The Commitment of Traders Report is created by the CFTC – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is published weekly every Friday. This body gathers and publishes the open futures positions on all publicly traded US futures contracts as well as the corresponding options. The data consists of 3 main categories.
Commercial Traders – These are the bigger players in the markets, the smart money and consist of large firms that actually use the commodity being traded, includes companies like…BP in the Oil and Gas Market, Nestle in the Cocoa and Sugar market. The main function of these traders is to hedge the price of the commodity that they trade in.
Large Speculators – These consist primarily of commodity fund traders and are mainly trend following. The position sizes of these traders tends to be in tandem with the movement of price.
Small Speculators – The little guys, individual traders and small firms, these are the traders that tend to be wrong in the market at the tops and bottoms of markets.
How do we use this data? We believe that the COT Index offers a good indication of market sentiment and future direction. The key is to follow the smart money (Commercial) and trade against the other 2 groups when they are at an extreme.
Extremes in the data are figures below 30.00 and above 70.00. The ideal situation for a short position is a low reading in the Commercial COT and high readings in the Large and Small trader numbers. For example the Commercial COT Index reads 5.97, this means that the net commercial position is strongly biased to the short side. The Large and Retail (our main contrarian focus) are reading 97.70 and 100.00 respectively, meaning they are the most long side biased they have been in the last 6 months. For traders this means that their focus should be on short side trades, the goal is to follow the commercial traders when the other 2 groups at opposite extremes. This is the ideal alignment of the groups for optimum success.
This weeks COT Index Review
e-mini S&P 500: We started last week with a punch through the 6 month highs, although we had a bullish start the week ended relatively neutral. COT positioning however remains strong on the long side. We see no reason for this to change on the basis of the COT report.
Signal: Bullish
EURUSD: More volatile but ultimately sideways action from the EURUSD, COT positioning has weakened a little from the 6 month high we had in the previous report but the overall position remains to the long side.
Signal: Bullish
GBPUSD: In last weeks report we asked the question, are we seeing an accumulation pull back? The answer from the market was most certainly yes! As the GBPUSD rallied over 350 pips from the lows after a very bullish COT reading. This weeks COT again is bullish although not quite at the level of the previous week.
Signal: Bullish
USDJPY: Our COT analysis has been very bearish on the USDJPY for a long while and last weeks action provided a big confirmation of that view, with the USDJPY making 15 year lows.! Although Cot has softened a little this week, it remains bearish
Signal: Bearish
Retail Trader Position Analysis
Also known as the Long-Short ratio this is a tool primarily offered by Forex firms, we haven’t been able to come across the same data in the futures as yet. The data is based upon the collective trades and trading direction of many thousands of retail traders (the average Joe). This group of traders is notoriously wrong at predicting market direction, market tops and bottoms with some simple analysis we can look at this data and take a contrarian view, for example if over 70% of retail traders are long USDJPY this offers us a short bias. Savvy traders should then be focusing there energies on short side trades.
USDJPY: Retail positioning of the USDJPY has reached the stratospheric levels of 83.68% Long! Amazing! The strength of the Yen remains strong, there are market rumors of further intervention to be announced.
EURUSD: A volatile but ultimately sideways week for the Euro, retail traders remain short but with a slightly weaker position than what we saw last week.
GBPUSD: Retail positioning in the pound shifted dramatically last week, with the percentage of traders short is now 66.56%! This takes them in to our Strong Long zone on the anti-retail trader tool.
Provided by Pivotfarm - The Home of Support and Resistance Trading
Next time you hear an economist or denizen of Wall Street talk about how the "American economy" is doing these days, watch your wallet.
There are two American economies. One is on the mend. The other is still coming apart.
The one that's mending is America's Big Money economy. It's comprised of Wall Street traders, big investors, and top professionals and corporate executives.
The Big Money economy is doing well these days. That's partly thanks to Ben Bernanke, whose Fed is keeping interest rates near zero by printing money as fast as it dare. It's essentially free money to America's Big Money economy.
