The best traders don't follow Wall Street. They lead it by the nose...
- Marcus Nikos
- Feb 9
- 18 min read

The best traders don't follow Wall Street. They lead it by the nose...
Confessions of a
Renegade Investor
"By the Time Wall Street's Pinstriped,
Laptop-toting Nerds Show Up... I'm already Counting My Cash!"
It's the only way you can turn... $1,000 into $39,746
$5,000 into $60,341, and... $10,000 into $750,156
Dear Reader:
Even if you read the financial papers every day, chances are you
haven't heard about the following stocks:
Flamel, a biopharmaceutical company, up 3975% in the 2 ½ years
Rediff, a leading newspaper publisher, up 4352% in the same time
Banco Frances, up 646% in 20 months
Grupo Financiero, a financial conglomerate, up 3468%, in 16 months
Ilog, a maker of business-to-business software, up 344% in the same time
Zindart, a capital goods manufacturer, up 700% in a year and a half.
Nortel Inversora, a computer networking firm, up 1207% in 16 months.
Telecom Argentina, 1127% in 17 months.
And Netease, an Internet Technology company, up 7502% in 26 months!
You could have bought any one of these stocks as easily as you buy GE.
Yet, chances are your broker never told you about them.
And if he does recommend them to you now... run, don't walk! By the
time Wall Street brokers start recommending stocks like these, the
smart money is already cashing out.
In this letter, I'll show you how we've recommended investments
similar to the above-mentioned that have gone on to post explosive profits in an
even shorter time frame! Gains like...
403% on the Singapore Fund in eight months
192% on International Uranium since I recommended it just six months ago
315% on Telebras in eight months
115% on North American Silver, just closed out after just nine months
And gains of 137% in 3 weeks, 159% in 4 weeks, and 107% in six weeks -
all in the same recent six-week period!
Plus many more...
But I also promise to give you a far more valuable understanding of
the true nature of financial markets than you'll ever get from Wall
Street. You'll learn how you can consistently protect your portfolio
during bear markets and crush the returns of the S&P and NASDAQ during
bull markets.
Especially, you'll also learn...
How and why 34 stock markets outperformed the US last year, even
during the first US bull market in four years.
Why it's happening again this year, with over a dozen markets
obliterating the anemic returns on Wall Street...
How this is par for the course... and why the US market has ranked
among the top ten performing markets only once in the past ten
years... and never above the # 4 spot!
In short, you'll learn how to tap into the most explosive,
profit-charged investments in the world at all times - regardless of
what happens to interest rates in the US and stocks and bonds on Wall
Street.
It all begins by understanding the simple, true, proven secret of how to...
Buy a $100 Stock for $40, $20... Even $10 or Less!
Some of the most exciting and explosively profitable trades you can
make are when you can pick up a good business for a small fraction of
what it's truly worth. And the fact is, some of the best run, fastest
growing, and most severely undervalued companies in the world today
are not in the US, but in other countries!
Now, in case that sounds a bit "foreign" to you, let me tell you one
of the best parts...
The best of these companies have shares that trade in the US - just
like an American stock - but often with far greater profit potential.
In fact, every single one of the companies I've listed trade on the
NASDAQ or NY Stock Exchange.
But, again... let me caution you... do not buy these companies now!
Why? Because Wall Street is already in. They caught on after profits
started soaring and share prices started rising. Then they poured big
chunks of their multi-billion dollar portfolios into these companies -
pushing their prices even higher in the process.
And that's when the smartest traders get their money out and run....
then move onto the next opportunity. My readers like to sell high, in
other words, when the crowd comes rushing in... then go on and buy
cheap - what the crowd will be clamoring for tomorrow.
Let me show you how you can do the same...
They Call Us an Opportunist, a Profiteer...
We Say Thank You Very Much
We are THE NETWORK and we have been independently analyzing global
markets - for myself and on behalf of high-net-worth clients - for
over 15 years.
