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How to be a better music producer

Beginners Guide To Music Production

It’s MusicTech’s guide to everything you need to know about music production: from recording to mixing to mastering. 

Welcome to our Beginners Guide

Are you new to music production? Or are you returning to music making and need a refresher in certain aspects of recording, mixing and mastering? If either of these applies, then you’ve come to the right place.

We’re going to explain all of the main principles of music technology and music production in a straightforward way as possible.

Read the following and you should be in a good place to start (or restart) your music making, whether as a hobby, semi professionally or even as a career.

So Where Do We Start?

The basics of a composition or song are its constituent parts i.e. the instruments (guitar, drums, bass, keyboards and so on) and the vocals. These are the ‘tracks’ and the core of the music production process is simply how you get the sounds together for each track, arrange them, mix them together and make them sound ‘professional’.

The device that enables all of this – and which has become the heart of the 21st century studio – is the humble computer: a Mac, PC or increasingly, portable devices like tablets and iPads.

Sequencers/DAW‘s

More specifically, of course, it’s the software that the computer runs that turns it in to a music production powerhouse. This software enables the recording, mixing and mastering of music tracks and is called a ‘sequencer’ or the rather grander-soundin.like a Digital Audio Workstation’ (DAW).

Sequencers vary in price from free to hundreds of pounds and, combined with today’s powerful computers, can often allow unlimited tracks of music to be arranged together. You want an orchestra of thousands? You’re mad, but you’ve got it…

Sounds

So where do the sounds come from and how do you get them together within your computer? It’s easiest to think of these as ‘internal’ and ‘external’ within the context of your desktop environment. You can record ‘external sounds’ – guitars, vocals, acoustic instruments such as pianos and violins, or electronic keyboards like synthesizers – and arrange them together in your sequencer.

These are ‘digital audio’ tracks – no need to worry too much about the name just now, but it does become important later. They contain the actual audio information, the recorded waveform of the external instrument.

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Three of the Big Six: Cubase , Reason and Pro Tools

Now to the internal sounds, sounds generated within your DAW. Most sequencers have what are called‘virtual instruments’ that recreate, for example, drum kits, keyboards or guitars for you to play or strum with your mouse or a connected keyboard.

These are known as MIDI tracks. Again you don’t need to worry too much about semantics here but the data within a  MIDI track is more about the note information (which notes are played, how hard and for how long). These notes can be moved around and edited after being recorded simply by using the sequencer’s editor, clicking on them and dragging them around on screen.

The second type of internal sound is called a sample. Again these are audio, so digital recordings of real sound but they are especially-created riffs, melodies, drum patterns (loops), or vocal parts produced by third party manufacturers. You can buy collections of these (on CD, DVD or download – or get them free.

with MusicTech each month!) and simply drop them on different tracks to build up a tune.

The rest of the Big Six: Ableton Live , Logic and FL Studio. The premiere DAWs/Sequencers

So, three different ways of getting sounds together for song creation. You can now create songs using

external sounds, virtual instruments and samples or, more likely, a combination of all three. In theory,

that’s all you need to know to go and produce music but there’s more if you want it, so let’s delve a little

deeper and look at each method a little more closely…

1. Recording External Sounds

When we talk about ‘recording’ these days what we generally mean is the process of getting external sounds – vocals and instruments – into a computer. This could simply be a matter of pointing an iPad mic at a guitarist and pressing record (not the best quality) or recording individual members of a band simultaneously using an ‘audio interface’. This interface is a key part of music technology. It is required because most computers simply don’t have the right connections for you to go plugging a band or instruments into, so your interface might allow your drummer, guitarist, bass player and vocalist to plug directly into your computer and play and record into the tracks of your sequencer.

There are many great apps available for your mobile devices and tablets, check out our list

Generally when you record a band in your studio you record one track at a time (your guitarist playing over the already-recorded drum part, for example). 

But with computer power as it is and with interfaces capable of recording many instruments simultaneously, there’s no reason why you can’t record a band’s entire live performance, each track recorded individually but at the same time, with one computer and a suitable interface.

The quality of the interface is also a key point because you want to get the best quality recordings of each instrument into your computer. 

Start with a high quality recording and you will have to do less later on in the mixing process. This is where things get a little techy as the process of recording external signals into a computer means that you are converting analogue signals into digital ones, so a good analogue to digital converter is required. Without wishing to get too geeky look out for 24-bit 96kHz interfaces.

★ Interface types

So you can plug your instruments and microphones into interfaces to record them but how do these interfaces plug into your computer? Many utilise the USB socket which handles audio data no problem. More channels (inputs and outputs) may require that you use the computer’s Firewire connection and there are adaptors to convert Firewire to the newer Thunderbolt connections.

★★ Improving the input signal 

As we’ve said signal quality is key – put garbage in, you’ll get garbage out. So another key component in your signal chain is the microphone pre-amp, specifically for, no surprise here, microphones.

