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2011 Student Readiness Report Shows Three Year Trending Analysis About Distance Learning Students

2011 Student Readiness Report Shows Three Year Trending Analysis About Distance Learning Students

Montgomery, AL (PRWEB) August 30, 2011

Distance learning continues to grow at an incredible rate. As more students begin to learn online, it becomes obvious that distance learning is a better fit for some students than others. Individuals considering distance learning desire to know if studying online will be a good choice for them. Schools which invest heavily in attracting new online students want to retain the students across their degree program. Both schools and students benefit when a student’s level of readiness for learning online is measured.

The 2011 Student Readiness Report (SRR) uses data from 240,386 unique students from 258 colleges and universities during the time frame of July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011. Data from each of these students was analyzed in aggregate, and the findings are now being reported in the SRR. Among these students, 71% were female, only 30% were of traditional age (18-22 years old), 22% had “social” as their dominant learning style, 37% exhibited between 70%-79% of mastery in technical knowledge, and 53% scored 100% on technical competency skills. Statistically significant differences were found among the demographic factors of gender, ethnicity, age, institution type, and the number of prior online courses taken. For example, females were found to have statistically significant higher means on the constructs of individual attributes, typing accuracy, and life factors. Males were found to have statistically significant higher means on the constructs of reading rate and technical knowledge.

According to Sloan-C, over 5.6 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2009 term – a 21% increase over the number reported the previous year. This 21% growth rate for online enrollments far exceeds the 2% growth of the overall higher education student population. When asked about how the SRR data could help with the growth of the online student population, Dr. Mac Adkins, President of SmarterServices said, “The Student Readiness Report is of substantial interest to distance learning leaders as they plan to continue to scale and improve their programs. For example, the aggregate data included in the report is useful to instructional designers as they craft their courses to be intuitive for learners of various learning styles and technical abilities, while the information about learners’ life factors and their abilities is useful to student services personnel”.

To download a free copy of the report, go to http://www.smartermeasure.com/documents/2011_Online_Student_Readiness_Report.pdf.

The student data came from the SmarterMeasure learning readiness indicator. SmarterMeasure is a web-based, diagnostic tool that measures students’ strengths and opportunities for improvement in six areas related to online learning and technology rich courses. Those include life factors, learning styles, individual attributes (such as procrastination, motivation, etc), technical competency & knowledge, typing speed & accuracy, and on-screen reading rate & recall.

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Three Methods Of Setting Trading Targets – Technical Analysis Explained

If ever or whenever you are making a trade the question quickly rears its head :  How and when do you leave with a profit?   Pointing targets has to be one of the most important elements of your  trading strategy , and this is the subject of the next article in our series Technical Analysis Explained.

Objects can be based on time (I’ll keep doing the trade for 3-week) or found on technically (I’ll keep doing the trade until my slow moving average across  my faster moving average)  or  profit-based (I’ll leave when I have an open profit of 1000usd  ), or price-based (I’ll stop of the trade when it reaches my target price .)

Of the three methods each of them has some gains and losses.  Technical exits are always available and remove the element of private opinion , but work well only in powerful trends, cause losses in congestion , and almost all the time leave a number of money upon the table .  Time-based tools are helpful at times but just mostly are net losers, and so cannot be seriously taken as a single implement.   Found on profit exits can teach a trader to make frequent profits but what happens when the trade keeps going far above your pre-determined exit point ?  This violates the easiest rule of trading: let your winners run .

The greatest means of leaving is to decide price targets but only when these are soundly set up in the market structure and point the market’s existing support and {resistance matrix}.  If your plan of trading {takes into account} the natural support and opposition of the market then the target of yours will be sound and your chances of remove everything that the market offers is even more higher then with arbitrarily chosen, fixed-dollar profit targets (which tend to be emotionally driven )  or a technical moving average tool (which by defined obliged to leave huge amount of money upon the desk).

