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The New Subscriber Guide is the one-stop-shop for all “how to use” information for this service, If you haven’t downloaded it already, you should do so right now. It is designed to explain all KEY FEATURES:

Actionable recommendations & types

Stocks, ETFs, Futures & Options Basics

Currently Open Positions table

Recently Closed Positions table

Subscriber Questions Answered

The limited-time BONUS Nasdaq 100 trades

It’s a free, self-contained, 52MB PDF file for easy access online or off.

The 10 Most Frequently Asked

Questions By New Subscribers

While the New Subscriber Guide is loaded with very helpful information you should definitely review, the 10 topics most frequently sought are briefly covered in these (click to) open-close questions…

  • 1. When Will I Receive My First Recommendation?

    Since this service tends to average about 4-10 new recommendations each (normal) month, you will likely you will get your first trade as soon as minutes from now to as long as perhaps 7-14 days from now. Be sure to review the New Subscriber Guide for information about each new recommendation, so you are as ready as possible to take full advantage.

    A key concept behind all of our services is that we do NOT force trades out on some kind of quota. So our goal is NOT 4-10 new recommendations in this service... that's just typically how many are shared. Our actual goal is QUALITY over quantity, so recommendation alerts are emailed when our advanced systems followed by qualitative analysis yield a favorable trade that meets our criteria.

    What does that mean? We could go several WEEKS without sharing a single recommendation and then have a flurry of them come fast & furious over a few days. The best market opportunities are like that... offering themselves up for investment only when ideal entry variables say so.

    So don't sweat it if you go upwards of even a few weeks with no new recommendations or get many new ones in only a short number of days. Such things happen like that: periods of calm & normal, then periods of frenzied abnormal. Our goal here is to share ideal trades with great odds to yield a good result. Have patience in slower times and don't feel overwhelmed in fast & furious times. If you step way out to maybe a year from now and look back at it all, you'll likely see that we averaged about 4-10 new recommendations each month.

  • 2. How Do I Know There Is a New Recommendation?

    All recommendations are emailed typically in the early morning ahead of the day when trades are to be placed... usually between about 6am and 9am ET. Now that's not ALWAYS the case. We reserve the right to share recommendations at other times... but MOST of the alerts from this service should arrive in that morning window.

    Subscribers simply watch or listen for new email and then place the trade with their own broker.

  • 3. Should New Subscribers Buy Any of the Currently Open Positions?

    Subscribers are free to do whatever they want as they use our service. However, our general suggestion is to NOT buy into existing trades in the Currently Open Position table. Why? The drivers of what made us recommend them at a specific point in the past will be different now... and some may be close to closing out and thus not have much real opportunity in them.

    We believe it is generally best for each new subscriber to start fresh with the next recommendation that is released. That means you would enter the new trade at the ideal time instead of well after that time... and when everything we foresee about the trade is still ahead instead of somewhat to mostly already realized and/or facing headwinds that meaningfully alter our view of the opportunity.

  • 4. How Do Subscribers Know When to Get OUT of Each Position?

    One of the most popular benefits of this service is that most trades AUTOMATICALLY close. For most trades, when we issue a new recommendation, we also share what are called GTC and STOP orders to place after a new trade is filled. The GTC is our target profit. It lets you order your broker to exit a position that hits the target. The STOP is the point BELOW entry where we would like to- in effect- bail out of a trade going too far awry to preserve capital for future trades. In other words, the STOP is like our loss limit recommendation.

    Select trades will NOT include the GTC or Stop on the initial recommendation. Instead, that information will be added as an update to the recommendation after it is officially filled. Why the delay? In select cases, we want to set the GTC and STOP based on an official fill price.

    When either the GTC or Stop is triggered, the trade ends and you will know that by 2 methods:

    1. The most obvious one is your broker confirmation should- as the name implies- confirm that you have exited an existing trade, at what price, etc.

    2. The other way to tell is when an existing position shifts from the Currently Open Positions to the Recently Closed Positions table on the website. When it does, we consider it an officially closed position.

    Automating the exits with standing broker orders is a great way to trade with tremendous discipline. Instead of having to wonder about the ideal timing of when to exit a trade, you know right up front, exactly where we suggest exiting in either scenario. It cannot be any easier!

  • 5. How Much Money Should Be Used for Each Recommendation?

    As publishers, this is none of our business at all. Our information is provided "for educational purposes only" and it is not the domain of publishers to get into any kind of individualized advice. Only you can decide the right answer to this question.

    However, that shared, there are a few generalized considerations for all subscribers that might help you better think about this concept:

    1. This service is in & out of trades fairly quickly, so we would consider it unusual to have more than about 10-15 positions open at the same time. With that in mind, if a subscriber wanted to take advantage of every recommendation and not pick & choose only some of them, they could divide the total amount of money they want to use by about 15 and that would give them the maximum to consider for any one trade. Using that amount or less for every trade should never lead to a situation where there is no remaining cash reserve to utilize... and thus no skipped trades because they are "all in."

