Please note that the e-gold website will be offline as described below. Times provided are estimates only - actual downtime duration may be slightly shorter or longer.

Scheduled Maintenance
Begins: Sunday, September 30 2007 19:00 EDT
Ends: Sunday, September 30 2007 20:00 EDT

source: e-gold.com

Gold hit a 28-year high on Friday. Its highest level since January 1980 when the metal rose to $850. Click here to see the graph.

The admin of Net Investments HYIP has reported that they do not use E-gold anymore. Please update your account in the EDIT INFO and type your V-money or E-bullion account there.

A lot of investors are looking for a new HYIPs to invest ASAP in these programs. But don't rush dealing with such HYIPs.

A new tactics is using by the admins of High Yield Investment Programs during the last time. They register their programs in every monitor and get the "WAITING" status. Then they stop their activity. The program's admin doesn't pay even a cent. But it doesn't mean that you get a pending withdrawal. It means that your profits aren't increasing at all. You have active deposit, but your account balance is zero.

Therefore we recommend to choose the programs that are marked with the "PAYING" status only.

The era of finding a passive program for generating high returns for a living on the Internet is ALMOST over, it seem. Whatever you’re seeing that guarantees you 2% to exorbitant and absurd returns, you can even stop looking at it and just treat them like your normal spam mails and thrash them (that’s a HYIP tip for you).

What we are actually looking at now, not exactly only passive, but lucrative legitimate businesses that we can go into, pick up something as a skill set and learn to grow your own money exponentially (Remember we did a poll about half a year ago on what directions should our new blog take? ). We have heard about Forex scams and Forex investments since our 2 years with HYIPs, now let us take a look on whether how true it is and whether learning or trading Forex is the thing for you.

What is Forex?

An almost 24 hour high liquidity market that evolves around foreign currencies that we use ranging especially from the majors like US Dollar, British Pound, Japanese Yen, Canadian dollar and more. Since it allows you to leverage your money on the ratio and lots, its highly recommended for anyone who has different kind of risk appetite when it comes to trading. Let’s give an example.

Usually we will see a pair of currency denominating in the markets. An example would be GBPUSD, Whatever that is the front pair is usually the stronger pair (GBP in this case). You can always buy or sell the pair depending on whether the Pound will gain against the Dollar or fall. Should you buy the pair and if the pound gains, you make money; should it go the other direction, you lose. Alternatively, should you sell the pair and if the pound loses against the dollar, you make money.

Is it Easy to Pick Up Forex?

Its not really that hard at all! I started learning with a cliche of friends who was already in, and they recommended nice forex resources that are useful. Note, there are so many free resources around on forex that you can learn something from and you don’t have to pay for some forex package if you don’t mind studying on your own.

A good place to start will definitely be Babypips, from the way on how they present their forex curriculum, and I’d recommend Nobs Forex, our own forex blog publication too.

Clear your doubts in forex forums like Babypip’s, Forex Factory’s or even Nobs Network and get answers from experienced traders.

Risk Appetite and Discipline is the Question

Any forms of financial tools require immense discipline when it comes to growing your money. In this case, we are talking about learning a skill set to work on growing your money and not any kind of passive deposits where it grows your money exponentially.

You will have to decide on the risk level you can accept and go with the adjustments of your trading account before even embarking on the journey. Blowing forex demo accounts is pretty much common, according to the Video Game mentality that tianx has brought up before.

Learning to trade monopoly money and treat it as if your own is definitely a requirement here before risking your own money. The question is, do you have the discipline to stick with your risk appetite and not risking more at any point of time?

In summary, the requirements of trading Forex:
- Good mindset
- Discipline
- Willing to Learn
- More Discipline

Forex Trading Versus HYIPs

Forex hands down, anything beats your regular in-the-mill HYIP games when you have full control of your money. The risk that you face is blowing out your own account.

Unless you’re able to prove that the investment program that is raising funds is legitimate and has a good business plan to grow your money, which is increasingly difficult to find since more and more swindlers come online just to raise money for their own pockets instead of presenting a possible opportunity to grow your money. There are still a few gems around with variable returns on investment (ie, not fixed %), but cases and chances of finding these HYIPs now are really rare.

source: hyipblog.nobshyip.net

One interesting episode was published by one member of Aliativa HYIP. Here you can find his report regarding a problem in this program.

