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Fellow Investor, A small group of investors are making Wall Street’s mistakes their golden opportunities. You see, Market Mistakes happen when the markets overreact to temporary bad news about a stock. And that huge gap between the undervalued stock’s beaten-down price and actual value of the stock is where the HUGE PROFITS are. And its happening like clockwork in today’s markets in short periods of two months or less. The markets have been overreacting for years creating hundreds of thousands of Market Mistakes… and a select group of investors have been racking up amazing profits. Take Apple Computers circa 2003. The tech bubble had burst, sending investors scattering. And the company was caught flat-footed with a sluggish product pipeline. By May, its stock was scraping bottom at $6.78. Then it happened… That same month, Apple announced the iPod. Within one year, its shares had risen more than 150% to $17… and two years later it was up nearly 565% to almost $45 a share. What happened? Apple had become a classic Market Mistake. They threw Apple out to the lions and expected it to get devoured. Apple was a sound company with great management and ground-breaking technology and innovation. The company knew it was a great value… but the market overreacted. But Apple hasn’t been the only casualty. The market has made countless Mistakes over the years. Think Texaco, Avis, Disney, LEGO, Gillette, Ford, Starbucks, eBay, and so many others. Each is a strong, exchange-listed company with a profitable track record. But in each case, the market punished them unjustly when they stumbled. And in each case they came back stronger than ever. Market Mistakes like these are happening now more than any time in stock market history. Why? Because today more solid companies are irrationally undervalued as a result of the global financial panic. And now is the best time in history to take advantage of them because... Market Mistakes are the secret hiding places of stock market fortunes. And they are hottest at the beginning of a new bull market, like the one we are experiencing right now. Investors who claim their stakes before a company emerges from the doghouse could be rewarded time after time with explosive profits. Here’s the reason: Once Wall Street wakes up to its mistake, it ignites a single-stock buying frenzy like no other except the hottest IPOs. Just ask superstar investors like Warren Buffett, Eddie Lambert, Sumner Redstone, and a host of other masters who rapidly multiplied their fortunes by investing in undervalued turnaround companies. Or ask subscribers to my Skousen Turnaround Trader, who’ve profited from these turnaround companies by buying them before their single-stock buying frenzy began and made...
... in an average of just 42 days each... Which is no surprise. Because turnarounds make their biggest moves just as they are getting up from the canvas. Often with double- and triple-digit gains and that’s when we get in on them -- at their earliest stages of recovery, not after they’ve already made their moves. If you’d bought these stocks just before Wall Street got wind of their recoveries, your profits could have been life changing. Just ask Rachel C., a subscriber to Skousen Turnaround Trader. Rachel wrote: “I have been able to quit my full time job and support myself on the profits from your recommended investments while going to school and founding my own company. Your investment advice is worth its weight in gold, and has changed my life for the better. Saying ‘Thanks’ just seems inadequate.” Or consider this, from Rick K...
