Hi everyone! Hope you all manage to get through Friday the 13th in one piece and enjoy your weekend without anything too serious going wrong for you! Anyway, as promised yesterday I have an interview with a representative of one of the most highly anticipated HYIPs of recent months and a program with an ever growing legion of admirers. It’s called Flamanta and since opening its doors to the online investment community almost a month ago it has impressed just about everyone to have dealt with them. After a low key start Flamanta are doing a lot of good work establishing themselves as a leading long term HYIP, a section of the industry traditionally very difficult to break into.

Of course for reasons we don’t need to go into again here it’s also a section of the industry that’s currently wide open for new high quality programs like Flamanta to really set themselves up and dominate for months to come. Provided they are motivated and organized enough to to do so. Do Flamanta fit that description? They just might, but read for yourself and see what you think.

Before you do however let me give a brief reminder that Flamanta is a long term low ROI investment project that offers terms of 1.72%-1.78% for 150 business days, 1.84% for 160 business days, and 1.92% for 180 business days. For further information on how it all works please refer back to my original review published here. Flamanta can also be discussed on the MNO forum here.

“1. Hi Ronald, please start by introducing yourself to the readers of MNO and telling us a bit first about your own role in Flamanta and then about your background in the field of online investments. What kind of previous experience do you have in managing funds?

Hi to all the readers of MNO and to all investors. We’re happy to answer the questions that are of great interest to investors, as the Flamanta Company strives to make investing in High Frequency Trading (HFT) more popular. According to analysts of such major companies as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Getco and others, today HFT brings the most profit to financial companies if compared with investment business on the stock and Forex markets.

I’m Ronald Branson and I’m a PR and marketing manager of Flamanta. I’m not an admin of the website flamanta.com, I’m engaged in creating and maintaining a positive image of the Flamanta Company on the global market.

In another interview I told how I became a member of Flamanta team. It happened due to my acquaintance with one of the employees in Forbes editorial. During my interview I suggested to make HFT popular, so that people could learn more about these technologies and would search for companies offering investment services in the sphere of HFT. To cut it short, I promised to rush the HFT article into print in Forbes, and Flamanta founder Frank Trump came with a counter-promise to hire me. In a few weeks, the article appeared in the latest issue of Forbes magazine and I joined the Flamanta management team, and I’m really proud of it as I didn’t expect our company to develop so rapidly.

2. Can you also tell us a bit more about Flamanta itself? How long have you been in business? Tell us about the other people involved with the project? Why did you start the program to begin with?

Flamanta is an investment project of Dixoman Trading, established in 2009 by Frank Trump and Lewis Rooney for attracting capital in their investment business, which operates on the basis of High Frequency Trading technologies. This spring we launched the online project and therefore created a platform for raising funds from investors.

The strategy of our company proceeds on the basis that HFT technologies require high turnover. As we had no big initial capital, we created the business strategy, according to which we would give 95% of profit to our investors within the first 2-3 years. We do not refund deposits, but we pay high profits instead. It is done to accumulate the funds of investors by increasing our working capital. In other words, we almost refuse profit in order to gather more funds for 2-3 years and then we will pay off our investors and manage big funds or will continue our online business if it generates considerable returns. As for now, we’re more inclined to follow the second variant.

To learn more about HFT and how Flamanta makes money with it you can read either in Wikipedia or on our site by following the links:
https://www.flamanta.com/model.php
https://www.flamanta.com/business.php

Study the information about HFT and Flamanta Company and then you’ll see that we’re engaged in a very promising business.

3. Please explain the various investment funds to us. Just the most basic info will do here. What are the minimum and maximum amounts accepted into each plan? What rates of interest do you offer and how long do they run for?

As of today the company provides an opportunity to invest e-currency in 4 investment funds that come with different asset structures, investment periods and yields. All assets in all funds are managed on the base of High Frequency Trading technology. Flamanta traders buy millions of insignificant companies’ shares and then sell them. All these operations are carried out several times a second, so our traders react much faster to price changes for the same stocks offered for sale in larger packages if compared with other traders, who do not use HFT technologies. Each Flamanta fund comes with different HFT algorithms and different portfolio structures and, as a result, all 4 funds give different yields.

