I love the stories you’ve just posted to this blog about investors who used adverse markets to score big profits. Thank you!
Plus, I have one too …
Remember: My father, like his friend Bernard Baruch, foresaw the great bull market of the early 1930s. He borrowed $500 from my grandmother and bought investment that soar when stocks plunge.
By the time the market hit rock bottom, his $500 had grown into more than $100,000 — over $1.2 million in today’s dollars!
And later, in 1933, when nobody else would touch a stock with a ten-foot pole, Dad also spotted the bottom and bought GM, GE, AT&T, Sears and other great companies for pennies on the dollar.
My earliest memories are of the stories dad told about those days — and what he’d do to make money the next time we saw the kind of economic collapse we’re seeing right now.
Here are a few pictures I’ve collected that pertain to this topic. Dad is the young man in the top left photo. Bernard Burch, whom he worked with later in life, is to his right. In the bottom photos, Dad and I are talking about bear markets and how to profit from them — both on the way down and on the way back up.
With his help, I created an 11-point checklist of the strategies and tactics that we talked about so often — a comprehensive bear market approach.
So Here’s an Idea …
And the Question of the Day:
What if I held a free online event to walk you through my checklist — all the things I do to avoid investments that could blow up, to lead me to investments with the greatest promise, and to help grow my money even in the worst of times?
I’m talking about specifics: The rules I follow — to determine what I’ll buy or sell, to improve my timing, to lower my risk, and to boost the profit potential in bear markets.
If I showed you how I take each of these steps myself for my own money, would it help you make better decisions without having to rely on Wall Street? Could it help clear up the confusion and give you the confidence you need make good money in this difficult market?
… And if not, WHY not?
I’m all ears! Just click here or scroll to the bottom of this page to share your answer with me and other readers.
Good luck and God bless!
Martin
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a free webinar on this crucial part of investing would be greatly appreciated. Since the news seems to only get bleaker each day, honing up on strategies to keep you optimistic about the future are required to help you navigate through the financial meltdown.
certainly….
Dear Martin:
I would love to hear how you have been successful in this bear market. Let me know when and where, so that I can take advantage of the information. I am just starting to invest seriously now and want to learn everything that I can.
Thank you.
Terrific! I’d love to attend an on line session to better understand your ideas.
This seems like a great idea. If you can take us through your investment stratagies that would help all of us a lot and me in particular.
Being unemployed presently I would very much like to listen to your free seminar.
Ditto what Joel says above. Especially if it’s directed at those who don’t have hundred of thousands to invest.
This could turn into a continuing dialog. As we go forward fellow bloggers could suggest candidates that they suggest meet your criteria. Then we can see if those investments perform.
I think it’s a great idea, I would love to hear what you have to say… all help is welcome…
It would help iimmensely!
Martin, a splendid idea that is exactly the kind of information I need fro a professional such as yourself. I’m a subscriber to your SMR and you have saved me few dollars over the past year.
Spot on! As usual, I will welcome the information and act upon it when it makes sense in terms of my particular situation
Chuck Omana
I’m always interested in what you have to say. I’m working 60+ hrs / week trying to keep our heads above water and it seems that my schedule never lines up w/ yours. It would be great if it could be made available after-the-fact online.
Best regards,
Dan
Sounds great.
Yes!
Yes, Martin: I would be interested in knowing how you are investing your own money these day! I would be a very big eye -opener . . . waiting?
Count me in. Thank you for the invitation. Please let me know when you plan to have the webinar.
Of Course………….. What’s not to Like…………?
I am always prepared to listen to someone who “puts his money where his mouth is”. It would be a welcome relief to have some trusted quidance.
Bring it on!!!!!!
It would be simply mindGoogling… I am looking forward to it…
CUL8R
How come no one saw this coming, ie., banks,gov., brokers? Was it greed or is the financial system broken. JM
Go For It!!!!!!!
I haven’t missed a MnM nor an Online Event since I first read MnM 12 mos and 14 days ago, (in spite of having a Mac. and not being able to watch on my laptop). MnM and the Rockefeller Morning Report ARE my daily financial news.
AG
Yes, I would like to be privy to your personal checklist!!
Times are tough..I will be 65 in August and my 401K suffered even with your recommendations!
Thanks!
Martin –
You’re one of the few honest and experienced advisors out there.
We’re all ears too!
It would help immensely. It would also be helpful if you could perhaps post an everyday or every-other-day blurb about what you see as the potential movers/pitfalls of the day and then (most importantly) your basis for making these calls.
Yours is the best offer I have ever had.
ABSOLUTELY.
Yes, that would be wonderful. In the day we live in where you cannot trust the government, elected officials, your broker or most anyone in any position of power, I would LOVE to know your 11-point secrets so I could follow them myself.
As I see the current situation and listen to all the confusing pundits blowing in the wind, I would trust your input and advice, much as you did with your father. Certainly you gleaned much wisdom from him, and you are where you are today by listening. Would love to listen (read) your own personal steps in investing aside from your advice in Money and Markets subscription. Go for the gusto!
Yes, I would very much like to hear your thoughts.
I am in the process of rolling my 401k into an IRA. I am hoping the IRA will allow me more flexability to invest in the right products.
Yes This would be terrific ,, Thank you.. Think of the small time guy too please .. and go slow.. This would be great
I believe any help from a reliable source can only benefit me, and at this time of my life and having to start all over again is a little disconcerting. However, I would be willing to make a concerted effort to help turn my life around so that once again I can prosper.
Yes, very much so. Sign me up!
Yes, sounds like a great idea — it will help us understand how you approach things and will give us an underpinning for thinking on those things on our own as well. I would call that value added service from your side of the equation to us.
Thanks.
How could I tunr down such a generous offer!
yes, please
Hi Martin,
I look forward to this online event. I have followed your Safe Money advice. Could you explain how deflation and then inflation due to the devaluation of the dollar will affect the valuations of the stock market too? And what does the monetization of debt actually do for my own debt it I have some?
Thanks for your help and time!
Dear Martin:
I”ve enjoyed your way of approaching the present market, and would like to take you up on your idea. Thank you for your help. Stephen Caplan
YES PLEASE HELP! I am a broke 43 year old Married Male with 4 boyz and I am deeply concerned about what the future holds for them and how I can help position what little (>30k) money I have to secure a future for them.
A concerned father of 4.
Dan
Without a doubt…YES!! It would be a godsend. I’ve often heard Dave Ramsey talk about finding people who have “the heart of a teacher” to help you with your finances and investments.
I am sure it would make all the difference.
I’m all ears!!! My trading plan needs help.
I’m still big time scared. I’m retired.
Dear Martin,
I would be very interested in the data.However, I would prefer to receive recommendations from you on what stocks to buy based on your 11 points.
Thanks…………George
I always appreciate your sage advice
I think it would be very interesting and helpful
MARTIN, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA FOR INVESTORS AND I THINK YOU SHOULD SHARE IN THE PROFITS FOR THIS GUIDANCE. INVESTORS MAKE MONEY AND MARTIN MAKES MONEY.
A great idea and I will be looking forward to learn from it.
YES. Is it a trick question?
Yes I would be interested in receiving this information. Thank You
I would be most interested!
Sure, that sounds great – just what is needed in these troubled times!
I have enjoyed to follow Dr Weiss’ recommendations and seen them all come true, so I trust that things comming from him bears a big potential for being correct and trustworthy – give and take minor details.
Awaiting more to satisfy my curiousity.
Nice weekend!
Jorgen
Martin,
I would love to learn more from you regarding the rules you follow for investing! As a small investor that decided two years ago to take a more active role with my investments, I managed to avoid the carnage of the past 18 months and actually grow my nest egg. I want to learn all I can to understand macro economic trends as well as investment selection and timing.
Lacy C. Gilliam – Texas
It would be an honor and privilege for you to share what you are doing with your own personal investments.
I would love to be included as a beginner very interested in learning! Just need a heads up to get it scheduled. Many thanks.
Yes. Your Dad also said the 1929 – 34 depression affected all types of investors. Novice, advanced and experts. Is there any comparison to then and now. Are the novice investors the only ones affected by today’s economic recession. What will affect the advanced and experts? Thank you.
Your timing for a web event couldn’t be any better…let us know when.
Martin,
If your cinfidence in me is enough to presume that I can become an investor as successful as you, then I am propared to watch, listen, take notes and try to learn what you know. Thank you for your time and talent.
very interested
That would be beneficial to everyone; but, that is the reason I have some monies W/Weiss Capital Management. Hopefully, everyone within your “Group” will be on the same page and can route us in the right direction(s). The difference will be which money management program will be right for each client.
GO FOR IT !
Looking forward to what you have to say!
I would love to know your 11 point checklist. Calling a bottom and then investing correctly is always tough but having a checklist would hopefully get me in near a bottom and out of the inverse ETFs that I presently hold. I want to keep my retirement plans on track!
thanks
Great idea.
Great idea-I’m all eyes Martin
It would be great to know when you think the market has hit the bottom
Yes, it would help a great deal. This market, although going down most of the time is very hard to figure. Thanks.
This is the type of information that is helpful in making better decisions. Thanks for your willingness to share Martin.
Sign me up!
I’m in, just let me know when.
I would be interested. Thanks! Marilyn
Your dad’s experience in the 1930’s should be very instructive!
All input is valuable but especially coming from you. We each are accountable for our own risk tolerances, but guidelines in establishing those would be an enormous help. Thanks to you and you staff for all the posts. They really help.
Martin:
Yes, I would appreciate an online seminar on those 11 points. I have found your previous online sessions to helpful and enlightening. I have always been intrigued by those who, during the last great depression, were able to steer clear of catastrophe, and even profit by it. Unfortunately, most did not come out unscathed, and many were even “ruined” in their attitude from that time forward. I know my grandfather lost a bundle, and was never willing to invest from that time forward.
Thanks again, for the wise guidance.
I often find this mind boggling. But I do try to assimilate facts before I make a leap, one way or the other. Your facts have seemed to be the most honest that I’ve been fortunate enough to find, so YES – I’d really appreciate learning from the “master”. Of course, this doesn’t guarantee that I’m a “good” student either, just willing to try. And thanks for your attempts to find out a little more of our needs.
Fantastic! Look forward to hearing your strategy.
Barbara
A wonderful idea and I would be all ears to attend it to learn form it.
It’s a great idea. I think that would be a very helpful seminar.
Looking forward to it provided the cost is not excessive.
YES, BY ALL MEANS. WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY ALWAYS GUIDES MY DECISIONS
I LISTEN TO WALL STREET LIKE I LISTEN TO JIM CRAMER–WHAT THEY SAY IS GOOD IS ALWAYS BAD AND WHAT THEY SAY IS BAD IS ALWAYS GOOD, SO WHAT THEY IS USUALLY A PRETTY GOOD GUIDE AS TO WHAT I SHOULD DO!!!
I am all for it. Eager to listen . . and act.
Well of course my answer is yes, how can I say no to this offer!
Thank you
Gary
Martin, your willingness to help guide folks who these turbulent times would stand in stark contrast to the greed, arrogance and downright dishonesty that have come to define Wall Street.
I think it would definitely be helpful.
Dr. Weiss,
First of all, I say this sincerely, you are the one authority that I have centered my attention on ever since that fateful day last September when Henry Paulson
pulled a fast one. Secondly, I respect anyone with a PhD (I have a doctorate in economics of all things but the macroeconomic models I studied in grad school have been blasted to shimereens right now.)
It would be a benefit to hear your wisdom and advice that has been passed down from your father. I benefited from Mike Larson’s suggestion on inverse ETFs and bought SKF – rode it up and just what, got a little too greedy thinking it would go up more and left monery on the table. I pulled back, only to watch in amazement as SKF went from roughly 95 or so up to 190 or more – just about a 100 gain per share – if I had been in.
So, all that is to say, yes please consider providing your knowledge and insight (as well as that of your team – all of whom I read religiously). I also want to avail myself of your offers but don’t have the funds to do so yet. The currency trader offer was so tempting.
I look forward to your voice of sanity and reality amidst all the chuckleheads on CNBC and elsewhere.
Best regards,
Walt Lierman, PhD
ABSOLUTITY , YES
I’d be very interested in that…how soon will it be available?
Yes Martin it would,
I would love to hear your reasonings and stratagies that you and your Dad developed over all these years.
Spencer
I’d like to hear it.
why not……I’ve lost $ 40,000
As a person always looking for new opportunities and knowledge how could I say no. I have enjoyed being on you mailing list and admire you insights. You can definitely count me in. Thanks for everything
I would Love to learn from your wisdom, thanks.
Yes, it would certainly help me if I could convince myself that the past repeats itself. But what if everything has changed enough to make the experience of the past not so reliable?
I’m ready to register right now. Sign me up.
i am tired of watching my retirement fall. i would greatly appreciate the free online seminar. i am looking at an earlier retirement than i had hoped for, but would like to make it more enjoyable.
Bring It On!!
That is what we are all looking for – sensible, practical and (most of all ) executable guidelines for guiding our financial boat in this Category 5 maelstrom! This is especially important for those of us who are older and approaching retirement – who will not have the time to recover from costly mistakes.
Yes, I am so done with Wall Street and Washington. After a 50% in my retirement IRA, I need to learn how better to do this.
This would be very beneficial to a novice investor like me. Any criteria you use on when to take profits and/or when to sell if an investment goes the wrong way would be of great help. Thanks.
Well, why not? It surely can’t hurt. It would be an interesting lesson. Hopefully, it would give us information we could use without too much trouble. So, I say let’s go for it!
This is what I am really looking for. I think I have pretty good instincts (gut feelings) for what is happening but I do not have a well-developed discipline that will allow me to move ahead. Your accumulated wisdom will give me courage.
BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SO MANY HOUSEHOLD NAMES HAVE DROPPED BY THE WAYSIDE DUE TO FRAUD,INCOMPETENCE,DECEIT ETC. THAT I AM AT AN IMPASSE. I KNOW THERE ARE STILL GREAT COMPANIES OUT THERE BUT DO NOT KNOW HOW TO PROPERLY EVALUATE THEIR INTEGRITY AND ABILITY TO COME OUT OF THIS ECONOMIC NIGHTMARE SUCCESSFULLY. IF YOU COULD HELP SO MANY OF US WITH THIS SAME TRAIN OF THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A REVELATION. THANKS MARTIN.
I think it would be a privilege, to have you share the wisdom and experience you shared with your father and how to implement that knowledge in today’s environment.
When do I sell SRS Real Estate double short ??????????
MARTIN,
YES I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT. I BELIEVE I WOULD PRINT IT OUT AND HANG IT SOMEWHERE TO CHECK IT OUT OFTEN.
I am ready to listen and learn.
Martin -
Sounds like a great idea. Go for it. And thanks for your excellent work.
Mark
Yes, absolutely. Thank you.
Good Idea!
Yes.
Of course, I would attend a free web seminar to learn how to pick the right stocks. It would be greatly appreciated.
Yes
Read your money and markets for your perspective frequently, and thank you for some sage advice…I wish I would have been more interested back in the dot.com bust days when you also was given out some pretty right-on advice/predictions. Earlier this week, I drove back from California. I followed the markets on my I-Phone. Kind of tough seeing my WFC go up and down like a roller coaster. In a small town in western Nebraska, I stopped for gas, then at McDonalds for some coffee. It was there that I met Paul, a retired man like myself. I noticed that he had a copy of Investors Daily at his side while waiting for my order. When I sat down in a booth, I noticed he was in the booth facing mine. He started a conversation asking if I was from Minnesota…he must have noticed the plates on my van when I pulled up. He thought he recognized me, but said that I wasn’t who did thought I was. I responded by asking him if he has had any luck in the markets. He asked to join me for coffee. He was a successful investor, and loved to talk about the markets. We shared some advice. I gave him the name of your website, after telling him you have been right on the market. I told him you had predicted the collapse, and that you thought the market was heading towards 7300 before a bottom. He showed me his portfolio, which he had printed on a little piece of paper; something you might expect about a retired railroad worker. He was down about 16K over the last few months, but still had a profitable portfolio of over 300K. I noticed he had a portfolio mix of about 10 stocks. He uses an online broker. He says he uses ValueLine for some of his decisions, and other sources, such as Investors Daily, or other newspapers. With ValueLine, he says when a stock gets a 1 rating he buys, then sells when they lower the rating to 2. It was then that I mentioned your website. We traded addresses, and telephone numbers so we could keep in touch. And we both agreed that there will be some great buying opportunities soon. I hope you hear from him…quite a solid looking older gentleman, with a great work ethic.
