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If You Like Gold, You're Going to Love
Silver |
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1/60th the Price of Gold, Silver Offers +50%
Upside Potential -- This is the Best Way to
Profit From Silver RIGHT NOW
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Dear Investor,
I'd like to share with you the following lesson from
history.
The year was 1971 and inflation was on the rise. In the
past, investors and average citizens alike had long
turned to gold coins and bullion as a store of wealth.
There was one little problem this time around: The
United States had abandoned the gold standard, and at
the time, it was illegal to own gold bullion.
Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Hunt, sons of
the legendary oilman H.L. Hunt, had a plan.
In 1973, the Hunt brothers began purchasing silver
futures contracts. Not satisfied to stop there, the
brothers decided to hold many of the contracts to
maturity and take actual delivery of the metal, an
unusual tactic in a market in which virtually all
positions are offset before the contracts expire.
The strategy seemed to work: between 1973 and 1979,
prices had gone from $1.95 to $5. The brothers figured
if they bought enough silver, they could corner the
market. By 1979, they had nearly succeeded. That year,
prices rose to more than $50 an ounce, and the Hunt
brothers were rumored to hold about one-third of the
world's silver supply in storage.
But the story doesn't end there. With prices so high,
people began selling all the silver they could get their
hands on. Prices plummeted -50% in four days. The Hunt
brothers had overleveraged themselves to the point that
when margin calls came in, they were left holding the
bag.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission would later
change the rules regarding margin trading and charge the
Hunt brothers with manipulating the silver market.
Lawsuits ensued, and the Hunt brothers were forced to
pay millions in fines, back taxes and interest as a
result.
All told, it's estimated the brothers lost more than $1
billion in the endeavor. I bring up this story not for
your entertainment, but for an important lesson -- three
to be exact.
- Lesson #1:
Leverage can break you. It's regrettable, but 30
years later it seems much of Wall Street still
hasn't figured this out. When used by experienced
investors, a little leverage can juice returns. But
getting too greedy can clearly have negative
consequences.
- Lesson #2:
Uncle Sam can change the rules. Investors: plan
accordingly.
- Lesson #3:
In times of inflation, gold is good. But sometimes
silver is better.
My name is Nathan Slaughter and
I am
chief investment strategist
at
The ETF Authority newsletter. This letter, which
tracks exchange-traded funds and their cousins,
closed-end funds, is your top resource for finding the
best funds in the market.
Exchange-traded funds are a special type of investment
vehicle that - because of the way they are designed -
allow you to reap the benefits of investing in silver
while avoiding the pitfalls that I've mentioned.
The benefits of exchange-traded funds extend beyond just
investing in silver but for
investors with an interest in silver, ETFs are an
excellent way to take advantage of the upside.
I have cautioned
readers of my newsletter about the dangers of leveraged
funds and efforts by the feds to ramp up regulation in
the commodities markets. I've also recently talked about
the devastating effects of inflation.
But there is good justification
for investment in silver -- in fact, I'm bullish on
silver. It has outperformed gold, yet, despite the run
up this year, it's still trading for about 1/60th the
price of gold -- a low ratio on a historical basis. This
presents an incredible opportunity.
Besides being a store of wealth, silver has a host of
real-world uses ranging from medicine to the new 3-D
screens being used in movie theaters. All told,
industrial applications use 60% of the world's silver
supply each year. When the global economy gets back on
track, demand will jump.
There's one way to play this,
pure and simple:
Buy silver.
Now, if you want to invest in silver, you have a few
options: you can buy silver coins (but you’d have to
store them) or you can play the tricky futures market
(which can be volatile). It is possible to invest in
companies that produce silver, but not without exposing
yourself to the risk of investing in a single company.
But, there is an excellent alternative to these methods
of investment -- invest in exchange-traded funds
which specialize in silver.
Some ETFs hold actual silver bullion and others track
spot prices. Silver is an excellent investment in market
environments such as this one and, with silver focused
exchange-traded funds, you have the best of both worlds.
By investing in silver ETFs, you
have the opportunity to benefit from the upside of
silver bullion without any storage or insurance costs.
They don't mess around with futures contracts and don't
use any leverage.
In fact, this past September, I added the ETF outlined
below to my ETF Authority Sector Trading Portfolio and it's already returned +13% since I recommended
it. Because we think silver could rally another +50%
from here, there's still plenty of upside if you get in
today.
