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HYIPMailer.com - HYIP Newsletter #120 - 4/25/05 ----------------------------------------------- http://HYIPMailer.com Newsletter #120 NEWSLETTER INDEX - SECTIONS I - HYIP News/Notices Update II - Famous Business Strategies I - HYIP NEWS/NOTICES UPDATE * Pips, continues to have withdraw issues. Currently they claim to be almost 4 months backlogged, however they have also just warned that another bank has dropped them. This combined with numerous articles in local newspapers claiming PIPs is a scam, has brought a lot of negative attention to the program. I guess we all just have to wait and see what happens with one of the largest HYIPs ever. * IT4US has issued a statement saying they will be issuing their own smart cards in order to by-pass e-currencies. The smart card will be a debit card for its investors. * Trade invest, a program which started in Late November 2004, has finally stopepd paying out. This program offered 5% interest per day for 30 days. It's very likely it was just a ponzi that had a long reign. Looks like they are gone for good. * Well-Lab, a program that lasted about 2 months paying 1.2% per day has recently had its site go down. This combined with no update from the admin, makes us believe the program is gone for good. * Two Programs, Gold Solution and Gold Finance Group, both closed this week. It is beleived that they are both run by the same individual. They bth began in early March and paid between 12-22% per day. Looks like just two more ponzi's that ran out of new spends. * FX Capital has also been reported as not paying. They offered 3% daily and began in late March. there has been no word from the admins. * It looks as though 4Daily has also gone the way of scam. This program offered to double your money in about 2 months. Looks like they are gone for good. * Globes4U has increased it's payout percentage from 5% to 7.5%. * Other Programs that have recently closed are: MerFund, Aruba Investment, FX Trader Site, and Big Capital. ------------------------------------------------- II - FAMOUS BUSINESS STRATEGIES We thought that this was an interesting article discussing the business strategies of some of the wealthier people in the wrold. With PIPs and Bryan Marsden in the middle of some problems, We thought that this article could act as a guide to the differences between Bryan and these Famous wealthy individuals. Author Laura Ciocan Identifying the best strategy for your business is the key to all success. It should give you the lift that makes a difference. The art for your strategy success is planning. settling a vision for your business defining a mission setting out objectives establishing values, goals and programs. Vision It is all there, it is all important, but first there is the vision. So, is vision a spark, is it a moment? How much is inspiration and how much hard work? Is it 99% perspiration and only 1% inspiration? Can we all be geniuses? According to Edison's theory I would say yes, if we are committed to hard working, as it is primarily the hard work that makes a genius. Inspiration comes on the way, when involved in as much action as you can handle. Contrary to the conceptual meaning, inspiration seems to be driven by propitious conditions - in this case, by work. Hard work So, what really happens behind the fairy-tale success stories is usually not what some would expect - a brilliant, extraordinary, never heard of discovery that changed the world, but, disappointingly enough, plain hard work. What these people have is what I would call "industry intelligence". How is it acquired? Working of course. That is, sharply aware of their industry environment, learning all the rules and deeply involved in their own businesses, success people have at some point of activity a vision for their business that proves to be a winner - the revelation naturally produced as a result of their work commitment. Let's take the example of three American legends: Sam Walton, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. What do they have in common? The winning vision, the winning strategy. Sam Walton In the case of Sam Walton, no new, innovative business models were launched. He followed the existing low-price retailing pattern but the competitive successful strategic approach was that instead of focusing on large cities he took his business to small towns becoming the low-price leader in rural towns. Warren Buffet Warren Buffett's success resides in his different approach to value investing. While usually investors look for stocks they believe undervalued by the market, Buffett does not take into consideration the stock market aspects, such as for instance the supply and demand ratio. He analyzes the stocks on the basis of their potential as companies. He is interested in long-term results, such as ownership in companies with capacity of generating money, namely, companies with a strong name, great historical results, strong management and industry expertise. Bill Gates Neither is the case of Bill Gates to have made extraordinary innovations. Rather than innovation, he had the ability to put together other people's ideas, thus producing big hits and making a profit. He did that first when adjusting BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800 (first PC) - neither of which was his original creation. Then, the same happened with DOS, which Microsoft bought (the original version was QDOS) and adjusted. Business strategies implementation Then, action comes. As the saying goes, planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal. It takes guts to act boldly and take whatever risks are necessary to put your vision into practice. It takes a great deal of tenacity to surpass obstacles and get over unfortunate happenings on the way. So, how did they implement their planned strategies? What was the outcome, what principles resulted for them to base their businesses on? Warren Buffet For the implementation of his strategy, Buffett has drawn his company choice principles, involving a great deal of analysis of business, management, financial aspects and a great deal of patience, waiting for the right price once the possible investment has been identified. On businesses simple and understandable consistent operating history favorable long-term prospects On management rationality in treatment of retained earnings and investment of company profits disclosure of all aspects of company performances capacity of thinking independently of other managers' way of thinking. On financials look for return on equity, not earnings per share analysis of free cash flow growth unique niche companies with high profit margins look for companies with at least one dollar of market value for every dollar retained On stock valuation reasonable price for the company stock valuation analysis followed by analysis of a possible significant discount, case in which it will be purchased. Success depends on the investor's dedication to learn and follow the principles. Sam Walton He gives his ten rules for success in the book "Made in America, My Story": commitment to business profit sharing with partners partners' motivation, competition encouragement total communication with partners, trigerring their commitment giving appreciation to what your partners do for the business keeping spirits up in celebrating success but also in treating failures with a touch of humor listening to everyone in the company, encouraging their talking a sustained exceptional relationship with the customer - exceeding his expectations, showing appreciation, apologizing for mistakes finding a competitive advantage in controlling expenses originality, doing things differently there is a good chance to find unexplored niches. Bill Gates Microsoft's corporate mission "A computer on every desk and in every home" shortly became a reality. Offering an easily accessible operating system for computers, perceiving the importance of customizing their product to the ordinary client and not only to computer engineers and thus addressing masses, Bill Gates succeeded in putting together and promoting towards a tremendous popularity (and profit accordingly) the world's dominant operating system. What these people have in common is nevertheless an extraordinary ingenuity: they innovated their industry domain, building their own strategy tailored for their own business particularities and went further to its implementation. About The Author Laura Ciocan writes for http://www.businessplanning.ws where you can find more information about what is a business plan Please feel free to use this article in your Newsletter or on your website. If you use this article, please include the resource box and send a brief message to let me know where it appeared. Contact: lauracio@gmail.com. ------------------------------------------------- |
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HYIPMailer.com - HYIP Newsletter #123 - 5/16/05 ------------------------------------------------- http://HYIPMailer.com Newsletter #123 NEWSLETTER INDEX - SECTIONS I - HYIP News/Notices Update II - Signs of a Ponzi I - HYIP NEWS/NOTICES UPDATE * Talkgold.com was recently hacked. The site was down for almost 24 hours on saturday and sunday, and lost a couple days worth of posts. Things seem to be back to normal now. * Pips supposedly is paying Picpay Merchants on time now. Meaning that the best way to deal with Picpays near worthlessness is to buy products from these merchants. * A new rating site called "WeWillRock" has been massively spamming HYIP investors. They have also falsely stated that they teamed up with Talkgold. This statement is absolutely false! * Over the last day or so, a handful of long paying HYIPs seem to have gone offline. We think this is probably due to DDOS attacks, meaning they will most likely be back up shortly, if they haven't already came back. Some of the programs included in this bunch are, OneInvest, Syncinvest, lend2earn, and Galeo Investments. Stay tuned. * SNC Investments has stopped paying out. This program launched back in early March, and managed to pay 6% daily. Looks like they are done for good though. * Mega Corporation has been reported as paying some members and not others. It is reported that many rating sites are being paid by them, but many members are not. This seems to be an ever increasing startegy by scammers in order to gain confidence from the public. * Gold-Capital seems to have stopped paying out. Money is being credited to accounts, however the withdraw button does not work. This program