YES!
any advice in these times is worth looking into………
Yes it would–stock AND market timing–Pete
Absolutely! I would love to participate in this online event.
Thanks – H.T
Martin,
Absolutely I’d love a video of your 11 step process!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for all your great advice.
Happy Valentine’s Day
What a great gift! Echoing Marjorie and Dan, above, I am just starting to invest in earnest and do not have hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so; hearing your strategy would definitely make me more comfortable with my own research. And James’ idea about a continuing dialogue of suggestions is appealing as well. Is this a book in the making? “Riding the Bear: The Great Experiment in the Crash of ‘09″? Take notes, everybody!
I would love it, Martin. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Martin,
I would sign up immediately for your course. One of the dynamics that I really appreciate about you is your relationship with your father, and the wisdom that he passed on to you regarding money management during difficult times such as these!! I deeply appreciate your relationship with your father, and the benefit that his wisdom is producing through you for me.
Thank you.
Let me know when you conduct the seminar regarding your 11 principles for managing money through tough economic times!! I’ll be there.
David Martin
there are only few who i listen to, and you are one of the few. i’m in!
I think that would be a great opportunity for me and others to learn more about the art of investing. Thank you for giving me the chance to learn from your experience.
Yes I would be interested.One other thing of great help would be to explain how I could use my IRA to buy a house once the real estate market totally bottoms.Tax advice this time of year would also be helpful.
Martin: Yes, I would like to hear more about what your eleven points are.
Dick Barbieri
Ashby, MA
If it’s free, I’m there! Right now every penny is precious. I have watched my $24,000 retirement drop to $12,000, something has to stop pretty soon.
Yes, This would be great. I am getting ready to fire my two investors and am starting to look at what to do With the money that is left.
Thanks!!
This sounds interesting and full of insights as to what to avoid as well as what
to do !
YES! I would appreciate an opportunity to learn how you recommend investing in these difficult times.
I would be very much interested in hearing what you have to say.
YES AND YES.
Is my classmate and ATO fraternity brother Steve “Chappy” Chapman still working there?
absolutely
Absolutly!! Thanks.
Thanks Martin,
I’ll sign up today for such a seminar on trading techniques etc.
I’m not adverse to taking risks if I have the tools to help justify the positions taken.
Looking forward to hearing about this event!!!
Dake
Count me in!
Yes, any ideas would be better than the Mona Vie juice market.
Good idea and thanks!
Of course I’d love to attend the free seminar. Maybe you could also then have a subscription service where you make live trades that we can duplicate and you can recommend when to get in and when to get out. After a while we’ll be able to do it ourselves with what we learn, but it would be great to have the master spoon feed us through it for a while … for a price obviously!
Yes it would help a lot.
All and any information about a successful trader/investor’s focus, approach or
process is always helpful. Of course, everyone has to make his/her decision rather
than copy the ‘teacher’.
Yes, if you are willing to give away some free information that would make me a better investor, I would be more than willing to listen.
That is an excellent idea. The advice would be of great benefit to many who trade in the markets these days, or have investments providing them income during retirement.
The more of us commpn folk that can make money in these times the better America wil be for it.
Yes, the principal concern I have is risk because of the volatility of the present circumstances. I don’t know who or what to believe as everything is happening with unprecedented speed. As a Canadian when the US sneezes we get a cold because you are are largest trading partner.
Having lost so much of my capital supposedly doing the right things, I am not sure now when I am investing or gambling!
A great idea!!!!!
I would pass such information onto all my friends. I’d forward your video from your website to all of my friends. It would be one of the greatest services you could offer your readers.
“If I gave you a fish, I will have fed you for a day. If I taught you to fish, I will have fed you for life.”
Yes, I would like to hear your plan and ideas.
Absolutely a great idea and at the right price…. That is the right type of stimulus package ….. Education!
Could you explain exactly what ETF’s are and how this is the new wave to invest. into
this would be very interesting….street know how is very hard to beat…
It would be useful if your comments pertained to Canadian residents/investors as well . . .
Yes, we appreciate you and your late dad’s fortitude
An excellent idea for the current conditions. We all can gain some insights from your experiences and knowledge.
Martin,
Excellent idea. I am all ears. Some good, solid advice is hard to come by. Sign me up!!
Martin: Your video sessions are very helpful and I definitely want that input. However, I spend a long day at my job (which I need to keep) and cannot usually catch them live. I am about a twenty year subscriber to Safe Money, but have not figured out how to be financially independent.
Martin, that would be a dream come true. -Edward
I would sure like to see some of your suggestions. Most of my saving are in cash and need to know where to invest it. Thanks
Yes. Please do.
Good idea! We never could and still can’t rely on our brokerage advisors due to different priorities for each of us. Count me in.
I would attend this. Wish I had sold when you advised us to. I held everything and lost about half of my investments’ value.
Dear Martin,
Anything you could show us would be appreciated. Even though I made a ton of money shorting the stock market last year, I am acutely aware of my need for more knowledge. No one knows everything, especially in this economic environment, and I am sure that others would agree that any input and guidance would be a big help.
Yes, Yes and a Double Yes! I only wish I had found you a year ago. My 401k would not be down 41 percent and dropping. Thanks for all your help!
Randy
Yes please!
I would be extremely interested in hearing more of your valuable insight!
YESTERDAY THE DOW HIT A LOW OF 7662 AND THEN CLOSED AT 7932 OR ABOUT EVEN FOR THE
DAY. AT THE RATE IT WAS FALLING ABOUT NOON PST IT SEEMED ALMOST A LOCK TO PUSH THROUGH THE JULY 2001 AND NOVEMBER 2008 LOWS OF 7591 AND 7552 RESPECTIVELY. ALMOST ALL OF THE DAILY DIFFERENTIAL OF ABOUT 270 POINTS OCCURRED IN THE LAST HOUR.
QUESTION 1: 1WHERE DID ALL THIS SUDDEN ENTHUSIASM COME FROM? HEDGE FUNDS? INSTITUTIONS? MUTUAL FUNDS? COMPUTER BUY PROGRAMS? OR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THIS WAS ANOTHER INSTANCE OF THE “SHADOWY HAND” OF THE GOVERNMENT’S PLUNGE PROTECTION TEAM “ADJUSTING” THE FUTURES PRICES TO SHORE UP THE MARKET AND INVESTOR CONFIDENCE? QUESTION 2: DOES THIS KIND OF PERFORMANCE ADD SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE RISK OF YOUR REVERSE ETF STRATEGY?
I certainly would be interested… but we are in the midst of a paradigm shift, and I no longer want to approach my finances from a fear-based perspective. If you can help us look at these changing times with hope and confidence, then I’m all ears!
Obviously a great benefit for many, personally I prefer having someone manage a portion of my portfolio.
How could it not help
i have lost a lot of money in stock trading since 2007 till now and your 11 points might be a wooden stick for me in a downstream
Knowledge protects. Yes, please pass on your “tried and trues.”
Looking forward to it Martin. Hope you enlighten us soon. Also, what bottom of the Dow is in your mind? 4000-5000 or 7200?
I’d love to hear your ideas on this subject and hope that you can present them soon.
Yes, a “checklist” would be a great help.
yes
Hello Martin, and thanks for asking. Your insights have been very valuable and welcome and have both protected our assets and increased them. Learning your methods and analytic processes would be very valuable. Please do share them!
Yes, I love to hear about rules, and principles that can be adjusted to varied market conditions.
Sounds good. Yes please!
yes,for sure…im tired of all those cnbc gurus who each week declare they are “all in” are they financial advisors or playing Texas hold em
I vote yea! Any stimulus package will help, as long as it is not a $787 billion stimulus plan. I would love to hear your exact and specific rules.
That would be greatly appreciated by everyone young and old. Thanks
A free on-line session with you as you review your personal check list used in trading would be a gold mine to me. I would be very pleased to attend. When will this happen?
And by the way, I presume this list would apply to any and all investments available on the major exchanges.
Thank you very much.
Donna
yes; when to hold’em; when to fold’em; when to walk away; when to back up the truck.
You bet that would help.
Yes, a discussion of your father’s Depression strategy sounds very interesting and of course, very timely.
fantastic – yes please please do -
thanks
sue
I would say your trace records speaks for itself–
I would prefer to have you tell me–”Do this”–”Buy this”–”Sell this”
YES I would sign up
Jim C.
Yes!
Yes if it is affordable. The advice of a professional with your particular background is very insightful. My parents went through the depression and the stories they told me are frightening. After losing money in the banks my mom never trusted them again and kept money hidden all over the house and even in the rafters.
I would love to know your rules! Sounds like a GREAT idea!
I’m in Matin..
Sounds like a solid investment of time.
Thank you!
Bob
Okay, Martin, go for it. WE are all ears!
Keep me posted.
i’m in!
Yes! Absolutely, yes! And the sooner the better. With all of the contradictory information out there, I can use all the expert advice I can get.
Thanks for all you do.
Marty
Based on your description I would think such a check list could be very useful.
Hi Martin;
I would be VERY interested to hear anything you have to say !!
Yes, certainly.
Mr Weiss:
Thank God that I found you when I did. It has made me money, but most important is gives me the true picture of the BIG PICTURE. With all of the talking heads, one doesn’t know which way to turn..I bought DJX out of the money puts in Sept 2008 and I made 400% so far. I am still holding DJX puts for the future.
I would really like for you to inform us of your criteria for investing.
You are a true American who have peoples well being in mind, not just their money.
God Bless
Ron Durham
Yes, I would like to read your list. The only problem I have is that I don’t have any money to invest at this time.
Dear Martin,
Since May 2008, even though you appear to me as a brilliant man who knows what he was talking about, I didn’t fully follow your advises. Because statisticly speaking, 80% of all money news letter can’t beat the market in the long run. So your warnings were hard to believe untill September 2008. The only cue I had was that you appear as an intelligent and logical person who was quite certain about his speaking.
I would certainly appreciate to know your investments rules so that I can understand you better. I might be one of a few exceptions among investments adviser who can consistanly beat the market.
Sincerely yours
Tri Tai Trinh P.Eng.
YES Still confused with all the advise and direction from so many other sources.
My comments are fairly specific in response to your question. First, I don’t believe
we have seen anywhere near the bottom yet. If my thinking is correct, we will see
a further deterioration of the Global markets within the next 3 or 4 months. Now,
there is a better than average chance of a rally (which will prove to be false)
taking place within this time frame.
The emerging markets haven’t yet seen, nor have they been completely upfront with
what is taking place in their countries, the full effects of this “depression” within
their own economies. The almost complete stoppage of exports and the slackening
of domestic purchases coupled with the lack of support within the local economies by their people, has and will continue to cause serious backlashes in unemployment, closing of small businesses and savings will continue to escalate, contributing to the slide in their economies.
The Contrarians are continuing to make baskets of money and will do so for the
foreseeable future. It will take at least 10 years before anyone sees the housing
market return to the profit side of the ledger and I believe that if we are indeed
fortunate and all of these bailouts and stimuli’ produce a positive effect on our
economy, it won’t happen until it has been proven that they weren’t necessary
in the first place.
yes do it !!
I would also like to be able to download it to review later
thanks
yes I would be interested.
Hello Steve:
I am one of your big fans.
Your foresight, your expertise in analyzing the financial and economic data and then coming up with the guidance and advice is absolutely remarkable.
You seem to have a crystal ball; You should be in the white house!
Regards
Nawel
Martin— Yes, please do share your check list and rules. Thanks— Bill
I’d love to hear what your fathers (and your) insight was (is). I think it always is of benefit to talk to people who have been through the ringer before. It’s easy to look at a chart of the DJIA and in retrospect be a wiseguy, but its an entirely different story to make the right decisions when you are in the middle of upheaval. Your father seems to have kept a cool head at the time, which is precisely what e need today as well.
Yes I’m open to any information that will help me with my investments.
Yes! Terrific idea, thanks!
COUNT ME IN.
I CAN USE THE HELP.
great idea maybe you can make lemonade out of the sour lemons out there
Yes.
Martin,
Taking decisive action from sound direction and advice that you have given has helped me tremendously in the past year. You are a trusted advisor. Learning how you make your decisions will help us all. Thank you!
I am truly concerned about the crooks in the market place that can somehow rake millions off the top leaving the rest of us holding the empty bag or at best a half full bag.
I am certainly interested in benifitting since I as well as most others have lost about 35% of my meager investment capitol.
You have done a great job with your timely advice over the years and I have benefited on many occasions. Your question of the day is one that I would love to find out just how you find, evaluate, what to look out for, determine the postive features and decide when and just how much to buy.
Count me in! The only problem is that I will be out of the state for 5 day next week.
Thanks for thinking of us.
Yes I would.
I absolutely would love to hear your steps to help guide us through this market. Thank you Martin for your commitment, guidance and professionalism, you are a great help. Here’s to a prosperous depression!
That would be of use to me. I would enjoy the oppertunity to hear these points of view!
Yes please!
In a word, “yes”. And thank you.
yes,yes,yes
Your insight on timing buy and sell opportunities would be valuable.
I’ve done as you suggested and taken most of my money out of my bank, but I’m still worried about the uninvested money that my brokerage has in several different banks. This is my IRA so I can’t withdraw it without penalty. They have a strong rating on “thestreet.com”, but they do not offer Treasury MM Funds. I’d like to keep it available for trading. Any suggestions?
I need to get these types of “rules” to help me use discipline, not emotions, in my trading. I also need to better understand how the market is working. I think your “rules” would help me a great deal.
Roger
I would love to get your ideas. I too am not adverse to taking risks, I just need the right tools to helping me make informed decisions. Count me in!
I also like everyone else, like the checklist approach.
I also think some pointers on what changes to watch for as we look to get out of investments …that we are already in.
ie: sell and take the hit or hold….. and this company or that has signs that will likely lead to a comeback. Things like the debt ratio, and the cash balances, etc.
Hi Martin,
That is great.! Those scums at Wall Streets and those cheating and liars bankers of so called high standing banking really the enemy of Joe Six Pack. Now the Government is ever ready to bail them out with our money. You are really standing on high moral ground. If only the leaders of finance has your kind of moral, the economy won’t be in a dire state.
Yes, of course, and you are very generous to offer this information for free. Thank you.
Greg H.
Hi.I read every email I get from money and markets.I read them in great detail,and seem to be right on the money.I would like you to share some of your idea”s and plans with us.I have lost so much money in the stock market and my 401K,that I need to know where to look to invest!!!!.Thanks.Tom!!!!!!
Such an approach would be wonderful as you have dedicated your life to the financial markets and to share your experience with an inexperienced investor like myself would be an exceptional experience. At 76 I still look forward to learning as much as possible especially from top notch investment professionals. Thanks for making such an offer.
Yes I am interested. I know there will be the time to buy but when I would not even speculate.
The more you learn the better off you are. Especially when you learn it from a master.
Dear Martin:
Short Answer: Yes – I would love to know about all the factors you weigh in making your investment decisions. Convince me that you can do a better job than what I am doing myself.
Thanks,
Tom Day
Martin: I believe in the educational value of experience. If you are willing to share yours and your father’s experience in times like these, I will gratefully accept. Donn
Yes, I do learn a lot from your videos. I’d like to hear your thoughts on when the Inflation will start coming through, as I see on ShadowStats that M3 is starting to point up like M2 and M1.
Bring it on!!
–joe
I think learning about your 11-point checklist Martin is a great idea!
Thanks
A personally guided tour would certainly do much to allay my fears
by showing how someone with your experience puts matters into a reasonable perspective. The extent to which past experience applies to present problems needs to be clarified – derivatives and their blatant abuse may well require NEW perspectives !
Respectfully,
/// A.
I would be very interested!
YES: count me in, thanks
Hi Martin,
Yes, all of your free on-line events to date have been very insightful and educational. I’m sure it would help. I’ll look forward to it.
