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「人生就像一碗飯，一半是甜的，一半是苦的，

你不知道會先吃到哪一邊，但終究必須把飯吃完。」

生命有甜、有苦、有酸、也有辣；

但都必須去經歷它、走過它呀！

有一個小學老師在偏遠的鄉里教書，

這天，他來到自己班上的教室，

問班上的小朋友：「你們大家有沒有討厭的人啊」

小朋友們想了想，有的未作聲，有的則猛力地點點頭。

老師接著便發給每人一個袋子，說：

「我們來玩一個遊戲。現在大家想想看，過去這一週，

曾有那些人得罪過你他到底做了怎麼樣可惡的事想到後，

就利用放學時間到河邊去找一塊石頭，

把他的名字給用小紙條貼在石頭上如果他實在很過份，

你就找一塊大一點的石頭，如果他的錯是小錯，

你就找一塊小一點的石頭。

每天把戰利品用袋子裝到學校來給老師看哦！」

學生們感到非常有趣且新鮮，

放學後，每個人都搶著到河邊去找石頭。

第二天一早， 大家都把裝著從河邊撿來的鵝卵石的袋子帶到學校來，

興高采烈地討論著。

一天過去了，兩天過去了，三天過去了….. ，

有的人的袋子越裝越大，幾乎成了負擔。

終於，有人提出了抗議「老師，好累喔」老師笑了笑沒說話，

立刻又有人接著喊：

「對啊每天背著這些石頭來上課，好累喔」

這時，老師終於開口了，

她笑著說：「那就放下這些代表著別人過犯的石頭吧」

孩子們有些訝異，老師又接著講：「學習寬恕別人的過犯，

不要把它當寶一樣的記在心上，扛在肩上， 時間久了，任誰也受不了…」

這個星期，這班的同學上到了人生中極寶貴的一課。

袋裡裝入越多、越大的「石頭」，心中存留越多、越深的仇恨，

所造成的負擔就越重。 假如你有寫上我名字的石頭

你知怎樣做…感謝諸佛菩薩

有一句名諺：

「寬恕人的過失，便是自己的榮耀。」

懂得「放下」，何等自在。

相愛容易相處難，婚姻與戀愛最大的不同，

就是「戀愛看的是對方的優點」，

而「婚姻卻是要包容對方的缺點」。

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It’s been another profitable week as the markets danced around enough to hit at least one trailing trigger…

VALERO ENERGY (VLO) PLUNGED TUESDAY LAUNCHING OUR BRAND NEW JUNE 47.50 PUTS TO A LIGHTENING-LIKE ONE-DAY TWENTY-NINE PERCENT PROFIT!

This most recent win on Valero is our fifth in a row without any losses. As great as that is our new DELL play went in the exact opposite direction we planned–but we did manage to pick up some new puts at Friday’s opening spike that are already profitable.

The markets have recovered much of the big plunge from two weeks ago so are we poised to continue higher or is this just a sucker punch before the next fall? To help find out let’s take a good look at…

WHICH WAY THIS MARKET IS HEADED

As you can see the SPX rallied everyday this past week regaining much of what was lost the week before. The problem from a charting standpoint is we are now touching right up against old support/new resistance—this is an area where stocks like to rollover and there is a decent chance we could see that this coming week. Once that trend is confirmed the wide spread recognition of the pattern will accelerate the breakdown.

The S&P is controlled by its three largest sectors—financials, energy and technology. Even though techs have been bullish recently they are not strong enough to rescue the S&P if oil rolls over. Financials are already in sell mode so 2 of 3 major sectors makes a majority and the S&P should decline on falling energy.

The greatest probability is for a fall this coming week but if the S&P breaks above the uptrend line above—currently at 1420—then we’re heading higher. Any breakdown from here is VERY bearish and a failure at 1375 would be the critical confirmation point toward a new leg lower.

The Nasdaq declined from 2551 to 2430 in the days following option expiration for a drop of -121 points. Unlike the Dow the Nasdaq rebounded +92 points to close at 2522 on Friday. Tech stocks, primarily led by the chip sector are the leading the rest of the markets higher which is unusual for this time of year and suggests a longer-term bullish bias toward techs specifically and the Nasdaq in general.

The economic news this past week was mixed. The last reading on Consumer Sentiment for May was revised slightly from 59.5 to 59.8 but it was still at a 28-year low. Inflation expectations continued to rise with one-year inflation expectations now at 5.2% and five-year inflation expectations at 3.4%—the highest levels since 1996.

On the plus side the Chicago PMI came in at 49.1–well over consensus of 48.5. Moody’s Economy.com was predicting 47.5 and a retracement of gains made over the last two months but the PMI surprised analysts with a four-month high. Anything under 50 is still in contraction territory but conditions are definitely improving, however this is the first time the PMI has been under 50 for four months since the 2001 recession.

New orders rose from 53.0 to 56.1 and backorders rose from 39.5 to 46.8. The employment index jumped from 35.2 to 41.2. On the downside the prices paid rose +4.6 to 87.5 and the highest level since June 2006. This inflation is slowly filtering into consumer prices and it will be a problem for the Fed. Every time these inflationary figures are released traders get further confirmation that the next move by the Fed will be up not down—even if that is several months away it’s still a concern.

On the personal consumption front purchases of high dollar items like large flat screen TVs have slowed significantly. Real durable goods spending has risen only once in the last seven months and has fallen -3.6% over that period. Income has slowed as the job market weakens and consumers can no longer fall back on their home equity to make ends meet.

