The ABCs Of HYIPs

This article neither endorses or condemns getting involved with an HYIP, but if you're going to put your money into one of these, you should at least know what you are getting into and what's involved. That way at least you will be prepared for what may or may not happen.

First of all, HYIP stands for High Yield Investment Program. This is a program where the member signs up and, depending on the program itself, has to perform some daily or weekly routine. This could be viewing a number of web sites each day to reading ads. Each HYIP is different so please read the terms of the one you plan on joining before you join it.

To make money with these programs, that is also going to be slightly different from program to program but there is a general way that these things work.

For the most part, these companies sell what they call ad packs. You purchase an ad pack and your site is then displayed somewhere on the site. These ad packs range in price from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars depending on the structure of the site. The higher the price of the ad pack, the more your site will get shown, usually.

After you have purchased your ad pack you then agree to the terms of the site to either read ads or view other sites, or whatever they have you do. During that time, your ad or site will be shown to other members. This gives you a chance to make sales from your site. However, the main lure of these programs is that after a certain number of days, your ad pack gives you a certain return on what you paid for it. The returns range all over the map. I've seen them as low as 3% to as high as 24%. The average return these days is about 12%, paid out usually within a couple of weeks.

So let's say you purchased an ad pack for $10. After 14 days, the site may pay 12% on that and give you a check or credit for $11.20. You can take your money and run, or put it back into the company and get another 12% on it in another 14 days. Obviously, the more money you spend on ad packs the more you will get back.

You're probably wondering where they get the money to pay you 12% when most banks in the US today at best are paying you 3% in a month? Well, they get the money from several sources. One of them is outside advertising, but the main source is from members that come in after you. They pay you from their ad pack purchases.

This system works fine as long as new members keep coming in. Historically, however, as soon as there are problems in making payouts, membership slows, then stops and then the company folds. No HYIP to date has lasted more than a year, if that long.

HYIPs are risky because of this, but you can make a decent amount if you get in early and buy large ad packs, or whatever your site calls it. In the US, the federal government, for the most part has ruled that these HYIPs are illegal if they can't show a viable product. Other countries don't have such strict regulations.

Before getting involved with an HYIP, do your research on the company. Never spend more than you can afford to lose, as these can be risky.

Steven Wagenheim, the author of this article, has ghost written over 1000 articles for the Internet. His Honest Income Program can be found at:

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HYIP : Investment Strategies

Many of the investors plan their own strategies by their experience. Experience makes them know the Do's and Don'ts of HYIP. Once people get well versed to play in the risky yet lucrative arena, they start multiplying their resources. While there can hardly be any universal strategy for all cases, there are certainly quite a few patterns to be followed.

The preliminary step one has to take before investing is to identify the fallacious programs and get rid of them. Then the nature of the program is to be analyzed and then the investor should act accordingly. A few points or strategies worth adopting are listed below.

Frequency of Payouts

The key point to note is the frequency of payouts. Check whether your interest payouts are made on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. If they are made daily, you have got a better chance to have a lucrative sum. Your profit increases day by day with the existence of the program. Don't be in a misconception that a program is more stable if it is paying monthly. Many programs which payout monthly gets doomed within a couple of months and there are archetype programs which makes handful of clams within short durations, to be precise, in few weeks. As far as the influx of new funds is there, the interest is being paid. When it becomes extinct, the program closes and your interests as well.

Program Duration

There is a formula that helps to determine the approximate lifetime of a program.

Lifetime of a Program=

[(SD + SH + KR) * (NO + NF + WD + GAR) * (NKI + SKW + SKR) *365] /

[((KI / SV) * (KO + RT + 1) * (KS + STR)*100000)]

Where

* SD -- approximate cost of design;
* SH -- cost of hosting;
* KR -- advertisement expenses;
* NKI -- presence of contact information;
* SKW -- compliance of the indicated contact information with the information given by whois service;
* SKR -- compliance of the indicated contact information with the real addresses and phone numbers;
* NF -- presence of forum, quality of its development;
* KO -- number of mistakes in web-sites content;
* RT -- deviations in text (if the content is stolen with different sites or written without giving any * consideration, the text will have incompliance);
* KI -- dynamics of growth of investors number during the first week of projects existence;
* SV -- sums of investments;
* WD -- information on business activity the program gets incomes from; subjective evaluation of data adequacy;
* GAR -- presence of guarantees;
* KS -- number of persons engaged in projects maintenance and support;
* STR -- place of projects accommodation;
* NO -- presence of office.

