Next seminar with me and live markets is Friday January 18th at Heathrow, if you are interested in getting the new year off to a great start with a day with me mail me with "January seminar interested". There is a tasty early bookers discount on offer! More details somewhere below or press the "Seminars" button.

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I recommend two brilliant trading diaries for your desk! Of course the first is Naked Trader Diary 2013.

What's in it? All the hot dates for 2013, like ex dividend dates, likely company reporting dates, sporting events, and even an arrow for each day telling you whether that day has been strong or not in the past. There is also my thought of the week for each week of the year, and some looks at companies reporting on particular weeks.

If you'd like to order The Naked Trader Diary 2013 for next day delivery you can just click this link here:

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As a complement to my diary, consider the excellent Stock Market Almanac 2013.

This is a tremendous stock market reference diary - really essential for anyone serious about their trading. There is some brilliant research and loads of market facts like ric codes, a timetable of the trading day, tons of lists to help you with your research.

In fact it should answer any question you have about the market. There are all the key dates and tons of analysis too for all the different parts of the year. Each page of the diary is accompanied by a short article including seasonality analysis for days and months; momentum investing analysis for shares, sectors and market indices and many more.

click on this link to buy:
http://books.global-investor.com/books/870424.htm?ginPtrCode=10453

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It's a bit odd being here for Xmas this year - last two years we have flown to South Africa for sunshine and warmth....

But we spent so long away in Florida recently we thought we would stay here and endure the dark and cold.. eeekkk.

Then we had to start thinking about turkeys and all that. If you think about if, if turkeys were so tasty we'd have them all the time.

But in all honesty turkey meat isn't that great is it? Quite tough, dry. Or is that just the way the Mrs cooks it? (Just kidding, love).

So we're going to have two chickens instead. Chicken is a much tastier meat. We'll do one with lemon and garlic and one the old fashioned way.

Also with chicken we won't get all that turkey "leftovers". Three days after Xmas we won't need to say "Turkey sandwich anyone?" to groans...

Anyway that's the plan and we can only hope Xmas dinner doesn't turn out to be a turkey.

Me and Christopher (my 8 year old son) braved the cold and went to see the game against Newcastle on Monday night.

We armed ourselves with a hot water bottle each which worked nicely.. we really enjoyed it, it's very atmospheric down by the river under floodlights in the evening and the crowd was in good spirits (literally in some cases).

We also won 2-1 and it was an entertaining game which rather helped! Grandad is booked in with us to see his very first Premier League game on boxing day!

My accountant just sent me a letter telling me how much tax I have to pay in January and July. How come it is more every year?

I don't mind paying tax particularly, after all we couldn't live without it. Indeed I said no to becoming a company, or any of the various avoidance schemes. I just prefer to pay the tax and that's that.

So while paying tax itself I don't mind I can't help but object to how "they" spend it.

But isn't it silly that I have to send all my paperwork to someone to work it all out because it is just so complex. What can you claim for and what can't you... what percentage for this or that.

Surely better to say, just tot up what you earned, then send us 30% of it. You could do that easily in ten minutes. And I bet the Government would take more tax.

I was in the gym when I overheard a conversation between an older man and a younger man.

The younger one said something shocking. "I have just been diagnosed with Parkinsons," he said. "It is so unfair, I keep fit everyday and I don't smoke and hardly ever drink.

The older man said he was sorry and that it was very unfair, he knew people who "sat on their arse all day doing nothing and eating s*** and they never got a single illness.

I agree: it is so unfair. But a bad illness which could change our lives can happen at any time to any of us.

So we should all try and enjoy life as much as you can. Say your shares are going down today and you are feeling stressed. What are you worrying about if you have your health??

The other point is, enjoy what you have while you have it. Who knows what is round the corner.

Thanks for all the feedback still coming in re the last seminar, I think in particular many of you who were nursing losses are going to think about cutting them quickly in the future!

Also many of you seem to get how important it is to get your timing right and using level 2 and the other trick I showed you should help you to make more unemotional decisions on a trade.

One delegate said: "Just wanted to drop you a line to thank you for the seminar on Friday. One of the things I was particularly struck by was seeing your accounts and and there being hardly any red in there. It's clear that you really practice what you preach on cutting losers and this is a great lesson.

And another: "thanks for a great and very informative day on Friday. You are clearly a huge success and I think one of your greatest strengths is the ability to remain calm and not take things too seriously...."

Anyway great to meet you all and all the best with your future trades!

