Why Addison Agreed to Lose a Ton of Money by SLASHING
the Initial Price of Our
"All Access Pass" by 74.9%
Until Midnight on Monday
June 30th, 2008 Dear Agora Financial reader, Today we're going to do something we've never done before... and will probably never do again. You see, after three and a half years of publishing our "all access pass" — a package that gives you lifetime access to nearly all of Agora Financial's services, meetings, and exclusive benefits — Addison agreed to slash the upfront membership fee by 74.9%. I'll explain the details just seven minutes from now... At first, you may think his decision sounds crazy. Especially after you consider that our "all access" members have had the chance to make the most money of any of our readers: Like Brad Travis, who wrote me to say, "I became an ['all access' member] earlier this year, have already made a ton of money on picks like NOV, PICO and AKNS (enough to pay for my membership about 15 times over in six months.)" Or take Dave Dosberg. He said, "I had $60,000 in my investment account at the time I wrote a check... for your ['all access'] service. It is now 3 months later and not only have I regained the $60,000, I have reached the $63,000 mark. I can't even begin to tell you what your services have done within my 401K accounts. Jack Dean followed with, "In the short (approximately) seven months since joining the ['all access'] program, I have more than doubled my initial investments and I truly look forward to the opportunities that lie ahead. So why would Addison SLASH the upfront price after helping our "all access" members make so much money? Well, simply because we haven't heard from YOU yet. And we can only assume it's because you haven't been willing to open your wallet up and give us a try... So that's exactly why we're lowering the upfront price of our Agora Financial Reserve membership by 74.9% — a $4,872 savings over the normal first-year cost. In fact, I'll explain exactly how it works in just a few minutes. It's the only way we could think of to deepen our relationship together by allowing you to try nearly all our services*... And it's the largest discount ever offered in the history of Agora Financial. Hands down. It's simply a straightforward way for you to save a huge chuck money at first on our most elite service... while joining the inner circle of readers who signed on to receive almost all of our money making research services for life. So let me quickly explain what convinced Addison to slash the initial price for this "all access pass" by 74.9%... and the benefits that come along with it. * With the exception The Richebacher Letter and Bulletin Board Elite The Phone Call That Saved You $4,872 She was furious when she called Addison up on the phone. "Addison, look, there's a lot of people who want the 'all access pass,' they just need a lower price to give it a try... So let's just give it to 'em already. OK?!?" She's our customer service director. And she had just finished answering hundreds of e-mails like the ones below: I can not afford your program at this time... sounds good [though]...
— Joe Pagliani
Sorry, financially this is way over my head right now. After I invest a little and hopefully pick up some good returns I would be glad to reinvest in this but right now I cannot afford it... — Diana Struble Sounds good but you're way out of my price range. Thanks anyway. . . — John Gibson
Yes, I wish I could afford [to] sign up for this. It's just too much for me right now unless something can be done. Thanks... — Walter O'Malley
Since we haven't heard from you, we think you feel the same way. So Addison's agreed to give you the largest discount that we've ever offered at Agora Financial. A full 74.9% off the upfront cost of our most expensive, most elite, "all access" membership. Remember, in a few minutes I'll explain everything... That's a $4,872 savings today. And the lowest priced chance to join the circle of readers who've written us to say: Thank you for this ["all access"] service. I have already made back what I spent for the service and then some. In addition, I feel the service has really helped me position my portfolio for the future as well. It has really given me the guidance I was looking for... — Pete Burns, MD I am a very satisfied ["all access"] member. It was a tough decision for me, but it paid for itself in the first year... My best trade of the year was over 580% return... That made me smile! — Steve Samson
Let me explain how to take advantage of this massive discount today... How to Claim Your "All Access Pass" at
The Lowest Price Ever Offered We call this "all access pass" the Agora Financial Reserve. And it's the most intimate, elite inner circle out of our 97,000 paid subscribers. The Reserve is simple: You get nearly every single newsletter and options research service Agora Financial currently publishes for as long as we publish them.* You also get almost every single product we launch in the future. You get almost every single special research report we write. For as long as we publish them — or for as long as you want. * With the exception The Richebacher Letter and Bulletin Board Elite And you get all of that — for life — at a 74.9% upfront discount on the price we normally charge. More on that in a moment. First let me tell you what newsletters and options research services am I talking about... You'll receive these investment research newsletters: the world-famous Outstanding Investments, Strategic Investment, Capital & Crisis, Easy Money Options, The Emerging Capital Report, Free Market Investor and Penny Stock Fortunes. On top of that, you'll get our fast-paced, intensely profitable stock and option research services delivered direct to your e-mail inbox: Resource Trader Alert, Options Hotline, Gold & Options Trader, Mayer's Special Situations, Strategic Short Report and Energy & Scarcity Investor. You'll also be entitled to nearly every single new newsletter or options service that we launch in the future. That's not all, of course — Agora Financial has unveiled some insanely beneficial services exclusively for Reserve Members... First and foremost, we have created the "World Travel to Profits" program. We scour our worldwide network of insider contacts looking for under-the-radar investment opportunities, in everything from local stocks to real estate. Up until now, whenever our analysts came across one of these deals, we had to sweep it under the rug. They were just too small to share them with a large audience. Those tiny, yet possibly highly profitable opportunities were some of our main motivations for creating the Reserve service — so sophisticated individuals could take advantage of the same microscopic, under-the-radar international opportunities that we always found intriguing, but never had a small, intimate enough forum to release them to... And there's one benefit to the Reserve that's entirely new to the independent financial publishing industry... a benefit all of our editors agreed on when we formulated the Reserve. This advantage is called the Legacy Program — but before I tell you more, let me make it perfectly clear why I'm honored to invite you to become an Agora Financial Reserve Member today. THIS INVITATION WILL NOT BE SENT TO THE PUBLIC We will send this invitation to only loyal readers like you. You see, there are so few Reserve Memberships available the invitation can go to only a dedicated Agora Financial reader like yourself. For that reason, I respectfully ask that you do not forward this e-mail to anyone else. But exactly how few Reserve Members can we accept? ** Invitation Limited to the First 1% of Existing Readers** Only one in 100 existing Agora Financial readers may join... If all of our readers knocked on the door, 99% of them would have to be turned away! It's not that we're being snooty or unfair. We simply know that some of the profit opportunities that we will research and present to you are too small and sensitive for too many people to know about. That's why we picked the 1% threshold — we want to see what will happen when a small group of serious individuals gets hold of nearly every single profit opportunity that we know of. Exclusive Benefits That 99% of Our Readers
