Keys To Heaven

God gave us the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. They are the truths in the Word of God. As Christ-following entrepreneurs, we must endeavor to be very diligent Bible students. It is important that we not become complacent in our role as Christian leaders.

God reveals new things to us each time we read the Bible
As we grow in our spiritual lives, God shows us different things within His Word. Enduring various seasons of life allows us to see things from a different perspective. Regardless of the number of times you have read a particular passage of scripture, ask God to give you a deeper understanding each time you study.
We can not effectively follow Him if we are not in His Word. 
2 Timothy shows us that God’s Word is meant to teach us, correct us and help us draw nearer to Him. It is an instruction manual for life, and even business!
There is liberty in the Word of God. 
Christ spoke of the liberty He provides Christians. It is easy to become bogged down by man-made laws and legalistic opinions. A Christian who searches God’s scripture will find His truths and understand His plan to bless His people.
His Word will guide us.
God’s word provides a strong foundation for our lives, our families and our businesses. Scripture even calls the Word a light unto our path.
Scripture gives us a sense of perspective.
 
Throughout the Bible, God’s sovereignty is apparent. When we fill our minds with scriptural reminders that He is in control, we are able to worry less and be renewed by His promises.
Christians must become perpetual students of the Word of God. Take time to truly meditate on God’s Word.

God Created Laws Of Economics

Just as sure as gravity is a law that God put in the universe, economic principles from the Bible are law. God’s laws don’t change. Your background and who you are do not matter. You just follow God’s law and it works, because God built it into the universe. If you want to learn how to be an entrepreneur, you have to learn that God said you have no return without risk. It’s called the “risk return trade off”.

The amount of wealth that you have the potential to create for your family is directly proportional to the amount of risk you are willing to take. It’s not the same as gambling, because it is educated risk. You learn everything you can learn about certain type of business before you jump into it. Once you have those skill sets, then you have to take a risk. All business is a risk. Everything in life is a risk.
You can not ignore God’s principles. You can not be en entrepreneur and find a way around “risk return trade off’. It is best to learn the skills needed become successful, then take the risk needed to potentially become wealthy.

Physical vs. Artificial: Two Types of Metals Investing

I talk with a lot of precious metals investors who come into buying gold and silver excited about applying some of the short term trading concepts that we talk about at most of our TRADEway events, to gold and silver. They’re excited about taking advantage of the upside potential that they hear about all the time, whether it’s on a radio show, TV commercials, or anything on TV.

Here at TRADEway, we like to put a little bit of a different spin on it. We like to divide precious metals into two different categories and then apply certain trading mindsets or concepts to those categories.
Physical Gold and Silver
Physical gold and silver includes bars, coins, and things like that. Our TradeWay precious metals division puts most of its emphasis on how to utilize those kinds of investments to preserve the money that you’ve worked hard for, that you’re saving to pass down to the next generation, whether that’s an inheritance or just preserving some of your funds within a portfolio. That’s what physical gold and silver is used for.
We show you how to be cost effective when buying coins and bars. We talk about “hyper-longterm investing”. It’s a funny sounding concept, but it’s something that we’ve been utilizing within our family for three generations and we teach you exactly how to do that in the precious metals course that we offer.
Artificial Precious Metals
There is another category of precious metals investing as well, “artificial precious metals”. This includes gold and silver shares that you can invest in, on the comex or the commodities exchange. That would include gold and silver ETFs, gold and silver stocks, mining stocks, things like that. It provides you a way to be exposed to the precious metals market but apply short term trading concepts without having to compromise the more long term trading concepts that we teach when it comes to buying the physical gold and silver.
If that’s more of what you’re interested in doing, you may think about more of the artificial side of things. Whether that’s the GLD ETF, SIVR, which are a couple of the ETFs for gold and silver, and then of course, there’s gold and silver stocks, mining stocks, and in some cases, depending on the trading platform that you use, you can purchase shares of gold and silver from the commodity exchange and trade them more in the short term in that regard.
Keep that in mind. If you’re an excited precious metals investor, coming in and wanting to take advantage of that upside potential, think about dividing them into those categories and applying certain long term trading mindsets, or concepts, to the physical side of things and then more short term concepts to the artificial.