Program duration or age is also a factor that one needs to focus on in order to make the investments fruitful. The situation gets more complicated because even the trustworthy projects fail sometimes. It happens, for example, when program leaders did not manage to promote their program right or played fair on the currency market risking all their funds.

Profit Rates

Any investor will incur a huge loss if they are too greedy. Even if you regularly get the program's earnings during several months it is not the reason to mortgage your property or take a credit under unbearable interest. You may find yourself with nothing if you spend your money recklessly. A program which does well today might get closed tomorrow. The well doing of a program is always uncertain. Also, it is a common opinion that, any program which offers above 2% a day would vanish within a matter of days.

One more point worth taking into account is the interest rate being either fixed or variable. Through many years of study, it has been made clear that, programs offering variable interests are more likely to be involved in some actual trading than the ones with fixed interest rates.

Type of Account

Some programs facilitate their clients by providing internal accounts. The client needs to submit a withdrawal request in order to get the money transferred to their e-currency account. Normally the case is different. The amount will be sent to the account directly without any internal accounts. The later one is better to choose because, you can identify whether the program actually pays or reports some bogus interests in your internal accounts.

Investment Demarcations

The most popular forms of fraudulence is Ponzi. It's a classical financial pyramid where the profit is generated mainly by attracting investments from new participants. Majority of programs have their minimum investment value as low as $1. Before investing, you must be aware of these kinds of programs which are available in abundance. You should use your sub conscious mind in order to think what such a program can do with such a minuscule investment from investors like you, regardless of number of people. Up to some moment it looks stable as the payments are provided with real money invested into the program by new members. However, the impression is false. At some point there comes the stagnation and new members stop joining the project and the pyramid breaks down. Programs involved in some real business do not accept deposits less than $50 (minimum). It is not that, investors should only invest in programs which requires huge some investments. But, moderate amount, say $100 per program will do.

Precautionary Measures

The following tips will help anyone who needs to invest safely and get an acceptable interest.

* Never invest more than you can afford to loose.
* Don't allow greediness to blind you.
* Check the originality of the program by visiting the site. Be more cautious if the site is free listed and/or copied from other sites.
* Before investing make sure that the program pays directly to your account. Because, the programs which maintain internal accounts might report bogus details of your account in their site.
* Never trust HYIP that put fake info in whois database. Invest in those who had passes the DD (Due Diligence) process.

Always have in mind that a program would be a potential scam unless or otherwise, you have a positive reason to support it. Be cautious in such a way that, you get profits from HYIP or else, HYIP will profit from you. Analysis of various risks involved before investing will definitely yield fruitful results. More information on HYIP, E-Commerce, Money Exchange etc. are available in www.hyipsurftalk.com . You can come across various forums, discussions and blogs related to HYIP.

Ramesh Kumar V is a Freelance Writer from India. He is working as a Senior Software Engineer in an MNC. He has published articles in various topics. His profile and samples of his works can be found in his website www.freewebs.com/rameshv

Can you really "get rich quick" with HYIP's?:d

Can you really "get rich quick" with HYIP's?:

How Long Does It Takes to Become a Millionaire with HYIPs?

Let's assume you start with $500 to invest.

Although you can invest in some HYIPs with as little as $10, you would probably want to invest at least $500 to provide some basic diversification. It's about the amount you would spend to get the usual MLM type program started, after you include "upgrade fees" and initial advertising. Not to speak of the hours of posting and promoting you will NOT have to do with a passive HYIP investment.

Do not use money you must have for rent or food. If you must start with less, resign yourself to the possibility that you could lose your whole stake, and have to start over again. If you are persistent and play the odds correctly, you will win in the end.

Here is how long it would take to go from $500 to $1,000,000 at various rates
of interest compounded monthly using an online High Yield Investment Programs.

5% -- Forever! (Almost)
10% -- 6 years 8 months
15% -- 5 years 6 months
20% -- 3 years 6 months
30% -- 2 years 5 months
40% -- 1 year 11 months
50% -- 1 year 7 months
60% -- 1 year 5 months
70% -- 1 year 3 months
80% -- 1 year 1 month
90% -- 1 year
100% -- 11 months
110% -- 11 months
120% -- 10 months
130% -- 10 months 2 weeks
140% -- 9 months
150% -- 9 months

There are some interesting things to learn from this chart.

From 5% to 10% there is a massive drop in time, there is another pretty big drop at 20%, a smaller but worthwhile drop at 30%, again at 40% and marginally at 50%, but from there each 10% more has a rather small effect.