Cannot — and Will Not — Ever Profit From. We must limit the available seats in the Reserve to 1% of our readership. Membership is first come, first served. If we do eventually permit more folks into the Reserve, it's almost certain that we'll never make this massively discounted offer again. And that's a BIG "if." We may never extend another invitation. It depends 100% on how the Reserve Members' interest affects these infinitesimal underground opportunities... There are two unbreachable limits placed on this invitation. I just told you about the 1% limit. But we also have a limit in time. This special discounted invitation expires immediately at midnight on Monday, June 30th. We were compelled to do that so we have a clear point at which we can start to analyze how new Reserve Members act on the exclusive-to-Reserve recommendations that we're going to offer. But please don't make the mistake of thinking you can wait until June 30... I fully expect to fill our 1% limit long before that day rolls around. But let's quickly return to the 74.9% upfront discount that Addison's agreed to offer you today. You'll Save A Whopping $4,872 Today For Agora Financial Members only, the Reserve costs less than one year of each included individual service. That's right — if you sign up for a Reserve Membership today: You can get a lifetime of our fast-paced trading research services, stock recommendation newsletters and other independent research — on top of the various new services and reports that we will unveil in the future — for far less than the normal price you'd usually pay for one single year of those services. And you'll enjoy the largest upfront discount we've ever offered on the Agora Financial Reserve. You'll be able to try all of these services initially for $4,872 less than what others have paid upfront. I'll get to the details later on... You'll benefit from far more than our world-class newsletters and trading research services, though. You'll be the first potential beneficiary of the exclusive "hush-hush" opportunities that, before now, were far too small and sophisticated to share with a large group of people. That's one of the main reasons we decided to hit the ground running on the Agora Financial Reserve — we want to introduce you to tiny, unknown opportunities. Opportunities that we hear whispered from our extensive network. Previously invisible opportunities that we unearth with our own research. (The invitation I'm extending, however, can last for far longer than a lifetime, as I will show you in one moment.) First, I'd like to introduce you to some of the specific benefits entitled to Reserve Members: You Get All of Our Stock and Option Plays for Free for Life. . . When you accept this invitation to the Reserve, you will immediately lock into each and every one of our aggressive and profitable stock and option trading research services. Services that have recently brought in these gains: 195% from sugar calls in only 20 days, 173% in 104 days on Systemax puts, 1,011% on UPS calls after holding for just over four weeks and 611% in three months from Newmont Mining... Resource Trader Alert : The Maniac Trader Returns:
He's 89 for 107, average gain 64%! You may have heard of Kevin Kerr, aka the "Maniac Trader." He's appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, CNN, NBC's The Today Show and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. He's even the resident commodity expert on Fox's Kudlow & Co. We dubbed him a "Maniac" because he tirelessly watches the commodities markets. Kevin takes this to an extreme. He personally calls his contacts on the trading floor at least six times per day. He wakes up in the middle of the night to see how the Asian markets are faring so he can get a feel for how the U.S. markets will open. Now — through Resource Trader Alert — he uses his addiction to commodities to help you benefit from the world of commodity options. And he's got one of the best records that I've seen after 18 years of independent investment research publishing. 83% of his total number of closed commodity options plays ended up winners. And — over his entire career as Resource Trader Alert editor — Kevin has averaged 64% per recommended play, including losers. That's one heckuva streak, and it shows signs of only continuing... Here are some of the recent gains from Kevin's commodity options recommendations:
- 87% on January 8th 2008 from Sugar Calls
- 103% on January 10th 2008 from Soybean Calls
- 87% on February 8th 2008 from a Silver Spread
- 108% on February 12th 2008 from Sugar Calls
- 195% on February 26th 2008 from Sugar Calls
- 220% on February 28th 2008 from a Silver Spread
- 107% on April 17th 2008 from a Gold Spread
You know that oil and gasoline prices have shot steadily up. And you can be sure Kevin Kerr will be there to deliver some aggressive gains on crude and gas options. In the past, his readers have seen: - Crude oil calls held for twenty days for 119%
- Unleaded Gas calls held for one month for 17%
- Crude Oil puts held for 3 weeks for 39%
- Crude oil spread held for just over 3 weeks for 27%
His record shines just as impressively outside of the oil and gas market, though. He rode corn straight up in late '07, when his recommended corn call soared 74% skyward in 19 days. Even at this obscene level of gain, Kevin still thought corn would shoot up some more — so he recommended that his readers sell just half of their position. Exactly 49 days later, he recommended that his readers sell the second half. Lucky them, bagging 219% on that second half of their corn calls in just over two months. Please wait. Here are some more:
- 400% on Silver Calls
- 241% on Wheat Calls
- 270% in 30 days from a simple Coffee Call
- 120% from Live Cattle (yup, that's right -- from options on a thousand head of cattle!)
- 154% in 34 days from an easy to follow Cotton Call
Kevin's Resource Trader Alert is your way to learn how to play the quick, strong price changes in commodities. And it's easy. You can do it from home, with a multitude of brokers, just like buying stocks. "I bought three silver spreads… My calculations show a gain of about 1,500% from my initial price. My two best current holdings… are cocoa, up 335%, and wheat, up 320%.
"So here's a brief history. I subscribed to RTA in December '05 and opened a brokerage account with $15,000. I had absolutely no knowledge about commodities... Since opening the account, I've withdrawn $30,000, and the account value as of today is over $123,000. So as of now, I'm up over 10 times. Money isn't everything, but all things being equal, I'd rather have some than not. I really appreciate the guidance you have given me. I hope this note puts a smile on your face. Thanks" — Greg
"I opened my RTA account with $2,000… Added $5,000 more... Account value today is $34,000."
— Pete
- 89 of 109 plays positive
- 64% average gain over all plays, including losers. (All gains as of May 18, 2008.)
