2011年3月9日 星期三

Adsense: How to earn money without having a website

You do not need to construct, build, or manage a website in order to make extra money online. But you do need a ‘place holder’ so-to-speak for your Adsense code in order to make money with Adsense.
There are many sites that allow you to use Adsense part of your ‘membership’ to forums.   If you do a lot of forum posting, find out if they allow Adsense in your posts – go to your profile and see if there is a section to paste your Adsense code in order to make money while you blog at a particular site. If the forum is setup for Adsense, it makes sense to make sure you have a Google Adsense account in order to monetize your blogging where they allow it.
There are also article websites that require you to have an Adsense account in order to share in the profits. One such website is ScribeSeeker.com. As a writer, you are required to use your own Adsense code in order to share in the Adsharing for your published article. Currently, authors at Scribeseeker will get 100% of their Adsense through June 30th 2010. After that, it is unknown, but Scribeseeker shares their Adsense revenue incredibly well.
Hubpages.com is another article submission website that allows Adsense codes with your articles. Hubpages also uses a revenue sharing model where every time someone visits your article, either your adsense code or hubpages code loads. If the visitor clicks on your code, you will earn the revenue from that click.
Other writer submission websites like Squidoo.com and Helium.com do not allow your own Google Adsense code but you will share in the revenue share, or adsharing, when someone visits your article and clicks on the article. Again, you do not have to manage or maintain a website to earn money through these article submission platforms. You do need to write original articles of quality and drive traffic to your article through organic searches or other marketing tactics.
Having a website in order to make extra money online may be more trouble than its worth.  You will need SEO and quality content in order to build a huge following.

With Adsense prepared forums and online article submission websites, more traffic is already passing through due to all the other users submissions. This will help put your article in front of those searching for that specific content.
From SribeSeeker.com and Hubpages.com, where your own Adsense codes generate extra money, to Squiddo.com and Helium.com where you share in their own Adsense program, is a great way to earn extra money online without having to deal with the daily maintenance of your own website.

2011年3月7日 星期一

Creating True Wealth as a Forex Trader

Forex, or Foreign Exchange, trading can be a very rewarding. In fact, it can be one of todays best wealth generating opportunities. Regular people like you and me are consistently making $500, $600 and more per day from the comfort of their home trading forex. Many do not know this, but the forex market is by far the largest market in the world. It is estimated that around $1.5 TRILLION is traded every single day. By far more then all the stock, bond and futures markets of all the world combined!

But what does a forex trader do? Simple, buy a currency at a low value and sell it at a higher value, and in the process profit from it! For example, buy Great British Pounds with US Dollars, wait for the Pound rate to go up and make money! This can be done several times a day if the forex trader is a day trader or several time a week or month if the trader is a forex swing trader.

Lets look at the exclusive benefits forex trading offers:

1. The forex trader can start trading with as low as $300. Yes, today most on-line brokers will allow you to open an account with such a low sum making forex trading accessible for virtually everyone.

2. The forex trader does not have to own the money he or she is using to trade currencies. Through a concept called leverage, the traders broker will allow him or her to buy up to 400 times the value of the traders account. For example, if the trader has US $100 in his brokerage account he can buy/trade $4,000! If he has $1,000 he can buy/trade $40,000. That is how traders actually make $500, $600, or $700 per day trading forex, using the brokers money!

3. Many currency pairs are very volatile. Volatility means that they move a lot during the day, from side to side. This allows the forex trader to capture several price swings that this volatility causes. In fact, there are currency pairs that offer up to six daily swing opportunities, each one potentially allowing the trader to capture impressive profits.

4. With the right system the forex trader can trade with just following simple rules. If A happens and B happens then do C. This is called mechanical trading. It requires absolutely no discretion, interpretation or thinking from the trader.

5. The forex market is a 24 hour market. Never stops. This means that as a forex trader you can chose exactly when to trade. Some people have day jobs and do not have the necessary time to trade during the day so they can trade at night. People who make their living as forex traders can chose to trade any time of the day or night. The point being, a 24 hour market allows the trader a lot of flexibility.

6. An incredible benefit of the forex industry is that today all forex brokers allow traders to open free demo accounts. This means that the trader can test his strategies without risking a single dollar! In fact, I always test my trading strategies before going live. I make sure they work before risking real money. I know of no other business opportunity that allows you to see if it works before you spend money!

7. Making a living as a forex trader allows you to be truly free! No office, no workers, no inventory, no marketing worries, no advertising, no selling. For me this is one of the greatest advantages of being a forex trader. No headaches!

Conclusion

The forex market provides a lot of opportunities that many markets and industries do not provide. Many people hear the term forex and get a bit scared, they are afraid of the unknown. Do not be, forex trading is something that people have been using to generate wealth for many years. The reason many people have not heard of this opportunity until recently is that until not long ago trading currencies was reserved to the big dogs (banks, institutions, companies etc). Today with the help of the internet anyone can take advantage of on-line currency trading that was once reserved to an exclusive group.

