How to line up ten amazing assets for trading binary options in 2012

It's not easy being successful - and it's worth it.

Even if you keep up with the daily news, it is still important to remember that particular events could have large consequences on the market in the short term. When a hi-tech company like Apple or Google plans to make a major product announcement, it tends to shake up the market for their products and their competitors almost immediately, and it takes time for the market equilibrium to return. So knowing how the market behaves in general can help you make an informed decision on a broad range of commodities, stocks, or currencies, but paying attention to what is happening right now that could affect the market can help you avoid risky binary trading. At the same time, it can give you the information you need to choose the right investment vehicle that will allow you to take advantage of the news.

Zen and the art of holiday gift giving

What would Buddha Do?

What will you stuff those stockings with this year?

Editor's note: Even though this post was published over two years ago, it still rings true as the holiday cheer you hear during the mirthful season.

Whether you dread the time of year when all your family members expect great gifts from you, or you absolutely love to give the most fabulous presents you can find to the people you love most ... this post is for you.

Lucky for us, we have the world wide web at our fingertips. And for those of us who trade binary options the selection of gifts has become much easier this year, thanks to the pickers of luxurious presents whose main focus is to procure products and services from the finest providers in the land.

This year, there is even a Top Ten list of great gifts for the binary options trader to whom you want to give a thoughtful present.

On another, more generous note, here's a powerful clip about the power of giving. According to the speaker, Mr. Les Brown, whatever you give, will come back to you, "because it's a law".


Happy hunting, and happier giving.

Tips for trading binary options in a down market

Even in a down market, smart binary options traders go Deep in the Money

In a down market, binary options are a great way to focus your investment energy. Why? Because your job with the binary options is to decide whether the asset's price will go up or down from the base time to the expiry. And, if you're in a down market at the time, then the chance of the asset going down in price is more likely. This means that your prediction is usually easier to make. If you estimate, for instance, that gold will go down in price from today until tomorrow, and you know that we are under a depressed economy period, then your prediction will most likely be correct. Obviously, this advice isn't set in stone, nor does it need to be followed; but it's important to look at the trends to predict what will happen with the binary options.

Morning Zen for Binary Options Trader

Foggy sunrise over the hills

Dew Kissed Rose

As the last trade for the market day was coming to a close, the effervescence of the sunrise glared brilliantly on my large bay windows. The orange glow of the sun was just starting to take a hold of the cold morning sky, and the fog of the valley was encircling the foot of the countless mountains in the view. By the time the binary options I was trading had cleared, once of which lost the full $500 I risked and another that gained me $650 as it closed "in the money", the hilltops were protruding from the dense fog and making a nice range of gradients against the gray background. I finished my trades and took my morning walk to get a latte, and on the way noticed a perfect rose just kissed by the morning due. When they say binary options is a way to make a living, they had no idea how right they were.

The King and I joined some great affiliate programs

Trippyness of Affiliates Programs

Traders of binary options use a number of tools for trading binary options online. Those tools include: High / Low, Touch / No Touch, Call, Put and Range. Of course, if binary options trading isn’t your bag of sticks, you can still earn significant returns by becoming an affiliate of the binary options trading platforms, and getting new binary options traders to sign up as new online investors. For every referral you make, affiliates earn revenue. Bring on enough new binary options traders, and the affiliate can earn thousands of US dollars every month, without having to execute a single trade. There are many things in life for which you can take risks and not be able to predict the outcome. When it comes to binary options trading, one thing you can count on is that affiliates who do a good job of bringing on new traders are sure to enjoy the added financial oomph in their asset portfolio.

Binary Options Trading Commodities

Oil Commodity Binary Trading

The stock market is incredibly popular as a place to buy and sell stocks and to make predictions about changes in the future of the market. There are stock exchanges around the world. Certainly, there is the stock market in America, but there are also stock markets in London, Shanghai, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Bombay, Switzerland, and many other locations. Each market and the stocks there are definitely influenced by events occurring at the time. One type of investment that you can make in these markets is with binary options. Here, you are predicting what will happen with stocks or other assets in a given time frame. You're looking at a stock today and saying that in 24 hours the stock will have increased in price, decreased in price, hit a certain target, come within a target price range, etc. There are many ways to enjoy binary options trading and these are a few examples!

Investing with Binary Options

The Silver lining on binary options is Gold

With binary trading, timing is everything. What does this mean? It means that the entire investment process is based on timing. When you select an asset and make a prediction about what will happen with that asset, you are doing so with a certain time frame in mind. For instance, if you invest in the idea that gold will Touch a certain price, you are saying that it will do so within a certain time frame. You've invested in the assumption that the gold will reach a specific price in a specific amount of time. That's why timing is so important with binary option trading and why investors need to have a good handle on the fluctuations that a given asset usually experiences over time.

Insight on Binary Options Trading Affiliate Program

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How, you ask, does an affiliate program work? It's really quite a simple mechanism and one that is brilliant to get involved in for binary options trading affiliates program opportunities. Here's why. You put up a link or a banner at your website and each time that a visitor clicks it and goes to the Binary Options site, you'll get a commission. You're driving traffic to a binary options site, where you already enjoy investing and where you believe in the work they are doing. And you are able to make money from promoting their location.