In any given year, we'll put in over 80,000 air miles... enough to
circle the globe three times and then some.
In all that time I've discovered a few useful things about global
stock markets... which ones tend to move in common... which move in
opposite directions... key factors that make markets soar... and the
conditions that cause them to crash...
But we've also learned one other very important thing...
Much of the game is rigged in the world's largest stock market, the US.
You've read the headlines. Leading brokerages taking what amounts to
bribes on their investment banking side to recommend junk stocks at
astronomical prices to trusting retail clients. Top so-called
"analysts" pulling down $20 million paydays and recommending you buy
stocks they privately called "dogs" and worse in private emails...
And if you think that's old news, think again...
The word "sell" is still a dirty word on Wall Street. A recent search
on Yahoo! shows only 127 out of 5,587 analyst-rated stocks average a
rating of "hold/sell" or "sell." A meager 2.3%. The rest were holds or
buys.
Yet corporate insiders aren't holding or buying. They're selling at a
record pace. According to The Wall Street Journal, they recently
dumped over $54 of stock for every dollar of stock they bought of
their own companies!
Something doesn't jibe here... Once again, Wall Street seems to be
getting ready to leave the individual investor holding the bag.
They're telling you to buy what they're dumping like it had fleas...
The "bait and switch," the cheerleading drivel called "analysis" and
the ongoing fraud on Wall Street get us so worked up we can feel our
hearts racing as we write to you. But we decided years ago that we
wouldn't let it get us mad anymore.
We decided I'd simply get even...
Wall Street Is an Elephant
(Here's Your Elephant Gun!)
If you want to make back all the profits you may have given back to
Wall Street in the last few years - then double that again - the
single best way you can do that is to beat Wall Street at its own
game.
Don't buy the big brokerage firms' biased analysis and dangerously
overvalued stocks. Learn how to sell it to them - after you've bought
them low, very low. Get 3 to 4 Times the Returns Most Investors Would
Kill For!
You wouldn't know it from the financial headlines but in the last 10
years, the US stock market placed among the ten best-performing
markets in the world only once! That was back in 1997, when it was #
4.
Even last year, when US stocks finally rallied (after losing big for
three straight years), the US market was outperformed by over 30 other
stock markets. That includes 18 developed markets and 11 markets that
more than doubled the US's total return!
Among the markets that trounced US stocks were...Tap into Explosive
Returns Abroad
Stock Market 2003 Total Return in US Dollars
Turkey 122%
Egypt 81%
Russia 70%
Greece 63%
Sweden 61%
Germany 60%
Israel 56%
Jordan 55%
Austria 54%
Spain 54%
Czech Republic 54%
USA 26.8%
Once again, in 2004, the US lags the world. As we round the midway
mark in 2004, US stocks are in the red while other stock markets are
already posting big returns...Overseas Markets Trounce US Stocks Again
in 2004
Stock Market YTD Return Annualized
Hungary 22.6% 54%
Egypt 17.0% 41%
Austria 12.6% 30%
Russia 11.7% 28%
Czech Republic 9.3% 22%
Israel 9.2 % 22%
US -1.7% -4%
All of these markets have select shares that trade in the US - many on
the NY Stock Exchange, enabling you to trade them as easily as you
would a US stock.
With Renegade Investor, you'll be able to tap into the best
opportunities in the most explosive global markets at all times,
protect yourself against US bear markets and rake in profits that can
make the best years of the S&P 500 look like pocket change!
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For instance, 2000 was a pivotal year for stocks as the US bull market
peaked then began to crash in the spring. A big part of the job of
major brokerage firms should be to protect investors from this kind of
market. After all, the writing was on the wall... the S&P was selling
at nearly three times its long-term P/E ratio and NASDAQ stocks that
had never earned a penny in their existence had billions of dollars in
market value. All this while interest rates had begun rising...
Yet a study by professors at various California universities found
that the top-rated picks of Wall Street analysts in 2000 resulted in
returns 31% percentage points below the market!
