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  • The Best Time to Add Crypto Asset to Your Portfolio – BTC breaks $10,000

    The Best Time to Add Crypto Asset to Your Portfolio – BTC breaks $10,000

    The best time to add crypto in your portfolio
    A digital currency similar to bitcoin called crypto-asset could be a good pick to trade

    By Guy Avtalyon

    If you missed getting bitcoin, this is the best time to consider and add this crypto asset to your portfolio. This crypto asset has a  powerful recovery in 2019: Bitcoin.  We can see on the BTC charts and from the market, bitcoin is now one of the best assets since it recovered at $10,000 again in 2019. It happened last month and it looks like it will stay there or climb more. 

    Bitcoin grows approx 163% this year. Most importantly, this time the basics are different. 

    Can you see that frenetic fight among banks, technology, and financial companies? Everyone wants to develop the blockchain. 

    We already wrote about  Facebook, but there are more. Google, Square, Goldman Sacha are also the companies that invested in projects to provide a mass adoption of blockchain.

    Bitcoin’s new rally could be more powerful than ever. How is that possible? The crypto traders and investors already know what creating of own crypto may cause on the market. Twitter is on its way to include bitcoin and other cryptos into its payment, Square. It is the question of the moment. We will not wait so long to see that.

    Facebook announced its plans to introduce its own cryptocurrency, Libra. 

    Fidelity already offers to its traders to trade BTC. Amazon is very close to offering the same possibility but at the same time, they are developing their own crypt asset.

    Moreover, crypto asset-backed ETFs are preparing to enter the market. That will be a really new investment class.

    What is crypto-asset?

    It is a digital currency similar to bitcoin and based on blockchain technology. How things look now, it will enter a bull market. This new asset is getting strong popularity!

    This hype can be compared with the time of Internet adoption.

    In the beginning, it was treated as a fancy freak. Do you remember that time? Okay, someone can, but someone hadn’t been born in that time. The point is that the introduction of the Internet gave a chance to many companies to be created. For example, Google or Amazon, and many others came later. The mentioned companies are among the top market listed firms.

    And now, we are witnesses of the creation of the new crypto-assets based on blockchain technology.

    Maybe this is a chance for you to add crypto assets in your investment portfolio. Yes, the crypto market is volatile. But it is a chance for traders to make a profit.

    Bitcoin is a volatile investment, that the truth. From $20,000 in December 2017, it dropped at a bit above $3,500 next year. It was almost a $17,000 decrease. But this year Bitcoin is doing well. It recorded (and still do) steady climbing in value. Now it is traded around $10,000. Who didn’t sell bitcoin at $3,700 can make a nice profit now.

    How can you as ordinary investors get in on this the most profitable odds? How can you enter the crypto asset market?

    If this is an unknown field for you, you should find some guidance, you have to find some trusted expert to guide you through the market volatility to the possibilities.

    Why is this so important?

    Let’s say, you don’t have a lot of knowledge about crypto assets. So, how could you profit from them without that? You can find more than 2,000 assets in the market whose total value is about $250 billion.

    Which crypto asset to trade? How to pick?

    Wild value fluctuations happen and you may stay confused where to invest. Don’t worry, everything will be more clear very soon.

    The best part is that even the investors with most suspicious can see now that crypto is here to stay. It will not go anywhere or totally disappear. The technology behind digital assets is even more firm.

    Traders-Paradise wants to give a few examples of the crypto assets which you should buy.

    On the top is Bitcoin. BTC should be a central asset in your portfolio. If you still don’t hold it, it is the time to include this asset to generate really high profits because the prices will grow. So, the time to buy is NOW. 

    You have to pick the most future proof coin.  Some will tell you it is Binance Coin, issued by Binance exchange.  The price of BNB tokens will be a good test. Stay informed about it. 

    Some others will suggest it is NEO. It will finally expand to add other cryptos and fiat. It can be one of the most interesting and hopeful purchases. Or Stellar! The guarantee plus is a connection to IBM.  Further, Ethereum. You will never go wrong with Ethereum. And also, there are Litecoin, Dash, Ripple, Monero, Bitcoin cash, etc.

    Bottom line

    If they sound like investments you would like to have in your portfolio, what are you waiting for? 

    Never mind.

    You have to know that some of the biggest world companies are establishing blockchain. But the most important is that the number of companies is increasing. The power of crypto assets to make money is unquestionable. 

    Take your place on time.

     

  • Top Stocks to Buy And Hold Forever

    Top Stocks to Buy And Hold Forever

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    Top Stocks to buy 2019 and Hold Forever
    So many people asked us what are the top stocks to buy in 2019.

    It is on a daily base.

