Dear Anxious Investor:
own 205 points one day...up 170 the next...flat the next...there’s never been such a jittery market quite like this. While most of the great stocks in our 2009 long-term portfolio are profitable, this market is enough to give everyone second thoughts.
Understandably, many of you are concerned about what to do now with your money.
As long-term investors, there’s no doubt that we’ll get through this. We’re well positioned to take advantage of long term trends. But, I know some of you are wondering if selling now might save you from another serious downturn? And you’re also wondering how you can generate the kind of 30%.... . 40%...even 100%-plus gains you might need to get your numbers back on track, and to move on to even higher totals?
Others who parked money on the sidelines before the financial chaos began, are now wondering if their nest egg is even safe in money markets or banks. Some of you are wondering if it’s time to sift through the rubble in search for the babies thrown out with the bath water, the oversold stocks that are almost certain to enjoy a dramatic, bungee-cord snap back?
Well, whatever you do, please resist the temptation to give in to anxiety and pessimism. Long-term our investments should generate nice returns. But, in the meantime, this market harbors opportunities for short-term profits that can help you begin to make back anything you may have lost.
Even though we’re long-term investors, I’m saying that the volatile market that’s resulted from the unprecedented financial crisis warrants an amended, more-opportunistic short-term strategy. This unsettled market is going to continue to bounce up and down like a bungee jumper who’s just plummeted off a bridge.
And that means, for the foreseeable future, stocks could go into free fall again, only to experience another sudden, dramatic, upward snap like a bungee jumper at the end of a dive. When stocks are in bungee-mode free fall, you need a strategy to take advantage of their inevitable upward snap.
These are historic times. There’s never ever been a mess quite like this before. And while I know it’s easy to give into pessimism and either run for the hills and sell, or to do nothing but just hope, I’d like to remind you what one great leader said in some past tough times…
We do indeed have calamity! After all, who, even a year ago, would ever have imagined the current plight of some of the world’s most venerable financial institutions?...
Bear Stearns… down the tubes!
Lehman Brothers… bankrupt!
Merrill Lynch… bought out for pennies on the dollar!
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae… now quasi-government agencies!
AIG… reduced to a mere skeleton!
Washington Mutual… RIP…
GM and Chrysler…bankrupt!
Last year the combined market cap of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Lehman Brothers was about $165 billion. Today? Almost nothing is left. Unbelievable!
The market volatility resulting from the banking crisis was mind-boggling. Down 504 points one day… up 145 the next… only to sell off 449 points the next and then bounce back by some 300 points.
Don’t kid yourself, despite the government intervention, the unprecedented volatility and uncertainty will continue for some time to come. And the doomsters are sill warning… “you ain’t seen nothing yet!”
They may be right. We could see another sell-off before there’s real stability. The question now is, are you focused on the negative, or will you seize the opportunity?
Hope is not a viable strategy!
I’m an optimist, not a pessimist. And while I still have complete confidence in the long-term ability of our great companies to generate profits and for their stocks to do well…I’m seeing real opportunity in this ongoing crisis. I simply can not resist some of these short-term opportunities.
As I said before:
I’d like to show you how you can capitalize on the market’s schizophrenic ways in the months ahead and to turn this crisis in one of the best profit opportunities of your lifetime!
The times have persuaded me that I need to introduce you to the incredible profit-power of prudent, informed, short-term trading. For at least part of your portfolio, it may be exactly the right strategy for this market.
Short-term trading?
Yes! Because, if your portfolio is down 40% from the October 2007 highs, you need to gain 67% just to get back to even.
And just getting back to even isn’t good enough. We’re in this to make money, not just stay even. And right now, in this volatile market you can harness the profit-power of short-term trading to quickly grow your money by…
20-25% in a matter of days!
30-35% in weeks!
Even 40-50% within months!
I’m not talking about minute-by-minute, totally-frantic day trading. This isn’t about jumping in and out of investments, trying to time the market. It’s about seeing the big picture, identifying opportunities and knowing how major events or trends affect the stocks we’re interested in.