This will make you want to learn to trade

There are many reasons people consider learning how to trade in the stock market. There is often a misconception that the stock market is only for rich men on Wall Street or individuals who want to invest long-term. That isn’t the case. Check out these four reasons people choose to pursue trading:

  • Trading in the stock market is a job you can do from home.
  • It can provide extra time freedom, so that you are able to focus on other goals.
  • There is potential to make extra income for traveling or engaging in activities you’re passionate about.
  • You have the opportunity to possibly build generational wealth and start a family business.
At TRADEway events, we help you learn and apply a very special skill set. It does not take a professional. It doesn’t even take decades worth of education to learn how to trade.
What we do is we break everything down for you, so that you can learn how to do it in just a couple of days, and in some cases, with our online courses, a few hours. You can start building upon these skill sets and begin reaching your goals.

Making Back What You Lost In a Crash

Have you lost a lot of money in the stock market? Maybe in 2008, during the housing crash, or 2001, during the tech bubble burst. You might be thinking, “How can I make it all back?”

TRADEway wants to share two things with you that may help change your mentality and put you on a path of greater success in the stock market.
First: Accept the loss. 
Accept the fact that you have lost some money. Many people don’t do this. In fact, what they do is, they say, “I haven’t lost, because I haven’t sold yet. It’s just a paper loss. It’s not real.” Guess what? It is real. It could get more real if you allow yourself to lose more. So, accept the loss. Stop the loss. If you’re in bad positions, get out of the bad positions.
Second: Look at the money you have left as a tool. 
You still have a tool that could get you to where you want to be. Don’t think, “All right, how much money do I need to make back from the loss?” Instead ask, “Where do I want to go?” Yes, you’re starting with a smaller amount, but this smaller amount can get you to the larger amount you want. Stop the mentality that you need to “make back” money, and instead, make new money. This will put you in a place of contentment, and it will give you a better mindset when looking for good trades in the future.
Accepting your loss and learning how to use the money you have left as a tool can give you the opportunity to create more wealth.

Wealth and Spirituality

he minute you start to bring wealth into a Christian family, Satan hates it, because he loves poverty. There are many preachers who have taught that it is spiritual to be poor. This misconception comes from verses that are taken out of context, and it permeates our thinking. It causes us to feel guilty or unspiritual when we talk about building wealth for our families. Throughout the Bible we see wealthy people and entrepreneurs.

In the Old testament, some of the wealthiest people on Earth were God’s people. 
  • God promised to bless Abraham and make him a great nation. Abraham also built a generational family business. The Bible speaks of his wealth in Genesis 13:2.
  • Throughout the book of Job, we see that Job was very wealthy. God allowed everything to be taken from him, but he remained faithful. God blessed his faithfulness by restoring his fortune and giving him twice as much as he had before.
  • David was a man after God’s own heart, and God placed him in a position of authority as a mighty warrior and eventually king. He was very wealthy, and this is shown in 1 Chronicles 28-29 by the provisions he made in the building of a temple by his son, Solomon.
  • 1 Kings 10:23 tells of King Solomon’s riches. He had a desire for wisdom, but God blessed him with much more.
In the new testament many people who served and loved God were wealthy business owners. 
  • John owned a fishing business with employees. He was a businessman, yet in Matthew 4:21 Jesus called on him to join the ministry.
  • The apostle Paul did not have to take money from the church, because he was a tentmaker, Acts 18:3.
  • In Acts 16:14 we learn of Lydia, a woman entrepreneur who was a seller of purple, and how she became a follower of Christ and hosted the first church of Europe in her home.
People of high position and wealth were seen following God throughout the Bible. God often blessed those who were good stewards by increasing their wealth and success. The belief that people who are spiritual must be poor is luciferian. Take time to study your Bible and find other individuals who were entrepreneurs and wealthy believers.

Wrong Moves on the Right Path

Many people do not understand the potential they have to build wealth in the stock market. They also do not understand how the stock market works.

