Monthly Archives: February 2012

Trading Foreign Currencies

As a work-at-home mom, I’m always on the look out for other means on how to earn online, especially as passive income. It’s hard enough to work more than the regular working hours, but even harder when you need to tend to toddlers all day long while working. So it should come to no surprise that I’ve tried a lot of possible income-earning opportunity online, but haven’t really found one that works for me, until now… maybe.

I’m slowly getting interested in forex trading since a broker friend introduced it to me. I must admit, when he showed me all those graphs on his laptop, it really caught my attention. Things like those pique my interest because when data is represented by numbers, for me they are as black and white as can be. The only gray area is the decision you’ll make based on them.

Also, I never really knew that there was such as a thing as foreign currency trading. I was familiar with stocks trading because my father had some that I had to take care of when he passed, but not about foreign currency. Now that the economy of a lot of countries seem to be picking up, it would be interesting to know more about currency trading and maybe I can even learn to be an Alpari Forex broker soon.

I can’t wait to meet up with my friend again to learn more. I see this as an opportunity because making the right decisions in this kind of work may ultimately give me that break in earning online and my dream of a passive income.

Is Gold a Good Investment

We’ve always been reminded by our parents to save up for the future. I’ve always been reminded to “invest” in something rather than spend it all at one go. Now that I have a child of my own, and earning my own money, I’m interested to buy gold bars as soon as I can save up for them.

Since stock prices rise and fall erratically, one item that will almost never plummet is gold, according to some people I know who invest a lot. “Gold will always be gold and will always have value” is what they said. Maybe it’s time that I also put my money on gold? I’m sure it’ll be a good investment.