This Guy Is Racking Up Big, Profitable Wins Every Week

If you're not making double- and triple-digit gains Monday through Friday, shake things up a bit…

Twenty-year market veteran Chris Johnson made his bones as a quantitative analyst (imagine a rocket scientist who worked with stocks instead of, you know, rockets), using proprietary mathematical models to bull's-eye "seismic" market anomalies with triple-digit upside potential - down to the minute.

Since April, his Seismic Profits Alert readers have had the opportunity to clean up with his service. Altogether, Chris' recommendations are crushing the market, doing more than three times better than the S&P 500.

Small "earthquakes" in stocks like Best Buy Co. Inc. have brought gains of 223.6% and 190.6% in barely five days, while Intuit Inc. threw off a 197.6% gain in just two days. That's not all that surprising, because Seismic Profits Alert is designed to go after triple-digit winners every trading week.

Of course, he's got his hands full tracking stocks and updating his readers, but he made some time for us to catch up, get reacquainted with our Members, and give us a feel for how he looks at the markets and finds his biggest profits.

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Greg Madison: Thanks for taking the time to talk to us!

Chris Johnson: Good to talk to you.

GM: I know you're a busy guy, so let's jump right in. There's maybe 4,500 stocks trading up and down on the U.S. market every day. You've got your huge gainers, big decliners, flat-liners, heavy volume, thinly traded companies - a huge variety, in other words. What do you like to see before you make a move?

CJ: Great question! Every trader has a "dream setup." In other words, that situation where everything is just lining up perfectly and you simply must take advantage of the situation. For instance, I can't turn my back on a stock that has all the signs that the market is either a) ignoring its performance, or b) has yet to discover that the stock is actually leaving the market behind.

GM: Sounds kind of like a contrarian approach to me...

CJ: Well, a lot of people would say this approach is a contrarian one, you know, betting against the market.

But it's deceptively simple; there's a lot more to it than that. I sometimes refer to it as "Counterintuitive Contrarianism." What I mean by that is that I'm interested in having a contrarian view on a stock only when I can see the Street's view on that stock doesn't make sense.

Hey – if using the best data to get there first to grab the most upside for my readers eight out of 10 times is “greedy,” well… Guilty as charged!

GM: For example?

CJ: Say a stock has outperformed the market for the last year - I mean like doubled the S&P 500's performance. And at the same time, the technical and fundamental indicators are bullish: The company is growing earnings and revenue... there's no funny business with the books... and the technical charts are just the textbook definition of "bullish."

As part of a proprietary system I've developed over the years, I monitor indicators that track things like... how many shares have been sold short to bet against the stock... whether the analyst community thinks that the stock is a "Buy," "Sell," or "Hold"... or even whether the options traders are betting against the stock.

So, when my system uncovers a stock that's been "knocking the leather off the ball" and my indicators tell me that the Street "crowd" has yet to pile into it?  That's the perfect setup. You can get into stock before, or just as, the rest of the market is waking up and putting their money into it.

But the short answer is: I like to see a strong technical and fundamental stock that the rest of the Street has yet to pick up on.  The diamond in the rough.

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GM: So you're not necessarily going against the crowd, but it's all about beating them to the punch. Leveraging their money.

CJ: Exactly. You know, people make fun of the old Wall Street rule "buy low and sell high" by pointing out that they often feel like they are "buying high and selling low." Well, that's what happens when you follow the crowd. My style of trading and the proprietary models I run identify those stocks that the crowd will be moving to before they start their migration. Besides, it's really fun having the rest of the market drive your investment higher!

GM: (laughs) That's why they call you the "Greediest Man on Earth?"

CJ: Hey - if using the best data to get there first to grab the most upside for my readers eight out of 10 times is "greedy," well... Guilty as charged! (laughs)

GM: Duly noted!

Shifting gears a bit, I'd ask: What's your read on this particular market for this kind of trading? I mean, is there ever a bad time to trade this way?