    So, we will try to answer. This to all of you want to know and don’t have time to evaluate them.
    We don’t want your one-time appearance here, we would like to build a real relationship and confidence.

    This the article for you who want to enter the stock market this year.

    Well, you know, Warren Buffett’s personal holding season is “forever” and look how is he.

    Having that on our minds, here’s a summary of 5 stocks to buy and hold forever.

    We understand, investing is difficult. Developing a portfolio of top stocks to buy is tricky even for economic experts.

    There are still stocks to buy, don’t be worried. Moreover, they can give you really nice returns.

    • Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

    Top Stocks to buy 2019 and Hold Forever 1Image Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) chart: source Yahoo Finance

    Everyone needs their products. They will forever have something to sell,  to us or the rest of the world. So why we, while buying their product, wouldn’t have an income?

    List of Johnson & Johnson brands is so long.

    J&J is a company with a long history.  All can identify their best brands. For example, Johnson’s Baby Shampoo or Baby Powder.

    It is founded the 1800s in New Jersey and since then Johnson & Johnson has extended its brands. Today,  you can find Johnson & Johnson brands all over the world. From your bathrooms to your doctor cabinet.

    The medicines, surgical products or healthcare solutions will never disappear. J&J has a really big portfolio.

    No one should think even a second when it comes to investing in such a company. They have products, for example, cancer drugs that will produce good growth now and in the future.

    The company is investing the robotic surgical opportunities gravely, in February announced that it’s buying robotic surgery firm Auris Health for $3.4 billion.

    J&J annual yield on the dividend is 2.60% and has an 8.46% gain per year.

    It is really among top stocks.

    • Boeing Company (BA)

    Top Stocks to buy 2019 and Hold Forever 2

    Image Boeing company chart: source Yahoo Finance

    This company had hard March this year. After the fatal crash of Ethiopian Airlines, its shares fell down.

    The company took the problems with their jet seriously and experts are working on new software.

    On the beginning of the March this year their shares were worth $446, but now they are about $400. The stock could jump when their 737 Max types are on the sky again.

    It is a very steady company. Their F-15 fighters are extremely valued.

    Boeing arranged a selling of those fighters with US Air Force over the next 5 years for $8 billion.

    The company raises the quarterly dividend yield for 2.6%.

    Boeing announced a quarterly dividend of $2.055 per share which is $8.22 per year. This is a 20.2% rise from the previous dividend of $1.71.

    The annual yield on the dividend is 2.6%.

    • Colgate-Palmolive (CL)

    Top Stocks to buy 2019 and Hold Forever 3

    Image Colgate-Palmolive chart: source Yahoo Finance

    Why do we add Colgate here while everyone knows that this company recorded some suspicious inclinations in spending? Yes, we know that shareholders didn’t like that. That’s is changed as the company decided to make an important decrease in the costs. The advantages of that effort could last decades.

    Their brands are among most buying products. For example, their toothpaste, or soap (of course Palmolive soaps), and manual toothbrush, and other pharmaceutical products for dentists.

    The company is selling its products in more than 200 countries. Colgate-Palmolive includes two product sections:

    ersonal, oral, and home care is one; and the second is pet nutrition.

    It is a leader in the global oral care market.

    Also, it is a leader in pet nutrition products for dogs and cats.

    They’re all made by Colgate-Palmolive Company.

    The company declared a dividend yield on 2.50% and the year-to-date gain of 16%.

    Well, some can say Colgate is high-risk stock but with the big potential returns.

    • Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG)

    Google

    Image Alphabet Inc. chart: source Yahoo Finance

    Alphabet Inc declared $12.77 per share for the last quartal.

    It looks that Alphabet is the revenue growth provider. Revenue grew 21.5% to $39.28 billion in the fourth quartal.

    It is for sure one of the stocks which you have to buy and hold forever.

    This tech titan is Google parent company.

    Alphabet Class A and C shares have grown 15.5% and 15.4%, over the one-year period April 18. The S&P 500, including dividends, is up 9.4% over the same time frame.

    Yes, the quarter’s reported earnings will be negatively influenced by a 1.5 billion euro (about $1.7 billion) penalty required by the European Commission in March.

    The European Commission claimed that Google demonstrated anticompetitive methods linked to deals it had with Adsense for Search associates.

    Well, the company is prepared to appeal, so investors may be sure that the penalty will be lower.

    Google’s revenue grew quick.

    The cost of sales would increase in the fourth quarter, forced by higher sales and projected content purchase costs at YouTube.

    There are also, Fiber high-speed internet industry, and its Verily life science.

    We all can see the changes because Alphabet’s self-driving vehicle tech branch Waymo recently start being monetized.