Video of binary trader making 24% profit?

While there are many videos and ads on the internet promising "up to 85% returns", there are very few example of such activity. However, this video that surfaced on the web of a binary trader making a quick 24% profit in just a few minutes appears to be legitimate and in fact repeatable. The trader appears to be on http://www.optionsclick.com and using a binary option of high/low and makes use of that early closure option.

Zen Artwork - Binary Options Trading ARtists

Lion Cub - Drawn by binary options trader

While we have had many requests to elaborate and expand on the concept of incorporating Zen with binary options trading, we wanted to talk today about a related concept that also helps in a Zen way, and also helps you better trade binary options.

The process referred to is that of binary options trading artwork. While trading binary options, you simply also have another computer with another screen open on which you create digital art. Trading the binary options obviously takes priority, as it has time sensitive aspects that need to be taken into account. However, in between trades of binary options, there is a large time frame of about 20-to-30 minutes in which the trader is waiting to see how the market is behaving. While there are capabilities within this time frame to close the binary options early or also to hedge the bet by betting a large amount in the opposite direction; it is best to ignore these abilities till they offer some level of profit that you have reason to believe will be greater than one you

Elephant and Momma - by a binary options trader

anticipate the option to trade at. When this is the case, it is best to occupy your mind with some other benign activity in order to not get worked up and all neurotic about perhaps exiting the trade. While this option does remain open, and should be used when will be profitable, it is best to include a level of patience when doing so, and that is where drawing while trading binary options comes in.

Start by drawing simple designs that do not require a large portion of your brain power to come up with and create. The point initially is simply to keep you mind occupied. Once you have mastered drawing such designs, open up another screen (preferably on another computer) and trade binary options while you ready your next masterpiece. Repeat the process till you notice a distinct pattern of loosing less.

Lion and Lioness Hugging under the stars - Created by a Binary Options Trading Graphic Designer

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Binary Hug Trading

When you're ready for investment options with binary options trading, www.optionsclick.com is the place to be. Owned by skilled professionals in the field, they have certain core values at their binary option site. They say that users can enjoy a return of as much as 85% on their investment; they let customers select one or both sides of one purchase for every asset. This is unusual and guarantees fair pricing. They also let customers close their trades before the scheduled expiry.
Being able to have these choices for trading binary options is critical to be able to eek out a profit from the margins that you trade. While there are strong gains, there are also losses and it is critical that you read up and educate yourselves so that you are best able to maximize gains, and minimize losses. Eventually you will be able to trade in a methodology that will be 2nd nature to you and living off binary options will be like living off the fat of the land back in the olden days.

Andy Rooney Dies at 92 - With Cartoon Portrait

Portrait of Andy Rooney - Drawn while learning about
binary options affiliate programs.

Over this past weekend, the first weekend in November 2011, Andy Rooney passed away at the ripe old age of 92. Rooney has become an icon of well educated grumpy old men, and he was well known for his work as the host of 60-Minutes. Rooney made a great contribution in helping the public understand certain issues and even brought a few items to light which had political ramifications. 

Andy Rooney will be very missed. Not only by fans of 60-Minutes but also anyone that enjoyed his demeanor and vibe which was sort of that of a loveable old man with a slight grumpy side. His ability to understand a situation and ask good questions of the matter will be missed the most and we hope the world he leaves behind can cope without him.

Steve Job Tribute Portrait by a binary options trader

We miss you Steve Jobs.

The Young Steve Jobs - Founder of Apple

The founder of Apple Computers, Steve Jobs, passed away a few weeks ago. This drawing was created by a binary options trader while trading binary options and is a portrait of the young Steve Jobs holding an apple in his younger years, probably in the 1980's when such hair styles were popular.

Jobs invented the idea of an easy-to-use computer and eventually led the company to extreme success by inventing the ipod, iphone, ipad and other very cool devices that have become household names.

Apple Computers, which makes "macs" is one of the wealthiest and well-positioned companies with over $70 Billion in cash reserves and very strong revenues. Apple is traded as a stock for binary options and is one of the more predictable and stable assets that can be traded.

Brain Synapse Visual from Binary Options Trading

I was learning and researching a bit earlier today about how binary options trading works and delved a bit deeper even and researched the brain effect and combustion that goes on when trading binary options. It is rather difficult concept to illustrate but some how I was able to accomplish it.

Artists visualization of a brain synapse during binary options trading cycle.

As a nerve has four primary named parts to it, the Axon, the Myelin-Sheath, the Dendrit and the cell body. The synapse is the gap between one nerve cell and another, which is uses to pass along electricity. Binary options trading over online protocols is so similar. The trader almost acts as a synapse between binary options that want to trade, and he or she decided which ones trad.

Can you really make money with binary options trading?