From 80% to 150% notice that even though you have almost double the interest (added 70% to it) you only shave 4 months off the time (reduced the time it takes by about 30%)

Making a bar graph of the above (with 10%, 20%, 30% up to 100%) will show you what the best percentages are.

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However 20% is a big advantage over 10% that's for sure, and is the first really worthwhile interest.

OK, now let's assume you join HYIPs that pays 40% interest per month (Compounded).
How long will it take you to get to 1 million?

Starting

.05c
.50c
$5
$50
$500
$5000
$50,000
$500,000
with

-- 4 years 3 months
-- 3 years 8 months
-- 3 years 1 month
-- 2 years 6 months
-- 1 year 11 months
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-- 9 months
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Surprisingly enough, this shows that starting with lots more money really doesn't speed it up all that much.

If you want to diversify, it is important to remember that you will be hard pressed to invest in more than one program with much less than about $150, although there are some good programs that have minimums in the range of $10 to $50.

Notice that 500,000 is ten million times more than 5c, yet 5c only takes 17 times longer to reach the same goal!

This exercise has yielded some interesting results.

1. Even if you are starting with less money, it will only take about 1 year longer to get to the 1 million dollar point.

2. While high interest rates are tempting, and there are other good reasons for going after high interests such as closing the "risk window" as soon as possible, you don't really need to go above 40%, and even 20% isn't too bad. Much above 40% and it is extremely likely that the program is a scam or will get overextended at some time and fail . All it takes is a couple of bad trades, or an ugly rumor, for even a good program to get squeezed for liquidity.

With only $50 and 30% interest per month (compounded), you are a millionaire in 3 years and 2 months! That is not to imply that we would simply rely on any single program to get my million dollars. One primary rule is that no one can ever be 100% sure which program will last more than another week. It is all probabilities. Please remember that. Drill it into your head. It isn't about being right every time. We don't always pick winners. We don't know anyone else in this business who does. You only need to learn to avoid the worst crooks and scams, and be right more often than you are wrong, and remember to spread the risk. Have a little faith. Not all your fellow men are crooks. It only takes a couple of legit, well-managed funds, to more than make up for a couple of losers.

OK, now let's look at the numbers. At $50,000 with 100% interest compounded every month, you are a millionaire in 5 months.

At $50 (1/1000th) with less than one third the interest (30%) compounded every month you are a millionaire in 3 years 2 months, only 7.6 times longer, yet much less principle (1/1000th) and much less risk!

And once you get to 1 million, 7% a month is enough to spend 1 million a year and still have your money well outpace inflation.

So if someone wanted to get to 1 million dollars (who doesn't) and has the patience to wait a few years, also wants to be pretty sure they will get there rather than losing it, and doesn't want to risk too much, we think about $500 at 20% average per month which will be only 3 years 6 months to become a millionaire.

A good, and probably the best, argument as to why you should go for high yields, is to close the "risk window" fast. This can be important at the start so you can use the money to diversify. Later you will want more security and you will have a broader base of more secure lower paying programs to provide it. You can go on vacation without worrying that your Very High Yield risky fund has collapsed and taken a large percentage of your "float" with it.

Of course all the above is based on the assumption that something that gives a 60% interest per month is more than 3 times riskier than 20%. (and will have less than 1/3rd the life span). Not always true, but a rule of thumb. You have got to remember that none of these is like the "invest and forget about it" rules of conventional 3% a year federally insured bank accounts. It is like being an independent adult. You can lose. No one is going to take that loss for you. But let me tell you this, the rewards are much greater also, and they are ALL yours when you earn them by your own self-discipline, persistence and experience.
Thinking and Speaking about Money in Enriching Ways

In the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Kiyosaki compares his "two fathers": his biological father who was a teacher and his mentor who was a businessman. The teacher was his "poor dad" and the businessman was his "rich dad." His poor dad said: "The love of money is the root of all evil." His rich dad said: "The lack of money is the root of all evil."

The quote below from Rich Dad, Poor Dad is extremely important. It powerfully illustrates what I call "Slavespeak" -- the phenomenon of certain words having hypnotic, stupefying, and debilitating effects on their users.

