A Unique Spin On Risky Living Beyond Day Trading With Day Trading As A Metaphor

Life is the ultimate value exchange, sure. It is also the ultimate commodity you trade with time as the value measurement. A risky life is what the essence of day trading is, it can be good or bad depending on the timings of all actions and activity and death is simply the end of the trading day; whatever the results, it is always the same cycles of action: Cause, distance, and then effect. The effect is a "sort of" death. What is going on with eternal existence is life, and that is where we can make the most difference. So do what counts the most and success will happen the most. But I did not say "all the time", just "will happen the most."

Nothing in life is perfectly successful, after all because do you think the illusion of "lucky streaks" and "unlucky streaks" exists. We all have the same success and failure rate really. It depends on how and where we do it at, that is all. So, that could sound a little fatalistic, but, still, it is a real fact. When considering a totality, luck is an illusion that does not really exist except in the conceptual mind as an ellogical perception.

So, I can honestly repeat with even more emphasis with an addition: it is always the same cycles of action: Cause, distance, and then effect without matter to how many times it does happen; it will always happen. Not always correctly, not always wrongly, but it will always happen.

The bottom line is losing and winning in the right places and at the right times. All else is academic learning of the laws of how to operate, literally. Sure, if I could make it more plain, I would. But, reality is always the "plain bread" following of laws, not "flashy luck." Although the laws are dynamic, they cut both ways, good and bad; also sometimes in between. Sure, variants on the laws happen, but, reality follows the law of cause and effect very coldly whether if or if not you benefit. Indeed, reality is the referendum of broker in the trade, all else is "cold" market economics, not a political deal. Get what I am saying there? Everything is an objective market, not a subjective political idea.

You do not have to agree with anything I say or you can agree with it all. But the law will be and is the law wherever or not you consider anything as a value is a value. So, success or failure, it depends on how the law is used.

Benefits of Having a Real Estate License

A real estate license can provide the investor or even an industry agent with great benefits. Others believe that it is hard to acquire one because it is very difficult to enroll at the real estate school. Application requirements are different in each state but even though it is like that, the time and effort needed to get one is often more similar as it looks to be. It is necessary for one to give a capital in order to gain a real estate license but this does not matter especially when you consider the benefits you will get from having one.

Although having a broker mortgage license is not really necessary, having one will definitely reduce your industry costs and some other things. One of the secrets of broker investors is to reduce the costs of availing the services of a broker. But if you have your license, you do not need these middle men because buyers will need to be lured by your license. This is a benefit that can make you thrive as a broker investor professionally.

A license is very useful in getting real estate appraisals which take effect on professional broker licenses. Appraisals can help you gain more profits each time you sell or buy a mortgage property and you will be able to observe such effects when you have more clients at your doorstep. Federal loans do not usually use this but you can participate in businesses in different states and other places. Each deal closed will let you have good profit and good income when you got a license.

Having a professional broker license can lead you to several career opportunities and market boosting for mortgage is one example of it. State laws only permit broker license to take on this market. You can also expand on other career opportunities that make use of a license. Also, most clients prefer doing business with a trustworthy individual and you can just convince them that you are one if you have a license of your own.

Real estate license partnerships about many advantages to your career opportunities and money income. Success will surely come for investors, agents, and brokers who have their license of their own. It proves that you can be trusted and can be reliable in this kind of business and that it is a proof that you are a professional on this kind of work. Most importantly, a license will help raise your income.

Role of Business Directories in Improving the Indian Business Scenario

There are a lot of things that go on behind the scene that help the Indian economy in becoming a global force to reckon with. There is a great impetus helping the small scale and medium scale industries in growing stronger. The sheer number of such industries is making the collective output a very large one. The value of Indian exports has increased over the years.

If analyzed carefully, there is an interrelation between all the growths that are taking place. The small industries help the medium industries which in turn help the large industries to grow. One concept that has helped every exporter is the concept of B2B directory. A B2B directory is like an online marketplace which lists exporters, service providers, importers, wholesale suppliers, service providers etc. If you do anything related to trade you can register your company in the directory. A profile has to be created giving description of what exactly it is that you do. The company will then be listed in the directory for others to view your services. It is beneficial for everyone both suppliers and those who want to take the services of the suppliers. It forms a database of all that the industry has to offer. Also it covers all the areas of industry like electronics, heavy industries, service related industries etc.

