SURE THING

What’s so funny about this? Years ago I received a small inheritance and I decided I wanted to put it towards my kids’ education. Seems like a smart idea, right? Well, I thought so. Around that time I got something in the mail called a “sure fire, can’t lose scheme to make a fortune in the commodities market”. That may not have been the exact name but that’s how I interpreted it. It was all about market timing. This course would teach me the secret knowledge to identify when the markets were trending up or down and how to time my buying and selling so I could profit whichever way the market went. The course cost about $150 and first I had to try it on paper, pretending to invest until I was comfortable enough to do it with real money. Well, I was very excited because in three weeks, I had turned $1000 into $10,000! - but this was only pretend because I hadn’t actually invested anything just looked at the markets, followed the buy-sell signals and I would have been rich had I been using