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THE PERFECT HOME BUSINESS: TRADING CURRENCIES AND STOCKS, FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME, USING YOUR COMPUTER

There is a plethora of proposals floating around the cyberspace about home business: Multi Level Marketing (MLM) schemes, affiliates programs related to Web based travels agencies, virtual casino and so on. You certainly have received in your mail box proposals of the kind.

None of these opportunities, however, does not really match the one related to investing online; trading currencies and or stocks.

Indeed, with your computer, and a permanent connection to the Internet, you are equipped to play a winning partition on the Internet's investing playing field of currencies and stocks. Just like a pro.

The Internet had completely changed the rule of investing. Now you do not need to hand over the management of your funds to a broker; you do not need deep pocket to start investing in the financial market. Everything necessary to help and assist you entering the fray is just a few keystrokes away.

There are a lot of websites, some of them free, which guide you, step by step, through the learning process. Plenty of forums are at your disposal, that are dedicated to the picking of the best stocks available. You won't act in blindness.

Thanks to the Internet Revolution, we are living in the ERA OF INVESTING DEMOCRACY. Where you live doesn't matter anymore. From any remote place on the earth, as far as you can be connected to the Internet, you are in the position to personally take care of your finance. You do-it-yourself, step by step.

The Feature Article of this delivery is dedicated to Currency Trading. This is really the perfect home business. Better than stock trading. Our personal opinion.

True, Currency Trading is a risky one not for the faint heart! However, if you do your home work and learn the basics before starting playing with currencies' rates differentials; if you do not become addicted to the trading as such, you are sure on the way of building up a good financial safety net.

- FEW LEADS TO GOOD INTERNET INVESTING

1- The only book you need to read to having a good understanding of the Internet Investing is Charles B. Carlson's "THE INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR REVOLUTION". It gives you all the information to successfully entering the fray. Click here to get it.

2- In line with the Featured Article here is MEDVED's Quote Traker. A must have for anyone interested in Stocks Trading.

3- Here you have a very useful free website; well organized to safely guiding you into the arcane of the Stock Market.

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TROPICAL FRUIT INDUSTRY AS INCOME BUILDING POWER FOR AN AFRICAN COMMUNITY / PART V: INTRODUCTION TO TOMATO AGRIBUSINESS

Tomato is a very popular staple and foodstuff in Africa. However, as one can see reviewing figures listed here sub-Saharan Africa - except South Africa - is non existent as producer. In the contrary it imports large quantities of tomato paste as shown on Table below :

EXPORTS TO AFRICA AND MIDDLE-EAST / Metric tons
	1999 / 2000		2000 / 2001
	Africa	M/East	Africa	M/East
France	3,300	-	3,450	-
Italy	75,000	105,832	70,000	122,880
Greece	51,128	23,000	37,100	31,500
Spain	6,450	1,700	4,200	1,200
Portugal	1,650	800	1,500	1,100
Turkey	3,100	62,500	7,700	55,000
TOTAL	140,628	193,865	123,950	210,680

- ESTIMATION OF THE POTENTIAL MARKET EXISTING FOR FRESH TOMATO IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES

Industry statistics for well managed tomato plantations established from high yield varieties of tomato seeds (roma, san marino and so on), and optimal tomato pasta processing conditions, reveal that the necessary quantity of fresh tomato to producing 1 kg of double concentrated tomato pasta at 28° I.R. is around 5,89 kg.

If plantations are not well managed (insufficient manure, excessive sunshine, imperfect or non existent irrigation and so on) and if processing conditions are not optimized, the amount of fresh tomato needed to producing 1 kg of double concentrated tomato pasta at 28° I.R. could jump to 8- 9,20 kg

- If we consider operation under best conditions for plantation management and pasta processing, figures listed here allow for the following rough estimation of the quantities of fresh tomato that could be cultivated in sub-Saharan Africa: 5,89 x 142,000 = 832,000 - 247,000 (production of South Africa + Senegal) (see Table N°1) = 585,000 metric tons.

-This is a real niche opportunity for any international investor or African country to improving its foreign exchange balance. It is also a perfect Economic Catalyst

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HOW TO PRESERVE php TABLE SETTINGS INTO AN ASCII DOCUMENT

You certainly have been confronted once with the problem of preserving the settings of a table in an php document into a table in a simple text or ASCII document.

If you copy and paste an php document from the web into Windows Notepad or any other ASCII / text tool like NoteTab or TextPad the structure of a table in the php document comes out completely disorganized into the text tool. Even a tool like phpASC that is the one which operates the best in preserving the php document transformation into an ASCII one, does not preserve php table's settings.

The only way (if I am wrong please do send me an alternative) is to transform the php table into an image - gif / bmp file to be inserted into your text document.

One tool stands out of the crowd to do the trick. It is HYPERSNAP DX 4 that makes it easy to have a snapshot of anything on the desktop screen and transforms it into an image file.

If you do not want to waste time reconfiguring table settings when you transform an php document into an text / ASCII one, HYPERSNAP is the efficient answer.

Freebie Of The Month

MEDVED QUOTETRAKER : A GOOD COMPANION TO MICROSOFT MONEYCENTRAL

In line with the featured article dedicated to Currency Day Trading, here is a tool that will help those who prefer stocks trading - Medved's QuoteTraker.

Medved's QuoteTracker is a marvelous tool, which has everything needed by the rigorous and efficient stock trader. It is a Windows program bundled with streaming real-time quotes, Live intraday charts and related Technical Indicators, Level II quotes, Time and Sales, alerts, news monitoring, and everything else you may need to effectively trade in the following markets US, Canada, UK, France, Australia, Zurich, Germany, Hong Kong, Brussels, Italy, Amsterdam, South Africa, Jakarta, India, Sweden and others.

From the same screen you have a direct access interface to your preferred broker. You cannot beat the price -it's FREE. One shortcoming though for the free version, that allows for the monitoring of only two stocks. If you have more stocks to monitor you need to shed out something in the range of US$ 60.

Believe me, if you are active in stock trading that small investment of US$ 60 will save you plenty of time and will be paid back thousand times.

Following links might prove also useful to you understanding the stock market and improving your winning strategies: 1- Basics on the stock market; 2- Tech analysis and training; 3- Understanding the stock market; 4- An opening on African markets

Click here to get MEDVED'S QUOTETRAKER.