Free money can almost always be put to uses that create more of it. Big corporations are buying back their shares of stock, thereby boosting corporate earnings. They're merging and acquiring other companies.
And they're going abroad in search of customers.
Thanks to fast-growing China, India, and Brazil, giant American corporations are racking up sales. They're selling Asian and Latin American consumers everything from cars and cell phones to fancy Internet software and iPads. Forty percent of the S&P 500 biggest corporations are now doing more than 60 percent of their business abroad. And America's biggest investors are also going abroad to get a nice return on their money.
So don't worry about America's Big Money economy. According to a Wall Street Journal survey released Thursday, overall compensation in financial services will rise 5 percent this year, and employees in some businesses like asset management will get increases of 15 percent.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is back to where it was before the Lehman bankruptcy filing triggered the financial collapse. And profits at America's largest corporations are heading upward.
But there's another American economy, and it's not on the mend. Call it the Average Worker economy.
Last Friday's jobs report showed 159,000 new private-sector jobs in October. That's better than previous months. But 125,000 net new jobs are needed just to keep up with the growth of the American labor force. So another way of expressing what happened to jobs in October is to say 24,000 were added over what we need just to stay even.
Yet the American economy has lost 15 million jobs since the start of the Great Recession. And if you add in the growth of the labor force -- including everyone too discouraged to look for a job -- we're down about 22 million.
Or to put it another way, we're still getting nowhere on jobs.
One out of eight breadwinners is still out of work. Most families in the Average Worker economy rely on two breadwinners. So if one out of eight isn't working, chances are high that family incomes are down compared to what they were three years ago.
And that means the bills aren't getting paid.
According to a recent Washington Post poll, more than half of all Americans -- 53 percent -- are worried about making their mortgage payments. This is many more than were worried two years ago, when the Great Recession hit bottom. Then, 37 percent expressed worry.
Delinquency rates on home loans are rising. Distressed sales are up as a percent of total sales.
Most people in the Average Worker economy own few shares of stock, if any. Their equity is in their homes. But with all the delinquencies and distressed sales, the housing market has a glut of homes for sale. As a result, home prices are still dropping. So the net worth of most Americans is still dropping.
And even though interest rates are falling, most people in the Average Worker economy can't refinance their homes. They can't get home equity loans. Banks don't want to lend to the Average Worker economy because people in it are considered bad credit risks. They still owe lots of money, their family incomes are down, and their net worth has fallen.
And according to the Reuters/University of Michigan survey of American consumers, expectations about personal finances are at an all time low.
Inhabitants of the Big Money economy are celebrating Republican wins last week. They figure financial regulations will be rolled back, environmental regulations will be canned, the Bush tax cut will be extended to the top 1 percent, and it will be harder for workers to form unions.
Inhabitants of the Average Worker economy aren't so sure. The economy has been so bad they're angry at politicians. They showed their anger at the ballot box. They took it out on incumbents.
But if nothing changes in the Average Worker economy, there will be hell to pay.
Robert Reich is the author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, now in bookstores. This post originally appeared at RobertReich.org.
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NEWS FLASH!!!! Obama a failure!!!!……..are you kidding me ABC? It's like you Leftist Loons in the Old dying Media just don't matter anymore. Hey ABC…….GO AWAY! MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same. ...
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The Commitment of Traders Report is created by the CFTC – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is published weekly every Friday. This body gathers and publishes the open futures positions on all publicly traded US futures contracts as well as the corresponding options. The data consists of 3 main categories.
Commercial Traders – These are the bigger players in the markets, the smart money and consist of large firms that actually use the commodity being traded, includes companies like…BP in the Oil and Gas Market, Nestle in the Cocoa and Sugar market. The main function of these traders is to hedge the price of the commodity that they trade in.
Large Speculators – These consist primarily of commodity fund traders and are mainly trend following. The position sizes of these traders tends to be in tandem with the movement of price.
Small Speculators – The little guys, individual traders and small firms, these are the traders that tend to be wrong in the market at the tops and bottoms of markets.
