This week I want to tell you about a strategy that could make you a lot of money.
You probably haven't heard much about it. That's because for the past year and a half, my colleagues and I at StreetAuthority have been quietly designing and beta-testing a new investment system with a select group of about 500 loyal StreetAuthority readers.
It's a system that we think could make you even more money in the stock market than anything we've ever created before.
In short: it solves one of the most common problems every investor faces -- how to get bigger gains in a shorter amount of time.
I have to admit, when we first began the project, I was a little skeptical. When we were given the task of creating an investing system that could deliver bigger gains in a shorter amount of time, my first thought was "this sounds an awful lot like trading."
And most people -- including myself at first -- equate trading with moving in and out of stocks in a matter of hours or days, racking up huge commissions and ignoring fundamentals.
Let me be clear: the vast majority of investors should not be doing this sort of "trading." It's a great way to lose your shirt.
But the truth is a trading system can be as complicated or as simple as you want. And in my experience, simple is better.
So with this in mind, my team and I put our heads together and got to work.
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We dug through academic journals... SEC filings... government data...
We hired a Chartered Market Technician -- one of only a few hundred of in the world. He backtested our top trading strategies using market data from the past few decades. We wanted to make sure the strategy could work during bear markets, wars, infaltion, deflation, bubbles, even a currency crisis. Everything.
If a particular strategy hadn't outperformed the market for at least 30 years, then we didn't bother with it.
We even brought in an accountant to get his perspective on which financial metrics actually matter...
Before I go any further, let me tell you what we ended up with has nothing to do with options, short-selling or anything complicated.
We call our discovery the Maximum Profit system.
It's an elegant, yet simple system. We use two of the most reliable indicators in the investing universe -- one fundamental, one technical -- to identify when a stock is entering a "growth window."
The result: bigger returns in a fraction of the time.
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By our calculations, this system would have produced gains of more than 570% in the past decade. In other words, if you put $100,000 in this system a decade ago, then it would be worth more than $670,000 today.