Temporary Investor Visas

By Sam McDougall Turner

Relocation to the United States of America can be a very difficult process. However there are several ways that you can vastly improve your chances of being granted a visa. One of the most common of these is to opt for an investor visa. There are two basis types, temporary and permanent.

The temporary investor visa is called the E-2.

The E-2 visa is so popular because it can be renewed or extended as many times as you like so long as the conditions of your visa being granted in the first place are still being met, such as the investment that qualifies you for an investor visa. For this reason, the E-2 visa has become known as the temporary green card.

This visa is for foreign people who have made investments in a US business or businesses to move to the US in order to oversee and direct the businesses that they have invested in.

You may be eligible for this visa if you are the investor, or if you are an executive, manager or essential employee of the foreign company that made the investment and you and the major shareholders of the company are the nationals of a country that has an ongoing Treaty of Trade, Friendship and Commerce with the United States.

In the case of executives and corporate personnel, only nationals from the same country as the corporation are eligible. You will have to show that an investment in the United States has already been made, or that your company is actively in the process of investing. Therefore if you possess significant financial assets, the E-2 visa may be for you.

The E-2 visa may be suitable for those who wish to invest a significant sum of money in order to either purchase an existing business or to set up a new business. The E-2 visa is not suitable for silent investors as the investor is required to play an active role in the management and direction of the investment enterprise.

Because investing in a US business and getting a visa is so uniquely complex, in order to ensure that your investment qualifies you for an E-2 visa, it is advised that you should seek competent, professional legal advice before investing. In order to get the best advice, you should contact a recommended business broker that has knowledge and experience in the criteria needed in an investment to make you eligible for an E-2 visa. - 23208

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Once you have chosen your preferred business, our law firm will be able to assist you in the legal process of applying for the E-2 investor visa. Please visit www.visas4america.com for more information on investor visa.

How to Become A Forex Trader

By Mark Abbots

Foreign exchange or Forex systems are the most popular and powerful tool used by the traders in the currency market. In a Forex market, the trader transacts in the foreign currency to add to his wealth. The platform and security offered by the Internet has led to the increased attractiveness of the Forex system over the years.

Understanding the fundamentals that govern the Forex system is the basic information that is to be attained before making an entry into the live market. Today, there are many platforms in front of a beginner to earn a grip of the Forex system that can aid him in making immense profits. A book is one such way that is suitable to a self-learner to understand the basics of the Forex system.

Different Foreign Exchange system related websites are available in the web and with the help of these websites even a starter can get good understanding of the facts regarding Forex systems and its nook and corner business. The websites keep the trader well-informed about the changes taking place in the market like changes in currency rates, changes in exchange rate of currencies, etc.

Apart from the websites and books related to Forex systems, some experienced Forex traders conduct seminars on how to do business with Forex trading system and the traders can be benefited by attending these seminars. The seminar conductors also sell their books written by them on Forex system reviews and the trader can also be benefited by purchasing the acquiring knowledge from these books. Most of the seminars are conducted free of cost.

An intelligent Forex trader keeps the basic guidelines in the back of his mind through every operation. He understands the role played by the diversified currencies and the various combinations in generating larger returns. Through the insight he has gained from demo accounts, he starts his play in those he is most comfortable with.

Keeping the basic principles of money making in the back of his mind is inevitable to succeed in the attempts. He should always take advantage of the diversified combination of Forex for better returns. Similarly, emotions should never be given an opportunity to cloud his better judgment. When the emotions start seeping in, the excitement takes away your mind off the analytical thinking, resulting in a loss. So, in short, keep your mind calm and start earning revenue through the Forex trading system. - 23208

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Mark has written numerous articles about Forex Systems and also about Forex Trading Systems.

Understanding Call Options The Easy Way

By Maclin Vestor

In late 2008, after the market tanked, losing at one point over 500 points in a day, this was for many, a wake up call to them. They realized that perhaps owning stocks for the long run was not entirely safe, and required some more financial education.

While it's true that in the long run stocks may have returned 10%, at any given moment they could come down. Do you really want to risk that we go through a depression or hyperinflation causing you to lose value just before your retirement? Puts and calls are a way to either do less with more, or protect against the things you want less of to happen more. Of course, unfortunately many people use them to speculate trying to do more with the same amount of money at risk, which can potentially lead to much greater losses. An option contact is the right to execute a certain trade at a given price. A call option is the right to buy, where as a put option is the right to sell. Now if you could buy a stock at $100, you could either pay for 100 shares for $10000. Or you might be able to buy an option contract for the right to buy 100 shares, at a set price. You don't pay for the shares themselves unless you decide to.

