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Getting an accurate Market Timing is a very difficulty thing regardless of what you may have been made to believe. To neutralize the effects of inaccurate Market Timing is the so called neutral options trades biased in favour of what you think is the trend of the underlying stock. Contrary to the belief that determining the security's trend is easy, in real time this is very difficulty. That being the case, it would be fair if I mention a few things you need to know about options for you to trade neutral trades. There is a way to go about trading options that will eliminate all those fears. I am going to start by assuming that you have the basics of options and that you know what stock options are, and the details of puts and calls, strike-prices and expiration dates, in-the-money, at-the-money, out-of-the-money, short and long positions. If you do not have the basics, read a book on options.

To beat inaccurate Stock Market Timing, the secret to this neutral options game plan is to use other people's money in that the options you sell pays for the better part of what you buy, with your money paying just for the difference or the gap. If you do this, it will not take long before you realize that you are ahead of the game. Unfortunately many of us place a lot of weight on trying to predict the difficulty Stock Market Timing and hardly use this strategy.

This style of options trading is a sedative strategy and you should not expect your money to multiply rampantly overnight but rather slow and consistence profits throughout the year – its waiting is like watching water in a cup dry. A 35% profit within a period of two to three weeks is normal but bigger gains in less time are not unusual. So, what Happens? The sold options and the bought options are confined in a channel such that the sold options decays or lose value faster than the bought options and the spread between their prices widen with time. When the situations warrant the appropriate adjustments and or rollovers are made to ensure all options are within the profit-yielding channel without reversing their roles.

90 percent of all options expire worthless. Time for logic: Does this mean that 90 percent of all those buying options lose their monies and that 90 percent of those who sell options make money from those options? Do not try any of these because either way you will most likely lose your money. But combine both and you see the difference. It's no wonder covered call writing is so popular. If you think the market is going up you can do the following: (a) buy long stock and sell a call, (b) buy deep in-the-money call/leap and sell at-the-money call, or (c) buy long stock. If you think the market is going down you can do the following: (a) short the stock and sell a put, (b) buy deep in-the-money put/leap and sell at-the-money put, or (c) short the stock. You will have to consider the issue of margin or collateral where applicable. These really are neutral positions but still the issue of combined delta, wear, volatility, price direction and so forth and so on has to be well understood.

Facts about Neutral Positions: Why is it then that Neutral Positions have high chances of making a profit? Two factors come into play here. (a) The short options nearer the expiration month wear or decay faster in time value in favor of the options writer and against the options buyer. (b) The stocks spend a lot of time fluctuating in neutral sideway ranges and during which options issued against them are losing time value. By twisting call and put options in certain ways, we can reduce the money we put at risk and still stand good chances of making nice profits.

Options are highly affected by implied volatility. The implied volatility is the monster that has to be contained at all cost. This implied volatility measures the cheapness and expensiveness of options premiums. Its impact to an option price is indeed very significant and cannot be ignored. Fortunately, the mere fact that you are buying an option and simultaneously selling another one tends to cancel this effect.

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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/home-security/lightning-and-your-safety.html http://www.articletrader.com/home-and-family/home-security/lightning-and-your-safety.html Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500
In storm clouds, normally the cumulonimbus clouds, tiny particles in the cloud move around picking up positive or negative energy charges. Either smoke, dust or ice particles will determine the polarity. The positive charged particles will tend to be lighter and rise to the top of the cloud. The negative charged particles will tend to be heavier and will collect at the bottom of the cloud.

This buildup of charges will continue and charges will divide into opposing groups in the cloud. When the power of attraction between them gets too great, the particles discharge their energy at each other, completing a path for electricity to travel through the air. This flow of electricity is lightning.

Why there is the glow of lightning is because the air in between has resistance which heats up the air white-hot. Since air is a non-conductor of electricity, it does not readily let electrons pass through it. But when the attraction is great enough, some electrons will leave their cloud and fly to the other cloud. While they move through the air, they smash into and bounce off molecules or atoms that are in their way. This heat up the air white-hot and this is lightening. The thing is this: introduce high voltage into higher resistance, the voltage will reduce and the current will increase. High current is heat which can go up to 30,000 degree Celsius.