My Top Silver ETF:
ETF Securities Silver Trust (Nasdaq: SIVR)
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Reasons to Buy:
Strengthening industrial output and
growing inflationary pressures will both
send silver prices higher in the year
ahead.
Of the funds backed by physical bullion,
SIVR is the least expensive option at
just 0.30%. That cheaper price will
provide a small cushion in down markets
and a bit more profit in rising markets. |
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Strategy: To duplicate, before
expenses, the performance of silver
bullion prices. |
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Expense Ratio: 0.30% |
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Average Market Cap:$7.0B |
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Assets: $968M |
ETF
Composite
Score: |
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Top Five
Holdings: Silver Bullion (100%) |
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European
money manager ETF Securities has just
entered the U.S. market for the first
time.
ETFS has been one of the industry's most
innovative forces -- it introduced the
first gold ETF in 2003 and unveiled the
first crude oil fund shortly thereafter.
Today, it oversees 130 different
products that represent about $12
billion in assets.
This newest addition gives investors an
opportunity to invest in silver without
the added expense of storage costs and
insurance premiums.
The trust's assets are invested directly
in silver bullion, which is safely
locked away in a HSBC bank vault in
London.
This stands in stark contrast to other
silver funds that hold futures
contracts, that expose shareholders to
potential counterparty risks and other
derivatives-related concerns.
For the most part, one share of SIVR
represents an interest in one pure ounce
of silver.
With global industrial output getting
back on track, demand for physical
silver is heating up from multiple
sources -- not the least of which is the
investment community. This new fund
attracted $100 million worth of assets
in its first 20 trading days alone, so
its bank vault is piled high with more
than 6.5 million troy ounces of silver.
Given its dual function as a versatile
metal and an effective inflation hedge,
silver has outpaced gold lately. It
recently traded at just $17 per ounce,
about 1/64th of the $1,100 that gold
fetched on the spot market at the same
time.
That ratio has usually been lower during
the past few decades -- if silver
appreciates to its historic ratio,
investors could see additional gains.
None of this is meant to downplay the
optimistic outlook for gold, just to say
that silver will benefit from some of
the exact same underlying catalysts --
plus a few more.
Bullish investors are betting that
silver will be a good place to park cash
in the coming months. According to the
U.S. Mint, the public scooped up 16.1
million American Eagle one-ounce silver
coins in the first half of the year,
about +75% more than the 9.1 million
that were purchased during the same time
frame last year.
Action to Take --> Unlike gold, which is
virtually indestructible (and just
recycles from one form to another),
silver inventories get depleted every
day.
Current estimates suggest there are only
about 1 billion ounces above ground, and
sovereign wealth funds from wealthy Gulf
States like Dubai are buying up much of
that.
With bullion prices likely to rebound
past $20/oz., SIVR is a solid way to
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A Bit
of History
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Exchange-traded funds used to be reserved
almost exclusively for
Wall Street's elite.
If you weren't a hedge fund hot-shot -- or managing hundreds
of millions of dollars -- you could forget it. You see -- only
hand-picked investors designated as "Authorized Participants" were
invited to the profit party.
But that's all changed now. Now investors like you and I can
reap the benefits of exchange-traded funds.
I want to show you just how
lucrative these investments can be for you...
Following is a list of
my open
recommendations -- just so you can see how much money my ETF
Authority readers and
I are making right now.
Of course, I can't give away the names of these investments
here -- but at the end of this letter I'll detail a 100% risk-free
way to get immediate access to all
of the names.
In the meantime, here's the list -- 29 open
recommendations... 27 winners... and our average holding is up
+44.2%:
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Recommendation |
Add Date |
Total % Return to Date* |
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Investment # 1 |
11/24/08 |
+79.6% |
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Investment # 2 |
3/02/09 |
+22.3% |
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Investment # 3 |
11/11/08 |
+62.6% |
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Investment # 4 |
12/15/08 |
+132.6% |
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Investment # 5 |
2/18/09
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+40.9% |
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Investment # 6 |
3/2/09 |
+54.1% |
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Investment # 7 |
4/9/09 |
+7.0% |
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Investment # 8 |
8/20/09
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+7.6% |
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Investment # 9 |
10/10/09
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-1.2% |
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Investment #10 |
12/15/08
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+80.6% |
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Investment #11 |
1/15/09
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+51.0% |
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Investment #12 |
2/18/09
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+66.6% |
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Investment #13 |
8/20/09 |
+24.5% |
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Investment #14 |
3/13/09
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+63.0% |
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Investment #15 |
4/28/09
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+64.0% |
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Investment #16 |
4/28/09
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+88.7% |
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Investment #17 |
10/23/08
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+26.3% |
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Investment #18 |
11/11/08
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+52.1% |
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Investment #19 |
11/28/08
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+49.9% |
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Investment #20 |
11/28/08
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+39.6% |
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Investment #21 |
1/15/09
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+38.9% |
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Investment #22 |
3/26/09
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+38.2% |
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Investment #23 |
9/9/09 |
-7.0% |
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Investment #24 |
9/16/09
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+1.8% |
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Investment #25 |
11/28/09
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+18.3% |
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Investment #26 |
1/30/09
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+63.0% |
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Investment #27 |
3/26/09 |
+49.0% |
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Investment #28 |
9/9/09
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+16.2% |
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Investment #29 |
3/2/09
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+51.1% |
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*All
figures are based on prices as of the close of trading on
December 3, 2009. |
Now let me be clear -- that's the entire list.
