Peak Oil Stock: The Collapse of Banking

What next? Isn't that a question, though...
     
The Peak Oil story was never about running out of oil. It was about the collapse of complex systems in a world economy faced by the prospect of no further oil-fueled growth. It was something of a shock to many that the first complex system to fail would be banking, but the process is obvious: no more growth means no more ability to pay interest on credit... end of story, as Tony Soprano used to say.
    
There was a popular theory among Peak Oilers the last decade that the world would enter a "bumpy plateau" period when the global economy would get beaten down by peak oil, would then revive as "demand destruction" drove down oil prices, and would be beaten down again as oil prices shot up in response — with serial repetitions of the cycle, each beat-down taking economies lower — the only imaginable outcome being some sort of quiet homeostasis. This scenario did not play out as expected. It was predicated on a mistaken assumption that all systems would retain some kind of operational resilience while ratcheting down. Anyway, the banking system was mortally wounded in the first go-round and the behemoth is dying hard.
    
The last desperate act of the banking system in the face of Peak Oil's no-more-growth equation was to engineer species of tradable securities that could produce wealth out of thin air rather than productive activity. This was the alphabet soup of algorithm-derived frauds with vague and confounding names such as credit default swaps (CDSs), collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), structured investment vehicles (SIVs), and, of course, the basic filler, mortgage backed securities. The banking system is now choking to death on these delicacies.
    
The trouble is that the EMT squad brought in to rescue the banking system — that is, governments — can't remove these obstructions from the patient's craw. They don't want to drown in a mighty upchuck of the alphabet soup.
    
The collapse of complex systems is actually predicated on the idea that the systems would mutually reinforce each other's failures. This is now plain to see as the collapse of banking (that is, of both lending and debt service), has led to the collapse of commerce and manufacturing. The next systems to go will probably be farming, transportation, and the oil markets themselves (which constitute the system for allocating and distributing world energy resources). As these things seize up, the final system to go will be governance, at least at the highest levels.
    
If we're really lucky, human affairs will eventually reorganize at a lower scale of activity, governance, civility, and economy. Every week, the failure to recognize the nature of our predicament thrusts us further into the uncharted territory of hardship. The task of government right now is not to prop up doomed systems at their current scales of failure, but to prepare the public to rebuild our systems at smaller scales.
    
The net effect of the failures in banking is that a lot of people have less money than they expected they would have a year ago. This is bad enough, given our habits and practices of modern life. But what happens when farming collapses? The prospect for that is closer than most of us might realize. The way we produce our food has been organized at a scale that has ruinous consequences, not least its addiction to capital. Now that banking is in collapse, capital will be extremely scarce. Nobody in the cities reads farm news, or listens to farm reports on the radio. Guess what, though: we are entering the planting season. It will be interesting to learn how many farmers "out there" in the Cheez Doodle belt are not able to secure loans for this year's crop.
     
My guess is that the disorder in agriculture will be pretty severe this year, especially since some of the world's most productive places — California, northern China, Argentina, the Australian grain belt — are caught in extremes of drought on top of capital shortages. If the US government is going to try to make remedial policy for anything, it better start with agriculture, to promote local, smaller-scaled farming using methods that are much less dependent on oil byproducts and capital injections.
     
This will, of course, require a re-allocation of lands suitable for growing food. Our real estate market mechanisms could conceivably enable this to happen, but not without a coherent consensus that it is imperative to do so. If agri-business as currently practiced doesn't founder on capital shortages, it will surely collapse on disruptions in the oil markets. President Obama at least made a start in the right direction by proposing to eliminate further subsidies to farmers above the $250,000 level. But the situation is really more acute. Surely the US Department of Agriculture already knows about it, but the public may not be interested until the shelves in the Piggly-Wiggly are bare — and then, of course, they'll go apeshit.
    
The recent huge drop in oil prices has left the public once again convinced that the world is drowning in oil — if only the scoundrelly oil companies were forced to deliver it at reasonable prices. The public has been consistently deluded about this for decades. What's missing so far is for the president of the US to lay out the reality of the situation in a dedicated TV address. I know a lot of you think that Jimmy Carter already tried this and failed to make an impression (and ruined his presidency in the process). I guarantee you that Mr. Obama will have to do this sometime in the next few years whether he likes or not, and he'd be well-advised to get it done sooner rather than later. And by this I don't mean just vague allusions to "energy independence" or "renewables" in speeches devoted to many other issues. I mean telling the public the plain truth that we'll never offset oil depletion and the intelligent response i s to do everything possible to transition to walkable towns and public transit, not to sustain the unsustainable.
     
The alternatives — i.e. what we're trying now — is to further delude ourselves into thinking that we can run WalMart and the suburbs by some other means than oil. Despite all our investments in these things, we won't be able to run them by other means, and the news about this had better get out before enormous disappointment turns into titanic rage. If Americans think they've been grifted by Goldman Sachs and Bernie Madoff, wait until they find out what a swindle the so-called "American Dream" of suburban life turns out to be.
    
On this blizzardy Monday in the power centers of America, attention is fixed on the never-ending fiasco of AIG — a company whose main product turned out to be credit default swaps, and is now choking on them. Kibitzers on the sidelines of finance are forecasting a king-hell bear market suckers' rally in the best stock markets followed by a belly flop to Dow 4000 or lower. I myself called for Dow 4000 two years ago — and was obviously a bit off on my timing. All this is surely trouble enough. But while your attention is focused on Rick Santelli in the Chicago trader's pit, or Larry Kudlow desperately seeking "mustard seeds" of new growth in financials, try to let one eye stray to the horizon where these other complex systems are working out their next moves. Farming. The oil markets. These are the coming theaters of alarm and distress.

