Fire Your Boss........A Far Fetched Dream?

                  I find it hard to imagine that at least 75% of the population who have a boss don't at least every once in a while think "Wow I'd love to fire my boss and do my own thing from home or anywhere I go".
I myself thought that very thing often before I started working for myself 5 years ago. Since then I've been able to work from home or anywhere for that matter and do it well. Think about it, in the technological world we live in, we can  go just about anywhere and get some type of internet or mobile network connection. With that technology the possibilities are endless with the right "Be Your Own Boss System".

                 I have worked while walking down Las Vegas Strip, in a casino, by the pool, and even while touring on my motorcycle through the Black Hills in South Dakota as well as The Great Smokey Mountains.
The beach is also a great place to work at and the technology is there to enable me to do that using my smartphone or tablet and the best part is I can work at whatever pace I choose.

                 Now before you get your panties all in a wad and tell me how many "Work at Home" "Opportunities" or "Invitations" you have been through, let me tell you I have seen my fair share of Multi Level Marketing deals that require purchases or memberships or inventory orders to move you up the ladder. This is NOT in any way shape or form one of those deals. In fact I have found 2 that I use that have required a total of ZERO dollars from my pocket to get started and 1 that costs a onetime nominal fee. This is not to say that you cant speed up the process with the purchase of tools offered at a very low fee compared to other systems.

                 Everyone who has gotten this far in this blog post must at least have their interest peaked a little or I think you would have clicked onto some other blog or website and left this opportunity behind. Below Im going to post links to 3 different programs I use to make money and work from wherever I choose :

1.) www.moneyfromthebeach.info

2.) http://instantmoneynetwork.com/moneyfromthebeach

3.) www.moneyfromthebeach.com


             There ya go, now click on those links and see whats possible. Fire Your Boss!!
I hope to see you walking the Vegas Strip, smiling and being YOUR own boss.

New Directions and Fresh Ideas

Hey all been a few days since I last posted anything so I decided to let you know what I have been up to. As most of you already know, I started a due diligence and marketing company focused on dealing with publicly traded companies. One of our strongest assets has been our expertise in social media marketing using   Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and of course blogs. That being said, I wanted to take my business to a whole new level and stop limiting my business to just public awareness campaigns.

Social media has exploded as an avenue for businesses to promote their services and products and gain new customers. Think about it, don't most of us have smart phones and tablets and other portable devices to keep us informed of whats going on? This really opens up so many avenues for my business and I believe my company can help any company gain exposure.

Currently we are marketing ourselves as a social media marketing company to all businesses large and small in hopes of building as many small businesses customers as we have  medium and large. I still believe in my heart and soul that small business drives our economy and growth. I've been in small business all of my adult life and there is still a special place in my heart for that. I love helping small businesses grow and exceed their goal. It makes me feel like I'm strengthening the backbone of our nations economy.

Remember, If one is not constantly learning then they are not growing. I have to constantly reinvent myself in business to stay fresh and aware of changes in technology, supply and demand, and  my customers needs and desires for products that can help them attain their goals. So challenge yourself and learn something new about your business today!! The rewards are immense and very satisfying.

Until the next time...... Be good to yourself and make someone feel special today!!

Trader advice.... Friend or Foe

So as I watched the conversations between traders in a popular stock forum today, I thought to myself  "Is this poor new guy actually taking this guys advice?"
What you need to understand is all of those people are there to make money in one way or another. What I generally do when offered "advice" or "insight" on trading or information about a stock is take that info and go dig deeper for myself and research whatever nugget has been given to me. I'm not saying everyone on these forums is out to get you but what I am saying is MOST are really in it for their own interests.
Lets say for instance that Joe trader has shorted a stock and he needs to cover but the stock is resisting and is going up therefore costing him money. He may go into that stocks trading board and start giving "insight" that may cause traders to run scared and sell or cause a panic making the price per share plummet. If you are the inexperienced new guy you may buy his line and sell your stock at a considerable loss thinking you have made a bad play when actually all you have done is buy this guys crap.

I say double check everything people say on those boards as alot of people dont ever bet on a stock going up, they bet on it going down. The bashers out there are usually self proclaimed authorities that really are just trying to trash the stock so they can cover their short.

Do your OWN research as you are the only one responsible for YOUR OWN money .

Dig Deep for the best Due Diligence

I say it over and over again and I cant stress it enough ...... Do the Due Diligence and reap the rewards.
I believe that a prepared investor is an informed one. Gone are the days of relying solely on the buy, sell, and hold recommendations. Now a days you have to dig even deeper than ever before. Promotional ads designed to get your attention are more glamorous and dream laced in order to suck you in. While they can be useful in helping you find investment opportunities, often they become traps built on hype and speculation rather than good information that can help guide you in your investment decisions.