I’m saying that when the stock of a really good company, with great earning and solid fundamentals takes a hit of 20%…25%…even 30% or more for no good reason, it’s only a matter of time until these “baby-with-the-bathwater” stocks come snapping back.
The trick is knowing when a good stock is approaching the end of the kind of bungee-cord free fall that often precedes an inevitable skyward snap.
Bad markets can be super-profitable for short term traders:
Let me give you some brief history and a few examples of the kind of short term profits we look for at Stephen Leeb’s Aggressive Trader and how well short-term trades can do in tough times:
Between December 2004 and November 2005, while the market bounced up and down but went essentially nowhere, we closed 69 trades, achieving an average gain of 22.8 percent (68 percent profitable) trading both calls and puts to ride stocks up or down.
From March through April 2005, as stocks fell more than 7 percent, we closed out 11 trades, 7 for gains, with an average return of 10.8 percent—not too shabby, all things considered.
In the following five months we pocketed tremendous profits on 23 of 32 trades, generating an average return of 27.4 percent in the process. Some of the trades that did extraordinarily well included…
107% gain on Exelon…
288% gain on Unocal…
55% gain on DNA…
132% gain on Amylin Pharmaceuticals
81% gain on Nabors Industries.
From mid May to mid June 2006, the market underwent a swift 8 percent decline. This was one of those corrections that you just can’t predict. We suffered several losses during the period, only to come roaring back with 23 out of 29 winning trades in the subsequent six months. The average gain per trade during that time (losers included) was 16 percent. We made money on both the long and short side of the market with winners like these…
44% gain on a Chevron call option…
58% gain on an Amgen call…
26% on a Best Buy put…
46% on a Starbucks put…
47% on a Network Appliances put…
48% on a CVS call.
Even in the difficult market of recent months we’ve had our share of winning trades…
SNDK, up 45% in 18 days…
ABX, up 86% in 36 days…
RIMM, up 75% in 8 days…
SGR, up 39% in 1 day…
You get the point.
And those numbers aren’t so exceptional.
We’re not after the rare out-of-the-park home run and we don’t promise you recommendations that are going to double or triple overnight Stephen Leeb’s Aggressive Trader is about stringing together quick, realistic gains of 7%…10%…maybe even 18% or 25%.
Those are the steady gains that add up over the course of the year. It doesn’t take long for a string of short-term winners to undo the damage wrecked by this out-of-control market.
Right now, with this brutal market having mercilessly battered so many fundamentally solid stocks within an inch of their very lives, there’s never been a better time to take advantage of short-term trading. Let me show you how we snap up one…two…maybe three or even four incredible opportunities at a time…sell them in a matter of weeks for profits of 7%… 10%… maybe even 18% or 25%… and then move quickly on to something else.
Benjamin Disraeli said that…
The opportunity of your investing lifetime could be right now!
Whether you’ve always been a buy-and-hold investor or have experience in relatively short-term trading, there have never been so many compelling reasons to cash in on economic crisis and uncertainty:
Financial institutions around the world will continue to suffer the effects of the subprime mess, mortgage delinquencies are headed for new highs, and consumers are struggling…
Oil prices have been up more than 100% from the lows…
Approximately $9 trillion is sitting on the market’s sidelines waiting for a buying opportunity. By the time most investor are ready to return to the stock market most of the gains will be behind them.
It’s going to be an up-and-down market for quite some time. Frankly, I worry about any investor who decides to sit on his hands and to not take full advantage of the short-term profit opportunities.
An Unprecedented Market Requires A New Approach
To Making Money
Of course, long-term, I fully expect our portfolios will outperform. I’ve taken great care to emphasize the sectors and companies that will thrive under realities of today’s economy. But if you have the discipline, and the ability to respond quickly, this market presents you with a whole new set of opportunities that can help you turn the coming volatility to your advantage.
