Fact: Every time another stock hits the skids — be it real estate, mortgage, banking or any other sector — you could multiply your money up to 58 times over. Here’s how ...
Plus: How to turn this knowledge into truly huge profit opportunities — over and over again ... All with strictly limited risk!
Or, for more information, read Dr. Weiss’ article below ...
by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.
lmost everything I’ve told you in recent months was a warning of events to come. This report is a call to action — to act on events that have now arrived.
Suddenly, the stakes have changed. Suddenly, a recession is slicing through the United States ... Wall Street has been rudely awakened from its dreams ... and investors are beginning to turn from greed to caution, caution to fear, fear to panic.
But not you and me.
Quite the contrary! For us, this is a time to profit our foresight, use reason, think objectively, and take deliberate steps to build wealth.
Start by taking a walk in your neighborhood. Observe the changes unfolding around you. Scan the headlines.
Then, listen to what even the most perennial of Polyannas are saying: President Bush, for example, who speaks of “economic challenges.” Or Chairman Bernanke, who warns of “substantial risks to the nation’s economic health.” Or Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup, who say “an outright recession ... has arrived, or will very shortly.”
Then, sit down for a moment and consider the multiple crises now upon us:
Crisis #1. The Real Estate Bust
The value of our homes, the #1 source of cash for retirement for most Americans, is declining rapidly. And with each new decline, more of America’s net worth goes up in smoke.
Crisis #2. The Credit Crunch
Citigroup — America’s largest bank — has just taken another $18 billion loss and slashed its dividend. Merrill Lynch has just announced $15 billion in write-downs for failed investments. And giants like Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wachovia and many others are loaded with derivatives that can inflict similar damage.
As a result, lenders are recoiling in terror, tightening their lending standards, snapping shut their coffers and making it nearly impossible for most consumers to make major purchases or for businesses to fund their operations.
Crisis #3. The Stock Market Slump
Sector by sector, the dominos are falling. First, it was the shares of construction companies and developers ... then subprime lenders ... now regional banks and tech companies.
Just in the first sector that was hit, over two hundred companies have already gone bankrupt or exited the business. Many stocks have fallen 70%, 80%, or even to zero. And hundreds more in these sectors are now in danger of massive stock losses, or even outright failure in 2008 and beyond.
Crisis #4. The Inflationary Surge
After plunging for seven years on the global currency markets, the U.S. dollar is still hanging right at its all-time low — and now, the inflationary chickens are coming home to roost:
The U.S. Department of Labor just announced that 2007 consumer price inflation was the worst in 17 years. In November, we saw the most dramatic surge in wholesale prices in 22 years. Import prices — the prices we pay for imported oil, food and nearly everything you buy at Wal-Mart — surged by double digits — a staggering 10.9% — signaling much, much higher inflation ahead.
Crisis #5. Recession!
The consumer is cutting back sharply and corporate profits are slipping fast.
In the real estate sector, profits are as rare as hens’ teeth. Among financial companies, earnings have plunged as much as 88%. Tech giants Intel, Sony Ericsson and others are missing their earnings forecasts by wider and wider margins, suffering the worst earnings fiascos since the Tech Wreck of 2000. Major retailers like Sears, Kmart and many others are warning that sales will fall as much as 60% in 2008.
Stung by massive declines in sales and profits, thousands of companies are beginning to lay off workers, thereby cutting their costs. That’s why, in November, we saw the worst employment report of the century; and why we’re likely to see more of the same for December, January and beyond.
Crisis #6. Manmade Disasters?
Even as you read this, the White House and Congress are rushing to introduce massive fiscal stimulus plans that will flood the world with increasingly worthless paper dollars, virtually guaranteeing even more severe inflation ... rising business expenses and a soaring cost of living for every U.S. consumer.
And now ...
All Six Crises Are Converging
In the Same Time and Place
For millions of Americans, the convergence of these six major crises is confusing, sometimes maddening.
I trust that, with the warnings we have been giving you, that’s not your case. But no matter what, at a time like this, it is our duty to step up to the plate to help.
My mission is twofold: To help you protect your wealth and to help you keep your money growing even in the most challenging of investing environments. More than that: To turn adversity into profits; lemons into lemonade.
When the world’s richest assets are dirt cheap and ready to explode higher ... and when most investors are too shell-shocked or too poor to ... I would like you to have a pool of cash enabling you to buy them at bargain-basement prices and grow even richer in the recovery.
The Closest We’ll Ever Get
To Shooting Fish in a Barrel ...
There’s never such a thing as a “sure thing” on Wall Street. You can lose money even in the best of investments. But in a glaring, multi-crisis environment like this one, you don’t have to be a financial genius to spot the sectors that are being hammered the hardest. All you have to do is read the headlines.