Back to the grouping of positive and negative charges in the clouds. At the bottom of the cloud are the negative charges. When the negatively charged particles have build up and lower enough to the ground, they begin to seek out positive charges from the ground below. The excess electrons create a channel of charged air called a leader that reaches down to the ground below. The leaders attract other charged ground-based channels called streamers, and this can pass through plants, buildings and yourself. When the stepped leader from the cloud meets a returning streamer from the ground, the path is ready. An electrical current called the return stroke, travels back up the path. This return stroke releases tremendous heat energy with bright light and thunder. There are several strokes in a single second. When enough electrons have made the jump to create equilibrium, the attraction is reduced and the flow stops. The spark quickly cools down and the air stops glowing. It is all over within a fraction of a second. A bolt of lightening travels at a speed of 160,000 km/h. In the case of static electricity it is a small spark and you may only feel a slight discomfort from the heat of the spark. But in the bolt of lightning, it can cause an enormous amount of damage to humans, animals, plants and buildings.

When air is heated it expands and contract when it cools. And because the spark happens so fast, the air expands and contracts very rapidly. When it contracts, the air slaps together. The noise you hear from a spark is just a snap, because it is on a small scale, whilst on the other hand, the sound of lightening is tremendous crash. This crash is called the thunder and because light travels faster than sound, thunder may seem to lag a moment from lightening. The way to protect yourself when there is lightening is to avoid holding metallic things because charges will always look for the shortest and easiest route to the ground. Check on your footwear and clothing - if the wear will give you excess of positive charges and the cloud right above is negatively charged, then you automatically become the ideal candidate to be struck. Recall the Central Africa case where eleven players of soccer in a football pitch all perished leaving intact the eleven players of the opposing team. Lighting can strike you out in the rain and you should not stand under a tree during a thunderstorm, in case the tree gets struck with lightning. And it is not a good idea to walk out in an open area with an umbrella, because if you are the highest object in the field, you may be a target for the lightning strike. Ensure that you install lightning rods in all your buildings and these rods should therefore be the highest parts of the structures. In case of very tall and wide buildings, the rods should not only be the tallest points but also should be installed by the sides. Studies show that larger, rounded rods are more effective than sharp pointed rods contrary to the believe people have that static electricity is attracted more to a pointed end of the rod.

Air transport is today the safest means of transport. One of the greatest obstacles that will put the guys that operate aircrafts off is static electricity. A single report of thunder and the mission is abandoned until the thunder clears. When the aircraft is airborne, it collects charges from the surrounding air and clouds. To prevent excessive buildup of charges that would not only result in radio navigation difficulties but also can produce huge sparks that would instantaneously destroy the aircraft completely, an aircraft is installed with static wicks on the ailerons and tail feathers to return charged electrons so collected back to the surrounding air. Fueling an aircraft poses another risk due to static sparks. Fueling is in thousands of litres and is done at a very high rate and fumes do develop. To prevent static sparks, a formula based on pump rate, humidity and temperature is used to determine the amount of charges in the fuel. If the charge is high, the fuel is discharged. Whenever the aircraft land, the first thing you do before anything else is to discharge the plane body by using static discharge reels.

Where there is thunder there are strong convective cumulonimbus clouds. And talking about these rains bearing cumulonimbus clouds, whenever they come too low to the ground, they curl like mushroom with destructive freak winds of over 200 Km/h that will destroy trees, buildings, electric cables and ads boards. These really are thunderstorm downbursts and will usually last only for one or two minutes and it is all over leaving behind a trail of destruction and widespread power blackouts. These clouds have turbulences with strong updraft and downdraft forces. Aim your plane at those convective clouds and the updraft and downdraft forces will take control of your plane and all the souls in your plane will most likely have a sad ending.


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When the weather is dry, it means there is very little water vapour in the air. During winter or during periods that the temperatures are high, then chances are very high that there is very little moisture in the air. In science, moisture in the atmosphere is referred to as Relative Humidity. This Relative Humidity is the ratio of partial pressure of water vapour to the saturated vapour pressure of water at a given temperature. Relative Humidity is measured by an instrument called a Hygrometer.

