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    Working From Home Opportunities For 2007
    Have you ever thought about leaving your nine to five day job to work from home? Would you like to work from home but are unsure as to what opportunities are available? Are you aware of the many benefits of being self-employed and working from home? I am not someone who is going to try to re-direct you to some home networking scam website. I am a speech coach who works from the comfort of my own home. In this article I am going to write about the joys of owning your own business and about some of the different working options people have who want to work from have. These options do not include stuffing letters into envelopes!I have been self employed for the last ten years, life it has to be said has never been so good. It can at times be lonely as I am a one man band and at times I have been unde
    only way to profit in the financial markets is to part from the herd. We have done that by creating, and following ourselves, unemotional timing strategies.

    Anti-Lemming Trading

    Unlike many other timing services which apparently practice voodoo in their timing signals, we are trend traders. We do not sift through tea leaves to make our buy and sell decisions. We identify trends and when a new trend is established, we trade it.

    "...We have NEVER found anyone who can foretell the future." If the trend is false, we exit quickly. We exit our losing positions quickly and let our winning positions ride.

    Unfortunately, many who look for timing services, and then start following a timing strategy, are actually looking for someone who can forecast the future. They WANT the crystal ball readers.

    They want to believe. They are lemming wannabe's.

    They want someone to take their hand and lead them to untold (and guaranteed) wealth by forecasting the market's direction before anyone else knows it. They accept the offered promises of riches because they "want" to believe.

    We have N

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    Recently I read an article that ended a long standing belief on my part. On an "Urban Legend" website, I discovered that Lemmings do not herd together and commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs.

    Why I believed this in the first place I do not know, but I guess I never had any reason not to.

    The legend apparently began when during a 1958 Disney nature documentary, the film crew induced lemmings into jumping off a cliff into the sea. They then documented their suicidal behavior and used it in the movie "White Wilderness."

    There goes one more childhood belief.

    Real Life Lemmings

    But the suicidal behavior of lemmings, though not true of lemmings themselves, does have close counterparts in the real world.

    What? Can this be true?

    Think of any stock market bull rally that is nearing a top. Volume spikes as traders rush to buy stocks they would not have even looked at a few days or weeks prior. Sentiment is at bullish extremes and every industry, regardless of profitability, is relentlessly purchased to extremes of valuation.

    In the very midst of this buying frenzy. When traders are going to bed each night and dreaming of being rich, there are those few individuals who refuse to be affected by the emotions of the rally. They start taking profits. Some start selling short.

    Before long, even while the "lemmings" are still buying and trading volume remains high, there is a subtle shift. New highs are not held. New intra-day highs become losses at the close. Soon the shift become real selling and the deluge begins.

    But the lemmings, who are emotionally still extremely bullish (running in herd fashion towards the cliffs) hang on. Finally, they start taking losses and as those losses grow, the lemmings start to feel the pain. They are not sleeping as well. The dreams are turning to nightmares.

    Finally, the lemmings stampede. They start selling. The selling increases and after awhile, it becomes a deluge as all the lemmings try to unload their huge losing positions at the same time. They are now jumping off the financial cliffs en masse.

    Real Life Lemmings Hit The Bottom

    Now the lemmings have cashed out most of their positions. They have had it with stocks. They go to sleep with the security of knowing they will never put themselves in such a losing position again. Not ever!

    As the lemmings take comfort, some astute traders see an advantage. They start buying into the severely depressed stock market. Slowly the market turns higher. More traders jump in and before long, another market advance is born.

    Never fear, our lemmings will not be swayed. The vast majority of them, having been burned once, are not going to be burned again. Or so they say.

    "...It happens over, and over, and over again. From Dutch Tulips, to great financial crashes. History always repeats." But oh, the easy money they are missing. The financial news talks incessantly about the profits being made. Their friends are making gobs of money, or so they are told. Slowly but surely the lemmings start to buy and a new bull rally to begins to form.