If you missed this one glad to announce a new date and that is Friday January 18th at Heathrow.

If you are interested email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "January Seminar interested" in the subject line - there is an early bookers discount on offer!
Beginners and improvers welcome! Come and spend the day with me, the markets and some lovely people - and of course, lunch!

If you mail me I will then send you details and a full agenda of what is covered. Also more details below somewhere.

My seminars are designed for beginners, dabblers and improvers and deals with everything from how to look for winners, how to research, spreadbetting, level 2 use how to time trades and short, how to use advfn properly and run your portfolio without having to spend money on systems and tipsters.. and tons more.

A lot of the day comes directly from the live markets and I show you many of the tricks I use to get good prices live. And there might even be the odd live trade or 2!

A follow up with me will be sometime next year, I'll publish a date when I book one! You must have been on a previous basic one of mine to qualify.

* The all new edition of my book Naked Trader 3 is out now !!!

Lots of new strategies including my top 20, lots more mistakes to avoid, loads of new trader tales, cartoons and a bit of fun too.

I hope you all enjoy it - and can tell I put a lot of effort into it and I really hope if it just stops one person from making the mistakes I did it will be worthwhile.

Indeed I hope the book is worth it even if you read about other people's stories, it is amazing how so many make exactly the same mistakes.

Anyhow if you buy it I hope you enjoy it! Click here:
http://books.global-investor.com/books/818560.htm?ginPtrCode=10453

** My book about spreadbetting , you can order it here:

http://books.global-investor.com/books/401334.htm?ginPtrCode=10453

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Spreadbetting firm Tradefair Spreads has upped its offer exclusively to Naked Trader readers to a £100 credit. This offer is exclusive to me and not available anywhere else...
I've been using them for a few weeks to check that I'm happy with the service. As you know I don't take ads or allow referrals on the site unless it's a company I've used and I feel confident about.
What I like about it is it's easy to use, spreads are surprisingly tight on the smaller companies and interestingly an automated stop loss is applied to each trade - so beginners know what their max loss is from the outset.
Anyway they now offer a £100 credit as long as you deposit £100. You get the credit after you placed 5 trades (Terms and conditions apply)
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Many of you enjoy the cheap advfn toplists bronze deal through me as do many of you with the cheap level 2. However many of you say you want a half-way house to include real-time share prices always on.
So I'm pleased to announce I've managed to seal a new deal with Advfn for its "Silver" service - that's always on real-time share prices for a good saving (Bronze toplists etc are included in this).
The deal is via me you can save £30 for your first year by paying just £145 inc vat via me instead of £173.71
Just mail me for full details if you'd like it with "silver" in the subject line.

**** BOOKING OPEN FOR FRIDAY JANUARY 18TH *****
Fancy spending a day with me, learning all the ways I have learned over the years to find good shares and play the markets? Well, you can at one of my seminars!
Booking is open for the Naked Trader seminar on Jan 18th

Price is £590 plus vat. That includes three course lunch, coffees, snacks etc. There is currently a decent early bookers discount off that price - mail for details!
The seminar is mainly aimed at beginners and dabblers though improvers are welcome too.
Topics covered using live market feeds all day include: Market psychology, level 2 - a simple guide to how to use it for better timing; how to value companies; finding companies that are about to rise. I will also cover techniques for handling events such as the recent meltdown and volatility.
Spreadbetting: How to use it to gain an edge and go short. Market makers - how they work and how to beat them; how to stop losing money and make it instead and plenty more.
How to plan trade entries and exits - how to research companies and understand reports, plus all those niggly questions you always wanted to ask. How to set stop losses and targets. Charts and how to use them.
Also covered: Market maker tricks: How to spot tree shakes and use them in your favour, How to tell when NOT to buy a share. I use live ADVFN all day with lots of level 2 and looks at all kind of live market data.
The idea behind the seminar is SIMPLICITY. I don't use jargon or fancy words - everything is in PLAIN ENGLISH! No question is too stupid and the event is held in a friendly relaxed and supportive environment.
The idea is you will come away from the event I hope a wise and better investor with lots of new ideas. I try and translate complex topics into easy bite size pieces. I also aim for it to be entertaining as well as instructive.
If you are interested please e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Nov seminar interested" in the subject line and I will send you full details of the event including comments from those who have come to previous seminars and you can then decide whether you would like to come. See you there!
One seminar attendee Clare wanted to write a testimonial about her experiences at the seminar which follows now!
"I've just come back buzzing from one of Robbie's seminars. What a day! He's just brilliant, and manages to pack an awful lot into one day, and with his enthusiastic and humorous delivery the day just flies by. There are no gimmicks, no sell, no "˜get-rich-quick' promises, just his own solid, sound approach which he has learnt over the years and which works.
He shows you how to minimise the risks and maximise the profits and points out the banana skins on the way. Where the seminar really comes into its own is when he teaches using live level 2. Hearing him talk through his thought processes and reasoning is invaluable, and really brings home everything from the book. He has endless patience answering peoples' questions, and really seems to care that everybody understands.
On top of that, you meet some really nice like minded people and swap e mail addresses, you're plied with
chocolates and coffee all day, have a great lunch and spend the evening getting tiddled with Robbie in the
bar afterwards! You might even get to see the amazing crocodile boots . . . .
Don't worry about the cost, it's easily worth it, and you'll soon make it back with your new-found investment skills, and in what you're no longer losing. If you're thinking of going along to his next seminar, whether you're a novice or an experienced trader, don't hesitate ""just go!
Thanks Clare, did you want the tenner in cash, or will a cheque do?

