It seems like Matt Shaw’s Fixed Odds Trader service is very popular amongst business opportunity seekers as I’ve just received another review through the support desk.

The comments were:

“Just want to tell you about my experience with Matt Shaw.

Yes, just like your other reviews about fixed odds trading with betonmarkets, All the trades you place are “odds-on” bets, which means your losses are a lot more than your wins.

You need to be winning at a ratio of 4 or 5 to 1 to only break even or achieve small profits.

I have been with Matt Shaw since June 2006 and to date I am into a loss situation with 18 wins and 14 lost in the 32 trades we have placed…Not very good eh?

So, no way can he be making the 3 or 5 thousand pounds per month he boasted about before I signed up.

Not very funny really, it has cost me almost £1000 to date but I am still on his list for e-mail trader alerts. Not got much faith in his so-called expert knowledge though”

Thanks for your comments, I’m sure that visitors to this blog will find them very useful!

If you are an active trader or investor then it is very likely that you have asked at one point or another:

How can I turn stock market losing trades into winners?

I wish I had a great answer for you but I don’t… sorry!

However, this new web-based seminar (from my good friend and expert trader Adam Hewison) will give you the tools you need to answer that question for yourself:

Watch the Turn Losers into Winners Movie

After scanning the movie, focusing on his main points, and diagnosing his strategy I’ve grasped his simple yet effective concepts.

The ‘Holy Grail of Trading’ may not exist, but Adam has managed to get close and prevent massive losses whilst maximizing gains.

Watch his web based seminar for yourself:

Watch the Turn Losers into Winners Movie

I’d urge any trader or investor to watch this movie.

The seminar is web based, completely complimentary, and has no strings attached.

It’s simply educational material that can help you to trade better in 2007.

Enjoy!

I mentioned recently that I had managed to pick up some second-hand material that had been originally issued by Darren Winters’ WIN Investing company.

The package was called “The Path to Financial Freedom” and contained 3 VHS videos and a printed A4 manual of almost 200 pages.

I’ve no idea how the person who sold me these products came across them – they could’ve bought them from WIN Investing or received them after attending a seminar.

I’m going to assume that these materials were given to seminar attendees because the manual is full of hand-written notes.

The 1st video is called “The 5 Steps to Outstanding Investment Success” and runs for about 37 minutes.

It seems to contain footage from one of Darren Winters’ sales pitches – the “free 2.5 hour tutorial” sessions that he runs frequently across the UK.

Darren Winters says:

“I decided I was going to become outstanding in the field of investing… I went to all of the main UK investment seminars… I then went to all the main US investment seminars… In time and money I spent about £100,000… I then tracked down the greatest living investors in the world and I persuaded them to teach me what they knew… Some of my best friends are some of the best traders in the world… “

This video has a copyright date of 2002 on it which would suggest that the footage is from around 2001/2002. Back then, Darren did actually give the tutorials himself but nowadays he employs other people to sell the courses for him.

My own experience of the WIN Investing “free tutorial” is available to read on the main site:

Darren Winters, WIN Investing and the Winters Investment Network

Back to the video, Darren goes through looking at sectors to trade. He calls this section “Understanding the Big Picture”. There are shots of the audience as well as Mr Winters, with around 100 or so attendees in the picture.

After around 15 minutes the video shifts to some footage from a smaller WIN Investing gathering. This appears to be a in a hotel and is probably a 2 day training seminar. There are about 20 attendees and Darren Winters is doing all the teaching.

Darren shows his seminar attendees various graphs which represent his theories on the Economic Cycle. “This doesn’t exist anywhere… I produced it for me…” he tells the ticket holders. Basically, he is showing them his theories concerning the relationship between interest rates, inflation and industrial production.

He then explains how to use free resources on the web for charting individual equities and sectors.

It’s useful information but it isn’t anything ground-breaking.

He then goes on to briefly cover expansion and contraction in financial markets because these can apparently tell you which stocks are going to go up or down. I didn’t understand why all this was important as he didn’t really explain anything.

The video continues for another 20 minutes or so but there isn’t any real sequence to follow. Darren skips from one website to the next showing you where to find EPS values and such but doesn’t explain why you would want to know these values. Perhaps he explains more when you are there, in the room, but the editing is terrible and it’s hard to figure out what conclusion he wants you to take away from the footage.

So, what are the 5 steps to outstanding investment success?

Sorry but after watching this video, I am none the wiser!

Vince Stanzione, the man behind the home study course “Making Money From Financial Spread Trading“, is known for being very good at getting his name into the newspapers.

In October 2003 he managed to get a huge two page spread in the Guardian which concentrated on his success trading Gold and UK shares.

Unfortunately he has been featured in the press recently due to regulatory problems with one of his TV channels.

The Evening Standard said that Vince’s company, TV Commerce, was considering its future after being fined £25,000 by the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services or “ICSTIS”.

The feature, published on the 24th November 2006 said:

As part of a wide-ranging clampdown on the television industry ripping off viewers who are charged premium rates to call or text programmes, telephone regulator ICSTIS formally reprimanded TV Commerce and fined it £25,000

This fine was apparently given after TV Commerce was found guilty of keeping its callers on the phone for longer than was necessary whilst being charged £1.50 per minute.

Vince Stanzione controls TV Commerce PLC and floated the company on the Alternative Investment Market on the 21st February 2005.

The initial share price was 6p and since then it has hovered between 4p and 6p.

When news of the fine was announced, the share price dropped to 0.75p and, as of yesterday, was at 1.25p.

The TV channel in question, “StarDate TV” has now been closed and the directors of TV Commerce are now deciding how to proceed, which may mean a delisting of its shares from AIM.

Interestingly, the Independent Online Edition described Vince Stanzione as a “former hairdresser“.

I didn’t know that!

Read more about Vince Stanzione and his spread betting courses at the websites below:

Vince Stanzione and First Information

Vince Stanzione’s Seven Secret Keys Seminar

Just had an email from a subscriber which I am afraid I cannot answer because I have had no experience of the Fleet Street Letter from Fleet Street Publications.

The subscriber asked:

“I want to know what value you think the Fleet Street Letter is. Ever since I subscribed to Red Hot Penny Shares I’ve been getting these. They seem very sensational and I’ve got conflicting information regarding the economy, house price bubbles etc. If I were to take this seriously I’d be terrified. Your views please!”

Any views, reviews or feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Simply leave a comment on this blog or submit a comment on the main site:

http://www.BizOppsUK.com/feedback.php

Thanks, Ben