And the stocks Wall Street liked least? They posted returns 49% points
above the market!
A similar pattern repeated itself in 2001 and 2002, as Wall Street
continued to recommend expensive junk while US markets were tumbling.
But if you had someone to help you scour the entire world for the very
best values and trading opportunities, you could have made up to 75
times your money even as US markets fell.
That's how stocks like Flamel would have turned your $1,000 investment
in September of 2001 into $39,746 just 2 ½ years later...
It's how you could have turned a $5,000 stake in Nortel in October of
2002 into $60,341 in 16 months...
And it's how you could have multiplied a $10,000 investment in Netease
in December of 2001 into $750,156.00 only 26 months later!
We are citing these companies as just a few of the examples of the
kind of opportunities Wall Street is completely missing. And you don't
have to get in on the exact bottom and sell at the exact top to
multiply the value of your portfolio many times over.
Catch just a small portion of the stock's move and you can make heady
profits in an even shorter period of time. Like the 315% and 403%
profits in eight months on our recommendations of Telebras and the
Singapore... or 192% on International Uranium in six months... or
quick trades of 137%, 159% and 107% all in the same six-week period.
So how do you do it? Well, let's see what companies like Flamel,
Nortel and Netease have in common...
On the surface, these companies couldn't be more different. One is a
French biopharmaceutical company. Another is an Argentine telecom. The
other is a Chinese Internet firm!
But if you look closer, there are a few things they have in common...
They're all outside the US and unknown to most American investors - so
Wall Street tends to ignore them.
They are leaders in their respective industries.
All trade on US stock exchanges.
At the time they began their upward explosion in share prices, they
had fallen sharply from their previous highs... yet their businesses
were recovering rapidly.
As their shares doubled then doubled again, mutual funds and
investment banking firms began to pour in... causing even higher
prices... and providing a very profitable exit opportunity for savvy
individual traders who bought early.
And that's one of the great advantages you have over Wall Street. Wall
Street is like an elephant. The big brokerages and investment banks
carry a lot of weight, but they also move in a herd and they move
slowly. You, on the other hand, have agility and speed on your side.
With the right information, you can buy the markets today Wall Street
is going to buy tomorrow... then sell it to them at high prices... and
move on to your next opportunity.
This is what we've been doing for the last 15 years. It's helped us
and a few select clients make some market-crushing profits
consistently. It could do the same for you...
The World Is Your Oyster
Shuck the Clams and Pluck the Pearls
When you consider the entire world your marketplace, you have far more
opportunities than if you just buy US stocks. And when you focus on
deep-value situations to boot, you can make very healthy profits even
when the US market falls or trades sideways.
For instance, 1993 was a lackluster year for US stocks. From April
through December, the S&P 500 rose less than ½ of 1%. Yet, overseas,
the situation was entirely different.
We had been watching the economic reforms and infrastructure
development in SE Asia very closely. We were impressed by what we saw
and knew that the Wall Street elephants were slowly beginning to catch
on to the rapid growth in this region. So in April of THE NETWORK
recommended the Singapore Fund (SGF), traded on the NY Stock Exchange.
Eight months later, we advised readers to sell - for profits of 403%!
A similar situation presented itself two years later.
In December of 1994, the Mexican peso crashed and all Latin American
markets fell hard from "the Tequila Effect." By April of 1995, however
- we were confident the worst was over in the Latin American markets
and a few of them were severely undervalued. So we recommended
Brazil's largest Telecom company, Telebras, which also trades in the
US.
Eight months later, we advised readers to take profits - for 315%
gains this time!
And these situations are not unique. Thanks to constant traveling and
a network of investment contacts all over the world, we've been able
to help my readers make rapid-profits in the global marketplace
consistently over the years, including dozens of high double-digit and
triple digit winners in the last year alone.
Here are just a few of them...
