Darren Winters/Win investing 1 day international property course

Darren Winters/Win investing 1 day internal property course

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Business Britaon On Darren Winters/Win investing

WIN INVESTING - THE UK'S MOST POPULAR INVESTMENT TRAINING COURSES:
Stock Market Training and Property Investing Courses

The stock markets are awash with fast-moving cash. There is over nine hundred and eighty two billion pounds in the UK stock market alone, and there’s more than 10 trillion when you add in the US market. What’s more, this huge amount of stock market cash never sleeps. It is constantly being fed in, circling around, looking for new owners. Constantly being transferred, from the people who don’t know the rules, to the people who do. The fact is that most non-professional investors rack up sizable losses and all that capital goes to the people who know what they are doing. Stock market investing is a foundation for long and short term wealth. It is an outstanding vehicle for financial prosperity and divides people into winners and losers faster than anything else. The trick is to invest just like the great investors do.

Win Investing was founded in the year 2000. Since the first year it has been growing rapidly and soon became the market leader in the UK and Europe for stock market training. They then launched their massively successful property investment courses. Win Investing have now successfully trained more people to invest than any other investment training company in Britain with over one hundred thousand course graduates in the UK and also many clients from abroad. Their complimentary stock market training course is the most popular of its kind in the UK and their free property course has been rated as outstanding for the content and strategies which are taught. They have maintained their number one position by providing very high quality training courses that teach easy to follow and easy to apply investment strategies. This has resulted in 1000’s of graduate success stories and testimonials, with happy clients then referring friends and family.

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Since the year 2000 Win Investing have been helping their clients make substantial returns on their stock market and property investments. Graduates of their training programmes continue to bring home some fat profits. Win Investing has received literally 1000's of success stories and testimonials from people they have trained, many of them total beginners - and these are just the people who took the time to write to them.

The stock market is the most profitable form of common investment. Long term it is more profitable than bonds, banks and even buy and hold property. If you are not happy with your broker or fund manager then Win Investing can help you to take control of your financial future and teach you the secrets of stock market millionaires. Actually, say Win Investing, there are a number of secrets which form core trading strategies, all of them explained simply and clearly in just three hours at their free training course. The WIN Investing system works so well because it combines the super-successful strategies of more than 20 of the world’s most celebrated high-profit traders, people personally worked with and people studied by Win Investing, in London, New York, Chicago and around the World They have also distilled the key insights and techniques from over 200 classic and contemporary investment books and manuals and taken part themselves in ground-breaking investment courses in the UK, the US and Russia too. Of course even the best systems in the world don’t work every time, but by learning the rules of the great investors you are stacking the odds on your side and if probability is on your side the more money you invest the more money you make.

It doesn’t matter what your situation is or where you are in life right now. The WIN training programmes will give you the strategies, ideas and support to enable you to build wealth quickly and easily, putting you on the path to financial prosperity. There are literally hundreds of stock market strategies which can help you build your personal wealth, some of which could make you up to 10% a month profit. You’ll find out about the best strategies to use over the three day training course. You’ll also be provided with ways to cut your taxes, protect your assets and all the materials you’ll need to take control of your financial destiny.

Besides stock market trading, property investment is another proven way to create massive wealth in the long and medium term. By investing intelligently into property, you can build cash flow, benefit from capital growth, passive income and develop a solid long-term investment strategy that steadily increases your income. Win Investing have over 25 proven ways to make money from property investing and will help you choose which methods will be most effective for your personal situation.

They believe in increasing your likelihood of success by developing a mentorship relationship. Mentorship is the process of coaching someone to success. Being a partner in the person's achievements, challenging them, and getting the best results possible for their future. One of the reasons why their advanced training works so well, is because they have coaching and mentorship elements.

It is likely you have a number of personal expectations about what you need from a company or educational programme that teaches stock market or property investing. Most people are looking for powerful, yet simply to apply strategies, that get maximum profit for minimum time and effort required. Many people also want to have access to ongoing support and the chance to have 1 to 1 coaching where needed. Win Investing provides all of this as well as covering important topics such as: General orientation to wealth building strategies, strategies to develop immediate cash flow, ways to generate better than average return on investments, how to minimise the amount of work needed for immediate results and networking opportunities both locally and nationally, plus much more. It is a sequential system and learning model. Much like a university course, they have various levels of training, from beginner levels, intermediate, to advanced programmes. They have designed their education system with the student in mind and ensure that clients perform to their true potential.

