Someone wanting to make money fast and easy really has few alternatives in a harsh economy like this but if you do have a few dollars to work with, it is possible to earn a considerable amount of cash in a short amount of time. What might work best for you depends on your background, whether you have good market sense, or perhaps you are a little bit tech savvy, or you just plain old have a little bit of moxie in you.

Whatever your skill set, you have to really pick one strategy and go for it if you intend to make your fortune. Let’s talk about one of the possible alternatives for a moment, forex trading. I choose to talk about this one because it is the least complicated, requires the fewest skills, and takes only a modest amount of capital to start up. It is also not a great way to make money fast and easy but it also is the most consistent of the fast money making schemes. Another great plus to this choice is anyone who can scrounge up a hundred bucks can start trading in the forex market. True, it is better if you’re starting with a thousand dollars or ten thousand, but even a hundred or five hundred is enough to begin if you have the right tools.

In order to make money fast and easy trading forex you need three things: a forex trading account, a forex trading software program, and the aforementioned few hundred dollars. Once you have these in place if is only a matter of setting up your account, getting your software to interact with your account, and putting your money in your forex account. At that point you turn on the trading program and stand out of the way.

I talk about using forex software to make money fast and easy in my blog and if I were starting out today with no money, I would certainly go for the easy money in the forex market. My second choice would be to trade binary options and digital options trading, because there is no faster way to make money than the hourly turnover in the binary option market. The returns are less certain than in the forex market, but man the money can turnover really fast. If speed is your concern – go with the binary options and digital options trading, because nothing is faster. If you have time and want consistent returns, go with the forex. If you’re not certain… go with the forex – those trading software programs are hot. Either way, neither of these money makers require much start up capital – even as little as $100 will get you started.

You can make a high return of up to 75% on your investment in one hour using binary option, or digital option, platforms. These trading platforms are easy to use and have fixed returns and losses, making them a safe way to earn a high return from trading on the stock market, currencies and commodities trading. While option trading is a well known practice in the forex market, binary option platforms have streamlined the process and opened it up to the public to trade on and make high, fast returns.

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Find a high return binary option platform. Since binary option platforms have only been available for the past year, it’s easy to review the platforms in the industry and find the best ones. All platforms should be free and provide traders with the option to withdraw their money at any time.
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Register with the binary option platform of your choice.
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Pick an option to bid on. You can choose from stocks, commodities and currencies.
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Predict which direction the option will move by the time of expiration. The time of expiration can range from one hour to one month, depending on the platform.
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Determine which direction the option will move. If you think that the option price will rise above it’s current price by the time of expiration you will need to select “CALL”. If you think that the option will fall below it’s current price by the time of expiration you will need to select “PUT”.
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Determine how much money you want to bet on your trade. Since binary option platforms have fixed returns and fixed losses, you will always know how much money you can gain and how much you can loose. The amount that you trade is up to you, but the industry average ranges from $500 – 1000.
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Wait for the expiration. When your option has expired, you will be able to see if you are “in the money” or “out of the money”. Traders who are “in the money” can earn up to 75% return on their investment. Traders who are out of the money can loose 85 – 95%.
Tips

* The best way to make a high return is to trade on options that expire within one hour. This way you minimize your risk and have a better chance of forecasting correctly. If you want to make a high return on your investment within one hour, pick an option that will expire within one hour and bid close to the expiration time.
* In order to hone your forecasting skills, read the news daily and keep track of current events. Follow finance news sites like Google News, Yahoo Finance and other notable news sources. Also pick a few niche blogs about binary option trading.

The Best Way To Trade The Forex Market Using binary options and digital options trading
PostDateIcon November 20th, 2009

It is no secret that the forex market could be a terribly profitable place to be if you would like to make money by trading currencies.

However , it’s also no secret that achieving consistency in the foreign exchange market needs plenty of preparation ( you want education and trustworthy trading tools ) because not only you have to have a great idea of where the price is getting ready to move, but also how far it is going to go.

as an example if you’re trading the EUR / dollars pair and you decide it’s a sensible idea to go long, you would place a “buy” order, as you predict the cost of the Euro Buck against the buck to go up.

If you placed your trade using 1 mini lot ( this equals $1 profit for every pip ), and your target for that trade is 30 pips, you would need to have at least $1,000 in your account to meet margin requirements and permit some room for drawdown, and if the trade is successful you will make $30 in profits.

However, in order for this to happen the cost of the EU Dollar has to move 30 pips against the buck, otherwise you won’t reach the planned target and realize the profits. As you can see, if you trade the currency market using the standard approach you’ll have not only to forecast where the price is going, but also how far it is going, which simply makes it twice as difficult.

Now, if you have $1,000 in a binary options and digital options trading trading account, what would you want in order to place a successful trade, and likewise, what sort of profits a successful trade would deliver for you?

In order to answer this question, let us say that the cost of the EUR / $ is at 1.47849 and based a given analysis of the market ( e.g. Swing trading pattern recognition ) you think the Euro Buck is trending up against the Dollar. You can see an example of a real case study of financial software for forex trading hitting a rolling stop-loss here.

In this case you would go long also but instead of placing a “buy” order for currency, you would simply buy a $100 call option for the EUR / greenbacks pair with an one hour expiration. If you are right and the price goes up, even if it’s only 0.001 pip above the price you bought your call option ( which is the strike price ), and it is still there or above till expiration, you would get as much as 75% return on your $100 investment.