has only been around for 10 days. Looks like a scam from the start, or a major scripting error. * GoodBestWork, a program that offer 112% daily for 2 days has never paid a sole. This was a scam from the very start. * Other programs that have been reported as not paying are: HPC Invest, ForPay, Delta Arrow, FM HYIP, and Titanium Gold. II - SIGNS OF A PONZI Over the last year or so we have learned some of the tell tale signs of a ponzi scheme. These are signs that usually point to a program being a ponzi or pyramid scheme: #1 - Tie-in of an original e-currency. This is when the program actually releases their own e-currency. They claim its because they can have better control over withdrawals and be a safer, securer payment processor. The real reason behind this tactic is usually to create their own money. If an ecurrency keeps all the funds in the system, only recirculating its own currency, then they don't ever have to worry about paying out cash. They can actually make their own money. This means an extention of the ponzi schemes lifespan. #2 - Blame all problems on others. If payouts are late, blame a hacker, if the site is down and causes payout delays, blame a DDOS attack, if governemnt agencies shut them down or cause problems for them, blame the people who reported them. If the program has a huge following, this tactic will usually work, as the members seem to have a cult like following, using denial of losing hundeds or thousands of dollars as a means to want to believe the admins words. #3 - Slower and slower withdraw delays. Excuse after excuse, on top of excuse. As more and more delays occur, less new spends come into the system, thus creating even longer delays. By this time the ponzi is doomed for failure, and the admin has resorted to making up more and more excuses for the long delays. If you see one of these three characteristics in a program, we recommend you stay away. ---------------------------------- |
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HYIPMailer.com - HYIP Newsletter #124 - 5/23/05 ------------------------------------------------- http://HYIPMailer.com Newsletter #124 NEWSLETTER INDEX - SECTIONS I - HYIP News/Notices Update II - HYIPs are not the only Internet scams around ------------------------------------------------- I - HYIP NEWS/NOTICES UPDATE * Talkgold has just launched their international HYIP Folders. They currently have folders for Chinese, Russion, and Polish languages. They are still looking for someone to moderate the Polish forum. * Major ddos attacks continue to plague the HYIP arena. Many well known, long paying programs have been affected. Prime-fund, Syncinvest, and many others have all been under or are still under attack. According to KatzGlobal, the attacks have hit 10 servers and over 1000 sites. * GoldClubs.org has been hacked. It seems as though the hacker is trying to steal the script and resell it. He has been threatening numerous other rating site admins, trying to bribe them for cash. * Pips and Picpay continue have major issues. Withdraws for members are still behind almost 5 months, and now Merchant withdraws are starting to back up. Bryan claims everything is on track for withdraws to speed up, however we will believe it when we see it. * 4x-Club has had a change in management. Charles Handon has handed over admin duties to Peter Furnell. They have also recently removed their forum from Talkgold. * Cash Investment, a program which offered 10% per month, has stopped paying out. They started in February and were recorded as paying for 2 months. Looks like they are gone for good. * Win4HYIP has also stopped paying out. This program started about 10 weeks ago and offer 5% per day. Through their lifespan they had several downtimes and problems. * SMI Invest has also stopped paying out members. It has been reported that over the last 2 weeks they started to only pay the monitoring sites. Looks like these scammers have run off. * Synergy Gold has stopped paying. Many members reported errors on their site saying that they were paid when in fact they were not. Looks like these may have been admin created errors. Anyway, they program now looks like its gone for good. * Brian of talkgold has also reopened the HYIP Scam Directory. He wil supposedly be gradually adding posts for each scam from the last year. Members are free to reply to the posts and add additional information: http://www.talkgold.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=96 * Other programs which have stopped paying out are: FXPartner, HYIP Profit, Clear Phase, Profit Offshore, Lend 2 Earn, and Smiles Gold. * If you are looking for DDOS protection for your site and can afford $50/month for hosting, please contact us at hyipmailer@gmail.com. ------------------------------------------------- II - HYIPS ARE NOT THE ONLY INTERNET SCAMS AROUND Author Nick Chaney There are a million scams lurking around on the internet. I sure hope you’ve never been the victim of one, but chances are you’ve probably noticed a least one scam. A lot of these scams can be luring and tempting and can easily be detected…if you know what you’re looking for. I’m very passionate about alarming people of various internet scams, in hopes that they will save their money! For this reason I would like to take the