Sunrise over a Binary Options Trader

One of the interesting questions that several of our readers have sent in has been "Can I actually make money with binary options trading?" - The truth is that I don't know if the person who asked me that knows what they are doing, so I can't answer honestly there. If you are able to maintain a level emotional state, are able to extrapolate data from graphs and are generally good with numbers, then making money trading binary options should not be that hard. What I often recommend to people is that they start an account with the minimum balance of like $200 and then see if they can turn that into more money. Once the overall concepts of how binary options trading are internalized, then it might be a good idea to expand the amounts of money being traded.

Word Illusions for Binary Options Traders

 The unique aspect of binary options trading is one of those things that you just don't come across from that often. While it is possible to simply start trading binary options even if you have no experience with stocks or bonds, it is very powerful tool if you do.
What is interesting is that beginners often earn more profit than seasoned pros when it comes to trading binary options. The reason for this is that the pros are used to "outsmarting" the system in order to make a few points on their trade, while with binary options trading, it is a bit more straight forward and simply following the graphs in an obvious manner will probably yield higher profits that trying to "game" the system.

Aside from all those aspects I just mentioned that make binary trading a unique financial tool, there is also the aspect that it is more consistent and a bit easier to understand than legacy day-trading systems.  While I am not sure what the best way for every person that wants to trade in binary options, I do know that it seems to be something people stick to longer and for stronger profits.

Not just trade, must BE the Binary Option

The Chaos Of Binary Options Trading

The path of the binary option is one mangled by randomness and corrupted by chaos. When you buy first buy the binary option, their is no sure fire method to predict where it will exactly go. As it is a binary option, you only need to be correct in a specific set of it's behaviors, but not how far it goes in that behavior. For example, with a high/low binary option, you can choose if the asset will go up in value or will go down in value at the closing time of the binary option traded. This is not some abbirition that eludes the trader. This is an attainable goal that proper focus and prediction calculation tweaking can make a reality. Binary options are about know where the market is going, but studying what is has done in the past, and using that historical data to predict the near-future.

Top Ten Way to Make More Money using Binary Options Trading

Super Swirly Maze of Binary Trading

Sure there are millions of millionaires and thousands of billionaires, and each one made their fortunes on their own without having to copy anyone else. Its possible to say that there is a high-probability that there continues to be such ideas out there floating in the world that have yet to be discovered that might make the next billionaire, or might just quietly make some smart person a few million bucks, very quietly, without stepping on anyones toes. It is for this reason that we present to you:

Top Ten Ways To Make Money using Binary Options Trading

1. Buy low, sell high - seems obvious, so DO IT
2. Learn and master one type of binary option rather then spreading your learning skills across a few instruments and 'hoping for the best'
3. Utilize a hobby or other minor distraction so that you brain retains logical decision making ability, but ignores emotional response. 
4. Read up on short-term graph prediction and data-extrapolation.
5. If you have a very strong feeling that you will win, or simply feel overall optimistic, do NOT act on it with trading binary options. 
6. Avoid longer, riskier position and focus on short, quick trades that have low risk and mitigating gain. Once you've mastered it then you can move to the next level.
7. Learn to trade using small amounts, and once you've mastered the technique, up the trades to larger amounts.
8. If you loose, take a break, don't try and regain your losses in the post-loss feeling 
9. Don't trade binary options while hungry or thirsty, it will effect you decisions detrimentally.
10. Accept that you can't make money on all trades, it's only important that you make money on more than you loose, but it is impossible to be right 100% of the time.

Mazes and Optical Illusions - Artwork of a Binary Options Trader

Fun Funnel Maze - Binary Trading Artwork

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Maze of a funnel system, sort of like a pinched bulls eye. Made this while trading binary options online and just using my creative abilities to remain calm during hectic trading.

Binary Options Trading Art - That Girl's Shirt

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Drawing of two circles smushed together, you figure it out. Created while trading binary options on www.optionsclick.com

Maze of super spin vortex

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Maze of a super spinny spinning vortex optical illusion. Created using GIMP on Ubuntu and the most basic geometric tools while also trading binary options at the same time in an effort to do two things at once and perform better on both of them.

Don't be a Square - binary trading artwork in color

dont-be-a-square-binary-trader

Don't be a square is a rectangle expanding pattern with alternating gradients in each interlocking piece. Made this while learning about binary options and trading them to be able to master both drawing and a mathematically oriented skill at the same time.

Really Hurts the Eyes - Binary trading optical illusion

box-in-a-box-optical-illusion

Super duper optical illusion that I succeeded in creating using GIMP on Ubuntu. I was trading binary options and learning about them in depth in order to not just draw optical illusions, but to do it while my mind is involved in something else mathematical.

Drawing from a binary options trader - color

 Circles of Confusion
This artwork is one of my favorites that I created while trading binary options. The circles meet and overlap to create a sensation of shapes that add up to circles in a Venn diagram type of style

Flower Power
I was not even sure what this one would be when I started drawing, and then made it into a flower as I progressed and made it into a masterpieceLet The Sun Shine

Let The Sun Shine
This drawing was well planned out but it wasn't till I had time to trade my binary options online today that I had the time to focus and draw this.