"How can two obviously intelligent guys like yourselves find anything to value in Sarah Palin? I read your essay, Don, and found it somewhat insightful, the points obvious for those of us who consider the economy and its effects (but still your points are valid) and I'm sure news to some.

"But then you state that Sarah's your gal? And Gary, you also state some support for Palin. I'm at my wits end.

"That woman is such an obvious fraud that it became painful to watch her embarrass herself. If she has any intellect capable of understanding anything beyond the immediately obvious to any dog or cat, she wins an Academy Award for her ability to hide it. When she opened her mouth to speak it was painfully obvious that she fails to understand the simplest rationale, and she honestly believed she made points instead by employing colloquialisms, further defining her shallow, narrow understanding of most anything.

"As far as any knowledge of societies, economies, history, governing philosophies, or even our government, she proved to possess little knowledge. Electing people like Palin to governing positions because they're popular, or considered good communicators, is exactly how we've arrived at our current predicament. It's past time for voters to do an infinitely better job of selecting electing representatives and then following their actions and demanding accountability, while diluting the influence of special interests and their paid, professional lobbyists. Failing to do so will surely eliminate our right to vote at all.

"Surely you two are pulling my leg about the Sarah thing."

I do not dare speak for Don, but I agree with your assessment of Sarah…but when did I say anything about voting her into office? I just wish she'd return my phone calls.

Another Shooter seemed to know where I was coming from and warned: "God will damn you to hell for the lust in your heart." I assure you, Shooter, that my intentions are honorable.
 
And here is some angry protest from the Marxists who insist on reading our letters…

"Dear writer of the article: Gary Gibson?

"This article is an insult to my intelligence! You cater to fear [and] ignorance, and you propound borderline conspiracy-doomsday theories of the most banal ilk. Your beloved unregulated capitalism has sent the world economy into a tailspin of epic proportions. Even Allen Greenspan an avatar (Ayn Rand devotee and all) of the free enterprise system said his core working assumptions are now in doubt! Added insult to this rant is your mention of Sarah Palin as a serious candidate for our nation's highest office. Even John McCain's aides were appalled at her ignorance and leaked negative information. I spent ten years being a high school social studies teacher; you do a disservice to our country by these Jeremiads, which are not even half-truths, but one-eighth truths at best! Please remove me from this email list!

"A recovering ex-Republican, conservative and Ayn Rand devotee

"P.S. I would love to debate this point further with you. How about the thesis: unregulated free markets caused the sub-prime mess and brought us into a recession? How do you logically refute this?"

We spend a couple thousand words each business day trying to explain that the fiat money, fractional reserve banking, government-regulated thing that is destroying all your lives is not a free market based on sound money.

If you don't understand this or simply refuse to, then I'm not sure why you were receiving our newsletter in the first place. If you don't know the difference between our modern day Alan Greenspan and the dashing young Randian he replaced, then nothing you read in this newsletter can help you anyway.

That a statist and proponent of centralized planning such as you taught "social studies" in high school wouldn't surprise me, especially if you did so in a public school…but it still saddens me.

The Washington Post reports: "The government needs to continue moving aggressively to combat the recession and financial crisis, even as it takes steps to rein in the budget deficit in the longer term, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said this morning."

With an entire planet of people clamoring for more government management and bailouts — and with the government happily obliging — you may want to consider bailing yourself out.

The One Safe Economy to Grow Your Money

Last week, the stock market for 2010 fell by more than 6%. That's a return of -24.5% for the year. While we equities here in the U.S. continue to struggle, emerging nations have been hit even harder…especially commodity-based economies.

Brazil is certainly in this basket of falling markets. Fortunately for you, it shouldn't be.

Sure, more than half of Brazil's exports are commodities like soybeans and iron ore. But there's a very good reason why Brazil is a safer investment than most — stability. Before you get started, let me explain…

Over the past two decades, Brazil has gone through many crises. Each one taught the country how to handle poor economic situations. But it was the most recent one that puts us in a tremendous advantage.

After so many years of falling on its face, Brazil elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Leaving our opinions aside, Lula has done something to put the country in the driver's seat this time around.

At the beginning of this decade, the world punished Brazil for its high debt levels. Its market crashed, erasing years of growth. Since this pseudo crisis, the Lula administration has stabilized the country's economy and paid down debt. On top of these moves, it's also put tough regulations in place across many industries. Most investors thought these regulations limited growth, which they did. But now investors — or, at least, smart ones — see the regulations as necessary evils.

By regulating industries like energy and finance, Brazil kept a steady, stable growth rate of about 4% in recent boom years. The rest of the emerging nations of the world were getting used to a 7% rate. These other "emergers" were funding their growth by leveraging their assets and creating massive debts. Brazil was paying its down, while accruing next to no new debt.

The overall best stock market hasn't noted this major difference, however. Brazil's major index, the Bovespa, is down 40% over the last 12 months — alongside the rest of the world.

While others struggle with "bad assets" and massive debts, Brazil will be ready to strike.

Energy is our favorite way to play Brazil. Without energy, you can't expand. Just look at what China is doing these days. As it continues to come online, it burns through more coal and oil than anyone could have imagined. Brazil, while it's no China, is still demanding an enormous amount of energy.

The largest difference between Brazil and China is the regulations. There are many more aggressive mandates in the Brazilian energy industry than most Chinese, or Americans for that matter, can even fathom.