WIN is also involved in charity work, and is a Sponsor of the UK children’s discovery camp where children are taught skills to help them have more confidence and success.

For more details on the Free Win Investing property training courses go to www.WinPropertyInvesting.co.uk/bba and for their Free stock market courses go to www.WinInvesting.co.uk/bba
Or call Win Investing on 0800 084 20 20

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CONGRATULATIONS TO WIN INVESTING! WINNER OF BUSINESS BRITAIN'S INVESTMENT PROVIDER OF THE YEAR 2007!! FOR THE SECOND YEAR RUNNING!!!


The award was granted on a points scoring system with the main criteria being :-

1 Return on Investment,
2 Strength of Training Programmes,
3 Cost Efficiency,
6 Standards and Methodology used,
7 Ease of Client Understanding,
8 End Benefit to Client,
9 Marketing and Promotion and
10 Appropriateness to Business Britain's Reader.

Business Britain caught up with Win Investing for an interview :-

1) As the winner of Business Britain’s Financial Investment Provider of the Year 2007 for a second year running, please accept our congratulations to yourself and your team. What do you think being recognised in this way will mean to Win Investing?

Answer: Having a leading Business Publication acknowledge the excellent standards and success of our training courses in personal wealth development, is a great re-enforcement of what our clients already know - that Win Investing provides the most effective training courses in the UK for people who want to build their wealth through stock market or property investing.

2) In what way do you think your services would have appropriateness for Business Britain readers?

Answer: Our courses provide everyone with a valuable and lucrative second income strategy and methods to turn this into a main source of income.

3) A strict criteria is adhered to when the management of Business Britain decide upon a winner, one of these is the Return on Investment. Could you please give an idea of what kinds of returns on investment could be expected from using the services of Win Investing, and how this may have contributed to the final decision of the judges?

Answer: We have literally thousands of third party testimonials and success stories from graduates of both our Stocks Market and Property Investment training courses showing how successful our investment strategies are, these include the following:
_________Stock Market:

“..I’ve made £30,000 profit within 4 months”, P.Webley – Stock Broker.

“…within a year 1 achieved 60% profit…”, A. Pintea – Fitness Instructor.

“…within 6 weeks I am now £12,840 better off”, S Sleman - Management Consultant.

Property
“ The simplicity of the course has made me realise that I can make it happen straight away. It’s a must to attend this course”, – Mr O Ubebe.

“ The greatest benefit of going on the course was the knowledge of how I can generate cash flow with no money down. If freedom is something you desire in life – the course is a must ", – Mr B Beaupierre.

4) Do you have any additional services which compliment what you may describe as your core range?

Answer: For both stock market and property we offer one to one mentoring and have a monthly investors meeting as well as giving telephone and email support to all of our clients.

5) Marketing and promotion obviously plays a large role within your organisation, could you please comment on the factors which have contributed to your great success in regard to this aspect of your operation?

Answer: The most important factor in our growth has been the terrific response we get from our free Stock Market and Property Investment tutorials which we hold in every major city throughout the UK. These tutorials give people the courage to make positive life changing decisions to go on and learn more strategies for creating a second income and build the financial security and independence they deserve.

6) A further criteria which is considered is that of cost efficiency. What policies and measures does win investing have in place to maintain your competitive edge?

Answer: We have an ongoing investment in our courses and training strategies which means that we are always giving the best advice and training.

7) What type of training programmes does Win Investing have in place and what would you say are their strengths?

Answer: Our investment training programmes have been attended by over 100,000 people since 2000 and we receive daily testimonials which bear testament to the outstanding stock market and property investing strategies that our clients have learnt.

8) To what standards of investment does Win Investing work and what is your methodology when it comes to arranging the services that win investing provides?

Answer: We hold ourselves to the highest standards and clients receive advice and training from successful world class investment strategists from both the UK and US. Our methodology is simple - we invite potential clients to attend one of our free training courses, provide great content and then give them the option to learn more and invest in their future by attending one of our three day training courses held throughout the UK.

9) What measures and to what lengths do Win Investing go to ensure ease of client understanding of their service?

Answer: Win has recognised that people from all walks of life are interested in learning the secrets of investment professionals and developing a second income strategy or a new main source of income. All of our courses come with a home course study pack consisting of a number of visual presentations on DVD as well written user friendly course reference manuals

10) How would you define, in terms of value to them, the end benefit of your service to your clients?

Answer: We provide a way for people to develop a successful second income generating strategy which they can use for life and which will give them financial security and independence.

THANK YOU, WIN INVESTING, AND, ONCE AGAIN CONGRATULATIONS !

