If you are a regular reader of this blog and also my other bizoppsuk blog, you will know that I am actively spread betting a number of UK shares.

Well, the last time I posted my results to the blog, I was running a profit of £176.91. This was on the 16th February.

The following week, it had fallen slightly to £143.29.

However, like many people who are trading, my profits have now disappeared after 5 days of market losses.

Given my generous stop-losses I haven’t had many positions stop out – only 2 out of 13 but I am now sat on losses of £84.61.

It’s not a disaster but I’m surprised that the markets continue to fall. Something has obviously changed and it will be interesting to see what happens now.

Anyone want to make a prediction as to where the market is going over the next 5 days?

All of my positions are due to expire on the 20th March so they only have 11 days to recover and get me back into profit.

I’m not holding my breath though, I can see a bunch of losing trades come 2 weeks tomorrow.

Perhaps it’s time to have a clear-out and close the trades which are losing.

I will keep you posted…

I received an email this week from Peter who asked:

“There is a company who have been advertising weekly for some time in the Exchange and Mart, offering to install on your PC software called a Pokerbot.

They claim, that once installed, it will enable the user to win at online Casinos with the “Robot” playing automatically.

This is not cheap, with cost of £2250.00 for the software and the installation, they are also looking for 10% per month of your winnings.

They also include an agency for this sum with a commission payment of £500.00 for every new client signed up.

The company goes by the name of JPG Software or The Software Development Agency

37b New Cavendish Street
London
W1G 8JR

Have you ever heard of them?”

My reply was:

“I haven’t heard of this company before I’m afraid and I would be rather sceptical of their claims.Let me ask about this in the next newsletter and I will see if anyone else has any info.”

Looking a little further into this particular opportunity, I found that the advert says:

“The Daily Mail tested this software…”

It doesn’t say that the Mail found the software to work but simply that it “tested” it.

The report on the Daily Mail’s site basically says that someone called Dave set up two computers in their office so that they could run this bot.

It doesn’t say whether this Pokerbot is the same one as advertised in the Exchange and Mart however.

What they found was that the bot made £40 over the course of one day. Not a bad return but completely unethical!

Why the two PCs?

Well, the casino’s poker software reads your hard drive to make sure that you are not using software like this.

Because of this you have to run the pokerbot on a laptop and then network this laptop to the PC which is running the casino software.

That’s why you need the engineer to come round to install the software, I assume.

The whole story can be found here:

You’ll never beat poker robots

I’d be very interested to hear any feedback about this particular opportunity.

Have you ever used any Pokerbot software like this?

Did it work?

Did you get caught?

At the moment I am doing an experiment with a new product and trying to drive as much traffic as possible to the sales page.

In order to try and drive this traffic I am posting articles to specific directories.

The idea is that I get 10 articles about a specific subject onto article directories where they will be indexed by the search engines and also picked up by webmasters.

So tonight I decided to watch some vintage footage I have of Jim Edwards explaining how to write articles.

The DVD is 2 hours long so I managed to make 9 pages of notes on the subject. It was pretty exhausting but will be well worth it.

As Jim explained, imagine you publish an article which is picked up by 100 sites who each send 5 visitors per day. It’s over-simplified, I know, but on average it could work out to about 500 visitors per day.

500 visitors a day is 182,500 per year. That’s a lot of traffic from just one article. Plus, providing your article is related to your product, it is also qualified traffic – the very best kind.

To drive the same amount of traffic via Pay Per Click advertising would cost $18,250 at $0.10 per click.

Anyway, a couple of hours after finishing the DVD, and with an aching hand, I receive an email from Martin Avis.

Martin has just released a new report called:

‘You CAN Write Articles’

Great… absolutely brilliant…

Fantastic timing Martin, thanks for that!

Wait for me to make a load of notes and then release the shortcut two hours later!

Anyway, I grabbed a copy and sat down to read it, and this is exactly the kind of thing I need to be able to increase the quality of my articles and, hopefully, get some serious traffic to my site.

OK, this report is brand new, 43 pages long and gets to the point. There’s no padding, Martin gives you everything he knows about writing great articles.

The topics covered include:

* 12 different types of article, and which three are the best for beginners to start with.

* A foolproof template that makes writing How-to articles a snap.

* A multipurpose template that takes all the guessing out of planning any article.