How do we use this data? We believe that the COT Index offers a good indication of market sentiment and future direction. The key is to follow the smart money (Commercial) and trade against the other 2 groups when they are at an extreme.
Extremes in the data are figures below 30.00 and above 70.00. The ideal situation for a short position is a low reading in the Commercial COT and high readings in the Large and Small trader numbers. For example the Commercial COT Index reads 5.97, this means that the net commercial position is strongly biased to the short side. The Large and Retail (our main contrarian focus) are reading 97.70 and 100.00 respectively, meaning they are the most long side biased they have been in the last 6 months. For traders this means that their focus should be on short side trades, the goal is to follow the commercial traders when the other 2 groups at opposite extremes. This is the ideal alignment of the groups for optimum success.
This weeks COT Index Review
e-mini S&P 500: We started last week with a punch through the 6 month highs, although we had a bullish start the week ended relatively neutral. COT positioning however remains strong on the long side. We see no reason for this to change on the basis of the COT report.
Signal: Bullish
EURUSD: More volatile but ultimately sideways action from the EURUSD, COT positioning has weakened a little from the 6 month high we had in the previous report but the overall position remains to the long side.
Signal: Bullish
GBPUSD: In last weeks report we asked the question, are we seeing an accumulation pull back? The answer from the market was most certainly yes! As the GBPUSD rallied over 350 pips from the lows after a very bullish COT reading. This weeks COT again is bullish although not quite at the level of the previous week.
Signal: Bullish
USDJPY: Our COT analysis has been very bearish on the USDJPY for a long while and last weeks action provided a big confirmation of that view, with the USDJPY making 15 year lows.! Although Cot has softened a little this week, it remains bearish
Signal: Bearish
Retail Trader Position Analysis
Also known as the Long-Short ratio this is a tool primarily offered by Forex firms, we haven’t been able to come across the same data in the futures as yet. The data is based upon the collective trades and trading direction of many thousands of retail traders (the average Joe). This group of traders is notoriously wrong at predicting market direction, market tops and bottoms with some simple analysis we can look at this data and take a contrarian view, for example if over 70% of retail traders are long USDJPY this offers us a short bias. Savvy traders should then be focusing there energies on short side trades.
USDJPY: Retail positioning of the USDJPY has reached the stratospheric levels of 83.68% Long! Amazing! The strength of the Yen remains strong, there are market rumors of further intervention to be announced.
EURUSD: A volatile but ultimately sideways week for the Euro, retail traders remain short but with a slightly weaker position than what we saw last week.
GBPUSD: Retail positioning in the pound shifted dramatically last week, with the percentage of traders short is now 66.56%! This takes them in to our Strong Long zone on the anti-retail trader tool.
Provided by Pivotfarm - The Home of Support and Resistance Trading
Next time you hear an economist or denizen of Wall Street talk about how the "American economy" is doing these days, watch your wallet.
There are two American economies. One is on the mend. The other is still coming apart.
The one that's mending is America's Big Money economy. It's comprised of Wall Street traders, big investors, and top professionals and corporate executives.
The Big Money economy is doing well these days. That's partly thanks to Ben Bernanke, whose Fed is keeping interest rates near zero by printing money as fast as it dare. It's essentially free money to America's Big Money economy.
Free money can almost always be put to uses that create more of it. Big corporations are buying back their shares of stock, thereby boosting corporate earnings. They're merging and acquiring other companies.
And they're going abroad in search of customers.
Thanks to fast-growing China, India, and Brazil, giant American corporations are racking up sales. They're selling Asian and Latin American consumers everything from cars and cell phones to fancy Internet software and iPads. Forty percent of the S&P 500 biggest corporations are now doing more than 60 percent of their business abroad. And America's biggest investors are also going abroad to get a nice return on their money.
So don't worry about America's Big Money economy. According to a Wall Street Journal survey released Thursday, overall compensation in financial services will rise 5 percent this year, and employees in some businesses like asset management will get increases of 15 percent.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is back to where it was before the Lehman bankruptcy filing triggered the financial collapse. And profits at America's largest corporations are heading upward.
