Silver Lining
The political landscape in the UK may resemble a freshly ploughed field, but it’s an ill wind… The developers of WinPro and Winalot at Easy-EA.com always say that their Expert Advisors need to be tested over the long haul and for the past few weeks I’ve been gritting my teeth and taking this on trust as my already puny bankroll has been further depleted by adverse trading conditions. The day before yesterday my faith was rewarded, as in a single day my bankroll doubled, while the EAs delivered on their design criteria of losing small and winning big. OK, in this case big is a relative term and doubling up still just brought me to a little over £100, but at least it’s the right direction.
Another more directly election-related boost came from IG Index. It wasn’t actually a bot strategy, but out-of-the-money simultaneous calls and puts on the FTSE value yielded another 180% in 24 hours. God bless volatility!
These are the benefits of diversification. As the roulette and greyhound strats are hitting a cool spot, the slack is being taken up the financial markets and football (with the revised version of the Psychic Soccer Profits bot having just been released).
I am starting to diversify my blogging activities too, with a new baby blog devoted to Clickbank Refunds and the Internet Marketing Wall of Shame (which will fill up in no time).
Now – here are two blog-related puzzles which I’d very much appreciate comments on. The first is one I’ve mentioned before. The number of people signing up for the newsletter remains very low, but I’m getting much bigger numbers signing up for blog userids, a much more cumbersome process, whose sign up form is tucked out of the way in the Admin section. Standard blog users have no posting rights and all comments are vetted, so can anyone tell me what is the attraction? The second query is why someone should buy EuroBlaster from my by now very old affiliate link. When was the last time I mentioned it? Haven’t they followed the rest of my posts since then? I don’t want to have to revisit and rewrite every word I’ve ever published, so – for the record – my only live recommendations are the ones I place in Best of the Bots at the top of the page or the Botfarm Recommends section in the sidebar.
Full House
Now we’re finally getting somewhere….
When not chasing rainbows with the Internet Marketing fraternity, I have spent the past few weeks trying to “productionize” the most effective of my bot strategies, so as to minimise the time I need to spend on maintaining them. The screenshot above is of one of my two VPS services (CNS), which at the moment is running at around 68% CPU capacity while hosting:
- Winpro and Winalot Expert Advisors, running 4 forex currency pairs each on the Metatrader 4 platform (squeezing into the bottom of the screen)
- Two instances of Super-Roulette, each churning through over 10,000 spins an hour on different Playtech casinos (whose windows are covered)
- GreyHorseBot Lite, running what finally looks to be a winning greyhound strategy (but I’ve seen too many false dawns to be categoric)
Over on my other VPS (Tagadab), there’s a slightly more leisurely schedule of 4 simultaneous tables of low stakes poker, being governed by the Shanky holdem bot and a “cash hopper”, used for switching tables every half hour. Tagadab is also where I run the Psychic Soccer Profits bot (temporarily in dry dock), the Article Marketing Robot, when making an article submission, and Roulette Assault on any casino not covered by VPS1.
Two Submissions And A Knockout
Rampageous may not be in the dictionary, but it is regularly used by my family to describe my tendency to jump into things with both feet, eyes wide shut. So it was with my first serious article posting using Article Marketing Robot - it was very effective in proving the calibre of the software, but less so in providing me with the expected benefits, due entirely to error on my part. Having tried with mixed results to set up and use a botfarm mail address, I ended up getting massively successful directory registrations using googlemail. Watching the bot not only subscribe, but also go into your email and confirm each subscription is a stunning experience. In the end I was able to get over 600 registrations of which about 550 were successfully and automatically confirmed. My first submission, to around 300 directories, used the generally accepted method of routing interested parties via a landing page (which collects emails) rather than directly to the affiliate link (which is frowned upon by most directories). Not for me the cautious approach of a restricted pilot project or the drip feeding of articles over a few days. I went straight for the shock and awe tactic of submitting to all 300+ directories at the same time (all with a subtly different “spun” version of the original article. And sure enough, as soon as the submissions had finished and I switched over to Google, I could see my article in second and third positions for one of my main keyphrases.
Near-Vana
This is somewhat akin to giving a small child a bazooka to play with, kind of exciting but pretty scary too. What you are seeing above is Foreign Exchange (2 currency pairs), Oil and Gas, Gold and Silver, and Index CFDs (on the FTSE 100 and Dow Jones) all available for simultaneous trading via MetaTrader4. In other words, all tradeable either manually or by automated Expert Advisors.
Pastures New
When I get bitten by a new bug I have an information overload period where I go into a buying frenzy, collecting as much information as I can lay my hands on. In the case of my new passion, internet marketing methods, I may have bitten off more than I can chew. As one tiny part of one of the many packages I have bought over the past week I received a zipped file of 10,000 e-books, most of them about how to make more money from the internet. Talk about a well-trodden path!
Nonetheless, I feel inclined to try out some of the more sensible of the methods I have read about. So, apologies to readers for using you as guinea-pigs, but you’ll see more than the usual quota of changes to the site over the next few weeks. Don’t be surprised at email autoresponders, the occasional pop-up, revisions to the layout and maybe even, horror of horrors, a banner or two. I still believe content is king, but I think I may have been overly ascetic in ignoring some of the more obvious ways to monetise this blog.
I seriously considered starting a new blog just to chronicle the ups and downs of a newbie Internet Marketer, but the niche is swamped and one of my purchases gives me a tenuous reason to include it here – I refer to the widely advertised Miracle Traffic Bot. Screen shot follows below the cut, but there is something I should probably include before the fold, namely the most ingenious of the free ebooks I have come across so far …
Spring Time
Just because the poker barn burnt down and two pokerbots have joined the ranks of the economically inactive, it doesn’t mean the pace lets up down on the botfarm. WinPro has now moved to a subscription service, but a new release out this week looks very promising, with a new currency pair added and some tweaks to the entry and tradeout criteria. My newly re-funded Alpari account has ticked up 5% in the couple of days since I upgraded my WinPro version. I am also considering upgrading from a micro to a classic account with Alpari UK (requiring a minimum $500 deposit), following their introduction of CFDs on European stocks. To trade forex, stock CFDs and metals all through Metatrader and with the possibility of using Expert Advisors could represent a giant leap forward.
Meanwhile, the Psychic Soccer Profits bot has gone live, or at least is on sale and will start receiving a live feed from Monday. Look and feel is pure Greyhorsebot, as it was written by the same Sporting Bots crew.
Grab it here before Monday if interested, as the sales list will close before the live service starts (and apologies for the exit popups on the site, which are somewhat OTT)