Normally, Resource Trader Alert subscribers pay $1,495 per year. As a Reserve Member, you pay nothing. Options Hotline : How a Humble Options Master
Crushed the Million Dollar Milestone Options Hotline is one of the oldest options services in America. 2008 marks the 28th anniversary of Paul Sarnoff creating the service. A friend of the legendary Hunt brothers, Paul became famous as one of the first to teach investors how to use stock options in the '60s. In 1980, Paul launched Options Hotline, delivering his subscribers gains for 19 years... In October 1999, Steve Sarnoff took the service over from his father and mentor. Steve studied options analysis alongside his dad for over a decade — and gave the system a couple of proprietary tweaks of his own. Here's how it works… Each week — on Sunday night — Steve sends out the single best option play for the week. It takes less than five minutes to read his entire e-mail. And his recommendations could make you a heap of dough… Just how much? I'll let his track record explain... please just take a look at his performance over the last nine years... and how you could've broken the million-dollar milestone with him. (Please remember that average gain accounts for winners AND losers...)
Now, how is it that Steve can claim such a stellar achievement? Simple. Steve recommends opening positions and gives a general strategy to help readers determine a good closing point, but readers must use their own judgment in exiting a position. Because of this, we calculate Steve's previous track record based on the highest point each of his actionable recommendations hits after he alerts his readers. That stellar long-term track record makes it easier to see how Steve's the only one I know who has broken the coveted "Million-Dollar Gains Milestone." After Steve recommended UPS calls that could have made as much as 1,011% gains for his readers, he broke right through the million-dollar mark. If you had plugged $5,000 into Steve's first trade when he took over from his father... plugged that same amount into every single one of his recommendations since that time and ridden each one to its highest possible point, you would have over a million dollars in profits! That's unbeatable — passing the million-dollar milestone in a little over five years...
"Bought SMH LH… Closed today up 75% in a week. Good call. Appreciate it." — Jim
"I wanted to drop you a quick note of thanks for showing me how to use the power of options to help me pay for Christmas this year. Let me explain...
"I am an Agora Financial Reserve Member and used Steve Sarnoff's recommendation this week to net $900 in about in three hours, with less than five minutes of my time... Not bad for five minutes of 'work.'
"Thanks again for the great services you provide and have a very happy holiday season!" — Paul G.
Normally, Options Hotline subscribers pay $995 per year. As a Reserve Member, you pay nothing. Strategic Short Report : Your Way to
Profit As the Real Estate Bubble Implodes Now, you know that the markets related to housing — specifically, subprime mortgages — shoot lower every day. And Dan Amoss has taken advantage of that trend by playing put options on subprime mortgage insurer MGIC. Let's take a look at a company Dan had his eye on. Here's the chart for MGIC's stock price:
71% seems like a big drop for MGIC stock over just nine months, doesn't it? But even that 71% move paled in comparison with the move that an option play on that same stock made… Brave investors who got in and out at the right time could've swiped 336% gains from a play that used put options as leverage. That works out to a profitable move of almost four times the negative move the share price suffered. Nice little way to make some lemonade while avoiding the lemon! But Dan doesn't focus in on just housing stocks. He also wrote up a Whiskey & Gunpowder article that pointed out the problems with Hansen, the hyped energy drink and soda company. He said that intrepid readers should short Hansen. And they could've made as much as 27.4% in six days…
"27.4% in 6 days...Thanks, Dan!" "Many thanks for Dan Amoss' June 26 analysis and discussion of Hansen Natural. I felt the market was trending down and the stock was inflated... Based on this and Dan's analysis, I shorted the stock Aug. 1 at $45.50 and covered the short sale [on Aug. 7] at $33. "Thanks so much!" — R.R.
Dan's got a knack for finding companies that sell for far more than what they're worth. So he decided to take his expertise in playing put options and shorting stocks to launch a small research service called Strategic Short Report. And in just the few months that we've been publishing the service, Dan's readers have had the chance to see some nice gains... Like the 173% that they could have made after Dan recommended put options on Systemax — an overly hyped online retailer of computer hardware and off-brand PCs. Or the 97% they booked in a few short months with put options on TCF Financial — a troubled Midwestern mortgage-heavy bank. In fact, as of May 18, Dan's averaging 61% across all of his closed positions. And that includes the rare losing play. But what about open positions? Well, he's got those, too... As of May 18, he's up 13% on a slumping RV manufacturer, 23% on a company whose business model closely resembles that of Bear Stearns and 24% on an insurance company that's doomed for bankruptcy. Normally, Strategic Short Report subscribers pay $995 per year. As a Reserve Member, you pay nothing for life. Mayer's Special Situations : Small Explosive
"Special Situation" Plays So you've heard about how you can use our quick, speculative option plays to boost your wealth… But what about the explosive stock gains that come from mergers, buyouts, special dividends and spinoffs? We've got those covered, too. Each month, Agora Financial's managing editor, Chris Mayer, applies his due diligence to small "special situation" companies. In this way, you can combine strictly lowered risk with speculative opportunities. Chris sends these "safe speculations" out to a small circle of readers with his new research service, Mayer's Special Situations. Let's take a quick snapshot of the nearly two-year-old service's track record as of May 18:
10 out of the 16 closed positions have gone up. The average gain over those closed positions was 43%, including the losers. Biggest gainers: 194% on T3 Energy Services… 177% on Titan Intl.…122% on Gorman-Rupp Co.… and 100% on Lindsay Manufacturing. And as far as open gains go, his readers are up:
- 80% in less than four months on a shale gas play
- 31% in less than four months on a beaten down sewage pipe company
- 89% on a second shale gas play
- 135% on water pump manufacture
This excellent start and short-term track record has made some of Mayer's Special Situations readers quite happy: "Your Libbey recommendation alone just paid for my Acapulco vacation. THANKS! :-) Your reports are very professional without being stuffy. I look forward to your e-mail!" — E. Culpepper
"I joined the Agora Financial Reserve when it was very first launched.
"I manage my own accounts and my father's very large IRA for him. I have purchased about 90% of the stocks you have recommended in MSS and couldn't be happier with the returns.
"I love your strategy and reasons for picking a stock and plan to stick with you as long as possible. I only hope you stay for many years to come. I hate the thought of finding out you left to do something else.