At TRADEway, we teach a system and we provide support as you use that system.
Imagine you are riding in your friend’s car. The car runs perfectly. Imagine your friend pulls over and asks you to drive. If you have a wreck on your way home, would you blame the car? Absolutely not, yet that’s the approach people take when it comes to a trading system.
The system wouldn’t work for some and not work for others, if they were doing the exact same things.
Simply being on the right path doesn’t mean that you’re going to make all the right moves. If you find yourself not seeing the results you want to see, perhaps it is because you’re not doing something exactly the way you need to in order to have the results you desire. If you see someone who is successful, do what they are doing.
TRADEway was created to provide Christians with knowledge and skill sets to help them become successful in the stock market. We want to see you reach your goals.
You have the potential to do incredible things with this system if you will take the knowledge that you acquire and apply the skill sets correctly.

One Size Fits All?

As you start your trading journey, it’s important to realize that there are many different ways to trade. Just like driving a car or wearing clothes, your style may change over time, and this is a good thing.

Trading is like driving a car. 
There are many different ways to drive a car. You can get in the left lane and try to go as fast as you can. You can get in the right lane and go slow and steady. You can be one of those drivers that is weaving in and out of each lane, trying to find the best line, the fastest way there.
There are a lot of ways you can drive your car, but ultimately what’s the goal? To get to your destination.
Trading is like wearing clothes.
There are some types of clothes that are going to fit you better than others. It doesn’t mean one is better than another, but they are different.
As a trader, you’re going to hear many different styles of trading. It’s great that we have these various styles, because you might not find which one fits you until you’ve tried a couple.
Sometimes the way our clothes fit changes over time; likewise our trading style will adapt over time.
As you become a better trader, you need to find the style that suits you best at the time.
The best thing a trader can do is identify the types of things that are working best right now. Ask yourself, “What things are producing the results I want to see? What kind of opportunities will get me to the goals I have set?”
Put on your best pair of clothes, get in your car, and reach your destination.

This is why we love limited government

There are many reasons we believe in limited government. One major reason government should be limited is that government control and regulations have a negative impact on economics.

If you have limited government it means you have lower taxes.
  • When you have lower taxes, companies can hire more people.
  • People make more and get to keep more of their salary so they have more disposable income.
  • More disposable income means people can buy more things.
  • Companies do better when sales are up, which means their pay goes up.
  • A positive cycle of prosperity is created.
Ronald Reagan said, “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” He felt that private business could do everything better, because capitalism works. The free market system works, and it tends to create things that people want. When government does not interfere, the free market system works like a well oiled machine. When government tries to take charge with bureaucratic methods and rules, it stifles that cycle of prosperity. The whole economy dwindles, and it becomes like a sick little plant whose leaves wither, and there’s no fruit. Limited government is good for economics.

Leveraging Others: Reaping Where Thou Hast Not Sown

What is it that wealthy people do that seems to free up their time while they still have the ability to make money? It’s called leverage. Leverage means to use something to the maximum advantage. You can leverage things you already have access to in order to create a greater potential for wealth building.

Leverage the use of a computer.
A computer can do work for you, so that you can free up time. You can use various programs and techniques that help you accomplish a job without being physically tied to a computer every hour of the day.
Leverage the use of your money.
You can use your money to make more money. This is a concept we teach at TRADEway. Instead of working for your money, you could make your money work for you. Many people think it takes a lot of money to actually become successful and wealthy, but that is simply not true.
Leverage people. 
That might sound bad, but it’s not. Whenever you hire someone to help you in a business, you’re leveraging them. You’re also giving them a job and a way to make an income, but at the same time, you’re freeing up your own time by leveraging someone else’s.
If you do not own your own business, leverage people by learning from them. Look for ways that other people can help you speed up your learning. Leverage the effort and the knowledge of people who are already where you want to be. Find a mentor. Leverage the use of someone who can teach you the fast track to the places you want to go.
Do you want to free up your time and still have the ability to make money? Find a way to leverage your computer, your money and people. Leverage us at TRADEway. That’s one of our favorite things for our students to do. Take advantage of the leverage that we can provide for you by showing you the shortcuts to learning how to trade.