How Will Check 21 Affect You?

Written by Shannon Jarvies


You may already be familiar with Check 21, a federal law that goes into effect on October 28, 2004. If you're like me, this may be something you hadn't heard about until just yesterday. The Check Clearing forrepparttar 21st Century Act, otherwise known as Check 21, isrepparttar 112310 process of turningrepparttar 112311 checks your write into images and transmitting them by computer.

What does this mean to you?

Expectrepparttar 112312 time your check clears to decrease drastically. If you live paycheck to paycheck and often count on a one or two day "grace period" to get funds into your account after paying bills, you'll need to re-organize your budgeting process. Checks will clear in a matter of hours now, not days.

You will no longer be getting your cancelled checks back with your bank statement. If you get anything at all, it will be a "substitute check" which is a certain kind of copy of your original check.

You may be charged extra fees. It's possible that by using this method, your check will be paid twice: once withrepparttar 112313 original and once withrepparttar 112314 scanned image. Or there may be an error made inrepparttar 112315 amount a check was written for inrepparttar 112316 process of turning an paper check into an electronic check.

How to Analyze the Veracity of Investment Newsletters

Written by John McKeon


When trying to analyze whether a promotional ad for an investment newsletter or a market timing investment trading system is worthy of investigation,repparttar following questions should be asked:

Doesrepparttar 112309 strategy have a track record? Without this you are really allowing your emotions to be in play. All of us want to believe that if someone says something it must be true. Yetrepparttar 112310 sad fact isrepparttar 112311 truth is probably justrepparttar 112312 opposite. Most ads and promotions are put in print for self interests first, and all else second. One has to view anything onrepparttar 112313 web with a skeptical eye. The minimum that an investment strategy should give you is a previous track record. The longerrepparttar 112314 track record isrepparttar 112315 better. Something that has worked for a matter of months is usually not long enough inrepparttar 112316 trading world to be considered successful. Some promoters do not release their track records because they say that “past performance is not an indication of future results”. This is true but certainly no performance is not an indication of future results either. Some promoters do not release their track records because they say “we used to do a track record but subscribers got upset ifrepparttar 112317 strategy lost money when they subscribed even though it made money over a yearly period.” That may also be true but it is also part ofrepparttar 112318 game. Subscribers can not expect to make money from day one when trading a long term strategy. However, that should be self evident inrepparttar 112319 track record. And some promoters do not release their track records simply because they don’t have one or they have a bad one. It’s as simple as that no matter what they say.

Isrepparttar 112320 track record that they are promoting in real time or was it simulated in a computer based on past data? What does this really mean? Real time means thatrepparttar 112321 trading signals that were used to producerepparttar 112322 track record results were actually generated at that specific moment in time. In reality. Most track records onrepparttar 112323 investment web sites are not real time even when they say they are. Even if they did not use a computer and it was done by hand, ifrepparttar 112324 data taken fromrepparttar 112325 last five years butrepparttar 112326 web site is only a year old then it can’t be so. Why is this so important? Because trading is not trading if human emotions are removed. No greed, no complacency, no panic, no hysteria. Almost all computer-generated trading programs fail miserably when actually implemented because eitherrepparttar 112327 data was too short a time period orrepparttar 112328 human factor was ignored. That is assumingrepparttar 112329 human that inputrepparttar 112330 data did it without human emotion. I once had an acquaintance who told me he had a system that returned 80% per month forrepparttar 112331 last 6 months. He said he implemented it 6 months in real time. I asked how much he had invested in this strategy. He said nothing because he was paper trading. I said that there is no such thing. He proceeded to tell me what paper trading was. I replied that I knew what he thought paper trading was but it is not trading because when you paper trade your emotions are not in play. Human greed and ego has a way of making you believe something to be real without looking objectively atrepparttar 112332 data. But once actual real money is at riskrepparttar 112333 complexion ofrepparttar 112334 situation dramatically changes.

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