FTBS Investment Fund
Payment of profit: 1.72% (daily)
Payment schedule of profit: 5 / 2
The amount of investment: from $10
Investment period: 150 days
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FBHS Investment Fund
Payment of profit: 1.78% (daily)
Payment schedule of profit: 5 / 2
The amount of investment: from $600
Investment period: 150 days
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FFTC Investment Fund
Payment of profit: 1.84% (daily)
Payment schedule of profit: 5 / 2
The amount of investment: from $1800
Investment period : 160 days
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FFET Investment Fund
Payment of profit: 1.92% (daily)
Payment schedule of profit: 5 / 2
The amount of investment: from $5600
Investment period: 180 days

4. Can you now give us more detailed information on the background to each individual fund? What are the various portfolios you are re-investing your members money with? Why do they all carry different price tags? Can investors independently verify and track the performance of these portfolios?

Information about the management strategy of each fund does exist and can be found in the fund description. We provide brief data describing the main details in the management strategy of the fund. Read the descriptions of our funds on our website.

5. I said in my original review of Flamanta that many online investors may be put off by the lack of choice when it comes to payment processors, particularly bigger US and Canadian based investors who will only invest larger amounts through processors with a verification process. How do you respond? Is there something preventing you from adding one?

Of course, there’ll be more payment processors over time. We started working with established payment processors trusted by investors, as evidenced by our market research. The payment processors we’re working with allow conducting investment transactions faster and without any bureaucratic problems, therefore we think the investors can be satisfied with the selection of methods to fund their accounts.

6. How highly would you rate the security of your own website? Tell us about your hosting provider and how highly would you rate them as a service provider?

Our hosting provider is Dragonara.net. We are confident in this company and so far satisfied with its services. I heard that Dragonara provided web hosting and DDoS protection to many financial companies, banks and Internet services, and so we are confident that they know their business and will remain a faithful partner for us.

7. What about your script? Is it a custom design made especially for you? Who is the provider? What do you think the benefits of this script are to both the admin and the investors? Are you using SSL encryption?

We use a unique script on our site that was specially ordered in one of the US agencies. As for design, it was ordered in the European agency that participated in the development of design products for the Olympic Games in Athens. We invested several tens of thousands of dollars in our startup and when we actually started we were very pleased to get positive feedbacks about Flamanta design and the service in general.

Our script is very convenient when it comes to project management and it’s convenient for investors as well. We regularly get their positive feedbacks. As for SSL encryption, by all means we use this technology. We couldn’t afford to let ourselves save money on the safety of our clients.

8. What kind of customer support do you offer? What is the best and most efficient way to contact you if I have any questions? Tell us in particular about your telephone support. If I call you will I find an actual Flamanta representative on the line?

Well, you’d better turn to the online chat on our site. We operate online, so the best way to contact us is to contact us online. As for phone support, our consultant answered people’s questions within the first week. However, we came to conclusion that too many people turned with the same questions and now phone support functions as the answering machine. Anyway, we carefully listen to all questions and try to contact those investors, whose question requires a live reply. We also have e-mail support for our clients.

Dear investors, we always try to be there for you and answer all your questions. Contact us and we will surely turn our attention to your question.

9. What have been the most common questions, problems, or other support related issues that you have had to deal with so far? Is there anything you would like to address here so that members can avoid having to contact you?

Yes, such questions do exist. People commonly ask why our investment project is called Flamanta and the company, on behalf of which we run the business, is called Dixoman Trading. Oddly enough, it’s a very common occurrence when a legal name of the company differs from the project name on the market. Dixoman Trading has all the rights to the brand Flamanta, and runs its business in accordance with the laws of Cyprus.

There are also many questions about the history of our company and how we make money. At this point I’d like to recommend reading “HFT business model” and “Our business” sections on our site.

10. Tell us more about the general advertising and promotional strategies being used by Flamanta. In a very competitive market what are you doing to bring Flamanta to a wider investment audience?