Dry air is a non-conductor of static electricity - it does not readily let electrons pass through it. In contrast, moist air will slowly allow static electricity or electrons leave your body and fly to the ground. This therefore means that when the air is dry and you do not touch a material that is a conductor of static electricity, then the static electricity will continue to build up in your body to thousands of volts. When you are this much charged you do not feel it but the truth is, you are a great security risk to your own life and to the safety of the others. And to those who remotely check security to airports, fuel deports and other sensitive areas, it would in addition help to look for a decent way to discharge these unsuspecting victims.

But where do the charges come from? They come from the earth or the ground. The earth is neutral with infinite positive and negative charges canceling each other. In as long as you walk bare footed, all is well. But because we must put on shoes, the soles of our shoes become the determining factor. Certain synthetic rubber soles on shoes create a lot of static electricity. Like in a magnet that has North pole on one end and South pole on the other, the synthetic sole of your shoes determines the polarity in that for every step you make, it leaves prints of positive charges on the ground and negative charges goes to your body or the vice versa. The more you move, the more charged you become. If the air is moist, then your body will slowly discharge to the moist air and to the ground. If the air is dry, then the charges will remain in your body until you get your next victim. When it is dry, first and foremost check on the soles of your shoes.

Winter or no winter, you will hear of "electric" people. These are people you will curse shaking their hands. They are people whose skin is usually very dry and, or the surface area of skin hair is very high. The dry skin, skin hair combined with the clothing material and shoes these "electric" people put on causes the buildup of static charges. One thing they should do is try to use sufficient moisturizers and lotions to control the dryness. They can experiment with different types of moisturizers and lotions until this problem is solved. Naturally what people can not understand they result to mysteries, myths and legends to explain these unfortunate situations. And do not loss sight that they may be the ones handling their babies or your baby too. If you have young children who can not be able to explain themselves when you touch them, try using a humidifier to raise the humidity in your house, plus you have to decide if to do away with your carpet. Get yourself those decorative hygrometer and thermometer that you can hung somewhere on the wall. A relative humidity under 30 percent or a temperature above 27 degrees Celsius is sufficient to warrant precaution. If your pajamas and bed sheets are the type of materials that create static electricity when rubbed together, you will be bothered with shocks all night long on a dry weather night. Try using pajamas and sheets made of non-static materials. Cotton does not seem to develop as much static electricity as some artificial fibers. And since mothers like using plastic materials on those children that wet the bed, then care should be taken to cover the plastic material with sufficient cotton material to prevent plastic coming into contact with body.

Static sparks comes with a lot of pain especially when you touch a good conductor like metal. If you drive, perhaps it would help to find if your passengers go through static electricity discomforts. In as long as you are the one holding the keys and the steering wheel, you will never realize. Your passengers do not know what it is and neither do they want to risk to sound silly. They may be suffering quietly and will never tell you. When you are in the car, you are one surface and the car seat is the other. When you sit on a synthetic or plastic car seat in dry weather, the contact between your clothes and the seat causes polarity and electrical charges of the materials are transferred between the surfaces. One surface ends up with more negative charges than positive, and has a negative charge-imbalance. The other surface has more positive charges than negative, and has a positive charge-imbalance.

In as long as you remain seated nothing happens. As long as the surfaces remain near each other, the positives and negatives cancel out, but the fact is you are a great risk to yourself and to others. But when you open the car door and step outside, you take just one polarity of charge along with you, while the car seat retains the opposite polarity. As you step out of the car, you have ten of thousands of voltage with you. Your shoes soles are poor conductor and the charges can not escape fast enough into the earth. You have to close the car door and there you get a zap - the car door is metal and good conductor, the air in between and your fingers are both poor conductors, and because of resistance differential, there is a lot of heating giving you deep hot burn on your fingertips. The guy driving handily gets these as he slowly discharges through the steering wheel and ignition key. Similarly, when there is thunder, avoid holding metallic materials otherwise you and the metallic materials will become the shortest path to the ground, and because there is great resistance differential between your hand and the metal, you will get burnt.

Get yourself a Hygrometer for your car. Whenever the relative humidity goes below 30 percent, then you have a reason to start taking care both for yourself and your passengers. Replace your synthetic plastic car seat covers with cloth or leather. Avoid the specific clothing which makes the problem worse. Things like woolen sweaters, woolen under wares and plastic raincoats.