Don’t get me wrong. It still makes good sense to keep the bulk of your savings in carefully selected long-term investments. But you can boost your returns substantially and repair some of the recent damage by employing some of your money to take advantage of the huge short-term price swings we are seeing more of today.
As gut-wrenching as the white-knuckle ride on Wall Street can be at times, this ongoing volatility is opening up a whole new realm of exciting investing alternatives that can net you substantial returns.
You don’t have to wait for the market to fully heal
to undo the damage!
Thanks to the work my team and I have done over the past few years, short-term trading is no longer strictly for the Wall Street professional.
Now, if you have a few spare minutes a week, I’ll make it easy for you to take advantage of short-term trades—even without prior trading experience.
Thanks to this market, I suspect you may be ready to cash in on some of the carefully chosen, short-term, aggressive trades that offer an opportunity for bigger and faster gains while keeping your nest egg protected.
And because of your unique status as a TCI reader, I can offer you tools and strategies previously available only to professionals.
These are the kind of sophisticated trading strategies the big boy insiders prayed you’d never get your hands on…but today they are no longer for just the super rich or hedge fund manager elite.
What’s more, they are easier to apply than ever, since I do all the work for you. You can just sit back, relax and have the huge gains from aggressive, short-term trades handed to you on a silver platter!
You’ll be making the trades yourself…reaping all the rewards. I’ll simply be guiding your hand, picking the plays for you, so you know you are getting in on only the best opportunities, and playing them in the most intelligent way!
Let me introduce you to…
Stephen Leeb’s Aggressive Trader
A Membership Dedicated to Opportunistic Investors Who Are Ready to Make Some Serious Gains With Proven, Short-Term, Aggressive Wealth-Building Alternatives
Now, more than ever, it’s critical that you take advantage of trading and investing strategies that protect your nest egg, but also offer you the opportunity to cash in on quick trades that can help repair your portfolio.
That’s what I’m offering you as a member of Stephen Leeb’s Aggressive Trader.
The strategies I use to identify potential trades simply are NOT available to “the masses.” In fact, these strategies are practically hoarded by floor traders and institutional traders around the country. And very few people know about them. Best of all—your membership is guaranteed. You have nothing to lose when you become an Introductory Member of Stephen Leeb’s Aggressive Trader. Take a look:
Here’s Your Double
Money-Back Guarantee
First: At the end of 2 full months if you’re not completely satisfied with the profits you’re making, simply call my office for a complete no-hassle refund. You’re the only judge. You decide.
Second: Even after the 2 months, you’re still free to cancel whenever you’d like and get a refund on the unused portion of your membership. But my guess is you won’t want to cancel…you won’t want to because you’ll see the potential and how much fun and excitement these plays will add to your life and how much they’ll add to your bottom line!
Now I want you to be perfectly clear about this double guarantee…I’m NOT promising you WILL make money…because you’re the only one who can make these trades for your own account.
But with a guarantee like this, you can be confident in knowing that I’m going to take good care of you come rain or shine with…
So what kind of “hefty returns” am I talking about?
How about an average trade that provides a return of over 8% with an average holding period of 39 days? Sound impossible?
Well… it may sound impossible—but those are the actual, documented returns my “trading service” offered to those who were wise enough to join! About half of these trades produced gains of over 20 percent.
With this limited, new, breakthrough service you’ll reap big, short-term, aggressive gains from today’s unsure market.
Your membership in the Aggressive Trader is your “edge”… your port in this storm…with your bona fide membership card in hand, you’ll find that the playing field on Wall Street has been leveled… and you’ll be in safe water.
Let’s face it… there are unprecedented events unfolding that are likely to “rock the boat” for years to come.
The truth is…”printed” publications just can’t supply you an up-to-the-minute trading vehicle to take full advantage of the fast-changing, choppy, stormy environment on Wall Street.
That’s exactly why I’ve put this membership program in place.