time and inform you of the scams I have almost fallen victim to. I was in the comfort of my own home, searching around on the internet for various wholesale information and companies. I received an email from a “wholesaler” that claimed to have a small yet successful electronic business. At a first glance this person seemed to be a legit supplier of very well priced electronics. He provided me with an eBay ID, web address, and a few comforting words. The first part of the puzzle that didn’t fit came when I searched for his ID on eBay. The ID showed up with a very large number of positive feedbacks, but none of those feedbacks were as a seller. That seemed somewhat suspicious to me, I contacted him and was told that they were looking for resellers of their products for that reason they didn’t sell on eBay. I thought to myself, well, I guess that is a decent explanation. I asked many questions, many of which were answered. The only questions that he “forgot”/avoided to answer were questions of personal information (phone #, address, etc...). I also was concerned because the seller was located overseas and there is not a lot of recourse in case a problem a rised. I let him know and he directed me to an escrow service. He reassured me that by using escrow neither parties would be able to scam one another. He directed me to http://www.global-parcel-service.org, at first glance this “company” looks to run a legit business. After I thought about it for awhile I realized how fishy a company with a UPS-like logo that I’ve never heard of. I typed in a few variations of global parcel service into the Google search engine and to my astonishment there were very few results. The only results I received were message board posts of http://www.global-parcel-service.org being a front for scams! The moral of this story is to do your research! ------------------------------------------------- |
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HYIPMailer.com - HYIP Newsletter #126 - 6/17/05 http://HYIPMailer.com Newsletter #126 NEWSLETTER INDEX - SECTIONS I - HYIP News/Notices Update II - The Importance of Background Verification III - Some Interesting Forum Discussions ------------------------------------------------- I - HYIP NEWS/NOTICES UPDATE * http://www.rankhyips.com has just launched. Its a new type of HYIP rating site, suppsodely cheat proof. Basically it is something like ministry of gold. however it uses the database from talkgold.com. It then weights peoples rates using a formula dervived from talkgold participation. * Pips has taken a turn for the worse. In the last week, Picpay has been locked to spending, Bryan has planned on taking the forum down, and the withdraw situtaion has not improved. Things are looking pretty bad. Unless withdraws can pick up very soon, it looks like pips is dead in the water. * The DDOS attacks are still continuing to hamper the HYIP arena. Now, not only are programs under attack but so are some HYIP forums and rating sites. There has been some good news in that a few of the major programs which were under attack are back up and running. * Trust Proposal, a program which had been paying out for almost 8 months has simply went offline without a warning. Things don't look very good for the future of this program. * Golden Reality has stopped paying out its members. This program lasted a good 4 months, but has simply stopped paying without any admin notice. * VIP Invest Has also stopped paying out. They offered a little over 1% return a day, but has went offline. There has been no update from the admins. * Other Programs which have stopped paying out are: Sinian LTD, Steady Stock Corp, Einvest, sbesthyip, impex Investment, and Viko-HYIP. ------------------------------------------------- II - THE IMPORTANCE OF BACKGROUND VERIFICATION Article Summary: Today's society has created an environment that requires business owners to be armed with numerous tools. Many employers currently spend little time verifying the accuracy of employment applications and the cost of not doing normal due diligence can be staggering. Consider: An HVAC company recently paid $750,000 to a customer who was raped by a service technician. His employment application indicated no criminal convictions and the employer did not perform a complete background check. An employee who had previously been convicted of passing bad checks forged signatures contracts. The court judged his employer negligent and awarded $175,000. After driving for a telephone company for only a week, an employee was involved in a traffic accident. The jury learned that the company never saw the employee's driver's record which had five tickets within 18 months. They awarded the injured party $550,000. Companies often don't adequately screen their new applicants. They should. Crooks and cons can cost your company a fortune. Even if it were as simple as making an informed choice between a great service technician and one with an untrue work history, wouldn't a small investment be worth it. In today's business environment of easy access to computer systems and the proprietary information stored on them, even a temporary employee can wreak havoc on a company in a very short amount of time. Corporate management has enormous pressure to hold employees to the highest