Thanks
John
Martin I began looking at your letter in 2007 when I noticed you and I were seeing the same events coming down the pike. I also agree with your assessment of our economy and how we could all get hurt like never before. However usually there is quite a large rally that has taken place around this time when all things are considered and wonder if you feel (after looking back) the same. Hopefully when you put together the seminar you will discuss this issue as well. Thanks
Hello -
I would greatly appreciate a discussion about your checklist! I have been following you for over a year now and am always eager to add more ammunition to my own arsenal. In this economy, it is hard to wade through the propaganda. Things will get worse before better. I want to. . . need to that is . . . take care of my family, friends and community if I am able.
Please let me know if and whey you hold this conference.
Thank you!
Sarah
I would jump for joy.JACK
Thanks for the offer. This market is chaos right now and never was more
experienced and cool headed appraisal needed .
Martin,
I would greatly appreciate these insights!
The world is scary right now. For those of us early baby boomers who have lost most of our nest egg and who thought we would be retiring in the next 5 years, we need your thoughts
Jerry Neal
Yes, I would love to hear from someone that has actually made and is making more money than me. The problem I see with 99% of trading systems and news letters being sold today is that the people selling them are struggling just as much as I am. I would love to find someone to follow and learn from, that is used to making more than 6 figures on an yearly basis. I am 50 yrs old and semi-retired. I say semi because I am trying to make trading a full time endeavor.
Hell yeah!! I would love to get the benefit of your insight and experience.
What’s the catch??
Martin:
Fire away – I’m all ears.
TS
Sounds like a valuable idea.
I am all ears
Definitely interested.
I would welcome the opportunity to participate in such an event. Listening to my Portfolio Manager has cost me over 30% of Book Value. I have lost all faith in their stock market predictions.
I would be interested
yes indeed your education would benefit me! thanks about thinking of sharing it. Best regards, tmz
I think that having benefit of your checklist and the thought process behind it would be very valuable. I would certainly do everything I could to be able to attend.
Don
Yes! It would be extremely helpful!!
Definitely. As”Number 5″ always said, “Input! Must have input!” :-)
I’d appreciate all the help I can get!
Dan
Always seeking to learn, thank you considering it.
You bet it would.
Free is hard to come by, especailly now days. That sounds great
I cant wait to hear your checklist
I really am looking for specific advice for what indices in the stock market as well as specific stocks within these indices that show the best appreciation potential down the road.
These choices should not mean getting into corporate bonds,shorts,options derivatives, futures, commodities,etc. as most of us are not familiar with these and moreover do not have our investment accounts set up for these! (However I am familiar with proshare units, both the doubles and triples and this is about as exotic an investment as I wish to get into).
I find most investment advisers come up with complex investments which means another learning curve for me.Usually this costs me money until I get up to speed if I ever do!
Thanks for hearing my concerns.
The answer is yes ! Please share those 12 steps that are most important in the investing environment we are facing today.
yes, i would also appreciate a recorded file to review when time allows
a generous offer!
and possibly to receive recommendations?
I’m ready.
I would be all ears for that kind of detailed wisdom you have used and gleaned from your father!
YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!! I would really appreciate this – it would give me so much more confidence.
Certainly, bring it on. I am learning.
i think that would be a great idea
i think times like these make it tough on us kind of people who have a limited amount of time to put into research. so i would welcome any kind of help you can give me.
Do you think gold and silver are do for a major downward correction. If not now, when, or mabe never? thanks, danny
Very interested to hear your input – much better than a lot of the other “information” (if you can call it that) out there.
Dear Martin,
Your wisdom is ALWAYS appreciated.
Kindest regards,
John Paoli
Alicante
Spain
Martin, In a heartbeat I would sign up
To learn from great men like you and your father (indirectly) would be a wonderful privelege! So, yes, I would sign up for attending that event!
YES, we always need worthwhile information.
yes martin, i am interested in learning your 11 point checklist. please keep me in the loop!
Dr. Weiss
Ii certainly sounds interesting, some questions I have are #1) would a small portfolio $10,000 or less work or do you need larger potfolio’s? What would it cost for this service? Should I set up with a discount broker? My broker is expensive and I try to keep trading at a minimum.
TOM
I would love to learn about your checklist. My problem is I don’t put into practice what I learn. Regards, Phil
OK.
martin go ahead and have this free event.
I like it that there is one person on this planet that actually learned something from the events of 1929 et al. I am a history buff and am just amazed at how folks just keep repeating history over and over again because nobody studies it.
your dad’s insights are precious these days and, right or wrong, i deeply appreciate that you share them with us.
kevin sharpe
I am tired of brokers who follow the crowd. They sell products where they make money for themselves, but not their clients. They laugh when one has contrarion ideas. Now after they lost their clients money I realize they aren’t any smarter than the average individual. I am tired of paying for their service to loose my money.
Yes I am interested in you and your father’s wisdom. I want to learn so I can with your help trust my instincts and assure myself better investment results.
Yes, I would welcome the help. These are very tryning times to invest or trade the markets. Any help is good. Thank You, Dvtrades
Dr. Weiss
is Brazil still a good place to invest now?
It sounds very good, Martin. I appreciate you taking the time and trouble to put something like that together. I’m sure it will help everyone.
Yes, Yes…
Absoutely I would like to hear your ideas and how I can apply them to our investments. I’m currently exploring alternatives to my current investment advisor offerings and advise.
Teaching us to fish Martin, would be a great experience for all, much thanks and appreciation to you and your staff members. Have the Best Day Ever-Jill
Absolutely!
Hello Martin,
Yes, I think this might help. I need to acquire the knowledge I need to give me confidence that I am investing my money in the right place. I need to have confidence that I will not lose more of my retirement money.
Thanks for your help.
YES!!!
Yes,Yes,Yes………..
Yes, I would be very interested in hearing your 11 points. I’m beginning to panic over investment risk. I am getting to the point where I don’t want to make any changes by myself. I am uncomfortable with investments like currency, gold, inverse ETF’s because I don’t have the patience or understanding to manage them.
I woulf be interested.
Having been a subscriber for a number of years, I can attest to the accuracy of your guidance. I must admit, at first, I thought your advise was a bit of “the sky is falling” mentality, but, what that proved to be was your prescience. You called the market conditions we are now experiencing long before anyone else and, while others remained bullish, you were rightly bearish. If anything, you were so early, it was hard to believe. Finally having been convinced, I got out of the market and went to cash in October of 2007 at about Dow 13,350. Obviously I am glad I took your advise.
Having the principles that guide your investing strategy in markets like these would be very valuable for subscribers like me. I am not, by nature, a trader and this is a traders market right now. Being able to evaluate when and where it is appropriate to re-enter the market would be appreciated.
I have recommended your service to many of my friends because, to paraphrase, yu make your income the old fashion way, you earn it, by giving unbiased advise to individual investors unlike most brokers and financial advisors. keep up the fine work.
Best regards,
John
silly question. thats like asking a golfer if he’d benefit from a coaching session with tiger woods.
Of course your seminar would be of interest especially if you had some semblance of turning points to watch for and track as this mess unwinds …. Regards …Mike
Of course an 11 point check list would be of help, but ONLY if it was specific enough to
be practically useful. Most stuff I read is mostly dumbed down handwaving that is typically marginally beneficial.
sounds great! We need all the help we can get!
I would very interested & appreciate any info about timing or decisions in these market conditions.
Your Safe Money Report is my best sourceof information
Yes,Yes,Yes………
Knowledge is power, and hopefully financial freedom. You have lots of letters after your name and years of experience. I’d love to learn more about your strategies. Thank you.
I’d love to listen to your eleven rules!
Like many posted here, a lot of us are very skeptical and tired of the way our financial advisors have guided us. I should say their lack of guidance. That we are having to take a very active roll in how we invest and mange our money.
I’ve already gone through 2 major storms where i have lost significant money. Had someone been truely advising me, i wouldn’t have lost as much. I’m going to take control of my money. I’m tired of handing over the reigns of my money for someone else to lose.
I’m all for it! Thanks for all your help!
Bryant
I would like to learn so as to better qualify/justify my personal stock picks.
I think this is a great idea and would love to listen to you go through that checklist.
I would not only be interested, but if successful, forever gratful. There is so many people pitching this and that, that my trust in anybody is questioned.
yes, your insights are usually right on. I also trust you to be honest and forthright. Thank you and yor team.
I’d love to attend your webinars except that during the hours you have them, I cannot participate because the company took away the monitors with the microphones so I cannot hear anything. I could do so on my home computer, but it’s after the hours you send the video. What to do? I have long been a follower of your publications, but this has me blocked. Thanks, Betty
I am in. Just tell me when
Martin,
I trust your concern and your veracity. Thank you for this offer.
It would be great
I have recently subscribed to your “Personal Money Machine”; although I have not yet received your package, it would be helpful if you or Jack Crooks would provide us with specific trade recommendations in the coming weeks. I believe that I will be prepared to tackle the currency market, but I don’t want to lose money. I am aware that this is a speculative market, but I want to win more than lose.
Martin your suggestion to share your 13 point check list is a wonderful idea. It gives us
insight into what your father experienced first hand, not some academic theory. Next, by going through your 13 point check list we can see clearly what will work and what won’t work. Finally, by sitting at your side we have the assurance that what we witness
is fact and not fiction.
I always enjoy your programs and learn something every time I participate.
Please let us have your 11-point checklist of the strategies and tactics.
I am learning
A walk through your 11 point check list would be very helpful. Thanks for the offer.
Can’t wait to see the checklist…
Karl
Any good information would help at this time. The market is just scary.
An 11 point matrix for timing and decision making in the current market would be great. I don’t have the skills to do this and I don’t think most of the financial advisors out there right now do either.
By all means, do it!
Outstanding idea for you to be so generous and share your criteria.
thank you
Sounds great! But could a retiree with limited funds find some way to benefit to any appreciable degree and with minimum risk ( whatever that is).
I strongly encourage you to do your investment checklist. Then I would really like to see a discussion of how many of these investment safeguards or rules were blatantly broken, ignored or explained away by the CEOs of all the failing banks, hedge funds and large corporations that so many of us have lost our retirements to. Ii
I’m sure that I will never be reimbursed for my losses by those CEOs, boards of directors, companies or the (hardly my) government.
Knowledge is the greatest gift one friend can give another. I always read your reports and compare your thoughts with my own. You do a good job.
So, show us your 11 point checkliist.
It would be absolutely helpful to get your checklist of how to understand investing in these turbulent times. Thank you.
Why not. Let me know when.
Martin, your advise on our current monetary situation and market has been invaluable through the past six months. Only wish I had paid attention to “Money and Market” at the beginning of 2008.
I would definitely be interested in the free online event on your check list as you described.
Thanks Martin:
yes I would relish the thought of this kind of advice. Both my wife &myself are very close to retirement .We want to invest safely & wisely. We look forward to hearing from you.
Your guidance is sincerely appreciated.
I read each line, and have for years. Many thanks for the input.
It’s definitely going to be a “interesting” year.
A step by step plan is what I need. Tell me what to buy and how much!
If it is actually free, I would love it.
Yes – and I, like others want to learn the principles but also to be given speciific examples of investment vehicles that fit the criteria.
I appreciate the wisdom you share each day. It has kept me from going over the cliff in the current financial crisis. The eleven steps you follow would be a welcome addition.
Any and all good checklists are greatly appreciated. God bless you as well.
Yes, I would be interested in an instructional webcast.
I am definitely interested in learning your insights.
MY ANSWER TO YOUR $1MM DOLLAR QUESTION IS YES…….THAT WOULD ABSOLUTELY HELP……..
AGAIN, MY FIRST READ EVERY A.M. IS MARTIN WEISS “MONEY MKTS” AND HIS FANTASTIC CREW ARTICLES.
vERY HAPPY SUBSCRIBER
Yes, of course! Who wouldn’t want a free deal like what you describe. Thanks for all your predictions thus far, I’ve only been following your reports since November. I am retired and don’t wish to get into currency trading–too risky–with my already reduced nest egg funds. But I did buy etfs and inverse market funds. Not enough, but at least I’ve taken the recommended positions, and you have built your reputation with me.
Yes Martin , I find what you have to say very insightful and informative. It would be very beneficial for me to hear how a man with your knowledge and expertise goes about making investment decisions.
I’m ready!!! Let’s get started!!!
Tom Hanley
Everyone should Have a forex trading account! Now this recession proof! Maybe Mr. Wiess guy can call the entry and exit trades!
Good check lists are greatly appreciated. God bless you as well.
Martin,
That would be a wonderful idea. Even though you have been a great help in preserving our wealth, some of it has been lost and to profit in these times would help so much. Not only would we regain what we have lost, but we would be even more ready to grab the next Bull by the horns and ride it to even greater profits.
I am very interested.
Martin – any additional information and rules that we could pick up would be of benefit to us! You reports and teleconferences have saved me the money I have in my 401 K, except for $8,000 dollars. Some of my fellow employees who have used others to run their 401’s have lost up to 25% or more. I believe you need to manage your own money because others do not have the same priority’s as you or are managing more than they can handle when times get good or bad. Thanks again for your unbiased information!
Doug
I would certainly listen . I `v heard there are ways to make money in all kinds of markets but all my investments have been a disappointment but I`m all ears.
Thanks!
Count me in!
Martin,
I think that would be a great idea and I, for one, would be very appreciative.
Thanks,
Rick Johnson
I HOPE YOU DO IT… AND I HOPE ITS SOON, A LOT OF US NEED HELP!!!!
Martin, your advice has been very timely and insightful. I also believe that you are interested in other people and their welfare. So I would go out of my way to watch a video with you talking about your eleven rules. Thanks again.
YES! I’d love to learn those 11 steps!
Thanks!
Ralph Brink
Yes, I would like to hear about this checklist. Thanks for getting me out of this market. But now what.
Thanks
Joe
Sounds GREAT! Confusion abounds especially when different recommendations come from your shop. IE: Safe Money, Dividend Investor as examples.
Why don’t you have a money management service?
That would help me a lot. I have foreseen this market a long way back with the help ofcourse of the weiss institute. But its not just knowing some facts. It has everuthing to do with timing. Because when I would have shouted, like you did in the past, sell all your stocks and houses everybody would say: This guy has to be put in a mental institution. It means That the majority is buying were we should be selling. So even to know the facts, its the timing that has to be right. Just knowing is not enough.
Erik
I certainly could use some advice for myself. Don’t seem to get the right advice (if any) from those I pay. Have been pretty lucky, but at this point of time, I am not so sure of myself. Being retired, I must be very careful not to make any more mistakes. Being a single women makes me think i am being taken advantage of – especially by the Europeans – they can be so smug and unfortunately I do not have sufficient money to impress them.
Maartin, It would very useful To Know how you invest with your own funds.
I liked thepictures. I used to follow Baruch’s comments. He used to do a lot of his talking from a bench in Central Park. I didn’t have hardly any money to invest then. And the good stocks I was able to buy, I didn’t hold long enough. Too impatient.
Your 101 year old admirer and follower, Ed Hillstead
As an investor, I have placed the majority of dollars in natural resources, energy, gold and silver. I am in for the time of exit, which at this time, I would venture to guess has some steps to work through. Of these investments, a number have lost between 20-60% but are fundamentally sound and there are some which have gained from 20-45%. I have transferred my accounts to a self-managed brokerage due to the lack of good advice from the last full-brokerage organization. I have become a day by day observer of the market due to these last 18-19 months of dropping markets. In the long-term, I do believe the economy will make adjustments and return to a stronger position. However, I think the conditions for the future will be quite different due to the different approaches which the younger generation is embracing socially and economically. But, hasn’t it been this way for many generations as history is revisited?
I think that would be great. One of the difficulties I have been having is that on one side you say the market is going to 5500 and on the other side maybe it’s time to bottom fish. I don’t think this “stimulus” plan is going to work. All it is is paying back the people that helped the Democrats get control and the timing is such that the money will roll out during the election cycles. The market can overcome obstacles, but maybe not, if the basic foundations of a freee market are eliminated. I am frozen right now, like the credit markets….
The sooner the better for this check list. It would help everyone set paramaters and investing decisions.
Martin: I’m definitely interested in ways to make money in a bear maeket. Let me knowwhen you schedule the webinar.
Yes, YES YES! I think it would be an excellent help to all of us!