    The next cliff is waiting patiently for them. It happens over, and over, and over again. From Dutch Tulips, to great financial crashes. History always repeats.

    The psychology of fear and greed has been repeating like this for hundreds of years. You would think the "herd" would get smart, but very few do. It is hard to change emotional responses that are hard-wired into the human psyche.

    Do Lemmings Ever Evolve?

    To answer this question, we must look at the very astute traders who are buying near the bottoms, and selling near the tops.

    Are they devoid of emotions? Are they like robots who are never swayed by the sentiments of the majority?

    Actually, most were former lemmings. Experience is what makes a successful trader. Most have experienced "lemming losses" but these few realized it was a losing game.

    The plain truth is, they are following a trading strategy. These special individuals, who realize profits year after year and are never in that crowd of lemmings who are jumping off cliff after cliff, are NOT lacking emotion.

    They realized it was a losing game and they exited the emotional roller coaster that most stock market participants are riding, and began following "unemotional" trading plans.

    This is what FibTimer is all about.

    We have been there ourselves. We understand the only way to profit in the financial markets is to part from the herd. We have done that by creating, and following ourselves, unemotional timing strategies.

    Anti-Lemming Trading

    Unlike many other timing services which apparently practice voodoo in their timing signals, we are trend traders. We do not sift through tea leaves to make our buy and sell decisions. We identify trends and when a new trend is established, we trade it.

    "...We have NEVER found anyone who can foretell the future." If the trend is false, we exit quickly. We exit our losing positions quickly and let our winning positions ride.

    Unfortunately, many who look for timing services, and then start following a timing strategy, are actually looking for someone who can forecast the future. They WANT the crystal ball readers.

    They want to believe. They are lemming wannabe's.

    They want someone to take their hand and lead them to untold (and guaranteed) wealth by forecasting the market's direction before anyone else knows it. They accept the offered promises of riches because they "want" to believe.

    We have NE

    Auto Repair Shop Key To Success
    A good service manager candidate for an automotive shop would really be the technician who knows a lot about the motor vehicle but has been able to mentally switch gears and now learn how to sell the knowledge he posses and the knowledge and services his team will provide. I am adamant about the knowledge part as I feel that the customer from the very first contact requires guidance right away when recommending service. Example being the other day I interviewed a person whom wanted to service manage and he after a few questions seemed credible but revealed to me that on his own vehicle he required an alignment for the shimmy that occurs at a particular speed. To the trained person this would now tell me that this person would book a car for the wrong service and this would start a chain reaction of a
    en traders are going to bed each night and dreaming of being rich, there are those few individuals who refuse to be affected by the emotions of the rally. They start taking profits. Some start selling short.

    Before long, even while the "lemmings" are still buying and trading volume remains high, there is a subtle shift. New highs are not held. New intra-day highs become losses at the close. Soon the shift become real selling and the deluge begins.

    But the lemmings, who are emotionally still extremely bullish (running in herd fashion towards the cliffs) hang on. Finally, they start taking losses and as those losses grow, the lemmings start to feel the pain. They are not sleeping as well. The dreams are turning to nightmares.

    Finally, the lemmings stampede. They start selling. The selling increases and after awhile, it becomes a deluge as all the lemmings try to unload their huge losing positions at the same time. They are now jumping off the financial cliffs en masse.

    Real Life Lemmings Hit The Bottom

    Now the lemmings have cashed out most of their positions. They have had it with stocks. They go to sleep with the security of knowing they will never put themselves in such a losing position again. Not ever!

    As the lemmings take comfort, some astute traders see an advantage. They start buying into the severely depressed stock market. Slowly the market turns higher. More traders jump in and before long, another market advance is born.

    Never fear, our lemmings will not be swayed. The vast majority of them, having been burned once, are not going to be burned again. Or so they say.

    "...It happens over, and over, and over again. From Dutch Tulips, to great financial crashes. History always repeats." But oh, the easy money they are missing. The financial news talks incessantly about the profits being made. Their friends are making gobs of money, or so they are told. Slowly but surely the lemmings start to buy and a new bull rally to begins to form.

