If You Missed Last Week's Gold Rally, Don't Miss This

The recent rally in gold is most bullish for oil.

Gold is up over $100 in the past six trading days. It has been a great rally, but it happened so fast it left a lot of gold bugs in the dust. Folks who were waiting to buy on a pullback had a small opportunity to jump into the trade. But if they didn't act fast, the opportunity disappeared.

Back on January 6, I wrote, "2009 will be the year of precious metals." And I suggested buying gold if it dropped down anywhere near $800 per ounce. On January 15, gold traded as low as $801.50 and we had a shot at buying it.

The shiny yellow metal exploded $40 higher the next day. Anyone with a quick trigger finger was sitting on fast gains that grew larger over the next week.

But if you missed the chance to buy gold down near $800 per ounce, you probably shouldn't pull the trigger on it now at over $900. Gold is enormously volatile, and fast gains are often followed by quick pullbacks. So perhaps we'll have a better buying opportunity sometime in the next few weeks.

In the meantime, though, you need to buy oil.

A few weeks ago, I turned bullish on oil. The trade hasn't made much headway since then, but gold's recent rally pushed oil to its cheapest level in 10 years.

You see, gold and oil often trade together. They both rally at the same time and they both decline at the same time. Historically, it takes between 10 and 12 barrels of oil to buy one ounce of gold. Whenever the ratio expands outside that range, there's a trading opportunity.

For example, back in July, when oil was trading above $140 per barrel and gold was $925 an ounce, the ratio of gold to oil was under seven. In other words, it only took seven barrels of oil to buy an ounce of gold, so oil was expensive relative to gold. As I told Growth Stock Wire readers (here and here), that was a good time to take profits in oil or even set up short positions in the sector.

Today, we have the opposite condition. Oil is cheap relative to gold. Take a look...

This is a long-term chart of the ratio of the price of gold to oil. Currently, it takes 20 barrels of oil to buy one ounce of gold. That's nearly twice the historical average and it's the cheapest oil has been in 10 years.

How to Make a Lot of Money Trading Oil This Summer
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The last time the ratio was this high, back in 1999, oil quadrupled from $10 per barrel to over $40 in just one year. A similar move this time will generate big gains for anyone willing to buck the trend and buy oil today.

So if you missed the shot at buying gold near $800 per ounce last week, then don't miss your shot at oil right now.

Best regards and good trading,

Jeff Clark

How to File your Income Tax Return Without Your W2

Why wait when you can file your income tax return without your W2 form? Follow these steps to get your money ASAP! If you are expecting a refund from the IRS read on to discover how you can file your income tax return without your W2.

Step1
Get Your Paycheck Stubs Get Your Paycheck Stubs The first thing you will need to do in order to file your income tax return without your W2 is gather your final paycheck stubs for the previous year. Your last paycheck will contain the vast majority of the information that is reflected on your form W-2.

Step2
Find that Federal Tax ID Number! Find that Federal Tax ID Number! The next thing that you will have to do is obtain your company's federal tax ID number or employer information number (EIN). If you have worked for this same company for several years you should be able to get the tax ID number from last year's W2. If this is a new job for you then you will have to go through a couple of extra steps.

The easiest way to get this number is to ask your employer for it. If your employer won't play along, and some absolutely will NOT, then you will have to look it up.

Step3
Use Your Brain Power & Outsmart Your Selfish Employer! Use Your Brain Power & Outsmart Your Selfish Employer! For some reason some companies are not willing to release their federal tax ID number. I really do not know why because they have to provide it on the W2. So, it's not as if this number is some huge secret! Sorry, I had to vent there, anyway -- the first thing you will have to do is to point your browser to feinnsearch.com. *All clickable links are listed in the "RESOURCES" section below.

Step4
Jump Through the Hoop! Jump Through the Hoop! Just as the URL suggests, feinsearch.com will allow you to complete a federal employer tax ID search. There is a catch though, you will have to register, and then only your first five searches are free. This should be no problem unless you have had more than five jobs in the last year. In that case, you will need to use a different EIN look up service -- I have listed a couple of choices in the "RESOURCES" section - they both work relatively the same way.