I wish you all the best.

2011年3月6日 星期日

油價大暴走,漲勢恐難停

由於利比亞內戰危機升高,市場擔心全球供油出現缺口,國際油價上周五再創波段新高,紐約指標原油期貨大漲2.5%至每桶逾104美元,不僅單周大漲7%,過去2周累計更已暴衝20%。市場專家皆認為油價漲勢短線恐怕停不了,全球新一波原油震撼即將引爆,英國國際發展部長警告,最壞的情況油價可能飆到250美元。
北非產油大國利比亞上周五內戰危機升高,引發市場憂心該國石油生產可能全面停擺,加上美國公布強勁的就業市場報告,指向能源需求可望增溫,激勵油價跳漲。
紐約4月原油期貨上周五收盤大漲2.51美元或2.5%,每桶報104.42美元,改寫2008年9月26日以來收盤新高,盤後交易更進一步揚升至105.17美元,顯示本周盤勢持續看漲;倫敦布蘭特原油期貨上漲1%,至115.97美元。
油價短線大暴走,紐約油價繼前一周狂飆13.5%後,上周再追加近7%的漲幅,2周內飆升足足20%,周線已連6漲的倫敦布蘭特原油,過去2周也有近13%的驚人漲幅。
利比亞內部動亂發展近來深受投資人的關注,市場甚至憂心政局動盪可能蔓延至北非與中東等重要能源出口國。
市場專家一面倒認為油價短線還會走高,有「新興市場教父」之稱的墨比爾斯表示:「我不會預測一個具體的價位,但油價趨勢絕對是向上。」
倫敦金融時報報導,若動亂蔓延至阿曼、葉門、巴林、阿爾及利亞或奈及利亞(全球第8大石油出口國,4月將舉行大選),油價將再出現新一波飆漲,分析師的油價高點預測區間落在150至220美元。
紐約法國興業銀行石油研究部主管魏特納(Michael Wittner)表示,沙烏地阿拉伯石油生產也受到影響則是最壞的情況,那時候價格會飆到多高沒人知道。
曾為石油交易員的英國國際發展部長鄧肯向英國泰晤士報指出,利比亞或其他中東地區的油輪或石油設施若遭到恐怖份子攻擊,油價最高可能飆到250美元。

ECFA推波,日工具機廠瘋台灣

ECFA正式上路,日本發那科、瀧澤、倉敷機械及大隈等工具機及零組件大廠,瞄準兩岸工具機市場龐大商機,相繼來台設廠或加碼投資而擴大生產。
全球最大數位控制系統及機器人製造廠─日本發那科傳出有意斥資10億元以上,來台設廠生產控制器,供應台灣工具機廠。
日本瀧澤株式會社來台設立的台灣瀧澤科技,原本在台投資興建台灣二廠計畫,但在2008年第四季爆發金融海嘯後暫緩,但去年中全球工具機產業景氣明顯好轉,工具機又列入ECFA早收清單,去年中重新啟動斥資1億元,擴建台灣二廠計畫。台灣瀧澤科技總經理林圳章表示,台灣新廠預計今年7、8月正式量產,產能為舊廠的50%。
日本倉敷機械也因兩岸簽署ECFA後,台灣產製工具機銷往大陸可享受降稅及免稅的優惠,去年11月間來台投資,在中科園區成立台灣倉敷機械,準備在台灣生產切割中心機。大同集團與日本大隈合組大同大隈也擴大台灣工具機廠生產規模。普羅仕實業也擴大在台投資螺桿等關鍵零組件。
業界盛傳韓國某大工具機大廠也看上兩岸簽署ECFA,台灣產製工具機銷往中國大陸享受降稅或免稅的優惠,決定來台投資設廠卡位布局,甚至不排除購併台灣工具機廠可能性。
業者表示,中國大陸視工具機產業為策略性發展產業,但對台灣生產高階工具機,其中,控制器6、7成都向日本發那科採購,(粗估每年3萬套,1百億元以上),其餘3、4成是向日本三菱及西門子採購;為此兩岸ECFA協議,特別規定2014年起高階工具機得改為兩岸產製的控制器才能享受零關稅優惠,否則就得剔除的落日條款。
業者透露,日本發那科在李登輝擔任總統時曾來台投資設廠,但政權輪替後,發那科在台工廠改為發貨倉庫,直到兩岸簽署ECFA後,東台及台中精機等多家國內工具機大廠都曾向日本發那科高層表應,希望日方重返設廠生產以及技術移轉,最近傳出日方有了善意回應。
日本發那科榮譽會長稻葉清右衛門與海基會董事長江丙坤相識多年,稻葉清右衛門日前應邀來台參加台北國際工具機展,曾由台灣區機器公會理事長徐秀滄等人作陪,與江丙坤及經濟部官員有場閉門餐敘,會中稻葉清右衛門允諾發那科將重返台灣設廠生產控制器。