For instance, there's been a lot of talk in recent years here in the U.S. about switching regular gasoline for ethanol to power our light vehicles. Brazil has been doing this since 1975. That's over 30 years of mandates, which require all light vehicles to use at least 25% ethanol blends. The country is the world leader in ethanol efficiency. That came from strategic mandates.

The rest of the Brazil's energy situation is no different. In recent years, hydroelectricity became the country's energy solution. Now 80% of Brazil's electricity comes from hydropower. This energy revolution places Brazil 42nd in CO2 emissions worldwide. It produces less CO2 than countries like Israel and the Philippines, which are just fractions of Brazil's size and population.

Early investors in Brazil's booming hydropower industry stand to make massive gains, while the rest of the world's nations are trying to put their own economies back together. That's where you need to be looking.

Bull Stocks Market of 2010

"Don't get too used to cheap oil prices. They won't be around for long."

That's the warning we first shared with you three weeks ago -- when oil traded for $35 a barrel.

Since then, while virtually every media outlet exclusively focused on our financial crisis, oil prices quietly surged an astounding 28%.

And it's just getting started.

The truth is, our team of researchers recently confirmed that we're now in the early stages of another massive bottleneck in supply... one so large that we're realistically looking at $100+ oil -- within the next few months.

But as you'll see in your free report below, we also uncovered a rare investment tool that could pay you as much as 500% as it happens.

In fact, in the past two weeks alone, investors using this powerful tool already gained 34%.

In a market this gut-wrenching, you can't afford to pass this virtually-guaranteed money-making opportunity up.

Every November, the International Energy Agency (IEA) releases its World Energy Outlook report.

The 578-page document blueprints exactly where our future energy sources will come from and when - for leaders and elite investors around the world.

And they read it for good reason...

Since its inception, the findings within the pages have been so accurate that the annual report reigns as "the authority of energy analysis and projections."

In fact, many people today trust their report without question.

I just finished pouring through my copy.

It was handed to me after a fellow geologist, with first-hand experience in the Canadian oil sands, pointed out a shocking error - one that guarantees an imminent spike in the price of oil.

In short, the report claims that:

"Thanks to ever-dwindling supplies in the Middle East, the world will rely on Canada as the largest oil producing country by 2010."

It's been their same projection since 2006.

But there's just one problem.

The World Energy Outlook forgot the other half of the story...

You see, what you won't read in the report is that many of those companies we will rely on have already halted production in scores of their fields.

They were forced to postpone production as the price of oil crashed into the unfeasible $30 range.

Many projects, projects that were expected to seamlessly come online within weeks, are now months - even years - behind.

It's a supply and demand bottleneck we can't stop. And it's guaranteed to once again launch the price of oil violently back to the $140 plus range... very soon.

That's a 250% increase from what we're paying today. And that's a conservative estimate.

The good news is that we also, very recently, uncovered a secret investment - which most Americans know nothing about - that could hand you 500% gains as this spike hits.

And the best part is that it's not related to risky exploration or production companies, either. Instead, it's directly - dollar for dollar - related to the price of oil. Only this gem pays you DOUBLE the gains!

In fact, investors using this blockbuster already pocketed 34% gains - in the last seven days as oil popped 17%!

I've written this letter to give you every last detail on exactly how it works. But first, let me quickly remind you...

How The Smallest Supply Crunch Could Make You Filthy Rich

As you know, four years ago, a pair of hurricanes blitzed our Gulf Coast's oil and gas refineries, forcing our production to a crawl.

That instant, Americans witnessed the unthinkable... oil prices launch from $50 to over $70 per barrel.

It was the first lesson in a cold, hard truth... and what should have been the investment eye-opener of a lifetime.

We learned first-hand exactly how sensitive we were to the tiniest interruption - or even threat of interruption - in our supply.

And it broadsided almost everyone.

In fact, month after month, most so-called experts all over TV, from the CNBC analysts to Dick Cheney... even most Americans foolishly believed everything was fine. And that the price would soon tumble back down.

They were so confident that everything would immediately pan out that they did nothing. And it cost them - quite possibly the opportunity of a lifetime.

Do you remember where you were when gas suddenly hit $4.13?

Most of us sat back in shock and awe as daily gas prices became so painfully expensive that we were forced to cancel holiday and summer vacations... Going out on weekends turned into USA Channel reruns of Monk on the couch... And we only filled-up our tanks just enough to make it to and from work.

But not everyone...

You see, one small group of investors saw it coming from the start. They knew exactly how to play this "bottleneck."

And they played it for everything it was worth... churning winning trade after winning trade.

I'm talking about everyday investors - people like you and me, working long hours just to pay the bills - who saw it coming, suddenly found themselves collecting dozens of massive payouts, the likes of 33% in three months... 156% in 9 months... 611% in 6 months... 1,014% in 17 months... etc.

People like Norman Wilson, an insurance salesman and father of four, who turned a small $10,000 into $61,900 on just three plays during the bottleneck.

And then there's Bill Walker, a machine worker. He used this amazing opportunity to rapidly spin $15,000 into $65,400.

Even school teachers like Lee Davis took advantage of this opportunity and raked in a cool $12,500 profit - in a single week.

They didn't just take the safe - and highly profitable - road by investing in oil futures either... they took advantage of the scores of oil companies, spreading like wildfire, to our northern borders.

And their timing was perfect. Shortly after their positions were already secured:

Canada.com declared - "Energy Stocks Drive TSX Higher"

Fortune Magazine printed - "Canada's oil sands remain alluring as a future source of crude. Suncor (Research), the pioneer of Alberta's booming industry, has returned 142 percent since we recommended it."

