| Telus (NYSE: TU) commercials are always 'cute and cuddly'. Their ads feature animals alongside the device they are trying to push, and usually the spots come off well. 2 new commercials have come out from the Canadian carrier, one in English, and one in French. The ads are called 'The Pieces Fit', and you'll clearly see why after you check them out. The English version features the song 'Got Me' by Stars & Crosses, while the French version features 'Casse-tête' from Coeur de Pirate. You'll also notice that the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Storm is featured, with appearances from the Pearl, Pearl Flip, the original BlackBerry Curve and the HTC Touch Pro. Some light Friday morning viewing for you all. Enjoy.
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| Verizon to pay out quarterly dividend Posted: 05 Mar 2009 06:34 PM PST
Verizon Wireless will pay out $0.46 for each of its 2.8 billion shares of common stock held by some 2.4 million shareholders. Verizon Wireless Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Alltel's Palm Treo Pro now available online Posted: 05 Mar 2009 04:38 PM PST
Today, Alltel is pushing the Alltel Treo Pro in full force. Alltel customers can get in on the action with a Treo Pro pre-order that should make Treo Pro fans on Sprint's network just a bit green with envy. Aside from the CDMA internals, the CDMA Palm Treo Pro sports much the same feature set as its GSM-brethren. Although, with a nicely up-rated 528Mhz CPU and 512MB on-board storage, the CDMA Palm Treo Pro is decidedly more powerful than its GSM counterparts. The Alltel Treo Pro packs a touchscreen, 2-megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, microSD card slot and 3G data connectivity - all powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. Alltel is offering the Palm Treo Pro for $199 after a $125 mail-in rebate that comes with a 2-year contract committment, and they'll throw in a free Bluetooth headset with all online orders. Grab your Alltel Treo Pro pre-order here. [Via: PalmInfoCenter] Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Windows 98 running on Nokia N95! Posted: 05 Mar 2009 04:08 PM PST
What you're seeing here are pictures and video of good 'ole Windows 98 doing its thing on a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95 and a Nokia N85. Both cellphones are part of Nokia's high-end NSeries lineup, so it's a given that both the Nokia N95 and N85 were up to the task of running Win98. Granted, things take a little longer to execute when you're running your Windows 98 desktop off of a Nokia N85, but just the fact that we can remember desktop boot-times on par with what you see in the video is just astounding!   [Via: Dailymobile.se] Related News from IntoMobile:
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| China Unicom chairman confirms Apple iPhone talks! Posted: 05 Mar 2009 03:51 PM PST
"We are in talks with many handset suppliers, including Apple," Chang said at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The confirmation of a Chinese carrier's on-going talks with Apple has again sparked speculation that Apple is ready to bring its iPhone to China. China Mobile (NYSE: CHL), China's government-backed wireless market-leader, has reportedly shunned Apple on several occasions over revenue control issues, leaving room for China Unicom to enter as a potential iPhone carrier. China Unicom is also working to roll out a nationwide 3G network based on the same WCDMA technology that the iPhone 3G uses, which bodes well for the No. 2 Chinese wireless carrier taking on the iPhone 3G. China Mobile's TD-SCDMA network would require Apple to either allow its iPhone 3G to run on a slower 2G network or develop and manufacture a completely new iPhone that is fully compatible with China Mobile's network. In either case, an iPhone on China Mobile's network seems more like a compromise than a tactical advantage. Although, China Mobile does boast the world's largest network with a 415 million-strong subscriber-base. Such a monstrous market may prove too tempting for Apple to resist a stab at capturing a significant chunk of the world's single-largest mobile market. China Unicom's network has only 168 million users (which still eclipses any US wireless carrier by an order of magnitude), in comparison. All eyes are on China Unicom to deliver an iPhone 3G to China. Perhaps China Unicom is the reason for Apple's recent iPhone production ramp-up? [Via: CNNMoney] Related News from IntoMobile:
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| BlackBerry 8230 Pearl Flip goes official on Telus website! Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:56 PM PST
With Best Buy Canada already offering the BlackBerry 8230 Pearl on pre-order and Bell having recently launched the Pearl Flip, it was only a matter of time before Telus got their act together and started showing off the BlackBerry Pearl 8230 on their homepage. Telus is listing the Pearl Flip as "Coming Soon," but stops short of listing pricing details. Word on the street has the consumer-oriented BlackBerry flip-phone commanding a $50 price tag when purchased with 3-year contract, or $449 free-and-clear of any contract obligations. [Via: EngadgetMobile] Related News from IntoMobile:
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| WeFi - Find WiFi hotspots anywhere in the world Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:35 PM PST
Enter We-Fi. We-Fi offers all kinds of ways to find a WiFi hotspot near you. You can enter an address in We-Fi's web-based hotspot locator. You can install We-Fi's desktop clients for your PC or Mac. And, most importantly, you can use We-Fi's mobile hotspot locator on your mobile phone! With We-Fi installed on your Windows Mobile or Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphone, you can leverage We-Fi's database of more than 17 million (that's "million," as in six zeros) hotspots around the world to connect to the highest-quality WiFi hotspot in your vicinity. We-Fi installs as a homescreen overlay that makes it easy for you to get connected to a WiFi hotspot. With the WiFi radio turned "on," We-Fi automatically checks nearby WiFi SSIDs with its always-updated database of quality hotspots. We-Fi connects to the nearest WiFi hotspot that has been verified as "good" by other We-Fi users. In the absence of any previously mapped hotspots, We-Fi will connect to the first available hotspot and determine its quality - and will send connection-quality data back to We-Fi servers for use by other We-Fi users. Check the video demonstration below. We-Fi is available for free here. Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Video: Sony Ericsson W705 TV commercial Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:18 PM PST Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) is obviously confident that their W705 will be a hit, hence we've already seen few clips that the Swedish-Japanese handset maker has released to promote the device. Today we present you with yet another such (actually similar) video, which is actually the official W705 TV commercial. It will take only 30 seconds of your time and it will entertain you. Kinda, sorta… Enjoy! [Via: SEMC blog] Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Internet Explorer Mobile 6 to be available on new WM 6.1 smartphones! Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:58 AM PST
But, that doesn't mean current WinMo fans are going to be left out of the IE Mobile 6 party. We're just learning that Microsoft is looking to give its installed Windows Mobile user-base the same IE Mobile 6 web browsing experience that WinMo 6.5 users will be enjoying soon enough (hopefully sooner, rather than later). It seems that Microsoft wanted to avoid updating current-generation WM-based handsets with the 6.5 update because the sheer size of the .cab file proved problematic. So, to appease its customers, Microsoft will be rolling out Windows Mobile 6.1 AKU 1.4, bundled with IE Mobile 6, on all new Windows Mobile smartphones released from now until 6.5 goes lives. So, there you have it folks. Microsoft won't be giving Windows Mobile 6.1 users any sort of update to Windows Mobile 6.5, again, due to the enormous size of the WM6.5 file. But if you happen to be buying a new Windows Mobile handset soon, IE Mobile 6 is in the cards. Of course, there are going to be plenty of cooked WM 6.1 AKU 1.4 ROMs floating around in due time… [Via: EngadgetMobile] Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Nokia Places Bets on LTE, Device by 2010 Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:52 AM PST James Harper, senior manager of technology marketing at Nokia (NYSE: NOK), talked up their LTE plans in Texas recently, much to the chagrin of Sprint (NYSE: S) and their hopes for a successful WiMAX network.