Martin:
First, many thanks for your tireless efforts to educate and help Americans during these troubling times. Kudos to you and your staff for their hard work and insights.
Regarding your question, I believe that there are a number of prerequisites that “would-be” investors need, prior to using your specific methods. As you know, to be a successful investor requires a ton of discipline, as well as a moderate amount of daily “study and analysis” in order to understand what is going on, and how to invest while limiting ones’ risk.
So in a nutshell, I’d love to get your views, and to better understand your techniques.
Martin
Yes it would be great for us to hear each step of your check list, AND how you apply it, and how we could ADAPT it for our circumstances. Yes! Please continue with that.
My only request is for you to have a special discussion for those of us that don’t want to be selling and buying practically EVERY MONTH, as is needed for your usual portfolio recommendations.
I suppose I’m asking you to help us zero in on stock we can buy and hold for longer times (say 6 months) than seems to be the case for your ongoing recommendations.
Henry
My gratitude to you. I am interested indeed.
First people take a position then generate the writing to support trading by other that will enhance the profit in the position they have already taken.
Most of the profits are made on the initial take off of a trend. This is where you have to take responsibility for yourself. Most of the advices are geared to counter this development of skills. People on commission have to go for volume and stability.
I wish an independent board would review info as it comes out and color code it: irrelevant, misleading. Basic knowledge, nimble and right on the money.
We need to gain knowledge on understanding why most of the knowledge out there aims to push you into inaction when your guts tell you it is time to make a move; and also aims to drag you into action when you should stay put of bail out.
The more information I can get, the better I will do in investing my money. Your providing your individual techniqes would be exceptionally helpful for the rest of us novices.
Love to hear about your rules!
FABULOUS!!!! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I come from a culture in which very few have been educated on investing and how best to do it in order to be successful. So most of what I’ve been doing has been by guess and by golly. Neither my father nor my mother, while college educated, never ever invested in stocks, bonds or mutual funds. They were both aware that they did not have the education nor knowledge they needed to be successful in these areas, didn’t know where to go to acquire that information, and so just stayed away from it. So it was impossible for them to educate me or my siblings in investing tactics, strategies, and research.
You were the first person I heard about inverse ETFs from. Your advice came at the right time during the late fall of 2007 and allowed me to hedge the rest of my portfolio for the next 10 months, doubling my investment in RSW by the time I sold it. I’ve been paying attention ever since. Anything you want to share, I’m listening to.
Thanks again for your concern and your freely given help.
Yes, it would help greatly.
Thanks,
Jacob
By all means, Please go ahead and have a free online event to walk us through your checklist — all the things you do to avoid investments that could blow up and to lead us to investments with the greatest promise, so that you help us grow our money even in the worst of times. It will be highly appreciated
Martin, Yes of course. To have the same advice as you use for your self would be valuable. You and I may be close in age but not in net worth, I’m sure. You’ve got a long way to go before you will achieve my financial stature. Just kidding in the reverse.
The question of course is will I be able to afford the kinds of investments you recommend and be able to follow the timing of your advice? Thanks for including us.
I would love to hear from you on 11 point matrix for timing and decision making in this kind of market. I am very much doubt and feel uncertain about the direction of the market right now, it’s just not logical at all
Yes – When? Thanks
It would without a doubt give me the confidence that i needed…. :)
I say do it Martin. Sounds like a good idea that would benefit so many.
Tony From Plymouth, MI
I would definitely be interested in that type of information.
I’d love to hear your insights.
I would love to see your check list. It is obviously compiled out of experience and for you they obviously have worked. That is the best kind of advice to get.
Yes sounds good
What a great idea. Like most others, I don’t have the knowledge or confidence to invest in these perilous times. Thank you!
Martin-
You have credibility, and my trust. Yes, I am very interested in your 11 points for safe and sound investments.
John
That would be a great idea….more clarification.
Thanks!
Kane
FABULOUS!!!! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I come from a culture in which very few have been educated on investing and how best to do it in order to be successful. How do you pass on to your children what you yourself don’t know or even understand. So most of what I’ve been doing has been by guess and by golly. What you are proposing is exactly what I need. A primer on investment.
Your ideas are great. Except I am down about $50,000 on reasonable stocks. I can’t afford to sell and take a loss to buy your suggestions. I have to wait to get close to even. However, I m continuing to buy now and lowering my basis so I can sell sooner.
What do you think, should I take the loss or wait another six months or a year?
Have a portfolio with 50% equities, down 29% since Jan 08, and 50% in Treasuries,making zip. I am waiting for the better moment to go back into the market. What should I do, when.. Need help!
YES, I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HEARING WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT YOUR 11 POINT PROGRAM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Martin,
I greatly respect and look forward to your investment advice. I would be very interested in the 11-point process you follow.
Thanks,
Scott
That would be very helpful. Timing is everything. If you don’t think we should be
following your Money&Market portfolio, please say so. Make sure you let us know when we should jump back in.
By the way, what is the entry “Website” for ? my own website ?
I would be very interested and had hoped you would do this sometime.
what should i do with cash in the bank .have stocks in silver @oil
WOW!
i’ll be there with bells on.
FABULOUS!!!! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I come from a culture in which very few have been educated on investing and how best to do it in order to be successful. What you are proposing is exactly what I need. A primer on successful investment.
That would be very welcome!
Thanks Martin. Yes,I’ll sign up
Wonderful Idea! Thank you for all the retirement saving, invaluable
information Dr. Weiss!
Silly question….
Yes, it’ll help – especially if it’s outside of market hours! Thanks Martin.
It sounds good; but I am naturally cautious if the matrix is unsound and the principles as sloppy as mixing Baruch and Burch. As it is many of us have already seen our investments receive the birch.
Please hold the workshop. I find your views are right on the money.
FABULOUS!! What you are proposing is exactly what I need. A primer on successful investment.
Understanding how you use your 11 point checklist would be very helpful!! Please share it
with us with examples of how you are applying it to current market conditions.
yes
Martin,
You have been advising to have investment about 10% in Gold.
But from what we hear about dollar devaluation, Should we increase our investment in Gold to 25% or 40 %?
yes, please – your help will be greatly appreciated… Thanks
I AM INTRESTED.
for years i have known that you were one of the sharpest people arround, martin.
Of course i would like very much to hear your suggestions and your guidence.
COUNT ME IN ON THIS PROGRAM ALL THE WAY !!!
MAURY
I would love to hear about them and learning from you is always a gift!
Yes, please go ahead, schedule it and let us know.
Larysa, Toronto, ON, Canada
I have over $1,600,000 in near cash investments. I am so happy I have had nothing in the stock market. You have been predicting deflation. If you are right, all I have to do is to continue what I am doing now. However, most are predicting inflation and some are predicting extreme inflation. I need to hedge my bets and be prepared for both inflation and deflation. So, I want to invest half of my money in stocks, but I expect the market will continue to decline. And so, picking the few stocks which will do well is going to be very difficult. I am very worried.
I hope that I could understand and have the discipline to apply your 11 point checklist if you will share it. I am conservative with more fear of losing than greed for gaining and am inclined to be a value-based, buy-and-hold investor but exited the market in September when I saw everything falling and have not re-entered.
I think that it would be extremely valuable to us novice
investors.Im really tired of listening to the “talking heads”,whether they be brokers or the CNN guys and gals.
You have been SPOT ON,in your assessments,so far, and look forward to your advice when this whole thing turns around.
I am sitting with 60% loss / half a million, believe your inputs should be able to reduce my loss
Please do.
ABSOLUTELY!
Would be very helpful and educational.
Thanks,J Higgs
Your 11 point system sounds like a great Idea! How would you do this. Will you just send us an e-mail to that effect, or schedule some type of group session, and if so we would need a little lead time to make sure we are available.
How could it hurt?
One can never get enough good financial help and info, especially in these trying and turbulent times. Yours’, along with your associates’, is better than most and would be much appreciated
With the proviso that government intervention can subvert any plans on a day by day basis, your insights would be greatly appreciated.
An experienced investors/traders insight is always valuable as a learning tool on which to base individual decisions.
Yes! Martin
I am always interested in something that truely works for you! You have proven your self many times over in your news letter!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!
I would be very interested Martin.
Thank you
Dear Dr. Weiss,
A few years ago, I began reading the Rawstory.com. One day a sidebar appeared depicting a downtrodden man on the front steps of his house. The man was marking down the price of his house (again). I read the accompanying article and was aghast at the gloom and doom nature of the story as it related to the impending housing debacle. I was very skeptical.
About 2 months ago I emailed the Rawstory to ask who wrote that prophetic story? I’m sorry to say that the responder didn’t know. I let this rattle around in my head for a couple weeks and came to the realization that it was YOU!!! Am I correct?
If so, I’d be gladly willing to listen to you anytime.
Yours in amazement,
Frank Chandler
Martin, I would welcome the opportunity to hear the details on the wisdom that you have accumulated.
Thanks.
As a retired person who has managed his own finances and retirement investments with minimal assistance from financial advisors, I am always looking for better and more prudent procedures that will help me improve upon my efforts. I would really appreciate having the opportunity to assess how you process your financial decision making. An online event to help me with that would be great. Thank you.
Yes, I would be very interested. Thank you.
Bring it on. I would welcome anything that would give me the confidence to invest, I certainly don’t have any now.
Yes it would make me a better investor as it is better to learn from the person who walks the talk, not the one who empties others pockets with the talk. I am already learning a lot from you. Thanks.
Any and all light in this dark tunnel!
Please set it up. I am looking forward to it.
I’m ready ..Pat
great idea. cant wait.
Dear Martin: I’m in the process of hammering out a consolidated investment strategy that’s check list and matrix based, and includes much background and wisdom that I’ve gleaned from your advisories and Money & Markets emails. HOWEVER, I’m struggling.
Regarding your bear market oriented 11-point checklist of strategies and tactics. Bring it on….PLEASE.
Regards,
K
listening to real world advice that did make money through the countrys depression: absolutly yes. objective, competent advice is rare, but you continue to provide it. again, thank you for your blessings.
I would be interested in any recommendations that you have, to weather these unprecedented times.
Thanks,
Wayne
I took your advice and sold all of my stocks ($600,000) in Aug 2008 and would appreciate your advice on when and how to get back into the market again;many thanks.
- yes, it would be very helpful. looking forward to it.
i am not a patient listener –
CAN WE GET a Printout?
Sign me up for your session.
Yes!
ANY AND ALL HELP WOULD BE VERY BENIFICIAL……THANKS
That would be amazing. I think it would ease my panic and second guessing myself… You are my Financial Sensei!
Is it a bit of a no brainer? Copper for instance is selling at near its production cost. With inflation copper will sell at below production cost till stocks run down and then it must go up. Which commodoties apart from gold are the best inflation hedge?
I would like to be involved however what will it cost me .
Martin,
I would be interested in your opinion as to how to weather these unprecedented times.
Wayne
I would like to have you show me your list.
Yes! I would be all ears!
To learn what you have to say.
Thank you,
That would be very useful, I hope you do it.
Heck, YES!!!
Yes, I would use your instructions as my guide…
Martin,
I have spend the better part of my life in the investment business consulting to large pension plans and banks. The real value I see in your work is a unique sense of where the public is mentally—this is completely ignored by wall street, with its obsession over downside risk quantification. The modeling systems that banking and financial analysis have adopted are proving to horribly incorrect and the mental state of the public is proving to be, once again, the major force in the markets.
If you can present how you approach this beyond the antidotal level it would be terrific to try and learn, because I feel the next set of models adopted will have to consider things like public confidence, leverage, pricing bubbles, etc. in a more dynamic and ideally quantified way if we are to avoid another fifty year cycle of excessive lending.
Perhaps human nature is always going to be subject to this tendency of over confidence and excess followed by a collapse of financial leverage, but their are many who would like to have a way to present to decision makers something that points out the increasing danger based on past instances.
I hope this is not too over the top, but I have gained increased confidence in your work over the last 5-7 years and would love to see you write a serious piece about methodology.
Best Regards,
Dwight McCan
Sounds good to me – when do we start?
The million dollar question is not how to fish? It is rather where to throw the line and most importantly, when is the right timing to do so.
Where to fish? when the market reaches the bottom all that will survive will be a good or better.
How to know WHEN is the only question that is really worth of a million dollar today.
Nothing is changed today from the days of the last depression: be at the right place at the right time. The brain is not even required just some luck and lot’s of guts.
Martin,
I think it would be great to get some insight to help with this market. The people on Wall
street are no help, same old info.
Yes, I would be interested in learning which stocks I should unload because they will continue to fall and which stocks should I be investing in.
certainly,it would be most welcome. any help would be appreciated.
Martin,
I would certainly enjoy hearing what you do to avoid losses during bear markets.
I’m a very simple investor, and have made may mistakes over the years, however I did save a bundle when you convinced me to exit the markets last year.
Thanks, Gary
Will it be deflation or inflation. How can the government avoid bankruptcy if there is no major inflation.
Yes, thank you, let us know when.
rj
your suggestion on what to watch for under today’s conditions due to the democraps liberal decisions that got us in this trouble. this probably may last forever as they are locking up the supreme court, the president and all the other abulance chasers on capital hilwhere they change our constitution and bill of rights to socialize our nation and buying all their votes with their past and present rediculous anti american pro me policies. most of these self interested to hell with the country would not have survived if mccarthy was still here. your information would be well accepted vu all of us that don’ have our hands out. the way its going costa rica looks better all the time. our gonernment is so out of controlthat it no longer has a morals or common sense.
Yes Martin, would love to hear about your 11-point check list. I always find your advice to be valuable.
Thanks,
Derek Ross
Yes it would definitely help to know your 11 point checklist. I am positive it will help in making better investment decisions.
Yes.
Martin you are about as close to wall street as I get. I would love to hear what and how you think. It is getting a little tiresome just going against the street.
Yes. I would also like to know how to begin the process of building a portfolio and gradually add to it.
Hi Martin: That sounds like a great suggestion and would be interesting if the track record of investment recommendations over the last decade was available.
I think making available the checklist would be great! Too often advisors speak in abstract ideas, but they fail to get into details and specifics, so making your list would be fantastic!
Thank you very much!
absolutely worth a good look— I would appreciate the concept.
Thank you again for your previous warnings Norm Brainin
absolutely worth a good look — NB
Yes for sure.
Dear Mr. Weiss,
I have lived conservatively, carefully, and simply all of my life. I have been an habitual skrimper and saver. It has taken 40 long years for my wife and I to arrive at what until recently appeared as an approaching period of tranquility and contemplation. Then this!
God knows (and I am certain there are so many more like me), I need something to help stop this steady drain of hard earned asset value. It appears that whatever I try to do there is a hidden timebomb somewhere that leaves me worse off than where I began. I am 61, my 20 year-old business is failing, it took 15 months and a 38% discount to sell our house, and now I am “borrowing” from our savings to make monthly expenses and keep my 16 year-old son in a private school.
If this keeps up much longer I am truly fearful of the final outcome. All of that being said, our family is so much “better off” than many, many others out there, and my heart goes out to the millions of shattered lives that will be the result of this unconscionable travesty.
And yes, please, if there are any additional hidden secretive rules beyond the common sense that makes one naturally cautious, and which may forestall personal catastrophe, then share that knowledge, share it with the world and you shall be remembered well and everlastingly by many.
Sincerely, and in gratitude for all of your work,
Clive, Chris, and Nick Kincaid
Dear Martin: The net has given us instant access to each other. Many comments speak to the tactics of brokers profiting while their clients lose. You have a large presence on the net. Using your site as a forum to share ideas and experiences is a valuable service to all. I would like you to pick out the most educating posts and highlight them as a must read. Hopefully, this would save people from making bad investment decisions by not acting on recommendations from professionals who are hungry. Thank you Martin and staff.
Martin!
Finaly you start talking! I love this idea. To long private investors depended on news latters, advisers, who know what else and stil did not do well. For them- most of the time- we are numbers and numbers on our accants. They give as advise and forget what this advise was about. If it worked it was OK but if not nobody understand why, people get angry, and whole experiment did not work.
We need education and understanding , and we can judge what is good for us.
I am very interested on which stocks I should be selling and which stocks I should be purchasing in this market.
YES!
