IMLobby Review by Anik Singal Released
IMLobby Review released by MayDayReport.com for Anik Singal‘s new program IMLobby.
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) May 19, 2012
IMLobby, after much anticipation, has been released by Anik Singal, Ritoban and their team. Unlike many of the other programs claiming to help people make money, Anik is being very bold and giving people access for just $1. He wants people to test drive his membership site because he knows when they do they will love it.
After a quick IMLobby review, http://maydayreport.com/imlobby-review-by-anik-singal-and-ritoban/ believes Anik’s new program is designed to help one make money online quickly. Not only can one use this strategy to make money quickly, but this model is very scaleable.
What that means is more money in his customer’s pockets.
Visit Anik’s site here for the details.
What exactly is IMLobby?
IMLobby teaches you exactly how to make money creating simple and ugly websites that make money. The best part about creating these sites is that one doesn’t have to do them themselves. Anik’s system creates them.
And one can create unlimited sites with unique content on them. This is great because one can than simply monetize them with something like Adsense or Clickbank, which is already built into the IMLobby sites. All of these sites are in the most popular and the highest converting niches Anik and his team have found. That means one can earn more money per visitor that comes to each website one builds.
Anik is offering a very special and limited $1 trial for IMLobby. This is a rare opportunity.
Visit the official site here to access the $1 trial.
For those wanting a complete review of the program can visit this Anik Singal page.
Anik is making this $1, 7 day trial available to show people exactly what’s in IMLobby and how it works. He most likely won’t be offering this for very long.
To get immediate access to Anik’s IMLobby go to Anik’s Official Site Here. To read the full IMLobby review go to MayDayReport.com.
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Target 11 investigates bogus money order schemes
Target 11 Consumer Investigator Robin Taylor shows us how a Washington County woman was swindled out of nearly $5,000.
“They would email me back immediately and say, ‘Wow, this is one of the best mystery shoppers we’ve ever had.’” Too bad it was all a lie.
It all began with an email asking “Lori” to become a mystery shopper. It sounded like a quick, easy way to make money so she said yes. Her first assignment was to wire money through Western Union, but that’s what really got her into trouble.
“This is a letter about how I performed most excellently!” said Lori, who asked us not use her real name.
She thought she was working for a company called Shop ‘n Check. Her job was to evaluate customer service at businesses like Western Union.
“I thought this would be something I could do to contribute to the household. You know $200 here, $150 there,” said Lori.
But it was all a ruse. Lori wasn’t dealing with a legitimate business. She was dealing with thieves. They sent her very real-looking money orders and instructed her to cash them and then wire the money, but here’s the problem: The money orders were fakes.
“These are all counterfeit,” said Lori.
By the time the bank figured it out, Lori had already wired $4,700 to the thieves. Now, she owes the bank that money.
“It’s a shame. I think that everybody needs to know what’s going on out there. We were taken for quite a bit of money,” said Lori.
Postal inspectors showed me a stack of fake money orders adding up to three-quarters of a million dollars.
“This is amazing because these look really real,” I said as I looked them over.
“In this situation they’re very realistic looking,” said Tammy Mayle, a postal inspector, “but they’re counterfeit”
Tammy Mayle says the average person wouldn’t know and that’s why so many people get wrapped up in these schemes.
“They’ll go, they’ll deposit the check. They’re under a bad assumption that if the bank gives them the money that it’s free and clear,” said Andrew Richards, the postal inspector’s team leader.
Postal inspectors in Pittsburgh get between 100 and 200 counterfeit checks each week. They’re coming from criminal rings in places like Nigeria and now Jamaica.
“Now the boiler rooms are a couple of laptops and a handful of cellphones. And they’ll pull in a couple million dollars in two, three months,” said Richards.
It’s easy money for the crooks, and it’s difficult for the United States to prosecute.
And that’s why Lori wants to makes sure other people don’t fall for this type of deception.
“It’s just a rip off and everybody needs to know about it because there’s families out there that are struggling for their money. Times are tough,” said Lori.