How are you going to set profit targets according to market structure instead of an arbitrary dollar objectives?  For somebody it is not an easy question but for the trader who has built an understanding of multiple time period structure and the ability to project the support now and resistance levels forward in the future , directing targets is not hard to finish. The simplest technique is to {use your higher time-period support} and resistance levels ( this should commonly be one time-period higher than your trading time-period), and to set your target at the coming logical assist or resistance level over  the current price.

Technical analysis explained as follows: Suppose you are day-trading the S&P E-mini contract.  You are using a five minutes chart and take a position using your favorite entry system . The market starts to work in your favor and since you have put on a position with five contracts you quickly accumulate a profit of 0 .  You feel happy and turn a bit greedy and that makes you want to take profits quickly , especially as you see in eyes a slight retracement in the five minutes chart. But, understanding that market structure is all the time at play, you step backward for a period and view the everyday and weekly charts. On your Drummond Geometry charts you can view quickly that your entry was next to daily and weekly support , in the end of the daily envelope and close to the weekly envelope bottom too.  You can see that the logical target of this initial move is at the daily PLDot some nine full points away, and that the advancement of the five minutes bar with its slight retracement is entirely normal and consistent with the thought that the market has {further upside}. You set a price target at the daily resistance and set an alert to sound when that is filled , so that you are able to make money there.  You can then further assess if the market will reverse and step back to the first assist level or pause and continue to higher level of resistance.

One of the main points is that when researching  market structure as opposed to arbitrary dollar value price aims you mostly have a handle on what the market is doing . As a technical analysis explained course teaches, full control taken by you since you know the structural objective at all times as the market flows between its higher time- period support and resistance levels.

Perazzim Capital Management, Inc Releases Breakthrough Backtesting Results of Three Common Stock Options Trading Systems

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) May 5, 2006

Perazzim Capital Management has released the breakthrough backtesting results of three common stock options trading systems. These common systems are directional as well as sideways (non-directional) in nature. As many trades that fit the criteria of these stock option trading systems for 2005 were tested. Stock option traders that use option trading systems or option trading strategies need to know if these common systems result in a net profit or a net loss for our current 2005/2006 slightly trending market. Additional insights are reported from the study of how the number of recommended trades a software scanner reports each day varies with the Nasdaq index. Traders that use option trading strategies can gain important insights with these results.

The results are available at http://www.breakthroughbacktesting.com

Company Vision – Perazzim Capital Management strives to give you the confidence to trade stock option trading systems that have a high probability of profit based on backtesting with lots of samples.

U.S. Government Required Disclaimer – Options trading has large potential rewards, but also large potential risk. You must be aware of the risks and be willing to accept them in order to invest in the options markets. Don’t trade with money you can’t afford to lose. This book is neither a solicitation nor an offer to Buy/Sell options. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those discussed in this book. The past performance of any trading system or methodology is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Hypothetical or simulated performance results have certain limitations. Unlike an actual performance record, simulated results do not represent actual trading. Also, since the most of the trades have not been executed, the results may have under-or-over compensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity, slippage, or intra-day price swings. Backtested systems in general are executed with the benefit of hindsight. The author has taken exhaustive steps to determine the expected return (profit or loss) of certain options trading systems. However, no representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profit or losses similar to those shown.

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Stock Option Newsletter Performance Up 800% In First Three Months

Ashburn, VA (PRWEB) November 7, 2005

OptionsTradingLessons.com, the leading website for stock option trading techniques and strategies, has posted a Performance Report Card of over 800% return since the beginning of August when the site was launched. Published as a learning center for those interested in learning about stock options or improving their skills at making a consistent return in options trading, the website is authored by Ravi Prakash, financial investor and owner of PartnerUp Associates based in Ashburn, Virginia. As its name implies, OptionsTradingLessons.com offers downloadable courses for options basics as well as advanced options lessons for more experienced traders. Mr. Prakash also publishes a weekly investment research newsletter for active traders in the OTL Options Pit area of the website for a monthly subscription.