Some think Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is the one who will host Nokia's first LTE handset which due to land sometime in 2010, the generally-accepted dawn of 4G, but don't rule out AT&T (NYSE: T); they have plans for an LTE network in 2012, which will doubtlessly host a few 4G Nokias. We still have a year to wait until we see how this all unfolds, but for the time being, Nokia has chosen their side. [via GigaOm] Related News from IntoMobile:
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| SHAPE Services' iPhone apps, IM+ All-in-One Messenger and IM+ for Skype, now available for 99 cents, each! Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:48 AM PST Just a short notice that two SHAPE Services' iPhone apps now have new, much lower prices. First comes IM+ All-in-One Messenger, which as you may guess for yourself enables you to connect with multiple IM networks from a single interface. The application is now available for $0.99. The same price ($0.99) could also buy you IM+ for Skype, the application that allows you to take and make phone calls using your Skype credit (it uses call-back service rather than VoIP) directly from your beloved handset. There you have it. Hope you'll take advantage of this action. I'm not sure it's a limited time offer, but you never know… Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Homes.com gets an iPhone app Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:43 AM PST Homes.com is joining the "iPhone wave" with a dedicated real estate search application. The free app is already available in the AppStore, allowing both homebuyers and renters to perform full-featured national property searches. Among the features included are possibility to:
In a nutshell - if you: a) own an iPhone; b) look for a place to rent or buy, and; c) don't have time to search the web from a desktop computer ― Homes.com's iPhone app should help you out. Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Kingston Mobile Contest invites camera phone users to submit their photos and videos Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:39 AM PST Kingston is inviting users to submit pictures or video clips taken from a camera phone as part of its Kingston Mobile Contest. Photos or short videos will be accepted through March 31, 2009, representing the following categories: dance/pose, fun pet tricks, travel/vacation and sports. A total of 32 prizes will be awarded ― including 8GB Kingston microSDHC cards, 8GB Mobility/Multi-Kits, 16GB SDHC video cards, DataTraveler HyperX Flash drives and assorted card readers; D-Link 10″ Photo Frames and XTreme N Dual Gigabit Wireless Routers; GoPro Motorsports HERO Wide cameras; Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth headsets; and Western Digital WD TV HD Media Players. Interested? Photo submissions can made through Kingston's website, while for video clips there's a dedicated page on YouTube. Good luck! Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Mobile phones more visible in Pyongyang, North Korea Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:35 AM PST When it comes to mobile technology, it seems things are moving slowly forward in North Korea. According to International Herald Tribune, mobile phones are becoming more visible in the country following the launch of a new network by Koryolink. The Koryolink system, named for an ancient Korean dynasty, started operating in December 2008, and as of mid-February it had more than 6,500 users. The 3G network was initially deployed to cover Pyongyang, which has a population of more than 2 million, and plans are to expand coverage to the entire country in the next few years. However, it's important to add that mobile phone use in North Korea comes with restrictions. Phones do not allow contact with the outside world, or with the special telephone networks, which foreigners are normally permitted to use inside the country… [Via: textually.org] Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Ikea launching telephony, internet services in Spain Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:30 AM PST Swedish group Ikea is working to launch fixed, mobile telephony and internet services on the Spanish market in the coming weeks. The services will be launched in partnership with three partners: Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), British Telecom and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD). Vodafone will provide the needed infrastructure for Ikea's upcoming MVNO called Ventaja Movil (Mobile Advantage), while Telefonica and British Telecom will be there to help Ikea with ADSL data services and wireless broadband services, respectively. As for the mobile offering (the part which we're actually interested the most), for 10 EUR per month, Ventaja Movil customers will receive free mobile calls, with no call setup fee within the operator's network. National calls to other mobile operator's networks will be charged 0.10 EUR per minute, plus the call setup fee of 0.15 EUR. Additionally, Ikea will offer discounted prices on mobile phone purchases ― the offer includes the Samsung J400, Samsung E250, and the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 2630, 2760 and 5200 phone models. Finally, some of the higher end phones will also be available to the customers: Samsung i600 and HTC S620, which will be sold for 195 EUR and 180 EUR, respectively. [Via: TelecomPaper] Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Confirmed: Nokia "Coming With Music" to U.S. this year Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:26 AM PST Ars Technica is reporting that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will be bringing its "Comes With Music" offering to the United States. In a recent interview, the company's Senior Manager for North American Communications, Chris Morris, said that U.S. will be blessed with Nokia's unlimited music offering "sometime in 2009." Nothing to specific, but then again, enough to keep some of our U.S.-based readers, Nokia fans happy. Those not familiar should know that Nokia "Comes With Music" handsets comes with unlimited music downloads service for a year, or some other predefined period. After that period expires, users get to keep all the songs they've downloaded during the time, even if they opt out from the service. Earlier this year, we saw the Finnish giant unveiling its "Comes With Music" offering for Singapore and Australia. [Via: Ars Technica] Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Zumobi's Pro Basketball free iPhone app offers real-time NBA news updates Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:23 AM PST Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)-owned Zumobi is out with yet another iPhone application, this time geared toward NBA fans. The app called Pro Basketball provides real-time updates on all 30 NBA teams ― including scores, stats, schedules, standings, player details, in-game updates, and post-game recaps. In addition, the application also offers detailed stats like offensive and defensive leaders for points, assists, rebounds, blocks, steals, and more. NBA fantasy enthusiasts can monitor their players and rosters with Pro Basketball's custom "Favorites" team-builder feature that creates a virtual team with stats galore. Finally, to make Pro Basketball even more appealing to fans, Zumobi made sure you can easily follow your favorite team news, only. In that sense, you can put your favorite team's logo on the homescreen to quickly view scores at a glance. To be fair, I'm not sure how this exactly works, but since we're talking about the free application, there's no reason why not to try it out ― that's in case you do appreciate NBA. Here's an AppStore link with more details and screenshots. Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Juniper Research: Mobile gambling wagers to approach $5 billion this year Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:20 AM PST Global mobile wagers are expected to approach $5 billion this year, fueled by acceleration in the deployment of on-portal mobile gambling services and higher-profile activity in the mobile channel from leading casinos and betting firms.
As part of its report, Juniper picked two companies two honor with their "Future Mobile Award for Mobile Gambling." The gold medal went to Mfuse, which secured a series of key contracts last year ― including William Hill and Sky Bet ― and achieved remarkable levels of bet volumes over its proprietary software. As for the silver medal, that one went to Spin3, the company behind the first commercially available play-for-real casino games for the iPhone and the first integrated mobile operator billing system for mobile casinos… More information about Juniper's report titled "Mobile Gambling: Casinos, Lotteries & Betting (5th edition)" is available from their website. Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Windows Mobile 6.5's native Facebook application now available to all! Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:04 AM PST
The Facebook application allows you to manage all your Facebook contacts and even look through users' galleries on a whim. The aim with this new application seems to be to bring the desktop Facebook experience to the mobile, albeit a more streamlined version. So, if you want to inject your older Windows Mobile smartphone with some of WinMo 6.5 goodness, head on over to xda-developers and download the "Facebook.cab" file to your handset. You'll need to install the application to "Internal Memory." Be warned, the Windows Mobile 6.5 Facebook application doesn't play too nicely with non-English ROM's (WWE), and first-launch start-up time will take longer than usual as the application fills its cache. If you're using a Windows Mobile smarpthone of any kind, and you have a Facebook account, you might want to give this new Facebook app a spin! xda-developers [Via: CoolSmartphone] Related News from IntoMobile:
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| Sprint Releases Leaked, Featuring Camera-Less BlackBerry 8350i Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:04 AM PST
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Windows 98 running on Nokia N95!
Looks like Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless is doing quite well for themselves. So well, in fact, that Verizon's Q4 2008 accounting books showed a 15% growth in quarterly earnings. Verizon netted themselves a cool $1.24 billion in the previous quarter, bucking the trend of fiscal losses in this gloomy economy. All that success is being passed down to Verizon's shareholders (as of April 9) with Verizon Wireless's declaration that quarterly dividends will be paid out on May 1.
As expected, Alltel has beaten Sprint (NYSE: S) to the punch with their own CDMA-based Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Treo Pro. The Alltel Treo Pro was expected to be available online on March 5th, but it turns out Alltel flipped the switch a few hours early, offering pre-orders to Treo Pro-loving night-owls last night.
Seeing Windows 3.1 running on an already-aged Nokia N95 reminded us just how far we've come in the past decade, or so. Then there was that iPhone running Mac OS 7 (System 7). Mobile phones these days, smartphones especially, are jam-packed with more computing power than we would have thought possible before the turn of the century. So, then, are these handsets today capable or running more robust, power-hungry platforms? Maybe even Windows 98? It seems that way.
Here we go again. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been trying to crack the China market with its iPhone for almost as long as the iPhone 3G has been around. With multiple rounds of reported negotiations between Apple and Chinese wireless carriers having fruited little more than speculation, the folks in Cupertino have yet to lay claim to China's mobile market. Today, China Unicom (China's runner-up wireless carrier) CEO Chang Xiaobing confirmed that his company has indeed been talking things over with Apple - presumably regarding an iPhone on China Unicom's network.
No, it's not the same as a product launch. But, for fans of the BlackBerry 8230 Pearl Flip with a loyalty to Telus (NYSE: TU)'s network, the appearance of the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Pearl 8230 on the Telus website is a good sign. Telus is apparently preparing to go live the BlackBerry 8230 Pearl in the near-term.