With so many resources available to us via the internet, all it takes is a little time and a little digging for us to build an investment profile for any publicly traded company on our own.

One helpful tool I have found is http://insidercow.com/. If you put the ticker in the search box you can
see all of the insider trade information. I use this information to help decipher if the company is investing in itself or just liquidating and diluting itself to get cash. I look at it this way.... If they are willing to invest in themselves as a company then maybe they are worthy of my money.

In addition to insider deals I also look at the financials of the company to see what kind of revenues they have and if they even have any products at all. Remember, just because its a symbol traded on the markets doesn't mean its a company at all.

Search http://newsletter.hotstocked.com/stocks to see if the particular company has been recently promoted as this can explain any fluctuations in volume and price.

These are are just a couple of the tools I use to dig deeper than the surface into a company. Ill touch on more in later posts.

Have an awesome day and remember..... Ride Hard or Stay Home

Investor boards posts and posting

Good Morning all, It looks like the market is taking a beating today so I thought I would dedicate this post to one of our due diligence tools which is posting and posts on the various investor boards.

Somethings I want to explain to you about posts and posting are some of the various motives behind posting on the investor boards. Obviously one of the main reasons we post is to bring awareness to a particular stock. That is pretty much a given. I believe a good post creates awareness and includes information that can help you make your decision on whether to buy or sell the particular stock. For instance if I include a recent chart of a particular ticker in a post and also point out to you the highlights of that chart then that in my opinion is a good post that you can use in doing further due diligence on that ticker. My motive behind that post would be to give you some information that I myself would use in making a decision if I were going to trade that stock. A poster whos motive is to just pump a stock and create hype would of course think you are stupid and post something like "This stock is ready to move imo(in my opinion) 52 thousand times and clog up the board with this nonsense.

Predator promoters who just want to pump and dump a stock on a particular day will flood the posting boards with hundreds and hundreds of nonsensical posts just trying to get numbers for a day in order to make themselves look good.  I am and have always been of the belief that quality always trumps quantity.
I do not ever post the same hype ridden post over and over again just trying to get my post numbers up. I believe you are intelligent and will recognize an intelligent informative post and do not need to be hounded with posts in order to make your decision on whether to invest or not.

Another motive behind posting is posters generally get hired to do just that. Post and post and more posting in order to just plain and simple get paid. On average posters get paid $1 per post with a minimum of 50 to 100 posts per day per promotion. I am not knocking getting paid to post as I get hired all of the time to post. What I am knocking is the blatant disregard for your intelligence when posts are being posted. For this reason my posts are always laced with content you can use and is designed to make you a more informed investor.  So read all of those posts and find the posters who think along these lines and use that info to better make your decisions while doing as always your OWN due diligence in your investment decisions.   Until tomorrow..... Ride Hard or Stay Home

Beware Of Relying on Stock Technicals Alone

Good morning all,

Today I wanted to write a little about the dangers of relying on the technical aspects of stocks alone. 

While technical analysis is a wonderful tool in determining the strength of a stock, it is not the end all to cure all in finding stocks to invest in. 

Technical evaluations can have many hidden traps that pump and dump promoters place in there in an attempt to "dress" up whichever stock they are going to promote. Looking at price increases or decreases very rarely very accurate. Just because a stock finished the day at plus or minus a certain percentage doesnt mean it actually moved very well at all. To be clearer I have to actually look at the individual trades themselves and see the amounts that were bought or sold. Have you ever seen a big jump in a  penny or sub penny stock and then looked and saw that it was a 50 share buy? That all to often is a promoters attempt to lure you into a stock on price alone. They manipulate the price with little buys thinking you wont notice that it was a crapola buy because they totally think you are stupid. A 100% gain on a stock is not really a gain if it only had 1,000 shares in volume.  I say dig DEEPER. 

Pay attention to the time and sales as promoters will manipulate the stock at 4 common times. The first is at the close the day before a promotion begins. They will often try to manipulate the stock down so as to get what they dress up and call a "bounce" first thing in the morning. The second is first thing in the morning in order to try to get the stock to move so they can proclaim its gaining momentum therefore luring you into their trap while at the same time making themselves look good. Third is once the stock stalls and we should all know by now that stocks stall. They will put in little buys in order to try to attract attention to the stock  through percentage gains again creating another trap. The Fourth and in my book the most pathetic is the end of the day manipulation to save face because the promotion bombed. They will try to get an end of day percentage gain so that they can tout their followers with a look at what our "call" did today, It gained blah blah blah percentage. 