“In our approach to stock option trading, we translate complex concepts such as volatility and deltas into easy to understand lessons. We believe that all investors can benefit from the leverage provided by stock options. Following our Recipe for Success, individuals can greatly improve their chances of success in the marketplace,” says Ravi Prakash, OptionsTradingLessons.com founder.

Stock Option Lessons (available in Basic and Advanced) are priced individually at an introductory price of $ 129.00, well below the average price of a stock options trading seminar. During the month of December, those who purchase these courses will receive a free copy of the DVD Wall Street. A subscription to the OTL Options Pit is $ 88.00 per month which includes access to the weekly research newsletter, mid-week updates published online, and access to the Option Online Manager where traders can publish their own recommendations and have the system “automatically” paper trade the position.

About OptionsTradingLessons.com

Options Trading Lessons, the leading website for teaching stock option trading and viewing stock option research based upon these principles, is owned and operated by PartnerUp Associates, Inc. based in Ashburn, Virginia. Using a unique Recipe for Success, the website’s weekly stock options newsletter has posted a Performance Report Card with an 800%+ return in the span of three months. To view their past performance visit: www.optionstradinglessons.com/otl_aboutus2.php

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Leverate Enhances Private Label MT4 Solution Package for Retail Brokers with Three New Services

(PRWEB) September 7, 2010 —

Leverate (www.leverate.com), the premium broker solutions provider, announced today that it has further extended the capabilities of its Private Label solution package for Metatrader 4 (MT4) by adding three new components: Leverate Web Trader, iPhone Trader and CRM for Brokers. The Leverate Private Label solution is currently used by leading brokers around the world, who enjoy access to comprehensive solutions as well as a 24/6 professional manned service centre.

Unlike most vendors on the market, Leverate does not compete with its brokers’ clients and allows them to operate completely independently. Not only does Leverate Private Label help brokers to get up and running within days, this robust and scalable solution also assists them throughout the lifetime of their business.

“Leverate’s turnkey Private Label package is a time-saving and cost-effective solution for both new players and for existing brokers looking to upgrade their existing platform”; stated Leverate Chief Executive Ran Strauss.

Saving Brokers Time and Money

The newly enhanced Leverate Private Label solution provides brokers with a comprehensive and fully integrated package that saves significant time and money in the launch of MT4-based trading services.

This package includes the following components:

1) Metatrader 4 Platform – featuring the most robust white label version available

2) Leverate Benchmark Feed – delivering arbitrage-free and spike-free forex, CFD, Indices and Futures rates that minimize brokers’ risk

3) Leverate Risk Management Platform with Liquidity Bridge- allows the broker to set hedging strategies and manage risk using Leverate’s aggregated source of liquidity providers

4) Web and iPhone Trading Platforms – increases client conversion and trading volumes drastically and enables “anytime, anywhere” trading from any browser or from iPhones

5) Back office integration (API) – allows programmers to directly interface with the MT4 platform via a range of commonly used APIs, saving hundreds of programming man hours

6) Leverate’s hosted servers – eliminate costs and hassles of buying, hosting or maintaining servers

7) Optimized configuration – Leverate platform comes pre-configured to optimize the broker’s competitive edge.

Leverate Virtual Execution – brokers can send transactions and receive real-time advice before actually executing the hedge, based on real-time market data from Leverate’s liquidity providers

9) CRM for Brokers – a broker-dedicated CRM system fully integrated with all Leverate solutions to optimize brokers’ operations

Non-competing, Independent White Label Solution

Leverate’s Private Label solution is an ideal fit for those opening a new brokerage firm or for existing brokers looking to replace their existing solution. Non-competitive white label keeps your best interests at heart since Leverate does not accept retail trader clients thus avoiding any possible conflicts of interest.