If you're the type to strive for a connected and mobile life, the cellphone in your pocket is likely a smartphone, and it likely has a WiFi radio. But, before you can take advantage of the high-speed WiFi connection, you'll need to find an available WiFi hotpsot. Finding that WiFi hotspot, however, can be a trying experience. Hopping from WiFi network to WiFi network in search of a stable, high-quality connection can get old fast. What if there was some way to know how good a particular WiFi hotspot was before connecting to it?
Windows Mobile 6.5 has been the talk of the WinMo-town of late. With an arguably more finger-friendly UI and its full-featured Internet Explorer Mobile 6 promising to deliver a more desktop-like browsing experience, Windows Mobile 6.5 is the de facto "next-big-thing" in the Windows Mobile camp. Unfortunately, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has taken a non-upgrade stance on the new WinMo OS - Windows Mobile 6.5 will only be available on new devices; there will be no updates for current Windows Mobile smartphones.
Juniper's latest report on mobile gambling found that UI improvements had already led to a surge in the volume of gambling activity during 2008, and that ― despite the global recession ― the industry would see further substantive growth in 2009.
Windows Mobile 6.5 may only be available to arm chair hackers looking to flash their precious smartphones with unofficial WinMo 6.5 ROMs, but xda-developers forum member "jau6gernaut" has extracted WM6.5's integrated Facebook application for use on any WinMo handset. The new Facebook application includes UI tweaks that jive with the new Windows Mobile 6.5's finger-friendly design, and offers Windows Mobile users of all sizes and colors (touchscreen, non-touchscreen, 5.0, 6.0, 6.1) a chance to play with their Facebook accounts through a native Windows Mobile application.
Release dates for a few new handsets on the way to Sprint (NYSE: S) have leaked out thanks to a Brightpoint report: the LG Rumor 2 gets a nod, suggesting a March 15th. release date, a yellow version of the ruggedized Motorola i580 should also be landing on the 15th., and the slimmer i9 will will be available for $399.99 SRP at the same time. The Treo Pro gets confirmed for the 15th. yet again, but the most interesting addition is a camera-less BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) 8350i. The Japanese BlackBerry Bold is the only other RIM device in recent memory with an excluded camera, likely targeting high-security enterprises. The last BlackBerry to eschew a camera since the DoCoMo 9000 was the old 8800 series, so maybe these options are a long time coming.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Be the Next to Book 190% Profit From 2009 Stock Market
These past few days have been amazing for options guru Steve Sarnoff. His most recent alert just landed in my inbox on Thursday. It was an update to a trade that triggered on Feb. 23. As it turns out, his readers had the chance to net 190% in 10 days — in a falling market!
His e-mails are short and to the point — and most importantly, they can be very profitable. To learn how you can get on Steve's e-mail list, just read below. I wouldn't want you to miss his next buy recommendation that could net you triple-digit gains…
Today, you have an exclusive chance to grab six free months of Agora Financial's best performing options research service.
That's a $500 value you can have for nothing.
But only for an extremely short time.
And if access to this generations-old profit key doesn't give you a chance for six money-multipliers in six months, you won't pay a dime. More on that guarantee in a moment...
Since we don't have much time, let's get right down to the details of this options service and how it's performed over the past nine years.
How $5,000 Could Turn Into as Much as $1.89 Million in Less Than 10 Years
In late 1999, Steve Sarnoff, a veteran options researcher, took over Options Hotline from his father, Paul.
Paul was the undisputed master when it came to turning options plays into triple-digit gains. Over the course of two decades, Steve learned everything he could from his dad... and picked up a few tricks of his own along the way.
And now, in less than ten years, Steve has amassed an unbelievable million-dollar track record.
Now, how is it that Steve can claim such a stellar achievement? Simple. He finds money-multipliers month after month. We calculate Steve's previous track record based on the highest point each of his actionable recommendations hits after he alerts his readers. Steve recommends opening positions and gives a general strategy to help readers determine a good closing point, but readers must use their own judgment in exiting a position. Here's the complete breakdown:
If you had plugged $5,000 into Steve's first play in 1999 and stuck with the service until now, putting $5,000 into each consecutive play and riding each one to its highest possible point, you could have turned those original $5,000 trades into $1,898,052 in pure profits in just under ten years.
Since it's up to readers to decide when to sell and it's tough to get out at the highest possible exit price, most readers will likely log sell prices shy of these recorded highest possible gains.
But even if you were to do only half as well... $949,026 —or $260 per day — still isn't bad!
And those stellar numbers become even more shocking when you realize that it takes only 5 minutes per day to use Options Hotline...
Where else could you "work" for five minutes per day and have the potential to reach almost $200,000 per year in return?
With Steve, you can have the opportunity to chase that kind of profit by playing an average of only 33 trades per year. You've seen the long-term track record — and you might wonder how Steve's done lately...
Over the past 2 ½ years, Steve's had a simply astonishing run. Every single one of the triggered picks he's made since Nov. 12, 2006, has either been a winner or broken even at some point after its recommendation and before its expiration.
That's right — no losers in our track record for 2 ½ years!!
I bet you won't find a better record in the entire world of financial publishing.
But let's drill down to some recent specifics... Here are a few highs reached by Steve's recommendations in the past year:
And as I said, Steve can achieve such amazing feats because we calculate his previous track record based on the highest point an option has reached after its recommendation.
So if Steve recommends the Barrick February $50 put, we'll track it until it reaches its highest point before expiration (Jan. 18, 2008) and note a 176% highest potential gain on the play. Since it's up to you to decide when to sell, you will most likely log sell prices shy of these recorded highest possible gains. But even if you do only half as well... an 88% gain on this Caterpillar play still isn't bad!
Steve's previous consistent delivery of triple-digit plays allows me to promise you that Steve will send you six plays in the next six months that will see their value AT LEAST double at some point after their recommendation and before their expiration.
And remember, if you're not 100% satisfied, you can ask for and receive every penny of your subscription fee back.
Speaking of plays that double or more, it gets really interesting when you consider the average gain over Steve's entire career...
How Would You Like to Have an Average of Double-Your-Money Gains on Every Single Trade?
Don't settle for the puny returns of the stock market. You can enjoy 10 times the gains...even more...simply by buying just one option trade per week.
Steve's Average Gain, Broken Down by Year:
That's triple-digit, double-your-money averages on every play since Steve started in late 1999!
Compare that with the return of the S&P 500 over the past 12 months: 38%
*Occasionally, Steve makes a recommendation that moves out of range before it is published. In those rare cases, when recommendations are not "triggered," we exclude them from his track record. This service recommends opening positions and gives a general strategy to help readers determine a good closing point. The size of the potential gain is calculated using the highest possible exit point that option reached after the buy recommendation was issued.
**Gains and losses calculated based on a $5,000 initial investment in each play.
Can you imagine raking in an average of 108% on every single trade?
You'd turn $1,000 into $2,080...$5,000 would become $10,400...And in a short time frame
Steve's track record speaks for itself. Great in the long run. Great in the short run. Delivering the opportunity for well over a million bucks in gains and giving you the chance to double your money on every play.
As you might imagine, Steve's happy subscribers have something to say too:
And as you'll see in a moment, Steve's plays rake in such large gains because he follows a strict, yet simple three-point system.
His system can turn out winners in an up or down market... his system involves only one play per week... and his system shoots only for plays that have the potential to AT LEAST double your money.
But before we look at the system, let's take a quick, specific look at one recent play...
In November 2006, Steve sent out this clear recommendation to his readers: "Buy the Bristol-Myers Squibb March 2007 $25 call for $115 or less."
As you probably know, a call option goes up in price if the best stock it's based on goes up. It's really that simple.
But the great thing about options is that the option shoots up far, far higher than the best stock does. That way, you can apply Super Leverage to a stock's move with options, greatly increasing your profit potential.
"Just how much profit potential?" you may ask...
Take a look. Here's what happened with Bristol-Myers Squibb after Steve's specific recommendation:
How to Grab 300% in Just Two Months:
There you have it. A high of 300% in just two months. That's enough to turn $5,000 into $15,000 in pure profits in practically no time at all. Now you see how Steve gives his readers the opportunity to make a great deal of money very quickly...
That terrific track record is precisely why I'm prepared to offer you a chance to join Options Hotline for the lowest price ever offered
One year of Options Hotline costs $995. But for a very short time, you can join for only $495. That's more than a 50% discount, saving you $500 — and essentially giving you six months free.
On top of that, you can try Steve's plays at no risk for over half a year.
That guarantee still stands, too: If we don't record at least six plays that double at some point after their recommendation and before their expiration, you can call for a complete refund.