 If you are recording a band or lots of vocalists your may need mic preamps to make sure that the signal you are recording is good enough. Many audio interfaces have mic preamps built-in so you can increase the level of it is weak.

RULE! A key component in your studio is the interface. Invest in a good one to record and deliver the best quality external sounds to your sequencer.

Getting yourself a decent interface is essential – Focusrite’s Scarlett range are interface industry leaders

★★★ Improving the signal… again!

In the olden days mixing desks were used to record and featured extra elements to manipulate the input signal like EQ (to adjust the bass and treble); the aforementioned mic preamp; compression (to reduce the highs and lows of a signal so that it can be raised in perceived volume – more on this later); and noise gates (so stop ‘hiss’).

With most of the mixing now done inside the computer (see later) actual proper mixing desks are becoming rarer but ‘channel strips’ are becoming increasingly popular to emulate individual channels of a mixer so you can apply compression, noise gating, EQ and preamps to individual instruments as  you record their signals into your computer. 

Many channels strips are based on classic (read ‘expensive’) mixers which were used in the analogue heyday of recording (the 60s and 70s) and deliver a classic analogue character to your signal.

Be warned: you can (and arguably should) spend a lot of money on decent quality interfaces and channel strips.

RULE! Getting the best signal in to your computer is vital. Make sure you put aside a larger portion of your budget aside for a decent interface and channels strip or combination of the two.

So that’s the outside world of music taken care of. With a decent interface you can mic up and plug in vocalists and instruments into your computer and record them. You now have track after track of these external audio tracks to play with and mix.  Time to look inside your computer and see what’s on offer there to go with them…

2. Using Internal Sounds: Virtual Instruments

In theory you don’t have to record anything from the outside world at all if you don’t want to. Grab a laptop with a sequencer full of virtual instruments and you can do it all yourself, or at least give it a go.

Virtual instruments offer versions of pretty much every instrument you can imagine… and a lot you can’t. They can recreate a guitar, piano, synth or drum kit within your sequencer environment all played and recorded in a midi  keyboard/controller.

This virtual instrument technology has opened up different worlds of music making to whole new audiences so even if you can’t play a note on a ‘proper’ instrument, virtual instruments allow you to strum, pick, hit, tap and play, all within the safety of your virtual studio.

Forest Kingdom II – A typical example of a MIDI-based Virtual Instrument.

Virtual instruments have been with us for some years now and are fairly straightforward to program so there are gazillions out there. 

Pretty much every classic hardware synth and instrument has been emulated over the years as have many instruments that have never existed. In fact it’s fair to say that there is a mind-boggling choice. Thankfully most sequencers now come with a good selection of virtual instruments which cover a lot of bases, so if you choose one of the big six DAWs (Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools,

Reason, FLStudio and Ableton Live) you will have more than enough virtual power at your fingertips.

However if you want to sound different from everyone else then you might want to consider the many others that are available. We’ll have a buyers guide here soon including some of the top 10s in different categories so be sure to check back.

3. Using Internal Sounds: Samples

There are many, many companies that produce ready made samples of instruments, drum loops, and vocal lines for you to buy and drop into your music creations. There used to be a bit of snobbery about using samples but not so these days – in fact many a tune (and indeed genre) has been based on the inclusion of great samples.

You can buy collections of samples based on literally anything you can imagine because everything that can be recorded probably has been recorded and is available. Dance music has beats, basses and leads for every genre.

 All other genres are catered for and there are collections based on obscure instruments and cultures from every corner of the world. Instrument samples like these can also be loaded into software samplers where they can then be mapped across a keyboard and then ‘played’ adding another level of flexibility to sample use.

Sample collections are great as a quick fix and especially useful if you are working on many different pieces of music against tight deadlines. If you want to try some samples out for free MusicTech magazinehas collections available on its DVD every month. You can also find an exclusive collection here so have a play and see how you get on. You might find that they act as the bare bones of your tracks and then you flesh them out later with VIs and external recordings. Either way they are a fast and quick ingredient and it’s well worth having at look at some of the collections available.

4. Mixing

OK, by now we’re assuming you’ve got your head around how you get sounds into your sequencer, generate them from within it or use sample collections. 

The next stage is to arrange them and mix them together. Arranging is simply the process of how your song develops over time, usually with an intro followed by verses and choruses. Discussing the different aspects of arrangements could be a website in itself as each arrangement depends on the genre you are working within, but mixing is a subject that we can cover, albeit on a simple level, right here and right now.

Try to think of your song mix in two dimensions: how it spreads across the stereo spectrum (left to right across your speakers or headphones) and how it spreads across the frequency range (think bottom, bass,to top, treble). 

Generally speaking having a good spread in both dimensions is the key. You don’t want a too bass-heavy mix in the same way that you do not you want everything coming out of just your left speaker.

In terms of stereo placement the panning controls in your sequencer track channels allow you to place each track anywhere between far left and far right. The rule is the bassier the track the more central it is so bass-lines of tracks tend to sit in the middle of the stereo spectrum acting as the backbone of a track.

