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This is the 31st edition of the Carnival of Making Money Online . I’m proud to offer this limited list of top quality articles that are vetted from the original list of submissions. It’s always a pleasure to read through these submissions. To provide better exposure to the successful submissions, I’m featuring two editions this month, with one additional edition made up from the other submissions. There were over 380 submissions for this set, but I’ve whittled it away to these candidates plus the others in part two (approximately 27 submissions). So enjoy, and thrive in 2009~!

Trading the markets.

For those looking for good markets to invest, Dana presents Four Reasons I’m Bullish on Canada posted at Investoralist, saying, “Canada’s sound banking system, plentiful commodities, liquid social welfare system, and favourable demographics make it attractive amidst the global downturn.” While Canada may provide opportunities or not, Jae Jun presents Best Small Companies Fair Value Estimates posted at Old School Value, saying, “fair value estimates of 42 small good companies. Select the cheap ones to make money.” Buying cheaply valued or undervalued companies is usually a good bet. Adam from How to Trade with Fibonacci Retracements posted at Pimp My Trade, saying, “An article that describes how and why Fibonacci retracements work and how to make money by applying them to your trading.” And Zach Scheidt presents VMware Cloud Computing Casts a Shadow on Growth Prospects posted at ZachStocks, saying, “VMware Inc. (VMW) reported earnings that beat expectations, but managements guidance for the second quarter and the rest of the year disappointed investors. The stock could still be an attractive short opportunity.” Would you be buying this stock right now?

Funds, ETFs and more.

If investing in particular markets or stocks is a challenge or difficult, Frank Vertin presents Just Buy Index Funds Directly posted at NO LOAD INDEX FUND, saying, “Buying an S&P 500 index fund through an investment counselor can substantially increase your initial purchasing costs and and drive up your annual management expense fees. Unfortunately, the vast majority of individual investors buy mutual funds and ETFs through brokers and investment advisers. Rarely do financial advisors recommend that you buy index funds with low fees. This is because low cost, no load mutual funds do not pay them as well as loaded, high fee mutual funds.” Or perhaps Walter W. Fouse who provides 7 Ways to Pick the Best Noload Mutual Funds and ETFs posted at Best No Load Funds, saying, “The vast body of investment research studies show that there really are better approaches to buying and owning mutual funds and ETFs. You do not need to frantically chase fund performance. Performance chasing simply does not work.” However, Ripe Trade presents Ripe Trade: Leveraged and inverse ETF pitfalls posted at Ripe Trade, saying, “This post explains the underperformance of leveraged and inverse ETFs because they are designed to track the underlying index based on a 1 day performance, these ETF’s wont track well over longer periods of time.”

For all of these, nickel presents The Best Brokers in the Land posted at fivecentnickel.com writing about the top three brokers according to Consumer Reports. My broker only made it into the top 10!

Investing Wisdom.

Holding on to your financial assets, common sense and peace of mind in these markets has been challenging, Larry Russell presents Most Individual Investors Are Poor Personal Portfolio Managers | Personal Investment Management posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR blog, saying, “To make money, don’t waste it! Investors more easily understand investment costs that are directly measurable, such as fees deducted on investment statements. However, many investors ignore or are unaware of the opportunity costs of their sub-optimal investment behaviors. Opportunity costs are usually much more difficult to measure directly, but these investment costs can be even higher than more visible investment fees,” while lifestyles presents Del Walmsley’s Three Rules of Investing posted at Lifestyles Unlimited Real Estate Investing and Mentoring, saying, “Del’s rules are so fundamental, it’s amazing that everyone doesn’t use them. But once you do, you’ll see your wealth grow!”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of making real money using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Update: In an effort to create something more useful, I’m reducing the number of articles in each issue by providing as much variety of content. With so many articles on “making money online blogs”, sales and letter writing, I’m now reducing the number presented to balance the other content. So make sure your writing is sharp and to the point if you want to submit! Articles on how to blog, how to sales copy, etc. are best suited for other carnivals.

Notes on Submitting Articles

It seems that a number of people don’t bother to follow the policy. Oh, well, that’s a pity because I left out some great articles this time around! The policy is still enforced. If you have any questions, just see the most recent Carnival for what’s accepted. So hurry! get your submissions in!

I’m definitely looking for articles that are readable, inspiring, and well-written for readers who may or may not have much investing or financial knowledge. Articles will cover making money in the real world, as well as online; being in business; making investments; making money through smart decisions; and aspects of personal finance. It is NOT about dieting, surveys, drugs, selling things, what you ate last night or any of a myriad of irrelevant topics. If you are not sure what is accepted, read the previous carnivals.

As such, …

• Your article must be original and previously unpublished in this carnival. I like to maintain a variety of sources and topics, I will only accept one article per person per blog. — If you submit MORE THAN TWO articles to any edition of this carnival, ALL your submissions will be eliminated without hesitation. Repeated multiple submissions to this carnival will mean that your articles and/or your behavior are spam-enough to blacklist your blog from this carnival.
• In short, submit ONE article from one blog once only.
• Spam: Articles must be unique, ideally hosted on a full-blog (not on a subdomain of blogspot, blogger, etc.), and cannot have been published in more than two other carnivals. If you are serious enough about your blog, then find a real blog host on a real domain.
• Comments MUST be enabled on any post submitted to the carnival and registration must NOT be required: I’m hoping that we generate interest in the submissions and that traffic generates comments. Let’s not frustrate our readers.
• Additional reasons for not inclusion: popup/popover/popunder windows, URLs that time-out, missing articles or moved pages, articles that make NO sense, any music/tracks/voice-overs that auto-play, articles that REQUIRE registration before reading and/or commenting.
• All editorial decisions are final. I will not answer questions about why a particular article was or was not included. If you didn’t get in, submit again for the next issue. Articles that are rejected twice will be excluded.
• In short, I run this blog carnival in my free time, I receive no money for this activity, so I’d appreciate as much consideration as possible. It would be nice if you acknowledge the blog carnival somewhere on your website! Anywhere, it doesn’t matter: in a post, in the post you submitted, in the blogroll, etc.. or you can do a separate post when the post is published. This helps to drive traffic to the carnival, where people can find your posts!

Best Wishes

Kenneth from Carnival of Making REAL Money