The Indian business serves as link between the service providers and the ones that require the service. Industry demands service of all kinds. The Indian industry is traditionally a service driven industry. Previously there was no means of communication between Indian service providers and the market, but with the help of business directory India, the service industry in India is booming.

The traders of India especially the ones with small trading capacities needed a platform which could act as a communication tool and extend their frontiers to the demand. The online directory does just the job and that too too in a very economic way.

This concept helps the traders in a number of ways. Here are a few points that help in understanding how big the contribution of business directories to the industry is, it helps in building long time trust between retailers and buyers. It helps in reducing reducing distances as it helps in taking the service of the best service provider even though it may be located hundreds of miles away.

It has helped in increasing the competition among traders since the improvement of the state of the industry as a whole and also the quality of services.

Online catalogs can be updated very easily on these sites. Conventionally a new product launch took a lot of time to come into notice, but with the help of online catalogs, it is very easy to update the information on products and let everyone know about it.

Video Games - The Perfect Escape?

Why oh why did you say yes to that last shandy? The kebab seemed like a good idea but your mouth now resembles the inner lining of Phil Jupiter's underpants. And to top it all off, you're stuck in a lava filled dungeon and some b*****d has kidnapped your princess. Where did your life go so horribly wrong?

I've got news for you, it's much, much worse. It's not that you're hungover playing Super Mario Brothers, it's that you spend your life "working" at a computer located in a sterile office surrounded by drones. Your only escape? A Friday night binge drinking session down in Clapham, tonsil tennis with a rather suspect femme fatale and bouncing around 8-bit levels crushing the skulls of Goombas with your immense chubby Italian plumber girth the next morning (she didn't come home with you).

Computer games started out as something completely innocent. I remember my cousins having a version of Pong that despite being an absolute nightmare to plug into the telly, was good fun for ten minutes. Bouncing the ball around with the paddles was hardly Wimbledon. What was, was the 8-bit version of the AELTC's prestige tournament which was one of the first games I played on the Master System. Still to this day the game mesmerises me, with added career mode, I can't help but feel I'm there on Centre Court. Especially as I couldn't play tennis for toffee.





These days, games such as the Grand Theft Auto and Halo franchises take escapism to whole new levels, allowing you to explore entire cities and indulge your wildest fantasies whilst piping hordes of bad guys. There's a magazine on my desk right now emblazoned with the word "hero", if only. And whilst escapism is almost at its absolute peak (barring virtual reality), it started way back in the 80s and had as much of an impact then as it does now.

Adult life fundamentally, hasn't changed much in the last thirty years. Despite numerous advances in technology, supposedly to make life easier, for most of us it's the usual 9 to 5. Slaving away to line someone else's pockets only to come home at some ungodly hour completely exhausted. Eat your dinner, stick on the telly, sleep, repeat. Rather crudely, I hypothesise life requires five different needs: achievement; relaxation; emulation; competition and belonging. At the moment, sitting here in a non-descript office I feel tense, bored, lonely and as if this is just another day to kill on a road that is seemingly going nowhere. No need is being fulfilled, I want to be at home playing video games.

Achievement is the easy one. Those who are successful in life and who feel they are living a good life can point back to a string of achievements. Whether it's continual progression through the ranks at work, bringing up offspring or jumping out of a plane, nothing beats feeling a sense of achievement. For those starved of such events, video games offer up an easy alternative and its impact is almost immediate. Going back to early arcade games such as Pac-Man and Asteroids, you're instantly rewarded with level progression and score accumulation (sometimes to reach the feted leader board). Home entertainment systems such as the ZX Spectrum brought games like Manic Miner to the fore. This rise raises the other point that these needs don't just relate to adult life but to children as well. For kids growing up, a sense of achievement can be gained from doing well at school, well at Physical Education, being praised for good attendance etc... How often would this really happen? Sometimes at primary school, I would feel a greater sense of accomplishment after nailing a few levels of Sonic than at anything I'd done during the day. With the xbox360 console, Microsoft brought the "Achievement" points system based on unlocking hidden secrets or even just by completing levels. Why did they do this? We all love rewards, even more so when they're obvious. As unnecessary as this development was, it adds another level of achievement to the subtle one already existing.