Saves time in setting-up, enabling the broker to be up-and running within 10 days after signing with Leverate. The benchmark Live Feed quality saves brokers tens of thousands of dollars per month and Leverate IT team supports the broker during startup, saving all IT configuration costs. 24 hour, 6 day a week customer and dealing room support.

About Leverate

Leverate is a premium broker solutions provider, dedicated to delivering a wide array of innovative solutions and services that enable forex brokers and financial institutions to increase conversion, minimize risk and reach new markets. Leverate offers cutting-edge solutions powered by breakthrough technology. As a provider of comprehensive broker solutions, Leverate offers market players an end-to-end suite of products and services, including the Leverate Live Feed, Leverate Risk Management with Liquidity Bridge, Leverate Web Trader and iPhone Trader. Building on these products, Leverate offers a unique turnkey Private Label solution that incorporates the entire range of Leverate solutions as well as the Metatrader 4 (MT4) white label.

For more information about Leverate Private Label, please contact us at http://www.leverate.com/About-Us/Contact-Us / skype: leverate.sales or call: +44-20-8816-8970

Related Forex Arbitrage Press Releases

Mansfield Visoiu Capital Management announces three new alternative investment products to compliment their successful Global Diversified FX Portfolio.

(PRWEB) March 20, 2004

Mansfield Visoiu Capital Management Corp. (MVCM), www.BrilliantFunds.com, a leader in quantitative–systematic alternative investment within the global foreign exchange (FOREX) markets unveiled three additional investment programs to complement their successful Global FX Diversified Portfolio management program:

Statistical Arbitrage (FXATO) Program, Automated 24-hour (Trading Robots), and a

de-leveraged Global FX Diversified Portfolio program (FX-LL), for clients who demand the absolute lowest volatility investment programs.

MVCM’s multi-strategy programs are targeted to institutions, hedge funds, commodity funds as well as sophisticated investors seeking alpha yield enhancement yet with low volatility relative to each strategies industry benchmarks.

About Mansfield Visoiu Capital Management Corp:

Mansfield Visoiu Capital Management (MVCM) is an alternative investments and market research firm specializing in the development and utilization of innovative computerized asset management methodologies formulated to capitalize on statistically favorable risk to return opportunities in global foreign exchange (FOREX) markets. MVCM’s unique managed investment programs and outstanding market related products and services have been developed out of years of research and trading in the markets, and as a result, they are designed to meet the demands of sophisticated individual and institutional investors.

Program information and performance history is freely available at: www.BrilliantFunds.com.

Investor Relations Contact:

Mansfield Visoiu Capital Management Corp.

Telephone: (954) 924-8301

Email: Info@BrilliantFunds.com

PAST PERFORMANCE DOES NOT GUARANTEE FUTURE RESULTS OR FREEDOM FROM LOSSES. Futures, options and FOREX trading involve significant risk and are not suitable for everyone. Please read our DISCLAIMER page for CFTC cautionary statements.

Qualified investors potentially interested in investing in a managed account program must read the MVCM’s Managed Account Risk Disclosure Document located under the “Our Brochure” menu heading at the top of our website. Information is from sources believed to be reliable, but its accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Readers using this information are solely responsible for their actions and invest at their own risk. No part of this publication may be altered without written consent from MVCM. Trademarks are of Mansfield-Visoiu Capital Management Corp. Any/all unauthorized reproduction is strictly prohibited. Copyright, March 2004.

Three Undiscovered Defensive Stocks

Three Undiscovered Defensive Stocks
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — David Pedowitz, a Senior Managing Partner of the Bolton Group at Neuberger Berman, suggests three stocks that have defensive attributes that aren’t so well-known.

Read more on TheStreet.com

Online Investment – Three Ways To Make Money

Given the rapid growth of Internet nowadays, making money through online investments is now easier than you think. There is an entire host of legal ways to achieve great profit using online investment than nay bank can ever offer. Here are some ideas you can take advantage of when you plan your investments for 2007.