Forbes noticed - "Gurus Fill Up With Oil And Gas Top Stocks"

Bloomberg reported - "Canadian Stocks Headed For Best Weekly Advance In Three Months... Led by materials and energy producers"

And with an estimated 1.5 trillion barrels locked under their soil, and oil prices skyrocketing faster by the day, Canada's low-priced outfits suddenly became the hottest investments since Exxon.

Investors in companies like Suncor, Grey Wolf, UTS, Conacher and many more - companies sitting on oil resources that we desperately need to come online as early as 2010 - easily raked in 200%, 300%, even 1,000% gains in a matter of months, as oil prices skyrocketed beyond $147 per barrel!

But By The Time The Easiest Money Was Made, Most Americans Catching On Found Themselves S.O.L.

Sadly, it took oil prices to break over $100 a barrel before most investors started realizing that they could have made an absolute fortune.

They missed the boat.

And those earlier investors - the ones who caught the first stages of a run - the ones who knew where the profits would be juiciest, started cashing out at the peak, just as our banking and economic crisis cranked into high-gear.

Then, of course, the weakened world-wide economy acted as the final bulldozer that toppled July's high of $147 all the way down to $33 a barrel by December 17th.

And while the average American rejoiced that - at the very least - gasoline was "affordable" again... something much more tragic - and much more profitable quietly unfolded.

You see, thanks to prices becoming too low, many of Canada's oil companies - resources that would supply crucially needed oil for the U.S. and rest of the world in a few months - couldn't stay in business.

And we need that oil, like a junkie needs his fix.

In fact, the U.S. depends on AND imports more oil from Canada than from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya, and Iraq - combined.

But one by one, we started finding major oil projects temporarily closing up shop. Drilling and refining stopped. Exploration and testing lost all capital. And their share prices ultimately plummeted.

Just to name a few examples:

StatoilHydro recently yanked the rug from under a $12 billion project in Canada's Peace River.

Both Nexen Inc and Opti Canada Inc were forced to halt advancement on major projects in Alberta.

Suncor, Canada's oldest oil sands operator, was forced to cut its spending by 33%, thanks to lack of profitablility with the current extremely low prices.

Oil giant Dutch Royal Shell's stopped work on several of their Canadian projects until prices regain strength.

The major partners in the proposed $24 billion Fort Hills oil-sands project in northern Alberta - Petro-Canada, Teck Cominco and UTS Energy - announced they may defer a decision to build an upgrading refinery northeast of Edmonton.

The list goes on.

As I mentioned earlier, within months, precious deposits of oil - even locations that were set to come online within weeks - are now months behind.

Some are trading now for a 90% discount.

But ironically, these outfits just created a powerful, self-fulfilling prophecy... an unstoppable bottleneck guaranteed to launch oil prices - very soon - through the roof.

And it's already started.

Your Second Chance To Ride One Of The Most Profitable Bull Markets In History

Don't let oil's current low price fool you this time.

Thanks to an already guaranteed shortage -- just around the corner -- these low prices won't be around for long.

Here are just a few more of the critical points from their latest report:

Global oil demand is projected to expand 2.2% a year, on average, reaching 95.8 million barrels a day by 2012, up from 86.13 million barrels a day this year. The forecast is based on global economic growth of about 4.5% annually. Oil demand is expected to increase most rapidly in Asia and the Middle East.

OPEC, which supplies more than 40% of the world's daily oil needs, will have little spare capacity left by 2012.

Increases from non-OPEC oil producers and biofuel producers should start flagging after 2009.

Natural gas markets will also be tight because of inadequate supply increases, limiting the ability of consumers to switch between oil and natural gas.

And that's just the beginning of the coming bottleneck. Here's what CNN recently reported:

And very soon, when word of the shortage hits, the exact same scenario that the hurricanes caused will already have started unfolding... only this time, the gains will hit much, much faster.

The smart money's already placing their bets.

They're already preparing to collect a fortune!

And if you're prepared, as I'll show you, step by step, in just one moment, you'll soon find that many of the very same companies that surged before will rapidly once again start compounding your wealth.

And here's the kicker:

This time, they won't need nearly as much capital to get started! Most of their infrastructure is already ready to go - and they're trading for just pennies on the dollar.

And if you think that's a juicy opportunity, let me show you how you could...

Collect Twice The Gains Of NYMEX Oil Traders... with One Simple, Yet Little-known Play

Listen...

We know oil prices are about to skyrocket. We know they're just around the corner. And we know that those slick traders playing NYMEX futures - guys who need hundreds of thousands of dollars just to get started - somehow always come out ahead.

But here's what you might not know...

Very recently, we've uncovered a rare investment that could pay you gains just as astonishing as any jackpot oil resource company out there - but without the risk!

Here's how it works.

You see, this special investment, which most investors know absolutely nothing about, doesn't even follow oil producers or risky exploration companies... it strictly follows the physical oil market.

And get this:

Thanks to the unique nature of this investment, you can actually get paid double the gains that oil makes!

In other words, a 10% gain pays you 20%... 20% gain pays you 40%... 100% rise in oil prices pays you 200%

That means, if oil shoots 50% this year, which is our gross-underestimate, you double your money!

If oil shoots up to the $70 range... every $5,000 invested suddenly turns into a $10,000 payday!

With oil trading in the upper $30-range, this unique opportunity doesn't get any easier.

Just imagine how much money you'll be sitting on when oil prices plow through the $140 a barrel mark!