“I started following your advice and became an avid investor. Today our portfolio is well over a million dollars and for that reason I am very thankful to you.” The Secret to Turnaround Profits My name is Mark Skousen. I’m the editor of Skousen Turnaround Trader. You may know me as the editor of the award-winning newsletter Forecasts & Strategies. Or as the advisor who called the 1987 stock market collapse and predicted in March 2009 -- at the market bottom -- that we’d see a 10,000 Dow by the end of the year. I’ll tell you more about my track record later. But first I must stress one basic principle that you cannot forget. Only investors who already own shares when a turnaround explodes are rewarded with the fastest and greatest profits with the least risk. After all… turnarounds are where the smart money is today, as MSN Money reported:
Did you nail down lightning-fast profits like these when --
If you were a subscriber to Skousen Turnaround Trader, you could have. And because we get in and out of trades quickly, we can profit again and again, month after month, week after week. Right now I’ve identified several stocks that could bring you meteoric profits like these. I’ll tell you about them in a minute. But first, you need to know... How Market Mistakes Happen Let me explain how a solid company becomes a Market Mistake. It starts with a piece of unsettling news. It could be an earnings disappointment, a dividend cut, an industry slump, a lawsuit, a one-time loss, or even just a rumor. Usually, the news comes as a surprise, which makes Wall Street nervous. So investors panic. Where previously there were diverse opinions about the company, now investors march in lockstep down a cliff, punishing the stock until they leave it far below its intrinsic value. Burned on the way down, these disappointed investors stay away from the stock as if it had leprosy. BIG MISTAKE! And they make this mistake time and time again. Market Mistakes are the Secret Hiding Places Wall Street’s Mistakes are our golden opportunities. By the time management turns a fallen angel into a formidable competitor once again, Wall Street has stopped paying attention. That’s when we load up on shares. What happens next is almost inevitable. Especially when it involves a solid company. (The only kind Skousen Turnaround Trader cares about.) For example, the markets gave up on Thornburg Mortgage and were banking on it going down the drain… and after their troubles they turned a blind eye to Whole Foods hoping that they would disappear. But what happened was on the contrary. Smart investors capitalized on the Market Mistakes and walked away with 131% in 2 days with Thornburg Mortgage and 84% in under 2 months with Whole Foods! If they’d been thinking, they’d have said ‘No way!’ But the markets don’t think. They just panic and react. After a while Wall Street finally notices that its fallen angel is back from the brink. Word on the street starts as a whisper and turns into a shout as news of the company’s recovery spreads. Then the same herd mentality that drove the stock into the ground bids it up in a feeding frenzy. Most individual investors, however, buy into the rally when the stock is already well into its climb. They’re too late, and they suffer because of it. But subscribers to Skousen Turnaround Trader get in BEFORE the market recognizes its Mistake. We get OUT when the buying frenzy goes beyond the rational. And that frequently rewards us with FAST -- and often HUGE -- gains in short periods of time. And then we turn around and do it again. For example, if you’d been a subscriber, you could have pocketed…
These profits are NOT exaggerations. They are the actual results of our trades. Here are the inside stories on three of our recent big winners.. Anatomy of a Fast 145% Profit Take Urban Outfitters, for example. For years it’s been an expertly run, innovative, niche specialty retailer and wholesaler with stores throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. It also has a catalog, a retail web site, owns the Anthropologie chain, and has a wholesale business. But when the global financial crisis hit, investors did a simple -- and simplistic -- calculation: Retail apparel + Recession = Disaster They bludgeoned all retail apparel stocks, including Urban Outfitters. BIG MISTAKE! Because while investors were cringing, we knew something they didn’t. In the previous 12 months:
On August 13, 2009, the company reported better-than-expected earnings. But we’d already recommended Urban Outfitters on June 17. If you’d bought it then, you’d have sold on August 28 for a fast 32.1% gain on the stock and a huge 145.8% profit on the options, in a little over two months. 50% Profit on Corning -- 311% for Options Buyers! -- Corning is another perfect example of a Market Mistake. The company is the world’s largest fiber optics firm. It manufactures liquid crystal displays (LCDs) for computers, monitors, and flat panel TVs. In late 2008, it was blind-sided by the global recession. Its revenues plummeted 31%, profits nose-dived 65%, and its stock was slapped down by 61%. But Corning was still profitable. And after the panic, its stock was selling for a mind-boggling 3x last year’s earnings. You would have thought every trader from here to China would be piling on a Fortune 500 company selling at 3x earnings. But the market had divorced Corning and wasn’t looking back. BIG MISTAKE! In February 2009, we saw the first signs that the global crisis was beginning to ease. And our research revealed that U.S. sales of LCD TVs jumped by 35% between January 2008 and January 2009. Sales in Japan were up 17%, and in China they had skyrocketed by 109%. In addition, Corning was in the middle of a cost-cutting initiative, its inventories were good, and panel prices were stabilizing. It was just a matter of time until Wall Street woke up. We bought Corning at $10.03 on February 24. And we recommended its August $15 calls for those who wanted a bigger bang for their buck. Within a couple of weeks, Corning posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit, with guidance pointing to even better results ahead. Fifty-seven days later, on April 28, we pocketed a 50% gain on the stock and banked a fat 311% profit bonus on Corning’s options.That’s called capitalizing on the market’s Mistakes. Wouldn’t you like to get in on profits like these? A 333% Profit Rocket That Proves the Point And then there’s Garmin, the world’s second-largest maker of GPS systems. Caught in the jaws of the financial crisis, its 2008 revenues plunged 34% and earnings fizzled by 67%. The stock rolled downhill from $100 a share in late 2007 to as low as $20.34 in May 2009. Then the market washed its hands of Garmin and walked away. BIG MISTAKE! Garmin’s profit margins were a sound 19%… it was debt free… and it had nearly $1 billion in cash. Plus it was exploiting its GPS technology in a host of new markets, the company was selling at only 7x earnings… And insiders were gobbling up the stock. We pulled the trigger on June 9, 2009. As if on schedule, Garmin soon announced earnings per share that were much higher than expected. The rest is history. We sold Garmin 66 days later. Our more conservative members took home a 28.6% profit. And members who bought options were rewarded with a whopping 333% profit.