    The next cliff is waiting patiently for them. It happens over, and over, and over again. From Dutch Tulips, to great financial crashes. History always repeats.

    The psychology of fear and greed has been repeating like this for hundreds of years. You would think the "herd" would get smart, but very few do. It is hard to change emotional responses that are hard-wired into the human psyche.

    Do Lemmings Ever Evolve?

    To answer this question, we must look at the very astute traders who are buying near the bottoms, and selling near the tops.

    Are they devoid of emotions? Are they like robots who are never swayed by the sentiments of the majority?

    Actually, most were former lemmings. Experience is what makes a successful trader. Most have experienced "lemming losses" but these few realized it was a losing game.

    The plain truth is, they are following a trading strategy. These special individuals, who realize profits year after year and are never in that crowd of lemmings who are jumping off cliff after cliff, are NOT lacking emotion.

    They realized it was a losing game and they exited the emotional roller coaster that most stock market participants are riding, and began following "unemotional" trading plans.

    This is what FibTimer is all about.

    We have been there ourselves. We understand the only way to profit in the financial markets is to part from the herd. We have done that by creating, and following ourselves, unemotional timing strategies.

    Anti-Lemming Trading

    Unlike many other timing services which apparently practice voodoo in their timing signals, we are trend traders. We do not sift through tea leaves to make our buy and sell decisions. We identify trends and when a new trend is established, we trade it.

    "...We have NEVER found anyone who can foretell the future." If the trend is false, we exit quickly. We exit our losing positions quickly and let our winning positions ride.

    Unfortunately, many who look for timing services, and then start following a timing strategy, are actually looking for someone who can forecast the future. They WANT the crystal ball readers.

    They want to believe. They are lemming wannabe's.

    They want someone to take their hand and lead them to untold (and guaranteed) wealth by forecasting the market's direction before anyone else knows it. They accept the offered promises of riches because they "want" to believe.

    We have N

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    ocks. They go to sleep with the security of knowing they will never put themselves in such a losing position again. Not ever!

    As the lemmings take comfort, some astute traders see an advantage. They start buying into the severely depressed stock market. Slowly the market turns higher. More traders jump in and before long, another market advance is born.

    Never fear, our lemmings will not be swayed. The vast majority of them, having been burned once, are not going to be burned again. Or so they say.

    "...It happens over, and over, and over again. From Dutch Tulips, to great financial crashes. History always repeats." But oh, the easy money they are missing. The financial news talks incessantly about the profits being made. Their friends are making gobs of money, or so they are told. Slowly but surely the lemmings start to buy and a new bull rally to begins to form.

    The next cliff is waiting patiently for them. It happens over, and over, and over again. From Dutch Tulips, to great financial crashes. History always repeats.

    The psychology of fear and greed has been repeating like this for hundreds of years. You would think the "herd" would get smart, but very few do. It is hard to change emotional responses that are hard-wired into the human psyche.

    Do Lemmings Ever Evolve?

    To answer this question, we must look at the very astute traders who are buying near the bottoms, and selling near the tops.

    Are they devoid of emotions? Are they like robots who are never swayed by the sentiments of the majority?

    Actually, most were former lemmings. Experience is what makes a successful trader. Most have experienced "lemming losses" but these few realized it was a losing game.

    The plain truth is, they are following a trading strategy. These special individuals, who realize profits year after year and are never in that crowd of lemmings who are jumping off cliff after cliff, are NOT lacking emotion.

    They realized it was a losing game and they exited the emotional roller coaster that most stock market participants are riding, and began following "unemotional" trading plans.

    This is what FibTimer is all about.

    We have been there ourselves. We understand the only way to profit in the financial markets is to part from the herd. We have done that by creating, and following ourselves, unemotional timing strategies.