I've started using Tradefair for spreadbetting - I like the auto generated stop losses which help to maintain discipline and that's good for beginners I think. And exclusively for Naked Trader readers they upped the offer to £100 credit.
So there's now a £100 credit on offer for anyone opening an account via me. You get that after 5 spreadbets (terms and conditions apply)
To get the offer, click here:
http://www.tradefair.com/promo/spreads/nakedtrader100/

Apparently one million Brits are going to phone in sick so they can get their Xmas shopping done.

I'm surprised it isn't more. Though given the amount of time office workers spend doing their shopping at work on the internet perhaps it is a surprise.

My thought is the typical office worker does 2 hours real work a day and 6 hours farting about.

Well that was about average for me when I had a desk job!

Homeland continues to surprise though one hopes it doesn't do anything really silly to put us off.

We are trying not to look at the gaping plot holes. Like they are not monitoring Brody's mobile (pretty stupid huh) , the world's biggest terrorist appears to be operating on his own etc.

Still, it's good entertainment even though maintaining the plot realistically may begin to be hard work.

Peep Show's last episode was brilliant, I was in hysterics throughout. Absolutely top notch comedy writing from start to finish, if you forgot this it's on Ch4 Sunday nights.

I still have 7 Dragons Den episodes to get through. I'm leaving them for when Homeland has finished.

Will Duncan Bannatyne have put his hand in his pocket at all during those 7?

The Duchess pulled out of seeing The Hobbit movie blaming morning sickness...

More like she saw the same trailer for it I did.... (yawn!)

Congrats to Bradford for beating Arsenal last night in a penalty shoot out thriller. We cheered!

It's great to see footballers on next to nothing beating the prima donnas on millions.

Via this link Open a Sporting Index account and there's £100 cash offer - please check terms and conditions which apply.

http://www.sportingindex.com/?tpid=6755
Do remember if you do bet you ought to treat sports spreadbetting as entertainment - and expect to lose! Also with spreadbetting work out what your max loss could be and make sure you can afford it! In other words if you say backed the favourite at 15 for a fiver and they come nowhere your max loss is £75.

Anne writes :
Agree about facebook - the youngsters who leapt onboard when it started,
posting dire photos of them doing things they shouldn't are now grown up and
getting on in their careers and errrrrr wondering if that photo of them
mooning in the disco in Majorca was a good idea!

Nice to think I am not the only unsociable grump to not want to follow the
minutiae of my friends and colleagues mostly boring lives!

I am in the states just now and feel the Starbucks asking name thing is just
more marketing bollocks to get them noticed. If they just speeded up the
service I might go there but americans seem to need all this 'service
bollocks' to make them think they are getting their moneys worth.

Thanks Anne,
well of course I agree, it's nearly all bollocks!

Duane writes:
Wanted to say a big thank you to you and Mrs NT for an amazing day of learning and fun at your seminar.

The way you explained the share trading from start to finish was understandable and really interesting, well worth the seminar fee!
It was great to hear such down to earth and honest assessment from a successful trader like yourself. The way you explained everything was good revision from your book and gave further insight into successful share trading.

