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In the fast paced world of online trading and discount brokerages, many investors no longer rely on brokers for guidance and advice. This has opened up a whole world of online stock trading newsletters – various services which provide stock and option tips. But is using one of these advisory services a good or bad idea?

Many who have used these newsletters would tell you, it’s a bad idea indeed. The reason for this is many con artists abound in this arena, lurking to take advantage of unsuspecting investors. Many of these online trading newsletters are built of simply hype and fluff, making great claims and false promises. Subscriptions can range from $50 to $5000, and with these types of speculative services, there often is no correlation between price and quality. Many have lost money following some of these low-performance, high hype types of newsletters.

If you’ve gotten on a few stock and options trading lists throughout your web searches, you may be familiar with the slick marketing and page after page of intricate copywriting, endless emails teasing you with hints of stock trading ideas that they promise will bring lucrative gains, but you have to open your wallet to get their secrets.

If you see this kind of marketing around an online stock trading newsletter, be very wary. A good service does not need to send you this slick and clever ad copy, trying to entice you and trick you into forking over your cash. These kind of marketing methods are all red flags, stop, put your credit card away, and don’t buy into the hype.

The thing is, if you can find a good trading service, you can make money hand over fist. Let’s admit it, most of us are not technical wizards or fundamental gurus. It can be hard to pick your stocks and options. Most people are just shooting blind, listening to friends, relatives, and rumors – and all of this is bad advice. Many are investing blind without a solid analysis of what they’re doing. Investing on your own is kind of like getting behind the wheel of a car without knowing how to drive. Chances are, you’ll have an accident.

Good advice is hard to find, and its worth to you could well be a fortune. It’s a good idea to use an online stock trading newsletter, if you can separate the wheat from the chaff. If you can steer clear of the phony claims and marketing tricks of snake-oil salesmen, using the right trading advisory service can change your life. It can mean the difference between losses or measly returns, and explosive profits. A few good online stock trading newsletters do exist. You just have to know where to look.

A couple of points to keep in mind: are there past results available for the newsletter you are researching? Is there a free trial, or a money back guarantee? A good trading newsletter will excite you, but in a different way than the phony snake-oil salesmen, who will excite you and frustrate you at the same time, teasing you with hints of secrets, playing on greed, all designed in the hope of getting you to pull out your wallet. A good trading newsletter will give you a real sense of excitement, a confident hope and a sense that you can do it.

While there are some quality online stock trading newsletters that provide fairly low monthly returns, there are a few well-kept, exclusive secret ones that boast massive, real gains. It’s your money – do you want to earn 5-10% or 200, 300, 500% and more a month? Go for the ones with the best charted returns. If there’s a free trial or a guarantee, try it out, test it, paper trade if you’re very cautious. But don’t give up on your search. The right online stock trading newsletter is out there for you!

Between September 11th and Christmas, 2001, the EPA conducted more than 7,500 air quality tests where the Twin Towers once stood, looking for a wide variety of carcinogens and other compounds such as dioxin, lead, and asbestos. Government agencies were trying to determine if airborne particulates and gas phase compounds generated by the crumbling and burning of 220 floors worth of building materials, office furniture, equipment, and jet fuel posed any significant long-term health risks to people who had been in the area since the time of the attacks.

The tests indicate that a unique microclimate of environmental contaminants was created at the site, unlike any previously known. Tests showed that the air had been found to contain cement dust, fiberglass, asbestos, a variety of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dioxin, lead, mercury, and volatile organic compounds such as benzene, toluene, and formaldehyde.

For the most part, airborne concentrations were within regulations, although testing didn’t begin until the day after the towers collapsed, and it’s certainly fair to assume that the first 24 hours were responsible for the highest concentrations of many of the toxic compounds now known to have been generated. Testing after the attack showed only 29 tests out of 3,500 for asbestos had exceeded federal thresholds. The EPA criteria for dioxin were exceeded briefly during the first couple of weeks. In mid-December, however, government officials were still measuring concentrations of benzene 400 times the level permitted for a year of continuous exposure.

