Here it is: You don't learn to invest in "stock college." And you sure don't learn it in boiler rooms or the rotting caverns of Wall Street.
That, my friend, is the No. 1 fatal flaw with 99% of what passes for stock research... and with most independent advisory newsletters, too.
Think about it: How do you get a cushy job on Wall Street? You go from prep school to college to business school and directly on to Goldman-Morgan-Merrill. That's right, the vast majority of the chaps that turn out this dreck have never even worked for a Main Street company, much less run one.
Sure, these guys talk about turnarounds, but have they ever turned a company around? Fat chance! They go on and on about quality management and corporate DNA, but have they ever worked for, much less run a large-scale organization? Hardly.
Well, that night at sea, I made a decision: Before I would try my hand at picking stocks or advising others, I would try my hand at business! And that's precisely what I did.
I came ashore and went straight to work. Before I was through, I served as a senior executive at corporations all over the world... from Southampton, England to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Vancouver, Canada.
Over much of that 30-plus-year career, I specialized in leading startups and turnarounds. The lessons I learned during those years still directly influence the stocks I recommend to you today.
You see, unlike other advisors, I've been there... done that. That's one of the biggest reasons I feel comfortable giving you investment advice that can profoundly affect your future.
So, does that mean I can promise you a fortune overnight...
Sadly, no. Nobody can. But here's what I can do. I can do the research. I can run the numbers. I can apply 30-plus years of business experience to helping you build real wealth over time.
What it does mean is this: I can help you make money in stocks.
Twice today, I showed you proof in a fancy graph -- how value stocks outperform growth stocks and the broader market. That's on average. That's buying a "basket" of value stocks.
But imagine how much better you could do if you had a team of experienced analysts who would spend hundreds of hours each month picking over that huge universe to find just the very best values -- here at home and abroad.
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Bargains like MCI, which I recommended to my subscribers in August 2004. That's right, poor, unloved, beaten-down MCI. You may have heard that telecom giant Verizon recently agreed to buy out MCI -- at a significant premium to what my subscribers paid.
Does it take guts to buy a deep value stock like MCI. Sure, but having the full support of my Inside Value team behind you makes it a whole lot less stressful. And the rewards are out of this world. Which brings us to Investing Blunder No. 3.
Investing Blunder #3 -- Riding the Bench
If you remember just one thing from our discussion today, please remember this: Except in extremely rare situations, you MUST be invested in U.S. stocks. Period.
The U.S. stock market is by far the most powerful machine for building and defending your personal wealth this Earth has ever seen. And over the years, the stocks of U.S. companies have vastly outperformed all other asset classes.
And, yes, that includes gold... and real estate... and collectibles... bonds... and all other financial securities. If you want to get wealthy or just to stay there, you simply must be "in" the stock market.
And this is critical: Over the past 10 years, the S&P has returned on average 12% per year. But if you'd been out of the market on just the best 30 days during those 10 years, you'd have actually LOST money.
And nobody can predict when those days will be. Nobody. If somebody tells you he can, by all means show him the door at once!
Staying out of the market can wreck your wealth in 2006. And you MUST not do it.
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Make 2006 the year you clobber the market!
Believe it or not, 2006 is already upon us. My sense is that it's going to be a make-or-break year for many investors. And frankly, I'm downright suspicious of the latest run-up, especially in low quality growth and story stocks. Careless investors could be in for a rude awakening.
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