Go for it!
Can’t get my head around currency trading but would be grateful to hear how you approach investing.
I would be very interested.
I would love to have the answers on making money in this market. I have always been a buy and hold investor,but even good solid companies stocks are being crushed in this market and my strategy of the last ten years is no longer working.
Your help please!!!
You are making me an offer I can’t refuse……….the antithesis and far better
than the one Don Corleone makes……..smile
Martin,
I have been reading your articles for a couple of years. The strong impression you give us is not only your knowledge on the subject, but your concerns about your readers. Your write ups are not so much for how you can make money yourself, but also to help others. Keep that spirit and I will keep reading your articles whether I make or loose in the market!
Vijay
Hi Martin: I’m all for it. I have my own process I use, but would like to hear what you do to select your investments. I’m sure it will help improve what I do.
Thanks!
Yes, I would find that helpful.
I’m all ears. We have moved most of our investments to short term treasuries for “safety” but I would sure like to know how we can do better than 0% interest! I would love some advice on how to structure an investment portfolio, and how to time it all. How will we know when to move more into gold and inflation hedges? How will we know when to get in/out of the stock market and which stocks or sectors to pick? Your wisdom would be soooooo appreciated!
Martin, I would love to hear your 11 point checklist. I’ve been following you for years and have come to appreciate your insight and wisdom.
Yes very much so. I’m an old guy who lived through the depression as a child. I bellieve this experience affected me more than I would care to admit. I have found that I have a great built in reluctance too do wat I should. I have too much of Will Rodgers “it’s not the return on my money but the return of my money” There are many offers on line to make big money for a very high price. When one is on retirement plus SSI putting out big bucks for advice that may or may not be usefull is not an option. I know that we are headed into verry,very bad times!!! I am not looking for a free lunch nor a saviour.
DH
There is no doubt. I need a concise overview of the market and techniques that should be applied to market direction. Also, in my work I cannot watch the market every hour. I need to be able to select investments with a degree of confidence and have safeties in place to protect downside risk.
Knowledge is priceless.
Great idea. Sure would help me.
This would be wonderful and I would appreciate it very much.
I’m waiting for the date.
That would be great Martin, a blueprint to becoming a better investor and trader from someone we can trust, ( you )
I say a blueprint, because it still has to be up to every individual to implement strategies using that blueprint. Some will be able to put it to good use, others might not, but that is what makes a market. At LEAST your providing these steps or strategies altrusitically as you do, will bolster confidence that is sorely missing society and the markets today
Thanks Martin et al, kudos to all of you!
rgds
Greg T
I have very little comfort where the Governments bail out and the stock market are concerned. Our money isn’t making much, but at least it’s ours. Where do all those losses pileup anyway, it was real money once. I would gladly take part in what you have to say.
Dear Martin,
Firstly, many thanks for your excellent publications, views and recommendations, especially in these past few years.
Yes, I would be most interested in your “steps” proposal.
Yours aye,
John
Yes I would like to attend.
Yes. Your help would be appreciated.
Martin,
That is a wonderful suggestion and I wouldn”t want to miss it. Thank you so much.
Charles
i would be glad to be walked through the check list again. so far you have been very helpful. thanks a lot. don
Yes, I think it would be very helpful. I have always maintained I will not invest in anything I do no understand. I look forward to your video
As you see people from many times zones through out the world are blogging in on what’s their main concerns are in these days. A free online event with Martin Weiss showing his 11 point checklist would be of great help to us. Thank You all at Weiss.
Have a Happy Valentines.
Yes. You are a blessing to all of us. We thank you so much.
YES I AM INTERESTED
I would be very interested
Hi:
Just do it.
I would love to learn anything that would help me navigate through these rocky shoals. I was doing pretty well on my own until we blew up. I had grown $25k into over $500k with diligent research, investing cautiously in dividend paying stocks. Some I would watch for more than a year before leaping in. Now I’m mostly in cash and joined Mike Larsens’ ETF alerts, but even those seem sketchy….help?
I am very interested in how to choose investments and would appreciate it
if you would do this.
I would be very interested.
Yes, absolutely
Yes certainly would listen.
by all means—just what I have been looking for to make what little there is left work.
That would be the education this low market-savvy guy needs.
Something like that will be a god-send to your clientele. Those of us with long-term, safe investment goals are looking for something that we can have faith in or at least a high level of confidence. We are now having to try to micro-manage investments on a day to day basis (rather than periodic) because of this crisis started by the greed of the financial community. Anything we can learn and incorporate into our strategies will be most welcome. Thanks.
I am sure almost anything would be a help…
My money is tied up in 401k’s and Real Estate. Both of which are long term investments.
But it scares me to see how fast it is spiraling downward, with no end in sight.
And the prospect of loosing everything that I have earned and saved during the last 20 years.
Scott Ellisen
That is a great idea.People like me don’t know anybody that play the markets, and rely on things that I read.I think that would be a great help.Thank you
Time to buy will be here soon. LET’s GO!
Wouldn’t we be crazy not to hear your 11 points? We don’t have to agree with them, or we could totally jump on the bandwagon, appreciating yours and your fathers experience and foresight.
It most certainly would help, I’m fed up with al the rubish that is floating around and dont have any idea how to sift it out, it would be a great benifit.
yes,yes,yes.
You bet I would listen!
Just tell me when and I’ll be there .
GOOD IDEA.
Martin, I am always interested in receiving your advise. I feel fortunate that I found your website in these troubling times. You have helped
me feel more prepared and well informed. God Bless!
YES! I would love it!
This would be very worthwhile.
Would love to hear about your list especially if it would be written in words that this old lady could understand! Thanks
Sounds like great idea!
Martin: Sounds too good to be true… but coming from Martin I would be more than happy to see this.
Your offer to share your family’s intergenerational knowledge is not only kind and generous but may be the only perspective that has any prospect of working to protect other families today given the lack of insight by current generation government officials. Bless you Martin. I was trained by an economist of your Dad’s generation that had served for a $1 a year in a war-time Parliamentary cabinet. I think of him every day in this mess. His pragmatic economic forecasting was uncanny – much like yours – and his economic forecasting skills so great (even without the aid of computers) it was like telling the future. He was a pragmatic Chicago school grad pulled into Government during WWII after years of Keysian deficit spending and the problem then as now is that those in power rarely believe educated intergenerationally inspired forecasts calling them mere speculation. We would be better off to remember the guidance of all our fathers now. So I am with you and grateful.
I have been a fan of yours for the past few years, with moderate success. I would like to to hear your methods in order to be more successful.
I would be interested to hear but after losing on the last 5 recommendations of one of your proteges it would take a lot of courage (stupidity?) to stick my neck out again.
hi,martin i have been reading you articulo and sound very clever to invest now however who can assure that market will rebound.
It would be great. Bring it on.
I always listen to you!
When do we start?
Yes, I would enjoy reading and contemplating your eleven ideas for positioning in the equity markets. thank you
I appreciate anyone’s efforts to help investor’s uncover correct principles on which they can work out the financial aspects of their lives. If you goal is to focus on such correct principles I am interested. Thanks for the offer. I hope we can life and build each other in this challenging process.
The real question is where the economy will be in 2 years and 5 years. Based on that the analysis needs look at which companies will benefit by gaining market share and expanding production.
When do we start ?
Hello Martin:
I have found your commentaries to be thorough and your advice to be specific. Those are two attributes not found anywhere else.
Twenty five years ago I used to be a portfolio manager. At that time I also used to teach finance in college graduate school. For the past 18 years I’ve been CEO of a specialty chemical company but I’ve never stopped keeping a close eye on the financial markets.
I don’t have as much time these days to devote to the financial markets. That’s one of the reasons I enjoy reading your information – it’s succinct.
Yes Martin, I’d very much like to have your further thoughts on the economy and on the markets.
Best regards,
Patrick
Dr. Weiss,
I would greatly appreciate you sharing the stone tablets with the Eleven Commandments that you and your father developed to avoid stepping on the financial IEDs that threaten us at each step. I knew of only two people who profited handsomely during the Great Depression; your father and Sir John Templeton … quite an exclusive club and both amazing gentlemen who were about more than just making money. I always enjoy your stories and pictures about your dad.
What if I held a free online event to walk you through my checklist — all the things I do to avoid investments that could blow up, to lead me to investments with the greatest promise, and to help grow my money even in the worst of times?
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Sounds great, Martin! If you are willing to do such a generous thing, I think everyone could benefit.
Love to hear about the 11 point check list.
Thanks,
Ray
It would be a great gift to all of us if you would be willing to share this.
Martin: With so much lost i am very wary but i have to have some trust so would like to see this
I have followed you and your advice for years on how to gauge public mood, as well as the Safe Money lists you used to publish on banks, etc., which I now have to get from The Street. I also religiously follow Robert Prechter of Elliott Wave International, whose invention of Socionomics has been a Godsend and a work of genius. I love the wave principle because it is 100% technical, thus keeping emotion entirely out of decision-making. So, even if I am freaking out, I can stick to the current wave and feel safe. I would love to know how you proceed making decisions, in light of controlling emotion and not following the herd over the cliff. I also love your dad’s stories about the Depression. He would shake his head over the current stimulus bills and bailouts.
You bet I am all ears!
Hello Martin
I think that is a terrific idea ; the markets are so confusing and volatile that one feel
vulnerable…any guidance and help would be appreciated
Thank You Lothar
My question for you – What day have you picked out for this on-line event?????
Absolutely Martin. I am so appreciative of your invaluable insight and advice.
your advice has alway been excellent, please continue as you have been doing.
Would love to hear/see your checklist.
Dear Martin,
I have been receiving your emails for some time now & find them to be a very honest outlook on the basics of life and finance. I guess pre knowledge before the event has won generals many a battle, and i wonder where this knowledge exists for us small investors. We seem to get swept up in strong winds created by strong market volumes and sucked in hook line & sinker to be left high and dry with pre hyped stocks. At present i feel that powers that hold the knowledge, are manipulating the system to vaccum every last dollar from our pockets.Maybe the bailouts are not enough, and maybe there are plenty more dollars to be had in the pockets of ordinary folk?. I am glad to use the last few dollars that i have left, in order to inject capitol into the system,and hopefully make a small profit which reflects time and effort, but in this information age, where does one find a reliable source ? Dave
To reference a quote from the movie Jerry Mcguire SHOW ME THE MONEY MR. WEISS. I would enjoy learning some of the specific rules that you use to determine what and when to buy and sell an investment. I will look forward to learning about your eleven step on how to enhance my wealth. If you decide to have the free online seminar then I will be all ears.
Martin,what you’re offering is like giving us the content in a how-to book. That will give us the confidence that you are credible and we are more likely to heed your recommendations. That’s generous of you to offer such a seminar and since most of us are not and quite frankly don’t want to be in your business, I’d suggest a little more. Why not also tell us what your actual investments are starting on a specific date, say March 1? What YOU purchase, when you get in and when you get out? Give us the play by play. And, since this is your business and you also are in it to make money I expect that you would like to earn something on this reliable financial advise service. You could consider something like…if we play with you then you could earn 1 – 2 percent of all our gains annually. With so many of us having lost so much in October it’s difficult to part with our funds up front right now. This is especially true with the lack of trust that so many of your blogger shared with you in responding to your first blog question of the day. In this idea, Everyone wins. In essence, you become our virtual financial planner. There must be a way to automate such a program. Just an idea. Thanks.
Martin, I’d LOVE to learn about your checklist and methods — especially what’s most important and what’s NOT.
Martin, your checklist would be great for any investor… I’d love to be able to use it to be able to trade more effectively.
Dear Martin
the idea of a tutorial on your bear market strategies is great. Since i am deaf, please also make a transcript or summary transcript of it as you did for some other discussions with your staff.
thanks a lot
john sloan
Thanks for the help in guiding me through some rough times. I was wounded but not killed. Since I have a pension and SS I fear the possibility of inflation more than deflation.
Thanks again. Bill Wood
I would love to have your recommendation but with the cost of the advice I would have only a few thousand to invest.
YES, it certainly would help. Clearly, we’re in a bear market and it’s going to get worse, maybe even to a DJI at 5,000. We’re going to need all the tools we can get !
You bet and soon I hope
OMG, I would be so interested in this. I have heard only good about you and how much you care and really want to help people. This is just one more indicator that you really do care. Bring it on!!
I absolutely would attend if my schedule allowed it. If not, if you could record it, I would value having the option to replay the event at a later time. Thank you!
A checklist or screen tool would be interesting.
Dear Martin,
I allways read the on the site of Money and markets on the look for something interesting. And often the articles give me a new insight in the things that are hapening right now. So your idea sounds like a great idea!
Regards, John
Yes, I think that would be great! One think I noticed when I scrolled through the comments was how many times “fear” came up. That’s understandable though too, bad, too, especially since you can tell so many of these people want to do the right thing but the macro-forces are simply “out of control.” So, yes, such a podcast (or however you construct it) would be excellent.
Perhaps you could prepare it by initially asking for questions from your readers and then perhaps build your presentation (somewhat) related to these questions.
Thanks,
Paul
Look forward to your interesting views as usual
Martin:
Your advice is like gold. I should know it by heart, but any stepwise reminder would be welcome indeed
tdw
Yes, would much appreciate the opportunity to become better educated.
Martin, you are my favorite and I have been reading you since two years ago, not as an investor but as a reader who wants to be knowledgeable enough for when my time comes, perhaps this will convince me….Regards!
Yes, it would be very, very useful.
I definitely would very much appreciate receiving the explanation about the 11 checkpoints you are using for your investments.
It would give me more clarity to know the priorities with my investments because I often feel confused.
Thank you in advance
Annemarie Wang
I AM CURIOUS TOO
Straight talks and sound advice are what people need. Thanks
Hello again,
Since you are one smart cookie, and obviously a caring Christian person. Please do it, and give us more info. anytime.
Of course it would, Martin. Now I’m all ears.
THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT IT WOULD BE EXCITING AND USEFUL TO FOLLOW YOUR WINNING WAYS TO FINANCIAL SECURITY. THESE ARE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES IN WHICH WE PRAY THAT WE MIGHT SURVIVE SOMEHOW. IT CERTAINLY WOULD BE A GODSEND TO THE YOUNGER LISTENERS, RATHER THAN THOSE OF US WHO ARE HEADED FOR RETIREMENT AND NURSING HOMES IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THANK YOU FOR EVEN SUGGESTING SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY. GOD BLESS!!
YES!!!!!! Go For It and make our investment lives easier in this tough financial times. help us like your dad helped you. Thanks for being there for all of us.
Martin:
It would be a definite help and I would be very pleased if you were to start this type of service.
Insight into our present day market is what many of us our looking for.
I and I’m sure many others would appreciate the opportunity to have your financial insight
during these uncertain times.
Where do I sign up?
I have developted a confidence in you and your buddies over the years and have continued with your various plans to make safe money. YOUR
I certainly would love it . I have enjoyed your Safe Money Report but I have never developed the confidence to make the big money . I am getting older (77) and I need someone to prod me in the right direction
SAR3
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Just tell me when, where, and how: I will be there, and grateful to “y’all.” Dr. Jack
Sounds wonderful! Would you be able to do it so we could download at our leisure? I work days and have to view most of your viewable info seminars a day or two later. Thanks!
I would love to hear you discuss your eleven points. I remember hearing a story similar to that of your father. A college professor told it in an investment class I took in the 1950s. A man became convinced in the early 1930s that the oil company Cities Service was a screaming buy. He had no money but he found a man with a very small business who put up $700 in a share and share alike arrangement. The stock
Sounds like a GREAT IDEA ! I’m all for it !
John Gregg
I have been trying to follow the trend. It has been mostly down with some retracements. Right now( 2-13-09 ) there is no clear direction. I have been expecting a bear rally retracement but it hasn’t happened yet. I would be happy to hear your views on what to do from here on. I have been a subscriber since your father had a page in your newsletter. I recall you described the clue he recognized to know the 1929 crash bottom had been reached. I am relying on you to let us know when this bottom is reached.
When and where do I sign up? I would imagine China and munis might be on your list?
Absolutely, I’d love to see your process.
