Spread Betting and Chartism

Have you seen the adverts where you can make £10,000 a week (through financial spread betting) with only an hour’s work and give up your day job. Trading strategies that can guarantee you £400 a day. Yes, yes we have all seen them. Do they work? No, these are get rich quick schemes that all of us dream off yet but rarely work. These elaborate courses teach you trading strategies that don’t need complex analysis. Just look at charts and once reach a certain level all you do is buy and sell. Easy as tying your shoe lace and no brains required. Even Bush could do it! …continue adventure

Guerrilla Forces and Private Investors have a lot more in common than you think!

Being a Guerrilla in warfare means you have to use all the resources you can, including using the enemies’ own arsenal against them. In the war between the Americans and the Vietnamese Guerrillas, the Americans had greater numbers and more weapons. They should have been able to annihilate their enemy, but they couldn’t. Why? The Guerrilla forces took every shell left unused from each battle and sat in the trees, completely camouflaged, waiting for an enemy troop to walk past. They would then ambush them using their enemies’ own ammunition!

Guerrilla forces are also expected to live off the land and a tiny amount of food. By the end of the war the majority of equipment used by the Guerrilla forces was American, stolen, captured or purchased from the opposition. One of the Guerrillas’ key strengths was that they where determined not to give up and used their greater flexibility to move faster than their much more numerous opposition.

What can we learn from the Vietnamese Guerrillas? That the same tactics can be used in investment. …continue adventure