Millions of Investors Needlessly Lose Billions of Dollars Because of This

There's a lot of discussion at the moment about which way the markets are going to go from here.

Some of it is good, of course, but frankly, a lot of it is bad.

Thing is, most of what you hear is noise - make that badly informed noise. Big shock there...

Right now, mainstream analysts are finally coming around to topics and thoughts we've had on our plate for months - like for example, the possibility of short-term market turbulence but higher prices ahead... That's the latest from Wells Fargo's Christopher Harvey, who's a noted bear, and seconded by Merrill Lynch's Stephen Suttmeier - both as reported by CNBC.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg is reporting that JPMorgan analyst Stephen Tusa now considers the $6 target he's got on General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) to be "generous." Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) pivot, meanwhile, is beginning to draw attention for the reasons we laid out more than a year ago, when I first told you about why services could double that stock's value. Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is in trouble again...

You get the idea.

Anyway, the reason I'm bringing all this up is not to take a victory lap - as often as we get to do that together, we can skip it just this once.

Rather, since we're ahead of the curve, as usual, I thought I'd take the opportunity to run through some of the basics that ensure we keep banking more profits more often than the crowd, in this market or any other...

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The "Big Four" Profit-Robbing Pitfalls

There are lots of tactics we use to get the superior returns we enjoy month in, month out - position sizing, limit orders, lowball orders, buying the dips, and one of my personal favorites, the "free trade."

On the flip side, however, there are some costly, all-too-easy-to-make mistakes that we need to guard against to really maximize our profits.

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Here we go...

Mistake No. 1: Reading the Headlines... and Ignoring Results

This is a biggie because businesses that produce results are almost always the better bet when it comes to the profits you deserve. Our recommended portfolios are filled with companies producing gobs of cash and/or developing huge (and growing) piles of profit potential. Examples include Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN), Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Becton Dickinson & Co. (NYSE: BDX). All of these have earned coveted "free trade" status, with respective gains of 378.6%, 121.5%, and 283.5% and counting. What a "free trade" means, simply, is playing with the "house's money"; we've recovered all our principal and put the profits to work making even more profits, continuing to rack up monster gains for subscribers who are following along.

Invest in the "best," but avoid the "rest" - meaning companies like GE - which, by the way - reminds me of Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: KODK), Sears Holdings Corp. (OTC: SHLDQ), Fitbit Inc. (NYSE: FIT), and dozens of other onetime darlings that have cost investors billions.

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Mistake No. 2: Assuming the Markets Will Remain the Same

Many investors mistakenly assume that the world's financial markets will remain the same tomorrow as they did yesterday. That's naïve because, when it comes to your money - when it comes to just about everything, really - the only constant is change. That's why we talk about money being a forward-looking "investment," not an "expense."

Mistake No. 3: Setting It and Forgetting It

"Buy and hold" is a marketing lie cooked up by Wall Street to keep you in the game and to get their meat hooks into your money. "Buy and manage," which, as you'll see in a second, isn't that difficult, is the real key to profits in today's markets.

Mistake No. 4: Making It Too Complicated

Contrary to what most investors believe, investing doesn't have to be difficult, and you don't have to be constantly tied to the financial markets to succeed. Markets are complicated, but making money in them requires a simple framework like the 50-40-10 Model I pioneered in the Money Map Report and a solid grasp of one of the Six Unstoppable Trends we talk about so frequently in my free Total Wealth research service - every one of which, I might add, is backed by trillions of dollars in spending that will happen practically no matter what.

At the end of the day, huge profits come from doing very simple things very well - like finding and buying the world's best companies - and avoiding mistakes that clobber your portfolio.

Staying in tune with 'em will keep you and your money moving in the right direction no matter what the headlines are, no matter what scary news stories you hear, no matter which way the markets are going, and no matter what mistakes OTHER investors are making.

Life-changing wealth is within your reach!

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About the Author

Keith is a seasoned market analyst and professional trader with more than 37 years of global experience. He is one of very few experts to correctly see both the dot.bomb crisis and the ongoing financial crisis coming ahead of time - and one of even fewer to help millions of investors around the world successfully navigate them both. Forbes hailed him as a "Market Visionary." He is a regular on FOX Business News and Yahoo! Finance, and his observations have been featured in Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, WIRED, and MarketWatch. Keith previously led The Money Map Report, Money Map's flagship newsletter, as Chief Investment Strategist, from 20007 to 2020. Keith holds a BS in management and finance from Skidmore College and an MS in international finance (with a focus on Japanese business science) from Chaminade University. He regularly travels the world in search of investment opportunities others don't yet see or understand.

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