So the key to growing your wealth in this new environment is finding the right vehicle — the one that can help you make large profits as these sectors plunge. And my team and I have found the ultimate profit vehicle for you:
Not by short-selling — which exposes you to unlimited risk ...
But with a special, often-overlooked class of investments specifically designed to make you richer — much richer — every time stock sectors and stocks fall, and ...
To do it all do it while strictly limiting your risk.
These investments have the power
to make you up to 58 times richer
when vulnerable stocks plunge:
I won’t keep you in suspense — they’re put options — and they’re designed from the ground up to hand you big gains every time stocks decline in value.
Because put options are highly leveraged, the profits can be truly astonishing and they can come lightning fast:
As we’re about to see, many put options on builders, subprime lenders and even major banks and S&Ls have already skyrocketed as much as 5,700% ...
Enough to multiply your money 58 times over ...
Enough to turn a $5,000 investment into $290,000 or $10,000 into $580,000 ...
In as few as seven, short days.
Losses in options can and do happen all the time. But because they’re simple stock options — not futures — there’s never, ever a margin call. You never risk one penny more than the amount you invest plus the small brokerage commission.
Bloomberg Data:
Countrywide Financial — America’s largest subprime lender — could have turned your $5,000 investment into $173,335 in less than one month.
We first told you back in August of 2006 that Countrywide was in big, big trouble. While the CEO was on CNBC telling the world all was fine and dandy, I also went on CNBC to warn that, barring a major miracle, the company wouldn’t survive.
Well, right now Bank of America is trying to provide that miracle by offering to buy the company lock, stock and barrel.
But just take a look at what Bloomberg’s data tell us regarding how much you could have made by buying put options on Countrywide over the last few months:
Back on October 26, you could have bought a particular put option that let you control 100 shares of Countrywide stock for just $550.
Twenty five days later, that option was worth a whopping $6,900 — a 1,154.5% gain.
If you had invested just $5,000 to options, you could have wound up with $62,725 in less than a month. You could have multiplied your original investment more than 12 times over.
An anomaly? Not at all: Another, more aggressive put on Countrywide, which you could have bought for $150 on October 3 was worth $2,500 on January 8, just 97 days later.
You could have invested $5,000 to buy a batch of those puts and just over three months later, you could have had $76,667 in your account (less some minor broker commissions).
And these are not the most extreme examples: A more speculative $150 option on Countrywide, if bought on July 30 and sold on January 8, could have handed you a 3,240% gain in 162 days. Your $5,000 investment could have turned into $167,000 in less than six months.
And still another, more speculative Countrywide put option, sold for $150 on July 31, was worth $5,200 on August 16, according to Bloomberg data.
Imagine investing just $5,000 — and winding up with $173,333 (minus commissions) in just over two weeks ... or investing $50,000 and watching it grow to $1.73 million.
That’s not going to happen every day or even every year. But it gives you an idea of the kind of power put options have in times of crisis like these! And remember: All these gains were available on Countrywide — a stock that we predicted was headed for the cellar!
Yet, these examples are just a small sampling of the remarkably profitable put options that have been available on this stock over the last few months. And Countrywide, in turn, was only one of the stocks that you could have used to multiply your profits ...
Bloomberg Data:
When New Century Financial crashed,
it could have turned $5,000 into as much as $290,000.
We panned New Century Financial in April of 2005, and continued doing so until it went broke last year. And with virtually every decline in its shares, put options on the stock spun off more profits:
From $5,000 to $210,000 in 29 days: On February 13 of last year, you could have bought New Century put options for just $100 each ... sold them 29 days later for $4,200 each, turning every $5,000 invested into $210,000.
From $5,000 to $286,665: Just two days later, on February 15, you could have bought New Century Financial puts for $150 each ... sold them less than one month later for $5,900 apiece — and turned every $5,000 invested into $286,667.
From 5,000 to $290,000: On January 31 of last year, you could have bought an even cheaper and more speculative New Century put option for just $50 each ... sold them just 12 days later for $2,900 apiece — 58 times your money — and turned every $5,000 invested into $290,000.
Think subprime lenders are the only opportunity to multiply your money up to 58 times over in this great real estate bust and mortgage meltdown? Think again!
Bloomberg Data:
Put options on America’s largest savings and loan — could have turned your $5,000 into $550,000 ...
or $10,000 into $1.1 million
in just 24 days.
Huge lenders like Washington Mutual — America’s largest savings and loan — made billions of dollars in risky loans during the housing boom, too. Now, with foreclosures at record highs and still soaring, the stock has plunged more than 69% over the last year, from around $45 to less than $15 per share.
Meanwhile, according to Bloomberg data, a $200 put option on WaMu stock if bought on July 30 rocketed in price to $2,500 in just over two weeks.