This brings me to the next "need" - relaxation. Or should I say, Relaxation through detachment. There is no point in me going home to play a computer game where the protagonist is a Customer Service advisor who has to answer the phone and respond to emails all day. They say that during lunchtime it's advisable to have lunch outside of the office, so that your mind is taken off work and relaxed accordingly. Video games work on the same principal as in they can take you out of work, out of your home life and into something much more wondrous. The aforementioned Super Mario Bros is a great example. I believe it's the first true example of an ethereal world where you can explore and unlock hidden rewards at whim. Earlier consoles and computers had games containing hidden levels given, but the graphics and memory available pre-1985 struggled to do anything on this scale. Throw in a hero story where you've got to rescue a princess and you've got the whole package. I could talk about detachment all day long but the upshot is that video games take you to another world at the flick of a button where you can easily forget what your life is really about.

As I mentioned previously, I was bog awful at Tennis when I was a kid. Someone who was not awful at tennis was Stefan Edberg. Although Wimbledon on the MS was licensed, it contained no real players' names. But my word, did one of the characters look like the Swedish maestro himself. When you're growing up, role models are important. That seems like a rather obvious thing to say but how many kids lack the proper role models in everyday life? We look up to people and we want to emulate them. We see them achieve great things and we want to achieve them ourselves. When we can't do something, video games (especially sports titles) are an easy way of emulating our heroes. I played World Cup Italia 90 on the Mega Drive way more than I should have purely because it was the only way of recreating the tournament that I had available. Emulation even boils down to just wanting to be said Italian plumber hero (one was also rather useless with the ladies) or a spiky blue hedgehog thwarting an evil genius.

Emulation follows on to competition. There is nothing like beating a game. All that coding and you've still beaten the CPU. Have that Edberg. It's also great to prove you're the best at the something, that you're better than your peers. At work, I have few peers simply due to the mediocrity of my work. Do I want to be better than them? The feeling is hardly tangible. Competition is good for the human spirit. Constantly being challenged is how people get better and successful people thrive on it. The rewards are sometimes obvious, a big trophy, a big pay rise - but sometimes they're not. Video games offer competition on all levels. Beat the CPU, beat your friends, beat the world. Video games offer a challenge when life falls on its backside. Want an arena to prove you're better than your mates? Hold a Days of Thunder on the NES competition (not all were impressed... ). Multiplayer games existed in abundance from the days of Pong and now video game tournaments have evolved into a multi-million dollar industry of their own.

That brings me to my final point - belonging. Sega or Nintendo? If you're into retro gaming that question alone is probably stirring something inside you. Why? Because choosing a console isn't just about choosing a machine to play with, it's about choosing a gang, a way of life that's got be better than its counterpart. Kids and adults alike feel segregation on a daily basis. I was lucky at school as I had good friends with whom I still socialise with to this day. Others were not so lucky. When you move into the professional world it's only natural that you want to work for a company where you belong. In your personal life, it's only natural to want to live somewhere in a home with people you love and where you feel you belong. Even before online gaming with its vast communities and friendship came into existence, simply by saying in the playground whether you were a Mega Drive or SNES guy started positive chat about Sonic or Mario alike. They weren't just consoles, it was who you were.

As much as a holiday might satisfy your relaxation needs or going to a football match satisfy your need to belong, there is nothing as complete as video games to provide the full package after a long day at the coalface.

Sample Film Treatment

A sample film treatment is a document by a film treatment writer to showcase their writing skills. New film script writers have to prove their ability to write film treatments and scripts. In order to get your foot in the door of films script writing, it is essential to write a number of samples, which can be shared. It is a self marketing strategy, which is part of the writer's portfolio.

The screenwriter should ideally prepare samples to suit every conceivable situation that may arise. This is done to show potential customers that the writer can accomplish the task of compiling extraordinarily-brilliant film treatments and movie scripts. Copies of the sample film treatment are distributed to people in the film industry as well as literary agents and those seeking to hire a ghostwriter. Agents represent the writer to the film 'insiders'. When production houses, studios, individual producers, or directors are hunting for someone to author a screenplay or treatment, they can pull out the spec samples submitted by different writers. Another option is for them to approach agencies, which are in direct contact with writers seeking work.

By evaluating the sample treatment, the potential client can pick and choose a qualified writer. Wisdom dictates that screenplay writers prepare samples in many genres and different types:

1. Original draft treatment - Slightly longer and more detailed manuscript
2. Presentation treatment - A much shorter and crisper version of a screenplay
3. Adaptation treatment - A treatment based on adapted work of another novelist.