"Because I had two influential fathers, I learned from both of them. I had to think about each dad's advice, and in doing so, I gained valuable insight into the power and effect of one's thoughts on one's life. For example, one dad had a habit of saying, "I can't afford it." The other dad forbade those words to be used. He insisted I say, "How can I afford it?" One is a statement, and the other is a question. One lets you off the hook, the other forces you to think. My soon-to-be-rich dad would explain that by automatically saying the words "I can't afford it," your brain stops working. By asking the question "How can I afford it?" your brain is put to work. He did not mean buy everything you wanted. He was fanatical about exercising your mind, the most powerful computer in the world. "My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make." He believed that automatically saying "I can't afford it" was a sign of mental laziness."
An elite team of regular "Joes's" fighting back & making huge cash online one day at a time.
dDawg as a team has been able to create a profit on the internet.
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How Long Does It Takes to Become a Millionaire with HYIPs?

Let's assume you start with $500 to invest.

Although you can invest in some HYIPs with as little as $10, you would probably want to invest at least $500 to provide some basic diversification. It's about the amount you would spend to get the usual MLM type program started, after you include "upgrade fees" and initial advertising. Not to speak of the hours of posting and promoting you will NOT have to do with a passive HYIP investment.

Do not use money you must have for rent or food. If you must start with less, resign yourself to the possibility that you could lose your whole stake, and have to start over again. If you are persistent and play the odds correctly, you will win in the end.

Here is how long it would take to go from $500 to $1,000,000 at various rates
of interest compounded monthly using an online High Yield Investment Programs.

5% -- Forever! (Almost)
10% -- 6 years 8 months
15% -- 5 years 6 months
20% -- 3 years 6 months
30% -- 2 years 5 months
40% -- 1 year 11 months
50% -- 1 year 7 months
60% -- 1 year 5 months
70% -- 1 year 3 months
80% -- 1 year 1 month
90% -- 1 year
100% -- 11 months
110% -- 11 months
120% -- 10 months
130% -- 10 months 2 weeks
140% -- 9 months
150% -- 9 months

There are some interesting things to learn from this chart.

From 5% to 10% there is a massive drop in time, there is another pretty big drop at 20%, a smaller but worthwhile drop at 30%, again at 40% and marginally at 50%, but from there each 10% more has a rather small effect.

From 80% to 150% notice that even though you have almost double the interest (added 70% to it) you only shave 4 months off the time (reduced the time it takes by about 30%)

Making a bar graph of the above (with 10%, 20%, 30% up to 100%) will show you what the best percentages are.

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The graph shows us very clearly that between 30% and 50% is the best range.
However 20% is a big advantage over 10% that's for sure, and is the first really worthwhile interest.

OK, now let's assume you join HYIPs that pays 40% interest per month (Compounded).
How long will it take you to get to 1 million?

Starting

.05c
.50c
$5
$50
$500
$5000
$50,000
$500,000
with

-- 4 years 3 months
-- 3 years 8 months
-- 3 years 1 month
-- 2 years 6 months
-- 1 year 11 months
-- 1 year 4 months
-- 9 months
-- 3 months

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Surprisingly enough, this shows that starting with lots more money really doesn't speed it up all that much.

If you want to diversify, it is important to remember that you will be hard pressed to invest in more than one program with much less than about $150, although there are some good programs that have minimums in the range of $10 to $50.

Notice that 500,000 is ten million times more than 5c, yet 5c only takes 17 times longer to reach the same goal!

This exercise has yielded some interesting results.

1. Even if you are starting with less money, it will only take about 1 year longer to get to the 1 million dollar point.

2. While high interest rates are tempting, and there are other good reasons for going after high interests such as closing the "risk window" as soon as possible, you don't really need to go above 40%, and even 20% isn't too bad. Much above 40% and it is extremely likely that the program is a scam or will get overextended at some time and fail . All it takes is a couple of bad trades, or an ugly rumor, for even a good program to get squeezed for liquidity.

With only $50 and 30% interest per month (compounded), you are a millionaire in 3 years and 2 months! That is not to imply that we would simply rely on any single program to get my million dollars. One primary rule is that no one can ever be 100% sure which program will last more than another week. It is all probabilities. Please remember that. Drill it into your head. It isn't about being right every time. We don't always pick winners. We don't know anyone else in this business who does. You only need to learn to avoid the worst crooks and scams, and be right more often than you are wrong, and remember to spread the risk. Have a little faith. Not all your fellow men are crooks. It only takes a couple of legit, well-managed funds, to more than make up for a couple of losers.

OK, now let's look at the numbers. At $50,000 with 100% interest compounded every month, you are a millionaire in 5 months.

At $50 (1/1000th) with less than one third the interest (30%) compounded every month you are a millionaire in 3 years 2 months, only 7.6 times longer, yet much less principle (1/1000th) and much less risk!

And once you get to 1 million, 7% a month is enough to spend 1 million a year and still have your money well outpace inflation.