Skousen Turnaround Trader is dedicated to Building Your Wealth Quickly It’s solely dedicated to uncovering the market’s most unfairly punished companies, buying their stocks just before the market recognizes their recoveries, and selling for fast profits when their stocks takesoff. How do I find grand-slam turnaround plays among the 9,000 or so companies traded on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ? It’s not easy.
I spend hours every day scouting the financial media. I constantly work the phone looking for tidbits of information that can lead us to mega-profits. Because I’ve been a leading economist and market analyst for over 35 years, my rolodex is packed with some of today’s most successful analysts, advisors, hedge fund managers, investment bankers, financial reporters, top executives, and others. And I keep a watchful eye on well-known turnaround artists like T. Boone Pickens, Carl Icahn, Rupert Murdoch, and Sumner Redstone. Like you, these mega-successful investors are risk-averse. That’s why they’ve accumulated such wealth. And Skousen Turnaround Trader is just as risk-averse. Here’s something you must understand… There is less risk in a turnaround than a “regular” stock because the turnaround is so undervalued. Generally, it has been hammered so low that it has nowhere to go but up. When I find a candidate, I filter it through criteria like these before I’ll tell you about it.
THAT’S WHY WE’VE SCORED MORE WINNING TRADES THAN LOSING TRADES ALMOST EVERY YEAR SINCE WE BEGAN PUBLISHING IN 2004. “For over 25 years, I have conducted an annual feature asking the nation's leading
Skousen Turnaround Trader’s Long History of Profitable Trades How can I assure you that Skousen Turnaround Trader is worth your time? While it’s true that we have losing trades as well as winning ones, here’s my strongest proof… WE’VE HAD MORE WINNING TRADES THAN LOSING TRADES IN EVERY YEAR SINCE SKOUSEN TURNAROUND TRADER BEGAN PUBLISHING IN 2005. And as we both know, the only way to gauge the future performance of an advisor is to look at his track record. This will give you an idea, from our September 16, 2009 issue…
Maybe September 2009’s win streak isn’t playing fair. After all, the market was in one of its steepest climbs in history. But… Skousen Turnaround Trader has turned in similar winning streaks EVERY YEAR since we began publication in 2005. Here they are, not including the windfall profits you could have pocketed by adding options to your investments:
These profits could be in your portfolio if you were a Skousen Turnaround Trader subscriber. Which explains letters of appreciation like these... "It has paid the subscription fee many times over." -- J. Castillo “Your advice has made all the difference to our family's quality of life… We set aside I’m Famous for Making “Outrageous” Predictions
The answer is simple: I’m a trained economist, and few investment advisors have the depth and breadth of experience that I do. I began my career as a CIA economist. I’ve been a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, a columnist for Forbes magazine and written for many publications including The Wall Street Journal, Liberty, Human Events, Reason, and The Journal of Economic Perspectives, and appeared on ABC News, CNBC Power Lunch, CNN, and C-SPAN Book TV. Several of my books on finance and accounting for professional and private investors have been best-sellers. I earned my Masters in economics and my Ph.D. in economics and monetary history from George Washington University. Since then I’ve taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business (where I became interested in turnarounds) and at Rollins College. Since 1980, I’ve been editor in chief of the award-winning newsletter Forecasts & Strategies. And I founded Skousen Turnaround Trader in June, 2005. But this is what I’m most proud of, and what subscribers value the most... I’m one of the few economists who has called most of the major market moves over the last 30 years. You’re in good hands with Skousen Turnaround Trader. If you were already a subscriber, you could have rewarded yourself with profits like these:
