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Most
people think that the market is too complicated, and that
you can't possibily get ahead without 'expert' advice. Or
that, even if you DO get 'lucky' and find a winner, you'll
just end up paying a bunch of taxes on it and lose money anyway.
My
name is Rob Britt, and I want to tell you about a project
I've been working on for years. I was always trying to understand
the stock market and to figure out why some folks seem
to lose their shirts and other people make a ton of money.
I was sure there must be some law or rules that the experts
knew but didn't want the little guy to know!
I
got interested in the whole subject about 11 years ago. I
was reading lots of different investing magazines, and every
month guest writers (who 'knew the secrets') would recommend
a few stocks. I decided to get into the game and invested
a few thousand dollars.
The
recommended stock seemed OK, and I was familiar with
the company ... so I bought $3,000 worth of stock at $13 a
share. Then I saw the stock climb a bit. I looked online but
had no clue what I was looking at, except price. One day,
I noticed a thing called the 52-week high and saw it was $33.
I thought I had made a killing!
BUT,
I hadn't made a killing ... I just didn't understand what
I was looking at. I thought the broker screwed up my "sell"
order. Because of this misunderstanding, I got angry and frustrated
and pulled all of the money out of my account and stayed away
from the stock market for a couple of years. I thought, "Stocks
are a 'racket', and not for me. They're a bunch of bull."
Then
I started reading the Motley guys in the paper and decided
to try to really understand the market before I invested
any more of my hard-earned money. I read some books on 'manifesting
money' ... being mentally ready for money, visualizing money
... and guess what? The money never showed up!
I
didn't DO anything to make it happen! NO ACTION!
Then
I started reading only financial books. Ben Graham was Warren
Buffet's mentor, so I read his classic The Intelligent
Investor. I started reading Forbes, Money,
Idiot's guides, books by Greenspan, Greenblatt —
you get the picture. There seemed to be a basic pattern
mixed in with everyone's stuff, but not one made a plain package
short and to the point but covering important facts
and how to access them.
I
went to seminars, tried free online newsletters (and even
paid for some, too). Most people wanted to charge a monthly
fee to send me advice but again, I wasn't in control.
I decided to make a set of rules just for my own use. I needed
to figure out what factors mattered to me, what made a stock
really solid. Not necessarily to make a ton of money, but
just not to lose the little bit I had.
I
wanted to figure out what indicated a company was going to
grow and about earnings and price growth. Finally, I wanted
to find a tool I could use that didn't have a monthly fee.
I didn't want to spend 10% of my working capital (my seed
money) on advice or maintenance fees. I wanted it working
for me. So I put together a system and called it my 'stock
guidelines'.
The
first couple stocks I tried it out on worked pretty well.
I sold my first one for a 19% gain after holding it just
two months!
Annualized,
that would be a gain of ... well, that doesn't matter, because
two months' growth doesn't mean a stock will climb forever.
I thought those results could just have been a fluke, but
other stocks seemed to hold to a pattern of gain. Perhaps
not as quickly, but solid gains, and I have had a few minor
losses. Hey, if a stock falls more than 25%, I'm dumping it
to cut losses, unless I find the company had some major setback.
That's
the other part of the picture that a lot of books and systems
forget about. It's ownership in a company. It's a real business,
not just numbers in a paper or online. I believe you need
to factor in the industry and the business itself, not just
the figures. (Figures can lie, and liars can figure!)
So
here's what it comes down to: I took everything I learned
and put together an ebook that contains all of my knowledge
plus a tutorial on how to make sure your selection has
real value. I even include some tools on how to find
solid value stocks.
With
these tools, you can:
- Manage
your own money
-
Find quality value stocks before the crowd does
-
Hold or gain value
- Receive
dividends
- Know
when to sell
Of
course, you can always take these picks to your broker, but
they probably won't like it, because that's not how they make
the most money! But are you trying to make money for you
or make money for your broker? It's your choice.
But
the key is this: This system is a one-time purchase with
NO hidden fees! Hey, my 12-year-old could follow this
system and find a good investment opportunity! (I won't kid
you, he's a really bright kid.) But I believe anyone
can follow these instructions and do well.
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