Our company shares the opinion that it’s no way to lead people by the hand. People understand clearly where it’s profitable to invest to and where it’s not. Those, who gave themselves the trouble to read about High Frequency Trading technologies, don’t need banners and other adverting tools, as they will soon probably become our clients by realizing the fact that now it is the right time for HFT and probably in several years this business won’t generate so much money as we get now. So, the faster investors realize how promising HFT technologies can be, the more they can earn.

So, I may draw a conclusion that we do not advertise our company, we advertise HFT technologies, about which you may read in Wikipedia, SmartMoney, Forbes and other business magazines that highlight trading technologies. Today we’re the only company on the Internet that offers trust management services by investing investor capital in HFT business. Getco is a leading offline company engaged in HFT, as for online sphere, the major and the only investment company engaged in HFT is Flamanta.

11. Do you have any opinions on the current crisis in the online investments industry? What do you think lead up to it and would you have any suggestions as to how the situation could be improved? What are you doing that’s any different in order to earn the trust of the online investments community?

Our company is so young yet and it’s too early to speak about the crisis. Those several months, during which we’ve been operating, speak about the growth in the number of clients rather than the crisis. I looked through your blog and noticed that there became fewer ads, maybe it’s due to the crisis though we notice nothing of that kind. My experience leads me to conclude that slowdown in business always occurs in summer. If you noticed some crisis, take the factor of seasonality into account.

12. Can you explain to readers about your registration in Cyprus? What does the process involve and does it give you any sort of license to carry out your activities?

There’s nothing to explain here, everything seems quite clear. Our company is registered in Cyprus, you can prove this information on our site http://www.drcor.mcit.gov.cy/portal/page/portal/Eforos/dttSearch_en
Having several private offices in New York and Chicago, we run our business in the USA, so we need no Cypriot licenses. The Cyprus company is a legal entity owning the brand of Flamanta and representing the interests of our investment company.

Perhaps someone may think that an investment company always implies a big office placed on several floors in a business center, a lot of people, etc. Keep assured, it’s a mistake. When it comes to the company engaged in HFT business, the picture of our activities is quite different. In Chicago and New York we rent a few small premises located near the NYSE and CHX. These premises contain racks with servers controlled by our traders and managers in other offices. Our business is hidden from prying eyes, that’s why we contact our clients via the Internet.

13. Are there any plans to develop Flamanta further in the near future? Will there be any interesting changes made soon? How are you planning to keep the program competitive with so many good long term HYIPs coming online recently?

In the context of leading business on the Internet, we plan to significantly increase our client base, perhaps we will introduce new funds and open new regional offices in Europe and Asia. In the context of business organization, now we’re negotiating the purchase of a small investment company in Hong Kong. This company has an office just near the HKSE, where we could place our servers for conducting HFT business. Asia is a strategically interesting region and we would like to have a part of our business there.

Speaking about our relationships with clients, we hope that partner relations with thousands of established clients will be strengthened and new clients will opt for Flamanta when considering investment programs, as Flamanta gives the opportunity to get profit not just for us, but for our investors as well.”

Thanks a lot to Ronald for that and I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot more from him and the Flamanta team for some time to come. The industry could certainly do with a program like this so in everybody’s best interests let’s hope it gets the success it so obviously deserves. And while I have to advise caution at all times when handling money over the net because all I can honestly assess here is potential, Flamanta does look like it could gradually grow into something much bigger and much stronger and be as good as anything new we’ve seen in recent months.

That’s about it for now everyone. Hopefully you’ll survive the rest of this Friday the 13th and enjoy the coming weekend! But don’t forget to check out MNO again tomorrow for all the latest news updates from around the industry, so see you all then!

BEWARE! THIS PROGRAM HAS STOPPED PAYING! PLEASE DO NOT INVEST!

Hi everyone! For the first post of the new week I’m pleased to have an interview with the admin of BullInvest, which is a new long term HYI program added to my monitoring page just under two weeks ago and reviewed here. His name is Jason and his customer services partner is Deborah and together they have been doing quite a professional job of running BullInvest. It’s still a relatively young program so early days yet, but based on my own experience there’s no problems worth repeating and the payments have been, in a word, flawless.

BullInvest still have a long way to go before they establish themselves as major industry players of course but a good start as they say is half the battle. So let’s hope Jason and his team carry on as they have started and become a popular choice among investors over the coming months.

