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Learn how you can turn current market volatility into a double profit opportunity with tightly controlled risk -- and without buying a single stock…
If there's one thing that is remarkable about the current market volatility, it is that there's no asset that seems clearly qualified as the proverbial safe haven the investors like to rush into. Gold bugs were just as glum as mutual fund wonks last Thursday when their golden treasures plummeted overt $12 bucks an ounce... right along with the Dow, the Nikkei and Shanghai.
What's left?
Oil? Depends on the continuing boom in the global economies. If credit dries up, businesses stop spending, consumers stop buying, and oil goes down.
Real estate? Don't mention it.
Rare coins? Your dealer just got sued.
The New Railroad? Your favorite Young Turk guru just got called a shill, a liar and a fraud by a federal judge.
Cash? Inflation is persistently chewing on its leg -- like a Jehova's Witness pit bull you were weak enough to open the door to. (My, what big teeth you have...)
Welcome to the global financial market place in the commodities supercycle, where everyone's hand is in everyone else's pocket. Which means that everything will be going up when things are heading up. And everything will be going down, when things are going down.
What are you supposed to do in a market like this?
First of all, don't panic. Plenty of money has been lost due to snap decisions to bail out of investments on temporary fluctuations. Given the state of the global economic expansion, there is simply no reason to assume that the Americans will stop consuming, the Chinese will stop gobbling up resources, and the Europeans will stop complaining. If you take a longer-term view -- and any investor expecting to come out ahead needs to -- look at the East Asian Financial Crisis that started in July 1997 in Thailand and South Korea and slammed currencies and markets alike around the world. Or the 1998 contagion triggered by the Long-Term Capital Management debacle.
The markets dipped considerably, providing one last great opportunity to get in at lower prices before the grand run-up of the hyper bull markets that culminated in 2000.
Last weekend, we told you exactly how to leverage such a situation... with our free special research report "Dow Jones Industrial Hedge Play: Leverage Increased Volatility to Safely Profit From Any Market." It's as valid today as it was Sunday a week ago: If you missed it, you simply need to read it today. (What do you have to lose: It's free right here).
This weekend, we follow up this hedged "double-dipping" strategy with a new strategy paper. This one, too, does not involve the purchase of one measly stock, but a targeted play to harness both the upside and downside of one of the last undervalued oil and energy companies. Access it right here.
This one is also on the house, yours free to read, forward and use without restrictions.
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