It's really that simple. Six plays, each rising at least 100% during the next six months, totaling 600% in recorded gains in our track record or your money back. Every nickel of it. All you have to do is ask.
But naturally, there's one catch.
Now that you understand the special deal available to you, let's quickly discuss Steve's strategy for pumping out such consistent and large gains...
Introducing Steve's Three-Part Proprietary System to Show You Double-Your-Money Gains:
Steve's Proprietary Secret #1:"Recommend Only Plays That Have a Good Chance of Doubling"
Steve sends his readers only plays that he feels have a chance to double — or more.
If he digs up something that promises to go up only 15% or 25%, he ignores that play and looks for something else.
Now, a gain is a gain. And Steve sees nothing wrong with double-digit gainers. It's just that he feels that the risk in playing options is justified only if your potential gain is in the triple digits or higher. The upside must clearly crush the downside.
He calls this focus on making at least 100% per play "Super Leverage." You saw how Super Leverage works in that Bristol-Myers play that pumped a 9.8% gain in the best stock into a massive 300% gain in Steve's recommended options play.
Here's another example of Super Leverage in action, this time with put options that go up in value as the stock's price goes down:
That UPS option could have pulled in 1,011% for readers who followed Steve's buy recommendation and managed to sell at the highest point the option reached after recommendation.
Can you imagine making more than 10 times your money on a single play? $5,000 would turn into $50,550! That's the power of Super Leverage.
And Super Leverage has been pretty kind to Steve's readers. Since 1999, he's pumped out 112 plays that topped out at a maximum of 100% or more.
So you've seen the power of Super Leverage and how Steve used it to produce an average maximum gain of 108% over ten years.
Since Steve recommends opening positions and gives a general strategy to help readers determine a good closing point, you always decide when you want to sell. That puts risk management back between you and your broker, where it belongs.
That long-term consistency is why I'm completely comfortable guaranteeing your money back if we don't hand you six doublers in six months based on the highest point each play reaches after it is recommended and before it expires — 600% recorded in total gains in our track record — and I'm also comfortable giving you six of those months for FREE.
After all, with results like that, I'm pretty sure you'll stick with Steve's Options Hotline. That's why I'm taking on such a risk in giving you six free months... but as I said, you've only got an extremely short period of time to grab your no-risk gift...
Now let's look at the second Proprietary Secret he uses in Options Hotline.
Steve's Proprietary Secret #2: "Recommend Plays That Go up Even When the Market Goes Down"
Another great advantage of Steve's system is that it can make huge options gains whether the market goes up or down.
You don't have to worry about the uncontrollable macro outlook on the markets or the management and earnings of a specific company. Your only concern is simple: making gains in any type of market. You have the opportunity to make gains no matter what the market itself decides to do.
You saw this above with that UPS play that turned a 13.7% drop in the best stock into a 1,011% gain in the puts Steve recommended. By following his buy recommendation and riding it all the way to the top, you could've turned $5,000 into $50,550 on that play.
Here are some more examples of maximum potential gains from an individual stock's falling price:
1,202% on GM puts
257% on Newmont Mining puts
210% on FedEx puts
168% on Caterpillar puts
87.5% on eBay puts
55% on Ingersoll-Rand puts
52% on Texas Instruments puts.
And here are some puts on entire stock indexes that profit when the general market goes down:
189%, 45% on S&P index puts
253%, 25%, 135% on Dow Jones index puts
335%, 258%, 54%, 50% on long-term bond index puts
27% on Nasdaq index puts.
This way, you can take advantage of every move — up or down. And you could still take outsized triple-digit profits in a market downturn.
And finally, let's go over Steve's third Secret:
Steve's Proprietary Secret #3:"Be Consistent: Recommend Only One Play per Week"
This one's pretty simple — but it's also important.
Steve constantly scans each one of the nearly 15,000 top stocks on the U.S. markets all week long. He cranks away, batting around the numbers and boiling down the massive list of top stocks and indexes to a short list of the ones that seem poised to make a strong move up or down.
Then, he takes this short list and applies his Super Leverage Secret to each possibility...cutting the list down until he has one single opportunity that he thinks will double or better.
So from the entire universe of stocks and indexes — and options you can play on them — Steve drills down to just one pick per week. He then sends you an e-mail on Sunday night telling you exactly what the play is. That way, you have the time to look it over and place the order before the market opens on Monday morning.
Consistent, Hefty Gains Over the Long Term: Options Hotline's Performance Laid out Year by Year
Before we finish up, let's see just how Steve's three Proprietary Secrets have performed over his entire eight-year-plus tenure with Options Hotline.
*Occasionally, Steve makes a recommendation that moves out of range before it is published. In those rare cases, when recommendations are not "triggered," we exclude them from his track record. This service recommends opening positions and gives a general strategy to help readers determine a good closing point. The size of the potential gain is calculated using the highest possible exit point that option reached after the buy recommendation was issued.
**Gains and losses calculated based on a $5,000 initial investment in each play.
Wouldn't you like to grab some of those gains for yourself? You can! And it's easy. One recommendation per week, one call to your broker on Monday morning, and then just 5 minutes per day tracking your positions. You could be on your way to seeing possible 600% growth in just six months...
Let's get down to the details of what you'll receive with your free six-month membership to Options Hotline:
Options Hotline Delivered Sunday Night via E-Mail
This is the very heart of Steve's service, when he sends you his specific play for the week. Your one- or two-page Options Hotline Alert is delivered Sunday evening in plenty of time for you to read it, digest the information, and phone your broker first thing Monday morning.
You'll find Steve's recommendation of the week, written out exactly in words you can say to your broker, to ensure accuracy. You'll also get his "behind the scenes" thinking about why he believes this recommendation is a potential double- or triple-digit winner and a brief overview of what's going on in the stock market.
Steve gives a general strategy to help you determine a good closing point, but it's up to you to decide when to sell after you take your personal situation into account.
He'll also review the status of all open positions.
Midweek Updates on Open Positions
Since options can move fast, Steve also offers midweek update Alerts so you can review again where you are on all of your open positions. He'll talk about the direction of the option price, the underlying stock price, resistance and support levels (concepts thoroughly explained in your TWO FREE BONUS REPORTS), and where Steve sees it all trending.
Frequent Recommendation Update Alerts on Fast-Moving Options
Sometimes, underlying stock prices and options are moving so fast you need an instant Alert. In this case, Steve will send you a very brief "heads-up" on a stock so you don't miss the move. This Alert is sent "as needed," so I can't tell you how frequent they may be.
But these Alerts are another layer of information to help you make your most profitable selling decisions.
Important Bonus! Exclusive Free 24/7 Access to the Subscribers-Only Web Site
You get unlimited access to the Options Hotline Web site 24 hours a day, every day. This password-protected members-only access is FREE with your subscription. Here you can download the latest recommendations, midweek updates, and frequent Alerts.
You can also review Steve's past recommendations. Plus, you'll have online access to a wealth of information about options and options trading, from a comprehensive glossary of terms to special bonus reports and FAQs.
It's a valuable offer that can put you on the road to the next million dollars in profit. Look what Options Hotline has done for Randy Norton: "My first trade made me $6,540 in profits. You are the first newsletter I have tried out of hundreds that actually delivers what it promises."
Subscribe now and I'll also give you...
Two BONUS GIFTS That Are Your Crash Course on Options!
In addition to the comprehensive source of information you will find on our subscribers-only Web site, I'm offering you three FREE handbooks that will help you use the Options Hotline research service to its fullest. Separately, each handbook will give you a working knowledge of trading options, but together, they're the perfect crash course on options.
Start your options education today with these easy-to-read guidebooks, written in everyday English, so you're up to speed on options in no time:
1. The Options Buyer's Handbook
Click the subscribe button below to join and download this FREE handbook immediately. Inside its pages, you'll discover just what you need to know about buying options. Learn the basics of options, how they work, when to buy and sell, and what it all means in this informative handbook... FREE and instantly available with your subscription.
2. Secrets of a Master Trader: Tips and Strategies for Making a Fortune in Options
The secret to winning at options is to keep playing. Options are not like the lottery or the luck of the draw (especially since Steve is telling you what to buy each week). To really succeed, you need a plan of action. And Secrets of a Master Trader is your playbook. It contains the secrets of two of the best options analysts the business has ever known...options genius Paul Sarnoff and options expert Steve Sarnoff.
3. The Options Hall of Fame
Of course, there's no better way to learn something than by doing it yourself. Second only to that is seeing what others have done in the past. And this is exactly what you'll find in this third FREE gift report.