"Thanks so much for your excellent research and the great job you are doing. My experience with MSS has been exactly what I was hoping for when I joined the Reserve." — Brad
Normally, Mayer's Special Situations subscribers pay $995 per year. As a Reserve Member, you pay nothing for life. Energy & Scarcity Investor : How You Can Harness
"Slow Volcano Power" to Ride California's
Gov't Mandated Green Power Boom Byron King lives and breathes natural resources. Each month, his contacts and research come up with dozens of overlooked opportunities. Some of these finds make their way into the pages of Byron's Outstanding Investments. But the ones with the best profit potential are microcaps — just too speculative to send out to a wide audience. That's why Byron launched an elite research service, called Energy & Scarcity Investor, that taps into these tiny resource opportunities. For proof of the concept behind this new service, here are some previous winners in the realm of tiny resource stocks just like the ones Energy & Scarcity Investor focuses on:
- 214% on Pan Orient Energy
- 211% on UR Energy
- 1,062% on Virginia Mines
- 958% on Seabridge Gold
- 1,076% on Minefinders
- 732% on Pan American Silver
- 208% on Compass Minerals
- 2,568% on Silvercorp
- 700% on Almaden Resources
- 450% on Antares Minerals
- 1,258% on Bear Creek Mining
- 4,500% on Brett Resources
- 1,236% on Dynasty Metals
- 2,860% on Denison Mines
- 428% on Cirrus Energy
- 1,376% on Enexco
But now Byron has found an exciting discovery that could make those gains seem like small potatoes. You see, California's Senate has mandated that the state must derive 20% of its electricity from renewable sources by December 2010. Byron says that "Slow Volcano Power" is the renewable energy source best suited to provide California's huge population with electricity. And he's recommended five of the smallest pure plays completely devoted to the little-known green energy source "Slow Volcano Power." You can immediately get all the information you need on those five stellar "Slow Volcano Power" plays when you accept your Reserve invitation.
Normally, Energy & Scarcity Investor subscribers pay $1,495 per year. As a Reserve Member, you pay nothing for life. Gold & Options Trader : How to Protect Your Wealth From
the Dollar's Coming Collapse. . .and Ride the Historic Gold
Bull Market for Obscene Profit Potential You know that gold's been on an absolute tear over the last few years. In fact, it shot from $300 to its recent high of $1,033. That's a climb of 244%. And the reasons behind gold's run-up seem obvious:
- Rampant government money printing (especially in the U.S.)
- Global strife boosts fear and uncertainty
- Worldwide demand for real commodity wealth, not credit or phantom finance profits.
It's no wonder gold — the only trusted, true haven for wealth and future prosperity — has become more desired. And it will become only dearer as the years pass. This inescapable fact has led us to launch a new research service dedicated specifically to gold gains. Now, members of many of our services have had the opportunity to take great gold gains. Specifically, readers of Outstanding Investments, Strategic Investment and Penny Stock Fortunes. And our options services Resource Trader Alert and Options Hotline have played many gold futures and stock options for more speculative gains. But the historic gold bull has compelled us to devote an entire newsletter to gold... it's titled the Gold & Options Trader. Gold & Options Trader has two simple missions. First, it seeks to show you gains on the best gold stocks in the world. You might get a recommendation on a junior mining company or a microcap exploration and production company. And second, Gold & Options Trader will play options on gold stocks. That way, you can apply leverage to normal moves in share price. This can give you a quicker, larger, more speculative winner. You'll be profiting from gold's long trend upward and, simultaneously, learn how to hedge your portfolio against short-term corrections… And we couldn't have found a better guy to man Gold & Options Trader than Ed Bugos. Ed comes straight from the Wall Street of the gold market — Vancouver's Howe Street. During the nasty commodity bear market in the '90s, Ed still guided his clients to gold profits in Argentina Gold and Arequipa. The massive Barrick Gold ended up buying both companies. He also founded the Bugos Gold Stock Index, which included no more than 10 stocks anytime. From December 2001–May 2006, his index gained 200%, averaging 30% compounded annual gains. And he's showing no signs of slowing down that incredible pace. In just the two short months that we've been publishing Gold & Options Trader, Ed's subscribers have had a chance to see gains of 29% and 21% on his junior miner recommendations.
Normally, Gold & Options Trader subscribers pay $1,495 per year. As a Reserve Member, you pay nothing for life. Once again, as an Agora Financial Reserve Member, you'll receive the six stock and option trading research services we just discussed for free. Added up, those six services are worth $7,470 per year. Your one-time Reserve entrance fee and miniscule annual maintenance fee will secure all of those stellar services for life. And I repeat — you get a lifetime of super-profitable options recommendations for less than one-year subscriptions to these individual publications at their regular prices. That alone makes the Agora Financial Reserve a good bargain. On top of that, as a Reserve Member, you will receive a free lifetime subscription to each one of our seven profitable research newsletters.
You Get All of Our Finest Stock Research
Newsletters for Free. . .for Life. . . Your status as a Reserve Member will deliver you these benefits: Outstanding Investments :
The #1 Ranked Newsletter Over TWO Five-Year Periods Byron King and Kevin Kerr's Outstanding Investments was independently rated by Mark Hulbert as the top-performing newsletter in the world. That's an amazingly high honor, considering that Hulbert tracks 103 different investment newsletters. Devoted to natural resource stocks since its inception, Outstanding Investments has delivered some gains that might make you bashful if you told anyone that you grabbed them... And as you know, oil and oil-related stocks have been on a huge tear lately. So have coal, steel, uranium, timber, shipping and natural gas companies. And readers of Outstanding Investments had a front-row seat for riding the global hunger for raw materials. Like these recent winners: 182% from Talisman Energy, 332% from Glamis Gold, 118% on Anglo-American PLC, 174% on PetroChina, 147% on BG Group, 177% on Coeur d'Alene Mines, and 228% on Niko Resources. Catching hold of the massive global energy bull, this year, Outstanding Investments has returned an average of 43% on its closed positions. On top of that, the open positions sit at a sweet 101%. And this isn't a fluke, either. Last year, Outstanding Investments averaged 79% gains from its closed resource stock recommendations. And as for open positions, we have 909% on Suncor, 505% on American Century Global Gold, 377% on Valero and 362% on EnCana.