“1. Hi Jason, please introduce yourself to the readers of MNO and tell us about your own role within BullInvest. What are your own duties within the program? How would you describe a typical working day for you as an admin of an online investment project?

Hello Paul, members and prospective members. My name is Jason and I’m the Vice President and I.T. director of The Bull Investment Firm LTD. You might call me the liaison between corporate and our online investors. What I mean by that is that the bulk of the activity (Trading etc…) is handled by corporate. My duties mainly consist of payments, coordinating the customer service team (along with Deborah) and handling any administrative duties associated with the website and our online presence directly.

2. Can you also give us some background on the program? How long have you been running? What were you hoping to achieve by starting it in the first place? Apart from you is there anybody else working on BullInvest?

The online presence of The Bull Investment firm was officially launched on July 13th of this year. I must admin Paul that launching a website to attract investors certainly wasn’t something that was an easy sell to our board of directors. As I’ve stated in previous emails, the idea to bring our business online was mine and over a number of years I’ve been lobbying for this move to be made and it finally was.

I believe that we are entering into a new era of online investing and while some may remark that they peak of online investing has passed I’d like to submit that change is all for the good.

The public is no longer naive to the ploys of those that wish to deceive others. Our strength will shine through as we continue day after day and month after month to produce a steady and reasonable return for our clients with a very minimal risk.

3. What about the investment plans? Can you explain them in detail to us? What are the minimum and maximum amounts for investment, what rates of interest are on offer and how long do they run for?

The Bull Investment Firm offers 5 plans each with varying degrees of profit based upon deposit amounts. They are as follows:

For deposits of $10.00 – $999.00 you will earn a varying percentage between 1.3%-1.7% daily on trading days only running for 130 trading days. For all of the plans that we offer we will return your principal deposit upon its completion.

For deposits of $1000-$2999 you will earn between 1.71%-1.89% daily for 150 days.

For deposits of $3000-$5999 you will earn 1.9% daily for 150 days

For deposits of $6,000.00 – $9,999.00 you will earn 2.1% daily for 180 days

For deposits of $10,000-$100,000 you will earn 2.4% daily for 180 days.

4. Tell us about the payment options available from BullInvest. What payment processors are you currently dealing with?

We are currently working with Alertpay, Liberty Reserve, Perfect Money and NEW Strictpay funds. That means funds that can be withdrawn. We are not accepting old Strictpay funds because they are all but worthless at this point.

5. How highly would you rate the security of your own website? Tell us about your hosting provider and how highly would you rate them as a service provider?

Our entire platform from development to launch day was designed with security being our main focus. We use a script that was custom made and then tailored to The Bull Investment Firm. There are no back doors and no one in the past nor the future will ever use this script other than The Bull Investment Firm.

All financial transactions within the site require a transaction code. All passwords and account numbers are encrypted to ensure that hackers cannot access sensitive data from within our database.

We employ a 256 bit Secure Socket Layer encryption for all transactions that are made through our site. In addition we are hosted on what I would consider to be the best host on the market today which is KoDDos. We are fully Ddos protected from all attacks large or small. As you can see we have had 100% uptime since our launch.

6. What about your script? Am I right in saying that it’s been custom made for you? What do you think the benefits of this script are to both the admin and the investors? Are you using SSL encryption?

Yes the script is 100% custom made by our in house programming department. It has been custom fit and tailored specifically for The Bull Investment Firm.

The benefits of this aside from complete customization are the obvious security features of not having a mass reproduced script full of back doors.

On our end we are able to employ custom made cheating software as well as very easily add any features that we find are needed along the way. An example of this is the quickness with which we were able to add the reinvesting from balance feature.

7. What kind of customer support do you offer? What is the best and most efficient way to contact you if I have any questions?

Deborah Billingham is our customer support manager and she would be the one most qualified to answer this so let me pass this question to her:

Hello members, my name is Deborah Billingham and I’m the Customer Service Manager/Director for The Bull Investment Firm LTD. We offer two types of support.

The first is our traditional ticketing support which goes directly to myself or a member of my staff 24 hours a day 7 days a week. In addition we also offer live support by appointment.

