Writing a blog about online investing is something of a two-edged sword. Like many others who make recommendations I try to validate any programme that I write about. In this way I hope that others who are either new to this form of investing or alternatively have some experience but haven't had much success will learn about ways to receive higher returns on their money.

Clearly, this form of investing does carry with it much higher degrees of risk and the potential for loss can be quite high.

Markets are tumbling across the world as problems unwind in the USA caused by the sub-prime mortgage market.

In my post The Ups and Downs of 2006 I reviewed where I was in relation to the investments that I was actively trading at that time. Now, at the end of the first quarter of 2007 I thought I'd do another quick review to see what progress, if any, has been made in the past three months.

Two blogs that I am a regular reader of are Dosh Dosh and Mike's Money Making Mission as I find both contain useful information to help those of us interested in making money online (especially through blogging).

The reason I'm mentioning the two blogs is that they've been running two articles that complement each other and therefore confirming the old adage 'Two Heads are better than One'.

Two weeks ago I mentioned that I subscribe to Early To Rise as a newsletter that provides a great deal of useful information when you are looking to improve your knowledge, health and wealth. As you can appreciate the articles that appear in the newsletter are written by many different people.

Like many people I have always been interested in online investing and as you will no doubt realise from reading this blog I've really only scratched the surface of what is out there. I've always thought it would be a great resource if someone could pull together the various opportunities out there and find a way to present them such that we, as potential investors, can make a more informed decision about whether to invest or not.

Having spent the last week on holiday I've had some time to reflect on just how fickle the world of online investing can be. I haven't had full access to the internet but even so I've learnt that several programs I'm involved with are finding it difficult to weather many of the challenges that they are encountering. As most of them are private the only one I can really reference is Fantastic Pay as they still have a relatively public profile.

Some while ago now I featured one of the daily newsletters I get, namely Early To Rise and it has reached a significant milestone so I felt that the time was right to mention it again. I originally came across it when I was looking to find a home study course I could do whilst working abroad. The course I chose was a copywriting one that is marketed by Agora Publishing with the course editor being Michael Masterson.