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Specific entry recommendations in a beginner-friendly format are provided by email alerts. If you haven’t done so already, you can review a sample of a new recommendation on the FREE SAMPLES page.
For exits, the entry recommendation email will also share what is called a Good ’Til Canceled order and a Trailing Stop order. These are placed AFTER the new buy trade is confirmed as filled. The GTC order is our predetermined profit target. If it is reached, your broker should automatically close the trade at that price level. Another confirmation from them should let you know that the profit target was realized.
If a trade shifts too far in the wrong direction, the Trailing Stop is in place to close such trades. This will be an order to exit the trade if the price falls by the percentage we provide below the highest price the stock or ETF reached after the initial trade alert was emailed. This can result in a loss, small loss, small win or a profit up fairly close to target but not quite the full target, depending on market movements.
If there is an unusual situation where we want to urgently exit at some level between the trailing stop and GTC orders that are in place, we will send an exit alert via email, similar to the entry alert email. It will provide beginner-friendly information to help subscribers close that trade with their broker.
The holding period varies by the risk/reward and subsequent price action of any given trade, but we generally estimate the average holding period to be about 90 days. Note that “average” means that some trades will be held LONGER than 90 days and other trades will be held for LESS than 90 days. That 90 day “average” could move around over time, since we are not managing the closing of trades to target any particular holding period. Instead, we are always trading to maximize profits for subscribers. If the average shifts up or down to support maximizing profits, so be it.
Unlike many other services, we are focused on ETF and individual stock trades, so we can usually buy in and close out “at market” pricing. This means our recommendations are typically filled very quickly after you place your order.
We typically email our trade alerts at night when the market is closed. That gives you plenty of time to review our trade rationale and decide if you would like to enter that trade or not. You can then place the trade orders with your broker whenever you like, with most subscribers executing their orders the next morning.
For example, if we email a new trade recommendation to subscribers on a Tuesday evening, you can place the market order to enter the trade on Wednesday morning. Since it’s an “at market” order, you’ll be filled soon after markets open on Wednesday.
If you are a new subscriber asking about buying into trades already opened, our recommendation is to NOT enter into “old” trades, but to begin following our service with the next brand new trade recommendation that arrives. We average about 4-10 trade alerts each month, so a new one can be as soon as only hours or days away.
We typically email an average of 4 to 10 trade alerts every month to newsletter subscribers. Thus, we expect to send about 48-120 trades each year. Some months could be very busy with more than 10 trades and others could be lighter with less than 4 trades. We only email the best trade opportunities we see at any given time among thousands of individual stock and ETF alternatives, so we do not FORCE trades out to hit any quota. We only send out trades that we 100% believe can accomplish our profit objectives.
No, we do all the hard work for you. We email trade alerts throughout the month and automate the exits with Good ’Til Canceled (GTC) and Trailing Stop orders. Once you place the buy order, and then immediately afterwards place the GTC and Trailing Stop orders with your broker, your work is done. We make it very easy to follow our recommendations.
Most of our trade alerts are emailed in the evening after markets have closed. We generally recommend that the trades are executed the next morning that the markets open.
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But, BEFORE you do that, please take note that we provide answers to many customer service questions on this page, and in the Help and First-Time Visitor pages.
If you are relatively new here, the website tour might also help answer many questions.
If you are a newsletter service subscriber, the “how to use” New Subscriber Guide is loaded with virtually everything we’ve ever been asked related to the service. It even has its own FAQ section especially for subscribers. Download the latest edition of that on the NSG page.
Yes. Download the free sample issue and an order form is appended as the last page. Just follow the instructions on that page to order in whichever way you like.
No, they are all self-contained, so none of them are intended to be reviewed before another.
We may publish some special reports or webinars from time to time that DO have a recommended review sequence, but that will be clearly shown on the special report and webinar pages and/or the titles will include a reference like “Part 1 of 2” to make it clear.
There is such an amazing wealth of knowledge in all of our book recommendations, it’s hard to single out a few key ones for any individual, since everyone has different interests and backgrounds.
Having said that, here are our top three recommendations in each book category, listed in order of preference:
Investing Fundamentals:
- Peter D. Schiff's “Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From The Economic Collapse”
- Charles MacKay's “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds”
- George S. Clason's “The Richest Man in Babylon”
Technical Analysis:
- Stan Weinstein’s “Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets”
- Gary Antonacci's “Dual Momentum Investing”
- Michael W. Covel's “Trend Following”
Economic Theory:
- Robert P. Murphy and Donald J. Boudreaux's “Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action”
- Murray N. Rothbard's “Man, Economy and State with Power and Market”
- Ayn Rand's “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”
Money, Banking and Business Cycles:
- Richard M. Ebeling’s “The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle and Other Essays”
- Murray N. Rothbard's “What Has Government Done To Our Money? and Case For The 100% Gold Dollar”
- Jesus Huerta de Soto's “Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles”
Economic History:
- Murray N. Rothbard's “America’s Great Depression”
- Thomas E. Woods Jr.'s “Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse”
- Murray N. Rothbard's “An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought”
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