I'd like to start today's Digest off with something a little different...
For the past year, we've been developing a new trading service that's accessible to all our subscribers. You see… our higher-end trading services, like Jeff Clark's S&A Short Report and David Eifrig's Retirement Trader, cost several thousand dollars a year. Not many people can afford this premium information. So we wanted a new service that contains much of the same high-quality trading ideas… but at a fraction of the price. It's an exciting development... one that will cost you less per day than your local newspaper.
Stansberry & Associates' Alliance members are one week away from getting a "sneak peek" at our newest product, which I believe represents a breakthrough in the investment newsletter business. But before we tell you what this product is, a bit of history is in order...
In 2005, we introduced our first free daily e-letter, DailyWealth. It has since become one of the most widely read and respected publications in the world. Many of our colleagues in the newsletter business consider it the "gold standard" of daily financial letters.
The cornerstone of DailyWealth is commentary from Dr. Steve Sjuggerud. It also features selected pieces of the world's best newsletter content, chosen by our editor in chief, Brian Hunt, and Dr. Sjuggerud. In addition to the best ideas from Stansberry Research analysts like Dan Ferris and David Eifrig, DailyWealth readers have gained insight from outstanding investors like Doug Casey, Jim Rogers, Rick Rule, Chris Weber, and Chris Mayer.
This daily e-letter contains more than just a featured essay. Readers also receive Hunt's "Market Notes," which has featured an incredible amount of winning trade ideas over the years. Simply put, Hunt is one of the best trading minds in our industry.
Over the years in DailyWealth, we've warned folks about the huge condo bust... We've urged them to buy mortgage REITs at the right time in order to collect safe, 19% annual yields... to buy gold at $500... and to aggressively buy stocks in early 2009. All this makes DailyWealth, in my opinion, the single most useful daily investment product in the world.
If you're not reading DailyWealth every day, you should start immediately. When it comes to free daily letters, you won't find a higher-quality source of safe, useful investment ideas anywhere. And in 2010, we made DailyWealth even better... when we introduced DailyWealth Premium.
By now, investment advisory readers know how the Internet has changed our business. One of the most frequently used business models is to publish a free daily newsletter to introduce lots of people to our ideas. If you like the ideas contained in these free products, you can subscribe to one of our advisories.
Typically, specific recommendations are "held back" from free products. Like a supermarket's free samples, you get a taste... but you have to buy something if you want the full experience. With DailyWealth Premium, we offer the "full experience," for a small monthly fee. "Premium" features daily notes from Dr. Sjuggerud that tell readers exactly how to act on the ideas featured in the essays and Market Notes.
Steve draws ideas from dozens of expensive financial advisories (including every newsletter in the S&A stable) and data services to provide readers with ideas. With Premium, you're essentially hiring Dr. Sjuggerud to access hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of advisories and services and provide you with the world's best investment ideas.
For this source of investment ideas, which large hedge funds would happily pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for, we're charging less than $0.50 per day – less than the cost of a pack of gum – for the world's best financial research.
As you might guess, DailyWealth Premium is one of our most popular products. Many folks have written in to say that by getting a DailyWealth Premium subscription – by having Dr. Sjuggerud guide them every day – they don't have a need for any other financial product.
The quality of this product is so high and the cost is so low, I know our competitors are worried about what we are doing. DailyWealth Premium is the best value you'll find in our business, period. But once again, we're making the DailyWealth brand even better and more useful to our readers...
In one week, we are introducing DailyWealth Trader. DailyWealth Premium readers are used to receiving actionable investment ideas, every single day... all hand-selected by Dr. Sjuggerud and his staff. These ideas are typically stock, bond, real estate, and commodity ideas that will play out over many months or years...
For example, in August 2010, Steve told readers about VF Corp., which sells clothing under national brands like North Face and Lee. Shareholders have gained about 90% since then. Earlier that year, Steve repeated a recommendation of royalty company Silver Wheaton. Shares are up about 70%. More recently, Steve clued in DailyWealth Premium readers to the new uptrend in emerging markets. The leveraged fund he recommended is up 62% since October.
If you'd like to start receiving daily investment ideas, you can sign up for DailyWealth Premium here...