The vocal can sit close to it as its higher frequency allows the vocal to still be apart from the bass and this is a rule you can follow (although you don’t have to!): instruments can sit with each other in the same stereo position as long as their frequencies don’t clash too much. Feel free to experiment though, move things around, and if it sounds good it is good! And don’t be afraid to EQ certain parts of a track to make them sit better and not clash against other parts.

Effects For Mixing

As well as virtual instruments most sequencers come packed with stacks of virtual effects, many of which you can use in the mixing process. We’ve discussed how EQ can lift or lower the impact of certain elements in a mix. Effects such as reverb can make parts of your mix sound like they have been recorded in different rooms by adding reflective echoes. 

Echoes themselves can make parts repeats while chorus and harmony effects add additional melodic content.

It can be easy to get overwhelemed when using too many effects!

More creative effects include amp simulators that can be, for example, applied to acoustic guitar tracks to make them sound electric. In fact guitar effects like this are very common so expect to see tremolos, distortion, overdrives, flangers and the like too. Like the virtual instruments mentioned above, virtual effects replicate pretty much every hardware unit ever made (and in many cases not made). Imagine anything you can do to a sound and that effect will be available as one of the virtual ones that ship with your DAW or from third party developers. Again check out MusicTech magazine and this website for regular, more in depth guides to mixing within different sequencers.

5. Monitoring

RULE! Buy the best monitors you can afford. They are arguably the most important items

in your studio…That’s quite a claim but it’s also a true one.

There’s no use spending thousands on audio interfaces, channels strips, sequencers, effects and external instruments if you are going to listen to the results of your music production through a pair of tin cans tied to a piece of string. General rule: the cheaper the speakers, the more coloured they are i.e. they are enhanced in certain frequency ranges to make them better than they really are. Sub £100 computer speakers, for example, often have their bass response extended so they sound like beefier and bigger monitors. Trouble is, when you mix on monitors like this your bass might sound good on them but as soon as you play the resultant mix on another set of less bass-enhanced speakers the results will almost definitely sound weedy because you will have lowered the bass while mixing on your bass-heavy monitors.

Check out our lists of the best monitors you can buy on a budget and for an intermediate price here

Think of it this way: those cheaper monitors are lying to you! What you really need are monitors that don’t lie, monitors that are totally, almost brutally honest – monitors that tell it like it is. If your mix is ****,they will tell you, simple!

Good monitors reveal exactly what your mix sounds like: from left to right, from top to bottom. They translate everything you do within your sequencer exactly, so if you decide to enhance the bass of your kicking kick, you will be able hear the result of that enhancement and pinpoint the effects it has on the rest of your mix.

So, honesty is key and you’ve probably guessed by now, honestly costs. Yes, the more you pay, the more honest your monitors will be i.e. they will have a flat frequency response with no enhancements in the bass, mids or trebles, just flat across the board. Having said that you can get good monitors at all price ranges. Those £5k monitors might be the best out there, but those £1k ones might deliver 95% of the benefits.

Ultimately it’s up to you: is that extra 5% worth another £4k? Here at MusicTech we firmly believe that less, more expensive items in your studio will give you a better sound so, yes, that extra outlay is worth it.

One other thing to remember, no matter what you spend on your monitors you will need good acoustics.

6. Mastering – Welcome To The Dark Side

According to many experienced mastering engineers, you aren’t going to master mastering unless you’ve been at it for at least 30 years. It’s certainly not something, they would say, that beginners should even consider. But we disagree… to a certain extent anyway. Mastering is certainly something that you should be aware of at the mixing stage of your music production, and if you want to give it a go, it’s best to learn about this ‘dark art’ by getting hands on and giving it a go. But what exactly is it?

The mastering process begins as the mixing process ends. It’s what takes that mix and delivers the final ‘master’ of the track to the end user, possibly via CD, or MP3, so takes into account fades, track lengths and codes, and noise reduction. But aside from these more technical issues it is a process that uses EQ, compression and stereo spreading to make your mix sound more commercial and professional.

It begins once you are happy with your mix – that everything sits in the right place, that everything is EQd to perfection and that the mix sounds good on several systems. First it’s time to add a touch of magic dust, a feel to the mix that makes it sound brighter, and right up there with the tracks you are trying to emulate in terms of quality.

So this is one of the rules of mastering: have some of your favourite commercial mixes by your favoured artists loaded into your DAW ready to A-B with your track. You might as well aim for the top and this is an instant way to hear how your mastering process is developing by doing direct comparisons with ‘the real thing’.So what is the process? You have your stereo mix and the first stage of mastering is generally to EQ and compress – and this is where it gets a little controversial. When you do any processing at this stage remember you are thinking about the whole mix, not just parts of it.So if you think that you need to add bass to your bass line at this stage, it’s too late, this should have been done at the mix stage. EQ-ing at this stage is more subtle: to add a shimmer at the high end or a sparkle to mids but to do these actions across the whole track, not parts of it.

