After being down $1,000 in my Forex trading, spending an evening filling out a few applications, and really gaining an understanding of my trading style the mistakes I made, I put another $1,000 into my Forex account and bet the farm. I placed a buy trade (five lots) @ 1.5774. If there were a time to start earning a living trading it’s now. With school starting only 58 days away, I need to start trying to earn a living trading. My thoughts are to change my style to long term rather than day trading. I need to make $10,000 in 2 months. Weight Loss I’ve lost 5 pounds since last week. I stepped on my scale to proudly see me weighing 228 lbs. … Read entire article »

What a remarkable evening to see and hear two talented women perform in one evening. Angie Stone and Chaka Khan performed before thousands at the 28th annual Taste of Chicago. What made it even more remarkable is that the concert was free thanks to the City of Chicago. V103 radio personality Troi Tyler warms up the crowd at the 28th Annual Taste of Chicago. National radio personality Tom Joyner was the emcee who introduced Angie Stone to the stage. Tom Joyner at the 28th annual Taste of Chicago Radio host Tom Joyner remembering the “Good Ol’ Days” in Chicago. Tom Joyner claims his innocence with his ”hands up” at the 2008 Taste of Chicago. Angie Stone performs at the 28th Annual Taste of Chicago Angie Stone “feeling it’ at the 28th Annual Taste of Chicago. Angie Stone giving her love … Read entire article »

After my losses last night in the Forex market, I’ve decided I’m going to take a break from trading. Just enough time to lick and heal my wounds. Even though the Forex market is open 24 hours, I’ve come to the conclusion that day trading must be done during the day when the market has a lot of volitility. There are certain times that a good trend could yield 50-100 pips. Unfortunately for me, I’m working during those times or I’m sleep. Yes, during the night, right after 1:00 a.m. the EUR/USD seems to wake up from is sideways movement and create some excellent opportunities for scalping a few profitable trades. So far, I’m down about $1,000.00. That’s enough for me to understand that it’s time to rethink my money-making plans. I probably could make … Read entire article »

Over the weekend, I decided that I was going to focus on my diet and weight. Coming home from the Smooth Jazz Fest, I stopped in at my local bookstore to buy a weight loss/diet book. I chose Robert K. Cooper’s “Flip the Switch Lose the Weight.” I skipped past the first two chapters because of time and I really wanted to get to the “meat”. The third chapter talked about how to start your morning. Robert’s research found that people will start to lose weight when they exercise in the morning. It had something to do with boosting your metabolism.  I thought I would start Monday morning by taking the little knowledge I learned and using it. I woke up at 5:00 a.m. Got my body adjusted to the light. I … Read entire article »

I work for a large I.T. reseller for my day job. Part of my job is to find new accounts. Today I decided to call on a few network marketing companies for several reasons. The first reason is to generate some new accounts as well as make my dial quota for the day. The second is to evaluate and investigate an opportunity for me as I await my exit in August to pursue my education full-time. I thought calling on these companies would and how they dealt with me as a “salesman” would reflect their attitude towards a distributor/representative of their company if I became involved. Here are a few things I experienced while dialing for dollars. Poor Web Design I was amazed at some of the companies websites. There were a few websites … Read entire article »

I’ve learned some valuable lessons from the lastest book I’ve been reading. I think it might even get me to become a better trader. Trend Following by Michael W. Covel has been an inspiration and has given me new insight into my trading style. Since I’ve been trading the Forex, I’ve been swinging at everything. I’ve placed trades within the trends, at the support and resistance levels, broken my own rules of trading without stops, which explains my I’m down almost $1,000 to date. In his book, Micheal takes a examination of some great trend followers. The anlagy of trading to baseball really hit home for me. Does a batter swing at every ball that pitched to him? No. He waits patiently for the right pitch. Then he swings for the fence (home … Read entire article »

I love Free. Who doesn’t? When a company offers you to try their free product or service in order to gain your business, why wouldn’t you? I’m no exception. That is why I can proudly recommend VistaPrint. Last year VistaPrint offered me to try FREE 250 of their business cards (I had to pay for shipping). I took them up on their offer. I designed my cards right on their website. They had many templates to choose from. With all the other offers I had thrown at me once I got started, I wound up with over 2500 business cards for cheap. And I mean cheap like under $25.00. The quality of the paper stock was excellent too. I wasn’t embarrassed to hand out these cards. Actually, quite proud since I knew I saved a bundle on them. I … Read entire article »

My blog finally got approved for Pay Per Post. It’s been a long three months and many, many post along the way. However, I’m finally able to add another way to monetize my blog. So my first advertising opportunity that I’m going to write about is Pay Per Post which pays a whopping $20.00. How I found out about Pay Per Post was observing the more successful bloggers and I kept noticing the name Pay Per Post popping up in their documented blogger’s monthly income. Then one Saturday morning, reading a few of my favorate blogs, I learned of the web-based company responsible for Pay Per Post, IZEA. Pay Per Post is user friendly. When I log on, I have my blogger’s dashboard. This shows featured opportunites, opportunities that pays very handsomely in a … Read entire article »