1. Invest in FOREX

Also called foreign exchange market, Forex is a market where investors buy or sell currencies of economically stable countries. Choosing to place your online investment this way can bring you a lot of profit, but you have to be well informed on the politics and economy of all countries. You must also find a broker who will open an account for you in order to open and close your transactions. It’s your obligation to protect your online investment by finding a reputable broker and brokerage company. It is also in your best interest if your broker is registered to Futures Commission Merchant. This can lower the risk of Forex trading, yet bear in mind that in online investment, as in any type of investment for that matter, the risk will never become zero.

2. Invest in online stock trading

If you are interested in entering the online stock trading arena, you should develop a strategic plan which relies on realistic expectations and is well grounded in the basics. Remember to be selective from the get-go and avoid throwing all your assets into a stock just because it looks good at first sight. In order to make the best of your online investment, you should approach it with both skepticism and realism. You will also increase your chances of being successful if you ask for the advice of those who already are so, and who can give you information to your comfort level.

3. Invest in Sports Arbitrage Trading

This a technique based on the disagreements of bookmakers when it comes to placing a bet for an event in the sports world. When you make your online investment through Sports Arbitrage Trading you win irrespective of the sports team which actually wins the game, yet find these opportunities by yourself is quite difficult. There are, however, many helpful guides and trading pools you can consult to understand this type of online investment. Although profit is usually in the range of 2% to 5%, investors report profit rates of up to 15% of their initial investment.
In conclusion, take some action today and you might make more money then you ever dream is possible tomorrow.

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A Killer Forex Strategy: Three Ways to Make Consistent Profits From the Forex Markets

Imagine being able to pull large sums of cash out from the biggest market on the planet, at any time you wish, day or night. Imagine being able to access this cash from anywhere – a cafe in Paris, a Californian beach, an Alpine ski resort. Imagine making profitable trade after profitable trade, week in and week out, and making more than enough to fund your luxury lifestyle.

Sadly, for most people, it’s really not that easy.

Here’s a frightening fact: nearly 50% of foreign exchange traders lose money to the point where they have to stop trading altogether, and go and do something less risky instead.

If you’re trading currencies right now, or you’re thinking about starting, then you have a 1-in-2 chance of losing your trading pot.

They’re not very good odds, are they?

I’ve been trading currencies for over twenty years, on and off, and mostly without great success. When I discovered that nearly half of all traders lose money over time, I nearly gave up myself!

The one thing that kept me going through the dark days was knowing that the foreign exchange trading software, now available to the individual trader for a modest investment, or even for no investment at all, are all much better than the software that professional City forex firms were paying many thousands a year for only a decade ago.

I reckoned that the quality of the trading software tools available to us would continue to go up over time, and prices would continue to come down. And one day, we’d have access to some of the best foreign exchange software at silly prices!

I believe that day has now dawned.

As ‘amateur’ forex traders, we now have the choice of three directions to take that will allow us to play with the “Big Boys” – and win.

Option 1 – Pay For Trade Signals

There are plenty of companies and ‘expert’ individuals out there who will deliver trade signals to you by phone, SMS or email. I’ve used a couple of them myself, and they can be pretty good.

Just so we’re all clear, trade signals basically come from the market. They are either fundamental (good farm payroll numbers, an interest rate change and so on) or they are technical, from patterns forming on the charts, or a combination of the two.

There are literally hundreds of different signals to choose from, and a service should pass on to you only those they think have the highest probability of creating a profit. By the time you get a trade signal, though, it will simply tell you the currency pair, whether it’s a Buy or a Sell, and some idea of stop-loss and profit-take levels.

The problem in this system lies in the information being delivered at the right time, and you being on hand to act upon it. The other problem is cost – some of the better ones will charge you several hundred dollars a month for their service. Of course, this adds to the pressure on your trading account, as you have to make the cost of the FX signal service back before you start to make any money for yourself.

