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Three Strategies Ultra-Successful Traders Use

• Do business in a new way: A very small minority of entrepreneurs in a typical community are bartering, which puts you in the rare company of those doing business in a new way.
  
• Buy low: Every time you barter you are effectively "buying low," because you're doing so at your barter cost. Accountants refer to this as buying at a variable cost, the amount derived by subtracting the fixed cost of doing business.
  
  (Because barter business is incremental extra business, fixed costs are not a part of that additional business. In other words, if you never bartered those fixed costs would still have to be handled.)
  
• Thrive on deals: Doing profitable barter deals is exhilarating. All prosperous mega-traders know, and relish, the incredible feeling when a successful deal has been concluded. That's what drives us and is most exciting about trading.

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