"I almost 'bailed out' a while ago when gold and oil took a dip, but followed your recommendation and stayed with it. I'm up 28% with only your recommendations in my portfolio. Keep up the good work." — W. Burger
"You have to hand it to... Outstanding Investments. I have subscribed to many investment and trading services and dropped a lot of the poorly performing ones. But not RTA or OI... Perhaps a Nobel Prize for resource trading should be awarded." — D. Davidson
- 2008 closed positions average including losers: 43%
- 2008 open positions: 101%(All gains as of May 18, 2008)
Normally, Outstanding Investments subscribers pay $99 per year. As a Reserve Member, you pay nothing for life. Strategic Investment :
How You Can Turn the "Big Picture" into Big Gains Strategic Investment delivers you the most independent macro-based investment analysis in the industry. Peering at the economy from a global perspective, we drill the big ideas down into specific plays. Strategic Investment was one of the first in the independent financial sources to point out the looming nastiness of the American housing bubble, the massive wealth migration from West to East due to India and China's massive and inevitable rise, and the massive debt crisis that will hit America when the baby boomers retire expecting their promised entitlements. Each month, Strategic Investment pulls together the best ideas of Agora Financial into a simple, easy-to-read 12-page newsletter. You can think of it as the Reader's Digest of the financial world. You'll be the first to hear about macro movements, value plays, penny stock winners, commodity investments and emerging technologies. And you'll hear about them all in one place.
Here are some of the great individual plays recommended in Strategic Investment:
- 72% on Glamis Gold
- 63% on EEM — the single stock that bundles up emerging markets
- 36% on the Honk Kong Index Fund
- 54% on Sasol Ltd.
"I have little time to attend to my finances. Using information obtained from Strategic Investment I sold an investment property for a profit of $169,000. "Based on information from Stategic Investment I purchased approximately $30,000 in gold investments. This investment is up approximately $16,000. I also purchased approximately $90,000 in silver investments, which is up approximately $65,000." — B. Hughes
"My two favorite holdings are both Strategic Investment recommendations. Respectively, they are up 17% and 24% since I acquired them." — C. Thompson
Normally, Strategic Investment subscribers pay $99 per year. As a Reserve Member, you pay nothing for life. Capital & Crisis :
43% from the safest stocks on the Street Chris Mayer's unswerving devotion to conservative value investing has led him to recommend 27 out of 33 winners in Capital & Crisis as of May 18. That's right — he's batting a nearly perfect 82%. What's his secret? Simple. He'll buy a stock for only less than it's worth. And that seems to work just fine since — over the course of 33 closed recommendations — his positions gained 43% on average. What about his open positions?
- 149% and 125% on two of the world's best asset management companies
- 92% on a leading manufacturer of welded steel pipes
- 90% on a Swiss conglomerate that makes about two-thirds of all of the products that go into the global power grid.
The average gain for Chris' recommended open positions is 25%. With Capital & Crisis, you can draw in some nice gains from the safest stocks on the Street...
"Yes — very good gains, such as Horizon, $4,109… Chiquita Brands, $5,400… Agrium, $5,900… Ameriprise, $6,100… Intrawest, $10,000. I am currently using the proceeds to build up the retirement fund. I think Capital & Crisis is the best investment advisory that I have either read about or used. My only recommendation — don't do anything different." — W. McMillan
"Chris, you're just about the best writer there is, a great analyst while still enjoyable to read. It's a treat for my retirement portfolio to watch your theories play out. I can't give you a specific number, but it's approximately 20%, after investing $5,000 in each selection. I'm still recovering from the tech meltdown of 2000–2002. Thank you so much for helping to make it happen" — D. Ricci
- Chris' closed plays: 43% average gain
- 2008 open plays: 25% average gain. (All gains as of May 18, 2008)
Normally, Capital & Crisis subscribers pay $99 per year. As a Reserve Member, you pay nothing. Penny Stock Fortunes :
Imagine Getting Rich The largest, quickest gains on Wall Street usually come from the unknown and sometimes feared segment of stocks priced under $10... The infamous "penny stocks." But as Greg Guenthner, editor of Penny Stock Fortunes, explains, "Some of the biggest names in Wall Street history, like Tweedy, Browne; Ben Graham and John Templeton, made their massive fortunes in the penny stocks arena. You won't read much about these under-the-radar opportunities in The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily or Barron's." But you will read about them in Penny Stock Fortunes. Here are some past gains from closed-out Penny Stock Fortunes recommendations: 82% in only 48 days from First Cash Financial, 109% from Vaalco Energy and 103% from Forward Industries. As for the presently open positions, there is a hearty gain of 31% in a tiny energy company, 37% on a company with the technology that will solve renewable energy's fatal flaw and a quick 31% from a company that produces touch feedback technology.
Normally, Penny Stock Fortunes subscribers pay $59 per year. As a Reserve Member, you pay nothing. Emerging Capital Report :
Thinking — and Profiting — Like a Venture Capitalist Imagine buying into Microsoft at the venture capitalist stage… before it unveiled Windows. Imagine getting into Google on the bottom floor, with the first round of investors. Those two companies' innovations changed the world, and Patrick Cox continually digs for the next revolutionary companies — the Googles and Microsofts of tomorrow. The Emerging Capital Report uncovers the small, unknown companies on the verge of such transformational discoveries. Patrick sniffs around like a true venture capitalist, scanning for the least-known opportunities before they take off, talking with their CEOs and drilling down the most exciting — and, potentially, most profitable — opportunities. In the past, we've taken gains like 371% on PowerChannel Inc., 288% on Cray Inc., 244% on Nuance Communications and 321% on Anatolia Minerals. Now for The Emerging Capital Report's open recommendations... A tiny software company that we recommended has rocketed up 436%, an innovative energy company that's jumped from 21 cents per share, to $1.01, and a unique company that allows you to take full advantage of China's rise is up 52% in just over two months… (All gains as of May 18, 2008)
"I am a new subscriber and I like the approach you take and the companies you follow. It's refreshing being out of the mainstream stocks with their massive float. Knock on wood — the investments I've made with your picks are beyond what I had hoped for... Again, thanks for your help and your insight into these companies." — J. Parker
"When I first subscribed, I was not an experienced investor, but on the past four months' journey, [The Emerging Capital Report] has helped me widen my exposure to different forms of investing. I'm also impressed with your due diligence on new stocks you recommend." — M. Sorensen
Normally, The Emerging Capital Report subscribers pay $995 per year. As a Reserve Member, you pay nothing. Easy Money Options : How to Receive an MBA-style Stock Option Education. . . for FREE You've already seen how options can quickly bring your portfolio 100–500% profits… But what if you've never used options before and don't know how to get started? I've got the perfect solution for you… I recently brought on an options expert named Wayne Burritt to teach you how to safely add options to your portfolio. Wayne's got over 28 years of experience navigating through the options market. And in his new letter, Easy Money Options, he'll deliver you an options education that you can't get anywhere else. Each month, he'll teach you an "inside tip." Then he'll simply and easily provide you with directions on how to take advantage of the best options plays on the market right now. And although the service is just over a month old, I'm proud to announce that Wayne's first play, on Exxon Mobil calls, is already up a whopping 33% as of May 18.. Through this service, you'll quickly learn how fun and profitable stock options can be!