Using your fax machine or your email address (your choice), you’ll be kept up to speed on every trade that’s given to you. It’s up-to-the-minute information that’s impossible to provide in a newsletter that’s printed just once a month.
Here’s what you get as an
Introductory Member of
Stephen Leeb’s Aggressive Trader:
First, you’ll immediately be rushed a copy of Stephen Leeb’s Aggressive Trader User’s Guide which will map out each potential trade for you in crystal clear, plain English.
This guide makes it simple and easy for you key for you to make the trades I find for you. It includes sample trades that detail the “how’s and why’s” of the types of trades we’ll make—along with a glossary (detailing all the terminology we use), and more.
For some, this guide may serve merely as a refresher course in various types of investments. For others, it will serve as a good starting point in your “advanced degree” in short-term trading. Either way, your job is to devour this guide the moment you get it so you won’t miss-out on a single profit opportunity!
Second, you’ll Get a FREE Personal Consultation directly with an Aggressive Trader guru! Imagine it… once you sign up, you’ll get to speak directly with me or one of my Wall Street Wizards for a FREE one-time consultation! We can’t give you specific advice about your existing portfolio, but we can answer many, many other questions you may have:
We can give you our general outlook on the market and specific sectors for the next few months.
We can answer any questions you have about the nuances of making options trades.
We can assist you in seeing how to maximize the effectiveness of your membership.
Third, every time I see a trade lining up, you’ll get a fax or email (your choice) giving you immediate actionable trade to make in on your own account.
And I’ll never leave you hanging… you’ll always also get rock-solid advice on when to exit those very same trades.
So to recap…
You’ll get precise entry points, or buy signals (along with reasons why)
You’ll get precise exit points or sell signals
And overall, I expect the average holding period to be somewhere between one and three months—but I might decide to close-out some trades the very next day…and there may be some we’ll hold on to for four or six months!
You’ll also get updates on every open trade at least once a week. I’ll give you easy to follow advice on what to do with any trade you’re in.
You’ll get Member-only access to a password-protected website where you can always get the latest updates. Also—you can view my positions on each and every trade all at a glance!
There’s absolutely nothing left to your imagination—you get specific advice on each and every trade all along the way! With this recent market, you’ve already been through enough… you don’t need any more doubt. And your membership in the Aggressive Trader will take all the uncertainty out of growing your wealth by leaps and bounds.
Of course, I need to be clear, if you can’t take an occasional loss along with the wins—this probably isn’t for you.
In fact, you need to accept that on a few of the trades you may lose all of the initial investment! That’s okay because this is about the some total of many quick trades.
I won’t promise that you’ll end every trade smelling like a rose (Something my “get-rich-quick” competitors aren’t willing to admit!) But, like any professional trader worth his salt,
I know how to “lose well”.
And that’s the real key to successful trading and investing—you have to know how to “lose well.” And there may will actually be times when I have a string of losses!
The pros know these are High-Risk Trades.
But by losing well (cutting losses short) in the end, my friend… we’ll come out on top. My averages are what they are… an average return of 8.1% for all closed positions with the mean holding period of 40 days.
But you have to let me provide you with the confidence to sit through the nail-biters. Just plan on it…because there will be times when the market doesn’t act accordingly.
Accept the risk, agree to follow my lead,
and this market will reward you for your discipline!
So please, don’t get involved with this unless you understand right up front that these quick and big profits entail a high degree of risk. And don’t run out and get a cash advance on a credit card to make these trades—that’s just foolish. Any money you invest should be discretionary funds that you can afford to lose.
What’s more, you should not take the money you make with your membership and reinvest it into these trades. In other words, you don’t want to “compound gains.” It’s just not wise. And please… please… whatever you do—don’t dump your children’s college funds into this. Again, it’s just not wise.
I’m just putting my cards on the table… letting you know right up-front where I stand on this issue.