Step5
File Your Taxes & Get Your Money! File Your Taxes & Get Your Money! Once you have registered and followed their instructions to get your Federal Tax ID number, you will be all set to begin to file your income tax return without your W2. Head over to H&R Block.com and proces your tax return ("RESOURCES"). If you are eligible to file for free BE SURE TO DO JUST THAT!

Good Luck!

How to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

It’s a stark irony of the Western calendar that the odometer turns over smack dab in the middle of winter—the one time of the year when most people can’t rouse themselves to clean their bathrooms, much less make an ambitious, life-changing, behavioral U-turn. If you’re the type who likes to ring in the New Year with an engraved list of resolutions, read on for hints about how best to keep them.

Step1
Aim low. It goes without saying that most New Year’s resolutions are easier announced (or written) than done—but if you set the bar too high, you’re doomed from the start. Instead of a sweeping declaration like “I will lose 30 pounds by April and finally fit into that dress,” target a goal that’s more attainable, like losing 10 or 15 pounds.
Step2
Don’t overload yourself. It’s difficult enough for the average person to follow through on one ambitious New Year’s resolution; why on earth would you saddle yourself with three or four? Choose the most pressing issue at hand—losing weight, finding a girlfriend, improving your relationship with your parents—and concentrate on that. Trying to do everything simultaneously practically guarantees failure across the board.
Step3
Tell everyone you know. One school of thought says that New Year’s resolutions are best kept to oneself, but look at it this way: the more people to whom you announce your resolution (say, to get out of your dead-end job by spring), the more people there’ll be to prod you along if you fall behind. There’s no shame in seeking help if you can’t accomplish your resolution on your own.
Step4
Reward yourself. Following through on a New Year’s resolution is rarely easy, so a little Pavlovian conditioning goes a long way. If you’ve resolved to shop less, stroke yourself for not buying those shoes by springing for a steaming hot cappucino at the mall. If you’ve resolved to be nicer to people, buy yourself a nice jacket after enduring that tedious cocktail party without delivering any insults.
Step5
Wait until spring. Sometimes the best way to accomplish a New Year’s resolution is to make it at a time of year of your choosing, rather than the one dictated by the calendar. May 1 is a good alternate date, since the change of season will neatly coincide with the change you’re hoping to accomplish in yourself.

How to Lose Weight and Keep Your New Year's Resolution

The most common New Year's resolution that people make is to lose weight. Sales of diet and weight loss books skyrocket on January 1. This article offers some steps that will help you keep your New Year's resolution to lose weight, instead of abandoning it on or before Valentine's;

Step1
The first step actually comes before New Year's Day. Do not "pig out" in the days or weeks leading up to New Year's Day, in anticipation of starting a strict diet. That will just lead to huge weight gain, which will only result in additional weight that needs to be lost. Don't prepare yourself for a new diet in the same way that you might prepare yourself if you were about to go off to war or prison.
Step2
Set a realistic goal. If you stick to any new diet, you will likely lose 5-10 pounds of water weight in the first two weeks. While this shows that you are on the right track, it is not fat loss, and you will certainly not continue to lose weight at that rate. Focus more on what your weekly weight loss goal should be after that water weight comes off. The prevailing suggestion among experts is to lose 1% of your body weight each week. That means that a 200-pound person should aim for two pounds of weight loss per week.
Step3
Pick a realistic diet and exercise program. Are you really going to be able to keep up a diet of lettuce leaves and rice cakes? Will you really go for a 5-mile jog each day in the snow? Be realistic. Just eat healthier foods, and eat smaller portions. Also exercise each day, even if it's just marching in place in front of the TV. If you create a calorie deficit each day, you will lose weight. It is just that simple. The greater the deficit, the more weight you will lose.
Step4
Do not give up! If you "mess up," just get right back on track immediately. Don't say, "Oh, I ruined my diet for this week. I'll pig out this weekend, and pick it up again on Monday." That is silly. Get back on track immediately. Each moment is the first moment of the rest of our lives.
Step5
Valentine's Day comes about six weeks after New Year's Day. Even though tons of chocolates may be available in your home or at your office, do not let this ruin your progress. Many people use Valentine's Day as the official end of their diet. If you think that your lover will give you sweets, ask him or her not to. If you are lonely or hurt on Valentine's Day, do not harm yourself by indulging in sweets. Do the opposite by taking care of yourself, and showing the world that they can just shove it.
Step6
Just keep at it and you will lose weight. Start right now, regardless of what day of the year you happen to be reading this article. You can do it. I was overweight for 35 years, and now I'm not because I finally decided to do these simple steps. If I can do it, you can too!