I particularly liked your live trades and going through your accounts when you gave snippets of why you invested in certain shares and why you kept/dumped them. Also helpful was the way you searched for prospective shares and within minutes discounted them or put them on a short list for further examination and correct entry points. Amazing!
You could really tell that you loved doing what you do and your energy levels to keep going till 10pm was well....... I had to leave at 9pm I was shattered!

Thanks again Robbie I am keen to put into practice what you have taught me. Even though you make squillions from your trades and I am sure don't need to do the seminars for financial gain, but please keep doing those seminars for newbies like me!

Thanks Duane! Don't expect to be doing them foreever but very rewarding for me to help people so expect to carry on for a while longer.
Gabriel writes:
If you are reading this, you are perhaps considering going on one of Robbie's Seminars. You maybe asking yourself (like I did) the testimonials are all well and good but once the euphoria and excitement of attending a Seminar has died down ..... and I am back home in my normal routine and faced with the "graft" of putting it all into practice... will I become a better trader and be financially better off?
Let me tell you that in my case it certainly has!
Book your place pretty sharpish....... is what I say !

Thanks Gabriel!

Terry writes:
Fantastic seminar.

I have always been sceptical of the public testaments you see on web sites
saying how great an event was. Now I'm one of those people!. I
genuinely believe that the tips and techniques as well as the overall
approach you demonstrated will radically improve my trading performance

Thanks Terry, well all the testaments are real but know what you mean and glad you feel it was worth it!
Stephen writes:
I read your book and did the course - and I wasn't sure if I'd recoup the cost, it's been 2 years and I've made £38k + saved a loss transferring a Jupiter ISA heavily invested in BP. I can't tell you how important this is or how grateful I am. That's just me, who knows how much people have made with your help and saved by not making mistakes. I wanted to get into shares as they recovered after the crunch, but I assumed I had to put a large amount in one company I thought would make a big jump.
But what happens when you make £1m on the website, will you still do courses? I don't know how you do your ISA and SIPP investments, write the website, books, courses and answer e-mails. But please don't give it up. Couldn't you do the courses and have a standing website which gets updated with your trades say once a month so people can see what you do..

Stephen thanks so much for such a nice mail and much appreciated! Dunno about the future, I feel like I'm getting jaded. It's possible I might just reduce it all at some point to twice a month after going weekly - that would probably help. The other problem is other people's angst is getting to me and the email workload becoming overwhelming. I think after ten years it might be time for me to quit. Anyway good luck with your trades and hope you make a lot more.

I have 3 great offers from ADVFN.

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This compares to £473 direct from advfn inc vat so this deal saves you over a whopping £120! ADVFN level 2 also includes all the live trades made through Plus Markets which I find invaluable.
To accept this great deal just e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Level 2 offer" in the subject line and I will tell you how to get it. Level 2 gives you access to all the market maker positions and the order book and I would not trade without it!

More on level 2 in my book and I spend hours on it at my seminars. So if you get level 2 and want to learn how to use it properly live, book my seminar!

Deal two is ADVFN's bronze subscription - normally £74 pa - available from me for only £50! (inc vat) That's a saving of over £30! You access to the premium bulletin board which contains my discussion forum with direct access to some very good traders. Plus you get ADVFN's premium top lists which I think are a must for finding great stock picks. That includes great lists like ex dividend dates, market maker buys plus chart breakouts and downs. All as explained in the book.
To take up the offer, e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with Bronze in the subject line and I will tell you how to claim the deal.

Bronze is included inside the level 2 deal.

Deal three is ADVFN's silver subscription - for those of you who want all the benefits of Bronze AND always on real-time prices.. no more using the back button and getting frozen out!

The deal is via me you can save nearly £30 for your first year by paying just £145 inc vat via me instead of £173.71
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Normally this would be my last update for the year as usually we go to South Africa the minute we can!

But as we had a massive holiday recently in the States we thought we would have an at home Xmas this year. It's so cold today I wish we weren't but anyway it means I will do one more market update next week.

This will be a super dooper bumper Xmas update with a look back at my trading for the year and a look ahead to next. I only had one stinker this year and even that wasn't too bad.

Well, markets they continue to run in my favour and have done for most of this year.

I wasn't really expecting much out of this year so it's been a pleasant surprise with accounts bulging as those of you who've been to seminars may have noted!

Indeed the amounts I've made have been so great I am struggling to know which shares to put bigger amounts into - it is easy when you have smaller amounts.

Yeah, I can hear you say, you smug **** I wouldn't mind that problem. And that, dear reader, would be a fair comment. Smug git it is then. Call me what you like and see if I care.

