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Ok, time for something humorous.  Today while playing around on youtube I came across a video that had me laughing for quite some time.  It’s a parody of a car lot commercial and what it would be like if there was truth in advertising from a slimy car dealer.  But it quickly got me thinking about work from home and business opportunities and how they are marketed.  If there was truth in there pitch would some of them resemble Big Bill Hell’s?  Haha.  I will warn you, the language is very colorful so don’t watch if you are easily offended.

Hey everyone, I wanted to post this article for your reading pleasure.  It’s just an overall heartwarming feel good story of one person overcoming challenges.  There is also a link at the bottom for the story on Yahoo.  Enjoy!

Nancy Shute - Fri Apr 3, 12:46 pm ET
Joe Steffy is off to Overland Park, Kan., this week to do a PowerPoint presentation on his business, Poppin’ Joe’s Kettle Korn. He’s a 23-year-old small-business man with a goal of $100,000 in sales by 2012. Joe also has autism and Down syndrome and is nonverbal. When he gives his talk, he will push buttons on an augmentative speech device to deliver the words. His audience will be parents who fervently hope their own special-needs children will be able to work, too.
Joe’s parents, Ray and Janet, didn’t agree with the school district assessment in their home town of Louisburg, Kan., that said Joe would never be able to work or live independently. “I’m one who can easily get ticked off,” says Ray. “That ticked me off. We saw more in Joe than that. We set out to prove to the school that he had capabilities.” They came across kettle corn while on a trip to Alaska and realized that all that popping, scooping, and serving suited Joe’s love of work.
The path to Joe Steffy’s success was not an easy one; Ray Steffy worked closely with Dave Hammis, an advocate for self-employment for people with disabilities in Middletown, Ohio, who trains business owners, government employees, and parents on how to make use of state and federal programs. The Steffys wrote up a business plan and helped Joe secure $25,000 in grants from programs like Social Security Administration’s Plan to Achieve Self-Support program (PASS).
In 2005, Poppin’ Joe’s Kettle Korn was born. Sales have grown from $16,000 in 2005 to $50,000 in 2008, both from selling at festivals and from delivering popcorn to local outlets. Joe has five part-time employees, and his parents help out with driving and other tasks. “Pop and everyone that works with him knows whatever Joe wants to do you let him do, because he’s the boss,” Ray says. “If he wants to pop, he’ll shove Dad out of the way and pop.”
If the business stays on track, it should be grossing more than $100,000 in three years, and the Steffys are seeking a business partner who can work with Joe to manage the business. Joe is no longer on Social Security disability payments; instead, he pays state sales tax and state and federal income tax. He rents his own house and is helped by caregivers who are paid by a state program.
“It’s been hard work, from the standpoint of physical work,” says Ray Steffy, who is 67. “But a parent with a child like Joe has a choice. You can either kick in and do this kind of thing, or you can sit and fret emotionally with the amount of energy, worrying about what’s going to happen to them.”
The payoff for that effort, as far as the Steffys are concerned, has been priceless. They see their son make a local popcorn delivery, accept payment, fold it, and put it in his pocket. When he walks out, his dad says, Joe looks 3 inches taller than when he walked in.

See more here http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20090…nrunsabusiness

Well after a week of using the Express FX software through fxclub.com I have had some success and some failure.  This software is much easier to trade in than the Rumus 2 software but the Rumus is still important to use in analysis.  I say that although this last week I used only the Express FX. 

The one place I seemed to always go wrong was when the trend would change.  I would make $500 to $1000, and then lose it incrementally in $300 amounts.  I always use stop loss orders at $300 sometimes as high as $500.  Over the last week my balance has soared up, only to come back to where I started, not once but three times.

The most helpful and interesting thing I found to watch in the Express FX was to set lines and watch how it reacted to support and resistance levels.  Now I just need to watch closer for trend changes and be ready to act accordingly.  As I said before stick to one currency and become a pro with it, I have been using the AUD/USD for all trading.  More to come later…

To try to keep info on home business opportunities fresh and new I constantly look for new things to try and I have come to couple conclusions.  I am either too damn smart, or the opportunities are just that lame and transparent.  I am a very skeptical person, and this may cause problems too, but some of the things out there are so unbelievable I can’t even get myself to try just for the sake of research to put on this site due to the fact you can see it’s a scam or a joke from a mile away.

Im using this time currently to get back into trading on the Forex market.  Fxclub.com came out with a new software trading platform called ExpressFX that I find easier to use and have had more success with.  I still use the Rumus software for more in depth technical analysis but do all trading in the Express software.  I am using my free practice account and having a good time, up a little over $1,200 yesterday alone.  I will post a link to Fxclub.com at the bottom of this post if anyone wants to try it out too.  Just remember to start with a practice account and that even though potential is there for big gains, the same risk for loss is present also.

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