A Solution to the Most Common
Problem Facing Investors Today

Dear Fellow Investor,

Today, I’m pleased to offer a service that will help you protect your portfolio from big losses… help you make more money from your investments…

And solve the most common problem facing investors today:

How to minimize risk and maximize gains.

Using the “trailing stop” strategy advocated by many of the world’s most successful investors is the easiest and most effective way to do this. This one simple strategy will keep you in winning investments longer, and get you out of losing investments sooner (if you're not familiar with this strategy, I'll tell you all about it in just a minute).

The problem is, using trailing stops correctly means many hours of checking in on your investments. And, if you’re like me, you simply don’t have the time (or the inclination) to do this every day.

Well… today I’m going to show you the easiest way I know of to put the trailing stop strategy to work for you.

Instead of spending precious free time scanning daily closing prices and recalculating your portfolio, I’m going to show you a service that will always keep you informed of what’s happening with your money… whether you’re at work, home, or even on vacation…

Best of all, this service is a bargain – it costs little more than $1 per week.

Let me tell you more about it…

The Golden Rule of Trading

I’m sure you’ve heard it before: The first law of successful investing is…

Don’t lose money.

In other words, you’ve got to cut your losers short – before they do big damage to your portfolio.

To do that, you have to determine – before you actually lose any money – how much you are willing to let any investment drop before you sell… 10%, 20%, 25%… it’s up to you.

If any investment falls by that much, you sell the next day. No ifs, ands, or buts.

The easiest way to do this is to use a “trailing stop.”

Say you buy a stock for $10. If you use a 20% trailing stop, you would sell that stock if it ever closed below $8 – 20% below $10.

However, if the stock went up from $10 to $20, you would move your trailing stop up to $16 – 20% below the new closing price of $20.

If the stock closes below $16, you sell – and make a nice 60% profit. Now it doesn’t matter if the stock falls to $10… or even $8 – because you’ve already taken your money off the table.

But if the stock keeps moving up, so does your trailing stop.

You let your winners run.

Trailing stops work because not every investment you make is going to be a winner. Even the best investors in the world make losing picks.

The real difference between those who consistently make money in the markets, and those who consistently lose, is that the successful investors make their losers very small… and let their winners run as long as possible.

David Ryan, for example, entered the U.S. Investing Championship three times. He finished 2nd one year, and took 1st place the other two times. His three year return was a remarkable 1,379%.

Amazingly, Ryan picks winners only about 50% of the time. He gets such high returns because he cuts the losers quickly. Ryan describes his strategy this way: “I make money on the few stocks a year that double and triple in price. The profits in those trades easily make up for all the small losers.”

No wonder David calls trailing stops the “golden rule of trading.”

Michael Marcus is another one of the most famous traders in the world. He follows a similar stop strategy. Marcus is famous for multiplying his portfolio 2,500-fold over a ten-year period.

Paul Tudor Jones put together five consecutive years of triple-digit gains as a trader, and later helped investors in his fund earn a 17-times return in just four years. Jones used trailing stops too.

The bottom line is, you’ve got to control your losses. Not doing so is the single biggest mistake amateur traders make by far. In the words of Perry Kaufman, one of the leading authorities in trading system design, “Amateurs first look at profits while professionals first look at risk.” Using a trailing stop is the most effective tool I know of for easily and effectively investing like the pros.

Now here’s the catch…

The Problem with Trailing Stops

The only problem with trailing stops is that they require a lot of work.

You have to pay close attention to the markets. And you have to do lots of different calculations.

Remember, when a stock goes up, your trailing stop goes up too. And if a stock goes down, you have to make sure it doesn’t drop below your trailing stop price.

Talk about lots of free time wasted in front of the computer. Who wants to check closing prices and recalculate positions every day?

But that’s the kind of discipline you need to make the trailing stop strategy – the most effective way to consistently beat the markets – work for you.

That is, until now…

How to Make More and Lose Less
on Every Investment You Make

It was several years ago, at an investors conference in Baltimore, Maryland that I first met Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, editor of the monthly investment advisory True Wealth.

He’s one of the few market analysts that I follow religiously (and with great
success)… and a guy whose whole investing philosophy is based around the strict use of trailing stops.

I approached him after his presentation and cut right to the chase:

Sticking to the trailing stop strategy every day is hard work. Do you know of any service that will help me do this?

I was shocked when he told me: “No, I’m afraid not.”