ethical standards. Background checking cannot give employers everything they want but, there are data bases and sources for many other kinds of information; criminal data bases, sex-offender registries, workers compensation histories and of course critical screening for drivers licenses, employment history and educational history. Bad hires can be devastating for a firm. Even a low level employee might mange to embezzle a few thousand dollars or drive away customers or at the l east consistently not show up for work costing you your hard earned customers business. While it might be impossible to safeguard a company against every potential act of dishonesty, Hiring professionals can minimize the chances for unscrupulous behavior by understanding who it is they are really hiring. This means developing easy to institute background checking procedures that are utilized at all levels of the organization. About the author: Stephen Spain, the COO of MECHdata that operates VERICRUIT, an online background checking service, recommends every new hire be screened at a minimum for driver's history, social security card verification and a local criminal history check. It is important to know who you are really hiring and this verifies the applicant is basically who they say they are. In this era of heightened concern about terrorism, theft and the risks involved with negligent hiring your need to be very careful about who is being brought into your business. Doing the proper due diligence on an applicant is critical to making informed decisions and building your firms business reputation. About The Author Stephen Spain is the COO of MEPatWORK.com, an industry job board for HVAC, Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing trades. Spain collaborates with a team of experienced professionals to help job seekers and employers work together. sspain@mepatwork.com ------------------------------------------------- III - SOME INTERESTING FORUM DISCUSSIONS * How is HYIP Pronounced? http://talkgold.com/forum/r23602-.html * Real Investment Programs? http://talkgold.com/forum/r23541-.html * Recommended HYIPS? http://web-life.org/vb/t3089-.html ----------------------------------- |
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------------------------------------------------- http://HYIPMailer.com Newsletter #127 NEWSLETTER INDEX - SECTIONS I - HYIP News/Notices Update II - A Remedial Course in Investing ------------------------------------------------- I - HYIP NEWS/NOTICES UPDATE * http://www.rankhyips.com is out of its beta test. All features are now working properly with some additional features to come. For those of you that don't know, RankHYIPs is advertised as a cheat proof rating site that uses complicated formulas and cheat proof techniques to give an accurate precise rating. * Pips Has Taken down its forum. There is no public communication between members of pips besides at alternate forums like Talkgold.com and Web-Life.org. Bryan will be giving news updates when members log into their accounts. Right now things don't look all that good. By all means, DO NOT invest into this program for now. * Trust Proposal, a program that was well respected and had been paying out for 8 months straight has finally stopped paying out. The website is down and there has been no word from the admin. * DDOS attacks continue to affect the HYIP arena. They seem to have let up a bit, but HYIPDiscussion has been have issues for the last 10 days. Rainier has said that they are working on a solution and things should return to normal shortly. * E-Gold Traders Club has also stopped paying out its members. They offered 2.2% return a day, bit simply stopped paying out without a warning. Looks to be done for good. * Rich Dad, a program which offered 6% return daily has stpped paying out after 3 weeks. * Pro-profits has been under a major DDoS attack, but have finally returned and started to make payments again. * http://www.Web-Life.org/vb has welcomed in 2 new moderators who have are well respected and knowledgable in the HYIP arena. They have also added a few new Unique HYIP discussion Folders. * Other Programs which have stopped paying are: Stock Trader, Fantastical Profits, HYIP Experience, Wilsons Investment, FINHYIP, HYIPBless, Pro Traders, IT4Gold, Truman Investments, and United Pool ------------------------------------------------- II - A REMEDIAL COURSE IN INVESTING By Carol Clark (ARA) - Was it really just a year ago that we were all running around trying to prevent computers from coming to a grinding halt on the first of January, and speculating about civil unrest and traffic jams around the globe? Time flies, even if the ensuing year hasn't been much fun for investors. In hindsight, I'd say the real Year 2000 Bug was the gut-wrenching flu that struck the stock market, bringing a big dose of reality back into the picture. For those of us who have participated in the investment arena for more than just the past couple of years, 2000 will likely go down as "not unprecedented and long overdue." For the investors who have come to the party more recently, it was a brutal, eye-opening, and sobering experience. Buying every dip didn't work. Dot-com IPOs didn't work. This year was truly a coming-of-age experience for millions of "adolescent" investors. Those willing to stay the course benefited from a number of important lessons. In the style of that famous late-night talk-show host, here are the "Top 10 Things We Learned about Investing during the Year 2000." Lesson Number 10: Yes, Virginia, There is a Wealth Effect. I get frustrated when strategists point out that there's little correlation between what the stock market does and how optimistic consumers feel. Virtually everyone is involved in the market -- at least tangentially. And it's only natural to think twice about every purchase you make when the value of your investment portfolio is declining by double-digit amounts. Just ask the folks whose loans are tied to severely under-water stock options: Negative debt positions have a funny way of curbing spending. Lesson Number 9: Rapidly Rising Markets Make Questionable Stocks Look Like Good Investments. This is similar to the fact that floodwaters make a lot of things float that aren't actually boats. In a heady environment, the quest for the quick buck rapidly overtakes common sense, and companies with questionable business plans get funding (from venture capitalists) and attention (from analysts hoping for investment-banking business). Just because someone is willing to fund it or follow it doesn't make it a legitimate business plan or a viable long-term investment. Lesson Number 8: Dot-Coms as an Asset Class Crashed; Dot-Coms as Businesses Didn't. By some estimates, 95 percent of the pure Internet companies that went public in the past couple of years eventually will fail. Many already have done so -- with a lot less fanfare than when they were offered. Nonetheless, their very existence scared the daylights out of many "old-line" businesses, which quickly responded with their wherewithal, existing infrastructure, and newly energized management. These "new Old Economy" players are now wiser, stronger, and more nimble thanks to the brief threat from on-line competitors. I'm sure it's sweet justice for them to have the employees who jumped shop for greener pastures come running back -- even as the stocks of dot-com competitors fade faster than Fourth of July fireworks. Lesson Number 7: Investing isn't for Wimps. Gambling (read "day trading, IPO flipping, buying on hot tips, et cetera") is best done in casinos. Even though the economy, technology, and the world political scene all change, certain basic rules don't. To be a lasting entity, a company has to make a profit at some point. Another way to look at it is that in an economy growing at 3 percent or even 7 percent, most companies can't grow at 30 percent or more for an extended period of time. Investing requires thought, not hot tips. It requires thorough research, not direct-from-the-management PR. Lesson Number 6: Leverage and Volatility are a lot More Fun on the Upside. For five years prior to 2000, both the stock and bond markets basically went up, as the best of investment environments -- improving productivity, declining interest rates, stable political environment -- kept getting better. "Volatility" was great, because it really only went up. While a lot of folks suspected things were going too far in one direction, it was too exhilarating a ride to disembark. The flip side of volatility became painfully obvious as 2000 dragged on, however, and many high fliers plummeted from triple digits to double digits. . . and then on into single digits. Lesson Number 5: "Asset Allocation" isn't such a Nasty Phrase After All. Our reacquaintance with the dark side of volatility and leverage introduced many all-equity cowboys and cowgirls to the concept that owning a few bonds, some real estate, or (shock of all shocks) a higher cash position might not be such a bad idea after all. A little stability in one's portfolio might, in fact, allow a day or two of rest for the Tums bottle. Lesson Number 4: Even if Your Statement Shows a Gain, the Money isn't Yours to Keep. This was perhaps one of the toughest lessons to learn, as we all became mesmerized by our steadily rising brokerage account balances. Yet the reality of investing is that until you convert some of the asset to cash, the gain is not truly yours to keep. (And even the process of conversion means giving up some of your gain to the IRS and inflation.) The bottom line is that whether you convert assets or let them ride, the stock market doesn't "owe" you the 20 percent or 30 percent annual gains to which many of us became accustomed. The long-term average is still closer to 8 percent or 10 percent. Lesson Number 3: Time and Rest are the Best Cures for the Flu. As painful as it was, we hope last year will prove to have been a beneficial rest period in an overall upwardly biased market. It has been useful for wringing out some of the speculative excesses spawned by hedge funds, venture capitalists, day traders, newcomers, and leveraged participants. Last year forced all players to re-examine their strategies and focus on thorough analysis. In the meantime, the economy has been healthy. Corporate America has become even stronger and more competitive. And valuations have retreated to more comfortable levels -- all of which leaves stocks well-positioned for the coming years. Lesson Number 2: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Stay