Once you wire the money, it’s gone. What a lot of people don’t realize is that when you send something by Western Union, it can be picked up anywhere in the world. You may think you’re wiring money to New York, yet it’s picked up by con-artists in Jamaica.
Article source: http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/target-11-investigates-bogus-money-order-schemes/nN87H/
Another Way Brokers Make Money Off Your Trades
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In an ideal world, your broker would help you get the best deal possible whenever you made a transaction. But unfortunately, you have to watch your broker closely to protect your own best interest. From high-commission products to nickel-and-dime fees, brokers are in business to make money — and if you’re not careful, you’ll be left footing more than your fair share of the bill.
Many customers have never heard of one source of potential revenue for brokers, but it’s an increasingly important part of the business. As competition among exchanges for stocks and other securities has heated up, exchanges have decided that a great way to entice your broker to place your trades with them is to offer cold hard cash for the privilege.
Making money that you’ll never see
It wasn’t that long ago that investors didn’t have many choices in where to buy and sell stocks. If a stock was listed on a given exchange, that’s where you’d typically go to trade shares.
The boom in new exchanges, however, has given investors — and, more importantly, the brokers who typically serve them — alternatives on where to place trades. In theory, that should be a good thing for investors. With multiple exchanges, brokers can route trades through whichever one will give their customers the best execution price.
To attract traffic, upstart exchanges started offering brokers a payment to place orders there. In some cases, exchanges then charged an extra fee to anyone who filled one of those offers. So in other words, brokers were rewarded for adding liquidity to the exchange but had to pay a premium if they reduced liquidity by taking out one of the orders.
Over time, the practice became commonplace enough that even NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX ) and Nasdaq OMX (Nasdaq: NDAQ ) started doing it. According to a recent article in The New York Times, during the first three months of 2012, the Nasdaq paid more than $300 million in rebates, while the New York Stock Exchange paid a somewhat smaller proportion of its overall revenue. A recent Woodbine Associates study suggests that rebates may cost investors as much as $5 billion annually.
The practice isn’t limited to stocks, either. For instance, CBOE Holdings (Nasdaq: CBOE ) offers rebates for certain types of options trades on its C2 platform.
What it means for you
In an ideal world, none of this would make any difference to you. In deciding where to place your trades, your broker would aim to get you the best deal possible after factoring in any rebates. If the broker earned a rebate, it would pass that money along to you in the form of lower commissions. Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR ) , for instance, gives customers who use its cost-plus pricing structure the benefit of any rebates it gets from exchanges.
But some brokers keep any rebates to offset general expenses. For instance, TD AMERITRADE (Nasdaq: AMTD ) says in its order-execution FAQ: “The majority of exchanges and market makers provide incentives for brokers to route orders to them. Typically, this involves a rebate or payment to the broker for routing orders to that exchange or market maker. … This payment is used to offset the costs of doing business and ultimately helps to reduce the overall cost to our clients.”
If you’re not a frequent trader, then these small boosts in execution price — which often amount to less than a penny per share — probably won’t make a huge difference to your investing results. But even investors who never trade stocks at all can be affected. The Woodbine study pointed to mutual fund companies facing the same situation when they make trades for their accounts, and with much larger trades involved, those pennies add up.
Watch out
Trade rebates are just another way that brokers can end up having a conflict of interest with their clients. Making sure that you learn as much as you can about how your broker gets compensated will put you in a better position to understand your broker relationship. You may not be able to avoid paying slightly more, but it will at least give you a more accurate picture of what your true costs are.
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The Steve Jobs Betrayal
You may already know that in the final year of his life, Jobs revealed a stunning betrayal — and told his biographer, “I will spend my last dying breath… and every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank to right this wrong.” What was it that made Jobs so irate — and why could it make a few in-the-know investors some major profits over the coming months and years?
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Why you shouldn't buy Facebook stock today
Even the hottest initial public stock offerings can lose steam after their first day of trading.