And I don’t want to put my reputation on the line without letting you know that—if you can’t take the heat—you’d best not step into the kitchen. Because I’m going to be cooking-up some really hot plays… and some of those plays just won’t turn out tasting very well.
Of course, I know all too well that no trading system can anticipate sudden, unexpected events, such as a surprise “Federal Reserve announcement”… or any breaking news about another bank failure, the elections or the war. So I’m careful to balance my reliance on fundamental research with my personal “take” on the economy and global affairs.
Bottom line… you won’t be getting a trade from me unless everything (including my gut instinct) is in synch!
Now… you may be wondering why in the world I’m interested in this service at this particular time in history when the financial world has never been more upside down.
Well, as you know, I spend a lot of my time finding large-cap stocks for my newsletter, “The Complete Investor.” But these are longer-term plays… you know… buy-and-hold trades. But the fact of the matter is, while digging around for these longer-term plays, I often find that this market has created short-term opportunities that are beyond phenomenal, but not suitable for a monthly print newsletter or for all investors!
So… I’m busy finding these opportunities anyway… and to be perfectly frank with you…
I thought, “Why not offer these amazing opportunities to qualified investors who want to turn the current crisis into an opportunity? I’m doing the work anyway.”
The other reason I wanted to launch this is a little more personal… and explains a lot more about why I’m really doing this. I’m an academic at heart. Anyone who knows my educational background can tell you that.
I love teaching…and I love touching people’s lives through what I teach. Sure, I’m confident you’ll make money with the Aggressive Trader. But quite honestly, I’m hoping to arm you with a valuable education on the stock market that you can walk away with from which you will profit for years to come.
And that fact, together with what’s going on in the stock market, are the primary drivers in establishing this service.
So I hope you’ll not only profit from our recommended trades, I also hope you’ll become a savvier trader in your own right as a result.
Now let me shift gears a minute here and tell you just a little bit about some of the exciting trades we’ll be making together.
First of all, the goal of Stephen Leeb’s Aggressive Trader is to produce excellent short-term profits in all market conditions, whether in a meltdown or recovery. Regardless of the market’s mood— whether bullish or bearish—I’ll alert you to opportunities for seizing profits wherever I find them!
We’ll do this using various investment vehicles, including stocks and options.
My approach to trading is simple: Always keep the risk/reward parameters in your favor, don’t be too greedy, and always admit when I’m wrong and move on.
Following that philosophy, I wait for low-risk opportunities to occur before establishing positions, because it’s easier to reap huge profits from just a few trades rather than attempting to gain small profits from lots of trades.
Here are just some of the types of trades we’ll be taking…
We’ll be doing some spread trading using options, positioning to reap the HIGHEST REWARD with the LOWEST RISK.
We’ll watch for unusual options volume—this is almost always a sure-fire tip-off that some “insider” knows that something BIG is going to happen! If I smell an opportunity… we’ll take it!
We’ll take both long and short positions so we can profit regardless of prevailing market conditions. And we’ll use leverage to boost our gains!
We’ll be buying both Put and Call options.
A falling dollar, rising commodity prices, an FDA ruling, you name it… if I see a catalyst that should send a security soaring or plummeting, we’ll take advantage of the situation!
We’ll be selling Put options—it’s sometimes the best way to play a bullish trend…
We’ll be making “Covered Write” trades… and more.
Now… don’t worry if you don’t understand some of these concepts—you won’t need to understand any of it. Because you’ll be given EXACTLY WHAT TO SAY TO YOUR BROKER when you enter a trade or exit a trade! And your broker will know exactly what you’re talking about.
If You Can Make Me Two Simple Promises That Will Add To Your Long-Term Profits, Then I Promise To Diligently Provide You With The Biggest Short-Term, High Potential Opportunities the Market Has To Offer. Deal?
Don’t be offended—but if you don’t qualify, I don’t want to waste your time or mine.
