Hi,
If you are looking for successful home based online business, try nothing other than Paid surveys. This will help  you both earn some money and also will let you to know more about home bizy. After wards you can go for freelancing carrier. There are many companies on the website engaged in freelancing business. You don’t need to pay anything for this. All these programs are free and takes nothing to join.
There are many other programs like get paid to search, get paid to read emails etc but I don’t thing any of these programs is as promisable as above to. You might would be interested in Forex trading but sorry brother I don’t have any information regarding that. However, you may ask others for this.
You can visit  http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/onbu6193  to check all the free home business money making programs.Do ask me if you need any help.