually impossible to compile. It would have required a very large amount of time and resources to get the information and by the time it was complete it would be obsolete and the ability to make successful day trading decisions was not possible. Many of the unknowns have been removed with the use of the robots and the data is found and reviewed very quickly.

Does this mean that the day trading robot will present guaranteed, 100% advice on what stocks will make huge profits? No, this is most definitely not what such a program will do. No one can predict the market with complete certainty.

Day trading, no matter how sound one’s decision may be, will always be a speculative venture. However, when a person has access to proper data and facts, the ability to make a more informed and logical decision on a trade is possible. This, in turn, means the ability to make a large capital gain on a day trading venture is enhanced as well…

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OK, so you\’ve just spent 5 months to a year in the process of going public. You\’ve paid fat fees to auditors, consultants and lawyers, now you\’re public…now what? How do you make a success of your new public company? Obviously you have solid executives at the helm and a board of directors advising you on various strategies and setting up new strategic alliances. You\’ve eyed up companies to purchase as growth through acquisition is one of the main reasons for being public but how do you keep your stock selling and stable? How can you make it so your company stands head and shoulders above all other priorities of your market maker or broker dealer? You need to make their phone ring by pounding the pavement via public relations and pure publicity.

A sizable portion of your corporate budget as a public company has to be publicity. You need a publicist that will get you on the radio and on television as an industry expert. You need to be mentioned in newspaper and magazine articles. You have to create a presence that forces people to call their brokers to get information about your company and make a move toward stock purchase.

You must take an \’in your face\’ approach to your public relations strategy and your CEO and even your CFO have to take this as their full time occupation until the company gets the traction it needs and then after you have gained traction, take it up a notch with a simultaneous approach of both publicity and product placement to start rapidly building your brand.

After this, again you should take it up another notch by adding publicity solely to market makers and broker dealers. Get published and buy ad space in journals that cater to this crowd. Do the dog and pony show rounds. Introduce yourself. Tell these industry specialists about your plans for the company this year. Leak out some potential acquisition info that can act as a juicy tidbit to get them to dig deeper.

Now you\’re ready to take it up a notch again; be seen with the in crowd. By in crowd we mean other professional executives within your industry genre, not competitors but potential strategic partners, get snapshots taken and have your publicist start the hype machine and remember, anything even remotely \’note worthy\’ should have its own press release sent out to the masses!

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