If for some reason you will purchase gasoline or petrol in a container - perhaps for your home electric generator or for whatever reason, always make sure to place the container on the ground when filling it, otherwise the petrol fumes and static electricity will ignite fire that will burn you and the filling station.

Free things are good and many of us like them but they can turn out to be very costly. In areas where gasoline is transported by trucks, trucks do overturn and the surrounding community will gather with containers to benefit from the free fuel. With the volatile gasoline, there are lots of fumes and with hundreds of people competing for the free gasoline, chance are very high one of them will ignite static spark and then an explosion. It is a pity hundreds of souls are lost this way. And because the communities may not understand where the fire came from, they comfort themselves that one of them must have been smoking a cigarette. The next time it happens, they say, "no smoking", but the explosion still happen.

Static electricity spark will damage electronics including cell phones and computers. Normally, when operating a cell phone or a computer, static electricity is not a problem. But if you find you are having problems with static electricity causing sparks when you touch things, it is logical to take precautions before touching even the computer keyboard. And if you are to venture into the inside of your computers, then you should have a special pad on the floor and use a grounded strap on your wrist that will discharge any excess charges from your body.

Your hair, and especially to the ladies, is a thing of the beauty. We spend a lot of our resources and time so that we can look neat and beautiful. On a dry day, after you attend your hair it can tend to fly up and separate. That is because the hair strands have the same electrical charge and like-charges will repel thus the hair flying up and separating. The solution to this problem is simply to use anti-static sprays that will eliminate this problem.

If static electricity is a serious problem to you, try using a key or a metal object and use it to touch other metal things first with it. This will cause the spark to fly from the key and not your finger. Another thing you should do is to ground yourself before touching something metal or another person. Touch poor conducting surfaces like walls or wood.

In view of the above I have considered only those small scale static electricity discomforts that may affect you. I now shall invite you to join me as I look at the dangers of large scale static electricity to man - the guys in the aviation industry places so much caution on this that a report of one thunder and they can no longer lift the aircraft.


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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/technology/nanotechnology-%241-trillion-revenue.html http://www.articletrader.com/technology/nanotechnology-%241-trillion-revenue.html Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500
But what really is Nanotechnology? Nanotechnology is a field of applied science and technology which gives us the ability to build up things starting from the scale of an individual atom. This means the ability to manipulate materials so tiny that nothing can be built any smaller. Twenty year ago you could not have imagined the entire Encyclopedia being stored in a single memory stick, and today, can you imagine the same stored in a chip the size of a dust particle? When you divide one metre by one billion you get one nano. If you split bacteria into 200 equal parts, then one part equals one nanometre. This is the atom scale of the nanotechnology. When things are built at such a scale you get precision, strength, unique colours and a feel of creation rather than built. The idea of nanotechnology was started in 1959 by a physicist Richard Feynman at American Physical Society meeting at Caltech.

There is still a long way to go to handle materials on a nano scale. Many scientists believe that within the next twenty year we will achieve a lot in this field. During that time we will have to establish techniques to move single atoms using nano robots machines operating at nanoscale and build large-scale structures. Like the invention of the wheel, there will be nano gears, bearings, motors, nano compiler, and nano multipliers and so on and so forth. About twenty years ago, IBM were able to position 35 xenon atoms on the surface of a nickel crystal using atomic force microscopy instrument which spelled out the word IBM. Since then, modern use has been in the manufacture of polymers based on molecular structure and design of surface science computer chip layouts. Commercially, nanotechnology is being applied in bulk nano-particles in manufacture of stain resistant clothing, protective coatings, suntan lotions, disinfectants, fuel catalysts and cosmetics.

As we stand now, nanotechnology is the new frontier and its potential impact is compelling. Huge amounts of funding are being spent by governments towards nanotechnology research and development. Like before, the main beneficially of such funding is Defence. New nanotech weapons and lightweight bullet-proof nanotech clothing are soon coming up. Once through with military superiority, then the nanotechnology will be released proper to the private sector. Here, there will be better uses that will include provision of clean water, greater agricultural production, cheap energy, clean environment, better diagnostics, drugs and organs replacements, greater information processing and storage, and reduced labour. When that time comes, you will be able to replace your car with an inexpensive nanotech car. A nanotech car will look like a creation of God or that has come from outer space.