    Anti-Lemming Trading

    Unlike many other timing services which apparently practice voodoo in their timing signals, we are trend traders. We do not sift through tea leaves to make our buy and sell decisions. We identify trends and when a new trend is established, we trade it.

    "...We have NEVER found anyone who can foretell the future." If the trend is false, we exit quickly. We exit our losing positions quickly and let our winning positions ride.

    Unfortunately, many who look for timing services, and then start following a timing strategy, are actually looking for someone who can forecast the future. They WANT the crystal ball readers.

    They want to believe. They are lemming wannabe's.

    They want someone to take their hand and lead them to untold (and guaranteed) wealth by forecasting the market's direction before anyone else knows it. They accept the offered promises of riches because they "want" to believe.

    We have N

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    s for hundreds of years. You would think the "herd" would get smart, but very few do. It is hard to change emotional responses that are hard-wired into the human psyche.

    Do Lemmings Ever Evolve?

    To answer this question, we must look at the very astute traders who are buying near the bottoms, and selling near the tops.

    Are they devoid of emotions? Are they like robots who are never swayed by the sentiments of the majority?

    Actually, most were former lemmings. Experience is what makes a successful trader. Most have experienced "lemming losses" but these few realized it was a losing game.

    The plain truth is, they are following a trading strategy. These special individuals, who realize profits year after year and are never in that crowd of lemmings who are jumping off cliff after cliff, are NOT lacking emotion.

    They realized it was a losing game and they exited the emotional roller coaster that most stock market participants are riding, and began following "unemotional" trading plans.

    This is what FibTimer is all about.

    We have been there ourselves. We understand the only way to profit in the financial markets is to part from the herd. We have done that by creating, and following ourselves, unemotional timing strategies.

    Anti-Lemming Trading

    Unlike many other timing services which apparently practice voodoo in their timing signals, we are trend traders. We do not sift through tea leaves to make our buy and sell decisions. We identify trends and when a new trend is established, we trade it.

    "...We have NEVER found anyone who can foretell the future." If the trend is false, we exit quickly. We exit our losing positions quickly and let our winning positions ride.

    Unfortunately, many who look for timing services, and then start following a timing strategy, are actually looking for someone who can forecast the future. They WANT the crystal ball readers.

    They want to believe. They are lemming wannabe's.

    They want someone to take their hand and lead them to untold (and guaranteed) wealth by forecasting the market's direction before anyone else knows it. They accept the offered promises of riches because they "want" to believe.

    We have N

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    only way to profit in the financial markets is to part from the herd. We have done that by creating, and following ourselves, unemotional timing strategies.

    Anti-Lemming Trading

    Unlike many other timing services which apparently practice voodoo in their timing signals, we are trend traders. We do not sift through tea leaves to make our buy and sell decisions. We identify trends and when a new trend is established, we trade it.

    "...We have NEVER found anyone who can foretell the future." If the trend is false, we exit quickly. We exit our losing positions quickly and let our winning positions ride.

    Unfortunately, many who look for timing services, and then start following a timing strategy, are actually looking for someone who can forecast the future. They WANT the crystal ball readers.

    They want to believe. They are lemming wannabe's.

    They want someone to take their hand and lead them to untold (and guaranteed) wealth by forecasting the market's direction before anyone else knows it. They accept the offered promises of riches because they "want" to believe.

    We have NEVER found anyone who can foretell the future. Sorry about that. Of course at every market top and every market bottom there is someone who got it right. But getting it right consistently is another matter entirely.

    What we can do is tell you the truth. Successful trading, market timing, can only be attained following an unemotional strategy that buys low and sells high. By following a strategy that cuts losses and stays with profitable trends when they occur.

    If you follow FibTimer strategies, do not expect us to follow the lemming herd. We stay far away from tea leaves. We do not keep financial news on when we trade. If we are bullish when the herd is on a buying rampage, that is nice. But when we have a sell signal, we are out. No questions asked, no second thoughts.

    If you are looking for timing that works, we are the answer. We are the anti-lemmings.

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