Three Strategies to Profit from Skousen Turnaround Trader
Before I reveal how to trade at your comfort level, there’s one thing you need to know. I must repeat… There is generally less risk in turnarounds than “regular” stocks because turnarounds are so undervalued. They’ve been hammered so low they have nowhere to go but up. They’re almost inoculated against more bad news! And when the good news comes, they can accelerate to the stratosphere quickly. There are three ways you can use Skousen Turnaround Trader… But, one of the most effective strategies for consistently beating the market is to take the emotion out of your investment decisions. Skousen Turnaround Trader is the perfect tool for that. If you simply follow our recommendations, you’ll be as cool and collected as the most battle-hardened Wall Street veteran. Yes, we’ll take a small loss now and then. But Skousen Turnaround Trader’s recommendations have netted out on the upside every single year since we began publishing in 2005. Now is the Time to Act In life, timing is everything. And in today’s market, with so many good solid companies still under water in spite of the recent rally, Market Mistakes are abundant.
I promise you this: You won’t have to wait six months or a year for Wall Street to discover the BUY recommendations you get in Skousen Turnaround Trader. Our track record of gains in just days or weeks prove the point. (Although some of our recommendations can take longer to pay out.) Why I’m Giving Away 60 Days FREE -- The reason I want you to try Skousen Turnaround Trader for 60 days at my expense is simple: You might think this letter is full of overblown claims and promises. So you must experience the hidden profits in Market Mistakes for yourself. And 60 days is enough time to appreciate Skousen Turnaround Trader in action. The usual 30-day trial that other investment advisors give you simply isn’t long enough to evaluate their claims. And 60 days should answer all your questions. We will issue a 60-day trial membership to everyone who replies to this letter. But we will accept only the first 500 paid subscribers. Skousen Turnaround Trader must enforce this policy. If we don’t limit our membership to an exclusive “in-group,” we run the risk of moving the market in special situations. We will accept paying members on a first-come first-served basis. Let the Market Pay for Your Subscription
How much would you be willing to pay for supercharged profits? Would you pay $5,000 a year? Several elite advisory services will charge you that and more. Would it be reasonable to pay $2,500? How about $1,750 for what I guarantee will be the most authoritative and trustworthy trading advice anywhere? There’s no need to spend that kind of money! Your cost for Skousen Turnaround Trader is only $2.73 a day. Less than coffee and a donut. And when you subscribe today, you’ll get a special New Member savings of $255 off the regular one-year rate of $1,250 -- and pay just $995 for one full year. Considering your profit potential, I can guarantee you’ll make AT LEAST four double-digit gainers in next 60 days as you reap profits from its Mistakes. Plus, to make payment easier, we’ll gladly bill your credit card $275 a quarter if you wish, and you can cancel your membership at any time. Or… if you'd like to save even more, you can choose a 2-year subscription for $1,695 and save a full $805 savings off the regular 2-year rate of $2,500. See the Trial Membership Form for details. Or, if you prefer, call 1-800-717-7007.
Market Mistakes I’m Looking at Now Right now Skousen Turnaround Trader is recommending several fast-turnaround plays that could put major profits in your pocket. I can’t tell you what they are here. But I can tell you this… All the details are spelled out in a clear, easy to understand way in the first Trial Issue you’ll receive instantly when you respond... Limited Opportunity -- Accept Today
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