Are there really legal High yield investment programs around? We are too used to seeing scams all around us in the internet. This caused many to have an impression that HYIPs are illegal.

There are in fact legal HYIPs that exist, offline as well as online. They are involve in real investments and have a much lower ROI than most scams that operate on a ponzi scheme.

The real HYIPs are only legal if you declare your earnings from them on your tax form. You can even put your losses.

Note that HYIP that operate on a ponzi scheme is illegal.

The problem is that some legal HYIPs might turn into partly ponzi. They started doing real trading but somewhere down the line they got involve in part-ponzi. Why it happens? Doing part-ponzi can save time in transfering funds in and out of their trading system.

This usually happens when traders do not have an efficient administration system to run their funds transfer. Using the new members' money to pay the old members will fasten the operation.

So where do you draw the line?

A good legal HYIP will have two separate team. A team of traders and a team of administrators. Some have a third team which is the marketing team. The larger the pool of money these legal HYIP gathers, the better the deals they can get in the market.

Remember, HYIP do not guarantee profits every month. However, some legal HYIP can still afford to give profits every month. The result is simple. Some legal HYIP claim to offer 10% return for the month but in fact they made much more than 10%. They stored the extra money as funds/reserves for the bad months.

Do your research well and you can find some really good legal HYIPs.