Sure, company insiders will make money selling at the opening price. And investors who used connections or big bucks to score shares at the IPO price will profit if they sell after a first-day “pop.”
For everyone else, the wildly mixed record of other ballyhooed IPOs beyond their first trading session offers a lesson. It’s one that should remind us that buying Facebook stock Friday provides a chance to lose money.
It’s understandable that everyone wants to get in early on what could be the next Google. Shares of the Internet search leader had an initial offering price of $85 in 2004, started on the stock market at $100 and climbed above $700 by 2007. Even after moving sideways for more than four years, they’re still above $600.
But odds are against hitting a grand slam like that in the current market.
Cautionary points to weigh if the Facebook frenzy is tempting you to buy stock on Day 1:
YOU’LL PAY MORE FOR YOUR STOCK THAN THE SMART MONEY DID.
The vast majority of average investors couldn’t get in at the $38-per-share offer price. Those shares went largely to company insiders, the deal’s underwriters or their fat-walleted clients. The price almost always shoots quickly higher by the time orders to buy at the market price kick in.
SEVERAL OF LAST YEAR’S “MUST-HAVE” IPOS AREN’T ANY MORE.
— Pandora, an Internet radio company, went public June 15 at $20 a share. You could have bought the stock during the day for $26. It’s now trading under $11.
— Groupon, the online daily deal company, priced its stock at $20 a share in its Nov. 4 IPO. The stock traded above $31 the first day. Now it’s under $13.
— Zynga, the developer of “FarmVille” and other Facebook games, went public at $10 a share on Dec.16. The stock traded as high as $11.50 on its opening day. Lately it’s around $8.
— Even one of last year’s IPO stars isn’t a huge winner when you factor in the risk. LinkedIn more than doubled from its $45 offer price within minutes of hitting the market last May 19 and reached $122.70 before closing the first day at $94.25. It’s back to around $105 after a turbulent year, with a modest overall gain of 11 percent since the first day.
Buy-and-hold investors who want to make money off Facebook should hold off on the first day of trading. Maybe later they can think about buying.
Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-shouldnt-buy-facebook-stock-121009367.html
Mexican Bribery Gave Me A Chance To Make Money In Wal-Mart
The Wal-Mart in the Mountain Farms Mall (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This morning Wal-Mart (WMT) reported blowout earnings. As of this writing, Wal-Mart stock is up $3.20, or 5.4%, even though the overall market is down.
Here is why I recently bought Wal-Mart and recommended it as a buy to my subscribers on the news of bribery scandal in Mexico.
Investment Merits
I focus on making money by identifying change early. I had concluded that a change was happening at Wal-Mart but not fully recognized. However I could not pull the trigger to buy Wal-Mart because the price at which it was trading posed more risk than my system allowed.
The news of scandal, flood of downgrades by analysts, and overblown fears depressed the price and offered me an opportunity to buy the stock.
The biggest challenge to Wal-Mart’s growth in the United States has come from dollar stores such as Dollar General (DG), Dollar Tree (DLTR), and Family Dollar (FDO). The merchandise in the dollar stores has improved and they are offering more food items. In my analysis, the adverse effect of dollar stores on Wal-Mart has peaked.
This morning Wal-Mart reported EPS of $1.09 vs. consensus of $1.04; reported revenues of $112.3 billion vs. consensus of $110.54 billion. Wal-Mart sees Q2 EPS $1.13 – $1.18 vs. consensus of $1.16. Commentary in the earnings release is positive.
My analysis about the impact of dollar stores on Wal-Mart has proven spot on. Interestingly, this morning’s earnings report from Dollar Tree is showing that cracks are developing in the torrid growth pattern. Dollar Tree sees Q2 EPS of $0.87 – $0.93 vs. consensus of $0.95.
As Wall Street recognizes that the dollar store phenomena has peaked in terms of its impact on Wal-Mart, there are likely to be many upgrades.
The big untold story about Wal-Mart is international expansion.
Article source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/05/17/mexican-bribery-gave-me-a-chance-to-make-money-in-wal-mart/