Put. Despite the frustrating nature of 2000, it still wasn't worthwhile to jump in and out of the market. Many studies (and even more war stories from market vets) will attest to the fact that no one can successfully pick tops and bottoms. If you want to fully participate when the market starts to move, you have to be in place already. If your analysis has been patient and thorough, you will be positioned in the companies that are likely to lift off first. Lesson Number 1: Fear and Greed Still Rule the Roost. Since the earliest days of American trading under the old buttonwood tree, these two emotions have ruled investors' actions. That's true despite the attempts of business-school professors to prove that some scientific system guide investors' choices. It's been a long time since we've seen widespread fear, but it's somewhat reassuring to know that the more things change, the more the basics of investing stay the same. Carol Clark is a principal with Lowry Hill, a comprehensive, private-wealth management firm with $6.9 billion in assets and offices in Minneapolis, Naples, Fla. and Scottsdale, Ariz. She can be reached at cclark@lowryhill.com. |
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------------------------------------------------- http://HYIPMailer.com Newsletter #129 NEWSLETTER INDEX - SECTIONS I - HYIP News/Notices Update II - The Tell Tale signs of a Solid HYIP III - Some Interesting Forum Discussions ------------------------------------------------- I - HYIP NEWS/NOTICES UPDATE * http://www.RankHYIPs.com has added quite a few new features in order to block as many cheaters as possible. This site is virtually the only Cheat Proof Rating site online. * Pips and Bryan Marsden continue to claim that things are moving along well. It is quite obvious that this is not the truth. Until withdraws are totally caught up, do not spend into this program. Another handfull of cease and desist orders have been issued from various other US states. * Global Financial Trust continues to have loading issues. The site has been down for 3 days now, and we have not heard anything from the admin. Hopefully it's a DDOS attack rather then a scam. They have been paying for over one year now, so we will give them the benefit of the doubt * Sonic Invest is still reporting DDOS attacks, as well as a subsequent database problem. * Golden Universe, a program which offered 5% return daily has stopped paying out. Looks like this is just another scam. * Jordan Trust Has stopped paying out as well. We have reports from their hosting company that they have failed to renew their hosting, meaning that it sure looks like this is a scam. * RockcoHYIP has had their hosting suspended. Looks like this program which launched only a week ago is already gone. * Other Programs which have stopped paying out are: E-Gold Profit, Alpha Gold, Golden Steps, SecureFX, and Stat Group. ------------------------------------------------- II - THE TELL TALE SIGNS OF A SOLID HYIP Over the last 30 months we have been able to study a vast amount of data from literally thousands of HYIP's. Some programs last 2 days, while others last 2 years. If investors could figure out which programs would last 2 years rather then 2 days, then there is a substantial amount of money to be made. Inspired by a post at Talkgold.com, we have put together a list of just a handful of characteristics which tend to be present in programs which last longer then 6 months. #1 The presence of a unique concept or idea: There are thousands of Programs which offer 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 % per day forever. These are a dime a dozen. However, its those admins which come up with a new concept, or have a good background story behind their programs (whether honest or not), which tend to run the longer lasting programs. Examples are: Studio Traffic, Pips, NovaLights, and It4us. #2 The presence of a unique script: In all our studies it is very evident that those programs which have a unque design and script, tend to last much longer then those programs which use the cheap $70 scripts which all look the same. The reasoning behind this is that The admins which use the unique scripts spend a ton of time developing them, thus meaning they will not pull a quick runner. They are most likely in it for the long haul. #3 Good Domain name and paid hosting: Programs which use free hosting accounts and free domains are usually the programs which will close within a couple weeks. Having said this, this is not as true as it used to be a year or so ago. #4 Heavy Advertising: Programs which advertise heavy and for long terms usually stick around quite a while. If we all could know how long each program has pre-purchased their ads for at various HYIP related sites, we'd all be rich In conclusion, programs which follow 3-4 of the characteristics above can be considered as good bets. Having said this, there are exceptions to the rule. ------------------------------------------------- III - SOME INTERESTING FORUM DISCUSSIONS * Average Lifespan of an HYIP? http://talkgold.com/forum/r25758-.html * Vote here for the best HYIP/Autosurf http://talkgold.com/forum/r26448-.html * Hackers, Hackers, Hackers http://www.web-life.org/vb/t4559-.html ------------------------------------------------- |