Serve me right if the market crashes and I lose the lot, right? Hah, take that!

Have you noticed the huge number of ads around targetting the potential greed, laziness and gullibility of people?

One ad says something like Make thousands from a tenner in a month - the premise being from a tenner you can make that much in a month, you pay them and they show you how.

Of course it is complete cobblers. As are all the other ads you see around the place. FX ads are the worst - usually a pic of someone smiling on a beach and again the premise of the ad is use our amazing system, tips or whatever and you will be rich...

The truth is nearly everyone loses playing currencies and commodity prices - think you can beat the casino? Think again, sucker !

There is hardly a day goes buy without an email or a phone call from an Forex company wanting to advertising on this site offering me big money.

I say no. They seem surprised I don't take their money. They also don't protest when I say I know nearly everyone loses.

Also there are dozens of tipsters around. They claim various amazing percentage performances. Don't believe them. I've met loads of people at seminars who have bought into tipsters. I never found one that made any real money but plenty that lost a lot!

Beware - something feels too good to be true? It is !

To my trading - honestly I am lucky right now, I have been half asleep for most of the week. Drinking tea, eating toast, watching crap on tv and napping. Oh, and wondering when I should stir my lazy body to write some Xmas cards...

Why? Well all my shares are doing well and the money continues to rise and so I feel no big need to deliberately find trades, I wait till the right one comes along.

I have a list of stuff I like but they are not at the right prices yet.

And I'm trying to decide the best way to make money out of santa rally. The obvious thing I guess is a FTSE 100 spreadbet buy, taking profits early in the new year.

However instead I am toying with the idea of buying the FTSE 250 index instead. Looking at the past these second tier companies often rally even better than the top 100 so I might well do that instead.

But I bought a spreadbet in Alternative Networks (AN.) as a top up to my long-term holding which is in profit by around £8,000. Results were excellent, it has tons of cash, profits are leaping up and even better it has already turned down a bid approach. I suspect there will be a bid here probably in the 350 area I would guess, just a matter of being patient. In any event a good one even without a bid. A massive dividend too, have collected some very nice income from this one over the last couple of years on top of paper gains.

I sold out of my short in Abcam. I think it's not sensible to be short of anything till the new year as markets from here to then are usually good.

I was out averaging about 372 to bank a nice profit of £390 . A trade that worked nicely and perfectly to the trade plan! Well, I could have been out at 360 instead I guess! I also closed Ocado for a slight profit, again it's wise not to have shorts open up to Xmas.

All the recent buys have been going like a dream!

Anite has gone up far quicker than I thought it would but no complaints!

Trifast has leapt nicely over the 50p mark and goes well and Greencore slowly heads up towards a quid.

Aga has turned from a slow burner to a raging fire. (Well okay that's probably a bit too far) and has headed up over 70p. It has been in a nice uptrend since it confirmed it has sorted out long-term funding a deal on its pension deficit which sees it not having to make any new payments for a couple of years. Looks like it should get to near 80p with the potential of 90p where it hit earlier this year.

Carpetshit reported. As usual it makes dismal reading. They try and dress it up but the company is valued at 450 million when even the best forecasts reckon it (might) make 10m. That's a crazy valuation and the shares should be at least 50% less than they are. However I appear to be up against Bill Gates who keeps buying. He must be nuts but he has some awesome firepower to help shore up the price...

The lovely Porvair has been motoring up very nicely and in good profits there now.

St Ives tries to hold above 100 though can't seem to break through 106 at the mo. Try and be patient here!

Telecom Plus can't break the 900 area, still a good performance considering it went ex dividend for a big amount and I'll be getting a nice cheque for more nearly £6,000 shortly. I think this one will just continue to grow and grow and one day will be in the ftse 100. Website profits of well over £100,000 and personal profits of nearly £300,000.

Vectura is on the rise again a good drugs pipeline here and it has tons of cash - could be a future very big star and hoping to hold on longer term.

Carclo has been rising strongly this week and now tries to get over 450, tried once so far. Its CIT technology looks a winner and the shares could easily have a massive run up from here given time and patience. Nice profits on this one.

Avon has leapt nicely higher as it heads up towards the 400 area.
Chime keeps on going up - a good 30 points higher quite quickly still in this from 50p so a nice times four and a great profit on the ones bought more recently in the 140s and the spreadbet.

Costain has at last moved higher and seems in the middle of a deserved rerating.