Information on the 11 point checklist would be helpful to investors
Martin…You and your crew have been mainly right on the money for the past few years..Furthermore, from the very beginning of this very bad downturn in the market, I have found your advice to be better than anyone else in the business. Thanks to your group, we kept our equity losses to a bare minum and we were able to protect our cash by following your recos..
Obviiously my answer is…We would definitely not want to miss an opportunity like this one.
Sincerely,
Norv
Yes, I would like to have your guidance and expertise in the equity markets. Thank you for offering.
That would be fabulous! I wait to sign-up for you eleven step process. Thank you.
YES INDEED—-J am curious about the 11 points—-who knows what I might be
interested in-so let me read the points too. thank you
Sounds like fun!
I’m unsure of stocks right now. So, I have alittle money in 29 stocks ( incl. couple
of gold and silver stocks). If they drop a bunch, I’ll buy some more. I also have
abt. 5% of portfolio in gold and silver coins. I still have abt. half my portfolio in
cash waiting to see what to do next.The 29 stocks are well diversified. Anything else I should be doing, or doing differently. I’m 61, divorsed, trying to grow this money safely.
I don’t need this money, hopefuully for 8-10 yrs. Thanks, Bill
Martin,
i read many newsletters and other website emails and find a considerable level of diametrically opposed views and recommendations. Your M&M letter has seemed to be on the bearish side but has also seemed to be early enough and ‘on the beam’. I would value the ‘pointers’ from you to hopefully be able to finally ‘land’ on an overall approach that gives me some confidence that I’m being safe and sensible in my financial life. Thanks for your level-headed advice.
Martin
yes ofcourse, I value your experience.
Even though I am a real estate and gold investor, I am confident that I can learn something from your experiences and what you learned from your father and his father.
Thanks
Bill
Martin, I like the idea of getting your thoughts through an on-line walk through. It would be a nice change from all the reading I do.
Yes!
This would be extremely helpful and appreciated.
I’m all ears! And will listen with an open mind.
I would be a lucky man indeed to read such expert advise.
I look forward with interest.
Many thanks.
Frank
Hi Martin;
I really appreciate your organization. Just a thought: It would seem that most of your investors have the witherall to invest in large sums. What I would like to know; what options does one have when your net worth is only$30,000 with $16,000 in cash. I have hesitated to get more involved because I cannot afford to lose it? What would you suggest? I am also 59; sort of a short time I know but I want to make the most of it!!!!
Again, your organization has been very helpful in expanding my basic knowledge. Now if you could just stop the investing jitters!!!!
Sounds like a wonderful idea!!
thank you
I would welcome the opportunity to hear your 11 points.
Martin your information has been spot on regarding these conditions any additional help would be appreciated.
I would think sharing your process could only be helpful
I’ve been waiting for this. Let’s go!
Not just yes but hell YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Martin:
I am interested in learning more about your 11-point checklist.
Bob
Facts on your checklist would be very helpful to all investors
Yes.
Since I lost all my money I’d like to know how to turn $100.00 into some type of benefit for me -
I am concerned that the huge debt now piling up will cause the government to print so much money that it result in runaway inflation like the Weimar republic had. How can I protect myself?
The 11-Point Bear Market Checklist is a great idea.
ABSOLUTELY, YES I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR SOME OF YOUR
COMMENTS AND IDEAS.
Martin, I think many subscribers here including myself become confused as you now employ a sizeable group of experts making recommendations in so many investment vehicles…. It would be very helpful and informative to see the How to and the What to buy in these turbulent times we are in….. Count me in……
Well of course it would help. Anything that alleviates the confusion about where to invest and how to minimize risk will help. Investment is a journey and the successful traveler who arrives at his destination is the one who adheres to an intelligent, informed set of “Rules of the Road”.
I would love to hear what you have to say about surviving this mess.
Yes, I would definitely be interested in hearing it!
But, could it help clear up the confusion and give me the confidence I need to make good money in this difficult market? Well, that would depend on how concise and user friendly the checklist would be. Would it include detailed information on where to get raw data and how to interpret it – in a timely fashion by a person who has a day job other than finances?
Some of your readers seem to think this is all quite simple: from your M&M post, 2/12/09:
Tony says there’s no excuse not to make money in this bear market now that we have ETFs, Forex and other contrarian investments. “All you need, says Tony, “is a signal to confirm a bottom or top of each: Technical plus fundamental study. Simple.”
He certainly makes it sound simple. Now, how do I recognize a signal that will confirm a bottom or a top? What technical and fundamental study exactly do I need to do? Where do I study it, where do I get the info?
See, the problem is, anything is simple – if you know what you are doing. But to get to the point where you know what you are doing, that can take many years of study and no amount of study will replace the value of experience.
However, I do appreciate all you and your team share on M&M. I have learned and certainly saved money.
Thank you!
Yes, I would like that a lot and I think it would greatly help, during these difficult times.
yes, that would be great
Martin, this is a great idea. Anything that minimizes the input of the talking heads is welcome.
Dear Martin,
I think it would be extremely useful to get guided from your and your fathers experince.
From many of the “money and marked” emissions I can feel that Larry thinks this time
the situationi is not exactly the same, because there is no more a gold standard which
must be defended. For me it would be especially interesting how you take this in con-
sideration for your conclusions. I want to express my gratitude for your wonderful
efforts to offer your subscribers a maximum of support. Walter
I think such an online event would be very useful. We amatures don’t have the time to learn all the tricks of the trade, and some of us trade infrequently enough that we probably have forgotten many of what we once learned as a good rules of thumb.
Of course, for those of us still lucky enough to have a job, joining the online event exactly when you schedule it may not work out due to a schedule conflict, but if you could also make it available for subsequent viewing, as you normally do, that would be ideal.
I’ve only recently discovered your website, so wonder about your skills, success, honesty, etc. Are you like so many others that lead everyone into the ditch with them? You know. The blind leading the blind. Or are you different?
If you are what it appears you may be, it would be a benefit to many who are trying to avoid that ditch. So far, I’m impressed and would love to see more.
I’m in, just say when and where!
We’re in a whole new ballgame and so far none of the so-called experts seem to have any idea what to do. I have worked as a senior executive in the investment industry for almost 20 years and none of my colleagues, nor I can draw from experience to tell us what to do now. We must rely on our forefathers wisdom more than back-testing!
Thank you.
Yes Martin,
it would help tremendously. I’m fairly new to the stock market and I get bombarded emails ads about small cap, white cap, dark investments etc., but everything seems like a gimmick to me. After reading most of those ads and comparing to others, end up with the buy and hold strategy. That doesn’t seemed to be working very well in this market so a little education will go a long way.
Phil
I CAN’T BEGIN TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH YOUR ADVICE HAS HELPED ME IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMES AND BELIEVE YOUR 11 PT CHECKLIST COULD ONLY HELP ME (AS IT HAS HELPED YOU) IN MY FINANCIAL DECISIONS.
sure thanks
Yes!!!!!!!!
I would like to hear what you have to say. I find myself agreeing with much of what you talk about in your newsletter.
yes!
Ah….YES!
Tell me the time and date, and I will be there!!!!
Yes!!!!! That would be absolutely wonderful!
Do it Martin. I’m all ears.
This sounds great, but I am 70 and at this stage I feel more comfortable when Larry Edelson (and the late Louis Rechousers, etc) advise /recommend no-load mut fds likke USGLbal Gold and Precious metals, or years ago Leeb crcommended RSNatural Resources. Let these funds mgrs and financial experts analyze the funds, their mgars, and their stocks along with their track records. Atr this stage I don’t feel comfortable jumping in and out of stocks, calliing a broker, etc. And then the mess to go thru all of this at income tax time…Neal George years ago recommended Northeast Investors Trust (higher class Junke Bond Fund.) For that I could ring his neck.
Martin, I think that would be great (for you to run a sample portfolio of your own, showing your actions and explaining your thinking as you go along). Your father clearly understood the in’s and out’s of shorting the market, and how to prosper in a time of crisis. Obviously he passed his knowledge on to you over the years, and now the time to apply that knowledge once again has arrived. In some respects (I believe) your entire life’s work may have pointed to this. If you are willing to teacher others you will have an opportunity to pass your fathers knowledge (and your own as well) along to many and it will live forever.
John
If you’re willing to teach, I’m willing to learn.
Your checklist would be invaluable and greatly appreciated. Many thanks. :)
I am interested.
We have seen significant stock market losses in Australia and the economy is now suffering. The governement here continues to announce stimulus packages to improve the economy but I don’t know if it will help or not. I don’t know how long this will last or how much worse it will get.
Absolutely, I want to hear you 11 points! :-)
Yes that would be a great help. Thak you.
Good idea. I have a personal problem and would like your advise. I am holding quite a lot of gold buillion and am wondering if I should sell now or hold on. Do you think there is a possibility that the new administration might recall gold as they did in 1933?
Yes, that would be very educational, and hopefully make me a smarter investor (and better to know when it is indeed safer to buy some stocks)
I was with you when your Dad was alive ! I’m still here in your corner and always will be as long as your human outlook remains as honest as it has been all these years! Your father was a great man and history will have the same response when your name is mentioned!! Bring it on!!
Yes to both questions.
What would do me the most good is an email with the key calculations, indexes to watch, whatever; and without “salesmanship”. I’m convinced that you know what you’re talking about!
I do much better at understanding something that I can read and re-read than w/ watching and listening to a video.
Thanks,
Bruce
yes: i would like to know how.
Absolutely yes. Thanks in advance!!!
Yes, I would love to learn more.
Yes it is a great idea especially for non-financially savvy people like me.
Martin, I know that sharing your Dad & your 11 steps for making investments and protecting them would be very helpful. Eventho, I have been in this investment arena for over 47 yrs in doing my personal investing, with some winners & some losers in the process, I know like life…investing better is a lifelong process of learning and improving oneself in controlling the three personal emotions everyone has: fear, greed and ego.
I welcome the insight to your fathers & your successful investing experience. Thank you for sharing it.
The Ole Buzzard
I am extremely anxious to here your eleven rules of investing. Especially the rules concerning your timing of “when to buy” and “when to sell”.
By all means, I would like to hear your 11 suggestions towards making money in a down market. I’ve been in the market since 1962 and have done very well until recently.I take your newsletter Safe Money report and purchased your suggestions , however , didn’t sell as you recommented. Now I’m out with big losses. I’am also taking World Currency Options. We’ll see how that works.
Yes, please!
After what I have read from you in the past and your answer to my comments I will put aside my sceptism and place my trust in you since I believe that you are truly sincere in your advice. Your input with regard to gold and other commodities such as potash and minerals such copper will be appreciated.
Thanking you,
Louis
I was a great fan of Barnard Baruch. I am glad your dad was associated with him. Yes, I would like to follow your steps as long as they do not include options. I feel that I am too old to learn, and do not have the temperament, that type of investment. LA
YES!!!
A concern I have is why are not the reverse ETF’s doing better in view of the poor state of the economy. A case in point SRS. This ETF is supposed to reflect double the movement in the real estate market, yet the ETF is performing poorly despite continued real estate woes. It is true this ETF spike up to 250, but now its around 65. Has the real estate market improved enough to reflect that? Of course not. It appears these ETFs are just driven by speculators, rather than by a basket of stocks. In other words they are trading as an entity independent of any basket of stocks they are supposed to imitate. Am I missing something here?
I will only know for sure after I have listened. That said, the probabilities are great that there will be much value in such a sharing, so hope it will happen and I would particapate.
I am interested in hearing any information you would be willing to give. I have lost more than half of my IRA’s worth and am considering pulling the rest out b.c I don’t want to see it fall anymore. I will also invest in gold and am unsure what else to invest in..I am overly cautious b.c I can’t afford to lose anymore than I already have! I enjoy hearing the story of your father and his perfect calculations of the market during the great depression! It gives me hope for the future when everything around me is crumbling. I think you would have many people that you could potentially help during this time with your expertise and that is always a good thing!
Martin
I am all ears, your track record is outstanding. I lost 66% of my savings in 2000-2001 time frame. I had read and listened that it would be prudent for me to place my saving in the hands of the financial professionals. The mutual fund managers know what is going on with the stock market. In 2002 I decided to take the bull by the horns and sold all my mutual funds that had lost me all that money. I then started trying to invest in only stocks and ETF’s. I learned from the school of hard knocks and saw how manipulated the stock market really is. I have inproved every year since. I have been making over 10% per year since 2003. I was up around 40% for 2008 I listened to yourself and Professor Nouriel Roubini. Your help was invaluable to my large return in 2008. I have seen more manipulation in the market than ever before. It was not just from the big investment banks that are no more. But from from the U.S. Government, through the SEC and the Plunge Protection Team (PPT). Our market are certainly not free anymore. I had to recover from a big loss when the SEC banned naked shorting and started protecting the 18 largest banks. I had a stock (ABR) that had been on the SEC naked short list on their web site for six months. They did nothing to stop the naked shorts, there was already a law on the books but the SEC chose to not enforce it. I have almost had to start day trading because of he Government interference in the market. But I am already up 10% this year and working hard to improve on that number.
When the Media and Government mouth pieces were saying that the crisis was limited to the sub prime crisis you were one of the only voices in the wilderness with the truth. Your allowing your critical and timely information to the masses for gratis was a great gesture and is greatly appreciated.
Thanks again
Good luck and good trading
Dave
Dear Martin:
Please do so, I have lost faith in everyone other than you.
Many thanks and God Bless you and yours,
Jack
Sure, anything can help. A friend gave me one of Ken Fisher”s books to read. Yes, I did read it. It was interesting that he never said the word “invest”. He only said “bet”. My friend lost a lot of money last year with Fisher. So lets hear your system. I made money following you.
This sounds like a good thing to do at this point in time. I,m in T-Bill money markets and going nowhere, neither up nor down.
Yes……..definitively.
I would be interested.
Martin,
As a person who has been paper trading and given myself till the end of this year before I go LIVE with real money, ANY insight into directions on how to preserve our wealth would be greatly appreciated.
Martin,
Yes, I would be interested in hearing/seeing about the 11 points. When?
Jack
However I think this (the plan) would make more sense as an ongoing thing rather than a one-time event. After all, conditions are ever changing.
John
Would love to cash in on you and your father’s experience. By the way, there certainly is a father-son resemblance.
Expert direction would be greatly appreciated.
yes. I like to see what you do with your $$$$ to make it grow.
Thanks
I would like more info on your 11 points. However, I don’t want generalities. I want specifics on your investments, i.e., ETF’s, stocks, bonds, and any other investments with names. I would like to know if you and your fellow associates took your own advice on the specifics of investments that you’ve discussed and promoted in all your email messages. It’s one thing to talk about hindsight with your statistics on what one could have earned if they got in on the bottom, but did any of your associates actually do it? Did any of you truly earn the maximum percentages of the investments in your statistics which you describe?
It seems to me that if you took your own advice, all of you would be on easy street by making millions of dollars on those investments you’ve promoted. Also, let us know if you’ve lost on your investments. Let’s talk in terms of dollar amount of the funds which you’ve got invested in the markets. How much money have you made? How much have you lost?
What is lacking in so many of the financial money advisers that hawk their wares through subscriptions is transparency of their own investments. Hardly any of them ever talk about their own investments, but they’re all too willing to promote investments for everyone else.
YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING! LET ME AT IT!
This would be enormously helpful. Great Idea.
This bearmarket is an opportunity to make money if we don’t get whipsawed.
Dear Martin,
I think it would be a great idea in that it would allow more investors and traders to understand how to trade in all markets regardless of their direction. It would also explain different vehicles available to these individuals.
David
I would like to know more.
Yes Martin,
Would be interested in your idea’s and experience.
Regards John
yes, I would participate.
I think the idea of your giving an online presentation focusing on the rules to follow — to determine what to buy or sell, to improve timing, to lower risk, and to boost the profit potential in bear markets is excellent.
I would also like to see this content in written form, because I find it difficult to take notes and concentrate on what is being said at the same time. Besides, I do better when I can read the material again later.
yes I woould be interested
Yes, I would like to see that because I’m shell shocked by the volatility in the market and I’m sitting with 50% in cash in my accounts right now and am afraid to buy anything but short term T-Bills and leave it sit.
Martin,
Any advice better than the chatter we hear everywhere now would be very welcome!
Richard
Sounds like something I can use! Thanks.
