I ran into Micro Turks today and it looks like the paid to complete tasks website has some really good promise to it. Besides the nice $1.00 sign up bonus it looks like there are some really easy ways to earn money by completing simple tasks. You can earn by signing up on other free sites, posting comments on blogs, and much more.

On top of earning with Micro Turks, you can also promote your website or offers on their website. You can be creative as you want, but you need to make sure you pay your workers good enough that they’ll actually want to take the time to complete your offers.

The only gist I have with these types of sites is that affiliate spammers are always prevalent and very much annoying. These spammers will sign up with multiple accounts using multiple ip addresses and fake e-mail addresses and complete the same offers over and over again. It’s got to be a little bit time consuming for these fakes, but none the less they continue to be rip offs in the field.

As long as Micro Turks is doing a good job of stopping these spammers it shouldn’t be a problem. But let me tell you that it’s really hard to spot them.

One good thing I like about Micro Turks is that you only need to earn $9.00 in order to get your first payout through Paypal. It shouldn’t take too long since that’s a pretty small amount. And if you’re like me and are too lazy to complete the tasks you can always just refer others and earn that way.

Because I really like what Micro Turks is doing I decided to add them to the top of the list on my get paid to sign up bonus list.

I ran into Cash Fling today while surfing on  another get paid to website. Cash Fling looks like it has a similar template to some other GPT sites I’ve run into. The only difference is whether or not Cash Fling will be around for the long haul or not. So far the administration running the site seem to be really forth coming and are currently promoting their site with a referral contest. I’m taking advantage of this, how about you?

You will get a $1.00 sign up bonus just for joining Cash Fling. After I signed up and confirmed my email address the $1.00 bonus was immediately added to my account.

After taking a quick look at some of the offers Cash Fling currently has available, I really wasn’t too impressed. A lot of them are kind of low in payout. What does this mean to me? Well, if I’m going to put the time in to sign up on their offers, it better be well worth my time. Because of this I probably won’t complete any offers and just promote the site only.

Cash Fling has been added to the sign up bonus list as an OK GPT site to join. Please leave comments on your opinions of them as well.

You live and you learn, you know what I’m saying? I love being an investor, but I love it even more when I know I’m being a smart investor. One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned about investing is that you absolutely must protect your gains when you got them.

How do you accomplish this?

One of the easiest ways to do this is to put in a stop order a little bit lower then where you’re at. You also don’t want to blindly go into a trade either, unless you’re solely a fundamental investor.

The best way I’ve found to get into a stock is when the 50 day moving average crosses above the 200 day moving average. Of course, this is only one indicator and you may want to use more.

You can also use a trailing stop order as well. I don’t like these as much because it could possibly work against you. You can even use a combination of a stop order at a lower price and with a  trailing stop on top.

In a bear or volatile market like we are in now where we don’t know how low the market could go, stop orders can really protect a good percentage of your gains and get you completely out of a stock if it’s going to drop below your initial entry point.

If you are new to investing in individual stocks or haven’t considered using stop losses yet. I hope this info helps protect your stock gains and keeps you out of a bear market in this wonderful global economy we are living in now. You know, where a Country on the other side of the globe (Europe) is crashing and the whole economy suffers because of it. That kind of market.