Finance Book

Wanting to earn money through foreign exchange doesn’t have to be expensive. You don’t have to spend over a hundred dollars on e-books and online newsletters from so-called experts who don’t even earn anything from the actual forex education they are teaching. What you can do though is browse through books, even at your local bookstore, for forex trading manuals that are written by people who have walked the walk rather than simply talking the talk. These books don’t even cost as much and you can learn so much more just by reading and applying the techniques.

Here are 6 books that all forex traders should carry along with them:

1. Market Wizards – Jack Schwager

This is a compilation of interviews about people who make a living through currency trading.

2. The New Market Wizards – Jack Schwager

A continuation of interviews derived from Schwager’s great interview techniques just like Market Wizards.

3. Trader Vic–Methods of a Wall Street Master – Victor Sperandeo

Known for his “2B” test technique, Sperandeo’s book is definitely one of my favorites.

4. The Zurich Axioms: Investment Secrets of the Swiss Bankers – Max Günter

This a definite hit in the foreign exchange library. It is easy to read and you’ll feel your adrenalin pumping at every page.

5. What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars – Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan
This is an inspiring story of a person who lost a million and a half and tells his tale, with great insights, including even his contemplating suicide.

6. Technical Analysis – by Jack Schwager

I found this a great reference book about everything that has to do about technical analysis.

By: Timothy Stevens

It’s not for the geeks.

Many online sellers aren’t bothered so much by copyright infringement as they are of losing money by theft of their online products. Most popular among these is the e-book. Guess we already know why those who are selling e-books are considered high risk merchants: the sole fact that the e-book they are selling can be easily downloaded for free (without being dubbed “freeware” or “shareware”) makes them vulnerable to frauds and chargebacks in the long run.

Now, some first time e-book sellers are not savvy when it comes to protecting their products online. Of course it would be extremely helpful (and imperative) to learn how to do it before launching the e-book for paid download. It would be worth taking a look at my past article “What Every High Risk Merchant Should Know About Intellectual Property Rights” to find out more about what you can and cannot do on a legal basis when it comes to online product theft.

IT’S IN THE PACKAGING, SILLY!

Normally, a high risk merchant would find a way to counter hackers from getting access to the download page. But this takes a certain degree of skill. E-book sellers can find relief from download piracy by simply packaging the product into the Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Amazon does it; all other online book sellers do it so only an image of the book page can be captured. The same goes for images. You would need to watermark it to prevent it from being stolen.

TREASURE YOUR SOURCE CODE

But a prepared online seller always knows how to attack a hacker even before he takes advantage of his download webpage’s source code. Paypal has a way of helping high risk merchants to do this using a little bit of programming in the order button code. However, this method is quite faulty and you may still end up with a hacked page and not a dime of deposit from your customer’s shopping cart. Encrypting pages that do not reveal source codes in the drop down menu is a good technique. Your best bet is to find providers who can sell you script to protect your source code so that hackers will not be able to bypass the payment page and download your e-book for zilch. The bottom line here is to never expose your source code for all the world to see.

DODGING SEARCH ENGINE SPIDERS

The homemade remedy is for you (or your programmer) to tinker with your webpage structure so that hackers will get confused. Make it difficult for anyone (even the search engines!) to access your download pages by using sub-directories (three levels down are best) or separate download pages. You will need to add redirect pages on your webpage while the sub-directories will make it harder for search engines to pick up the url and display it on the search results. As you replace water from your flower vase every week, so should you rename your download link every now and then.

Some high risk merchants would simply give customers access to the download page when they are able to make a deposit for the e-book they wish to download. I would say whatever technique that I have mentioned here works for you, suit yourself!

By: Gerri Bryce

There are many credit repair materials you can find useful when dealing with your credit problems. Materials come in form of CDs and DVDs and books. Books have become common and these are written by experts in credit reporting and repair issues. The books include e-books and cover a wide range of topics which include credit management, debt management, lenders and how to handle them and how to get access to your own credit report among others.

You don’t have to wait until you have credit repair problems to use the books but can read them anytime. This way you can get useful information about lenders and how they operate. You can then know what to do in case you find yourself in situations where you cannot repay your debts such as how to use debt consolidation agencies.

You will also find information on what to do when you need to repair your credit report. There is information on the letters you can write to a credit reporting agency to report errors and have them corrected. You will find out if there are people who can help you in the process.

If you do not know how to read and interpret your reports, the books will be helpful. You should also find out how to access your credit reports whether free or not. Other issues you need to know about concern identity thefts and you can also use the books to find out how they happen and how to solve them.

You should also get information on how to best handle your debts and safeguard your credit rating from the books. This will help you avoid similar problems in future. If you like reading from the screen, then you can get an electronic version of your favorite book and read at your own convenient time. Other books can also be bought online and delivered to you if you want. Important thing is to find a credit repair book that is easy to read and written with simple explanations to help you handle the issues on your own rather than finding someone else to do it.

By: Hector Milla