But there's another American economy, and it's not on the mend. Call it the Average Worker economy.
Last Friday's jobs report showed 159,000 new private-sector jobs in October. That's better than previous months. But 125,000 net new jobs are needed just to keep up with the growth of the American labor force. So another way of expressing what happened to jobs in October is to say 24,000 were added over what we need just to stay even.
Yet the American economy has lost 15 million jobs since the start of the Great Recession. And if you add in the growth of the labor force -- including everyone too discouraged to look for a job -- we're down about 22 million.
Or to put it another way, we're still getting nowhere on jobs.
One out of eight breadwinners is still out of work. Most families in the Average Worker economy rely on two breadwinners. So if one out of eight isn't working, chances are high that family incomes are down compared to what they were three years ago.
And that means the bills aren't getting paid.
According to a recent Washington Post poll, more than half of all Americans -- 53 percent -- are worried about making their mortgage payments. This is many more than were worried two years ago, when the Great Recession hit bottom. Then, 37 percent expressed worry.
Delinquency rates on home loans are rising. Distressed sales are up as a percent of total sales.
Most people in the Average Worker economy own few shares of stock, if any. Their equity is in their homes. But with all the delinquencies and distressed sales, the housing market has a glut of homes for sale. As a result, home prices are still dropping. So the net worth of most Americans is still dropping.
And even though interest rates are falling, most people in the Average Worker economy can't refinance their homes. They can't get home equity loans. Banks don't want to lend to the Average Worker economy because people in it are considered bad credit risks. They still owe lots of money, their family incomes are down, and their net worth has fallen.
And according to the Reuters/University of Michigan survey of American consumers, expectations about personal finances are at an all time low.
Inhabitants of the Big Money economy are celebrating Republican wins last week. They figure financial regulations will be rolled back, environmental regulations will be canned, the Bush tax cut will be extended to the top 1 percent, and it will be harder for workers to form unions.
Inhabitants of the Average Worker economy aren't so sure. The economy has been so bad they're angry at politicians. They showed their anger at the ballot box. They took it out on incumbents.
But if nothing changes in the Average Worker economy, there will be hell to pay.
Robert Reich is the author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, now in bookstores. This post originally appeared at RobertReich.org.
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NEWS FLASH!!!! Obama a failure!!!!……..are you kidding me ABC? It's like you Leftist Loons in the Old dying Media just don't matter anymore. Hey ABC…….GO AWAY! MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same. ...
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Facebook acquires FB.com domain name. Ending months of speculation, it's now confirmed that Facebook has acquired the FB.com domain name. The whois record for the domain name just updated to show Facebook's name and nameservers for the ...
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Breitbart.tv » ABC <b>News</b>: Obama Strikes Out in Asia
NEWS FLASH!!!! Obama a failure!!!!……..are you kidding me ABC? It's like you Leftist Loons in the Old dying Media just don't matter anymore. Hey ABC…….GO AWAY! MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same. ...
eric seiger
The Commitment of Traders Report is created by the CFTC – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is published weekly every Friday. This body gathers and publishes the open futures positions on all publicly traded US futures contracts as well as the corresponding options. The data consists of 3 main categories.
Commercial Traders – These are the bigger players in the markets, the smart money and consist of large firms that actually use the commodity being traded, includes companies like…BP in the Oil and Gas Market, Nestle in the Cocoa and Sugar market. The main function of these traders is to hedge the price of the commodity that they trade in.
Large Speculators – These consist primarily of commodity fund traders and are mainly trend following. The position sizes of these traders tends to be in tandem with the movement of price.
Small Speculators – The little guys, individual traders and small firms, these are the traders that tend to be wrong in the market at the tops and bottoms of markets.
How do we use this data? We believe that the COT Index offers a good indication of market sentiment and future direction. The key is to follow the smart money (Commercial) and trade against the other 2 groups when they are at an extreme.