I'll walk you through some of the biggest and best options plays ever made. Together, we'll take them apart, down to the nuts and bolts. Then I'll show you how they work by putting everything back together, step by step. You'll see unmistakable patterns of profit.
You can't get secrets like this at any bookstore or Web site or "learn to trade options" weekend seminar. They're reserved only for subscribers to Options Hotline. You'll receive these exclusive Secrets via e-mail the moment I hear from you.
Please don't pass up this chance to profit on the unlimited potential (but limited risk) of options trading with your subscription to Options Hotline.
How could you pass that up? Especially when you can get the first six months of your membership 100% FREE, my compliments. That's a gift to you worth $500.
And you're guaranteed to receive your money back if we don't log at least six plays in our track record that go up at least 100% at some point after their recommendation and before their expiration in your first six months.
I take on all the risk — and I feel comfortable doing that as I look at Steve's incredible long-term track record.
And you have another level of protection. For the first 30 days of your membership, if you're not completely satisfied with Options Hotline, you can simply contact me and ask for a complete refund for your entire subscription cost. FOR ANY REASON.
That's right... even if every play Steve sends you more than doubles... for the first 30 days you can ask for your money back, no questions asked. That way you're doubly protected.
So if you want a chance to hit the next million-dollar milestone... if you want to join a research service that averages over 100% per play... if you want the opportunity to see as much as six figures in profits per year... now's your time.
Your special offer to get six months free expires right soon.
After that, the price for one year of Steve's plays will nearly double.
Finding the Next “Comeback Kid”
The folks at Palm were the brains behind the Palm Pilot ― the predecessor to the great wave of Blackberries and iPhones everyone seems to be sporting these days.
Well, they're back. Unbeknownst to even us, these once Goliaths remained an obscure ― yet still public ― corporation all these years. Looking at this company's stock chart certainly tells the story better than I could. Take a look:
We have our doubts about the future of the company that disappointed shareholders for nearly a decade. For starters, the company's brilliant comeback is stemmed from the release of its new operating system on its iPhone-esque "Pre." It took more than seven years and the best they could come up with was a phone called "Pre" and an operating system called "Palm OS."
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Suppose you could collect up to $120,000 in work-free "paychecks" every single year…
What I'll show you is that, thanks to a few little-publicized opportunities, now you can.
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This new phone, which appears to be a complete rip off of Apple's iPhone, is supposedly just that good. We certainly didn't feel the need to rush out and buy one. Even if we did check it out and find that it is perfect, we missed the boat. Investors have already spoken ― yes, even in this market.
Since the unveiling in early January, shares of Palm more than doubled. And if you were lucky enough to jump the gun on this one and buy at its December lows, you'd have cashed in more than 510%.
Obviously, investors are falling all over themselves to get a piece of the comeback kid. Well, they were…
Tuesday after the bell, the company produced disappointing revenue guidance due to a decline in demand for its "legacy" products and a later-than-expected shipment date for its Treo Pro ― a Blackberry-esque smartphone.
I guess you really can't teach old dogs new tricks.
This story does show us one major truth about the market ― it still loves the comeback kids. Don't we all? It's in our nature. Just check out your movie collection. I'm sure you have a few films that fit this bill.
And not all Wall Street comebacks lead to further disappointment. In fact, some of the best investments came after a company hit rock bottom.
Myriad Genetics Inc. (MYGN: NASDAQ) is another good example. After a stellar 1999 and 2000, the company was slated for a half of a decade of suppressed share price. Then, as quickly as it fell, it was swept back up. Investors could have doubled their money over the last nine months on Myriad's shares.
Not all of these "comeback kids" will go back up. But those that do re-energize a fresh set of shareholders could make you plenty of cash…if you get in early.
Enough with Top Stocks Already
Dow got you down? Well it probably has a lot farther to go, even if there are rallies.
It's getting harder and harder to make a buck with "buy and hold"…but who says that buying and holding stocks is the only way to make money or the best?
You could average gains of 104% ― without owning a single stock ― but to find out how, you're going to have to read on…
I'll never forget what my dad told me on that cool autumn walk in 1976.
I was young and hardly knew anything about money... but it didn't matter. The secret was just that simple.
In easy, gentle words, he told me the secret that eventually could have made as much as $1 million in just five years. And nearly $2 million in under 10 years...
You could do that, he told me, without "buy and hold"... without waiting for the stock market to "wake up."
Years later, I saw his private method make vast sums of lasting wealth without buying a single stock.
That's why he called it the "Zero Stock Solution." And he taught it to me, all those years ago, on that brisk afternoon.
I had no idea how earth shattering his "Zero Stock" secret was until many, many years later.
But really, who would believe you could make multiple millions in the market without touching one share of the best stock?
Especially since he told me that you could fully harness the "Zero Stock Solution" to do it in ― get this ― about three minutes a day.
If this was a "job," it'd have hourly wage of about $10,400 an hour!
So you can see why I was skeptical... until I saw it work for myself.
The success I've found from dad's advice has shielded my family from great financial misfortune, and given us a life more comfortable than I'd ever dreamed of.
It can do the same for you, too. And I'll tell you how...
Dad Could Do It, But What About You and Me?
I always knew Dad could conquer the markets for outsized gains.
Ever since I was a kid, I saw him use the Zero Stock Solution to make fortunes for a small circle of private clients.
Take the Zero Stock Solution seminar he gave in the '50's; he charged $25 for three hours of information in a packed and stuffy hotel room.
A total of 22 people showed up.
Just 5 weeks later, some of the ones who followed his advice were as much as $50,000 richer!
That's over $300,000 in today's money. And as much as a 199,900% return on the attendee's $25 seminar fee just five weeks later.
Sure, I'd seen Dad achieve all of that.
But he was a genius. One of a kind.
That's why when Dad passed away ten years ago, some people thought no one could fill his shoes.
BUT... I plugged away at the Zero Stock Solution he entrusted to me. I had worked closely with him since 1995, and when he suddenly passed away, I knew I was prepared to step in and continue his service.
And you know what? The family secret worked, and then some. To the tune of $1,898,052 in just under 10 years.
I'll show you exactly how in a minute...But first let me make this clear:
"I tell you all this because Dad changed my life with the Zero Stock Solution.
He changed an awful lot of people's lives.
And as long as I can keep flesh and bone together, I'll keep that legacy of teaching people how to become millionaires going strong."
So (if you choose) I'm going to show you what's happened since I took over Dad's groundbreaking Zero Stock Solution.
Back on that walk in 1976 I never imagined this could happen.
But fast forward 33 years and here are the Zero Stock Solution gains I've found for readers. Unbelievable success for ordinary people, just like you...
How Dad's Secret Led to Success ― For Me and Hundreds Of Lucky Friends Around the Country
I took over the Zero Stock Solution in late 1999 ― right around the tech crash.
You remember those brutal days in the market ― and even though I'd been managing my own research company for nearly a decade, it was enough to give anyone pause...
But I took Dad's old family secret and plugged away at it.
And look what happened!
If you had put just $5,000 into every one of my Zero Stock picks since I took over from my dad, and rode it to its highest possible point, this is what you'd be sitting on...
In just the last three months of 1999, I recommended my first nine Zero Stock trades. Eight of them shot up. With just $5,000, you'd be up an extra $87,000 just 12 weeks later
In 2000, following my simple Zero Stock picks could have grossed you another $173,215, bringing your cash horde to $260,215
By the end of 2001, you could have nearly doubled your take again, packing on another $216,164 for a total of $476,379
And then for 2002, you could have tossed another $205,101 onto that pile of cash. You'd now be at $681,480
In 2003, you could have socked away another $189,463. That would take your Zero Stock portfolio to $870,943 in cool profits
In 2004, we hit the million-dollar mark. You could have used my picks to add ANOTHER $221,300 to your total, in a single year. You'd have a cool million dollars, plus ― for an added bonus ― $92,243 and change.
Not bad for a few years' haul, with barely three minutes of work each day... $1.09 million.
Yes, $1.09 million in pure cash profits.
Who would've thought I could do that, even with the power of the Zero Stock Solution?
Certainly not me... but I guess the old man thought different.
Yes, there were some huge individual Zero Stock high points that helped us get those big numbers. Like 1,011%... 898%... 1,202%... 472%... 858%... 589%... 838%...
We also had plenty of smaller, faster gains.
And sure, a few losers too.
But overall, even though about 15% of the Zero Stock plays I recommended didn't work out during that period... over 85% of them did, well enough to give us an average high point per play of 104%... well enough to turn your initial investment of $5,000 into as much as $1.09 million.
