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Trading Strategies

Don't Let Food Shortage Fears Keep You from These Profits

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Given the bare shelves in local stores, recent headlines about meat processing plant closures have only elevated concerns that we could run out of food in parts of the country.

It's true some grocery stores have been struggling with restocking, but this isn't because there's not enough food being made.

It's because supply chains are having trouble adjusting to the major shifts we've seen since early March.

Even Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork processor, recently closing down its Sioux Falls, South Dakota meat processing plant indefinitely, doesn't mean our meat supply will disappear.

The truth is, our food supply remains safe and plentiful.

The truth is our food supply remains safe and plentiful. And you can make some nice profits on the overblown panic...

Trading Strategies

How You Can Crush the Market's 130% 10-Year Return

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There was a nice piece on – you guessed it – CNBC earlier this week, about how an investor who bought the S&P 500 the day before they shut the doors for good at Lehman and held on 'til today would now be up more than 130% on the position, while earning about 11% a year on their stake.

CNBC also points out that it was a scary trip up the mountain as the markets continued to decline for another six months after Lehman Bros tanked – call it "L-Day."

Factually, they're not wrong: Those returns are what they appear to be. And the volatility was insane, with sharp countertrend rallies being crushed in short order by waves of selling. You could reasonably call a lot of that return "combat pay" for those brave enough to hang on.

130% over 10 years isn't bad… but it's still not really enough for all the risk that you took along the way.

In fact, indexing rarely gives you enough return to compensate for the risks you take when investing in stocks.

I know a way you could make four or five times what the S&P 500 would - with far less stress, too...

Short Selling

The Bears Are About to Get Slaughtered in These Stocks

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One of our Chris Johnson's "10 Commandments of Trading" is that short sellers are usually a bull's best friend, and that's bad news for the bears, because they're about to have a rough ride. But we're set to make a killing…

One of our Chris Johnson's "10 Commandments of Trading" is that short sellers are usually a bull's best friend, and that's bad news for the bears, because they're about to have a rough ride. But we're set to make a killing...