Technicals can totally help you avoid these situations if you dig deeper underneath the dressed up surface, and also check to see if a particular stock has been promoted recently and what the outcome of that promotion was.  

Until tomorrow, 

Ride Hard or Stay Home 

Investing in Bio Stocks

Investing in Bio stocks can be tricky at best. Never is it more important to do your due diligence than when looking into investing in a Bio stock. These stocks move very rapidly when they move and have extreme increases and decreases depending on the results of drug trial phases.


This is my opinion.... Bio stocks are risky and it takes a lot of guts to play them. 


If you dont have the stomach for them and dont yet have the ability to trade emotion free and be patient, then my suggestion is to stay away from Bio stocks. 


My approach to Bios is pretty simple as far as my entry is concerned. I of course look at the chart and get an idea of where the bottom is then I set my bid price. 
Ultimately I like to start playing the stocks in Phase 2 or later and 3 to 4 weeks ahead of completion of that trial. Having my postion maintained well ahead of the news of the results in the phase allows me to get out quicker once the stock begins to move. 


As far as a target gain percentage goes it just depends on how the stock moves. 
I watch the RSI continuously to determine the buying or selling pressure on the stock. Once I get a feel on the technicals of the stock then I determine my selling price based on that.


This is where it is so important to not trade on emotions as we can easily get caught up in wanting more once the stock gains momentum. Dont get GREEDY. That is a very important rule to insure not getting caught losing gains once the stock runs out of steam. These stocks move just as quickly on the way down as they do when they are screaming upward. 


 So in conclusion....... Do your DUE DILIGENCE and never take your eye off of the ball EVER

Educate yourself and become a better investor

I wanted to revisit some of the basic things I've written on in past postings and remind you of some of the important things we should never forget when investing. First and foremost and I cant say it enough, be really comfortable with losing all of your investment, as investing is a risk. I believe if we set our stop loss limits and stick to preset gain percentages in our minds though, the likely hood of losing everything on one play gets taken out right off the bat. Remember, I'd rather you give me a 30% gain on my investment 3 days a week rather than waiting for that all elusive triple digit gainer.

 The second point I want to make is unlike other promoters and Investment relations and marketing companies I do not think you are stupid. I think that lacking education is not stupidity it is just having less info which by the way is the purpose of my blog. What I want to achieve here is 2 things: First I want to educate you and Second I want to be able to help you see through all of the crap that's put out there in the investment world for what it really is just plain crapola.

If I put a ticker on my blog it is only and i mean ONLY because I have thoroughly done the due diligence on the company and have presented it to you in a way not to convince you to buy the stock, but to show you the investment opportunity available if you like what you see. I will also put in the possible set backs I see in the company as it is very easy to shine up a turd and leave out pertinent information in an effort to make the company look good. Only fully reporting SEC compliant companies will make my list. NO DOGS ALLOWED.

My new site http://stockpycks-com.blogspot.com/ is designed to help help companies that cant afford big awareness campaigns get the word out in an affordable manner, and my other site http://www.stockpycks.com is designed for you the investor to get information about the companies, learn about practices and protocols and most importantly as YOUR DUE DILIGENCE tool.

Now, many people have asked me why I will not charge for member access to that site and the answer is pretty simple. I am the same as you with just a little more information. I want you to have as much information as you can get without having to pay for it. Soon I will have free level 2 on it as well as a tweet tracker of all of the most tweeted stocks. And.... I wont fill it up with tons of ads. Sure I may need a few to cover maintenance stuff but I want it to be something that would attract me: an information rich site that I can use to research companies and connect with other like minded people interested learning and continuing to learn more about the world of investing.

Thats it for now, Ill have more tomorrow as I know Ive neglected this poor blog but have a renewed dedication to it and more importantly YOU

A New Opportunity

Several Years ago while running my family's business that I ran for 20 years, I decide to explore extra income opportunities through various home based businesses. One wanted me to invest in thousands of dollars of inventory and attend conference calls and big pep conventions as well as buy leads and call people trying to "invite" them to try the "opportunity ". The people who make money in these types of "opportunities" is the people way way up in the food chain. I then tried various affiliate programs to find myself working more on moving the links around on my blogs than collecting any money. I recently was referred  to a home based opportunity that actually requires no up front money or inventories or ridiculous sis boom bah conventions. Of all of the so called opportunities I looked at this is by far the easiest and best set up system of all. I am finding it to be quite the opportunity especially since they didnt ask me for money to get started.  Im attaching the link at the bottom if you want to check it out.


http://one.zipnadazilch.com/index.php?referral=417761

Missing in action

Hey all. I know I have been missing in action for the last week and a half, Ive been busy setting up a new stock promotion team that consists of people like me who hate pump and dumps and gap and traps and promoters who could care less about you but instead care about their own bottom line.