Dialight struggles to get over 1100 but directors are confident and have been buying another one I just continue to hold long term and not worry about the ups and downs. Profits are well over £100,000 on it. I remember so well buying these at 150 ish at a seminar in 2009 ! I never thought I'd still have them three years later at over a tenner.

The Vitec Group is improving and seems on an undeserved low rating, Coastal is on the way back up after a takeover approach ended - and in a forward looking statement last week it showed what an amazing company it is and it should easily go over the very low ball offer soon. This week it gave forward looking statements for 2013. This one really is a cracker and massive profits for me here as I have nearly trebled my money in it.

Direct Line has proved a nice winning trade and has sped over 200. I was thinking of taking profits at over 200 but it seems so strong staying with it for the mo. LOQ announced an acquisition last week which sees the shares soaring again. Massive profits in this one where I have trebled my money but I feel more to come! It has cracked 300 for sure, can it get to 400?

Sepura continues to go for it and 100 surely must be cracked sooner or later. Nichols continues to slowly rise day by day and profits are now rolling in nicely... I'm hopeful of a bid at around the tenner mark.

A reminder you can spend a day with me and live markets on January 18th.. Email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "November seminar interested" in the subject line. There is a decent early bird discount!
I've been getting e-mails regarding my use of direct market access and who I use. I've tried a few and for me the easiest system for me is here:
http://www.igindex.com/nakedtrader
Direct market access means you can place orders directly onto the order book bypassing brokers and market-makers with a chance to buy at the "sell" price. I would suggest you ensure you know what you're doing first but IG does provide much education with its "tradesense" educational tool which comes with it.
I also use its spreadbetting service too along with other firms like Tradefair because it now provides trailing stops which to me is a pretty sensible way of trading. Also with this link there is an excellent education programme and it offers the biggest range of smaller shares.

http://www.igindex.com/nakedtrader
As usual before opening accounts please read all the warnings on the sites. You can lose a lot of money if you're not careful so pay close attention to them and make sure you always understand what you are doing and what your potential losses are.

I've also started using Tradefair for spreadbetting - I like the auto generated stop losses which help to maintain discipline and that's good for beginners I think. And exclusively for Naked Trader readers they upped the offer to £100 credit.
So there's now a £100 credit on offer for anyone opening an account via me. You get that after 5 spreadbets (terms and conditions apply).
To get the offer, click here:
http://www.tradefair.com/promo/spreads/nakedtrader100/

If you want to get the contents of The Naked Trader website into your mailbox instead of waiting for the update to come through, plus exclusively news on the progress of my SIPP from the old Sunday Times column inc new higher risk Aim buys made for that, e-mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with SIPP in the subject line for details of how to get it.

Want to quit the rat race? Try and start a new source of income so one day you can tell the boss to stuff it? You could do what I did to escape my grotty office job and become an independent distributor for the Utilities Discount Warehouse.
You get to sell great broadband, phone packages and energy to friends, relatives, contacts and anyone else you find and you get cash for each sale but more importantly you get a cut of their spend EVERY MONTH for as long as they are a customer!
It's called residual income and is a far better way to enjoy a ripe old age than relying on a pension. Because even after you stop selling the money STILL comes in!
I still get paid EVERY MONTH for sales I made back in 1999! Every time a customer uses broadband or the phone or switches on a light you get paid.
It's a great business and backed by a stock market company (Telecom Plus), a dedicated team of advisors.. and me to help you on your way!
Not only do you get paid out every month for each customer you can take on distributors. encourage them like I do and get paid on their sales as well.
One day, say you could made redundant, needed a year off or wanted to retire early can you imagine what joy it is to have the regular income coming in. It's wonderful.
You have to work at it, but if you do genuine repeat wealth could be yours. I did it. You can too. For full details, why not email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com.
An overview is also available at http://www.utilitywarehouse.org.uk/fabdeal you can sign up directly there but do tell me! (Click become a distributor and follow links)
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Trade tables follow! Trades are current open and recently closed trades. Closed trades feature the closing price and the amount I won or lost. All others are open. Trades get updated a little later than the narrative. Trading costs are ignored, however I also do not add in dividend payments and with the kinds of companies I buy, dividends tend to equal or outweigh costs. Spread rollovers ignored for web purposes. Tables as accurate as poss however a mistake or two can creep in and very occasionally if I forgot I sold or bought something it will be added at a later time.
Trades first reported Wednesday afternoons under "Markets" section..