Sir Trade Allot

One thing that you will only learn with time about binary options trading is that sometimes is better not to trade. Take a break, walk around the block, and then come back and continue trading. Don't power through the slump as it can be very costly and the only thing you will learn from the experience is that you shouldn't do it.

Another way to perhaps spend your break-time from binary trading is to read up about the Black-Scholes model for valuation and better understand how it is that the value and prices of the binary options is determined.

Egg-centric: Drawn while trading binary options

I personally like to take small breaks as I trade binary options by drawing and doodling simple artwork on GIMP, which is a program very similar to Microsoft Paint and just make a design or doodle that will take your mind off the binary options trading for a period of time.

Whatever you do, don't make loosing money the thing you do to counter loosing money. Take a break, refresh you mind and soul, and then get back to the trading of the binary options, you'll be better at it and thank me for this advice.

Fischer Black - Co-Founder of the formulas for Binary Options Trading

While binary options trading is extremely easy to use and fairly simple when compared to other forms of investment and financial instruments, it is rather complex when you view it internally. Fischer Black (Pictured LEFT) and Myron Scholes developed and designed the Black-Scholes valuation formula which both outlines the needed mathematics, and also a list of world conditions that make binary options trading possible.

When you trade a binary option online, you are actually placing your investment on a set of mathematical equations that both figure out the price for the option, along with the risk, closeable price, and many other factors. Investment houses are only willing to permit such a trade because they can take comfort that their pricing will cover their "friction" costs for handling that trade. These types of failsafes and regulations are based on the black-sholes valuation formulas.

So think of this guy next time you are trading binary options online.

Walkie Talkied Binary Options Trading - oldschool style art

Binary Trading is WAY easier now than it might have been in the 1970's

You can download this cartoon of a 1970's style binary options trader at the following links:

• 1970's style binary options trader on Flickr
• Binary Options Trader with full 70's style hair and mustache on Panoramio
• Binary trader with old-school walkie talkie on Red Bubble
• Guy trading binary options on 70's size walkie talkie on Twitpic
• Photobucket hosted pic of 70's style binary options trader

Binary Options Trading Super Tips

Get you paws on as much as you can

Top Ten Super-Tips for using the Black-Scholes Valuation formula to gain large profits with online binary options trading:

These tips are called "super-tips" as the regular tips we give are designed for novice traders. These tips are designed for more advanced users who are willing to forego some excitement and risk in exchange for dull, boring, and more consistent profits.

1. Trade only in small amounts till you have a much stronger grasp on that specific commodity, stock or indice.
2. Utilize "closable" options to hedge the rise so that you can make very quick 20% to 40% gains rather than drawn out 85% gains that carry a risk of 100% loss.
3. Be technical analytical and review the graphs for patterns and predictability. Only trade in graphs of options you feel comoftable predicting. 
4. Better to not trade for a half hour than loose durring that half hour.
5. Don't hedge your risk by trading in opposing options. The profit of 85% comes at a risk of 100%, so hedging like that will result in an across-the-board 15% loss.
6. Remember: Its important to avoid losses as much as it is to achieve gains.
7. Don't let losses or gains effect you overall strategy. Emotion are your enemy in this game. 
8. With currency related binary trade, compare different currencies to narrow down which ones are actually falling and which ones are only relativity falling
9. Avoid trading binary options at the beginning of market open unless specific events in the news provide a window of predictability.
10. Learn from your mistakes. Binary Options Trading is an aquired skill. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, but do avoid repeating them.

 We hope you've enjoyed these tips. Please feel free to leave comments or questions. These tips are based on Trading Binary Options on OptionsClick.com - not sure about any other sites.

Tips for turning quick profit with Binary Options Trading:

Trading binary options online can be a tricky business. You ability to extrapolate data from graphs and charts is so very critical for the success of your trading.

A common feeling is that of "get rich RIGHT AWAY" which you should avoid at all costs (no pun intended) - The best thing to do for making money with binary options trading is to start an account with a small amount of money and learn how to trade with small amounts of $10 or $20 and get a strong percentage return. Once you are comfortable with you prediction ability of the market, you can increase the amount.

Check out this video on how to make small gains quickly, rather than long drawn out riskier larger gains:

 Video of Binary Options Trader Making $5 in 5minutes

Tips for trading binary options online:

Think before you click. Trade Binary Options Smart

Tips for binary options trading:

1. Trade online, only use binary options trading platforms that have real-time updates and don't charge a commission.
2. Use sites that offer binary trading with the possibility of closing your position before it expires and still making a solid return - utilize this capability to hedge your risk and make lost of small, profitable trades.
3. Do not start making large trades when you are below your starting point with the hopes of re-couping your losses.
4. Do not trade if your mindset is not that of a small-gains and reserved approach.
5. If you loose several trades in a row, then stop trading for a few hours. Do not try and regain your losses quickly.
6. Analyze graphs and only trade on positions you have a clear picture of. Utilize the various forms of options for different market behaviors
7. Don't be afraid to take chances, but don't take the chances with large wagers.
8. Practice reading graphs, review the trades that end in loss so that you can learn from your mistakes.
9. Keep up to date on the news, especially for political events that effect the price of oil and the stock markets.
10. Learn the graphs of the financial data and learn to differentiate between a correction and a trend.