International Uranium 192% and climbing since we recommended it six months ago
National Bank of Canada. 330% gains in 13 months
Fording Canadian Coal Trust, up 87% and climbing since we recommended
it 10 months ago
British Petroleum 118% gains in a year
Philips Electronics 109% in 16 months
Total Elf Aquataine 195% and climbing
Latin American Discovery Fund 103% in 13 months
First Ireland Investment Trust 93% in 5 months
Royal Dutch Petroleum ADR 90% in 13 months
Scudder New Europe Fund 87% in 18 months
Pan-American Silver, just closed it out for 115% gains in 9 months
Chicago Mercantile Exchange up 154% and counting in 13 months
North American Palladium just closed it out for 124% in 9 months
What's more, when markets get "schizophrenic" like they are today -
with pockets of deep value and the majority of stocks extremely
overvalued at the same time - you can make money on the long and short
side at the same time. And you can often double your money in a matter
of weeks, not months.
Make Money on Undervalued and
Overvalued Investments at the Same Time
For example, silver and gold stocks have posted excellent rallies
since 2001. And my subscribers were able to profit from this move,
with 61% gains on Oppenheimer Real Assets Fund, 31% on Harmony Mining,
and 115% on Pan American Silver, among others.
But, earlier this year, we liked gold and silver less because Wall
Street came to like it too much. The rally had been nearly straight
up, with barely a pause, and many precious metal stocks began to make
analysts' top buy lists. So by April of this year, we became convinced
that gold and silver were due for a correction.
On April 20th, we recommended put options on the XAU, an index for
gold and silver stocks. A put option gives you the right, but not the
obligation, to sell a security at a certain price by a certain date.
In this case, it meant we had the right to sell the XAU Index at $90
on or before September 17th, when the option would expire.
You could have put this trade on for as little as $590 - the price of
the put contract when I recommended it. Or you could have traded more
by buying more than one contract. Either way, your risk was strictly
limited to the cost of the puts ... yet your upside was virtually
unlimited.
Exactly 28 days after recommending the XAU puts, I told readers to
close the position for profits of 137%!
But that's not the whole story. At the same time we were going short
silver and gold, we were going long beef and oil. The result...
107% gains on Cattle Call Options in five weeks...
And 159% gains on Crude Oil Call Options in three weeks!
Here's another example of the same strategy:
By August of 2001, the NASDAQ had crashed over 60% from its high the
year before. The S&P 500, however, was only down about 20% from its
high and Wall Street analysts were saying it was now a good time to
get back into America's most widely held stocks - even though they
were still trading at more than 30 times earnings.
The Network didn't believe it for a second and told my readers to
short US stocks instead by buying the Prudent Bear Fund. One year
later, the S&P 500 had fallen another 24%...
But our subscribers were up 62% on Prudent Bear!
What's more, at the same time we recommending shorting US stocks with
the Prudent Bear Fund, we recommended going long on certain overseas
oil companies that were in strong financial shape and selling at low
valuations. Rule #1 for Making Massive Gains: You Have to Get There
Before the Crowd
There is a proven way to get rich in the stock market... and a proven
way not to get rich. Here are both in a nutshell...
Microsoft turned $10,000 invested into $6.5 million. But if you bought
it once it became a member of the S&P 500 or Dow, you'd be down 33% to
41%!
Home Depot turned $10,000 into $3.2 million. But if you bought it when
it joined the Dow or S&P - your returns would be negative 19% or
negative 25%.
SBC Communications multiplied $10,000 into $5.1 million. But since it
joined the S&P 500 it's down by 45%; since joining the Dow it's down
50%.
And Intel could have made you $2.5 million on a $10,000 investment.
Yet if you waited till it joined the Dow or S&P, you'd be down 25% to
30%.
Yes, the Dow and S&P 500 have good companies, even a few great
companies. But the vast majority do not sell at good prices anymore -
and they don't have the explosive potential they once had. Once a
company joins these clubs, its days of rapid growth are usually far
behind it...