Certain precautionary measures must be taken before doling out copies of a sample film treatment, including the following:

• Get your work registered with WGA so that your idea is never stolen.
• Give complete contact information on the front page of the treatment.
• Ensure that your work is absolutely flawless to make a great impression on the reader.
• Accompany the treatment with a cover letter highlighting your expertise, awards and credentials.
• If possible, attach a self addressed stamped envelope for ease of communication.
• Follow the industry norms regarding the format as closely as possible.

Since treatments are considered "easy reads," it is important to keep your sample film treatment brief without sacrificing any important element of the story. This makes the treatment seem incomplete or distorted. Sometimes it is more difficult to compile articulate treatments than full-fledged screenplays. Make reading a sample a pleasure. Include enough white space so that the reader does not cringe from going through it from cover to cover. If the readers begin to lose interest or feel overburdened, they are likely to fling it aside hastily. Your aim should be to induce the reader to go on until reaching the end, setting it aside with satisfaction. A well-written film treatment has improved chances of being read and the writer propositioned to write the full-length film script.

The Role of an Online Business Manager

Many business owners are a little confused between an Online Business Manager and a Virtual Assistant - they think they're one and the same. To some extent they are, but there is a role for both types of virtual support professional in your business. And it very much depends on where you're at in your business.

To put simply, I equate an Online Business Manager with the traditional Office Manager / Executive Personal Assistant in the corporate world; and a virtual assistant with an administrative assistant. I think most people understand these concepts. So in an online business, the Online Business Manager and Virtual Assistant fulfill these same roles.

When you first start out in your business, you typically have very few clients; your marketing strategies are simple; and you have a limited budget. In this situation a Virtual Assistant can fully support you and take some of the basic day-to-day tasks off your plate, leaving you to build and grow your business.

But as you do your job in growing your business - you get more clients, your income increases, you start to offer products and programs - then typically you'll find yourself not only growing the business and working with clients, but also managing a lot of the day-to-day activities that you should not really be managing. This shows up in ways such as:

• Knowing that you do not have enough systems in place, but not having the time to put them together.
• There's so much going on in your business that you do not know what's getting done and what is not.
• Delegating work between your Virtual Assistant, your web designer, your graphic designer, or your affiliate manager, and having to constantly check in with them.
• Not having the technical expertise (either yourself or your team) to get your Infusionsoft or 1ShoppingCart account set up properly.

And as a result you become frustrated and overwhelmed, and all the fun goes out of running your projects. A lot of those projects you want to implement, which you know will generate additional revenues for you, are getting put on the back burner because you're spending most of your time putting out fires.

This is when you need ... an Online Business Manager!

Visuzalize an organizational chart, the Online Business Manager will sit between you and your team members. They can see the Big Picture for your business (because they're big thinker strategists), but they are also able to break down that picture into step-by-step projects to delegate to your team.

Your Online Business Manager will take responsibility for:

• Project Management - setting up that new online program or membership portal.
• Operations Management - ensuring that your Infusionsoft or 1ShoppingCart account is set up correctly to deliver your automated marketing plan, programs, and products.
• Metrics Management - tracking your stats so you know exactly what's working in your business and what is not.
• People Management - managing the day-to-day tasks of your team members so that you do not have to.

And your time is freed up to focus on growing your business. The result ... your Big Picture gets implemented and your goals are achieved!

Understanding how these various roles fit into an online business will help you determine the best needs for your business. You'll be able to hire the right team member, at the right time.

And when you have this level of support - someone who understands both business strategy and is very detail oriented - you have a winning combination for growing your business from five figures into six figures and beyond.

(c) 2013 Tracey Lawton

Look for These Important Aspects in Your Synastry Compatibility

These are the aspects to look for when comparing charts

for a couple's astrological compatibility.

Let's look first at the harmonic aspects you would like to have between these planets.
These aspects are the Trine, Sextile, and sometimes the Conjunct.

* Sun and Moon (represents man / woman)

* Sun and Sun (natural affinity)

* Sun and Chiron (trustworthy)

* Moon and Moon (Emotionally attuned)

* Moon and Ascendant or Descendant (a soul kinship)

* Moon and Mars (Adds some heat - conjunction can be too combative)

* Venus and Mars (sexual, affectionate
vibe)
Venus and Moon (warm caring feelings)

* Venus and Mercury (conversations are
more agreeable)

* Venus and Jupiter (Fun, Fun, Fun, Plus
good money aspect)

* Venus and Sun (Love and appreciation of that person)

* Venus and Ascendant / Descendant (Attracted to the physicality of the person)

* Venus and Chiron (Very positive for
relationships)

* Venus and Saturn (long term
relationship)

* Venus and Uranus (exciting,
spontaneous

* Venus and Neptune (dreamy
romanticism)

* Venus and Pluto (intense love
feelings)

* Mars and Ascendant / Descendant

* Mars and Jupiter (Adds a lot of energy in
whatever you choose to pursue)

* Mars and Chiron (Fertile aspect!)