In other words, a single $100 trade could deliver $75 in profits and you might repeat this process numerous times during the day.

But the remarkable thing here is that you did not need the price to go up thirty pips in 1 hour to get a 75% return on your investment, you only required 0.001 points of change to reach this.

In this eventuality you certainly had to figure out in what direction the price was going to move ( this is generally an ingredient of the trading process ) BUT your forecast did not have to take you all the way to a 30 pips increase in the price in order for you to make get the anticipated return, because you got it with just 0.001 points of adaptation, and you made $75 rather than $30.

Also, you can open a binary options and digital options trading account with only $100 and you can trade with as little as $30 with no commissions charges.

So as you can see, the potential of foreign exchange trading through binary options and digital options trading is giant and the method is far faster so increasing your possibilities for moneymaking trades {, however ,} you do need to have a sense of where the market is going. Provided that you have this, you are probably going to make take much more winning trades than losing ones and a ton more money also.

If you’re new to binary options and digital options trading you can read more currency trading tutorials here that will teach you the easy way to meticulously find the direction in the cost of any asset, currency or index, so enabling you to be profitable in your trading.

The Easiest Money You’ll Ever Make

The Easiest Money You’ll Ever Make

How to make a quick $78,000 without lifting a finger.

Chose these four stocks, but any number of former highfliers could have done the trick:

1. Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN)
2. Genentech
3. Charles Schwab (Nasdaq: SCHW)
4. Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERIC)

The idea was to show how a modest $10,000 investment could have ballooned to nearly $300,000 in 10 short years. But that wasn’t the amazing part. For more details, check out this column: “Don’t Invest Another Penny.” But come back, because this is where it gets good.

You see, there was a catch. In those 10 short years, you’d have paid your mutual fund manager nearly $20,000 in fees and surrendered nearly $50,000 in lost profits (money not earned on those fees). So instead of $300,000, you’d be sitting on a lot less.

So, you hate me, right?
Of course you do, but I thought you’d take the fund company’s side. I thought you’d point out that nobody could pick just those stocks, much less time the market so perfectly.

In other words, I thought you’d say that the $70,000 blood money in my example was a gross exaggeration. Just wait until you hear what you really said.

You’ve got it all wrong!
Or so you told me. Apparently, you’re fine with me comparing the fund industry to an IRS on steroids. You took me to task for understating the case — for underestimating the real cost to you as an investor.

And you’re right. John Bogle — the founder of Vanguard Funds — makes the case bluntly in his book The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism. Bogle shows that you don’t need blowout returns (like in my superstock ’90s example) to make the case against mutual funds … you need time. Here’s why.

Beware the “tyranny of compounding”
As it turns out, financial “intermediation” costs would have eaten up just 23% of your total returns ($70,000 out of $300,000) in my hypothetical example. That sounded like a lot to me, but apparently not to Bogle — and to some of you, either. In fact, for most of us, it will be worse.

For one thing, you won’t be making 2,900% every 10 years. That’s because for every 10-bagger like Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) your fund manager digs up, he’ll bite on a Krispy Kreme (NYSE: KKD) or Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S), or some other over-hyped story stock. But mostly, he’ll keep you bouncing between JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and the other financials, and the rest of the most widely held stocks.

And even when your manager does catch lightning, he’ll probably buy and sell too often, and at the wrong times. That’s one reason Bogle thinks you’ll earn less than “average” — 8.5% per year by his estimate. Plus, you won’t invest for 10 years, but more likely 25, 30, or even 45 years or more. Well, brace yourself, because this thing really gets ugly.

That’ll be 80% off the top, sir
According to Bogle, if you invest for 45 years at his expected market return of 8.5% per year, these dastardly “intermediation” costs can steal up to 80% of your rightful profits. You read that right. Not a mere 23% like in my hypothetical fund, but up to 80%.

For one thing, Bogle uses a more aggressive 2.5% for intermediation costs. That’s because he goes beyond reported “management fees” and includes taxes, transactions, and timing costs. And given that Bogle founded Vanguard, the most trusted mutual fund company in the world, I’m inclined to believe him.

More importantly, Bogle realizes that the more realistic your returns, the more deadly that 2.5% becomes, especially when compounded over the years. In other words, costs kill when your portfolio keeps doubling every six months, but when it’s doubling every 10 years or so — costs kill you dead!

What you can do about it
Frankly, I don’t share Bogle’s lukewarm outlook for stocks. I think we’ll do better from here, even after the recent bounce off the bottom. But if we make three times as much as Bogle expects, we’ll fork over well more than $100,000 in intermediation costs every 20 years.

If you resent that, there’s a solution a lot of folks are considering: Start managing some of your own investments. You don’t have to jump in all at once, and you don’t have to dump your funds right away. But you can see how important it is that you give it some thought, right?

Of course, you will need a few great stocks to get started — and maybe a little support. Here’s something else to consider: Sign up for a free trial of Motley Fool Stock Advisor. Every month, you get useful investment advice plus the two top recommendations straight from Motley Fool co-founders David and Tom Gardner. It’s free for 30 days, there’s no pressure to buy anything, and if you do decide to join after your trial, it sure as heck won’t cost you $100,000.