I haven't left anything out or tweaked the numbers in any
way. Those are the Total Return figures for every single
open recommendation in my three portfolios as of December
3rd, 2009.
Let's be honest -- there aren't many investment newsletters
willing to post all of the return figures for each of their
open positions to non-subscribers.
Most newsletter "gurus", as you know, are more than happy to
tell you all about their
big winners... but the losers are
never mentioned.
So why am I so comfortable posting my complete list of 29
open positions?
It's because I'm confident in not only the value of my
research... but also in two of the distinct competitive
advantages that help me produce such consistent winners.
Let me show you what I mean...
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5
Profit-Boosting Benefits of Exchange-Traded Funds
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Benefit #1: |
International Access -- Thanks to ETFs it's possible for you to access foreign
markets and companies that would have been nearly
impossible to touch just five years ago. |
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Benefit #2: |
Sector Gains -- We all know that individual
sectors within the market can make huge moves --
this once-banned class of investments allows you to
easily profit from entire sector moves, such as
those in energy, gold or healthcare. |
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Benefit #3: |
Income Opportunities -- For income investors,
only about 130 U.S. stocks offer yields of 10% or
more. Yet there are nearly 200 examples of this
once-banned investment class that offer 10% yields
or better! |
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Benefit #4: |
Diversification -- With one simple transaction,
the purchase of ETFs immediately helps
diversify your portfolio and spread your risk. No
more worrying about one stock destroying your entire
retirement! |
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Benefit #5: |
Low
Cost -- On average, mutual fund costs are four
times higher than the fees associated with ETFs. And the transaction costs involved with
gaining the kind of diversification we're talking
about with this vehicle would be overwhelming. Your
annual savings with ETFs could add up to
thousands of dollars! |
And the truth
is -- I've really just scratched the surface when it comes
to the benefits of this once-banned investment class. I
haven't even mentioned their tax efficiency...
transparency... or added safety. I'll save that for another
time.
But there's one more important
advantage that I'd like to mention -- something that only a
small group of investors is authorized to use...
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The Power of the World's Most Comprehensive ETF
Forecasting System |
Here's the thing...
As great as these investments are -- you can't just blindly
invest.
Even though they give you the least expensive -- and most
convenient -- way to invest in every asset class under the
sun... they don't give you a crystal ball!
But...
There is a powerful "tool" available to you right now that
uses a combination of five technical and fundamental
measures to identify the most promising ETF
investments at any given time.
This proprietary system is the only one of its kind to make
recommendations based on how the investment will perform...
not on how it performed in the past.
The system allows me to crunch the numbers on every
investment I review: performance and
relative returns, fees and expense, volatility and tax
efficiency... and I grade each one from 1 to 5.
Here's an example of how it works.
Back in November 2008, it was clear that the yield spread
for corporate bonds over U.S. Treasuries presented a unique
short-term profit opportunity.
My Composite Rating System told me that one investment in
particular -- which had been out-performing its rivals by a
wide margin -- was rated a "4".
On November 28, 2008 I made the call to invest in this
ETF transaction... and less than two months
later, I was able to cash out with a +52.2% gain. That's the
power of this system.
A similar situation happened in February 2009 when my
Composite Ranking System gave a "5" to a play on the
Canadian markets... less than 12 months later,
we're up +66.6%.
And it happened again in April, when my System ranked a
specific Australian investment as a "4" -- so I issued a buy
signal. Just over seven months later... we're sitting on a
+88.7% gain!
