In one big swoop, I have posted 4 updates. What a great day….

Anyway, as one section closes (Casino Journal) another begins (Forex Journal)

Like casino/gambling, forex is very much related to HYIP, more so than casino/gambling. So I have decided that this year, I would be more in control of my investments or money rather than let others to decide if my money will grow or be scammed by all these funny programs.

While I will still be in the HYIP game, I would like to focus my spare time on forex trading.

Pretty interesting this forex trading escapade… no??

It’s time for another portfolio review.

My last review on my updated portfolio performances was done on the 4 Dec 2007.

Since that time, my return has jumped by 20% and now I can safely say that I have recouped my principle.

Ok… maybe not, I have cheated a bit as AMF Limited has yet to pay out. The latest update is that they will be paying out to their members the whole term beginning 1 Feb 2008. Meaning they will be paying the full profits they promised even before the terms matured.

So come next month, you might see a jump in my returns.

Why am I so confident with AMF? Well, once again, I join AMF because I was introduce to one of the pioneers of AMF. He resides in my country so, if anything happens I know where to look for him or rather a lot of members here in Malaysia will look for him.

This is how confident I am about AMF.

Now once AMF have fully paid of their members they will close down the program and reopen a new program where the minimum deposit is $10,000!!!

Yes that is a big $10k minimum deposit. Probably one of the reason of increasing the minimum is the amount of work done to pay of small investors of $100 which I think without automation it is pretty difficult to sort out. About 4 to 5 months ago, they stop using e-gold and thus, all payments was bank wired. So you can imagine the amount of work needed to pay off their small investors.

So, after this program it should be bye bye… AMF for me. $10k is too big an amount to risk…. don’t you think?

Now other than AMF another good program that is really doing well for me is Minvestment. In one cycle my return is almost 100% while I really am itching to increase my investments, I think history has it that the longer it says, the longer it would harm me.

So once my terms ends, I will reinvest the principles. By the way the principle will be returned. Whichever it pans out, this program has helped me pull out of the reds.

LargeSum is also another program that has helped me. So with the second cycle I would have recoup my principle. And the next round would be risking my profits. Let’s hope things pan out well…..

Well, I guess this will be my last entry in my Casino Journal…

Gambling systems…. Roulette Systems… Blackjack systems…

I do not seem to have luck with roulette systems and neither do I have more patiences to toy around with more roulette systems.

Been there, done that sort of feel to it now for me with roulette systems.

While there was a time a month back where I wanted to test out more system or even do another roulette challenge. The motivation is no longer there anymore….

So, I guess I will need to close this chapter of my blog for good. It’s funny, most of my hits comes from searches done on roulette systems. While in a monetary sense I should capitalize on it, but in a personal sense it no longer appeal to me.

Maybe because I did not make money from it… with roulette system that is.

But for blackjack, I did make money from it. I wanted to dive back again to see if even with new casino bonus terms I can still come out a winner, but unfortunately once again I lack the motivation to continue this….

So, for my visitors with gambling interest…. BEST OF LUCK IN THE CASINO…. hope you rip your rewards from them…..

Well, it has been sometime now since I wanted to write this article with regards to traffic arbitrage. Let me tell you this now…. This way of making money is no joke. It’s really time consuming. Well, time consuming for me and earnings is not as expected….

The idea about traffic arbitrage is to buy cheap pay per click (PPC) traffic and then channel these traffic through to your landing page which could either be content base or a search feed, and then hope to sell these traffic to either Adsense or other PPC search engines.

Sounds simple right?

Well, not exactly as simple as it is….

Now there are two ebooks out there which I have purchased and tried out… Google Payload and Adsense Voodoo. I also got the idea from a free report, Adsense Arbitrage – (Brad Callen’s free report of KeywordElite)

While the first two books talk about PPC traffic arbitrage in detail, adsense arbitrage is basically a report base on an extract from one of Brad’s forum member post his ways of arbitraging traffic.

Now coming back to main topic here….. One of the main skills that one should have or learn in order to profit from this system is you must know how to build a website.

If it was a content base, it would be very simple. You can either purchase an easy WYSIWYG sort of html editor like XSitePro or you can learn the basic of HTML and use Dreamweaver.

If you don’t know how to build a website, sorry… if you don’t know how to build a decent website, then it would be very difficult to convert your traffic.

Now if you were going to use a search feed sort of landing page, the one and only thing you really really need to learn is not only how to build the basic website, but you must know how to use php. Now that is a real stumbling block for an average joe.

While Google Payload does have videos to help guide you through the basic, you will still need to learn it the basic of HTML.

If you want to start and learn about traffic arbitrage, and you know just the basic of HTML then Adsense Voodoo is the right one for you. This is because the author talks more in detail about getting contents, searching for keywords, ppc advertising placing. Everything you need to get your content PPC campaign working.

Now so far these are the only two ebooks which I found about traffic arbitrage (apart from the free report). And I must say… both did not work for me. It’s either I gave up too soon, choose the wrong keywords or did my landing page wrongly.

It was too tedious for me to continue to tweak because I was earning cents on three campaigns. CENTS!!!

Now what these author does not really reveal is that, you need to spend and hope that the traffic converts. If the traffic does not CONVERT, you are actually spending your money upfront on PPC.

While it is cheap traffic and you don’t really pay loads, it does create some strain on your wallet.

Anyhow… I manage to breakeven. That was when I stop… The amount of time to tweak and monitor is just too tedious and time consuming. That is one of the reasons, why I was out of action from update my site for quite a while

These are the three campaign I manage to come up with in order.
1. Cheap Tickets
2. Green Card Lottery
3. Mortgage Refinancing

Mortgage Refinancing topic was the interesting one, because the I was getting like $1.00 per click but my conversation rate was very low (<5%). So I was like spending $50.00 per day and manage $50+ per day on adsense….

Something is wrong…. It’s either me or this system does not really work as stated…. Sigh….. back to square one in my money making plan….