I'm not talking about several years down the line either. We could realistically find ourselves staring right down the throat of $100 before January... $140 by next April... even $200 a barrel by the end of 2010!

Every last detail is spelled out for you in our latest report. It's called, Hotter Gains Than NYMEX Traders Could Ever Make. And I want you to have it for FREE.

All you have to do is test out our top-performing trading advisory, The Pure Energy Trader.

But before I divulge all the details about how to get started collecting a fortune in this Bottleneck Bull-Market, let me introduce myself and my team...

Introducing... The Pure Energy Trader

My name is Brian Hicks.

I'm the president of the investment research company Angel Publishing Investment Research. I've spent my entire investment career, going on two decades now, uncovering the market's best moneymaking trends and showing investors like you how to profit from the most undervalued opportunities in the world.

I've taken investment junkets all over the world... to historic oil boomtowns like Desdemona, Texas, to the Powder River Basin in Wyoming to Kiev, Ukraine. We've been to the heart of the oil sands industry, Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. I've been blown away by a wind park in Palm Springs, California. And I've seen first-hand the natural gas boom in the Barnett Shale.

My investment insights and ideas have landed me frequent spots on financial shows like CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, CNN, Fox Business, and, most recently, C-SPAN... where I spoke on the energy markets and the U.S. dollar.

I'm not telling you this to be a showboat. But I want you to understand that it's this dedication and never-ending persistence that has allowed me to develop friendships and contacts with some of the best financial minds and industry insiders around the world.

And recently, it's allowed me to acquire a man who could easily be considered, with well over 1,153 successful trades under his belt, one of the best traders on the planet today.

His name is Ian Cooper.

And to get a better handle on why I cherry-picked Ian over any other research analyst out there, look no further than his track record...

120% on Royal Caribbean 

194.12% on QQQ

269.52% on On2 Technologies

270% on ONT

268% on CYD

206.33% on VTSS

246% on IPIX

233% on TLTCJ

515.38% on MQJSB

225% on ETGP

302.15% on ASTM

And that's just to name a few. Had I shown you all of his winning trades just for the past 2 years, it would be five pages long.

His off-the-charts accuracy for reliably reading the markets, matched with his winner-after-winner track record, have plastered his sought-after advice on the pages of numerous publications. He's filled columns from Investor's Business Daily all the way to Forbes.

He's also frequently appeared on investment shows such as Money Matters with Barry Armstrong and On the Money with Mike Stein.

In other words, Ian is the real deal.

In the past few months, I'm willing to bet that you've gained valuable wisdom just from Ian's dead-on articles in Wealth Daily or Energy and Capital.

He's spotted scores of blockbuster buy and hold opportunities. But it's his knack for finding rapid, explosive trades - just like the one that could pay you double the gains oil makes - that brought him to the Pure Energy Trader team. After all, he's constantly...

Picking The Best Trades... Trade After Trade

Since starting our hottest trading advisory, The Pure Energy Trader we've already initiated and closed 91 trades.

85% of them closed for massive gains! In fact, each trade - winners and losers - is averaging +24%.

In other words, you're more than doubling your money every four trades!

Even more amazing is that his tight-knit group of investors (of which I'll show you how to become a part of) only holds each one of these trades for about 24 days.

Sometimes it's a matter of hours.

That means, on average, you're doubling your money every four months!

I can't think of a single other investment opportunity on the planet that could deliver those gains... especially in today's unpredictable market.

And according to Ian, with energy prices about to launch sky-high, he's lining up more and more knock-em down winners that he's already set to alert you to the moment the time's right.

Now, I could go on all day detailing the fast-moving trades Ian has been making and the ones he can't wait to share with you soon. But here's what I want you to walk away with...

All of our winners have a couple of very important things in common...

They're all energy top stocks to buy with enormous potential...

And they're all companies that our team of researchers closely follows on a daily basis.

And with a track record like that, even in today's market, investors are begging for more recommendations. Problem is for some investors, these recommendations, unlike the ones in many of our other services, aren't buy and holds, which may take up to three years to reach full value.

We're after the fast money. And with Ian following and executing the trades, the fast money is turning into the easy money.

And just to be clear...

"I just joined and the SPF puts are my very first trade using your services. Bought at 0.85 and it's now trading at 1.90... and 121% gain in 3 days... very nice." - NZ

No one is complaining at all about the track record for any of our buy and hold services. Nothing will ever change the fact that investors can make good, solid returns by maintaining a portfolio filled with top stocks for 2010 we like for the long term.

But... the reality is you could make a lot more.

In some cases, over 300% more!

By not having a pure trading service - where we can get in and out quickly with 25 to 50 percent profits in just a few days - we're missing out on some easy money.

Just take a look at this scenario:

How Loosely Following Ian's Trading Research Turned $5,000 Into $58,913.14... In 6 Months

This is why you also need to be trading top stocks for 2010 instead of strictly investing in "buy and holds." You see, with the right trades...

You don't need to start with a lot of money to make a fortune in the market... You don't need to have all your savings tied up in multiple investments for several years, either... You don't even need to find dozens of trades every year.

"You did a great job for me. Thank you very much. I made about $35,000 on IPIX but continue to hold on for another few weeks." - Nhan N.

In fact, all you needed to make more than 10-times your initial investment was to loosely follow seven of them.

Take the following scenario, for example:

On November 30th, 2007, Ian alerted his investors to an amazing situation in the solar market. A leading company, LDK Solar, announced the ground-breaking of their latest polysilicon plant - news of which, he knew would soon cause the share price to surge.