* Jupiter and Chiron (fortunately and blessed
union)

* Jupiter and Sun (Rose colored glasses -
benefactor)

* Jupiter and Mercury (common spiritual
beliefs)

* Jupiter and Ascendant (beneficial)

* Saturn and Moon (stability,
commitment)

* Saturn and Ascendant (adds stability and security)

* Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and any point in the chart is fine.

The most important harmonious aspects to look for in a long term relationship and synastry compatibility are the Sun and Moon aspects, Venus to Mars / Sun / Ascendant, and Chiron to Venus / Sun / Moon / Jupiter, and Neptune. So look for these first.

Now the reason some of the conjunct aspects are good "sometimes" is because it depends on the individual. With Saturn, it delays, teachings and limitations - but it can also be a source of dependability and stability. If you are someone who needs a lot of freedom in your relationship and does not like to be depended on too much, this aspect can feel too restrictive. On the other hand if you are looking for a companion who can be bringing much needed stability to your emotions (moon), self expression (sun), or
to a relationship (Ascendant / descendant) you might prefer this aspect.

Neptune on the other hand can be quite dreamy - to a fault. Disillusionment and victimhood could have brought out a relationship with this aspect (not to mention substance abuse). With Uranus, a conjunction could indicate many separations (say your partner was a pilot or traveled a lot on business this would not be so bad) however, if you were someone who preferred a 9 to 5 partner, this could cause many problems. And then there's Pluto well, intensity is good for some things and not always good for others .....

Next we'll look at the aspects in synastry compatibility to LOOK OUT FOR! YIKES

Look for squares, oppositions, and sometimes the conjunct between you and your partner's planets, especially between the outer planets (saturn, neptune, uranus, and pluto) to your personal planets (sun, moon, mercury, venus, mars). The missing planet, Jupiter, is a mixed bag. At a square or opposite aspect it more or less adds arrogance, exaggeration, laziness, and overdoing. Nothing too bad, but could add an annoying element to the mix.

The most challenging (to say the least) aspects to look for are from Saturn to Venus, Moon, and Chiron. It is called the "heartbreak aspect" in some astrology books. So look out for these! The next most difficult are from Uranus because of the reversal or separation effect. Pluto to your personal planets can be bring you manipulation / possessiveness / jealousy / over-controlling. And Neptune again, can lead you down the road to dissolution and disillusions.

So as you can see squares and oppositions mostly denote a problem area in a relationship. However, it can also have a stimulating affect as well. You must look to your synastry combinations to see how your squares and oppositions are working in your relationships.

Next look at the midpoint between the Sun and Moon. Take your sun / moon midpoint and check to see if the other person's Sun or Moon makes a hard aspect to it, such as; conjunct, square, opposition, sesquiquadrate, semi-square within 8 degrees. Then check his / hers to yours. Combine the two midpoints, to get your combined midpoint, and check both sets of moons / suns to this point. This adds energy to the union to make it "official" so to speak - Not that it always ends in marriage, but there is rarely a couple out there that does not have some connection here. You can even check the
progressed charts. Progressed sun by forward or converse progress can make this aspect too, especially when the couple meets or when they become more committed.

Now, in assessing your synastry, if you were looking for "Mr. Right, or Ms. Right" and it's important to have sparks in your relationship look for harmonious aspects involving venus with mars, pluto, and uranus and Mars to jupiter, and ascendant. If you are looking for a good companion and the sparks are not so important look for venus and moon, venus, saturn, sun, and ascendant. If you want a relationship that is not too predictable look for harmonious aspects with uranus. If, however, you love stability, longevity and security look to harmonious aspects with saturn.

Now remember, even the most romantic couples, even the couples' who marriages have become golden, and even cinderella and prince charming, had some challenging aspects in their synastry compatibility. However, it makes for a more enjoyable relationship the more harmonious aspects you have. And you have to decide what's important to you in a relationship, what you can overcome, and what you can put up with!