Compression is all about gently compressing certain elements within a mix so the whole thing can be lifted with limiting. You are not trying to crush the mix and then simply make it louder, otherwise you’ll be entering ‘the loudness wars’ which have seen mixes get ever louder – but not necessarily better – over recent years. A great master is not just loud, it is full and dynamic, it has highs and lows, impact and punch… So compress carefully and drive the input of your limiter for extra impact.

The final aspects of mastering include possible noise reduction – used less these days as people mix inside their computers so any noise is reduced at the mix stage or simply doesn’t exist as everything is done within the digital environment – and stereo spreading.

Again, it’s best to use this latter process subtly and sparingly as much of the stereo spread should have been dealt with at the mix stage and most of your instruments will have been placed carefully here so if you start pushing them further here it may just be too much. Which is the overall rule of mastering…

Rule! Be subtle when mastering, don’t increase everything just for the sake of it and never master to make it simply louder.

And that’s it for now. This was a (hopefully) gentle and general introduction to the world of music production. We’ll be returning regularly to enhance sections and add to it.

 If you have any questions or areas you’d like us to include, get in touch with us by post a comment at the comment section below 

How to make money with Twitter $1000+ everyday

 How to make $2000 everyday with Twitter 

The earnings that you actually experience will depend on the amount of labor that you put into your efforts as well as your ability, experience, education, market trends, search engine algorithms, and many more personal and external factors.

We do not guarantee or otherwise promise that you will earn any particular amount of money.

That said, it is possible to make money online. Making money from this method(s) is the personal experience of the author. Now more and more internet users are using this method and we hope that this method can also help you to make money.

This post is all about getting followers on Twitter in a huge amount and a massive traffic to your website. Can you believe if I tell you that I made near about $2300 in 3 Days, with the help of Twitter? What? No? That’s alright! But, I am going to explain it with screenshots in this post.

Everyone knows that, traffic is the key of success to every website. Whether you are selling a product, service, or any affiliate program, without traffic, you can not succeed.

 Today, there are a lot of social bookmarking and social networking websites that can be used for the purpose of getting traffic. But, I like Twitter, the most. Why?

 There are a lot of reasons behind it. Few of them are as follows: 

1. Twitter is no. 1 micro blogging website. 

2. The traffic you receive from Twitter is easily convertible. You can convert the traffic into sales, very easily. People who are following you

are already interested in your products, so you need only a little effort to make sales.

3. There is no hard work involved in making and running a Twitter account. All you need to do is getting more followers on Twitter. 

That is the same I am going to tell you in this e-book. I will tell you in the next few pages, how to get a huge amount of followers to your Twitter account and get some huge traffic and making money in an awesome way!

Here, I will be sharing my own experience of using Twitter for getting traffic to my website and making $2300 in 3 days only. As, I will be telling you what I did, you will also come to know, how you can do the same.

Here is a step by step detailed information. How I made $2300 with Twitter in 3 days only.

1. First of all, I thought of a thing that people will be interested in. The best thing that can be sold easily is an e-book. Ya, it may be on any topic, but in my opinion e-books can be sold very easily. I was searching for an interesting e-book and found an e-book on freebooks.net website (visit now) I downloaded an e-book on Weight Lose Information.

I think, the ebooks like ‘how to lose weight’, ‘how to remove acnes’, ‘how to look smarter’ are the common ones and are having a large customer base.

You can also choose an e-book like this one or on a different topic. With the point of view of a webmaster some e-books like ‘how to make quick websites’, ‘google adwords tips’, ‘how to be successful in online business’ can be interesting topics.

Make sure that you are having master resale rights before you sell any e-book.

2. I visited wordpress.com(visit now) and created a fresh blog. I was already having a blog on wordpress, but I made a new one with a new email ID. It took only 30 minutes as I described few great things about the e-book, I was going to sell. Make sure your blog looks attractive and the wording should be convincing one.

3. Now, I was going to spend $5 ONLY. Yes! I made an account on e-junkie.com(visit now). I would like to tell you, if you don’t know, that e-junkie is the best website for selling downloadable products. 

They charge only $5 as one month fee and there is no limit on no. of products to upload. You must have a Paypal account(visit now) before you make an account on e-junkie. I uploaded the e-book on e-junkie, settings its price on $9.99 I put its download link on my blog. Now, every visitor could download that e-book from my blog by paying for it and money was going to my Paypal account. Now, I wanted web traffic and selected Twitter for this purpose.

4. Create a new Twitter (visit now) as you might have an account already, but still I would recommend creating a new account. Choose a name for your account which is related to your niche.

 For example, if you are in the business of web designing, then you should choose the account names  like webdesigntips,extremewebdesigns or webdesignworld If you are not understanding this tip here then I would recommend to visit Twitter website and create an account and there you can decide which username you want to choose. 

5. Fill all the required information etc. You can also insert a hyperlink to your website in your profile. Make sure that you have entered the complete information, as people like to follow the accounts, which are the serious ones. Filling the incomplete and a little information, makes

your,Twitter account, uninteresting. Now, you need people who can read your tweets and visit your website and buy your product.