When it becomes a part of the major indexes, mutual funds and pension
funds buy it, the financial press covers it on a daily basis, and Mom
and Pop Investor put it in their IRAs...
In other words, very soon, everyone is already in!
Here's the plain truth about America's most commonly followed stocks...
You will not find the most profitable investments in the world looking
where everyone else looks. The very definition of a ground-floor
investment is that everyone and his aunt haven't already bought it.
If you want to find the best profit opportunities in the world -
during bull and bear markets - you have to have a way to scour the
world for the best opportunities. That's how we've helped subscribers
to my other publications rake in gains of 403% and 315% in 8 months,
330% and 154% in 13 months, gains of 115%, 93%, 87%, 124% and 230% in
less than a year... and gains of 107%, 139% and 159% in a recent
5-week span!
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On July 31st of 2001, we recommended shares of Total, a French oil and
gas company traded on the NY Stock Exchange. Ten days, later, we
recommended ENI SPA, an Italian energy company, also traded on the
NYSE.
The result has been additional gains of 47% and 84% even while the S&P
still trades below its August, 2001 levels!
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You may see a pattern here. I don't like to follow Wall Street's
advice. I prefer to buy what I think are the best values in the world
- no matter where they are. And sometimes I short the most overvalued,
hyped-up investments in the world - be they in the US or overseas.
What's more, I buy and sell stocks and funds. But I'll also use
options to make a quick buck, just as we did last month, with gains of
107%, 137% and 159% in 3 weeks, 4 weeks, and 5 weeks, respectively.
And that's just what the best hedge funds in the world do.
Hedge funds typically play both sides of the market - shorting the
weakest sectors and investments that are starting to fall apart... and
buying the most oversold sectors and investments that are packed with
value and poised to rise sharply. And hedge funds will also use
derivatives such as options to reduce risk and boost overall returns.
I know... It's not cookie-cutter "buy and hold" stuff. And that's
exactly the reason it can consistently help you grow your portfolio at
very high rates of return through bull and bear markets.
For instance, in the last five years, the S&P 500 has fallen 17%.
That's a whole lot of time to make absolutely nothing. By contrast,
the CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index (tracking 433 hedge funds) is up 60%
in that time!
If you started out with a $100,000 portfolio, it would be the
difference between having an $83,000 portfolio today or a portfolio
worth $160,000. Just with the average hedge fund, in other words,
you'd have a $77,000 advantage over the typical investor who simply
followed Wall Streets' conventional advice.
And yet, the best hedge funds post even better returns.
For instance, Steinhardt partners posted 27% compounded annual returns
over a 20-year period. Your $10,000 investment would have turned into
$1.2 million in that time.
And the Quantum Fund - founded by the legendary George Soros and Jimmy
Rogers - returned an even more astounding 34% compounded average
annual returns over a 19-year period! A single $10,000 investment
would have ballooned to $2.6million!
" A single $10,000 investment in this elite hedge fund would have
ballooned to $2.6 million! Trouble is, you had to be a millionaire to
buy in. But I'll target the same kind of returns with just a $5,000
trading account."
The trouble is, most of these funds require minimum investments of
$250,000 or more. Many of the best, in fact, require minimum
investments of $1 million.
But you don't need a quarter-million dollars or more lying around to
get these kinds of returns. You can make the same kinds of
bear-market-resistant/bull-market-charged investments the best hedge
fund managers in the world do - for a minute fraction of the cost
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their managers. This is part of the reason our approach when making
individual investments - and recommending investments to subscribers -
is also very much that of the top hedge fund managers.
We scour the world for the best profit opportunities - and that means
ignoring Wall Street's biased advice and focusing on the special
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be missing... your closets would be nearly empty.
The fact is, Americans buy hundreds of billions of dollars of goods
and services from overseas. But your stockbroker tends to sell you
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they're outright corporate frauds.
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$1.2 million in 20 years... and investors in George Soros's and Jimmy
Rogers's Quantum Fund turn $10 million into $2.3 million in 19 years.
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