I was even more shocked to learn that I wasn’t the first guy that had asked him about it. Dr. Sjuggerud said it’s the most common question he gets… and he wished he could give a good answer.

That’s when I realized that there were lots of investors out there just like me – guys who understood the true value of the trailing stop strategy but simply didn’t have the time to keep up with it every day.

I told Dr. Sjuggerud: Well, maybe I can help.

My name, by the way, is Dr. Richard M. Smith. And I’ve used my PhD in mathematics to start up a number of successful web-based business, all designed around one idea:

Providing simple solutions to complex problems.

For example, one of my firms, StrataDat, is a primary consultant to one of the biggest companies in the pharmaceutical industry. It’s our job to take enormous raw data sets on global pharmaceuticals usage, and produce user-friendly presentations – presentations that someone without an advanced degree in bio-chemistry can understand.

When the electric utilities in New York State were facing deregulation, my company helped stabilize (and keep profitable) one of the biggest firms in the region – increasing manpower by a factor of ten… without adding any additional men.

I figured if I could combine my passion for this kind of problem-solving with my hobby of creating investment websites (I’ve developed two sites for stock- and options-traders so far)… maybe I could find a way to finally make trailing stops work for the average investor.

So I set to work.

And after two years of research and development, I came up with a web-based system I call TradeStops.

Here’s how TradeStops works:

1. You go the TradeStops website.
2. You enter the stocks you own, when you bought them, and how much you paid per share.
3. Then, you decide what your trailing stop will be: 10%, 20%, 25%... it’s up to you.

That’s it.

TradeStops does the rest. All you have to remember is the website and your password.

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, TradeStops monitors your portfolio and constantly recalculates your trailing stops based on each day’s closing prices.

If any one of your investments closes below your trailing stop, TradeStops will alert you via e-mail, or send a text message to your cell phone or pager.

You’ll know right away that it’s time to sell your position.

Of course, if your stocks keep going up, TradeStops will move your trailing stop for you.

In short, TradeStops makes sure:

1. You never lose more on an investment than you’re willing to lose, and
   
   
2. You never give back all the gains you’ve made simply because you weren’t checking your portfolio every day.

TradeStops will also keep track of stock splits and dividend payments automatically… and adjust your trailing stops accordingly (no other service I know of will do this for you).

If you want to see how your investments are doing, you can check up on them any time of day, from anywhere in the world. All you need is a computer with Internet access.

You don’t even need a high-speed cable or DSL connection… simple dial-up will do.

Best of all, for a limited time – if you sign up for a TradeStops account through this special offer – you can get a full year of service at our special introductory rate of just $69.95.

That’s a little more than $1 per week.

A good calculator would cost you more… and you’d still have to do all the work yourself.

This is a special price reserved exclusively for investors who sign up through this special offer – and you’re guaranteed this price for as long as you have a TradeStops account if you agree to our automatic billing option. (Your credit card will be charged $69.95 when you set up an account, and we’ll automatically renew your TradeStops membership once a year for $69.95, until you decide the service is no longer right for you.)

A regular account costs $79.95 a year (still a bargain).

But I must warn you: I can’t guarantee these prices for long.

A service like this is in high demand. I honestly don’t know of any other like it. And when it becomes available to the public, it could easily command a much higher price.

If you don’t lock in the charter membership price of $69.95 (auto-charge) or $79.95 (regular), I can’t guarantee you’ll get the same rate later.

You can sign up on-line today at our secure site:

https://www.tradestops.com/affiliate.asp?id=sr001&page=subscribe_now

If you’d like to read more about the TradeStops service before you decide, check out my information page at https://www.tradestops.com/affiliate.asp?id=sr001

Best Regards,

Dr. Richard M. Smith
Founder, TradeStops.com

P.S. Also available through the TradeStops website is a service called TradeStops Complete. TradeStops Complete offers all the benefits of our TradeStops only package… with a number of added benefits. For example, you can configure a variety of different alerts besides just trailing stops. You can have TradeStops alert you to review your positions every 30 days or whenever one of your stocks closes above a certain price. You can also set up dollar-based trailing stops, fixed percentage gains and losses, alerts on a specific date, volume and moving average based alerts and more. Basically, you get all the benefits of a TradeStops account, with the ability to further customize the system to meet your more specific needs.

For all the extra power of TradeStops Complete, you’ll pay just $30 more per year.

To sign up now go to:
https://www.tradestops.com/affiliate.asp?id=sr001&page=subscribe_now