Im talking about finding good quality companies with revenues and visions of long term growth. Companies that are NOT looking to dilute their stock and actually take an interest in their investors as well as their own growth. Fully reporting SEC compliant companies with full transparency. Products and Services that are real and a solid business plan. Sound too good to be true?  I think NOT.

All it takes is a little due diligence. What Im talking about its ME doing the due diligence before I decide to let the company hire me. If I know going into a promotion what the company is all about then I can do my job for YOU and I can properly present that company to you. A good stock promoter puts a little buzz out a week or two before the promo and then on the day of the big campaign goes heavier getting the word out and then once its over gives 2 or 3 weeks more support to help keep the awareness and the price up.

I will keep you posted as I progress so you can watch the stocks we promote and see that while yes all stocks have bad days, ours dont just tank.

CEOS in publicly traded companies

Hey its been a few days since I posted, I really got into setting up marketing material for a really good company we are representing and just didnt have time. I do hope you missed me though.

I wanted to take a few key strokes to talk about a simple part of the due diligence process, the CEO.
Does he or she stand in front of the company for God and everyone else to see or do you really have to dig to find him and what he has been up to. Is he committed to just one company? Where has he been and what is his experience in the field that his company does business in are questions I ask first. As I have been telling you the last few months, most penny stocks are scams, empty shells with no products or revenues and bigtime traps for you . If you find a penny stock that the CEO stands out in the open in front of, my gut tells me it is pretty much legit and I should research further and then consider investing in that company. Those CEO'S are few and far between so when you find one its like a golden egg. The only way you find these CEO'S is by doing your due diligence.

Dress me up and call me Sally

As Ive sat here all week watching  certain unsuccessful stock promoters pump stocks endlessly and run the price up with their own 100 share buys, I thought about the poor investors who are just looking to have continual sustained long term growth in their portfolio and the actual companies who are having their stocks trashed by these promoters. You see most stock promotions are not run by the actual company but by third parties who have large positions in that stock looking to do one thing....... SELL

A vast majority of scams in the stock world are penny stocks. Alot of those stocks are just shell companies with no employees or products and absolutely no revenues at all. Promoters will dress up the presentation of those companies and try to lure you in on the promise of steady future growth when 

actually after the days promotion the promoter will be long gone and you will be stuck in a stock worth 

far less than you paid for it. 

I think the best example I can give is from my own mistake I once made when I was young in my trading life. A promotional newsletter came out on a particular penny stock. I had a hot $1000 dollars burning a hole in my trading pocket and I wanted to trade it. So as I was getting pretty good at reading stockcharts I looked at the chart on the stock. Little did I know that the promoters had been "painting" the chart to make it look pretty for me as it called my name out. 

On the day of the big promotion I woke excited as heck and already counting my extra thousands I was going to make as I had a hot tip newsletter that promised me fresh new news that was gonna make this sucker run. You see I made 3 very grave errors in my decision to trade this stock. First I believed the surface glitz they placed on the stock and didnt dig more on my own. Second I didnt have a position in it before the big "news" came out. Thirdly and probably most important is I was trading on emotion.

The stock traded hot and heavy for a hot 15 minutes and I had a hard time getting in because it gapped up . Once I finally got in, the stock fizzled and the downward spiral began. My 1000 dollars turned into 

34 dollars as I was trapped in hoping for the readjustment bounce that never came. Eventually I was in so deep I just had to stay and refused to get out. 

I have now filed that loss in the part of my education in stock trading file. Dont fall prey to the glam and glitz that got me. Do the work and reap the benefits of your hard work. Use the promoters alerts and newsletters only as a tool and not as your only decision maker in determining your investments. 

My blog is my opinion and personal experiences only. Never EVER invest money you cant entirely afford to lose. As Always do your own due diligence

Is that stock really moving or its it just a setup?

I want to address something that sometimes newer or inexperienced traders miss. Just because a stock price is fluctuating doesnt mean it is moving. It is very important that you pay attention to the amount of stock being bought or sold. A purchase of 50 shares moves the price just the same as a purchase of 5000 shares.
When a stock moves up or down on very small purchases or sells, it is mostly likely a person or promotion trying to "paint" the chart to fill in gaps and make it look solid.

Most of your trading platforms have detailed quotes that will include buy and sell amounts even if they are 15 or 20 minute delays. You can also pay attention to the bid and ask share amounts in your trading platforms to see whats on deck.

Remember the predator promoters think we are stupid and wont notice a buy or sell of a stock at a meager 5 or 10 dollars and we will look at only the price change. As always dig deeper and dont give in to the hype they will create.