Option 2 – A Managed Forex Account

Here, you hand over your trading capital to a professional forex trading company who will trade for you in the markets.

There are several advantages to this route…

* You are hiring a team of full-time professionals to trade on your behalf

* No matter how good your trading software might be, theirs will be even better!

* You need spend no time at all staring at screens and analysing charts

* If you find a good team, it can work out very profitable for you.

However, there are fees to be taken into consideration. Generally, you will be charged a yearly management fee of between 1% and 3% of your trading capital, and a performance fee (usually charged quarterly) of between 10% and 35% of any profit made.

(If the performance fee seems high to you, think of it this way. Your team of foreign currency traders are trading currencies for a living, and you are benefiting from their expertise. Plus, if they charge you 25% of profits, you’re still getting 75% of a sum that would not otherwise have been made. And, last but not least, a performance fee will motivate the team to do well for you – and that’s what you want!)

The downside, for me at least, is the lack of control. I get a real buzz from trading, and I don’t want to lose that by handing over my trading capital to a professional team.

You’ll also need at least $10,000, probably nearer $50,000, in order to get started with a managed account.

Option 3 – Generate Your Own Trade Signals

Years ago, this meant pouring over yesterday’s paper charts (for which you had to pay a small fortune to get!) with pencil, ruler, and a stack of charts going back several months.

Nowadays, all that can be done with a good paid charting service such as eSignal, or even for free with BigCharts.

However, it still takes time, and you still need to know what you’re looking for, and it takes further time to build up a skill and an affinity with charts before you start making consistent, profitable trades. (And that’s if you’re in the lucky 50% of traders!)

Recently, a new solution came onto the market that takes away the potentially expensive learning curve, and all this time-consuming analysis, and basically does it all for you.

This is the option I like! Here’s how it works.

Step 1 – you download a very inexpensive ($198) piece of stand-alone software. This is what will generate the trade signals for you.

Step 2 – you feed it the latest data from the market you want to trade. All you need to do is take data from your online trading platform (and it doesn’t matter which one you use) and feed it into the software.

Step 3 – if it brings back a trade signal, you trade it (or ‘paper trade’ it if you want to test it first)

Step 4 – your profit-taking limit is hit, and you bank the profits!

Does this sound a bit too good to be true? Well, let me give you a bit of background.

First off, the guy behind this incredible trade signal generator is a very successful trader in his own right, who used to work for a major international bank, and who now makes thousands of dollars a day using this self-same software. A behavioural psychologist and a mathematics professor helped him in developing this trading tool.

Second, last year he took $100,000 and turned it into $641,147 in just two months, using his forex trade signal generator! Now, that was surely an incredibly good run, but it does demonstrate just how consistently good these trade signals are.

Happily, you don’t need $100,000 to get started! You can open a forex trading account with as little as $500 but, realistically, you’d want to start with between $2,000 and $5,000 of trading capital.

You also don’t need experience. The software is easy to use for anyone from a complete novice to a seasoned trader. It comes with full support, an accompanying manual, plus a lifetime of free upgrades, as and when they happen.

So there you have it – three ways to significantly increase your profits from forex trading. The quality of paid-for signals varies enormously, depending on the skills and abilities of the person or group supplying them. If you get a good management team in place, they should be looking to deliver around 5% per MONTH on your money (though you must understand the accompanying risks, too).

Using the software in Option 3 – well, you’ve seen the results the creator had over a 2-month period. No one can guarantee you’ll see the same, of course, but it is an extremely fine track record! If you were able to get results that are even half as good, wouldn’t you be delighted?

Lesson 21 – Three Trading For Trading The Spot Forex Part 2

Forexearlywarning has free webinars on Wednesday nights and this series of videos will contain up to 40 free archived webinar lessons. This video describes trading styles in the spot forex . www.forexearlywarning.com Link to blog post mentioned in video viewer.zoho.com theforexheatmap.blogspot.com