Our staff is advised to be logged into our live support suite as much as possible but we maintain no specific hours due to the hectic nature of our business. I’d like to advise everyone to utilize our live chat feature when available because it is the quickest and most efficient way of solving any issues. For all other matters please direct them to our support ticketing department and they will be handled in short order.

8. What have been the most common questions, problems, or other support related issues that you have had to deal with so far? Is there anything you would like to address here so that members can avoid having to contact you?

Until now we have seen very few support requests that couldn’t be handled in a relatively quick manner. Things such as lost pin codes seem to be our most frequent.
We are also frequented by the due diligence seeker who is simply mailing us to ensure that we are a real company and will be there when they need us. Which of course we do not mind at all.

9. What other outside business and investment activities are BullInvest involved with? Are you doing anything more constructive with your member’s money or are you?

I will take this directly from my letter to the members which is published on the our company page of our site. The exact investment strategies (techniques) that we use are proprietary and are not shared outside of our company. However as a general rule we diversify all funds with a 50-30-20 split. This means that 50% of funds are invested in precious metals (Gold, Platinum), 30% is invested in the US Stock Market and 20% is traded on the Forex Market.

We have diversified our clients in this way with the bulk of each investment going into precious metals because over the long term they have always shown to be the most stable and secure. In addition if we do find that a particular nations currency is being devalued we can always fall back on Gold, Silver and Platinum as a safe haven. The US stock market is slightly riskier in our opinion than the metals market due to the high reliance on fundamentals that many stocks are prone to.

Market sentiment is always a factor. Yet, with good analysis comes very good profit for our organization. For these reasons we have decided to allocate 30% of our clients funds here. Our riskiest investment yet our most profitable is the Forex or Foreign Exchange market which is the exchanging of one currency for another in real time based upon the fluctuating rates of the week. This is the most profitable market due to its large liquidity and 24/5 trading schedule. There are many strategies that we employ depending upon the volatility of the day or week. Much more technical analysis is employed here and we have a dedicated team of 3 traders who specialize in the Forex market exclusively.

10. Tell us more about the general advertising and promotional strategies being used by BullInvest. In a very competitive market what are you doing to bring BullInvest to a wider investment audience?

This is where we seem to run into a bit of a snag at times. Originally it was brought to our attention that traditional methods of advertising (banners, Monitors etc..) were the way to go. In the current climate we are finding that only a very small handful of monitors were worth the funds used to pay for them. Let me stress though that members funds WERE NOT used to pay for monitors or banners to advertise The Bull Investment firm LTD. This was a company budget that was set aside prior to our launch to ensure the financial stability of the site and not put any undue stress upon the cashflow.

11. Are there any plans to develop BullInvest further in the near future? Will there be any interesting changes made soon? How are you planning to keep the program competitive with so many new HYIPs opening every day?

We are always making plans for a bigger and brighter future for our clients. We are currently in talks with a production company to produce a promotion video for The BullInvest LTD.

As of yet we have not come to any sort of agreement but we hope to reach one relatively soon. As a company and as a firm with a significant online presence we are happy to take any and all suggestions or concerns into consideration.

12. And finally is there anything else you wish to say not covered in this interview? If there was just one thing you could say to investors to get them to join your program before any other then what would it be?

Paul, there comes a time when words in themselves leave something to be desired. With the amount of hot air that is constantly circulating around the online world of investing its clear to me that anything I say is bound to fall upon deaf ears. So I prefer to let my actions and the actions of our organization do the speaking for us.

So let me just welcome you to The Bull Investment Firm and pledge our utmost support and consideration to ensure that your experience with us is up to the highest standards. Our team of specialists is here to serve you 24 hours a day. Should there be anything we can do to serve you better please do not hesitate to call upon us.”

That’s it for today guys, except to wish Jason and all the BullInvest members the very best of luck and hopefully the program will eventually grow into a popular and dependable money making website. Fingers crossed anyway! I’ll be back tomorrow (from a new location by the way, I’m going on my summer vacation!) with all the latest news and views from the HYIP industry so make sure and check back then and see you all tomorrow!