But it didn't stop there. I didn't think it could get any better, but it did ― in spades. Again, by putting $5,000 into each of my recommendations and riding each one to the highest possible point, here's how you would have fared:
In 2005, you could have followed my recommendations for $217,524... bringing your total to $1,309,767 by year's end
In 2006 there was another $150,375 haul by years' end, taking you all the way to a comfortable $1,460,142
In 2007 you could have reeled in another $202,635 profit from this easy Zero Stock strategy. That brings your portfolio to $1,662,777
And, for just the first four months of 2008, add a $235,276 cherry on top of that stash. That takes us to $1,898,052 total.
Since it would take incredible timing and phenomenal luck to get out at the best exit price every time, you would have realistically logged profits shy of these recorded best gains.
But even if you did only half as well... that's still an amazing $949,026 in the bank!
So, you see, the old man was spot-on with his Zero Stock Solution.
And if I can do it ― anyone can do it.
In fact, "anyone" does do it nearly every week of the year.
Here's how this no-hassle secret works for real people, all over the world...
How These Stellar Zero Stock Solution Returns Change the Lives of Real People
I can barely keep up with the letters I get about my readers who use dad's Zero Stock Solution.
Take this one for example: I used to think letters like this came once in a lifetime...
But now I know better.
Now, I get letters like that all the time ― from ordinary investors from all over the country.
Just look: they're seeing their money multiply two, three, even eight times or more.
If I didn't open the letters myself I'd hardly believe life-changing profits they report...
Hard cash returns for people just like you. Imagine what gains like this would mean for your lifestyle. If you started with a small $5,000 position...
Jim H.'s bold 300% gain means a new deck, a hot tub, a walk-in humidor, or your membership in a luxury golf course
A fat 92% return like Bill P. from California made more than covers your subscription with enough left over for a five-star weekend getaway
Or take Eddie L.'s amazing 750%...that huge cash profit could be your down-payment on a sparkling-new dream home for retirement.
You can buy all that stuff and more.
Or, you can save it for retirement, your kid's education... or use it as a base of wealth that could last for generations.
You could do all that and not even break a sweat. Just three minutes of your time each day.
I think that's why so many readers call this "the best decision they ever made."
And it's not just my readers. Take a look at what Wall Street experts and respected journalists say about that old Zero Stock family secret...
Why This Old Family Secret Has Stumped the Experts
Even before I made this knowledge available to ordinary readers, my time-tested strategy garnered praise from some of the top professionals in the industry.
For years Michael Green of Market Talk talked to all of Wall Street's top analysts and traders.
He was looking for something special. The strategy that really worked. The guru who really had the goods ― the most accurate guy on the Street.
What did he find? The answer might surprise you...
"Over the past few years on 'Market Talk' I've had the opportunity to interview Wall Street's major investment letter writers. Steve Sarnoff has emerged as the most accurate. He has truly made some astounding calls."
And it doesn't stop there... Richard Russell, editor of Dow Theory Letters and an old hand at best stock analysis, praised my technical research as "constitut[ing] an extremely valuable lesson."
It's not just journalists, either. The pros in the trading pits ― guys who could depend on my recommendations to feed their families ― tell us the same thing.
Bernard Savaiko, Senior Futures Analyst at PaineWebber, says I provide "a dispassionate approach to markets, with amazingly accurate results ― a must for traders."
The testimonials from Michael Green, Richard Russell and Bernie Savaiko are all from when I was starting out with my research company (prior to Options Hotline), and the kind words of those professionals helped give me the confidence to succeed.
I wish I could claim all the credit but I can't. I owe most of it to dad. But I'm proud to carry the torch, giving lucky readers the chance to become millionaires by using his Zero Stock Solution...
So just what was that secret he told me in 1976, and how is it that all these ordinary people have turned it into spectacular gains?
Now Here's Where I'm Supposed to Tell You the "Secret" Behind the Zero Stock Solution. . .
But you won't find it here in this letter.
That's not a sales come-on. I won't tell you even if you pay me big money.
You could pay me all the money in the world. You could shock me with an electrified cattle prod.
I'm not telling. Anyone. Ever.
But here's why you can reap all the benefit anyway...
Dad felt strongly ― I feel strongly ― that regular people should have the chance to profit from what we've been blessed with.
So, I use my proprietary "Zero Stock" method (combining the best of Western technical analysis with ancient Japanese charting techniques)... and send out specific plays for you to have a chance to gain your own million.
I hope you find that fair. Because you don't need to know how the Zero Stock Solution works to use it. In fact, using it is so simple it could take you only three minutes a day!
That's why every week I send out one Zero Stock play based on that secret dad told me 33 years ago.
I do all the work; you take all the profits...
Take a look for yourself: Here's my uncut track record since I took over from dad a few years ago...
*Occasionally, a recommendation moves out of range before it is published. In those rare cases, when recommendations are not "triggered," we exclude them from this track record. This service recommends opening positions and gives a general strategy to help readers determine a good closing point. The size of the potential gain is calculated using the highest possible exit point that option reached after the buy recommendation was issued.
**Gains and losses calculated based on a $5,000 initial investment in each play.
You're reading those numbers right: an average of 104% on every play. And that's over a total of 342 plays. For almost a full decade! I doubt you can find another analyst that has such a long term, profitable track record...
Now, how is it we can claim such a stellar achievement?
Simple. It takes just two steps...
1) I recommend that you buy a Zero Stock position
2) I give you a general strategy to help you determine a good closing point to take your Zero Stock profits
You use your own judgment in exiting a position.
That way, you're completely in control of your position and your risk.
You can make the most informed decision on when to take the best profits that personally suit you...
Because of this personalized exit strategy, I calculate my Zero Stock Solution track record based on the highest possible point the play hits after I alert our readers.
If you had the incredible luck and timing it would have taken to sell every one of these picks at that point since 1999, you would have cleared $1 million in only five years, like I showed you above.
Today, you would be up $1.89 million.
That's an average $15,817 in extra income every month.
Or $520 every single day of the year.
Since it's up to you to decide when to sell and you might choose to take a more conservative exit strategy, you'll almost certainly log sell prices shy of the highest possible gain.
But even if you were to do only half as well... $949,026 ― or $7,908 per month, or $260 per day ― still isn't bad. And those stellar numbers become even more shocking when you realize that it takes only three minutes a day to do all this...
There's only one investment that can deliver such enormous gains in so little time, and by now you may have guessed it: options.
That's why I call it the "Zero Stock Solution" - because you never need to buy stock shares to make consistent triple-digits gains!
Now, you've probably heard that options carry risks. And it's true ― any investment does. But options also let you do something most investments don't:
Here's exactly what that means: if the underlying stock moves 5% or 10%, the related options contract could easily shoot up 200%, 300%, even 500% or 600%.
If the best stock fails to move the right way, you merely write off the small amount you paid for each option (often pennies on the dollar) and that's it.
Your upside is many times your original investment. Your downside is never a surprise.
That's why it's quite possibly the best way to build lasting wealth with limited risk.
It's why it was so important for my dad to pass it on to me.
Now let's dig around in some actual trades to see how it's done in practice. I'll show you four specific Zero Stock plays I've sent to my readers at Options Hotline, the research advisory service my dad started and I've continued.
Here's a great example of the "Zero Stock Solution" at work: a pick that soared while the rest of the market was getting hammered...
"Zero Stock Wealth Strategy" #1: "Recommend Plays That Go Up Even When the Market Goes Down"
One great advantage of my system is it can make huge Zero Stock gains whether the market goes up or down.
When I predict a best stock will tank, I recommend you buy a put option on it.
The put option goes up in value as the stock's price goes down, so you win while the other guys lose ― all without the risk and hassle of selling short.
A few months ago, my proprietary forecasting method told me UPS was about to go down the drain.
That UPS option could have pulled in 1,011% for readers who followed my buy recommendation and got out at the best possible time.
Can you imagine making more than 10 times your money on a single play?
$5,000 would turn into $50,550!
And best of all, winning big Zero Stock gains when a company goes down is just as easy as when it goes up: the same three minutes of work each day. It's that simple.
Here are some more examples of maximum potential gains from an individual stock's falling price:
1,202% on GM puts
257% on Newmont Mining puts
210% on FedEx puts
168% on Caterpillar puts
87.5% on eBay puts
55% on Ingersoll-Rand puts
52% on Texas Instruments puts
And here are some puts on entire stock indexes that profit when the general market goes down:
189%, 45% on S&P index puts
253%, 25%, 135% on Dow Jones index puts
335%, 258%, 54%, 50% on long-term bond index puts
27% on Nasdaq index puts
This way, you can take advantage of every move ― up or down.