CJ: Never! A lot of investors forget that it's rare - exceedingly rare - that investors or money managers, as a bloc, just up sticks and pull their money out of stocks and go into cash or bonds.  It just doesn't happen.

This means that you can always, always, always find where the money is migrating.

So when you identify the sectors and stocks investors should be in (based on fundamental and technical performance) but aren't, you can stay a step ahead of the "big money migrations" and "price eruptions" and put yourself in front of often outrageous upside.

But when the stock gets too crowded - too many "Buy" calls, too much good press, lots of investors love the stock - it's time to move on.

GM: "Love 'em and leave 'em," eh?

CJ: When it comes to stock trading, absolutely.

GM: So what's the biggest, fastest win you've ever taken down like this?

CK: Great story! This was back in September 2000 - a huge time for tech stocks. Intel Corp. was in its heyday. These guys could do nothing wrong, it seemed; they were one of the strongest leaders in the technology boom.

GM: Oh, yeah, I remember - one of the "Four Horsemen of Tech."

CJ: You got it. So, I was on vacation in Naples, Fla., staying at a friend's house at the time. The stock had started to lag the market a bit, and the company had made some comments about their growth forecasting, but nothing material, really.

I checked it out and found 98% of the analysts polled had "Buy" recommendations on this company. There were barely any traders shorting the stock, even though it was at all-time highs. Options traders were buying nothing but calls.

So... I bought puts. A few days ahead of their earnings announcement, because I could see that the market had priced Intel shares to a "T." In other words, they raised the bar too high. I mean, the sharpest, tightest company in the world, with Superman as the CEO and General George Patton as the COO, couldn't possibly have fulfilled the sky-high expectations investors had here.

There was just no way. The slightest hint of bad, unexpected news... an unpaid parking ticket... word that they'd run out of soap in the sixth floor washroom... anything... would have been cause for this stock to just tumble - and for my puts to go stratospheric.

GM: What happened next?

CJ: I will never forget it. Sept. 22, 2000, waking up and watching CNBC during their pre-market reporting... They were talking about how Intel shares were going to open 20% lower than they had closed the previous day.  Six days or so later, Intel was down more than 30% and I was sitting there holding puts on the stock while "the crowd" had been rushing to get out of the stock. My gains were "significantly" higher.

That's why I look for the uncrowded trades and short the crowded ones. It's a sad analogy, but essentially, someone yelled "Fire!" in the proverbial crowded theater when Intel missed that earnings report... While I had just purchased an "insurance policy" on it the day before.

GM: We've got time for just one more thought: What would you say to "buy and hold" investors who might be a little nervous about trading? What do you want people to know?

CJ: I've got good news for them - there's another market "rule" that most people aren't aware of....

The market trades in a range about 80% of the time and in a trend about 20% of the time. So, if you think about it, the buy-and-hold investor will watch their investment move sideways eight years of every 10. That's a tragic waste of time and upside in my book.

But here's the thing: Investors who choose to be just a little nimbler, and trade the movements that are made the other 80% of the time, are the ones that can truly "find a bull market" anytime. In the end, they will always outperform the "buy and hold" crowd and end up with the kind of money that can make a retirement or fulfill a dream.

GM: Chris, thanks for your time. This was great! We'll catch up again soon. Meantime, good luck with Seismic Profits AlertKeep the triple-digit wins coming, OK?

CJ: Thanks - anytime!

“I Could Literally Smell the Money”

The first time I met this guy, I could literally smell the money. And I begged him to share the power of his strategy with Money Morning readers. His unique seismograph system has the potential to identify rapid-fire opportunities resulting in gains like 198%, 151%, even 224%, over and over again – in just seven trading days or less. Previously, a small group of former private clients paid high commissions to get access to his recommendations. But now he wants to bring his research to the public. And he’s got his eye on a whole slew of blue chips that have been erupting since Oct. 16. You can still learn how to get in on his next recommendation – but only if you hurry. Get the details here.

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