    • The Walt Disney Company (DIS)

    Disney

    Image The Walt Disney Company (DIS) chart: source Yahoo Finance

    Disney is the globe’s greatest media. They have movie studios, television networks.

    Assets controlled by Disney add Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, the ABC network, the Disney Channel.

    Disney is close to finalizing an arrangement to take 21st Century Fox. That will combine the 20th Century Fox film studio, National Geographic, and a mixture of other media assets. But not the Fox News.

    Disney has Disney Plus streaming service.

    In the first half of April,  it revealed the price, shows, and movies. Everything planned to overcome Netflix as a rival.

    In 2018, Disney launched ESPN+, their streaming service, and in the time frame of five months had more than a million subscribers.

    And don’t forget, Disney owns Hulu. Disney plans for its three platforms to be separate subscriptions, but it’s likely to connect them at a discount.

    In the moment of writing this article, we are two days out from the release of Avengers: Endgame.

    Predictions about how much money it will bring to Disney are fantastic.

    THR – the range of $200-$250 million.

    Deadline – passing $260 million, and maybe $300 million marks. ComicBook.com – prediction gathered from 3 analytics, $300 million.

    Impressive.

    Disney’s stock has jumped 13.6% in just five trading days in April. They will not look back now. Disney is a market sweetheart.

    Not bad for an old player.

    It is a good investment and one of the top stocks for sure.

    Don’t waste your money!

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  • Is Privacy Concern Behind Google+ Shutdown?

    Is Privacy Concern Behind Google+ Shutdown?

    Is Privacy Concern Behind Google+ Shutdown?

    By Guy Avtalyon

    This has already happened to social network users. Private data, which they thought were only private, became public.

    What happened with Google+?

    Google potentially exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network. But they opted not to disclose the issue this past spring. It was because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage.

    On Monday the Alphabet Inc. unit announced a sweeping set of data privacy measures that include permanently shutting down all consumer functionality of Google+. This is one of Google’s biggest failures and the final nail in the coffin of a product that was launched in 2011 to challenge Facebook Inc.

    A problem appeared

    A software glitch in the social network site gave outside developers potential access to private Google+ profile data between 2015 and March 2018.

    When internal investigators discovered the problem, allegedly they fixed it.

    According to some reports, a memo prepared by Google’s legal and policy staff and shared with senior executives warned that disclosing the incident would likely trigger “immediate regulatory interest” and invite comparisons to Facebook’s leak of user information to data firm Cambridge Analytica.

    Chief Executive Sundar Pichai was briefed on the plan not to notify users after an internal committee had reached that decision.

    Google is down

    In its announcement on Monday the 8th of October, the company said it is curtailing the access it gives outside developers to user data on Android smartphones and Gmail.

    This incident, which hasn’t been previously reported, shows an attempt to avoid public supervision of how Google+ handles user information. We are living in a time when regulators and consumer privacy groups are in charge to hold tech giants accountable for the vast power they wield over the personal data of billions of people.

    “Whenever user data may have been affected, we go beyond our legal requirements and apply several criteria focused on our users in determining whether to provide notice,” a Google spokesman said in a statement. The company considered “whether we could accurately identify the users to inform, whether there was any evidence of misuse and whether there were any actions a developer or user could take in response,” he said: “None of these thresholds were met here.”

    Allegedly truth is that the company has no evidence that any outside developers put to wrong use the data but acknowledges it has no way of knowing for sure. The profile data that was exposed didn’t include phone numbers, email messages, timeline posts, direct messages or any other type of communication data, but everything else was there, front and center in front of third-party eyes, full names, email addresses, birth dates, gender, profile photos, places lived occupation and relationship status. Information users may not want available to a third party.

    Google’s user data is available to outside developers through public channels, application programming interfaces, or APIs. These tools require a user’s permission to access any information, but they can be abused by app developers to gain access to sensitive personal data.

    Google inside

    Inside Google is formed task force named Project Strobe. The task for more than 100 engineers, product managers, and lawyers, is to conduct a companywide audit of the company’s APIs.

    The silver lining in this situation may be that similar potential data breaches will not be happening in the feature. As the destiny of Google+ social network is to join another shutdown Google service, such as the Wave, over the coming 10-months wind-down period.

    The moral of this

    But the moral of this, yet another of this kind, story is that the developers of the social networks are entrusted with large amounts of personal and sensitive data of their customers.  And as such should put more effort into protecting them.

    Otherwise, out of concern for both privacy and security, many customers may decide that avoiding the nefarious actions of some potential criminals is more important than any benefit the services of the social network provides.

    The decision which may very well hurt the bottom line or market capitalization of any social network developer more than any potential detrimental regulatory decision or penalty.