Working harder AND Smarter:
The secret to making profits in a Flatliner Market!

by J. Christoph Amberger

When the Taipan team met in early January to hammer out our strategy for making money for our subscribers in the turbulent markets ahead, one of our stringers coined a term that I believe aptly describes the core characteristic of this year’s investment environment.

He called it the Deadbeat Market of 2001.

And indeed, it appears that both the Dow and the NASDAQ have been acting like a lazy 25-year-old post-graduate, one who’s not particularly concerned with doing something productive or even worthwhile any time soon.

Just look at the Dow’s insolent passivity all year, oscillating a couple of percentage points below its January entry level. And while the NASDAQ’s gains and losses were far more violent, its dramatic ups and downs have been moving in what appear to be steel-reinforced margins for at least 3 months.

In a way, we are seeing exactly what was going on in the Dow Jones Industrial Index between 1968 and 1975, when it moved between tight and short-lived lows of 600 and equally tight and short-lived highs of 1000.

But if you factor out the ups and the downs, you arrive at a pretty flat line for those seven years… a line that goes from 800+ to 800+ without much to show in the way of additional value. In other words: when it comes to linear, long-term gains, the index really could be called a Flatliner Market.

The death of buy and hold?

For long-term, buy-and-hold investors and those among us who were spoiled rotten by the exponential gains of the 1995-2000 bubble, flat markets are hard to come to terms with. They make it hard to tread water—let alone recover the losses most of our portfolios had suffered by the end of 2000.

But the good news I have for you is that you don’t have to tread water, even in flat stock markets. You don’t have to pull out of the markets and try to just keep pace with inflation with the ever-shrinking return on a CD, savings account, or Treasury bill.

Because the laws of making money have still not been repealed.

Making money means work. Making money in flat markets just requires working a little harder. Investing a little smarter. And reacting a little faster.

Crisis equals opportunity

Many years ago, I was told that the Chinese symbol for crisis was made up of the signs for danger and opportunity. And in a market like this, there’s opportunity galore for those willing to put in the extra effort to translate opportunity into cold hard cash.

Just take a closer look at the NASDAQ. On a day-to-day chart, you can see that it’s been ripping back and forth like a rusty saw blade. Investors react faster than ever to news… and to rumor. And there’s more of those than ever. Rises and falls that took days to materialize only 15 or 20 years ago are over and done with in a matter of days, even hours.

But every movement in the market is an opportunity to make profits. It doesn’t matter if the index moves up or down: movement itself is the key to profits. And the ability to anticipate the next move is like a license to print money (if you know how to play it and protect yourself against risk.)

Working harder

One of the insights we gained during our January brainstorming meeting was that we, too, would have to work harder to make money for you with our recommendations. That’s why we decided to radically restructure Taipan, turning what had been a stately monthly periodical into a fast-moving daily investment service that allows you to turn even short-term news and rumors to your instant advantage and profit.

We bought one of the fastest database-driven publication software packages for our daily website, 247profits.com, and brought editors from a slew of other publications in our network onboard to widen our scope. But most importantly, we added a daily email newsletter, which we call The Taipan Group’s 247profits e-Dispatch.

I cannot stress enough how important it is for you in this day and age to be part of this service. Because this is where we can alert you to instant profit opportunities… follow up with updated buy and sell ranges… sound the alert when a trailing stop is about to be triggered… and even give you additional moneymaking opportunities that have windows of opportunity we wouldn’t otherwise be able to tell you about.

Just within the last two months, Taipan members who signed up for this free service had the chance to make quick profits of 33% on CTRA:NASDAQ and 60% on GMXR:NASDAQ… or 5% short profits on Taiwanese semiconductor maker TSM:NYSE in only 5 days… 2% in 3 days on the Turkish Investment Fund (TF:NYSE)… or a 5% buy-on-rumor, sell-on-news profit on the Argentina Fund.

Believe me, in a market where banks pay you 4% to park your money with them for an entire year, riding the short-term moves of the world’s markets from your computer screen for single- and double-digit profits in a few days makes a crucial difference!

Sign-up is free to you as a Taipan member. Just go to www.247profits.com/ BUREAUS/247TAIPAN/Taipan_elist_form.html or simply follow the link from our home page at www.taipanonline.com.