And you could still take outsized triple-digit profits in a market downturn.
In fact, here's how we did in two of the most challenging years in recent memory...
While the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 All Lost Money in 2002. . . Our Biggest Winners Gained 170%. . . 186%. . . 212%. . . 292%. . . 360%. . . 858%. . . and 898%. . .
Remember America and the markets in 2002?
I sure do.
Enron was on trial. Global Crossing, ImClone and Adelphia were all under investigation.
Argentina's banks had just collapsed. A bomb had just gone off in Bali...and this whole mess in Iraq had just then started looming darkly on the horizon.
Not exactly the most stimulating times for stock investors.
But as tough as it might have looked for everyone else, you could have done extremely well that year... just following the options strategy I'm laying out for you today.
How well?
In fact, out of our 40 plays that year, 31 were winners... with an average highest possible gain of 103%.
By investing $5,000 in each of these plays and riding each one to the highest possible point, you could have ended the year ― one of the toughest in recent memory for regular investors ― UP by as much as $205,101!
In 2001, 37 out of 46 Winning Plays. . . And an Extra $216,164 for Your Portfolio
Even back in 2001, the same year as one heck of a lot of gut-wrenching news in the world... plus some very rattled stock markets... you could have turned an initial $5,000 investment into as much as $216,164... in a single year of trading. We made 46 plays total that year, 37 of them came up roses.
With an average maximum possible gain, on each and every play (with the few losers included in the calculation), of 94%.
Can you imagine if you averaged 94% gains on every play you made?
Thirty-five of those plays were double-digit winners... more than half of those plays returned better-than-50% gains... 16 of those plays were money-doublers or better... and at least five of those plays all returned better than 200%.
Just $5,000 invested in the General Motors put options play alone, the day after I recommended it to my Options Hotline readers, could have given you as much as a $60,100 windfall.
And quickly, too.
Now that the markets are tanking again, I expect you could have a field day with put options. And those would protect your downside.
Here's why: During the record-setting year of 2007, my average best possible gain was 113%. That's good. But in 2008 that record was 130%.
In other words, I did 17 points better in the biggest crash since '29 than I did when the Dow was at 14,000.
In both cases, my readers saw the opportunity for gains of better than double their money.
Up markets. Down markets. It doesn't matter: Because I'm not recommending a single share of top stocks.
Now, even with the incredible Zero Stock knowledge my dad passed on to me, once in a while a play doesn't pan out as expected. That's why the second thing my Dad told me is so important...
"Zero Stock Strategy" #2:"Your Gains Overpower Your Losses"
The second secret is the most important one.
And it's simple: Your gains overpower your losses.
You aim for a 60%-40% win-loss ratio.
You aim for bigger gains than losses.
Told you it was simple...but it's VERY important.
So let's drill down to some recent specifics...
Like I said, it's up to you to decide when to exit your play, and those numbers just represent the highest possible exit point. I send you the picks and give you general guidelines for making successful trades.
And with a record like that, you can win 60% of the time, lose 40% of the time, and still come out way ahead.
But if you do far, far better than that, like I have been giving my readers the opportunity to do for years with this time tested family profit key...well, that's just icing on the cake!
88%. . . 92%. . . and Now 100% Win Record
A few months ago, I got a shocking call from my publishers.
They'd just checked their records, and found my picks had averaged 104% maximum gains since I took over from my dad in 1999.
Even more shockingly, my win record suddenly climbed from an already stupefying 92% in 2006 ― to a stunning 100% perfect record since the start of 2007. They were stunned.
But we checked the records and not a single pick had failed to gain value, or at least break even, at some point after I recommended them and before they expired...
I bet you won't find a record like that in the entire world of financial publishing.
Because of that I've been driven to get results like these:
92% wins against 8% losses, like I did in 2006...
78% wins against 12% losses, like I did in my least accurate year, 2001...
Or even an incredible 100% win record and no losses whatsoever, like I did in 2005, 2007, and in 2008...
That's why I say your potential gains could overpower your losses ― it's the secret behind the Zero Stock Solution.
And it's a secret that could be yours for no money whatsoever if I don't pass some pretty demanding thresholds. I'll explain that in a moment...
But that's not all ― not by a long shot. Here's another piece of father-son wisdom I need to tell you about.
"Zero Stock Strategy" #3:"Recommend Only Plays That Have a Good Chance of Doubling"
I will only send you options plays that I feel have a chance to double ― or more.
If I dig up something that promises to go up only 15% or 25%, I trash that play and look for something else.
Now, a gain is a gain. And I see nothing wrong with double-digit gainers.
It's just that I feel the risk in playing options is justified only if your potential gain is in the triple digits or higher.
The upside must clearly crush the downside.
How does it work in practice? Let's take a quick, specific look at one recent play...
In November 2006, I sent out this clear recommendation to my readers: "Buy the Bristol-Myers Squibb March 2007 $25 call for $115 or less."
As you probably know, a call option goes up in price if the best stock it's based on goes up. It's really that simple.
But the great thing about options is that the option shoots up far, far higher than the best stock does. That simple fact hugely increases your profit potential.
"Just how much profit potential?" you may ask...
Take a look. Here's what happened with Bristol-Myers Squibb after my specific recommendation:
The stock market went up a bit. But the call option exploded. That's the sheer power of the Zero Stock Solution.
It hit a high of 300% in just two months. That's enough to turn $5,000 into $20,000 ― with $15,000 pure profits in practically no time at all. Now you see how I give members the opportunity to make a great deal of money very quickly...
In fact, since 1999, I've pumped out 112 plays that topped out at a maximum of 100% or more.
So you've seen the power of options trading and how I used it to produce an average maximum gain of 104% over nine years.
Can you imagine the wealth you could make if every play you made more than doubled in value?
Well, now you can join a research service that has done just that for almost a decade!
That long-term consistency is why I'm so comfortable guaranteeing your money back if I don't surpass the very high bar I've set for myself. (Yes, I'll get to that very soon!)
And finally, let's go over the very last "Sarnoff Wealth Strategy":
"Zero Stock Strategy" #4:
"Be Consistent: Recommend Only One Play per Week"
This one's pretty simple ― but it's also important.
I constantly scan each one of the nearly 15,000 hot stocks on the U.S. markets all week long.
I crank away, batting around the numbers and boiling down the massive list of top stocks and indexes to a short list of the ones that seem poised to make a strong move up or down.
Then, I take this short list and apply my analysis to each possibility... cutting the list down until we have one single opportunity that I think will double or better.
So from the entire universe of stocks and indexes ― and options you can play on them ― I drill down to just one pick per week. I then send you an e-mail on Sunday night telling you exactly what the play is. That way, you have the time to look it over and place the order before the market opens on Monday morning.
And all that could be yours entirely risk-free.
That's how little you have to risk, and how much you have to gain.
Don't you think it's time to get in on the action?
Start Making Your Own Million-Dollar Plays Right Now: Consistent, Hefty Gains Over the Long Term: Options Hotline's Performance Laid out Year by Year
Before we finish up, let's see just how the Zero Stock Solution my dad taught me has performed over my entire nine-year tenure with Options Hotline...
*Occasionally, a recommendation moves out of range before it is published. In those rare cases, when recommendations are not "triggered," we exclude them from this track record. This service recommends opening positions and gives a general strategy to help readers determine a good closing point. The size of the potential gain is calculated using the highest possible exit point that option reached after the buy recommendation was issued.
**Gains and losses calculated based on a $5,000 initial investment in each play.
Wouldn't you like to grab some of those gains for yourself?
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One recommendation per week, one call to your broker on Monday morning, and then just three minutes per day tracking your positions.
Let's get down to the details of what you'll receive with your membership to Options Hotline:
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This is the very heart of the service, when I send you my specific play for the week.
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You'll find my recommendation of the week, written out exactly in words you could say to your broker, to ensure accuracy.
Midweek Updates on Open Positions
Since options can move fast, I also send out midweek update alerts every Wednesday so you can review again where you are on all of your open positions.
I'll talk about the direction of the option price, the underlying stock price, resistance and support levels (concepts thoroughly explained in your THREE FREE BONUS REPORTS), and where I see it all trending.
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It's a valuable offer that can put you on the road to the next million dollars in options profit.