6. Always remember one thing that if you invite 100 people daily then only 10 people will be following you i.e. only 10%. This is the minimum figure, because I want to give you everything assured. So, If you want 20000 followers, in a month, then you need to invite 200000 people in a month. _Don’t you find it CRAZY!_But, believe me, thereafter you need never to invite anyone. If your Twitter account, reaches at this level, it will become autopilot and near about 100 more people will be following you everyday, without any efforts. This is all based on my personal experience. Now, the problem is that to invite 200000 people in a month you need to invite 7000 people daily.Can you manage it? Don’t worry! This is the same from where the trick begins. We know that it is not possible to invite 7000 people one by one. But, what about all at once? 

7. There is a loophole in Twitter that is proposed to be removed by Twitter soon, but we can take advantage of it, until it is open. Twitter gives you an option to upload the file containing email IDs of the people you want to invite. Use the option ‘Find people’ as shown in the picture

below.

There is an option of inviting people by email. As, we discussed few lines above, you need to have near about 7000 email IDs daily to invite people. So, can you manage such number of email IDs everyday? My answer would be Yes!

 Today, there are a lot of softwares available on the internet, which can harvest email IDs from the websites and blogs and can provide you. If you visit Google and find by using keywords like Email harvester__’ etc. then you will find many such kind of softwares. (visit now) I can name here, some of the softwares, in case you are not interested in searching. 

Softwares like Email Spider, Email Extractor and many others are there which can be used for this work, but they harvest email IDs from the websites and blogs and those email IDs also contain emails of companies, firms etc. which will not be of any use in our case because we need to get to the general public. 

On the other hand, everytime when you will search using such kind of software they will bring same results from the internet.

 ln this manner, we can not fulfill our requirement of having 7000 new email

IDs everyday. So, we will be using softwares that generate new email IDs every time using names of the people.

There are many softwares available like #emailsmartz email generator, 

#Fast Email IDs generator  

#SharkGen E-mail Generator etc. 

You can select any of those but I used Acute Email IDs Production Engine (visit★★ now)because I found it the cheapest but still the most effective. Although, it all depends upon you which software to choose but, I have written this e-book keeping in mind the software I used only, and have no idea about other softwares.

9. Now, after you have Acute Email IDs Production Engine you are ready to have thousands of email IDs daily. It will be in your hands, how much email IDs you want. I used this software for 3 days only and got 33000 email IDs generated per day, you can generate more or less as you want. It took only 20 minutes of mine. 

10.Export your email IDs and save them in a text file. We will use this file to invite people to your Twitter account. According to your plan, you can save any number of email IDs in the text files but as I said, I used to have 33000 email IDs generated everyday spending only 20 minutes of mine. We know, that everyone might not be related to your niche, that’s why, I have already taken the percentage of people following you at 10% as I think that maximum 90% people may ignore you.

11.Now open your Twitter account page, Then click on ‘invite by email’ option.

12.Now, copy email IDs from text file you saved and paste in the space and click ‘invite’ as shown below.

13.Your email IDs should be separated with a column. You need NOT to put comma after each email ID manually, rather there are settings in Acute Email IDs Production Engine to generate email IDs in this manner, if you place a comma while choosing domain name. Like you can choose ‘gmail.com, ‘ instead of ‘gmail.com’ while using that software to generate email IDs. 

It all depends upon you, how many email IDs you use for inviting people, but I will suggest to use 100 or 120 in a single time, because, it will make this process fast. You can repeat this process as many times as you want.

Now, the question is that, how to target people to invite. As we know, that if 100 people visit on your website then you might have 2-3 sales. It is based on law of averages and in same manner, if you will be inviting 1000 people then 100 might be following you who will find you related to their niche.

 The person, who will receive an invitation from your account, will receive the email like this one, shown below.

Tip: You need to be patient, Twitter will take some time to upload email IDs file.

Your work is over!! Now, just wait for 24 hours, and the next day when you will open your Twitter Account you are bound to get amazed!!

Thousands of people have become your followers and when you will check your stats then you will be shocked! 

There is a tremendous growth in the number of Unique Visitors. (If you have already inserted your website link in your profile) It all depends upon you, how many email IDs you generate in a day and use it. The more email IDs you generate, the more invites you send, the more followers will be there.

14.You won’t believe but, in 3 days only I got more than 21000 followers.

More ways to get followers on Twitter 

You can see clearly from my twitter account, that I am not following people except 20-30, but I am having a lot of followers. From here, I

will be making tweets and sales. Keep on reading… to see how many sales I made in these days. I have not disclosed the name of my Twitter account, because, I do not want anyone to ‘report it as spam’.