Don't be left in the cold. Learn before you trade

Obviously these tips alone are not going to enable you to suddenly become a wealthy binary options trader. But by learning the trends and patterns that keep winning overall, you can be in a better position than starting out cold. Educate yourself about financial betting and general binary options trading and enable yourself to succeed in the volatile marketplace. Don't be discouraged if you have a few losses, the main thing is to learn how to read the market and apply it when it counts.








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5 Reasons Gold Bubble Might Pop Soon:

When will gold pop already?

The higher gold climbs the more intense the debate between bulls and bears, those who think the yellow metal has a long way to run and those who say this is a giant bubble that is going to pop, and soon.Here are five reasons the bears are calling the current run of gold -- up 27 percent since Jan. 1 -- a bubble, and thus something to avoid.

1. Basic economics. The World Gold Council in a recent study said that in the second quarter total global demand for gold declined 17 percent, on a year-over-year basis. But despite that decline the price of gold rose about 25 percent. At some point supply and demand have to come back into balance, say the bears, and when they do it would be best to be out of gold.

2. If it looks like a bubble ... "People believe that gold is a hedge against uncertain times. In the long run, gold prices have kept pace with inflation. People are flocking to it", says Lloyd Thomas, an economics professor at Kansas State University. "But in 2000 the price of gold was $300 an ounce. It has gone up six-fold since then, and it might go up higher than what it is right now. It's gone up too fast -- it's a bubble." 

Thomas compares the current gold market to the U.S. housing market. People believed, as they believe now for gold, that the housing prices would continue to increase. But ultimately, they fell more than 30 percent in most 
American cities.


"The same thing could happen to gold; it's not risk-free. In the last 10 years it's gone up 17 percent a year, but the price of things we purchase has only gone up 3 percent a year. That's unsustainable. It's my own opinion that gold prices will collapse -- I just don't know when", he says.

3. Soros has left the building. Billionaire George Soros as well as Eric Mindich cut their holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust, an exchange-traded fund, in the second quarter as prices rallied. You may not understand algorithms, econometrics or 200-day moving averages, but almost anyone can imitate winners.
Major professional money managers are also starting to get worried. Wells Fargo is warning its clients, including wealthy ones, that gold is grossly overbought, a "bubble that is poised to burst." Said Wells Fargo analyst Dean Junkans: "We have seen the economic damage" of past bubbles and "feel compelled to ring the warning bells."
"There could be substantial risk to gold once the fear that the world is coming to an end subsides," Junkans told Reuters in a telephone interview from Minneapolis. "We are worried about the downward risk."

4. Investor naivete. "Trees don't grow till heaven. I think buyers need to be beware we are in a 'caveat emptor' market," Jeffrey Rhodes, global head of precious metals at INTL FCStone, a brokerage, told Reuters.
"My problem is that people are buying gold and they don't understand why they are buying gold and that's a big problem and that is a classic symptom of a bubble," said Rhodes.

5. What is your pain tolerance? Even if you don't think gold is a bubble, it certainly is a bull market, and bull markets often end dirty and messy, and take years to recover from. Think the U.S. real estate collapse and all the attendant carnage that erupted in 2008 and still hasn't been repaired, among homeowners or bankers. The same could be said of property markets in Ireland and Great Britain.




Want to hedge against the Gold Standard? Try trading binary options.  


Thanks to the source for the article on Gold Ready To Pop

List of the Top Ten funniest investment quotes

We found this list of top-ten funny investment quotes on the web. Seems that most of the people trying to make money are very NOT FUNNY and sort of stuffy, and those that have lots of money already seem to be pretty funny and jocular (except for Bill Gates, but maybe that is just because the humor part of his brain has some kind of DLL error) - Below is a top ten list of hilarious quotes about money and investment. Enjoy!

Top Ten Funny But True Investment and Money Quotes:

1. Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. ~ J. Paul Getty
2. When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~Oscar Wilde
3. We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. ~Buzzie Bavasi
4. When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~Voltaire
5. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
6. When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. ~John Wesley
7. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ~Bob Hope
8. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell. ~John Templeton
9. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~Woody Allen
10. Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw

If you found yourself laughing at any of these, please share a comment on which one chuckled you.

Top-Ten Funniest Explanation of What are Binary Options

Hysterical Binary Options Trader

List of Top-Ten Funniest Explanation of Binary Options

Binary options trading is the hottest thing since margin-investing and CDI's - except way more legitimate and totally legal. Not everyone is 100% sure what is a binary option or what it means to trade them. Below are the funniest explanation that we have gotten so far. Enjoy.





 

Top Ten Funniest Explanations of
What are Binary Options:
10) Stocks that perform magic by using confusing math.
9) Commodities that make you money when they loose money

8) Investment instrument that let you pry open the markets value
7) Piggy bank for those that have science degree in math.
6) It is the equivalent of Diet Coke for the investment community, all the fun and no calories.
5) It's that thing them investment-boys are doing these days.
4) I don't know, I can't even figure out how to use Facebook.
3) Is that trading stocks in Morse code?
2) Binary option is when a person trading stocks has to think like a computer.
1)Have no idea what it is, but sure have fun trading them.