1. You have to promise you’re not going to spend your grocery money to be a part of this. Yes, I honestly believe you’ll make a lot of money as a result of this program. But if you’re spending grocery money to join, and pulling cash advanced from your credit card to invest with… then you and I just aren’t a good match at this time. I don’t mean to be curt—I’m really just thinking of you. Your investment of $995 for a full-year of membership saves you $2,000 off the regular rate of $2,995.
I’m certain that you’ll make that much money and more during the 12 months we work together. In fact I’m darn certain about it! Consider this: I know some guys who’ve forked over $5,000 just to attend a high-tech trading seminar in hopes that they’ll make some money sometime down the road! Looking at it from that perspective—I’m sure you’ll agree that investing $995 to have killer trades given to you on a silver patter is a paltry sum of money compared to the potential return you’ll get.
2. You’ve got to be able to accept the fact that there’s likely to be a string of losses at some point during the year. Remember, you’ll be given play-by-play instructions on each trade to help you minimize any losses. And chances are the losses will be cut small, and the wins will be big. But there will ALWAYS be losses—it’s just part of the game—and if you can’t take it… don’t join.
That’s it for the obligatory “warnings.” If you can live with them, you should become a member in the Aggressive Trader now at the special money-saving rate.
While I want you to give this some serious thought, the fact is: you can’t procrastinate very long. To do you the best possible service, where I feel I can achieve the greatest success for each member without “watering-down” the effectiveness and “trueness” of each trade…
Fewer Than 1% of Investors
Will Ever Be Offered This Opportunity.
Don’t Miss Out!
It just makes sense if you think about it—if there are too many people making the exact same trade, the effectiveness of that trade becomes diluted. So your primary consideration at this point should be whether or not you meet the two criteria outlined above.
Fill out the “Membership Acceptance Form” linked below today.
Remember… your membership is fully guaranteed…
Here’s Your No-Risk Double Money-Back Guarantee:
But my guess is you won’t want to cancel… you won’t want to because you’ll see the potential and how much fun and excitement these plays will add to your life and how much more quickly they add to your bottom line!
But—I’ll let you be the judge and jury…
Now the ball’s in your court. Call now… and make sure you mention that you’re calling or writing about Stephen Leeb’s Aggressive Trader.
Look. Your investment is a painless drop in the bucket compared to the potential return you’re going to have. What’s more… you’ll finally be able to get excited and enthused about your investing again!
No more panic attacks in the afternoons, watching the news to see what the Dow did today… instead, you’ll spend your afternoons checking the Aggressive Trader website to get the latest update on the trade you’re in!
Investing will become fun again! And you’ll gain access to little-known, short-term, aggressive ways of pulling money out of the stock market hand over fist! You’ll take your portfolio to the next level—and literally create more wealth, abundance and freedom with your very own trading!
Granted… you could go out and try to figure it all out on your own. And lots of people in your shoes try… they spend thousands on seminars… or they just hope and pray that the next set of “brother-in-law” recommendations provide their nest egg with a move toward massive wealth.
But why put yourself through it all? Why not invest in your ability to take control of where your nest egg is headed? After all…
Aren’t You’re Ready to Turn Crisis into Opportunity?
Why not put some of your “risk” capital into some carefully selected short-term, aggressive trades?
Don’t you think you owe it to yourself to take advantage of this incredible opportunity to work closely with someone who can really help you take advantage of these incredible-difficult times?
Join now. Simply filling out and returning the “Membership Acceptance Form.” Either way, don’t put it off… you deserve success.
Sincerely yours,
Stephen Leeb, Ph.D.
Research Chairman
P.S. Remember… your Introductory Membership has a double guarantee. If you’re not more than pleased with the profits we make during your membership, you can get your fee back without a hitch!
P.P.S. This is your chance to grow your current portfolio with aggressive, short-term trades that are given to you by a man with a proven track record. Stephen Leeb’s Aggressive Trader will create even more opportunities for you to make real money short-term as well as long-term. All in all, it’s a rock-solid way to take advantage of wealth-building alternatives in today’s up-and-down market!
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