I have always been a fan of making my money work as hard as possible.  It serves no purpose for me just sitting in my bank account, so I try to keep it out of there as much as possible.

I have been talking with some of my business partners, looking for suggestions as to what I should do.  They came up with many recommendations, but in the end I decided to go with something that I could understand: rental property.

In the past, when I was younger, I rented a number of apartments before I was able to buy a house.  It gave me a good understanding of some of the living conditions that people face on a daily basis, and I would like to be in the position that I can offer someone affordable and quality housing.

So, I have been looking online each day to see if I can find a property that would meet that criteria.  So far, nothing has come up, but when it does, I will be ready to invest.

I can remember the “olden” days when I used to look through the paper to find good deals on land for sale.  It used to be a tedious process, and even though it took a lot of time, but good deals could be found.

Thankfully, those days are over.

Thanks to the Internet, it isn’t that hard anymore.  In fact, I have more land investment opportunities available online than I have ever imagined.  For example, I was looking at some UK land investments online the other day - something that under the “old” system, I wouldn’t have been able to do effectively.

Just because things are easier now, it doesn’t mean that I can skip on the due diligence.  Without doing the research properly before you invest, you are investing to lose.  So, use the Internet for what it is intended for - research, and be sure to crunch the numbers before you invest.

Whether it’s grain or cattle, FOREX or domestic stock Indices, cocoa, coffee and sugar, currencies or petroleum products, trading commodities can be an exhilarating and intoxicating activity. Day traders in particular get a rush from staying on the bleeding edge of futures transactions.

Since I was trained to be a technical trader, the emotional high of day trading has no place in my strategy. My charts are my manuals and they tell me everything I want and need to know. That’s not to say I don’t need to study up on options techniques or particular strategies that people have successfully utilized in the futures marketplace.

The beauty of technical trading is that we don’t initiate transactions based panic, fear, optimism or hope. Emotions don’t come into it at all. Decisions are based on conclusions we draw from analyzing chart trends. And by utilizing smart options-buying strategies to hedge “our bets.”

It seems that the appointments I had for today were done quicker than I thought.  Usually, things don’t go as smoothly as they did today, so I thought that I would make the most out of my free time and look for some investment properties.

As some of you know, I do have a couple of income properties, but I am always in the market for some more. There are a couple of websites that I look for property for sale online, as they are great resources for properties that fit my investment style.

After sitting at the computer for about half an hour, I found a couple of properties worth looking at.  I am just going to crunch some numbers before I give the realtor a call.  If the properties meet my conditions, and I can get the price I want for them, I might just be adding some properties to my real estate investment portfolio.