Another Way To Get Rich

Yes, we have seen it all. The one up, two up, three up programs, the 2X3 matrix, the 2X10 matrix, the guaranteed spillover, and everything else the online gurus have thrown at us. Each one of them promises riches beyond belief, and not one of them delivers exactly as described. We know, because we started our online marketing journey in early 2003, and never made enough to live on during that whole time.

In fairness to the online "opportunities", I must say that at least some of the blame can be placed squarely on my shoulders. I will admit, for example, that I never mastered the art of taking worthless leads, many of whom did not even speak English, and turning them into paying customers.

We have recently had some limited success with one program that actually has some merit. Although that is not what this post is about, I will tell you which program I find useful. It is called Best Free Home Jobs. This program is operated by a lady who really has her customer's best interest at heart. Take a look if you are looking for no hype, and all good advice.

Back on track, we wanted to let our readers know a bit more about how we avoided all of those online landmines and made a dash for safer ground. We had good success trading futures the usual way until I made a rather nasty mistake one day. Without getting into the gory details, I will just say that I wiped out a $72,000.00 trading account in ten minutes.

However, this was not as much of a problem as our reliance on online opportunities was right after that happened. We tried a few things, and although we worked them, we never made much money. We had no trading fund left, so we limped along trying one thing after another until we ran out of limping room.

At this point, we decided to change direction, and work on a new way to do what we had been doing before we crashed and burned. I had been a software developer prior to moving to Washington, but found that market had pretty much dried up when I went looking from Washington.

So I broke out my old Excel Program, and started making spreadsheets. After a few rather pointless efforts, I came up with a winner. This spreadsheet allowed me to trade futures in an entirely different way, using futures options. I had some real life data from my prior trading, and I plugged that into my spreadsheet, and built a model that looked pretty darn good.


Next time, we will tell you what we did to get started again.