How to Make Money?

I was hoping the stock would end on a better note. It closed at $2.05 instead of $2.45. But tomorrow is another day. Lets hope for another good day on the market so I can say that I have doubled my original investment. I’m close, very close.

After this experiment, I am going to look for another stock and do the same. I got lucky this time. It pays to do your homework and pick the right stock to play with.

See you tomorrow.

I was pleasantly surprised to see the stock price at $2.45 so I sold out my 1,000 shares that I bought yesterday at $2.07. I pocketed $380 over 24 hours, not bad at all. That brings my $1500 investment to $1230 gain which is a little shy of doubling my money.

Luckily for me, I got back in about an hour ago at $2.09. I see that the stock dipped as low as $1.90 but I was not near my computer at the time so I could not take advantage of the price. Maybe I’ll get to sell it again before the market closes today. Lets hope for that.

Later that morning, I decided to check the price of the stock that I sold earlier. It was selling between $2.04 and $2.12. I put in a buy order for 1,000 shares at $2.07. It shot up to $2.14 then $2.17 but I knew it was going to correct itself and come down. 

After I made myself a cup of coffee, I checked the order and found that it was filled at $2.07. I was back in the game.

My $2.07 stock closed at $2.22, already up by 15 cents per share. Lets see what happens tomorrow. If you want to follow my progress, the stock symbol is HYGS on the Nasdaq.

Something woke me up today. I think it was the neighbor’s dog barking. I got up and checked the stock market and was pleasantly surprised to see that my $1.50 stock was on the rise. I put in a sell order for $2.35 and guess what?! It sold a few minutes later.

Gross profit: $8.50, less $9.99 commissions. Not bad for a day’s effort.

Today, I deposited $1500 into my day trading account. My plans is to double it. Last year, this would be easy to do in a day or two but the stock market is a different beast these days. Doubling it would require some concentration and luck. At worst, I would lose half of it. Lets not hope that.

The next few blogs will be about my progress and things learned. 

I have been watching a stock lately on Nasdaq. It is almost considered a penny stock because of its price. I see that the low for the year was 49 cents. Today it is selling for about $1.50. When I started watching it, it was selling for $1.16. I was alittle skeptical at the time but I watched it climb to $1.25, $1.30, $1.40 and now over $1.50. If I had any guts then, I would have been close to doubling my money.

I paid dearly for the stock today at $1.50, especially when I first wanted in at $1.16. Lets see how it goes.

If the answer is no then you’re probably writing in the wrong place. Take a look at Triond.com where you can get paid for writing blogs. After you sign up, you publish new content by uploading a text file containing your blog. They look at and their editors decide if it is of interest to their community. If so they will choose to publish it.Once published, they will email you to tell you where they have published it. Your blog is then tracked and if there are any royalties against it, the amount will show up next to your blog. It’s that easy.Just to get you interested, I started a new blog on Saturday. Since then, I’ve had five blogs published and have over $100 in my account. I compare that with my blog here and it doesn’t compare. 

Here’s another way to make some money but you have to know something. It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as you know something about a particular area of interest and can provide some tips to people. The site to visit is DayTipper. Sign up for a free account then submit a tip on practically anything. The keyword here is ‘practical’ so cruise through the tips that are published and join the rank.They will pay you $1 for every tip they publish. It’s a relatively new site and some of the top submitters have a balance of about $72 which isn’t much but then you’re only going to have to write a tip that is 500 characters long. That’s easier than writing a blog.They have two ways to get paid, a PayPal account which is free or a check. If you choose a check, it will cost you $3 for processing fee. If it’s not enough to buy a beer, do the right thing and donate it to charity. 