15.After you get this amount of followers then your 5 tweets ONLY daily, will lead to a massive amount of traffic to your website. Your tweets should be very interesting like, again, if you are in the business of web designing then you make tweets like:

Best website designing templates, you have seen NEVER before <your website address>

Get your website completed in 72 hours or money back <your website address>

 Make your business successful with a successful website from <your website address>I

 used this method first time and I was having near about 21000 followers and then I made only One Tweet in my account. The price of the e-book was only $9.99 so I was sure that I can make some good sales. Next day, I checked traffic stats first of all and I found very very impressive results. I almost jumped in air!! You can also see the clear difference in the amount of traffic from the picture given below. I kept on getting a huge amount of traffic in the consecutive days.

I was so excited with my traffic stats, and I was sure that some sales might have been there. But when I checked the email, It was full of emails received from Paypal. On very first day, means on that day . I got near about 70 sales. The picture of my Gmail a/c was as under

and this was the picture of my PayPal Account

In 3 days ONLY I was having near about 21000 followers and $2300 in my Paypal account. Now, I am planning to make another Twitter account and will sell another e-book probably for a higher price. 

If everything goes right then I will be making some huge amount may be like $1000 a day or more. So, this was everything about getting traffic via Twitter that really CONVERTS!! 

How to make money on Facebook 

Understanding Forex Trading from the scratch

Trading has to with the process of buying and selling goods and services and it also has to do with buying and selling of financial institutions such as stocks , bonds, commodities , currencies or derivatives with the goal of making profit. 

It also involves the exchange of these instruments between buyers and sellers in various financial markets, such as stock exchanges or over-the-counter markets. 

But in forex trading it's a bit different because it has to with buying and selling of currency. 

Forex trading, also known as foreign exchange trading or currency trading, can also be defined as the decentralized global market place for buying and selling of currencies 

It is one of the largest and most liquid financial markets in the world, with and average trading volume exceeding $6 trillion. In this guid we are going to talk about the various aspects of forex trading

 

Important Aspect of Forex Trading

★.Its basics 

★.Market participants

★.Trading strategies

★.Risk management techniques 

★.Key factors that influence currency movements

Things to Consider before jumping into forex trading 

Understanding Forex Trading

 What is Forex?

Forex also know as (Foreign Exchange) refers to exchanging the currency of one country for another at prevailing exchange rates. which means a global marketplace for exchanging national currencies 

Due to the worldwide reach of trade, commerce, and finance, forex markets tend to be the world's largest and most liquid asset markets.

How Does Forex Trading Work?

This has to do with the process of speculating on currency prices to potentially make a profit. Currencies are traded in pairs, so by exchanging one currency for another, a trader is speculating on whether one currency will rise or fall in value against the other

Advantages and disadvantages of forex trading 

First we are going to look into the advantages/ benefits of forex trading

Trading in forex market give you the opportunity to trade a wide variety of currency pairs, trading on global event and the relative strength of the major and minor economies.

It let's you trade over 80 currency pairs including major currency pairs like GBP/USD

EUR/USD and USD/JPY 

It's easy to use 

Due to the set up of forex trading plaqorksntforms or brokers it is now user friendly and very simple to use which gives room for anyone who have the knowledge to partake in it 

Can I make a living from forex trading

Yes absolutely you can make a living from forex trading provided you have a good knowledge and also the capital to start

Before engaging in a forex trading business at least you must have experience, the about how the market works too losing your whole money .

Forex Trading also offers various opportunities for financial gains despite that factors there is also some disadvantages 

 

It's important to note that while forex trading has its disadvantages, many traders are still able to profit from it by employing proper risk management strategies, acquiring knowledge and skills, and staying disciplined in their trading approach.

Some of the disadvantages of forex trading 

High volatility: 

The foreign exchange market is known for its volatility, which means that currency prices can fluctuate rapidly. While volatility can present opportunities for profits, it also carries a significant level of risk. Sudden price movements can result in substantial losses if trades are not properly managed.

Risk of leverage: 

Forex trading often involves the use of leverage, which allows traders to control larger positions with a smaller amount of capital. While leverage can amplify profits, it can also magnify losses. If trades move against a trader's position, they can quickly lose more money than they initially invested.

Complex market: 

The forex market is a complex and decentralized market with various participants, including central banks, financial institutions, corporations, and individual traders. Understanding and analyzing the factors that influence currency prices requires a deep knowledge of economics, geopolitics, and global events. Lack of knowledge and experience can lead to poor trading decisions.

Psychological challenges: 

Forex trading can be emotionally demanding. Traders need to make decisions under pressure and deal with the stress of potential financial losses. Fear, greed, and impatience can often cloud judgment, leading to impulsive and irrational trading decisions.

Market manipulation: 

The forex market is susceptible to manipulation due to its vast size and decentralization. Large financial institutions or traders with significant resources can potentially influence currency prices to their advantage, making it challenging for retail traders to compete on a level playing field.

Technical issues and platform risks: 

Forex trading relies heavily on technology and online trading platforms. Technical glitches, internet outages, or platform malfunctions can disrupt trading activities and result in missed opportunities or erroneous trades. It's essential to choose a reliable and secure trading platform to minimize such risks.