Because of his timely alert, his traders secured an entry price of $29.55.

And just five days later, on December 5th, he recommended they sell half of their position for a 49% gain. Two days later, the other half sold for a 41% gain - turning an initial stake of $5,000 into $7,250.

Then, just 12 days later, on December 19th, he showed them another explosive opportunity: An options call on China Sunergy, after news of an amazing deal struck with a German manufacturing company. 

Much like with LDK, readers took gains of 204% on the first half of their shares within six trading days. The second half claimed 141% after six more.

Suddenly, their $7,250 compounded into $19,756. It didn't end there, either.

On February 19th, 2008, he struck gold again. He alerted readers to what Ian called a "no brainer" with U.S. Natural Gas.

Like clockwork, two weeks later, his readers were sitting on an easy 80% gain as the first half sold... 140% gains on the second half, just a week later.

Within three weeks, your $19,759 turned into $41,488.13.

And then, on April 22nd, they were alerted to one of the many tiny oil and gas companies flocking to the riches within the Bakken oil formation.

Three weeks later, on May 15th, these hit-and-run traders sold their shares for an incredible 42% gain.

Today, that initial $5,000 investment - using just those seven alerts and reinvesting profits - is now worth $58,913.14! $10,000 would be $117,826.30 - all within six months!

That's the rapid-fire power trading offers you.

And I haven't even accounted for taking gains from the multiple other trades that Ian issued to his readers during that time... gains like 33% from Hoku Scientific in five days... 119% from Cree Inc. in six days... 118% from PetroQuest in 15 days... to name a few

Just imagine how quickly you can compound your wealth with gains that large - gains that fast - again and again.

That's the sort of hit-and-run excitement you should expect by joining Pure Energy Trader. You can make a fortune from several rapid trades.

You see, when you sign onto Pure Energy Trader, you're enrolling into...

An Exclusive Trader's Club Unlike Any Other

Unfortunately, the number of investors who can sign up for our Pure Energy Trader is strictly limited.

In order to make sure every one of our subscribers has the ability to get maximum value out of each recommendation, membership will be strictly limited to 2,000 seats.

... most of which are already spoken for.

The first time we opened this window, nearly half of those seats were gobbled up by our premium, profit-hungry readers in the span of a weekend.

So it's important that you act quickly if you'd like to get in.

"I am doing great in about the two weeks I have been following your trades. So far I have made the following: LEN: 52%, HOV: 41%, SPF, 131.25%, XLF: 88.8%, IMB: 37% and TOL: 100%" - BS

You see, we don't want 5,000... 10,000 people buying the best stock of 2010. If we allowed an unlimited number to join, we could easily push the best stock up several hundred percent. That would be a disaster.

But if getting rich doesn't bother you, and you're ready to follow Ian as he shows you the secrets to landing dead-on hit and run trades in this market, I urge you to join right now.

Get Ready

Another point I want to discuss is how the trades will be delivered to you. The trades will be sent via e-mail. No Faxes. That's because we want everybody to receive the trade at approximately the same time.

And just so that you don't have to recheck your email 10 times a day, we're also offering Pure Energy Trader updated VIA live RSS feeds - so you can get the alerts the split second they're available!

If you're comfortable with what I've said so far, I urge you to consider joining.

Again, I know this style of trading isn't for everybody. But by signing up for the Pure Energy Trader, you're elevating yourself into the top tier of the trading community. If you have second thoughts on the price or the frequency of recommendations, stop reading now... the service isn't for you.

If you're interested, welcome aboard. Let's get to work.

Now Listen Carefully

When you fill out the membership form (assuming there are remaining slots), you'll immediately receive a confirmation and a welcome letter, as well as a link to the Pure Energy Trader site where you'll be able to access every single one of the trades Ian issues 24 hours a day. We'll give you full instructions.

And that's not all!

You'll also learn about a secret investment that actually pays double the gains of any oil futures trader. All those details are in your free report, Hotter Gains Than NYMEX Traders Could Ever Make - just for trying us out. 

Plus, by signing on today, I'll also rush you a free copy of my latest book, titled Profit From the Peak.

In short, Profit from the Peak is a roadmap that shows you how to profit from the rise of oil prices.

In the book, my colleague, Chris Nelder, and I go into full detail on tackling the world's energy problems... and how investors can maintain financial security in the process. I can say with confidence that Chris and I know a little more about today's energy markets than your average "oil expert."

You see, Chris is a well-regarded energy expert who has designed and built dozens of solar energy projects. This is a guy who understands the energy market inside and out... from energy's worst problems to its brightest solutions. And for the last decade, Chris and I have preached that investing is key to solving the world's energy challenges... Investments in a multitude of energy practices and technologies that will wean us away from our dependence on oil.

But we're also quick to point out that this blueprint for success also includes the economic harvesting of remaining and unconventional oil sources.

And again, in addition to full access to our web site, along with your free copy of Profit From the Peak, the moment a new trade is bought or sold you'll immediately be sent an email and, if you elect it, the RSS feed (We'll show you how to quickly and painlessly set up your RSS feed). The reason we're doing this is - we want everybody to be on equal footing. Our trades could arrive any time of the day, from 9am to 8pm.

So it's imperative you follow the instructions. This way you'll get the trade... and you'll have ample time to execute it.

By now, I'm sure you're wondering...

How Much Does Pure Energy Trader Cost?

Truth is, this level of service is highly specialized. And the countless hours it takes Ian to find, study, and recommend just one of the trades he uncovers - as you can imagine - takes a lot of time, expertise, and resources.