How to Make Money in a Down Market

Just because the stock market is down--doesn't mean you can't make money in it. There are possibilities. In this article we will explore some.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Step 1
One of the best things you can do when the chips are down in the market is to start writing covered calls to generate yourself some cash income. It won't allow you to totally recoup your losses, but it will give you some padding in your portfolio. When you write a covered call, you give the call buyer the right to purchase the stock that you already own at a preset price, known as the call price--a price that is always above the current market price.
Step2
The call buyer pays you a premium for the right to buy the stock at the call price. The call buyer does this because he or she thinks that the price of the stock will rise, whereas you will always choose a price that you think the stock will not reach before the option expires. But even conservative covered call writing can generate you hundreds or even thousands of dollars in premiums each year.
Step3
Remember, the farther away from the market price you are, the lower your risk--and the premium that you will be paid. The downside is that if your stock rises to the strike price--then you will be called out--and will have to sell the stock to the call buyer at that strike price--even if the market price has gone much higher.
Step4
Also keep in mind that you can only write covered calls on round lots of stock that you already own. But if the price of the stock begins to approach your strike price--you can close out your position and rewrite your calls at a higher strike price.

How to Make a Presidential Inauguration Obama T-Shirt

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In celebration of the Inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, you can create your own T-shirt for the historical event. Making this shirt not only can be a family event, you can have a piece of history for your kids, right in the closet hanging on a hanger! Here's how!

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Difficulty: Easy
Things You’ll Need:

* Iron on transfer paper
* computer
* iron
* 1 T-shirt for each person fit to size
* color printer

Step1
First you need a picture of Presidential Elect Barack Obama. I definitely suggest online where you will see plenty of free images just for the asking. Surf over to google and type in: Obama+Images to make a selection from there.
Step2
Once you have your image, put it in a word document and size to fit as big or as little as you like. This should be the size of an entire sheet of transfer paper (8.5 x 11). Print out on your paper through the color printer
Step3
Now you need your wording. On another document, you need to have some words to fit your shirt appropriately. Most of the basics include "44th President", "Yes, we can!" and other fun phrases. Be creative and make these words bold and large.
Step4
Take the T-shirt out and place on the ironing board. Cut out the pieces of the wording and photos and place around the shirt until it looks perfect!
Step5
Following the transfer paper directions to iron on the transfers to the shirt. This is very important as each paper is slightly different.
Step6
Once the paper is ironed, wait the allotted time and rip off the back paper to see your shirt. This is a great project for the kids and you have just saved yourself $25 dollars instead of buying this souvenir at the store!

Find Good Sources For Inspiration

Good marketing changes and updated on a regular basis. You aren't likely to go long before you start to need to designs for your advertising or new types of advertising altogether.
What a company is going to encounter most is the need to update existing marketing material. Certain formats for advertising just work best with certain companies. If full color brochures have been giving you the ability you need to explain in detail about your product or services, than just abandoning brochure printing for a different form of marketing altogether isn't really an option.
That means you instead need to be able to focus on improving your existing brochures. You have to give people new images, new layouts, and new ways to make your brochure look unique and interesting again

DETACH TO ATTACH

Glorious day unto you in the precious Name of our LORD JESUS CHRIST.

This is the food for thought today- DETACH TO ATTACH. You know for sure if you need electricity flow in your house, office or anywhere you must connect through the sockets then to the main. Today you are in a place, a position and passing through some things which you are aspiring for a better. Study the situation very well; get detached from ALL distractions, deviations and disturbances of the past be attached to the current so as to get FULL light of now.

Let me move a little step further, if you are a student and you need to go to the next class (Senior Class) get detached from the midst of the juniors. If you want to be a prudent politician of a notable reference and remarkable affluence, get detached from the midst of mediocre, if you to succeed in business or any Endeavour then get detached from the group of failure. To have and enjoy the true light of the maximum be detached from all steps of darkness and be attached to the true light which is from God.

Remain Blessed through this year