You could have invested just $5,000 to buy 25 of those puts and by August 15, you could have had $63,950 — a 1,175% gain.
Or, you could have bought a $750 put option on WaMu on October 30 and watched it soar in value to $10,700 by December 19.
That’s a 1,326.7% gain, enough to turn $5,000 into $71,335 in less than two months.
And one day later — on October 31, you could have bought another put option on Washington Mutual for just $450 — and watched it soar in value to $7,100 by January 8.
Had you invested $4,950 to buy 11 of those puts, you could have had $78,850 — a $73,900 gain — in just over two months!
And with more speculative options, the gains can be even greater:
On October 15, you could have loaded up on a particular Washington Mutual put option for just $50.
Twenty-four days later, you could have sold each option for $5,500.
That’s an eye-popping 10,900% gain — enough to turn a $5,000 grubstake into $550,000 — more than one-half of one million dollars — in just 24, short days!
Bloomberg Data:
As Beazer Home’s stock plunged 90%,
your $5,000 could have turned into $215,000
in just 35 days.
In the last year, Beazer has plunged from $45 per share to around $5 — nearly a 90% loss in market cap. But Beazer’s troubles are far from over. It could still drop by half ... and then by half again before this real estate depression ends.
And every time homebuilders like Beazer tank, you have the opportunity to pile up truly impressive profits.
For example: On June 26, you could have bought a particular put option on Beazer homes for just $30 each and sold 24 days later for $450 each. For a bit under $5,000, you could have bought 166 of those $30 puts — and 24 days later, you could have had close to $75,000.
Or, on June 22, you could have bought a different put on Beazer for $150 each and sold them 27 days later for $4,600 apiece. An investment of $5,000 would have been worth a staggering $153,333.
Impressed? It gets even better:
On July 2, you could have bought another load of puts on Beazer for $100 each and sold them 35 days later for $4,300 each.
In just 35 days, the $5,000 you invested to purchase 50 of those put options could have turned into a whopping $215,000!
And here’s the best part ...
You’re going to have the opportunity to go for gains
like these over and over again throughout 2008 ...
throughout 2009 ... and probably well into 2010!
The fact that this credit crisis is spreading far beyond the real estate and financial sectors is definitely not good news for investors in retail, technology, or other companies that have nothing to do with housing or mortgages. With each passing day, their profits and financial condition worsen.
But once you harness the power of put options, not only do you create a powerful hedge against the dangers that are so rampant in today’s stock market ... you actually turn adversity into huge profit opportunities.
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There’s no question in my mind that this credit crisis is hammering the market and could continue to do so for a long time to come.
And there’s also no question that when stocks fall in value, put options on those stocks shoot for the moon — giving you the chance to multiply your money many, many times over in record time.
The not-so-easy trick is finding the options on each vulnerable stock that offer you the greatest profit potential ... buying those options at a good time ... and then closing your position at a good time as well.
That takes constant vigilance. More than that: It takes a trained eye ... years of options trading experience ... and a deep understanding of how stocks tend to move once they begin falling.
That’s why my team and I have just created a brand-new trading service designed to help you go for your share of this huge profit potential quickly, conveniently and hassle-free.
It’s called Crisis Opportunity Speculator — and it simplifies the entire process for you — with timely, specific, easy-to-follow trading instructions on every put option we recommend.
Every day of the year, Crisis Opportunity Speculator’s editor — my colleague Mike Larson — looks at the sector that’s likely to be the next domino ... scans the entire U.S. stock market searching for options on the stocks most likely to get slammed ... and then picks the options with the price ... the duration ... the strike price to maximize your opportunity for explosive profit potential.
And when Mike strikes pay dirt ...
- He alerts you immediately — by e-mail, fax or both (your choice) ...
- He tells you why we’re recommending the trade and gives you our strategy for maximizing your profit potential while reducing your risk ...
- And he gives you specific step-by-step instructions on precisely how to execute the trade — either online or simply by reading the trading instructions to your broker.
Then, once you’re in the position, just sit back and watch your investment’s performance. When it’s time to close your position, Mike will rush you a “sell” signal. And again, he’ll tell you how to execute your trade quickly and easily with your broker, either online or by phone.
Mike Larson and Crisis Opportunity Speculator
give you everything you need
to go for huge gains these six crises spread.
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- Why leading industry experts and even the Federal Reserve recognize this crisis could continue hammering key U.S. sectors for at least two more years — through 2009 or even longer ...
- The stocks Mike’s watching now — and why he expects each one to be taken to the cleaners in 2008, 2009 and beyond ...
- How options work ... how they’re traded ... and even step-by-step instructions for placing trades online or with your broker ...
- How Mike finds the options he feels offer you the greatest profit potential with the lowest risk ...
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