He doesn't draw top stocks for 2010 from a hat. He's not paid by other companies to recommend one over the other. His secret is that he's an insomniac, sleeping just three hours a night.

The rest of the time, when other traders and researchers rest, spend time with their family, and take vacations, he's intently focusing on the latest news, studying the markets, and developing high-ranking contacts.

That is, however, precisely what it takes in order to hold a track record as clean as Ian's... a portfolio that scores investors like you the greatest energy trades the market has to offer.

Now, I've seen other "experts" billing themselves out for several thousand dollars a day - and their trading advice can't tread water next to the winners Ian shows you on a weekly basis.

That being said, I wouldn't feel the least big guilty for charging as high as $5,000 a year for a membership to his advisory.

But I'm not going to go anywhere near that.

In fact, the normal membership price is $1,500 a year.

Pure Energy Trader's Bottleneck Bull-Market Special Pricing

If you sign on to the Pure Energy Trader today, you can save a full 33%, and join for just $999 this year.

I know for many of you $999 is a big lump of money to take down, even considering that many of you have made hundreds of thousands of dollars following our advice.

So here's the deal. We're also offering a quarterly bill program. If you choose that method, you'll be charged $275 every three months.

It's as easy as we can make it to get you on board.

Please keep in mind - we're capping Pure Energy Trader at 2,000 investors.

In addition, we want to make sure you're 100% satisfied. So, if for any reason you're unhappy with Pure Energy Trader, you can get a full refund at any time before the end of the first month of your membership.

After that, the refund is prorated.

But you have to act now. We fully expect every last seat to be taken in the next few days!

So if you're committed to capturing the rebounding energy sector's biggest profits, please do so quickly.

Most Profitable Gold Investment

The biggest gold rush in world history has just begun.

It will be remembered as the most profitable gold event... ever.

But this gold rush will be different than any of its predecessors.

It won't take place on a remote desert plateau... or in a frontier mountain range. And you don't need to be a grizzled prospector to get in on the action, I promise you.

No, the biggest gold rush in history is about to take place on Wall Street. And right now is the perfect time to act because...

We Have Just Entered the Final and Most Profitable Stage of the Gold Bull Market

During this stage, speculative mania buying will curve gold prices higher into a blistering parabolic spike.

And fortunately for us, a new investment vehicle is now available in the market...

...One that allows investors to retain the historic safety of gold and yield double the monthly profit!

It is without a doubt the world's most profitable gold investment, for reasons you'll understand shortly.

But before I get into this new gold vehicle, it's important to first understand why a rapid, near-vertical increase in gold prices is coming soon, and how...

Gold could go over $5,000 an ounce!

You see, to get an idea of what to expect in the future, we always look to the past.

During the great gold bull market of the 1970s, the average monthly gold price increased from under $35 to over $675 an ounce... representing a 1,833% gain.

If today's gold bull market makes similar moves forward, the average monthly gold price could skyrocket well past $5,000 an ounce.

Gold at $5,000 an ounce may seem like a stretch, especially considering the metal hasn't had too much strength over $1,000.

Nevertheless, $5,000 gold is absolutely possible. And it's very simple to understand once you know...

How a Gold Bull Market Works

It's simple. Every major gold bull market in modern history has consisted of three main stages:

1. Currency Deflation Stage
2. Investment Demand Stage
3. Mania Stage

During these three stages, gold prices typically rise in a parabolic upswing, which ultimately results in a sharp, skyrocketing price spike. (Take a look at the 1970s gold bull market chart above, as an example of this phenomenon.)

So far in today's gold bull market, we've seen evidence of the first two stages...

1. During the first stage of a gold bull market, prices increase because of currency devaluation.

In this bull market, a dramatic drop in the value of the U.S. dollar against other world currencies has lifted gold prices over the past 8 years. This devaluation is evident in the 42% drop of the U.S. Dollar Index between the summer of 2001 and spring 2008.

The U.S. dollar is expected to continue falling as the nation continues to dig itself deeper and deeper into debt, which will ultimately lead to inflation and result in higher gold prices.

2. In the second stage, gold prices continue to grow due to increasing investment demand.

Attracted by the modest gains of the first currency devaluation stage of the gold bull market, investors begin to buy gold as an investment, which further snowballs the price of gold higher. And with the introduction of the popular gold ETFs - and similar products - investment demand has had incredible strength since the beginning of this gold bull market, growing in terms of both tonnage and dollar demand.

The first and second stages of a gold bull market generally return considerable gains. In fact, gold prices in this bull market have increased as much as 306%.

3. But it's the third and final stage of a gold bull market that can turn everyday investors into instant millionaires. It's what I like to call...

Gold's Lucrative Final Act: The Mania Stage

There's no rush like a gold rush, and speculative mania buying can kindle an inferno of popular greed that rivals that of the Conquistador's legendary lust for gold.

During the third and final stage of a gold bull market, demand from a massive surge of gold investment finally turns gold's parabolic upswing into a blistering price spike.

We saw a similar price spike during the 1970s gold bull market when investment demand spiked gold prices over 200% in a matter of weeks... leaving a trail of nouveau-riche investors in the wake.

Make no mistake. The speculative mania investment stage is coming. And here's the proof...

Total world gold demand increased significantly during 2008 compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, total world gold supply continued to drop, leaving a deficit in the gold supply and demand market worth $6.74 trillion!

This kind supply/demand imbalance is typical during the final stage of a gold bull market. And driving this imbalance is investment demand.