Easy Money Options normally costs $99 per year. As a Reserve Member, it's yours FREE for life. Free Market Investor : Your Ticket to Profits
Outside the U.S. "Money goes where it's treated best." That's the underlying philosophy of Christopher Hancock's Free Market Investor. Chris uses his independent free market streak to identify the global companies that will benefit the most from the spread of unfettered free market capitalism. Chris has spent the last three years doing investment research primarily focused on emerging markets, specifically China and Hong Kong. He worked with Citigroup in Hong Kong and witnessed firsthand the emergence of China. Then he returned to the States to pursue a career in equity research. Christopher's desire to work for an independent firm led him to Agora Financial, where he launched Free Market Investor. And Chris' technique sure works. Nine of his 13 open plays have gone up as of May 18...
- 56% from a South Korean steel company that feeds China
- 85% from the South Africa leader in coal-to-liquid fuel technology
- 36% from a dividend-spewing private Chilean pension company
- 47% from a Brazilian pulp and timber producer
- 14% from a Hong Kong property manager.
When you consider that Chris' Free Market Investor research service is just a little over a year old, those gains are phenomenal. Here's what a satisfied reader had to say: "I just want to drop you a brief note to let you know how much I enjoy reading your newsletter, and to compliment you on the thoroughness of your research. Personally, since the beginning of the current year, the four stocks in my Free Market Investor portfolio are up 25%.
"Thank you. I look forward to reading more of your work." — H. Lang
Free Market Investor normally costs $395 per year. As a Reserve Member, it's yours FREE for life. Added up, all seven of Agora Financial's world-class, independent and profitable newsletters cost $1,845 per year. But if you do what's best — by canceling your Agora Financial subscription right now and accepting this invitation to the Reserve — you get those newsletters for free for the rest of your life. As a Reserve Member, you'll save $1,845 per year from the newsletters alone. That comes out to $9,225 in savings every five years... and $18,450 saved over the next decade... If you are serious and quick enough to be that one in 100 that can enter the Reserve... if you decide to become a member in time, you will get all of those newsletters for free for life. But that's not nearly the last in the heap of benefits your Reserve status will confer upon you... Introducing the Agora Financial Focus List:
Exclusively for Reserve Members We've created something solely for Reserve Members that may be the most valuable benefit we've discussed yet... it's called the Agora Financial Focus List. As you can see, Agora Financial publishes a steep deluge of investment ideas. Ideas that cover the entire spectrum of stock investment possibilities... from value investing to resources and hard assets to emerging technology companies to penny stocks... You might be wondering: "That could end up being too many stock plays. If I don't want to go for all of them, how would I pick the best ones?" We realize that it may be difficult to thoroughly go over and familiarize yourself with every single recommendation we offer you. That's why each of our editors will handpick a small portion of their recommended stock plays to add to the Agora Financial Focus List. This portfolio will never have more than 20 stocks in it at one time, so it will be a breeze to use and understand. The Focus List's recommendations will come from across all of the newsletters, directly from the editors themselves. Here's how it works: Once per quarter, the editors will personally take a look at their contributions to the Focus List portfolio. They will distill the absolute best stocks from their already superlative track records — and, essentially, manage a unique, world-class portfolio for a small group of elite Reserve Members. That's pretty remarkable, don't you think? We've conservatively valued this unique benefit at $995 per year. As a Reserve member, you get the Focus List for free for life.
Announcing the Legacy Program. . .and
Your Free "Enduring Wealth Library" We're not content to "merely" publish the most independent — and highly profitable — stock research newsletters and options services in the industry. Agora Financial has decided to jump right into the hitherto unknown world of book publishing. You may know of The New York Times and Amazon.com best-sellers written by long-time Agora Financial contributors like Chris Mayer, Kevin Kerr, Bill Bonner and me. As a Reserve Member, you're entitled to copies of these books just after they're released... for free, of course. All you do is give us a call or shoot us an e-mail and we'll FedEx you a copy. As I said, you can find those books at any bookseller — but we'll send them to you FREE of charge. I call this series of books the "Enduring Wealth Library." And there's one other special addition to this series. It's called Seeds of Wealth… Seeds of Wealth is probably the most unique — and valuable — book I have seen come across my desk in my 18 years in financial publishing. Seeds of Wealth is a wealth-building manual that helps you help your children become wealthy. Wealthy by their own efforts... It's actually quite easy for your child (or grandchild) to build a whopping $250,000 war chest by age 18 just with rigorous saving and the power of compound interest. And as the Agora Financial editors and I thought about the benefits to your children and grandchildren that the Seeds of Wealth program can bestow, we came up with what could be the most powerful benefit to your Reserve Membership — the Agora Financial Legacy Program...