Press Release

Award Winner 2007: Win Investing / Darren Winters

The UK’s most popular stock market and property investment training courses. WIN Investing was founded in the year 2000. Since the first year WIN has been growing rapidly and soon became the market leader in the UK and Europe for investment training. WIN has successfully trained more people to invest than any other stock market training company in Britain and its property investing courses are regarded by most as the best in the UK. WIN Investing has been the number one choice for over one hundred thousand people in Britian and has also attracted clients from Europe and abroad.

WIN Investing has maintained its number one position by providing very high quality training courses, that teach easy to follow and easy to apply investment strategies. This has resulted in thousands of graduate success stories and testimonials, with happy clients then referring friends and family. Business Britain is proud to have awarded WIN investing "Financial Investment Provider of the year 2007" for the second year running.

Contact: www.wininvesting.com Tel: 0800 084 20 20 or text WINOFFER to 87222

Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's)

For new and old investors, the futures market can be quite scary at times. Some of the lot sizes for futures are a bit rich for many, let alone the perceived risk. Now if you’re not too sure what the futures market is and after reading Kevin’s article on page 16, are still not sure that this is something for you, well there is good news here and more on the way.

If you wanted to take advantage of the rising demand for gold, the previous alternatives were limited for many investors. Of course you could spread bet, but that is not for everyone, nor is taking delivery of the metal which does not allow you to buy and sell within seconds rather than days. (That said it is always good to own some gold coins for the long term).

Everyone understands the principle of buying or selling a share, so what better than being able to buy and sell gold, silver and oil and even a currency pairing in exactly the same way and from the same account? The good news is that you can already do this with some of the items listed and it will not to long before a further group will be offered.

HOW THEY WORK

An ETF is basically an index fund that is traded on the stock market. Most funds contain a basket of the asset class (such as stocks) which represent the underlying index. For example the first ever ETF that was released, SPY, tracks the S&P 500 thus contains shares of the stocks listed within the index.

There are a number of different ways of how ETFs are managed, there are Grantor Trusts which mirrored an index when originally created but does not attempt to track it move for move. HOLDRs follow this discipline. There are Management Investment Company’s. which tracks the index closely, although uses a sampling technique rather than buying each of the constituents, these include iShares and sector SPDRs. Then there is a straight forward Index fund that mirrors as closely as possible the index by purchasing all the stocks in the index on a weighted basis and will maintain a close price rating to that index.

If you want to check out how well an EFT correlates to a particular index, you just need to look at the R squared figure, which ranges between 0.00 and 1.00, with 1.00 being perfect correlation and 0.00 being no correlation.

The costs associated with ETFs are relatively small and are laid out clearly. The good thing from an investor’s point of view is that they do not pay these directly, they just buy and sell the fund as they would a stock meaning the only direct costs are brokerage fees.

THE RANGE

There are currently over 200 different ETFs to choose from. You can see a list on sites such as Yahoo or on the TC2005 charting package.

The range includes the main US indices and all sub indices. Individual country selected index funds, sector funds ( you can trade the Consumer Staples fund (VDC) or energy fund (VDE) etc.)

Of particular interest are the newer editions sold as Gold (GLD) which trades at one tenth of the price of gold, the Euro Currency (FXE) which is effectively the euro/dollar pairing and the DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund, DBC, which contains a basket of commodities.

Soon to be released is a Crude oil fund (USO) and Barclays Global are expected to be launching a silver index fund.

TRADING THEM

You can trade in and out of any of these ETFs using a normal stock brokerage account. There is no minimum amount to buy, so you could buy just 5 shares for example.

As with any investment we would suggest you should manage the amount of money you use in any one of these funds. This is particularly important for the more specialized funds such as gold or the new to be released crude oil where there is still a high amount of risk

Regards

Darren Winters

For more information, please visit the following web sites;

www.wininvesting.com and www.wininvestingnew.com

Price verses indicators

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www.wininvesting.com and www.wininvestingnews.com


One of the very first ‘holy grails’ of trading we encounter is indicators. When we first analyze them whilst looking at past charts, their accuracy looks impressive. But in a live trading environment, are they as useful as they look when we first learnt them with the benefit of perfect 20/20 hindsight?

What a new investor or trader does is to put too much reliance in them, only to find they give false signals. Alternatively, using a number of indicators together produces a situation where some are giving sell signals and others are screaming buy!

Am I therefore saying that indicators are useless? I don’t want to rattle too many feathers here, but it is good to ask questions with regards to the validity of the countless numbers of indicators we use.