* The 5 vital elements that can make or break your articles – and how to get them right every time.

* 9 pointers for writing killer headlines that will suck your readers in.

* 5 powerful ways to end your articles for maximum effect.

* The 5 myths about article writing that you must ignore.

* 6 rules for writing articles that people will love to read

Check it out at:

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Now, a report like this from a specialist like Martin really should sell for $29 to $49 but he has decided to sell it for just $7.

Yes, at today’s exchange rate that’s only about £3.80.

It’s ridiculously inexpensive and so I recommend that you grab a copy while you can.

If you want to get people to visit your site then it really is a must.

Just go here:

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You won’t regret it!

Best regards,

Ben

Bit of a crazy week if you’re a financial trader with the markets looking like they are going down for a fourth straight day.

Like me, you may be asking:

What on earth is going on in the markets?

And more importantly, what happened on Tuesday February 27th?

But first, think about this:

What’s an ounce of gold or a share really worth?

Maybe that’s a trick question, but here’s the short answer:

It really doesn’t matter

The reality is, these are trading markets and they are all driven by sentiment.

We all saw how fast the equity markets collapsed on Tuesday.

Pure sentiment.

What matters, is the trend and direction of the market. You can only determine the trend by using pure market action.

The easiest way to do this is by using a program the tells you in plain english what the market is doing.

Take a look at these two new complementary videos:

(1) Here’s an Internet stock you might not want to own:

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(2) Here is what an expert thinks happened to the Dow Jones and where it is headed. This might surprise you:

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Time, perhaps, to stop worrying about which way the markets are moving and start thinking “it doesn’t matter“.

As you may know, I have signed up for the email newsletter which is allegedly written by “Danny” from Dannys-Scam-Review.com

His junk review website isn’t the most honest in the world.

In fact it’s probably high on the list of the most insincere and I have been constantly amazed by the level of dishonest material he sends to his subscribers.

For example, back in December I received an email which contained the following:

“Since I sent out the e-mail telling you about the program over 3,000 of you joined the program. That was a lot, I was impressed! I contact the Survey Company to see how many of you were actually making. In the last 7 days since I sent out the e-mail, Paid Survey Program have paid out OVER $242,000 to us, which is crazy!”

So, are we are meant to believe that 3,000 people paid $39.95 for a junk survey scheme and then, within 24 hours, filled in enough surveys to earn an average of $80 each?

It didn’t happen and it’s ridiculous how “Danny” tries to get people to buy into these junk schemes by lying.

Since that dubious email, he has promoted a wide variety of crappy products including several which have been kicked off Clickbank due to high refund rates.

These include “Type at Home” schemes, the missold so-called Data Entry programs which trick customers into buying something completely unsuitable for them.

(See Data Entry Schemes – Viable Opportunity or a Scam? for more)

Then came a promotion for Craig Richards’ new product.

The email came on the 23rd February with the title “Important E-mail – Read Now Ben December 20, 2006”

Interestingly it said:

“I have personally visited Craig (aka MrX) at his home and spoken to him in detail about his success and he is a very genuine, smart and thoughtful person. I highly recommend you visit his website now”

Now “Danny” claims to be in Phoenix, Arizona but Craig Richards is in the UK.

Are we to believe that he actually got on a plane to pop over to Craig’s for a cup of tea and a chat about the PDX-Factor product?

Very unlikely… unless, of course, “Danny” is actually based in the UK and is simply pretending to be in America so he can hide his identity.

So, today I got another junk email from “Danny” saying:

“I sent you a e-mail 2 days ago about this new “duvet” program. Quite simply the reason I am e-mailing you yet again is because over a thousand of you have e-mail me back saying ‘thank you'”.

What “Danny” is trying to say through the poorly written English is that 1,000 people emailed him back to say thanks.

I’d like to know how.

I tried to email “Danny” several times to his email address (danny@dannys-scam-review.com) but it is returned everytime as undeliverable.

So, how exactly did the 1,000 people email him?

Simple answer is, they didn’t. More lies…

Quite ironic really that Danny’s Scam Review is actually one of the widest spread scams on the internet.

My advice:

Don’t believe a word of what “Danny” says, it’s all an elaborate scam.

More about “Danny” at: Danny’s Scam Review – dannys-scam-review.com