Go ahead, lay it on me and help me generate profits while the crowd is crying over their losses.
A list could be very helpful and enlightening perhaps.
YES, I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THE 11-POINT LIST.
great stuff. i appreciate your wisdom and guidance.
I’d sure be interested. Thanks for all your good advice.
It is so refreshing to get expert advice on a topic that can help every type of person from every type of background and feel that you really care about our futures. thanks for guidance, I really do appreciate it.
Thanks, I have followed you daily for 4 months. You have been a great help AJ.
Sounds both interesting and profitable!
Martin,
You’ve been the driving force in my investing for 9 years. I have turned 90,000 into 450,000. I still have some things I should have shed recently, and held some things you said sell, but im doing pretty good. My gold investing has been pinnacle. The disparity between you and Larry disturbs me. I take both letters. I’m in on any more advice you have.
Bill
Thankyou for any & all comments./// rjb
Count me in!
Such a checklist would definately help to guide one through the electronic diarrhea flooding in from all directions. Something straight forward and simple to implement without having to buy a subscription to or sign up for another newsletter or hotlist. Also, can this be a recorded event which I can listen to after my normal working hours?
I would attend the on line presentation. Bruce
The answer to your question is yes please.
I know the opportunities are out there (in individual securities).
A checklist that helps me figure this out exists – I want to know!
I would love to hear more.
duh…….i mean thank you ..yes.
Yes I would definitely attend such an online event. Please let me know when it is scheduled. Thanks.
need the best advice i can get .i cannot afford any more losses. 75 yr old
I would love to hear you go through yopur specific check list.
You really would do a million of us a HUGE FAVOR if you spent one whole day talking about 401(K)s. I’ve never felt so out of control in all my life.
Sign me up… That’s the stuff others are charging hundreds or even thousands of dollars for. You’ve certainly heard my biggest frustration.
Of course I’d like to know your rules for making money in this bear market.
Thanks to your advice I have sizable ( for me) positions in GLD, GDX, and AAUK, but did not convert to all cash back in early October as you advised. Wish I had followed your advice.
Your idea about the seminar sounds good. Unfortunately, I only have dial up service
so cannot participate on line. A hard copy of the dialogue after the seminar would
be great for my use.
Go for it!
Will these still hold with this different kind of world we face today? I’ve listened to a lot of so called experts who also lost a lot of money in 2008. What I am beginning to see is there are no real experts including our government. So what ever you can provide us will only help in the year ahead. Thanks for the help!!!
YES,
Martin this is probably the best idea I have heard yet. Providing information and advice so the average person can combat what Washington is doing to us. Let us clean up the financial system by wise and free market investing of our own choosing.
I would love to learn about your criteria and your decision-making processes, assuming it does not involve a crystal ball. By all means, count me in.
YES I am interested and want to know more. Still I must confess that I feel frozen with fear and lack of trust, given that I have followed what I thought was good advice from several sources, but now have lost my shirt and don’t trust my own judgement. Is there an antidote for this?
It would be a great help to many people. Thanks.
yes. absolutly
I read and listen to most anything I can. You and other sources got me out of the market just in time and now I need to judge when to get back in. I have bought oil and gas, pipeline, and very little manufacturing and banks. I am still about 75% cash and need to be very careful with what I do now. My thought now are watch, wait, learn and try to make good decisions. I would like to hear what you have to say. Some of the investment ideas from you daily emails are a little over my head, but in general I obtain great benefit from reading and hearing your stuff.
I’d love you to walk us through exactly how you are making your investments in the current climate. And we’d like to also know more about your strategies and the outcome. ALso tell us if you are using currencies and options to your advantage. Thanks and God Bless!
Please, please, do it…..go for it. I value you opions and insight!!
in this econmic crunch,some speculators suggest this is the best time to buy…the big question here is who has the money to do the purchasing?
yes,would love to see the list.I think y0u are the most trust worthy firm that i have seen in a lon time.
I’ve been reading your newsletter for some time now. It seems you have a grasp of things that make sense to me at the gut level. While I am not averse to reinvesting at some point, I’m unsure as to when that should be. Have we seen the bottom yet? I think probably not. How much more to go? Not sure. Maybe your advice would help me. I’m very interested to see.
I think it’s a great idea. Your help through these troubled times is most appreciated.
I would be interested!
Yes, I would like to hear about your list.
thanks
Dear Martin,
A bit off topic, but I was struck by the strong resemblence between you and your father. Just proves that a good stallion always leaves his mark.
Martin, that is a very good idea. I am always learning and have very little time to do it. If I ever retire I may have more. Someone with your background would be very helpful.
Wayne
Ready to do a check list
Good idea I need to walk off some confusion and disapointment. RPM
The decision to follow your strategies would only be helpful if you indicated what types of returns you have achieved. My experience has been one of being in the correct positions as a result of many of your suggestions but poor returns due to an inability to anticipate market timing. Your overall view of the economic scene has been right on for a very long time ( at least 10 years that I know of) but the actual conversion of that knowledge to the profitabilityhas been frustrating. I feel so close to getting it !
I will sign on to watch.
i am in
I’d appreciate the opportunity to participate. My request would be an early notice of the date and time, preferably during the day. You see, my computer is unable to work on line so I’d need to go to my local library and participate there. The computers there are full after school and on weekends so mid day during the week would be most helpful. Thanks
Listening to intelligent opinion, based on personal experience, about something of interest, ranks among the best ways to learn.
Only someone not interested in financial markets, or if you choose to charge a fee, someone who cannot afford that fee, would turn down such an opportunity. I strongly suspect that many of your customers will respond as positively as I have.
Guy MacDonald
I think it would be enteresting
Yes, it would help tremendously! Absolutely!
Having read your “Safe Money” for years, any information you would be willing to give us would be appreciated.
Sure, I’d like to hear – as long as it’s not going to cost me a bunch of money just to read it!
Yes, I am interested to learn more. Thank-you. Margaret
If you want to succeed, first learn from the experts…
Yes you buy when the markets are down and sell when their up,
Iam interested in US stocks etc, but look at what US dollar buys in Australia
You get an additional 30-40% more speding power by using US dollars to Buy Australian dollars,
So as property prices have fallen in Australia as well, you are getting a bargain already, but an additional 30-40% is great,
I also believe that as the US dollar and the Australian dollar where 2cents difference before the global credit crunch, it will go back to a similarity figure in 1-2 years,
so when you sell properties bought now,
1, you gain by a better US dollar 2, Whwn you sell you gain again as the Australian dollar will be higher when you return your profits to US dollars,
I am a property developer not a sales agent so buying property off me gets you investments from the source,
No restriction on US purchases to US citizens.
Lex Willmott
+61749620167 +61749620146 till 9pm US time as where19 hours a head of you time zone
Hi Martin,
There is a word for people like you only i cant spell it. your desire to help the man in the street protect his wealth from a system that seems hell bent on taking it from us is truly appreciated and the amount of positive comments left on your blog the last few days attests to that, i have not come across anyone i would rather learn from, just tell me when.
Ian.. London UK
absolutely yes!
I VOTE WITH YOU.
Thats exactly what we need, thank you .
Absolutely, yes.
Thanks again Mr. Weiss, you are a beacon of hope in these stormy dark times. Please follow up with the idea and I will be soaking EVERY WORD that you and the team say on the web event. I found you late after loosing 40% of my money last year. I would like to pRESERVE whatever is left and profit from events coming in the future.
Keep up the good work. I vote you for teh TREASURY SEC and FED CHIEF position !!
Go for it – so far there are prognostications everywhere suggesting the market has bottomed, now is the time to buy, but the market continues to go down! The Gov. signals new ideas to sqve the market, housing, etc., but the same continues on. I would love to see a plan for this “Bear” market that really works.
Thanks for all your support in the past. At least I still have funds left!
yes. I would like to see your personal strategy for stock picks and timing.
alex-d.
Dear Martin You are not only helpful you are also the KINDEST man I have the privilege
to know. Your advise is always right on. I trade Commodity’s for years but when it comes
to Stocks I have NO clue. With your help I know I would have a winner.
Sincerely
Karin
I am very interested. Please send me the information.
Sign me up!
When can we start?
I have valued your opinion in the past. I am so shell-shocked at the moment, however, I find myself frozen in time and unwilling (or unable) to make an decisions regarding existing stocks. Despite subscribing to advisory services that have had great track records in previous years, my portfolio is now down by over 50%. Do you really think you can help someone like me, who doesn’t want to absorb the losses to generate funds for new investments?
Fabulous idea — Count me in!!!! Thanks and God bless.
I look forward
Good morning Martin
I look forward to your posts every day . They are one of the very few articles with any sort of understanding of the present market
Accurate analysis and timing is always what it’s all about . If you can help us with that then the rest is history .. Many Thanks
That would be most appreciated during a time like this.
That would be absolutely great. If you could help me with the number of winning trades and get me on a better track, I would be eternally greatful. I have bought a couple of books on technical tradiing and may soon change a couple of different momentem and sentiment indicatiors, and oscillators. I have also just finished Conquer the Crash, and am thinking about purchasing a book on Elliot wave analysis. I would be very interested in hearing about your approach and the specific things you look at from a market perspective and the individual investment/ trade point of view.
It seems like this would be a great opportunity for you, since it might get some guys like me who haven’t commited to some of your advisory services, to see couple of recommendations from start to finish.
Dr. Weiss,
I would jump at the chance to have the guidance you use for your personal investing in the markets but of course assume at this time you do not have a position beyond short term treasuries and perhaps some gold. This is basically my current position based on your advice. Of course I have a number of bets against the market. Thank you for your consideration.
Ron Kelsey
Hi Martin,
You would do this for free? There’s no catch, no gimmick and we don’t have to buy anything? Gee, I can hardly believe it.
Blessings to you!
Nancy M.
Hi, I wondered how much money you need to invest. I have learned much from your nesletters. I don’t have much to invest though and wondered if I took your class and hear about the list if I would be able to benefit from it or not if I don’t have enough money to invest. Thanks for your passion to help others. Michele
I love your emails and your free podcast but all your predictions scare the hell out of me! I talk to my friends all the time about what you say and they say you are just trying to sell your products. I personally think you are right on and appreciate the scary stuff you are telling everyone. I am 62 and retired and worried about getting into the market again. My husband is not comfortable with ETFs he can not figure out why GE is not a good stock to buy when they are posting profits. he is a retired Controller so everything has to be safe. We did get out of the market pertty early. If we had not, we would be working as greeters at Walmart. As it stands right now, we are not making any money on our money so next year we will sell our home and move into something smaller. This is just to preseve what we have. We are not at all poor and have a very comfortable lifestyle but it needs to change.
Thank you
Sincerely
Sharon
Hollister, Ca
Let us do it!
That would be an excellent idea to share with everyone.
Martin,
This would be AWESOME!!!
This is exactly what I am looking for and for that reason I truly hope the Currency DVDs, CDs I recently ordered will be the same thing and pass your 11 tests as well. Keep up the good work!!!
As a small business owner nearing retirement (I hope, I hope), I’ve never had much time to devote to managing a stock portfolio, but for years I invested with a stock broker in what I felt were solid companies. Now, like so many of my peers, I hate to even open the monthly statements; it’s just too depressing. It’s confusing out there! I would like some step by step advice.
This is what we need to survive this market. When does it start??
Dear Martin
A BIG YES on your suggestion!!
Dr. Weiss,
Would love it; you and your associates and Mr. Prector are the only advisors I trust.
Bill Bentley
Florida
Martin,
Yes, I’m interested in the checklist. It seems like every time I make an investment I lose money — but if I paper trade or just watch I “guess” right.
My goal is to create something like an endowment for myself and to learn to trade/invest safely. So a checklist with rules such as you’re describing would be gratefully accepted!
Amy
God bless you if you can make money for me. I would love to know how you would do this. I am looking forward to your insights.
Yes – please do it!! Will you be at the May Las Vegas Money Show – I hope so
Another affirmative response.
Great idea.
Steve
I think it is a great idea.
I enjoy reading your commentaries and astute analysis of the crazy times we live in.
Thank you.
I would be very interested in your walk-through. I think I know the markets but these are perilous times and betting on reverse fortunes is new to me.
I would like to participate. Tell me when.
Definitely interested!
Thanks for all that you do, I also would appreciate your great information!
These are tough times and navigating these waters can be trying.
Thanks
Donal
YES,I WOULD BE VERY INTERSETED IN LEARNING HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN
THE STOCK MARKET WITH THIS ECONOMY AS BAD AS IT IS.THIS LOOKS
LIKE THE WORST ECONOMY IN DECADES.YOUR OTHER READERS WILL BE ALSO.
MANY ARE SCARED TO INVEST DURING THESE HARD TIMES.I HIGHLY
RECOMMEND YOUR IDEA TO SHOW US HOW TO PROFIT IN THE STOCK
MARKET DURING THESE TIMES.
Yes, I would love to hear it. I would like to make money in this market.
Kathy
I would thoroughly enjoy your views, opinions, and especially your “checklist” so please do have an online airing of the subject. One question that particularly nags at me at this time is whether or not GLD is safe. Is there really the gold to backup this “trust” and if so, where is it?
Thanks, and I’ll look forward to an online event, Lou Farkas
sounds great–i hope you do it.
I subscribe to 4 or 5 of your servcies, They’re great!
I’ve attended other of your webcasts… They’re great!
I’m consuming your books, in which you explained with great accuracy and precision exactly what was coming. It’s happening just as you said it would.
I’m reading the prpospoectus for the Weiss Treasury Money Market…
I would very much appreciate having the opportunity to attend a webcast of the sort you describe… LEAD ON! Bill Taggart
Yes, I would be interested and ditto Mary’s comments about including a written form.
But first, what is going on with the bond market – 116 to 96 in one day?
Thanks, Don Ferguson
I think this would be a GREAT idea!
I have ideas on how to do this, but I would love to know your methods for determining
the good securities.
Dear Martin I sure would like some INFO to at least break out even with my money . I am approching retirement and lost money in the market . I should have listened to you .
JIM
Yes, I would very much like to see your battle tested check list .
I would love to know your thoughts! And I think a lot of other people would, too.
I would be interested. I once took a course on the market, but I need to know what is really going on. I am sure that there is a way to make money, I am just very unsure of what to put money in. I never would have thought that something like Circuit City would go belly up. The one in our town was always busy, but I know that they must have had a bunch of them that didn’t. You just can’t tell by using personal knowledge of a certain business.
I would be very interested in your walk-through. I have appreciated your advice, acted on it, but betting on reverse fortunes is new to me.
iI would be very interested in attending – sign me up right now.
Martin-
You are fortunate that your father was able to coach you in investing. My dad was an Air Force pilot and he could only help me with issues related to flight plus life in general. I am a financial planner and I would love to hear what you have to say about making money in a bear market.
Tony Barnard
Yes, hopefully. Having a defined plan of attack, so to speak, is always preferable to Just “reacting” to the market or rumors about the market. Without a plan, it’s too easy to get sucked into the emotional madness out there.
Please let us have your answers to invest and avoid pitfalls
Please do hold your 11 point video seminar.
Yes it would help. I would be interested in hearing your ideas.
Yes,it would be great and very generous of you to help an average Joe like me thru the complexities of the “market”
I’d be most grateful. I am the life beneficiary of a trust that has lost close to 75% of its value in the last 14 or so months. This was a small amount to begin with, so the trustees are not much interested in it. I live off the corpus as the income is miniscule, just enough to pay the trustees’ fees, which grow as the corpus shrinks. This is all I have left to live on for the rest of my life as I didn’t work long enough to draw Social Security, and so must also pay full freight for Medicare . (I am in the early 70’s) It would be extremely helpful to be able to ask the trustees some questions that have a basis in expert experience. It may be too late to save anything at this point, but I need to try and I havent known what to say except for cuss words, which don’t do much to create an atmosphere of cooperation (I am trying for a short sale on my home, so the small amount that is left in the trust is pretty crucial if I am going to be around for awhile). So many many thanks for this generous maybe life-saving offer.
First of all, Thanks for all you do. I would have made several mistakes if it wasn’t for your advice.
YES….. I would be intersted in any forum you have.