All indicators have one thing in common. They use different types of price and volume action in order for them to be compiled. So the next logical question must be; can we simply look at price action as our means to enter and exit our trades?

Whereas many individuals will use indicators to tell them if we are in a strong market, surely price alone can tell us this? To give you an example, take a look at a chart of the Dow. Just looking at the rally in early March, I can see it performed this in the space of 9 traded days. However, the following retracement took 18 days to complete. It’s telling us the bulls have the upper hand as they can push the market up far quicker than the bears can take it back down again.

This type of price action can be viewed on any timeframe, whether it’s a daily, weekly, monthly chart or even an intra-day 5 minute chart. You can also use price bars themselves to give you a good measure of what is happening in the market and identify entry points.

For instance, if price has just broken out of a prior resistance area, I would be more inclined to wait for a pullback before entering the trade. If price pulls back to the area of previous resistance and bounces off it, that gives me a far better area to enter a trade. I can have better placement of my stop/loss and have better certainty that a new support area has been created.

Ok, so using price, whether it is by recognizing patterns, using candlesticks for analyzing opening and closing prices or using simple price reversal signals, we can certainly trade based on that alone.

However, for the number of competent traders I know who do not use indicators, there are others who swear by them.

One trader I know has so many indicators on his screen, it simply looks like one colourful mess of lines on his charts—but the key thing is that it works for him. One indicator he uses is a very short term RSI (2,2) in order to help identify when a pullback is completing on a stock or index that is in a larger uptrend.

Another trader I know likes to use MACD (12,26,9) showing it represented as both a line and histogram. He accompanies this with a stochastic (14,3,3) and combines the two.

Personally, I don’t use these indicators but as we all know, there is no definitive right or wrong way to technically trade. Although I look for price patterns frequently, I personally like to look at how price is moving in relation to key moving averages such as the 50,200 and 500dma. When I see price reacting in certain ways against these averages, it can help give me key buy and sell signals (see past issues).

In summary, you have to find a way of trading that suits you as an individual. The basic way of using indicators may require adapting these days, but they still have their merits if you want to use them to confirm price action.

But the leading indicator of all is price, so recognizing price reversal patterns, consolidations and continuations is essential. Once you have learnt how to spot them, then you need to know how to trade them. Remember, if you are seeing a chart pattern, it’s likely a lot of other traders are too. Because of that, I would
rather wait until after the breakout and inevitable pullback before getting into that
stock……

Regards Darren Winters

The best ways to trade for your pension by Darren Winters

Trading and investing your own pension pot is becoming ever more popular as more people open their own Self Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs). Before I go any further, I would suggest that you don’t start trading your own pension fund until you feel competent enough to do so.

I remember Derek, the 72 year old who traded his own pension fund from£90,000 up to about £300,000 a few years ago, needless to say, he was happy with what he had achieved. But what should we look to do first of all and what is the best way to maximize our potential?

As a first port of call, ensure you’re using your yearly ISA allowance before you start with a pension. You can invest £7,000 a year into an equity ISA and many providers give you the opportunity to either invest into a wide range of investment trusts, OEICs, individual shares or cash.

If you’re already using your yearly ISA allowance and have a pot of money to put into a pension, then opening a SIPP account is the next step for you. Realistically, you need at least £10,000 to invest into a SIPP as this gives you enough money to negate any dealing expenses you incur and annual charges to still make it worth while.

So what are the benefits of a SIPP? Well a traditional personal or stakeholder pension often just gives you a choice of its own company’s funds or a limited number of funds offered by other fund managers. A SIPP lets you choose from a wide range of funds and other investments. A SIPP is merely a wrapper that provides the tax advantages and legalities for your collection of investments at retirement. You can switch between a large number of funds (typically at least 1000) and permitted investment types.

With a SIPP, you can invest in the following vehicles;

1.
Shares traded on the London Stock Exchange (including AIM); the Dow 30; Nasdaq 100; S&P 500; European top 300.
2.
Investment trusts
3.
Unit trusts (at least 1000)
4.
Covered warrants (such as the Soc
Gen commodity ones we have mentioned in the weekly updates recently)
5.
Commercial property
6.
CFD’s
You really do have a lot of flexibility with what you can place your money into within a SIPP wrapper. The charges are quite competitive too; I spoke to Hargreaves Lansdown who have one of the most competitive SIPPs in the market. They have no set up fee or transfer in fee and no processing fee. They have no dealing fees on unit trusts or OEICs and have large discounts off top performing
funds of up to 5.5%. To trade in and out of individual shares, they charge £9.95 which is also competitive.