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Of course, there's no better way to learn something than by doing it yourself. Second only to that is seeing what others have done in the past. And this is exactly what you'll find in this third FREE gift report.
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Welcome to Planet Death Star
Down, down, down they go. But are stocks cheap as we begin the first week of March? "They are cheap looking back," says our friend Eric Fry in California, "but they still might be VERY expensive looking forward."
Ah yes, the future. What does it hold? Well, apparently more lay-offs and CEO pay raises. Judging by Sol Trujillo's $20 million goodbye handshake and the actions of the board at Pacific Brands (giving themselves raises while sacking workers) it looks like there are some people out there doing their level best to run the good name of their corporation into the ground.
Don't they know that's bad for business?
Kevin Rudd is headed over to America this month to speak with Barrack Obama about climate change, the global financial system, and other ways to save the world and improve on human nature. Perhaps he might ask him if America's US$1.75 trillion annual deficit for next year should cause global investors to worry about America's credit quality.
Again from Eric, "The cost of buying a five-year credit default swap (CDS) to insure against the possible default of U.S. Treasury bonds reached 100 basis points for the first time yesterday. In English, the price of insuring $10,000,000 worth of Treasury bonds for five years now costs $100,000 ― up from just $5,000 one year ago."
We've said before it's nearly impossible to default on your debt when you can print the money to pay it back. But what this normally does is send interest rates up on new short-term borrowing, of which there is a lot lately in America.
Keep in mind, the Obama budget includes about US$3.5 trillion in Federal spending, much of it to be financed with short-term borrowing. In fact, this week the U.S. Treasury is selling $94 billion in debt. The Treasury is even bringing an old-friend back from the dead. The seven-year Treasury note (which had been discontinued in 1993) will be reissued beginning with an auction of $22 billion worth today.
Can you see how government borrowing needs begin to crowd out lending to the private sector? Can you see also how we are speeding into an era where more of national cash flows are redirected to central governments for redistribution and/or the service of interest payments to foreign lenders? Can you see how directing national cash flow toward wealth re-distribution does not lead to more capital formation and wealth generation?
Ron Paul is still the only man in Washington who can see all this. He made a great point the other day that no one wanted to listen to. "Credit is not capital," he told Ben Bernanke. You can't recapitalise the banking system by printing new money or extending credit.
Credit comes from available savings. That's why a high savings rate is essential the formation of future capital. We're not making it up. It's even the first sentence of the Treasury White Paper on the Capital Assistance Program.
"The financial system plays the critical role of channeling funds from savers in the economy to the investors with the ideas and ability to turn those funds into productive economic resources," the paper begins. This is exactly how recessions prepare the way for the future boom. As households reduce consumption they increase savings.
Banks can become solvent again by retaining earnings (cutting dividends like ANZ did earlier this week) and increasing their depository base (and, of course, writing down bad investments and making more prudent loans). Or, the bad banks go belly up and the good banks are able to come in and scoop up the remaining assets.
Losers fail. Winners win. Or, as Rothbard puts it, an increase in savings reflects an increased desire for cash from consumers. This is actually good for banks in the long run. But we won't run on and on about it below, although we've provided a fuller quotation for you below.
Incidentally, as we expected a couple of weeks ago, the gold price (in U.S. and Aussie dollars) has given up some of its ground after streaking ahead. But we wouldn't be too worried.
One last quote for the day from Eric Fry on the matter, "The credit crisis does not study technical charts or read investor sentiment indicators. It does what it does. And what the credit crisis does best is destroy credit-based enterprises...and reward the buyers of non- credit-based assets like gold."
Huzzah.
Still with us? Good! How about a quick revisit of the "baseline" and "more adverse" assumptions that are embedded in the CAP plan (son of TARP) released yesterday by the U.S. Treasury. The table listing the assumptions is below. But let's give you the analysis first: crrraaaaaazzzzy!
After reading it, you'll be more convinced than ever that falling stock and house prices this year are going to be followed by a blizzard of paper money that will send inflation soaring.
Government Assumptions That Guarantee Inflationary Disaster Ahead
How about some analysis? First, the GDP assumptions are for ― at worst ― a 3.3% contraction this year and a recovery in 2010. It's probably more realistic to expect a GDP contraction of between 5 and 10% this year (based on the cliff diving GDPs of Asia and Europe) and a smaller contraction of 2-5% in 2010. Although either could be much worse, as the fourth quarter GDP figure in the U.S. was already a little fishy to begin with.
Second, the unemployment projections appear to have been generated on Planet Fantastic, where the laws of gravity and reality do not apply. Has anyone generating these U.S. statistics taken a look at the economy lately?
Or are these statistics pure propaganda and fabrication, designed to obscure from ordinary Americans (and Westerners) everywhere that real wages have been falling for thirty years and will continue to do so as global production shifts to low-wage labour markets?
Finally, how is it no one in the media picked up on the fact that the Treasury's "baseline" forecast is for an 18% decline in house prices over the next two years (under rosy assumptions about GDP growth and unemployment)? Or that the "more adverse" forecast has house prices falling 29% in the next twenty-four months?
And here's a question...how could house prices fall and unemployment continue to rise without having a further massively negative effect on bank loan books?
If TARP and CAP are designed to shore up bank capital by taking some a snapshot of how banks will perform under certain scenarios, then the plans are almost certain to fail if those scenarios fail to account for increased default and foreclosure rates in residential and commercial real estate that would come in the next two years (not to mention poor performance in securitised credit cards, student loans, and auto loans...all of which would deteriorate as unemployment rises.)
And how is simply raising taxes and transferring money to the newly unemployed going to solve this again?
All we can think of now is a supernova. In the rush to repair the broken financial system (which was broken by the explosion in credit and the enormous misallocations and distortions it caused) liberals and conservatives and professional politicians of every stripe (without brains or spines) are launching every conceivable spending plan they can think of. Their goal is to tag the culpable private sector for all the blame, shift the burden for losses on to the public balance sheet and future generations, and replace the private sector with the government as the prime mover of economic life in the modern world.
Or have we missed something?
A supernova, of course, is the death of a star. It unleashes a giant amount of light, heat, energy, and radiation in one brilliantly beautiful moment of destruction. But let's not forget it's a moment of death, as pretty as it might be.
Perhaps that's where we're headed. Instead of seeing a recession as the method of re-establishing the efficient allocation of an economy's resources and capital, the banksters and pollies are going to give us an even bigger global system of paper, as Ron Paul suggests.
With the dollar-standard in tatters, the only place left to go in the artificial evolution of paper money is a global fiat standard on top of the dollar standard. We have no idea what it would look like. But you can bet there are some other folks who've been thinking long and hard about it and are more than willing to use the current crisis as an excuse to inflict it upon you.
Finally, the last (and longish) word from Rothbard on why booms require busts.
"The 'boom,' then, is actually a period of wasteful mal-investment. It is the time when errors are made, due to bank credit's tampering with the free market. The 'crisis' arrives then the consumers come to re-establish their desired proportions.
"The 'depression' [ed. note, Rothbard uses the word 'depression' in place of 'recession'] is actually the process by which the economy adjusts to the wastes and errors of the boom, and re-establishes the efficient service of consumer desires.
"The adjustment process consists in rapid liquidation of the wasteful investments. Some of this will be abandoned altogether (like the Western ghost towns constructed in the boom of 1816-1818 and deserted during the panic of 1819); others will be shifted to other uses. Always the principle will be not to mourn past errors, but to make the most efficient use of the existing stock of capital.
"In sum, the free market tends to satisfy voluntarily-expressed consumer desires with maximum efficiency, and this includes the public's relative desires for present and future consumption. The inflationary boom hobbles this efficiency, and distorts the structure of production, which no longer serves consumers properly.
"The crisis signals the end of this inflationary distortion, and the depression is the process by which the economy returns to the efficient service of consumers. In short, and this is a highly important point to grasp, the depression is the 'recovery' process, and the end of the depression heralds the return to normal and optimum efficiency.
"The depression, then, far from being an evil scourge, is the necessary and beneficial return of the economy to normal after the distortions imposed by the boom. The boom then requires a bust."
Some people don't want a return to normal. Bankers don't want it because it means a lot of them would be out of business for good. Investors in credit-backed bonds don't want it because it means taking losses. And politicians certainly don't want it because the sense of continual crisis is the perfect mechanism for the relentless expansion of government power in private life.
The only who want things to be normal are normal people. And they are stuck right now living on Planet Death Star; a spaceship captained and crewed by a bunch of morons who will be the financial death of us all. Or are we just whistling a bizarre Dixie?