Time commitment: 

Successful forex trading requires time and dedication. Traders need to continually monitor market conditions, analyze charts and indicators, and stay updated with relevant news and events. It can be demanding for individuals who have other commitments or lack the necessary time to devote to trading.

Lack of regulation:

 While forex trading is regulated in many countries, the market is still decentralized, and there are regions with limited regulatory oversight. This lack of regulation exposes traders to the risk of fraudulent activities, scams, and unscrupulous brokers.

Market Participants

It's not surprising that so many people in the forex trading market from small retail investors, beginner traders to commercial banks and big firms or organisations 

below are some of the participants/ forex traders from round the world

While there is a large number of participants in the forex market with different goals and motives, we can generally place them into few categories in order to understand more easily how the FX market (forex exchange) function 

The FX (foreign exchange) Market is the largest financial market in the world ,Banks , commercial companies, hedge funds, central banks and individual speculators participate in it and exchange currencies in a daily basis for speculating and hedging purposes.

According to the latest survey conducted by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the daily turnover in the OTC FX market stood at $6.6 trillion in 2019 (vs. $5.1 trillion in 2016). The U.S. Dollar was the most traded currency - being on one side of 88% of all transactions.

★.Commercial banks

★.Hedge funds

★.Real money

★.Retail traders

★.Sovereign wealth funds

★.Prime brokers

★.Retail brokers

★.Proprietary trading firms

★.Money transfer/remittance c.ompanies

★.Foreign exchange fixing

★.Commercial companies

★.Government and central banks 

Forex Market Structure

Forex market structure explains that the operations are sagregated into two levels

Inter bank market

Over-the-counter (OTC) market

Banks are the main participants indulged in trading involving large deals in the inter bank market 

Major currency pairs

Cross currency pairs

Exotic currency pairs 

Spot market 

Forward market 

Futures market

Option market 

Types  of Analysis Under Forex Trading 

★ Fundamental Analysis 

Forex fundamental Analysis focuses on the overall state of the economy and researches various factors including interest rates,GDP, employment rates , international trade and manufacturing. 

As well as there relative impact on the value of the national currency they relate to

We are going to talk about three types of Analysis in forex trading 

★ Technical Analysis 

This is the study of the currency price movement on the chart 📉 it can also use it to identify patterns and determine probabilities of future movements in the market through the use of technical studies, indicators, and other analysis tools. 

★ Fundamental Analysis Base country's economy 

This fundamental analysis has to do with taking a look at how a country's economy is doing most times the situation of a country economy like GDP , employment rates and international trade affect and can  determine the movement of the forex  markets 

★ Market Sentiment Analysis 

This kind of analysis is quit different from others because it has to do with the movement of the market itself whether it is bullish or bearish on the current or fundamental out look 

Economic Indicators and Report

Macroeconomic statistics, such as inflation, have the greatest impact on forex markets. Stock, bond, commodity, and other capital markets also have a strong influence on exchange rates.

International trade numbers, such as trade deficits and surpluses, also play a vital role in forex markets.

The main reports that FX traders tend to focus on are (in relative order of interest), the Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP; that is the employment report), the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the ,Consumer Confidence Index, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Trade Balance reports.

Some of the factors are

Monetary policy and central banks 

Political and geopolitics factors 

Market sentiment and risk appetite

Intermarket analysis

 

Technical Analysis

This is the study of currency price movement on the chart, through technical analysis below are some key factors we need to study 

a. Price charts and patterns 

b. Support and Resistance Levels.

c. Trend analysis 

d. Technical indicators

e. Fibonacci Retracement and Extension

f. Japanese candlestick patterns

Forex Trading Strategies

This strategies include a number of techniques such as

★Time frame 

★Forex signals used

★Entry/Exit methods

 Some of the most common trading strategies include

#Forex_scalping

#Day_trading

#Swing_trading 

#Position_trading

 Risk Management Techniques

in forex trading risk management is one of the main factors that will consider how your success in trading will be ife because it has to do with how you manage you account,the lot size you are using , how long you stay in the market and also how you apply you stop loss and take profit methods. And also your capital is involved and if it is not managed carefully all the money can be lost 

Ways to management your forex trading 

★Understand the forex market.

★Get a grasp on leverage.

★Build a good trading plan.

★Set a risk-reward ratio.

★Use stops and limits.

★Manage your emotions.

★Keep an eye on news and events.

★Start with a demo account

★ Position Sizing

★Stop Loss Orders

★Take Profit Orders

★Trailing Stops

★ Risk-Reward Ratio

★ Diversification

Developing a Trading Plan

In this aspect it's now left for you  to form your own market ideology.

Select a market for your trading strategy.

Choose a time frame to trade.

Select a tool to determine the trend.

Define your input signal.

Set an objective starting signal.

Define your risk level.

Record the rules of your trading strategy.

You have to also look at......

. Defining Trading Goals

. Choosing a Trading Style

. Selecting Trading Instruments

. Setting Entry and Exit Rules

. Money Management Rules

. Evaluating and Adjusting the Trading Plan

Psychology of Forex Trading 

This has to do with the emotions and mental state that help dictate success or failure in trading securities. 