Extremes in the data are figures below 30.00 and above 70.00. The ideal situation for a short position is a low reading in the Commercial COT and high readings in the Large and Small trader numbers. For example the Commercial COT Index reads 5.97, this means that the net commercial position is strongly biased to the short side. The Large and Retail (our main contrarian focus) are reading 97.70 and 100.00 respectively, meaning they are the most long side biased they have been in the last 6 months. For traders this means that their focus should be on short side trades, the goal is to follow the commercial traders when the other 2 groups at opposite extremes. This is the ideal alignment of the groups for optimum success.
This weeks COT Index Review
e-mini S&P 500: We started last week with a punch through the 6 month highs, although we had a bullish start the week ended relatively neutral. COT positioning however remains strong on the long side. We see no reason for this to change on the basis of the COT report.
Signal: Bullish
EURUSD: More volatile but ultimately sideways action from the EURUSD, COT positioning has weakened a little from the 6 month high we had in the previous report but the overall position remains to the long side.
Signal: Bullish
GBPUSD: In last weeks report we asked the question, are we seeing an accumulation pull back? The answer from the market was most certainly yes! As the GBPUSD rallied over 350 pips from the lows after a very bullish COT reading. This weeks COT again is bullish although not quite at the level of the previous week.
Signal: Bullish
USDJPY: Our COT analysis has been very bearish on the USDJPY for a long while and last weeks action provided a big confirmation of that view, with the USDJPY making 15 year lows.! Although Cot has softened a little this week, it remains bearish
Signal: Bearish
Retail Trader Position Analysis
Also known as the Long-Short ratio this is a tool primarily offered by Forex firms, we haven’t been able to come across the same data in the futures as yet. The data is based upon the collective trades and trading direction of many thousands of retail traders (the average Joe). This group of traders is notoriously wrong at predicting market direction, market tops and bottoms with some simple analysis we can look at this data and take a contrarian view, for example if over 70% of retail traders are long USDJPY this offers us a short bias. Savvy traders should then be focusing there energies on short side trades.
USDJPY: Retail positioning of the USDJPY has reached the stratospheric levels of 83.68% Long! Amazing! The strength of the Yen remains strong, there are market rumors of further intervention to be announced.
EURUSD: A volatile but ultimately sideways week for the Euro, retail traders remain short but with a slightly weaker position than what we saw last week.
GBPUSD: Retail positioning in the pound shifted dramatically last week, with the percentage of traders short is now 66.56%! This takes them in to our Strong Long zone on the anti-retail trader tool.
Provided by Pivotfarm - The Home of Support and Resistance Trading
Next time you hear an economist or denizen of Wall Street talk about how the "American economy" is doing these days, watch your wallet.
There are two American economies. One is on the mend. The other is still coming apart.
The one that's mending is America's Big Money economy. It's comprised of Wall Street traders, big investors, and top professionals and corporate executives.
The Big Money economy is doing well these days. That's partly thanks to Ben Bernanke, whose Fed is keeping interest rates near zero by printing money as fast as it dare. It's essentially free money to America's Big Money economy.
Free money can almost always be put to uses that create more of it. Big corporations are buying back their shares of stock, thereby boosting corporate earnings. They're merging and acquiring other companies.
And they're going abroad in search of customers.
Thanks to fast-growing China, India, and Brazil, giant American corporations are racking up sales. They're selling Asian and Latin American consumers everything from cars and cell phones to fancy Internet software and iPads. Forty percent of the S&P 500 biggest corporations are now doing more than 60 percent of their business abroad. And America's biggest investors are also going abroad to get a nice return on their money.
So don't worry about America's Big Money economy. According to a Wall Street Journal survey released Thursday, overall compensation in financial services will rise 5 percent this year, and employees in some businesses like asset management will get increases of 15 percent.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is back to where it was before the Lehman bankruptcy filing triggered the financial collapse. And profits at America's largest corporations are heading upward.
But there's another American economy, and it's not on the mend. Call it the Average Worker economy.
Last Friday's jobs report showed 159,000 new private-sector jobs in October. That's better than previous months. But 125,000 net new jobs are needed just to keep up with the growth of the American labor force. So another way of expressing what happened to jobs in October is to say 24,000 were added over what we need just to stay even.