You Can Pass Your Reserve Membership on to
Any Family Member of Your Choice! As the Agora Financial team put the last round of updates into the Seeds of Wealth program, a flash of brilliance struck someone — "Hey, if we're trying to help future generations build a life of comfortable affluence with Seeds of Wealth, shouldn't we allow our Reserve Members to pass on their Reserve Member status to their children?" We all agreed that it was a great idea. So we instituted the Agora Financial Legacy Program, which allows a Reserve Member to pass membership over to a family member. Of course, that family member is entitled to free receipt of every single Reserve service, newsletter, conference, book and special report that the Reserve ever publishes... But there's plenty more to the Reserve Membership benefits than all of the newsletters, options services, the Enduring Wealth Library and Legacy Program. In fact, we've come to what may very well be my personal favorite part of the Reserve...
Only for Reserve Members:
Free Lifetime Enrollment in the Agora Financial
"World Travel to Profits" Program We fully realize that some sophisticated and successful investors want to do more with their time than steadily and aggressively grow their wealth. At Agora Financial, we strive to provide you with the most thorough independent research that you can get. This thoroughness leads us to travel around the globe to find the next explosive opportunity. And since we have footholds and affiliate offices around the world, we often travel abroad to visit the companies and countries we research. After a while, we developed a love for travel itself, without regard to the value it adds to our research. So when we came together and created the Reserve, we wanted to share the value that international (and domestic) travel has, for its own sake... Let me quickly explain...
Your Personal Invitation to the Annual
Agora Financial Reserve Summit. . . As a Reserve Member, you will be exclusively invited to attend the yearly Summit meeting. The Summit is a private conference open only to Reserve Members. Our editors will play host to you. They will speak to Reserve Members on the most exclusive of opportunities — those strictly limited to small groups. Intriguing, fun and sometimes out-of-the-ordinary opportunities that can yield impressive gains. And it's all included FREE with your Reserve Membership. All you have to do is make it out to the Summit site and pay for lodging. We'll cover the conference, refreshments and meals. In the past, we've held our Reserve Summits in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. And future Summits could take place anywhere around the world where Agora Financial has a firm foothold — places like Paris; London; Waterford, Ireland; the Pacific coast of Nicaragua; Madrid; Melbourne; Milan; Johannesburg; Bonn; Baltimore and Delray Beach, Fla.... or some other equally beautiful locale. We conservatively value the Reserve Summit at $1,000 per year. As a Member, you get an exclusive invitation to each Reserve Summit every year, for free for life. But in addition to free admission to the Reserve-only Summit meetings, you will have free lifetime admission to Agora Financial Investment Symposium. Here's Your Ever-Renewed and 100% Free Ticket to the
Annual Agora Financial Investment Symposium You may know that the annual Agora Financial Investment Symposium is about to take place in Vancouver... It's always a superb time, held in the historic Fairmont Hotel right in middle of my favorite North American city's lush, gorgeous downtown district... The Investment Symposium is a comfortable, intimate multiday conference at which all the Agora Financial editors give speeches and workshops on their proprietary research on stocks and options. In addition to the stately roster of Agora Financial editors, we handpick affiliated experts to speak at each of these conferences. In the past, we've welcomed Steve Forbes, Bill Bonner and Doug Casey. This year, our keynote speaker is the legendary commodity investor Jim Rogers. The Investment Symposium generally costs $899. But as a Reserve Member, you get "Always free, Always VIP" access to our public event of the year. Please keep reading, though: That's not the final benefit bundled into your free lifetime enrollment in the Agora Financial Reserve's "World Travel to Profits" program... The most unique, under-the-radar travel/investment opportunity we know about, though, could be this one:
Only for Reserve Members: Your Guide to Utterly Exclusive, Ground Floor Deals on Rock-Bottom Real Estate in Formerly Downtrodden South American Countries As a Reserve Member, you have the unique ability to get in early on some truly amazing real estate deals in forgotten countries like Nicaragua. If the Reserve had existed and you had been a member at the time of our affiliate's first foray into Nicaragua... this could have happened: For next to nothing, you could have bought a sizeable chunk of land sitting right on the rocky bluffs and pink beaches of the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. You might have built a palatial Spanish-style house for less than a third of what it would cost in the U.S. You could have lived in that home. You could've used it as a vacation getaway. Or you could've bought multiple lots and built multiple homes to sell at some future date... Yes, it's obvious that such opportunities aren't for everyone. We know that buying international real estate isn't the most convenient way of taking some decent gains. But we figured that a small group of elite individuals like the Reserve Members would want every possibility open to it, from the ordinary to the exotic. And if the possible real estate deals in paradisiacal locales weren't enough, we come to the final benefit of the Reserve's "World Travel to Profits" program... this final benefit is so sensitive that even Reserve Members must meet certain requirements to obtain an invitation... but once those requirements are met, you can act like a venture capitalist and get in on this type of hush-hush, closed-door opportunities. The total yearly value of enrollment in the Agora Financial "World Travel to Profits" program: at least $2,690 per year.
Your Benefits Added Up:
Save at Least $122,162 - Lifetime subscriptions to all of our research newsletters... value: $1,845 per year
- Lifetime membership to all of our stock and option trading services... value: $7,470 per year
- Lifetime receipt of the Agora Financial Focus List portfolio... value: $995 per year
- Lifetime free enrollment in the "World Travel to Profits" program... value: $2,690 per year
- Free lifetime subscriptions to every single research newsletter and options service that the Reserve is able to publish in the future... value: unknown, but massive
- The right to use the Legacy Program to pass your lifetime Reserve Membership to a member of your family... value: priceless.