Laughing Binary Options Trader

We'd like to thank this site for the top-ten list of funny explanations for What Are Binary Options


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How To Trade Binary Options:

One investment platform that has become very popular in the online trading community – especially with beginners – is trading binary options. The benefits are so great that beginners and pros alike are trading binary options and learning how to trade this financial instrument.

Learning the ins and outs of binary option trading is relatively simple. Here, we will talk about how to trade binary options and learn about navigating these powerful instruments.


The Basics of Trading: Where and How

Does the Dalai Lama Trade Binary Options?

Becoming a binary option trader first means knowing where you can trade them and how they work.
The best way to trade in binary options is to go through an online brokerage. An online brokerage writes contracts for various binary options, which are offered on the value of financial assets such as currency pairs, commodities and stocks. These contracts come with a purchase price, an expiry (the time at which the contract expires), and the conditions for profit (usually a strike price or barrier price).
To participate, you simply need to find a broker that deals in the contracts that you prefer – most online brokers deal in multiple types so you can trade both stock binary options and forex binary options with the same options broker, for example.
Once you register and deposit funds, you choose between two general types: above/below options and touch or barrier options. Some binary options brokers also offer range or boundary binary options as well.
Above/below options basically allow you to take a position on whether an asset’s value will be above or below the current value when you buy it, by the expiry. A touch or barrier option requires that an asset price reach or surpass a certain price or value at least once before the contract expires. Range or boundary binary options mandate that the asset’s value be in between two specific values or prices at expiry.


Being “In-The-Money”

Make sure you come out ahead of the other traders.

How do you know you are in-the-money? The conditions of the contract will give you the targets you need to hit, and these differ by the type of option.
Let’s take XYZ Corporation, which has shares at $10.00. An above/below option says that XYZ will rise by the end of the trading day. If you purchase a call option, you are taking the position that by the end of the trading day, XYZ will be higher than $10.00. If it is at $10.01, you are in-the-money.
With barriers or touch options, the contract may say that XYZ has to be at $12.00 or higher at least once by the end of the trading day. If you buy a call option, and XYZ is at $12.00 or higher at least once before trading closes, then you are in-the-money. If the highest value it reaches is $11.99 before the contract expires, though, you lose.
With range or boundary binary options, the contract may stipulate that the value of XYZ stock has to be in between $11.50 and $12.00 by the close of trading for the day. If XYZ is trading at $11.90, you are in-the-money. If it’s trading at $11.54, you lose your investment.


Payouts
Payouts differ depending on the type of option you choose. Above/below options and range binary options pay out typically 70-85% of the original investment. Barrier options are riskier, so they pay out as much as 300% or more of the original investment.
The payout is your profit. Of course, if you do not meet the requirements, you will lose 80-100% of your original investment.


Conclusion
Learning all about binary options means understanding the key concepts, and knowing where to go to trade them. As with any financial instrument, there is risk involved – but the upside potential, as well as ease of use, makes them attractive options for beginners and pros alike.

Some common info on what are binary options:

Binary option (From Wikipedia)

In finance, a binary option is a type of option where the payoff is either some fixed amount of some asset or nothing at all. The two main types of binary options are the cash-or-nothing binary option and the asset-or-nothing binary option. The cash-or-nothing binary option pays some fixed amount of cash if the option expires in-the-money while the asset-or-nothing pays the value of the underlying security. Thus, the options are binary in nature because there are only two possible outcomes. They are also called all-or-nothing options, digital options (more common in forex/interest rate markets), and Fixed Return Options (FROs) (on the American Stock Exchange). Binary options are usually European-styleoptions.
For example, a purchase is made of a binary cash-or-nothing call option on XYZ Corp's stock struck at $100 with a binary payoff of $1000. Then, if at the future maturity date, the stock is trading at or above $100, $1000 is received. If its stock is trading below $100, nothing is received.
In the popular Black-Scholes model, the value of a digital option can be expressed in terms of the cumulative normal distribution function.
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A binary option is a fixed return option because there are only 2 possible outcomes which are fully realized at the onset of the contract
A binary option is a contract which gives the buyer (known as the owner) the right, but not the obligation, to buy an underlying asset at a fixed price within a specified time frame.
The items being traded are known as underlying assets and they could be a range of products: currencies (e.g. USD/JPY), commodities (e.g. Oil, Gold), stocks (e.g. Microsoft, Coca Cola) or indices (e.g. Nasdaq, FTSE 100). The fixed price at which the owner buys or sells at, is known as the strike price.
When trading binary options, the buyer of the option chooses whether he thinks the underlying asset will hit the strike price by the selected expiry time – this could be at the end of the nearest hour or the end of the day, week or month.
The owner places a call option on his binary option trade if he thinks that at the expiry time the option will be higher than the current price. He places a put option if he thinks that at the expiry time the option will be lower than the current price.