Trading psychology represents various aspects of an individual's character and behaviors that influence their trading actions. and in order for us to succeed in  forex trading we must control those motions

★These are things we have to deal with

 

A. Emotions and Trading Decisions

B. Overcoming Greed and Fear

C. Developing Discipline and Patience

D. Dealing with Losses

E. Maintaining a Trading Journal

 Choosing a Forex Broker

Before chosing a forex broker there things you have to check out for 

Regulatory Compliance. 

The first thing to check when selecting a forex broker is their reputation. ...

Account Features.

Each forex broker has different account offerings. ...

★Currency Pairs Offered. ...

★Trading Platform. ...

★The Bottom Line.

★ Trading Platforms and Tools

★ Account Types

★ Spreads and Commissions

★ Execution Speed and Slippage

★ Customer Service and Support

Advanced Topics

A. Algorithmic Trading and Expert Advisors

B. High-Frequency Trading

C. Carry Trade Strategies

D. Risk-on/Risk-off Trading

E. Seasonality in Forex Markets

F. Correlation Analysis

 Common Mistakes to Avoid

in forex trading there are  mistake we need and must try to avoid in order to understand and enjoy what we doing

A. Overtrading

B. Chasing the Market

C. Ignoring Risk Management

D. Lack of Discipline

E. Not Adapting to Market Conditions

Believe me once all this are put into practice and we over come them it's really going to help our trading life 

Conclusion:

 Forex trading provides individuals and institutions with the opportunity to participate in the dynamic and lucrative world of currency trading. It requires a solid understanding of the fundamental 

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#definition

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Sevilla won their seventh Europa League title as they beat Roma in a penalty shootout in the final at the Puskas Arena in Budapest on Wednesday.

It was a somewhat controversial end to the game as Gonzalo Montiel stepped up to take his penalty in the shootout knowing that a goal would secure the trophy for the Spanish side, having seen Gianluca Mancini and Roger Ibanez miss before him. The Argentine's terrible effort was saved by Rui Patricio, seemingly giving Roma a chance, but referee Anthony Taylor ordered it to be retaken because the goalkeeper stepped off of his line, and Montiel did not make the same mistake twice.

After a slow start to the match for both sides, Paulo Dybala raced onto an excellent through ball from Mancini and slotted it beyond Bono to give Roma the lead. Sevilla had a bright start to the second half, though, and pulled level when Jesus Navas' cross caught out Mancini and the defender ended up knocking it into the net from close range.

It turned into a scrappy affair full of yellow cards as referee Taylor was repeatedly surrounded by players. Two penalty claims were denied by the officials in the second half to keep the score level and eventually take the tie to extra-time and the shootout

Sevilla have done it again! Europa League kings break Jose Mourinho's heart as Roma beaten on penalties in scrappy final

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Sevilla won their seventh Europa League title as they beat Roma in a penalty shootout in the final at the Puskas Arena in Budapest on Wednesday.

Dybala gave Roma lead in first half

Mancini own goal forced penalties

Roma missed twice, allowing Montiel to win it

TELL ME MORE: It was a somewhat controversial end to the game as Gonzalo Montiel stepped up to take his penalty in the shootout knowing that a goal would secure the trophy for the Spanish side, having seen Gianluca Mancini and Roger Ibanez miss before him. The Argentine's terrible effort was saved by Rui Patricio, seemingly giving Roma a chance, but referee Anthony Taylor ordered it to be retaken because the goalkeeper stepped off of his line, and Montiel did not make the same mistake twice.

After a slow start to the match for both sides, Paulo Dybala raced onto an excellent through ball from Mancini and slotted it beyond Bono to give Roma the lead. Sevilla had a bright start to the second half, though, and pulled level when Jesus Navas' cross caught out Mancini and the defender ended up knocking it into the net from close range.

It turned into a scrappy affair full of yellow cards as referee Taylor was repeatedly surrounded by players. Two penalty claims were denied by the officials in the second half to keep the score level and eventually take the tie to extra-time and the shootout.

THE MVP: Sevilla goalkeeper Bono pulled off a fantastic and crucial save that denied Andrea Belotti in the late stages of the game. The striker just got a toe to the ball to divert it towards the Sevilla goal and had it made its way in, it would have been the winner, but Bono managed to force it wide and keep his team in the contest. The Morocco international then did his job in the penalty shootout, blocking Mancini's effort to help Sevilla take control.

THE BIG LOSER: Roma defender Mancini had a fantastic start to the game with a lovely pass to send Dybala through to open the scoring. Sadly, the defender's performance took a turn for the worse when he knocked the equaliser into the Roma net. As if that wasn't bad enough, he put his team under pressure with his awful penalty that was saved by Bono before Ibanez then hit the post to essentially hand Sevilla the win.

WHAT NEXT? Roma will finish the Serie A season with a game against Spezia on Sunday, while Sevilla - who have now qualified for next season's Champions League - meet Real Sociedad in La Liga.