Once upon a time, it was easy to step up to the domain registry and request for a registration of your company’s name. Now it’s different. If your company name is taken, you look at the WHOIS database and find out if someone legitimately holds it and perhaps, if you wanted it badly enough, you could approach this individual and ask to buy it off them. You may pay just the registration fee or you may end up paying handsomely, depending on who’s hands the name fell into and how badly you want it.The problem is, and has been for some time now, with the domain registration. There has never been any rules so anyone can step up and register what they want without verification that the name they are registering has any thing to do with the kind of business they engage. That’s why it was simple to register www.williamgates.com when you weren’t william gates himself. (Poor Bill had to pay a mint to get his domain name back).After hearing a couple of success stories like that, people started registering all sorts of names, hoping to cash in one day. If you happen to stumble upon a website that didn’t sell anything and only contains links then I’m pretty sure the domain is for sale. These domains are parked for free and are waiting for someone to come along and make an offer.Now, turning the clock ahead to today. If you were a company starting up on the internet, it would be very difficult for you to come up with a domain name that is not already taken. You may say that you have better things to do than to dream up of a name then see if it’s taken. I can tell you that I’ve tried that and it took me a heck of a time figuring out something that works.Introducing www.PickyDomains.com, a new website that company owners can approach and register with to request for creative domain names. On the other side of things, anyone can register to be a contributor of domain names. After registering, you can list out all the available orders. These are companies who are requesting for a domain name. Some of them are picky, wanting the name to contain less than 3 words. Some prefer an extension of .com. Others want the name to be less than 3 syllables. Ok, you get the picture. As a contributor, you come up with names that have not been registered. When you submit a suggestion, PickyDomains will actually check the interNic database to see if it is available. If so then it accepts it. After a few days, your suggestions are published and presented to the companies for review. They respond by either specifying that they like it, dislike it or pick it. If they pick your suggestion, you will get paid $25. That’s not bad for coming up with a name.If you’re interested in making some money but you have to rack your brain on this one, go to www.PickyDomains.com and sign up. 

No wonder no one listened to me when I said to go to upay2much.com and play the Secret Sound contest for $2,000. I meant to say it was $5,000 you are playing with. It’s easy, not that I won anything yet. You click on the banner, listen to it then guess what it is. I can’t believe this lady from Australia recognized the last sound to be someone taking an ice cube out of the ice maker in the fridge. This sound is something I’ve heard before but I can’t put my finger on it. It sounds like something I’ve done recently, but I can’t remember what I did to have heard that. Anyhoo, just go there and figure it out for a chance to win $5,000. Tell your friends about it too and if they win, at least they’ll share it with (or not). It doesn’t cost anything to try, just register with them so that they know where to send the money. No risk, the way I see it.Ok, I have to go now. Back to listening the sound. 

It is Thursday and I did not win the Lotto-649 last night so I am back at work today. It is exciting buying a chance for a million dollars. But with today’s lotteries, jackpots are no longer set at $1 million. Lotto-649 increased their price from $1 to $2, just to guarantee winnings to exceed $5 million. 

On my last visit to the US, I bought a Mega Million ticket for a drawing worth $220 million but I heard the other day that the lucky ticket was sold in Portal, about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta. The winner will receive $10.3 million a year for 26 years or they can choose to receive a single lump payment of $164 million. Can you imagine how your life would change if you were to win one of these lotteries? What would you buy? Would you quit your job? Would you travel? Please do not forget about us when you do win.

I like the commercial on television about the lottery. A group of office workers are sitting in a meeting. The boss at the front of the table looked concerned. It was like the company was going to announce a layoff with everyone having a stricken look on their face. The boss starts to speak and says “I think we have won…”. I remembered getting a instant scratch ticket from my boss for Christmas. I reminded him that he would get an instant resignation if one of our tickets was a winner. He said this was the last time he would pass out lottery tickets.

They say winning the lottery is about as likely as being hit by lightning. I rather win the lottery than to get fried by a bolt of lightning which can reach temperatures of 30,000 degrees celsius. That is a little too hot for my liking. I think I am going to spend my time clicking on the play button and figuring out the secret sound on the upay2much site instead. It is safer and I have more chances to win at this than waiting for my lucky number to come in. By the way, you can win $2000 instantly if you can recognize the secret sound. It is an interesting sound and I think I have heard it before. It sounds like a coin dropping into a Coke machine. I believe you would need to register so that in the event that you do win, they know where to send the money.

Good luck!