I should point out -- this Composite Rating System is only
available to a select group of investors.
And I'm writing you today to invite you to join this group
-- and begin putting the power of exchange-traded funds to work for you right away.
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As I mentioned earlier... I started The ETF Authority
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In December
2008, my Composite Scoring System ranked a foreign
fixed-income fund a "5 out of 5" --and I issued a buy alert
on December 15. One year later, we're sitting on
gains of +132.6%! |
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In January 2009, my
Composite Scoring System struck again -- this time issuing a
"5 out of 5" to an international small cap fund. We're keeping a close eye on this winner -- up
+51.0% so far! |
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In April of this year, my
System issued a "4" to a Chinese equity fund that looked
particularly attractive. I issued a buy signal on
April 28
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returns of +54.1%... +62.6%... +79.6%... and +132.6%!
Keep in mind though, with this portfolio, capital gains are
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As you can see from
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and best-run ETFs available on the planet.
At this very moment, our open recommendations list includes winners
of +63.0%... +66.6%... +79.6%... +80.6%... +88.7%... and +132.6%!
27 of our 29 open positions are winners -- with 23 of those for
double-digit gains or better -- with an average return of +44.2% per
holding!
When I find the right dividend, sector or foreign growth play, I add
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There are several ETFs that claim to have monster yields,
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Six Easy Ways to Cash in
on a 2010 Gold Boom
-- Gold prices have recently hit record levels and our
research indicates demand for the yellow metal should
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secure strong gold positions today stand to see generous
profits as inflation kicks in, the value of the U.S. dollar
erodes, and gold spot prices elevate to even higher levels.
In this special report you'll find the names and ticker
symbols of six ETFs poised to profit from a 2010 gold boom
-- including one that focuses on the world's largest and
best-positioned gold miners.
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Two ETFs Set to Soar
from China's World Domination --
Before long, investors will
be drawn (again) to China's inexorable
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Where else is the number of PCs (as just one example) doubling
every 28 months? And China's per-capita income of $5,300 is just
one-seventh the $38,000 taken home by the average American each
year. It's only a matter of time before China supplants
the U.S. as the world's leading consumer nation. There are
plenty of ETFs investors can use to tap into China... but
the two you'll find in this report offer the most promise.
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Profit from Buffett's
Favorite High-Income Investments with These Two ETFs
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million in annual dividends for years to come. His investment?
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preferred stock-focused ETFs. One sports a 8.5% yield... the other
pays you 8.1%.
You'll find their names and ticker symbols in this special report. |
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Two Inflation-Crushing
Investments for 2010 and Beyond --
It's all but certain: Inflation is coming and it's going to
erode the value of the greenback. Fortunately, there's a
unique asset class specifically built shield your
assets.
In fact, these securities don't just protect your portfolio
from inflation, they're engineered to profit from it. You'll
find the names of my two favorite "inflation-crushing" ETFs
in this special report. |
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The India Profit Play To
Own In 2010 --
Last quarter India's already roaring $1.2 trillion economy
grew even more than the most optimistic estimates -- and now
analysts are scrambling to ratchet up their
expectations for future economic output.
Whether it's telecom, banking, or IT, Indian businesses
continue to thrive off this emerging market's rapidly
expanding middle class. The ETF we profile in this report
owns the dominant leaders in these industries -- offering
early investors significant upside in the coming year.
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-1.2%) -- and those eight winners include blockbuster
returns of +54.1%... +62.6%... +79.6%... and +132.6%!
Keep in mind though, with this portfolio, capital gains are
just a bonus -- rather than cashing out for big profits,
many of my readers choose to lock in the 8.2%... 9.1%...
10.9%... and 15.3% dividend yields for a steady stream of
income! |
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Portfolio #2 -- Your Global Growth Portfolio gives you
the funds that invest in fast-growing foreign countries like
China, Brazil, India, and Vietnam -- wherever there is
rip-roaring growth that will turn into stock-market profits.
My Global Growth Portfolio -- if I do say so myself -- is
absolutely on fire right now. We're holding seven open
positions... and all seven are double-digit winners. The
average position in this portfolio is up +62.6%! |
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Portfolio #3 -- Your Sector Trading Portfolio includes
securities that are profiting from today's
hottest industries, giving you top opportunities to capture
market-beating gains in the months ahead.
There are 12 winners out of 13 open positions in this
portfolio (the "loser" is down just -7.1%) -- and
those 12 winners are all double-digit blockbusters...
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