So if someone wanted to get to 1 million dollars (who doesn't) and has the patience to wait a few years, also wants to be pretty sure they will get there rather than losing it, and doesn't want to risk too much, we think about $500 at 20% average per month which will be only 3 years 6 months to become a millionaire.

A good, and probably the best, argument as to why you should go for high yields, is to close the "risk window" fast. This can be important at the start so you can use the money to diversify. Later you will want more security and you will have a broader base of more secure lower paying programs to provide it. You can go on vacation without worrying that your Very High Yield risky fund has collapsed and taken a large percentage of your "float" with it.

Of course all the above is based on the assumption that something that gives a 60% interest per month is more than 3 times riskier than 20%. (and will have less than 1/3rd the life span). Not always true, but a rule of thumb. You have got to remember that none of these is like the "invest and forget about it" rules of conventional 3% a year federally insured bank accounts. It is like being an independent adult. You can lose. No one is going to take that loss for you. But let me tell you this, the rewards are much greater also, and they are ALL yours when you earn them by your own self-discipline, persistence and experience.
Thinking and Speaking about Money in Enriching Ways

In the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Kiyosaki compares his "two fathers": his biological father who was a teacher and his mentor who was a businessman. The teacher was his "poor dad" and the businessman was his "rich dad." His poor dad said: "The love of money is the root of all evil." His rich dad said: "The lack of money is the root of all evil."

The quote below from Rich Dad, Poor Dad is extremely important. It powerfully illustrates what I call "Slavespeak" -- the phenomenon of certain words having hypnotic, stupefying, and debilitating effects on their users.

"Because I had two influential fathers, I learned from both of them. I had to think about each dad's advice, and in doing so, I gained valuable insight into the power and effect of one's thoughts on one's life. For example, one dad had a habit of saying, "I can't afford it." The other dad forbade those words to be used. He insisted I say, "How can I afford it?" One is a statement, and the other is a question. One lets you off the hook, the other forces you to think. My soon-to-be-rich dad would explain that by automatically saying the words "I can't afford it," your brain stops working. By asking the question "How can I afford it?" your brain is put to work. He did not mean buy everything you wanted. He was fanatical about exercising your mind, the most powerful computer in the world. "My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make." He believed that automatically saying "I can't afford it" was a sign of mental laziness."
An elite team of regular "Joes's" fighting back & making huge cash online one day at a time.
dDawg as a team has been able to create a profit on the internet.
http://www.str8junk.com/heavyhitter.html

An elite team of regular "Joes's" fighting back & making huge cash online one day at a time.
dDawg as a team has been able to create a profit on the internet.
http://www.str8junk.com/heavyhitter.html

 

 

Things To Do Before Investing Into A High Yield Investment Program

We have compiled a short list of some of the things you can do before investing into a program to make sure you get the most for your money:

1 - Search all HYIP forums for the name of the HYIP. Check for people spamming about the program, as this usually is a sign of a short lived scam. Look for people's opinions. Often those who have been investing in HYIPs for some time are the ones with the best insite. Most importantly, look for complaints of people who have not been paid.

2 - Do a search on google. Copy small parts (1-2 sentences) of the text from both the hompage and the page with information on how they make their returns. Paste it into the google search bar with quotes around it, and see if anything comes up. A good amount of the time, google will return results that are an exact match, usually a professional traders website. Also, do the same thing with any images of people that are shown to look as though they are the admin of the program. Simply get the name of the file that the image is uploaded as by viewing the properties of it. Then paste this into the google image search. You will be amazed that a lot of the time you will see that the image is a direct copy from another site. This proves that the admin is lying.

3 - Email the admin. Ask some good questions such as, where are you located, how long have you been around, and how do you make your returns. The common answers you will receive are United States, 2 Years, and Forex trading. Usually if these are the answers the admin is lying to you. about 75% of all new HYIPs claim that they have been paying members offline for over a year. 99.9999% of the time this is a lie. If an investing firm is able to deal with members offline for 2 years, there usually is no need to go online with their business.

4 - Look at the main HYIP rating sites. If it looks like a program has been cheating the ratings by voting for themselves, or it looks like they may have hired a paid voter, then stay away. You can usually tell if a program is cheating by trying to look at what else each member has voted for. Also check the voters IP, maybe the cheaters were not careful and didn't use a proxy

All in all, if you follow these 4 steps you will likely be saving yourself a descent amount of money in the long run. HYIPs are extremely risky, and these steps alone do not guarantee success. They only improve your chances of walking away with profits.

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