The only disadvantage with Hargreaves Lansdown is that they do not currently allow you to trade CFD’s within their SIPP.

However, Killik & Co, one of London’s largest stock brokers will allow CFD’s to be traded within their SIPP plus they have another nice advantage; you can invest into Initial Public offerings (IPO’s) within their SIPP and their stock brokers can keep clients informed of new IPO’s that might be of interest. Their charges are slightly higher than Hargreaves but for larger investors, their service and advice might just have the edge.

Overall, ISA’s will offer more flexibility at retirement as you are free to do whatever you like with your money. It’s therefore essential you and your spouse are using your ISA allowance each year before establishing a SIPP. However if you have a fund you wish to trade, look up the two brokers I have written about.

Remember to correctly asset allocate your fund and take advice on this from these stock brokers if needs be. If you want to trade CFD’s in order to gain the leverage with each stock trade, remember you need to be considered an intermediate investor and have a sufficient funds in order to do this.

You can still trade outside of a SIPP for your pension but once you have used your ISA allowance, this offers the next best tax efficient way to do so.

Regards

Darren Winters
For more information please go to the following websites;

www.wininvesting.com and www.wininvestingnews.com

Trade and still have a full time job

Many of our UK readers tell us the biggest frustration for them is not being able to trade and hold down a full time occupation at the same time. We agree it can’t be easy, but there is certainly a way of combining the two…..

From Monday to Friday, we pretty much have the opportunity to trade on one market or another, 24 hours a day. This enables a trader the ability to trade in different time zones to the one he or she is in. So for UK investors who work during the day, the easiest option for them is to trade the US markets which are open until 9pm GMT.

The good thing about trading the US markets after coming home from work is that you can find plenty of movement between 7pm-9pm UK time, as this is the afternoon trading session in the US.

Very short term traders can use this 2 hour window to get in and out of positions, but we appreciate that many of our readers trade over slightly longer time periods than that. For example, you could see a chart pattern develop in the evening and want to take advantage of it, but won’t be around when it triggers the following day.

This is where the use of different strategy orders comes into play. Let’s start off with a relatively simple strategy that you can trade even if you are not around. We covered this strategy in the January edition so I suggest you re-read that article if you missed it the first time. This is simply when a stock/index/currency forms a ‘box’ consolidation as in the diagram below.

In this strategy, price needs to have made two highs and two lows within a parallel channel (read Jan article for the specific rules). Let’s assume you are watching a stock in the evening as it forms this pattern. The market is going to close shortly and you know this pattern is going to break in one direction or another the following day while you are at work.

Let’s also assume the price at which this pattern would break out to the upside is $40 and the price which would trigger a short sell is $39. So you place a buy order at $40 with a stop just below $39 and then a second order with a sell at $39 and a stop at $40. You can set these up so that whichever one triggers first, the other order will be cancelled.

For the purposes of this exercise, we will assume the pattern breaks to the upside.
Your buy order is triggered at $40 and subsequently, your sell order at $39 is cancelled automatically. You still have a stop loss in place on this order at $39. The final order you needed to put in place was a contingent order.

So, you would have placed a contingent order to sell when the price reached your target. The target for this strategy is straight forward as it is the width of the box which we know is $1. So you would have place a contingent order to sell at $41 if the initial break comes to the upside of the pattern at $40. Obviously you would have also placed a contingent order to close the position if the initial break had been below $39 and set these up as one cancels another.

You are now in a situation having set up your orders that you simply don’t have to be in front of your screen to make the trade or take profits. You can literarily set up contingent and one cancels other orders so that you can be triggered into the trade no matter what direction it breaks. You still have a stop loss in place as well as a pre-defined price at which you will close the position to take profits. All this can happen whilst you are out at work.

I have just given one example here, but you can place these types of orders around any number of different chart patterns you trade (triangles, flags or even pullbacks to trend-line support).

The key is having the right broker that has the facility to set up multiple orders. I know many readers spread bet and I know you can establish these order types with Finspreads and I’m sure others can do it too (although I know CMC can’t at this point in time). For normal share trading accounts, Interactive Brokers have the facilities to establish multiple ordering too.

With brokers offering facilities to establish multiple contingent orders, it is becoming easier for individuals to analyze the markets after work and establish orders for the following day whilst they are back at work.

Darren Winters

For more information, please visit the sites listed below.

www.wininvesting.com
www.wininvestingnews.com