With all the sweet promises that Nanotechnology has, including the potential to have positive effects on the environment, environmental and health risks will be the biggest challenges. These nana particles have very great surface area to volume ratio, and therefore toxic due to their high chemical reactivity and biological activity -- they can easily penetrate human skins and get entry to organs and tissues such as the kidneys, brain, spleen, heart, liver, and nervous system. And that coupled with the fact that these nanomaterials has a huge potential to cause DNA mutation, then, it is just a matter of time before opposing groups find the right opportunity to strike in saying no to the entire nanotechnology. And to the shrewd businessman and woman, you can only gamble in being ahead of everyone else in nanotechnology opportunities that are promising heaven.


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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/site-promotion/how-to-get-free-traffic-writing-articles.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/site-promotion/how-to-get-free-traffic-writing-articles.html Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500
Unlike adwords that will produce results in minutes, article writing will take about a week to start seeing the results. The good thing is that once the free traffic start coming, it continues to do so for months. People find article writing tedious and this coupled with the fact that the result are not instantaneous, the whole exercise of article writing is postponed for weeks and months. It’s certainly worth it when you consider how many hits a well written, relevant and interesting article can bring to your website. If you really can not be able to do article writing for whatever reason, then you can always ask a friend to do article writing for you or hire a freelance writer to do the article writing for you.

And all may seem well with article writing, but as with everything else, there are a few things you have to put in order for your article writing to generate sufficient free traffic. First you begin article writing by picking on the topic which you have sufficient knowledge about. Your article writing title should be compelling and intriguing enough for your reader to want to read the whole article. When we search the internet we do so because we want information and it is no wonder article writing with the title "how to do this and that" or "why this and that" seems to do better. Spend reasonable time on the title of your article writing.

Your article writing should be informative enough to warrant the time spent in reading your article writing. Your article writing should contain quality information that is helpful to your readers and will add value to people's lives. It is certainly worth the effort more so when you consider how many hits an article writing written in a genuine desire to tell people about it, relevant and interesting can bring to your website.

Having done your article writing well, then you will need people to see and read your article writing to get free traffic. If by search in Google of a public's general keywords your article writing can be listed in the first page of a search engine like Google, then you are more than half way to success with your article writing. To feature in the first page of Google is very difficult for searches of general keywords that the public uses. That first page is like a reserve for article directories that have very high page raking and all the keywords on earth. First and even before you begin your article writing you must know what your general key word or phrase is. Once you are in your article writing ensure you use your keyword or phrase at least two to three times for every 100 words of your article writing. If you overdo it your article writing will not flow naturally and your readers will run away. This is called keyword density. The next thing in your article writing is called keyword frequency. Keyword frequency is the number of times a keyword or phrase appears within your article writing. The logic is, the more times a keyword or a phrase appears within article writing, the more relevance Google is likely to give the article writing. By observing the keyword density and keyword frequency it mean long article writing is better. But on the negative side, very long article writing will make your readers keep off. Make your article writing between 500 to 1500 words long.

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Article writing is one thing and article submission to hundreds of article directories is another thing which is very tedious and time consuming. Tedious and time consuming as it is, do whatever you can and submit your article writings to article directories regularly and you will create your own market for months to come.

Now, let's do some math by being very conservative and assume you are very serious in your business. If we assume you do one article writing every three days, you will have ten articles in a month. In addition, let's assume every three days you submit one article writing to 200 article directories. In one month you will be having ten article writings in each of the 200 article directories. If in each directory each of your 10 article writings is each read by only 20 people, then in 200 article directories, your article writings will be read by 40,000 people. From this, one out every ten readers will follow your article writing resource box links to your website. This will translate to 4,000 visitors to your website every month. These are your visitors; sell to them what you can. This number of 4,000 visitors per month may look small but it will become very interesting figure with time due to multiplier effect.

Finally, Google is desperately looking for article writing like yours. Google will pay you hot dollars to run their competing ads called Adsense next to your article writing. Do not worry of competition because bankers are known to live together. The little Google will pay you from their Adsense will help you pay telephone bills. When you search for article directories to submit your articles to, include a few of those that are Adsense revenue sharing ready. Adsense revenue sharing article directories are those article directories that will let you earn adsense money when they display your article writing. If you do not already have an Adsense account you can sign up free with Google.

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