The biggest source of growth in demand for gold, both last quarter and during the year as a whole, was investment.

World identifiable gold investment demand during 2008 increased over 64% compared to the previous year. See for yourself...

Increasing investment demand is key to the final stage of a gold bull market. In fact, it's surging investment demand that will ultimately lead to the coveted speculative mania buying stage and the peak of this gold bull market.

And now is a better time that ever because...

When it comes to safe haven investing, people immediately think about physical assets such as gold, silver, oil, land, real estate.

There is a reason for this: Physical things have intrinsic value. The value of a paper fiat currency, or a best stock to buy, can fall to zero. But the value of any physical asset can never fall to zero.

The intrinsic values of physical assets are the reasons why they preserve wealth during times of financial and economic crises.

As a result of the current financial meltdown, all investor classes - from massive central banks to gold bugs who buy bullion on eBay - are beginning to buy more gold at a faster rate than ever.

Gold is traditionally used for wealth preservation.

But fortunately for us, a new investment vehicle is now available in the market... one that allows investors to retain the historic safety of gold and yield double the monthly profit!

A Unique "Double Return" Gold Investment

Earlier this year, one of the world's leading international investment managers launched a new, one-of-a-kind investment vehicle designed to double the monthly return of gold prices.

Mind you, this investment has been all but ignored by media since its launch. Gold, after all, has never been understood or appreciated by the mainstream, despite its historic economic significance.

Let me explain how it works...

For every 1% increase in the price of gold, this new gold investment vehicle delivers a positive 2% return!

There's no investment club to join. You won't have to open a special account to get in on the action. It trades on the NYSE. Plus, it's completely liquid... and easy to add to any stock account you own right now.

Which is why I can't reinforce this notion enough... Now is time you want to be in gold!

The mania buying stage could skyrocket gold prices to previously unthinkable levels...

...Making this new gold investment vehicle a true 'no-brainer.'

How to Get Started Doubling Your Gold Profits

I've just finished putting the final touches on a new research report, "How to Double Your Gold Profits: The World's Only Investment Vehicle Yielding Double the Monthly Return of Gold Prices."

And for a brief time, I'm offering this report free.

All you have to do is take a risk-free trial of my Mining Speculator advisory.

Why Mining Speculator Is a Must-Buy in this Market

Mining Speculator isn't your normal investment advisory. It is, however, the definitive resource for investors seeking profits - and protection - in a gold and precious metals bull market with no end in sight.

It's where investors burned by the financial crisis are now turning... as a safe-haven alternative to the agenda-guided mainstream financial media. Truth is, in our Mining Speculator portfolio, we disqualify 99.9% of the gold, mining and precious metals plays out there. But when we're fully, 100% behind a company, you'll get the trade recommendation in a moment's notice. We tell you what to buy, when to sell, and when to hold... so you can enjoy the greatest gains possible.

And for as little as $25, you can begin receiving my Mining Speculator advisory, in addition to getting a free copy of my new special report, "How To Double Your Gold Profits: The World's Only Investment Vehicle Yielding Double the Monthly Return of Gold Prices."

In Mining Speculator, I tell you what to buy, when to sell, and when to hold... so you can enjoy the greatest gains in the easiest possible manner. In fact, during the precious metals bull market of 2001 - 2007, I gave subscribers an average return of 212% across all of my best stock picks.

Once the gold bull market resumes, I plan to give my readers those same gains.

I cannot emphasize this enough. Gold should be a part of every investor's portfolio. And with this kind of offer, there's no reason not to buy gold right now.

Zero Stock Solution

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 of 2010 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 to buy?

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 for 2010.

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 for 2010 on the U.S. markets all week long.

I crank away, batting around the numbers and boiling down the massive list of top stocks to buy 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?

You can! And it's easy.

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:

Options Hotline Delivered Sunday Night via E-Mail

This is the very heart of the service, when I send you my specific play for the week.

Your one-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 if you want to get in on the action.

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.

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, seven days a week. This password-protected members-only access is FREE with your subscription.

Here you can download the latest recommendations, midweek updates, and frequent alerts.

It's a valuable offer that can put you on the road to the next million dollars in options 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." But wait — there's more:

Subscribe now and I'll also give you...

3 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.

Start your options education today with these easy-to-read guidebooks, both 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 I'm recommending 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...my dad, options genius Paul Sarnoff, and me, 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.

Put briefly, here are the key benefits Options Hotline can offer you:

A chance to grow your money into as much as $1.71 million in
less than 9 years

More-than-double-your-money average maximum gain on
every single play

A chance for as much as 6 figures in pure profits every year.

How could you pass that up?

Especially when you can get your membership 100% RISK-FREE, my compliments...

Now, how can I offer this valuable information RISK-FREE?

Easy: If I don't give you at least one "doubler" every single month, you pay nothing.

Just check my recommended portfolio. After the first six months of your membership, if at least one of my recommendations per month hasn't shot up 100% at some point after I recommended it and before it expired, I'll refund every penny of your subscription.

I take on all the risk — and I feel comfortable doing that as I look at our incredible long-term track record.

So how much is this unique offer worth?

You'd expect to pay $5,500... $7,500... even $10,500 a year to get options plays with million dollar profit potential like I just showed you. But you won't pay anywhere near that. Simply click the "Order NOW" button below to see your insanely low price for a guaranteed doubler every month — starting right now.

So if you want a chance to hit the next million-dollar milestone... if you want to join the "Zero Stock" research service that averages maximum gains of over 100% per play... if you want the opportunity to see as much as six figures in profits per year... now's your time.