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Federal Reservce makes promise to keep interest rates near zero

I came across this article today, I really wonder if the US Gov't will keep the interest rates "near zero" for the duration of time that they claim to do so, which is 2 years, and, if they go back on their word, what will that do to their rating?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve, in an unprecedented move, said on Tuesday it will keep interemoney, markets, federal, reserve, standard, poor, downgradest rates near zero for at least two more years and is considering further action, bolstering battered stock markets.

The Fed's policysetting Federal Open Market Committee, in a 7-3 vote, overcame internal discord in the first triple dissent against a policy decision since 1992.
Investors were still unsure whether the Fed's even stronger promise to maintain rates at rock-bottom lows until mid-2013 would be enough to revive a flagging economic recovery.

But the decision sparked a rally in equities that pushed the Dow Jones industrial average up more than 400 points. Short-term Treasury yields fell to all-time lows. The gains came after a rout that stemmed from Standard & Poor's historic downgrade of U.S. credit quality last Friday.

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Oil prices plunge, but motorists not getting much relief at pump

By ROD WALTON World Staff Writer
Published: 8/9/2011  2:26 AM
Last Modified: 8/9/2011  3:58 AM

Crude oil futures fell to their lowest level in nearly a year Monday, but Tulsa gasoline prices are still clinging to an average that was charged when a barrel cost close to $20 more.

"With markets the way they are, it's anybody's guess on what they're going to do," AAA-Oklahoma spokesman Danial Karnes said. "It's all over the board."

That board is making a steep downhill run at the moment. West Texas Intermediate crude oil for September delivery dropped $5.57 on Monday to settle at $81.31 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The closing crude price is the lowest since it settled at $80.05 on Aug. 31, 2010. The one-year high for WTI was $114.83 per barrel on April 29.

Tulsa retail gasoline, meanwhile, is not falling by the same leaps and bounds. The Tulsa average reported by AAA is $3.44 per gallon, but it was closer to $2.50 when domestic crude oil was last around $80.

"Gas prices aren't always logical," Karnes said. "But logic tells us if oil continues to fall, then gas prices should continue to fall as well."

The price at many QuikTrip stations in Tulsa was $3.39 on Monday afternoon. The QuikTrip price at the end of last August - the last time crude oil was anywhere near this low - was $2.46 per gallon. 

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Trading Binary Options VS Casino bets

Are binary options like gambling?

 

I have heard several times from people that when you are buying and selling Binary Options, your are basically gambling. While this may be the case for some people who have addiction issues, they are both quite different. 

Casino games are based on luck and binary trading is based on real market conditions. This is not to say that casino's don't also involve skill or that binary trading doesn't experience luck, but the basis for the trades and exchanges of the two are very different. 

The thing is that casino games are designed for users to win in order to keep them entertained and binary trading are based on which ever direction the market swings, So not sure which one is better.

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The Art of Conscious Investing - a Brian Zen Article

The central point of conscious investing is to be acutely aware of where the intrinsic value is and where it is going. Trained as a mathematician, Dr. John Price programmed, tested and compared over 30 different stock valuation methods in his search for the best approaches. This led to the development of investment software called Conscious Investor®. It also led to his recent book “The Conscious Investor: Profiting from the Timeless Value Approach” (Wiley, 2011) in which he described the assumptions along with the strengths and weaknesses of various valuation methods.

Here as a follow-up of Gurufocus.com’s interview with him, Dr. Price continues explain the finer points of conscious value calculations.

Q: Warren Buffett once summarized Ben Graham's teachings into the three cornerstones of sound investing? What would you say if you were to summarize conscious investing into a few fundamental ideas?

A: My basic framework for conscious investing is that we need to do three things.

1. We need to have a measure of value. (I mean value per share, but I won’t keep saying “per share.”) It could be assets, equity (book value), earnings, dividends, free cash flow, enterprise value, etc. Or it could be a combination of these.

2. We need to be able to make statements such as: In N years (say, 5 years) I am confident that the level of this value will be at least $x.

3. We need to be able to make statements such as: “In five years I am confident that the market will pay me at least $y for every dollar of value.”

With this done, I can then conclude that I am confident that a single share will be worth $xy in 5 years. I can also figure out my expected return if I buy a share today. On top of this, I might get extra profit from dividends.

As investors we do not like negative surprises in levels of value, but we love positive surprises. So we are trying to specify a level $x so that we are confident that future value at the specified time will be at or above that level.

I am not saying this is easy. This is where all the information about the company comes in. Debt levels, stability of growth, economic moat, etc. The more doubt you have, make your estimate of $x lower. It is like Buffett’s quote when he says he want companies whose “earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher, five, ten, and twenty years from now.”

In addition, as investors, we do not like negative surprises in any estimates of what the market will pay for this value. So this time we choose a level $y so that we are confident that the market will pay at least this much for every dollar of value.

If you base your investment on the projection that $y will be materially higher in the future than it is now (without too much growth assumptions of $x), you are usually called a value investor.