Yet the American economy has lost 15 million jobs since the start of the Great Recession. And if you add in the growth of the labor force -- including everyone too discouraged to look for a job -- we're down about 22 million.
Or to put it another way, we're still getting nowhere on jobs.
One out of eight breadwinners is still out of work. Most families in the Average Worker economy rely on two breadwinners. So if one out of eight isn't working, chances are high that family incomes are down compared to what they were three years ago.
And that means the bills aren't getting paid.
According to a recent Washington Post poll, more than half of all Americans -- 53 percent -- are worried about making their mortgage payments. This is many more than were worried two years ago, when the Great Recession hit bottom. Then, 37 percent expressed worry.
Delinquency rates on home loans are rising. Distressed sales are up as a percent of total sales.
Most people in the Average Worker economy own few shares of stock, if any. Their equity is in their homes. But with all the delinquencies and distressed sales, the housing market has a glut of homes for sale. As a result, home prices are still dropping. So the net worth of most Americans is still dropping.
And even though interest rates are falling, most people in the Average Worker economy can't refinance their homes. They can't get home equity loans. Banks don't want to lend to the Average Worker economy because people in it are considered bad credit risks. They still owe lots of money, their family incomes are down, and their net worth has fallen.
And according to the Reuters/University of Michigan survey of American consumers, expectations about personal finances are at an all time low.
Inhabitants of the Big Money economy are celebrating Republican wins last week. They figure financial regulations will be rolled back, environmental regulations will be canned, the Bush tax cut will be extended to the top 1 percent, and it will be harder for workers to form unions.
Inhabitants of the Average Worker economy aren't so sure. The economy has been so bad they're angry at politicians. They showed their anger at the ballot box. They took it out on incumbents.
But if nothing changes in the Average Worker economy, there will be hell to pay.
Robert Reich is the author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, now in bookstores. This post originally appeared at RobertReich.org.
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Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Breitbart.tv » ABC <b>News</b>: Obama Strikes Out in Asia
NEWS FLASH!!!! Obama a failure!!!!……..are you kidding me ABC? It's like you Leftist Loons in the Old dying Media just don't matter anymore. Hey ABC…….GO AWAY! MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same. ...
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Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Breitbart.tv » ABC <b>News</b>: Obama Strikes Out in Asia
NEWS FLASH!!!! Obama a failure!!!!……..are you kidding me ABC? It's like you Leftist Loons in the Old dying Media just don't matter anymore. Hey ABC…….GO AWAY! MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same. ...
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Facebook acquires FB.com domain name. Ending months of speculation, it's now confirmed that Facebook has acquired the FB.com domain name. The whois record for the domain name just updated to show Facebook's name and nameservers for the ...
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Breitbart.tv » ABC <b>News</b>: Obama Strikes Out in Asia
NEWS FLASH!!!! Obama a failure!!!!……..are you kidding me ABC? It's like you Leftist Loons in the Old dying Media just don't matter anymore. Hey ABC…….GO AWAY! MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same. ...
eric seiger
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Facebook acquires FB.com domain name. Ending months of speculation, it's now confirmed that Facebook has acquired the FB.com domain name. The whois record for the domain name just updated to show Facebook's name and nameservers for the ...
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Breitbart.tv » ABC <b>News</b>: Obama Strikes Out in Asia
NEWS FLASH!!!! Obama a failure!!!!……..are you kidding me ABC? It's like you Leftist Loons in the Old dying Media just don't matter anymore. Hey ABC…….GO AWAY! MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same. ...
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Facebook acquires FB.com domain name. Ending months of speculation, it's now confirmed that Facebook has acquired the FB.com domain name. The whois record for the domain name just updated to show Facebook's name and nameservers for the ...
Forget AOL-Yahoo...It's <b>News</b> Corp-Yahoo That The Insiders Are <b>...</b>
One source close to News Corp says the company is monitoring the situation, and notes that Jon Miller and "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang have a good working relationship. Merger talk, says this source, is pre-mature. ...