An analogy I like to use is a reservation to buy an item that isn't even out yet. Say people wanted to buy the PlayStation 4 immediately after the release date was out. Now let's say people expect it will cost $1000. You on the other hand have looked at everything that they say the PlayStation 4 will contain, and you believe it will actually be worth $2000 when it debuts. You believe the supply will be short, demand large in the future. A store learns that it in fact would retail at $1000 if sold today. So you might put down $100 now to reserve that PlayStation 4 at $1000. You only have 30 days after its release date to execute this "option" otherwise it expires worthless and you lose your 100 shares. Now lets say it's a huge debut, and everyone wants it, you could pick up your copy and own the PlayStation and decide when you want to sell it. Or, you could let someone else do that work, and say online it's going for $2,000. So you could sell the rights to your contract for maybe $900, and now your $100 contract is worth $900. The thing about options is if you are right, the rewards are much greater in percentage points. You could buy the PlayStation at $1000 when everyone else is paying $2000 this contract is worth $1000. Although you would have gained $1000 if you bought the PS4 at $1000 rather than get a contract to reserve it at that price, by only paying $100 you risk a lot less. If you were to buy 10 contracts the maximum potential risk is still 100%, but the reward would be 10 times as great. Unfortunately while the potential risk is the same, in reality, the risk is greater because the liklihood of a large loss occurs more often.

Options work the same way as the example, only rather than the right to buy a single item; it is the right to purchase shares, usually 100 shares per 1 contract. So instead of paying $100 for the right to buy a $1000 item, you instead might pay $100 to purchase $1000 worth of stock or 100 shares at $10.

There are of course some major downfalls. If the stock goes below $1000, who in their right mind would want to buy the contract? Well actually, anyone who believed the price would go up significantly. So if the contract never expired, someone would pay a lot more. If the contract expired the next day, the contract would be worth a lot less as it would be a much greater gamble.

Another fallback is it is not quite the same as putting $100 as people do at retailers traditionally, because in that case, the $100 is generally refundable or discounted towards your purchase, where in the case of options they are not. So it's possible that the value of the underlying stock goes up, but your contract still isn't worth anything. If in the example, you were only able to sell it for $1099 or less, you would still lose out. Say that instead of paying $100, reserving a $1000 item at $1000 price, you decided you would rather pay $65 to reserve that stock at $1200 price. Although the stock is not currently worth that much, if it does go to 2000, it's worth $800 over a 1200% increase. However if it only goes to $1200, you're out the $56, rather than gaining $200. In addition, even if you did reserve it at $1000, if the price of the item is not worth at least $1100 you have lost, and in addition, you could have used that $100 elsewhere during that time.

The options market is derived from the stock market, and may require a different trading system. While every option you have is based on the underlying price of the stock, index, or commodity, that doesn't mean the risk is the same. There is a greater risk of the stock doing nothing as the option still maintains some of it's value. The more time it has, the more potential it has to achieve a gain, and thus the more it's worth. In general buying options is a way of having leveraged control over the stock's price movements without needing to own them directly. Buying a put option is betting the stock will go down, where as buying a call option is betting the stock will go up.

On the other hand, selling a put or call option is collecting cash with the promise to pay the call owner 100 shares of the stock, and the put owner you will be forced to buy 10 shares at the designated price. For example, if you sold a call for $100 with the designated price of 100 shares at $10 or $1000, and the stock went up to $15 or $1500 worth, it would cosst you $500. If you owned the shares of stock you could instead just sell the shares and miss out on the gain that you would have otherwise had. If you sell puts for $1000 for 100 shares at the designated price of $10 per share and the stock was at $10 and went to $5, you would have to buy 100 shares at $10 even though it's only worth $5 each, or just take a $500 loss. Buying stocks and options both can be risky, and it is important to consult with experts and to understand the rules and regulations as well before investing, or before trading stocks or options. - 23208

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Maclin Vestor teaches about How To Buy Stock Online. You can even learn about virtual stock markets and advice on the Stock Market For Beginners at his blog.

Is Futures Trading For You? (Part II)

By Ahmad Hassam

Apart from professional traders and speculators, futures trading is done by most of the people like you and me who are interested in making money in the markets. Like stocks, Buy low and sell high, is the basic premise in futures trading as well.

What is different in futures trading from stock trading? The fact that you can trade futures with leverage on either long or the short positions introduces an additional element of risk not present in the stock market.