Unfortunately spammers are using our name again. Somebody is sending SPAM with ads of profitbyhyip.com . Don't trust in these e-mails please! This is not from us. We are sending our weekly newsletter to our subscribed members only.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

This notification was received from the admin of Expert Traders HYIP. "To avoid difficulties accessing your Expert Traders Ltd account please go through http://exptraders.com or http://www.exptraders.com. You'll be directed to a one-time-security-pin page (this is a part of DDoS shield) and after passing it you'll be forwarded to our site via the full URL through the SSL protocol. Please note, do not type the full URL (https://www.exptraders.com) in your browser before passing through the one-time-security-pin page (!) In other words do not use the secure protocol (SSL, https) unless you are able to access the site. If you have problems logging in your account, clear cookies and content cache of your browser and then try to login again."

Now you can get program's news and announcements from Finance-Fx HYIP much easier. Because they have opened the forum. Also you can post your comments regarding "Payment/Account" problems or discuss the hottest topics of HYIP area.

The admin of Golden Pig Invest HYIP decided to inform their members by way of our blog. Here is information that was received from the admin: "Our site is under a severe DDOS attack since 5:00 GMT today. We are trying to do everything we can to stop it and restore our normal activity as soon as possible."

And this information has been discovered on their program forum: "Today we will make you the payment correspondent to yesterday earnings, directly to your e-gold account. Please notice we are paying only yesterday earnings, not pending withdrawals requests." Please check your egold account.

Referral system at Tradeinvestclub was updated. To get your referral commission please write httpS:// before your personal referral link: tradeinvestclub.com/index.php?ref=yourusername

One HYIP member has sent to us his thoughts about several programs. Unfortunately these HYIPs aren't being monitored by our team and we can't confirm this information. Here is text of his notification:

"I wish to bring to the notice of Goldpoll of these websites which are cheating people by making huge promises and in spite of several contact forums are still operating online - Aolhyip.org and Mmo-investment.com . They are making a huge kill. I would like you caution people through your site, so that they do not fall prey for these rogues."

Please be careful!

We've been notified that website of Way To Profit HYIP is under attack. Here is the information from the admin of this program: "Our site is under severe DDOS attack since September 14. Persons responsible for this attack can not continue attack with such intensity. They will not succeed to destroy WTP! WTP will be back as soon as possible. Use this email to contact us by MSN or email: richard-wtp (a) hotmail.com"

Please check your account information in Profits 2 Ever HYIP. Because the admin reported to us that some members accounts were changed by system error. Pay your attention on e-gold account number before your withdrawal request.

Hello friends! Our BLOG was started over 2 years ago. Everyone can post his own opinion here and to be part of our team. That's why a membership of our blog is increasing daily. Now we have more than 600 registered members.

E-gcld.com/acct/login.html this site was mentioned in phishing email. Please note that this phishing site is using the domain e-gCld.com with "C" instead "O". Please be careful!

The admin of Black Market Invest made alterations in the withdrawal policy. He reported to us that they increased their processing period up to 72 hours. Unfortunately this information isn't declared yet in their FAQ section.

The admin has reported that they have removed two member's accounts from their program. Because their owners brake a rule about multiple accounts. The removed accounts are "bebeto" and "ayolek".

"These accounts were created from the same IP and almost at the same time. And we decided to delete the accounts", the admin said.

Today we've received a few reports from HYIP's members. All of them reported to us about various problems in HYIPs such as "missed/pending withdrawals" or "account problems" etc. Here is list of HYIPs that were mentioned in the member's reports:
- earnultimate.com
- globaltrade-hyip.com
- gainproject.com
- orientinvestment.com
- forex-trade-group.com

Every HYIP from this list is already situated in our BlackList. Please be careful!

We need your opinion about RelaxBusiness HYIP. You know that there are many bad votes on various forums and rating sites, but there are a lot of positive votes too. That's why we ask your personal opinion regarding this HYIP. Please send us your thoughts, your facts or your complaints via our contact form with the subject "RelaxBusiness". We guarantee you the secrecy of this information of course.

Thank you.

The list of acceptable payment methods in DayTradePros HYIP was changed by the admin. They decided to stop accepting and stop paying out through E-Gold. Alertpay and E-Bullion were added as alternative payment processors.

Please follow this instruction to receive your payments in E-Bullion:
1.Set up your E-Bullion account
2.Login to your Daytradepros account.
3.Click on currency exchange.
4.Exchange what you have in e-gold in your account balance, to e-bullion (there is a fee)
5.After you exchanged e-gold to e-bullion click on withdraw
6.Withdraw your funds like before using e-bullion
7.Write your e-bullion account number in the comments box in the withdrawal section.

One member of 8invest.net has reported that his withdrawal request isn't processed for a few days. And the admin isn't responding as is often the case. Unfortunately this information isn't verified because this program isn't being monitored by our team.

Also we've received one notification about some problems in e-goldengine.com . But this time we can confirm that there are some problems there because this HYIP is situated in our blacklist.