Breitbart.tv » ABC <b>News</b>: Obama Strikes Out in Asia
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Making money with a newspaper clipping service may seem to be a strange way to make extra money, but it can and is being done, and starting your own clipping service to make that extra money is easier than you think.
All it takes is a few hours a day, a few supplies, a little patience and you're in business. To help you start this business, I'm going to give you a few tips on where to begin, and the list of supplies you will need. The hours and patients will have to come from you.
Newspaper clipping is nothing new. It's been around for years now, but as long as the newspapers and magazines continue to report news and information on businesses, organizations and individuals , there will be a need to provide this service.
Some people do this as a full-time job, but how far you take this will depend solely on you. Making extra money doing this part-time is easy, but making a full-time income from a clipping service will take a lot of time and effort.
I've listed step by step instructions on the supplies you will need, the type of news clippings to look for, and how to look for buyers.
What Type Of Articles To Look For
The news clippings you want to focus on are the ones that have any exciting or unusual news about businesses, organizations and individuals. The news could be about awards received or given, notable achievements, acts of heroism, contracts received, good deeds done in the community, advertising, promotion of product lines from competitors, birth announcements, wedding and engagement announcements and even deaths.
You can also check out articles about sports figures, locally and nationally. Any news clipping you can find on a popular sports figure would be of interest to him or her. They also have a desire to know what the newspapers and magazines are saying about them.
Well, they all have an interest in knowing what is being printed about them. The businesses and organizations are particularly interested in their "public image," and so do the sports figures, so any articles featuring the items mentioned above are candidates for clipping.
Don't forget articles about retail stores, whose competitors are interested in what they are promoting, selling or where they are building expansions. Individuals who are having babies, getting married or getting divorced are also good candidates, and unfortunately, the same goes for deaths.
Supplies You Will Need For Your Newspaper Clipping Service
• Scissors
• Clear Plastic Sheets (To hold your articles)
• Filing Box (Large enough to hold your articles)
• Envelopes
• Book of Stamps
• Printer Paper
• Laminating Machine (Optional)
• Laminating Pouches (Optional)
• Lots of Local and National Newspapers and Magazines
How To Contact Companies And Individuals About News Clippings
When you have compiled quite a few clippings and have them all organized in your filing box, now is the time to start making money with your newspaper clipping service.
For any local companies and organizations, you can find their addresses in the local directory or on line. Individual addresses for anyone getting married, divorced, having babies or deaths can be found on line, at your local court house, listed under public records. If you want to contact a company on a national level, you should be able to find them on line.
All you have to do is write them a letter (envelopes, stamps, printer paper), and explain that you have news clippings about their company, or wedding, or what ever the occasion might be, and ask them if they are interested in purchasing them. Let them know how many clippings you have, and what each clipping is about.
If you want to, you can even send them a copy of one of the clippings. This way they get to see what they will be receiving. This is also why I suggested a laminating machine. Instead of sending them a copy of the clipping inside one of the clear plastic page holders, you can laminate the copy and make it look more professional. The same would go for any wedding announcements and obituaries.
When you send your letter, also quote the price you are asking for each article. If you have different size articles, charge according to size... with the larger clippings costing more. I'll leave the pricing to you.
But I will tell you that when my mother died, I received a beautiful laminated obituary of her death, that had been copied onto a sheet of pink printer paper the size of your remote control, and decorated with a picture of a cross and lilies at the top. This person was asking $5 dollars for each, and I ordered five.
What Not To Do In Your Newspaper Clipping Service
Be very careful about the news clippings you clip from newspapers and magazines, especially magazines. You don't want to clip anything that is copyrighted, and a lot of the magazine articles are copyrighted. However, you can still find some that aren't, so don't despair.
The same goes for newspapers. Don't clip anything with UP/AP or other codes (United Press or Associated Press). Also be aware that all syndicated features and cartoons are copyrighted. Don't even bother clipping these, because no one will purchase clippings if you have stolen someone's copyright.
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