    2. Since not every trade ends up profitable, it is wise to always allocate a cash cushion to help cover some inevitable downside. Again, it is none of a publisher's business in terms of whether any subscriber uses any amount of money to trade our recommendations (or not trade them) and/or how much they might use, a very good, general rule is "do not put all your eggs in one basket!" As it might apply to this concept, no one should be putting all of their money in any one trade, a few pick & choose trades or even ALL of these per a "what if" calculation in #1. Instead, building in some cash reserve is always a good idea.

    If you need something more specific than that, please consult your registered investment advisor who should be able to help you choose the right amount to allocate. That kind of professional should understand your personal particulars like risk tolerance and similar and thus be able to offer that kind of specific advice. As publishers, we can NOT offer that kind of information.

  • 6. What Happens if the Market Turns: Bull Becomes Bear and Vice-Versa?

    Since we employ both a target profit (GTC) and a loss-limiting bail point (STOP) a surprise reversal against the trade will likely trigger the stop and terminate the trade. Part of why we use STOPs is for this exact scenario: cut losses short to free up capital for other trades.

    If we anticipate such an event and have some added downside concerns, we may send a follow-up email to cancel existing orders and put in a new GTC and/or a new STOP. For example, if a position is very close to GTC but some support for it actually reaching that target is weakening, we might send a "manual exit" recommendation alert... which would basically suggest canceling the existing order and either sell at market now to close the position or perhaps tighten the STOP much closer than the "almost closed" position so that even triggering the STOP could still be a profitable trade. Such email is likely to be rare: MOST OF THE TIME either the GTC or STOP will close trades in this service. But we are free to offer such alerts when they are warranted.

    If this question is actually asking can this service make money in bear markets too? Yes, it can! We can issue various kinds of trades that can profit in either direction. Learn more in the New Subscriber Guide.

  • 7. How Many Recommendations Should I Expect Each Month?

    Approx 4-10 in a typical month. Note that this service will not force out new trades to meet some perceived quota. The goal is always QUALITY of results over QUANTITY of email alerts. All investors should appreciate prioritizing good outcomes over pushing out anything less than our very best opportunities.

    The longest anticipated holding period could get up to several months and we expect no more than 10-15 positions to be open at any one time. So that could lead to periods of time where there are few recommendations over a span of several weeks and then flurries of new recommendations in as little as only a week or two. Such activity variability is NORMAL.

  • 8. Can You Manage My Account For Me, Like a Fund Manager or Full-Service Broker?

    No. We are what is called a financial publisher, NOT any kind of money manager, broker, fund manager, RIA, or similar. That means we can freely and completely objectively provide our BEST trade ideas to all subscribers... but then subscribers need to use their own broker if they want to actually trade any of them. A publisher never touches subscriber money... nor can even advise subscribers on any personal money matter. Anyone needing that kind of service should consult a registered investment advisor or similar who can operate in that kind of personalized, one-to-one way.

  • 9. Is it OK to pick & choose only SOME of the recommendations?

    Of course. As a subscriber, you are free to trade or not trade any recommendation we share. It's actually none of our business as a publisher if anyone trades anything we've recommended.

    This is mostly a stock & ETF service, and many people are quite comfortable with those vehicles. However, the service will also share a few futures and options (call & put buying) recommendations too. Both of those tend to be less familiar territory and some choose to just skip those trades. Others FAVOR those trades and skip the simpler ones. To each, his or her own.

    As a publisher, we provide all recommendations "for educational purposes only." If people want to trade any or none of them, that's their business... and none of ours. What we can offer regarding this question is that there is no special advantage to trading all vs. only some recommendations. This is NOT a diversified portfolio-type service where all trades play a role in an overall whole basket of trades.

  • 10. What If I Have a Question NOT Covered In This List or Within the New Subscriber Guide?

    The form right below this question is an ideal way to submit a question about some topic we've missed in the NSG and this list. That's one of 2 reasons that form is there: WE LISTEN! So use it whenever you need it.

    Note that if you have a question about service activity, trades, educational information, etc., BEFORE you ask it here, you might check the Subscriber Questions Answered feature... as those kinds of "service activity/investing/education" questions will always be posted there. And if the question is more general in nature- not necessarily "for subscriber eyes only"- it may be covered in an Investing Education menu item called Investor Questions Answered.

Any Question We Missed?

If we didn’t cover something in the NSG or the 10 questions just above, please ask. The NSG is a “living document”, meaning it gets updates from time to time. Our goal is to eventually have everything any subscriber wants to know about the service all covered within its pages. 

We typically answer questions within 1 business day.

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