We’re beginning to see the stress on the consumer in obscure news reports here and there. For example the CEO of Public Service Electric and Gas (PEG) reported on Friday that disconnects for non-payment of utility bills have risen sharply and payment delays are becoming alarmingly prevalent. When consumers can’t pay their utility bills they are definitely in trouble. The CEO also said he wanted to hike natural gas prices 20% starting in October to cover the increased cost. Prices have risen from $7 to $11-$13 during heating season. The average customer bill would rise +$28.60 per month which would only exaggerate the budget stress consumers are feeling.

Next week the economic calendar begins with the May ISM Index on Monday and expectations are for another month in contraction territory at 48.5. That would be flat with the 48.6 seen in April. Some analysts are expecting a further decline to something in the 47.0 range. If the ISM remains in the current range that would mean the low of 48.3 back in February is still intact indicating we may have hit bottom. In April the new orders were unchanged at 46.5—its lowest level since the 2001 recession. This will be the number to watch on Monday’s report.

The biggest report for the week is the Non-Farm Payrolls on Friday. Expectations are for a loss of 60,000 jobs. After three months of job losses over 75,000 per month we saw a relatively minor 20,000 loss in April. If jobs remain negative along with the ISM then the Fed will likely remain on the sidelines with no increase in rates when they meet in three weeks on June 24th.

There is almost no chance of another rate cut between what the Fed has already telegraphed and the increasingly serious inflation numbers—all the markets can hope for at this point is a steady rate policy until autumn at the earliest—and that is probably what will happen.

The sectors fairing the worst in May were the airlines at -18% thanks to $130 oil, while banks also lost traction and fell -8% along with a 5% decline in housing. Banks declined on fears that the Fed would be raising rates soon and on worries about the growing borrowings at the Fed’s discount window.

Borrowing on Wednesday hit $19.04 billion and average daily borrowings by banks rose to $15.95 billion and a new cycle high. This suggests the banking sector is still under a great deal of stress since borrowing at the discount window is considered a last resort. Borrowings by primary dealers averaged another $12.33 billion per day. Fed regulators closed a failed Minnesota bank called First Integrity and the FDIC was appointed as receiver. The bank was small with only $54 million in assets and $50 million in deposits but it underscored the worry about other failures to come. This was the 4th bank to fail in recent weeks. These worries have prompted a sell-off in financials after the Fed backed rally lost steam.

Oil has been selling off of its 135 intraday high over the past few days but support at $125 appears to have held–and with hurricane season officially starting today its doubtful prices will fall much further. Hurricane forecasters are predicting 9 hurricanes and odds are good at least one will be in the Gulf. If it happened to head for the oil patch we could easily see $135-$150 oil very quickly and although those prices will help the energy sector they will hurt everything else. Time to start shopping for that little four-banger to get you around town—or maybe a bicycle the way things are going.

By the way tropical storm Arthur formed off the coast of Belize on Friday and appears headed to the Mexican side of the Gulf this week. Expect oil speculation to ignite very soon.

The bottom line is there are still plenty of economic concerns out there and a recession may be hard to avoid especially if the high cost of oil continues to drag the rest of the economy lower. Transportation costs are a huge part of commerce and if you’ve tried to have anything shipped lately it’s a real eye-opener. You take everything together and the only thing holding the US markets up right now are burgeoning over-seas economies fueling our big multi-nationals—let’s hope those countries don’t take a rest!

So we’ve got manufacturing in contraction, consumerism at a multi-year low, oil temporarily pulled back into launching position and a market that has actually traded higher for the past four days in a row—the question is…

HOW DO WE MAKE MONEY ON IT?

We’ve got two high-potential plays lined up this week—one bullish and the other bearish.

Our first play is bullish and it’s in the one sector that has been consistently trending higher the entire year—energy. This particular stock is the leader in a certain sector of energy that has been on fire lately with demand rocketing from markets all over the world. On top of some amazingly compelling fundamentals—like a doubling of earnings projected for 2008—the stock has just set us up with a super high potential bullish pattern—one we’ll be buying calls on first thing Monday morning!

Our next play is bearish and it’s on an index that has the weakest chart of every major index out there. This one is absolutely ripe for a rollover and by the looks of things our timing couldn’t be better. The really good news is just a tiny percentage downward move on this one will add some super profits to our bearish position—a position we’ll be getting on board immediately!

To your continual success!

Andy Huang

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Today I will be sharing my strategies to grow and automate my SFI business to help all of my team members to do exactly the same.

The setup instruction are outlined in 3 easy steps you can do. But first, you must be an SFI affiliate. So if you havent join SFI, you can do so join here. Its free.

Let me share with you how I brought in over 805 affiliates all on Autopilot.

Below is a screen shot of my SFI account

Step 1, lets configure the autoresponder system to put your business on Auto Pilot.

I can’t stress enough the importance of following up with SFI signups. I would imagine that my business would be nowhere near as successful as it has been were it not for following up using my various autoresponders. What’s more it is now totally on AUTO-PILOT!

Below I will show you how to upload the followups from my personal autoresponder into your own. Then I will explain how to customise these messages with your own personal and affiliate info so that they look like your own and more importantly you get any credit for sales made from them. The affiliate info included will be your Plug In Profit Site, SFI, and Traffic Swarm.

These messages will also go a long way to supporting and encouraging your personal affiliates to upgrade their SFI accounts.

Bookmark this page (Press Ctrl + D on your keypad) and pass it on to all your affiliates. The more this process is duplicated the better for us all.

Below I will outline a step by step process for implimenting the steps above. You must have a Getresponse Pro account to do this. If you don’t already have a Getresponse account then you can get one here.

If you already have a Getresponse account then read on:You will need to set up a new responder at your Getresponse account. To set up a new responder log into your