As an example, suppose that our measurement of value is in terms of book value. A desirable investment would be a company that the market is currently paying a low price for its book value. Consider BRK. Over the past 25 years the price to book ratio has ranged from a lows of 1.17 and 1.19 to a highs of 2.02 and 2.23. Currently it is around 1.20.

Now we have to make projections for the value the market will pay for the book value of BRK. Let us be conservative and suppose that we are confident that book value will be at the same level or higher in one year. In other words, there is no growth in book value. Also suppose we are confident that the market will pay 1.35 per dollar of book value in one year. This means that we are saying that the price of BRK will rise by at least 12.5% over the next year. (This is the growth from 1.20 to 1.35.)

Alternatively, if you base your investment on the projection that $x will be materially higher in the future (without too much consideration of $y), you are usually called a growth investor.

Of course, as most people will be aware, Buffett and others said that restricting yourself to value or growth investing was unwise since all investing involves finding value. Buffett said: “We think the term ‘value investing’ is redundant. What is ‘investing’ if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid?”

Q: The expected return method seems to rely on future earnings projections and the terminal value at the end of the projection period. Many believe those projections are less reliable than asset value and replacement value. What do you think?

A: In the framework I described, it is up to you to choose which measurement of value you use. I agree that asset value is more reliable at each point in time. But you still have to factor in the market’s reaction to asset value. In other words, how much it is willing to pay for asset value? If you think that the market is currently undervaluing a stock in terms of assets, you have to make a projection that in the future the market will pay a higher value for the assets in the future. You also have to make a projection about the growth of the assets.

I use earnings. There are many reasons. The main one is that this is the core aim of (most) businesses, namely to grow their earnings. Even levels of management bonuses are often based on growth of earnings. For good reason earnings or net profit are referred to as the bottom line.

However, it is possible to use other measurements. For example, book value is used in the BRK case above.

Q: Dr. Price, your method places a very high priority on predictability of earnings and revenue. Do you think the market will ever go through extended periods of time (4+ years) where you could lose money because the stable equities are priced too high? Thanks!

A: Absolutely. There are always overall market cycles with times when “the market” could lose money. This is why it is better to focus on individual companies, rather than “the market.” The market was extraordinarily high around 2000. So since then market indices have done very poorly. But there have still been excellent individual companies.

There are always companies selling at sensible, even bargain, prices. Sometime there are more, sometime there are fewer. But they are there.

In “Beating the Street”, Peter Lynch said: “The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” In May 2007 at the Annual Meeting, Buffett said “Something bad will happen, but you could go back at any time in the last 100 years and say the same thing … you can freeze yourself out indefinitely.”

Q: How do your models predict the future by using historical data IF despite consistent historical data the future will not replicate the past? My point being, no matter how great a company's historical data is, the future will only prove to replicate the past et ceteris paribus. Even the largest moats fall over a long enough time span. Oh, and please don't say something like “If company X traded at 15 times earnings historically, I assume it will only trade for 12x earnings to incorporate a margin of safety”. That is not an acceptable answer.

A: I take the position that all investing involves making forecasts or projections. Sometimes these forecasts are more like wishes such as: “The price will be higher in the future than it is now.” Not much help for serious investing.

Other times the forecasts are very mild such as: “The company will be able to sell its assets in the near future for the amounts described in the balance sheet.”

Still other times the forecasts are highly problematical such as in intrinsic value DCF methods: “The growth rate of free cash flow out to infinity will be 3%.” or “The discount rate out to infinity will be 12%.”

In fact, the whole idea of investing is to do something with the anticipation of a particular outcome or range of outcomes in the future. (Of course, for investing I don’t mean forecasts in the usual sense. Rather I mean in the sense of forecasting that a particular level will be reached or better. Also, sometimes the forecasts are implicit and hidden, rather than being explicit. But this is whole other topic.)

If you accept that investing involves making forecasts, then we have to decide what we are going to forecast and for how long. Also, to make these forecasts, of course all we have available is current and historical information. So we have to use this information in the best way that we can. I mostly base my calculations as ultimately heading towards projections about earnings (more particularly, earnings per share).

But, expanding on what I said for an earlier question, for most companies I do not know how to forecast earnings with any reliability. Fortunately, for a few companies because of modest debt levels, stability of growth of sales and earnings, economic moat, quality management, and so on, I think that it is possible to set out steps to be able to make statements with reasonable confidence. These are statements such as it is likely that the earnings will grow by at least a certain rate over some specified reasonable time span.

Also, at certain times the market may only be willing to pay a lower price for these earnings. Again, at times I believe that it is possible to make statements such as it is likely that the market will pay a certain level for these earnings at some specified period in the future

Of course, sometimes neither of these outcomes will come about. As you say: “Even the largest moats fall over a long enough time span.”

This is why I have crunched through very large databases over extended periods to check the methods. Also, I try not to rely on time spans that are too long. And having done all this, I introduce margins of safety calculated using computer algorithms.

Of course there are no guarantees. But all the assumptions are testable. And for me, at least, they provide a rational framework which has proved to be successful.

About the author:
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