As you might guess, DailyWealth Trader is the "trader's version" of DailyWealth Premium. We've developed an incredible stable of short-term trading advisories over the years. You might recall the recent "A" and "A++" Report Card ratings Porter gave our option gurus Jeff Clark and Dr. David Eifrig, respectively. Jeff and David do an amazing job of showing their readers how to safely profit with advanced trading strategies... And we're proud to publish their research.
As Porter mentioned in the Report Card, Dr. Eifrig has closed out an incredible 55 straight trades for winners. And Jeff made his readers a fortune trading the gold market last year... He made 100% in three weeks on Gold Fields, 70% in one month on Kinross Gold, 140% in one week on SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), and 100% in three weeks on Seabridge Gold… just to name a few.
As one of the largest publishing companies in the world, we also maintain an extensive network of traders and investors with whom we constantly discuss shorter-term market opportunities. Many of these contacts are in the biotechnology and natural resource fields, where "who you know" is just as important as "what you know." We also have access to the world's most extensive databases (that cost us more than $20,000 a year each to use), which we use to constantly test new trading ideas and strategies. The best of these ideas turn up in our various advisories.
With DailyWealth Trader, readers will receive access to all of these ideas. And like DailyWealth Premium, this access will be provided for an extremely low price. Our plan for DailyWealth Trader is to provide actionable, short-term trading ideas pulled from all over the world. The majority of these ideas will come from our own premium trading advisories, like Jeff Clark's S&A Short Report and Dr. David Eifrig's Retirement Trader (which combined cost nearly $7,000 a year).
We'll also show you how to take long-term investment ideas – like those provided in Dan Ferris' Extreme Value – and leverage them to make 30%... 50%... even 100% per year. More important, we'll show you how to do this with little-to-no risk. And while junior resource stocks suffered a bad year in 2011, we know they are poised for a giant run in the coming years. The best names in this sector should easily gain 500% or 1,000%-plus, should a big rise in energy and precious metals occur.
DailyWealth Trader readers will receive our best trading ideas from across all our advisory services. Our Editor in Chief Brian Hunt is spearheading this project for us. As I mentioned, Brian is one of the best trading minds in our industry. If he weren't managing our editorial team, he'd be trading his own money for a living (and hopefully writing an advisory for us).
In his Market Notes column, he told readers to get long master limited partnerships (MLPs) and collect 8%-plus yields in early 2009... He urged readers to be cautious of natural resource stocks in mid-2011, just before they crashed... He timed this bullish note on crude oil back in 2008 almost to the day it hit its exact bottom... And he warned of a silver crash near the $50 high in late April 2011.
As editor in chief, Brian sees hundreds of investment and trading ideas per month. He also has "instant access" to trading gurus like Jeff and David. Along with his co-editor Amber Lee Mason, he'll feature the best trading ideas in the world, every day, in DailyWealth Trader.
We charge thousands of dollars per year for our premium trading services. Jeff's S&A Short Report service, for example, carries a normal price of $4,000 per year. And we're doubling the already substantial price of Retirement Trader soon. We charge $1,000 per year for Extreme Value. With DailyWealth Trader, you'll receive all this for less than the price of your daily newspaper.
There's a lot more to this story and what to expect. We'll be sharing more details, including live trading updates from DailyWealth Trader, in the coming weeks. More to come...
The great un-de-leveraging is well underway... European nations are expected to sell more than $43 billion in debt this week as optimism has returned to the region. (Read: the European Central Bank is all but promising a bailout.) Italy sold $9.8 billion of debt, near the maximum, at auction today... The troubled nation paid 6.08% for 2 billion euros of 10-year debt, down from 6.98% at the last auction on December 29. It also sold 3.57 billion euros of five-year bonds at 5.39%, down from 6.47% on December 14. Italy also sold 1.9 billion euros of bonds due in 2016 and 2021.
Belgium will auction 3 billion euros of bills tomorrow. Spain will sell notes due in July 2015, October 2016, and January 2017 on February 2. Germany, France, and Portugal also have upcoming auctions. Guess which of those three countries will pay the most for its debt?
Portuguese five-year bonds hit a euro-era high today of 22.5%, the same level at which Greek debt traded in the midst of the crisis. And that's with Bloomberg reporting the European Central Bank (ECB) is buying Portuguese paper today. Even with the $500 billion "loan" the ECB gave to European banks, the system is failing. But the ECB won't let its sovereigns fail... It will continue to print, print, print…
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