So as you can see, the total measurable yearly value of a Reserve Membership is $13,000. And that yearly value will increase at a steady rate as we launch new research newsletters and options services. That means... five years of Reserve benefits are conservatively valued at $65,000... and a full decade of stellar profits, travel and research is worth $130,000, at the very least. That's why you might think I'm crazy to offer the Reserve for a one-time $10,000 price for a lifetime of membership. That's a savings of $3,000 in the first year alone... and you receive almost everything Agora Financial publishes for free for life! Over the next decade, you'll save a whopping $30,000... but wait — because I'm not going to charge anywhere near $10,000 for you to join the Reserve. Why You Really Ought to Act Right Now. . . For invitations to the Reserve, we normally charge a one-time fee of $6,497, plus a small annual maintenance charge. That's quite a deal considering that our Reserve members have access to all of our best money making opportunities for life. It's why they've written us to say: Please pass along my regards to Mr. Wiggin. I joined the Reserve some time ago and I think it's probably the best [money] I've spent in quite some time...maybe ever. — Tim Purvis I have been very pleased and amazed to find that new reports (costing up to $1,000 apiece), books and services are actually being sent my way at no additional charge. I was convinced that anything newly published would not be included in my subscription... I am extremely pleased to be a member of this elite group that should keep me making double-digit returns for the foreseeable future. — Dan Davis But remember, I told you that Addison's agreed to slash that upfront price by 74.9% — but only until midnight on Monday June 30, 2008... Here's how it works: To join the Reserve today it'll initially cost you just $1,625 — a 74.9% upfront discount to the first-year price we normally charge. That upfront fee allows you to receive ALL of the Reserve's money-making opportunities for the first 90 days. Consider it our "all access" trial period to you. That's something we'll probably never offer to you again after midnight on Monday rolls around. You see, when we opened this drastically discounted invitation, the interest was so high that we almost blasted through that 1% enrollment barrier. So that's why we're forced to cut off the 90-day "all access" trial period right at midnight on Monday. Otherwise, too many people might get in, diluting the power of our most elite service. It's a simple way to try all of our services... without shelling out over $6 grand today. But, obviously, you gotta act right away... If we're able to help you make money with everything from penny stocks to value plays, if we're able to show you exciting new ways to trade commodities and options, and if we're able to better your way of living in those first 90 days, simply do nothing. At the end of the 90-day trial, we'll enroll you in a three-installment "pay up plan." Each additional three step installment of $1,625 will conveniently be charged to your credit card around the end of September 2008, December 2008 and March 2009 — totaling up to the full price of $6,497. Then you're done. That's all you'll ever pay, except for a small annual maintenance fee of $149 to cover the ever-rising print and postage costs — automatically charged to your credit card each year. Without this maintenance fee, we'd never be able to make such an offer. And remember: you'll receive almost everything we publish now and in the future... our new services, special reports, and books. That means you'll save at least $122,162 over the next decade. But membership is strictly limited. When we hit our 1% enrollment limit, or when Midnight on June 30th rolls around — whichever comes first — you may never see that heavily slashed 90-day trial price again. In fact, you may never see another Reserve Membership at any price. If we offer Reserve Membership invitations again — and that's a pretty big "if" — the price could be $7,000 or higher. (The price may even go higher than that, depending on how many new services we launch...) And there's a possibility that this new 90-day trial membership will never be offered again... So accept this slashed $1,625 trial invitation right now to make absolutely sure you can take advantage of the unique benefits reserved solely for Reserve Members. After all, when we hit our 1%, we're going to carefully study how Reserve Members take advantage of the hush-hush and tiny thinly traded opportunities open only to them. If we see that the Reserve's microscopic benefits can't handle any more exposure to serious investors, we will be forced to forever close the doors of the Reserve. We simply have to shut it down, in that case, to protect the interests of the Reserve Members... so I recommend that you act immediately to ensure you grab your spot. And here's why you won't have a doubt about joining the Reserve right now: Your Complete "Satisfied and Wealthy" Guarantee:
Get the Reserve Risk-Free for Your Entire Trial Period Since the Reserve is the most uniquely beneficial service that Agora Financial has ever unveiled, it also has the most unwavering guarantee possible. You get your entire trial period — the first 90 days — to decide if the Reserve fits your needs and profit targets. If not, you can get a complete refund. You heard that right: If you let 89 days pass and call us on that last day of your trial, we will immediately and cheerfully refund 100% of your money, no questions asked. You keep every service and newsletter we provide you with... so we're essentially offering you a free trial of our best research, along with the travel Summits and other services closed off to non-Reserve Members, at the lowest upfront fee we've ever offered. Why the heck would we do something like that? You see, we want to make absolutely sure each and every Reserve Member is 100% satisfied with the pinnacle of Agora Financial service. We want you to read our newsletters and take respectable, market-pummeling gains from the stocks recommended therein. We want you to take monstrous, sometimes triple-digit gains in short time frames from our aggressively profitable options services. We want you to attend each and every one of our public conferences and private Reserve Summits to meet us personally and take advantage of the smaller hush-hush opportunities that can be shared with only small groups. We want you to love — and profit from — the Reserve so much you look forward to passing it on to your most loved family member through our Legacy Program. If you're unsatisfied with even one aspect listed above, we don't want you to have spent your hard-earned money on the Reserve. That's why we insist on this guarantee that puts Agora Financial at considerable risk if you find yourself the least bit unsatisfied with the Reserve — because, after all, if the service is as good as we intend it to be, Agora Financial has no risk at all. You'll be ecstatic with the benefits you derive from your Reserve Membership and you'll stay with us for the long haul. Why it Might Be Unwise to Wait
Until Midnight June 30th. . . I cannot stress this enough: We're going to close the 90-day trial invitation (perhaps for good) at the stroke of midnight on Monday June 30th, 2008. But I'm firmly convinced that we'll be forced to cut off memberships long before then. That's because I'm personally convinced that we'll hit our limit of 1% of existing Agora Financial readers very quickly. In fact, we might even hit that limit tomorrow. I hope that you don't get turned away when you click the link below. So please — accept this never before offered trial subscription and become an Agora Financial Reserve Member today. To your wealth, 
Joe Schriefer,
Publisher, Agora Financial P.S.: A trial fee of $1,625 is such an extraordinary price for all the great ideas we publish, there's no way we could afford to keep this offer open for very long. That's why you need to respond by midnight on June 30th...or sooner. If we hit the 1% figure anytime between now and then, we're going to close the doors immediately. In that case, you will have missed your shot at substantial savings on the highest level of service. Perhaps for good. So click below right away and claim your space as a Member of the Agora Financial Reserve. P.P.S.: The first quarterly Focus List of 2008 — sent out exclusively to Reserve Members in early January — has already rocketed up a remarkable 24.3% as of May 18, 2008. In that same time period, the Dow went up only a short 5.3%, with the S&P crawling up 6.1%. You can immediately access the second Focus List of 2008 when you accept your Reserve invitation by clicking the "Subscribe Now" button below: SUBSCRIBE NOW! | 
