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 that were so primative in regards to web design that I thought it was 1994 all over again. No graphics, one color or two colors, and presentation done in cells?

• No Phone Number Listed

It frightens me of the number of companies that don’t list their phone numbers on their website but will gladly guide you to sign up to become a distributor or offer you a place to give your credit card information.

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 run). Well, that made a lot of sense to me. Why am I up all night losing sleep over my trades? I’ve set a new set of rules and that is to wait for the right pitch. I’ve set buys on each side of the trend way outside the trends almost 20 points and stops about 50 points above the buys.