The majority of health officials stated officially at the time that no significant threat to workers and residents existed at ground zero. Those statements are now regarded from a historical perspective as misleading or downright false. Even at the time, reports of sore throats, coughing, asthma, cold-like symptoms, breathing problems, bronchitis, sinusitis, and reduced lung capacity continued to be reported, supporting the idea held by many that the unique mixture of contaminants may have reacted in unknown ways to produce unpredictable health concerns. In addition, there was the possibility that brief exposure to chemicals or heavy metals by pregnant women may have threatened the development of their unborn children. As a result, women who were pregnant at the time of the attack were being recruited for studies that would last several years. We now know, from numerous studies that included work from the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, or CCCEH, that the effects included shortened gestation periods, lower birth weights, genetic damage, and increased carcinogenic risks.

Although most organic compounds dissipate quickly as a result of their high vapor pressures, improper cleanup procedures could have exacerbated contamination problems by stirring up toxic-laden particulates that had settled out of the air. The main weapon against re-circulating contaminants was water – keep everything as wet as possible while cleanup activities occur. In addition, the use of particulate arresting filters was supposed to be mandatory on all vacuum operations. Heating and air conditioning systems that had been infiltrated with dust generated from the site should have been thoroughly cleaned, with fresh filters installed before they were restarted. Ordinary fiberglass filters were replaced initially with the more expensive high-efficiency particulate arresting (HEPA) filters in all heating and air conditioning systems that could tolerate reduced airflow until such time that cleaning activities inside and outside buildings were completed. Once the contaminants were gone, it was assumed that it would be safe to return to normal filters.

Mount Sinai Medical Center’s ongoing medical monitoring program, which has treated more than 26,000 people exposed to fallout from the WTC, has proved that exposure to the toxic dust cocktails of the twin towers’ collapse has caused persistent illnesses such as asthma, reactive airway disease, and shortness of breath. The monitoring program re-examined more than 3,160 responders between 2004 and 2007, and found more than 24% had abnormal lung function.

The persistent medical problems related to the WTC attacks became the focus of the Daily News Editorial Board’s editorial series, “9/11: The Forgotten Victims,” winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2007. As a direct result of that series, the Department of Health and Human Services gave $75 million to be used in monitoring and providing health care to 9/11 volunteers, becoming the first federal funds dedicated to 9/11 health problems.

The medical legacy of the collapse of the Twin Towers will far outlast any economic damage done to the country, as people who did not die during the attack or soon thereafter will carry the biological damage throughout the rest of their shortened lives. It’s important to remain committed to those who gave of themselves so willingly during the crisis.

Have you ever dreamed to become an online stock trader but could not get on with it because you did not know where to start. Online trading games provide you the platform to learn all the basic techniques to get you started with the real thing.

In these trading games, you can create virtual portfolio, survey the virtual market, purchase, and stop and limit the actual stocks of listed companies in the virtual market place.

Manage Your Virtual Portfolio:

Building and managing of your portfolio virtually helps a lot in developing your skills in online trading. This virtual account has all the aspects of investments and trading in compliance with the actual accounts. Online brokerage and tracking your virtual investments and trades are similar to the actual online trading as well.

Getting Into the Driver’s Seat:

This fantasy account in the virtual stock market actually allows you to frame your own portfolio and start competing with your friends, colleagues and peers in the virtual market like you are competing in the real online trading website. On online trading games you also get chances to win rewarding cash prizes if you really do well.

Master The Market:

You will start learning the ups and downs of the real market without risking actual money. On the other hand, you will experience the execution of stock trades as whenever you do it in real. You will also get all the data and information regarding the performance of the companies in real time.

Once you experience and gain knowledge by playing online trading games, you will develop the required skills to take control of your financial future in your real life as well. At the same time, as you play in extremely interesting contests, you can also involve yourself in a community of traders with same wave length.

These games have all the features of every online game available on internet. They are personalized in using a collaborative network platform where you can exchange helpful tactics and trade ideas with your friends and other traders.

To play any of these online trading games, you will need to register in their websites. As you become a member, you can access research center and get all the necessary tips, charts and data. You can review them to personalize the market data to play these games. These tools help you in expanding your knowledge and boost your confidence to start investing in the real market.