Another major difference with stock trading is that there is no uptick rule in futures trading. Thus, it is as easy to sell short as it is to buy long. This means that you can easily enter into a position to capture a downward move in prices with no restriction.

Even when you are not particularly good at it, how do you manage to survive at futures trading? The answer is simple. You should have the money first to open a margin account. Then you should have the ability to develop a trading plan that enables you to keep making money in the market long enough to capitalize your next big move. How do you become good at futures trading? By learning technical analysis!

So you wont last long in the market if you dont have a good trading plan. And you wont be able to trade futures if you dont have enough money. The chances are your money will quickly disappear if you start with a small trade size.

You must know this thing that 95% of the people trading futures lose money consistently. In order to start trading futures, you need to have at least $25,000 in your account. Off course, $5,000 is the minimum with which you can start trading futures.

When you start trading futures make sure that you understand the risks involved and that you go into trading futures contracts with realistic expectations. You can take advantage of the managed futures accounts if you are not sure how to handle the risk involved in futures trading.

In short, you need money, patience, knowledge and technology to be able to trade futures contracts. Trading futures contracts is truly a hybrid that uses both fundamental and technical analysis.

You need to know the futures contract specifications and seasonal tendencies of the markets. The fundamental side of futures trading involves getting to know the industry in which you are making trades. You should also know the important report that you need to keep an eye on.

The technical side of futures trading tells you what the market will do in response to the fundamentals. You will need to develop your own trading style whether it is momentum trading, scalping or swing trading.

As I have said before: Learn technical analysis. Understanding candlestick charts and candlestick patterns can be a good tool in your technical analysis arsenal. Dont try to conquer every type of analysis at once. Instead, go step by step and focus on mastering one item at a time"maybe concentrating only on chart patterns such as the candlestick patterns for instance. Establish a trading plan for getting there, once you know your trading goals. - 23208

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Mr. Ahmad Hassam has done Masters from Harvard University. He is interested in day trading futures and currencies. Trade Dow Futures and S&P Futures!

The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly In Online Penny Stock Trading

By Malcolm Torren

Stock trading is not something you can learn in a day. It is not an ordinary field. Think about exchanges like NASDAQ and NYSE and how disorganized it looks like. All the noise from every stock broker's bidding shouts. Every voice must be heard in one trading floor. But surprisingly, that's actually the orderly way of closing stock deals. Ironic isn't it? It's a lot different in online penny stock trading.

You only have your monitor to rely on. From it, you get figures from the stock market trend. You see penny stock prices and you see company information. You also meet other investors across the globe that you've never met before.

The good thing about online penny stock trading it that it can be done in the comforts of one's home. But even if there is a different feel with just having the monitor to check your penny shares with, it still isn't automatic. In fact it can never be.

Information - The money you'll be making from your penny shares depends highly on what you know and how much you know. The facts will determine how much money you want to buy shares with. The trend will still guide you when you should make your move. And other information will aid you in determining which stock is the best penny stock buy. So while you are free from the real noise and seemingly chaotic offline trading, online penny stock trading still requires your expertise in choosing the right stocks at the right time.

The downside of doing this trade online is that when there is lack of information and inaccurate pricing, the problem becomes an opportunity to fraudsters. The modus channels in to falsified claims, fantastic track records, and ridiculously cheap prices. Not to mention other strategies they use such as the penny stock humble beginning story approach. Always verify and do your own research. Remember that it's your decision that brings you success and not the other way around.

Another disadvantage is that you will be subjected to limitations caused by factors beyond your control. Bad connection, internet fraud, and even fictitious characters pretending to be credible stock brokers. Do not rely too much on newsletters, penny stock softwares, stock promotions, etc unless you are sure that the person selling these ideas have an impressive success in the stock market. Consider them as strangers.

Easy and Convenient - The good part of online penny stock trading is it's convenient. Of course there's more to it than that. You can have more access to more information at a faster pace. You can check into as many stock prices. It's easier to compare because the data comes right up immediately with just one click or two. You get more options because the information is practically and readily available. Again it all boils down to your rational decisions basing from all these facts you will get in the internet.

Two Sides - In any investment situation, there will always be two sides of the penny. The ugly part is just a consequence of both sides. The point is that the philosophy of the two faced coin is one thing online penny stock trading cannot exist without. Even with all the facts available, the internet cannot replace your level of wisdom. Even with experience, it can only enhance. You are your best teacher. And knowing the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of the stock trading is always an advantage. - 23208

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