I read all the money and markets that you send out. I never really paid attention to our investments till an older friend of mine starting forwarding me his money and markets. It was in August of 2008. Talk about an eye opener. I’m not schooled in finance, but I have always been a saver. I’m not very confident in investing, and now is not the greatest time to be experimenting. We have a financial adviser, but I didn’t agree with what he was doing. So, I pulled many of our investments. I’m opened to listening and learning about other options of investing.
Since the implosion of Wall Street and their Greedy Ways being exposed, we are in real need of help that can guide us to feel secure, and in the long run, get real profits and not just some stock broker who doesn’t belive in a stock or investment he recommonds and who is not churning the accout.
I would glady appreciate this type of forum for Mr Weiss.
Well, in my opinion, because wall Street and the market is very inestable, i” buy houses and land -but only if you are not planing to sell them inmediatly in two or three years min. I wouldn’t buy gold now, It’s very high.
DEAR MARTIN :
CAN ANYONE EVER HAVE TOO MUCH INFORMATION ? — I DON’T THINK SO — WE WOULD BE FOOLISH NOT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR YEARS OF EXPERIENCE , WITH AND WITHOUT YOUR DAD — PLEASE COUNT ME IN .
THANX , ED
I have appreciated your advice in past, these are perilous times. I think I know the markets but this betting on adverse reactions is new to me. I would appreciate a walk through.
If I was able to access the online event I would love it but at this time my computer bandwidth will not allow it. I can download files and view video’s. Could you make a video file available for down load.
I would like information on how to get started investing for the novice.
Thank You
Judy Raffaell
Yes, I think it would be helpful in this market. My question is are you currently investing in this market over the past six months with your own money and how have you done? Also, since you predicted the dow will go down to 5k, why would anybody be risking money in stocks now?
Martin,
I love your website and the timely financial advice that you have been giving during the past year that I have been on your mailinglist. I am currently fighting to get back into the job market and save my home from foreclosure. Our finances are tight for the time being but when I have the money to spend I plan on purchasing your currencies program. In response to your question. I would love to listen to a discussion in which you imparted to your fathers and your wisdom to your students, which is what I consider myself when it comes to Money and Markets.
Thank you for everything,
Mark in San Diego
I am all ears when does it start, I defiantly need help.
Go right ahead. Educate me!
I’M IN. IT WOULD TAKE A FOOL TO IGNORE YOUR OFFER. BUT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH SO TELL ME ABOUT THE CHECK.
Lead on boss!
In all my years I have never seen such support for a “market guru” like you.
We all thank you…
Understanding of your limitations in a stock and share purchase is the correct rule,
Its not a casino its the stock market,
The investor is in control of when he buys and sells,
If we all put a stock sell amount on shares, you can only lose what you can afford to lose,
Market confidence is what all governments should be working on, as this is what drives investors,
Lex Willmott
My associate company, I hold shares myself via http://www.longreachoil.com , Australian stock exchange, asx.com
http://www.austexoil.com
This sounds like a wonderful idea!! Thank you for being willing to help us little guys save the little bit of savings we have left and to teach us how we might make it grow. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
I will look forward to your seminar. Thank you.
Dear Dr. Weiss,
I am appreciative of your efforts to educate those willing to listen. Thank you.
Absolutely. It would help a lot as a guide in making money and securing my future.
Dear Martin,
I am a meditation teacher and recently I have so many clients who are totally stressed out due to all of the bad news about the economy. Fear and dread are ruling the day. I feel blessed to have your calming advice to help me feel that I can make more informed decisions. You have already saved us a ton of money. THANK YOU!
Please continue to enlighten us. Sincerely, Debra
Yes, of course I would like to learn how you invest your own money. Count me in. Does this include telling us what you are currently invested in?
I love the postings – I have used your advice in past. But have no experience of betting on reverse behavior, I need a walkthrough.
I think it would useful if you did share your investment rules with your subscribers. I would be particularly interested to know if the same rules apply to ETFs and Options.
I would love to KNOW with confidence that I am doing the right thing with my money, so go ahead and share any and all information. It would be greatly apprciated.
Martin ;Thank you for your generous offer.Dont wait do it.Lets go through the 11 points Milt
Dr. Weiss:
That sounds great . . . I always like to know what financial professionals do with their own money. It often seems their “model portfolios” are meant for “other” peoples money.
YES, IT CERTAINLY WOULD HELP IF YOU SHARED THAT INFORMATION WITH US.
YES, YES, YES. KNOWING YOUR TRADING RULES WOULD BE AWESOME.
yes
That would be very helpful, hopefully. You are very honest and willing to help others.
Hi Martin. I’m all ears to hear about your 11-point checklist to help us survive, but better yet, thrive in these volatile markets. Actionable information is what I’m interested in. I’m anxious to hear what you have to say, especially since you correctly cautioned and guided your readers before last year’s crash.
Thank you, James
Dear Martin,
one of my mottos is: “A day without learning is a lost day”. I used to be a corporate teacher. As you have much to say I do not want to lose a day missing your contributions.
Thanks for the insights you are giving,
Joachim
MARTIN:
I DAY TRADE HIGH VOLATILITY ISSUES SUCH AS EEV, SRS AND TBT. IF I GET CAUGHT ON THE LOSING SIDE OF ONE OF THESE TRADES I SELL CALLS AGAINST THEM. i HAVE VERY RARELY LOST THIS WAY. MY MOVES ARE CHART BASED ON INTRADAY TRENDS – TWO DOWN MOVES IN TWO MINUTES USUALLY (BUT NOT ALWAYS) INDICATES A DOWN TREND – UPTRENDS ARE THE REVERSE OF THIS.
POSITION TRADES ARE BASED ON PERCEIVED ECONOMIC REALITIES – FOR EXAMPLE GLD OR GOLD MINING SHARES AT THIS TIME DUE TO FEAR. INFLATION WILL BRING IN COMMODITIES. AN OVERSOLD CONDITION WILL LEAD TO A RALLY – CHECK CROSSOVERS FOR MOVING AVERAGES. NEGATIVE TRADES ARE ENDED WITH SOLD CALLS OR A PREDETERMINED ACCEPTABLE LOSS.
THAT’S IT – SIMPLE ANALYSIS AND TIMELY TRADES. WHAT DO YOU DO?
BERT
i am desparate for help. I keep thinking that gold, silver and possibly petroleum are part of the solution. however i am a senior citizen and treasuries offer insufficient income.
i have been your loyal subscriber at this time. irving handelsman
Martin,
Your advice has been a great caution in saving assets. Please talk about scenario of how to protect 401K and IRA ,real estate assets in not too unlikely scenario our government bails ITSELF out by revalueing or devalueing the dollar.
Thanks, John L
Yes.
Martin; I would be very interested to hear how you react to markets. I am very interested in your 11 point check list. The arguement that we might be headed into a deflationary cycle is up to some interpretation but a plan that works in evaluating investment options is always good.
Best
Jim
I have been most impressed with your general predictions since I have been one of your regular readers. Your ten criteria to more consistantly being a winner would be especially helpful.
On another point Martin, I am very interested in the Forex course, so in May I will order the same, as currently I am out of the country and can’t accept delivery or look at anything just now.
Jim
Thank you, yes. You have rare insight thanks to your father’s experience and your own education. Please do address the safety of GLD and the possibility of US capital controls.
you should have an event to show your 11 point plan
I would be very interested in participating, the potential to turn pennies into dollars in difficult times is what I would like to learn about.
Why do people attend college? Everyone knows what calculus and physics are, but to understand them you need a proffessor to reveal the hidden knowledge. When you understand the problems, you make better decisions. Please continue, proffessor Weiss!
Sure I’d like to hear the steps you take to make better investment decisions.
every sincere and honnest help, and I believe you are both, is always welcome to us the small investor. I really think this is a great and invaluable help of course. Let me know when you start! Thank you Martin for your human side and most of all for understanding what we are going through right now , and that what makes us vivid readers of all your messages and what you have to offer.
Thank you for all the great advice in the past.
The sharing of your experience and insites will be appreciated.
Martin,
Yes, yes, yes! – the rules you use to make your decisions. Don’t forget the timing, that always scares me. Remember that most of us are experts in other things that don’t include making financial investments. Building and selling things to make a profit, is also far different from investing.
Thank you,
Ellis French, PhD
I have been reluctant to risk any more money so have been keeping earnings in cash.
I need some ideas and some confidence at this time. I am retired so must remain
fairly conservative . Thank you.
I would enjoy hearing your thoughts!
Martin,
I am very interested in learning how to judge future investments. I am 70, retired on a modest federal pension and a modest 401K plan. Heading primarily your advice and a few others, and after seeing what was happening in the economy, I sold off all my 401k stocks (except a few in energy royalty trusts). That stopped the hemorhaging at about a 25% loss. Not needing the $$$ from the 401k for the immediate future, I rolled most of the proceeds into a gold IRA to preserve value for the next few years. I hope I made a good choice. I only have a limited amount left to use for investment, and have learned so much from your newsletter and seminars. Thanks for your lucid assessments and sharing your wisdom.
Martin I would love to know what you would do with your money in these trying times? I would like to at least break even with inflation at the worst. If the dollar fails what would you do in advance to keep your money? In your opinion will we have the same currency in two years? [amero or dollar]
Martin,
I am very concerned about the possible plans of major governments to devalue their currencies as mentioned by Larry Edelson in his article entitled “The G-20’s Secret Debt Solution” on 11-13-08. If he is correct, we should all buy a good bit of gold or other hard assets. A major currency devaluation would be a major threat to holding cash. What do you think?
Lacy C. Gilliam
Teach on.
There is always a bull in a bear market and a bear in a bull market and I seem to always be on the fence and short-sighted. Waiting for the surge to then short the market and waiting for the crash to buy low. To me though it is never clear.
Hi Martin,
I’m very interested in your 11 point list for profiting in bear markets. Please schedule a call-in soon. Thanks!
Such an online event would be invaluable! Much thanks to you and your team for constantly sharing your knowledge and expertise so freely with us!
Martin,
I do not have a TV. In 2001 my TV broke. I chose to replace TV time to read market info from Richard Mogey and Martin Armstrong (Foundation for the Study of Cycles), John Murphy, Bob Prechter’s ‘Conquer the Crash” – that is were I read about you.
I’ve read your email’s but wonder what technical analysis or market timing system are used to support Weiss’ research fundamental market forecasts?
Yes, I might be interested, especially if you buy ETFs, as I do not trust the majority of CEOs integrity, therefore their manipulated reports.
Yes, I am all ears.
Mr. Weiss,
Yes, I definitely think having you provide your advice would be very helpful, and thank you so much for being one of the only lights in an otherwise dark (deceptive) atmosphere. I think my father, who’s 75, summed it up best. He said it’s a sad day when you have to protect your assets, your money and your very future from your own gov’t and I think he’s right.
While I truly believe you and your colleagues are pretty much right on in your assessment of where things have been and where they are likely going, my own reservations about getting into instruments such as gold, silver, inverse ETFs, etc., in a big way is that I think you will find the Fed Reserve and other central banks of the industrialized countries still have a few arrows left in their quivers to keep manipulating the markets and our general economy.
My own belief is that the investments mentioned above will indeed be the correct place to be eventually, but with so much money and power at the hands of the Fed and our gov’t, I think their ability to keep the markets muddling along in no mans land is going to last for quite some time still.
So, I think you’re advice will be right on, however, I think the timing of it may still be a bit early given the resources of our own gov’t to control commodities and the general market. The Fed has been stripping us of our wealth via inflation for years now and they’re not suddenly going to throw in the towel and let gold soar and the market crash. They (the private weathly families who own the Fed) have way too much to lose.
Keep up the great work!
B. Mohney
Indianapolis, IN
Dear Dr. Weiss. Yes, please do hold the video seminar. Please also post the 11 points as an article or a transcript for those of us that may need to catch up after the event.
Thank you for the informative newsletters.
Best Regards,
Patrick
oopss any way I am too interested to your ideas and advise.
Would much like to see you offer these safety guidelines with today’s volatile markets and uncertainties.
My answer is yes .. I would follow your time proven advise . It would help me make those decisions that lead to some sense in this market
Yes! Yes! I think that would be very helpful .
Your advice always is based on experience and common sense. Yes, keep us informed.
Sounds like a great idea –
When?
Hi Martin,
I work every weekday, so I can’t watch your webcasts live, but I’m grateful that you post them later so I can catch up. It’s funny, I have avoided huge losses by getting out of the market, and of course tried to tell anybody who would listen to do the same, but they seem to want to cling on to a sinking ship. They just can’t seem to see what is unfolding before their very eyes…
Yes Martin, please help us make sound decisions. Sharing your insights and experience
will be greatly appreciated. I for one, am amazed at how well you’ve called the events of the past two years.
God Bless You
“Damn the torpedoes ! Full speed ahead !
I’m on board !
the best offense is a good defense, bring it on.
Yes, that would be helpful. Additionally, if you manage portfolios, please give details.
Thanks.
Yep –and it sure would save me a lot of time, also.
I would certainly appreciate the insight of your checklist for guidance. For any gains that I may realize, I will attribute that to you to everybody I know. Thanks, Paul
Sounds great! But I’m still waiting to get a reply to my question of a few days ago as to why the dollar would be gaining ground against foreign currencies when the printing presses are running overtime to create more fiat money which should make said dollar even more worthless than it already is. Sounds to me like we should be seeing inflation out of this world as was seen in the days of the Weimar Republic!
I think your perspective on dealing with this bear market would be very valuable.
I use ideas fr you & your staff along w/ other voices to navigate these historic markets.
So I do appreciate your analysis, look forward to more of it, as well as hearing stories
fr other weiss clients. Let’s all huddle together and brainstorm the best theories and
strategies.
wonderful idea. I am a retired Vet who has never seen anything close to the mess america is in. But i did listen to my father who lived through the 30s and lived a frugal life and saved whatever i could.
I have been a follower of yours for a couple of years and appreciate all you have to offer. Any additional guidance you can furnish in this difficult market will be eagerly awaited and greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Yes, I’d be very much interested. I, too, am retired, and although I’m not risk averse, at this point in time I’m much more conservative than I was even a few years ago.
Thanks for your newsletter–I have full confidence in your recommendations!
Martin,I’ve read your e-mail info for a few months now..althought I am impressed with your team’s ideas, I am reluctant to join any of your newsletters,cost at this time is worrisome and Canadian tax laws etc. could make a difference. BUT I know taking chances on info recieved from random stock info sites is dangerous. But then things that are free can end up expensive.You get what you pay for….but the ideas you have put forward to date have helped considerably. You have aided me in making smarter decisions..lots of but’s….sign of the times I suspect..any advice from you in any format is appreciated…your truly…..Tony
YES
I have been reading your comments for a number of years. Although I haven’t always acted on your recommendations, I must say that you have always been right, and I have always been sorry when I didn’t have enough confidence to follow you.
Yes, I would love to hear your 11 strategies for success.
We’ll look forward to it.
Bob
I need help
I have tried similar programs that work for me about 9 or 10 months. I buy the recommended stocks and before long we have gained a bit in dividends but then head south over the next few months. June
dear martin,i enjoy reading money and markets,every day.i am a investor.i am retired.i trade the markets,to supplement my income.today,it’s rough to make profits.here is one of my strategys.you have to have your money in the right stocks.oil and gold our my favorites.when you own these stocks.you can sell covered calls against these stocks.it’s not risky,and you make profits.you can do it over and over.as long as the vix stays in the right range.c.sparaco.
Dear Martin,
It is very generous of you to offer us the benefit of your expertise. We’re seniors appreciative of the value of experience. Thank you.
Cordially,
Ralph and Gloria
Sounds like a very good idea. I will consider anything you will share with me. Under these dangerous economic conditions, it is important to consider every sensible potential investment opportunity.
Yes-only IF some specific names were given..not an area ie foods,rather Kellogg,General MIlls etc. Thank you. My mind is at a point where I would make mistakes,due to cerebral and visual problems.
I’m retired 5+ years now & took a heck of a beating (approx 50%) before retiring. Since then I’ve made a little–lost a little until the last 12-15 months when I lost another 20-25% of my portfolio, thanks to a non-responsive broker (Merrill Lynch). I don’t have a heck of a lot so for the last 6-7 months I’ve been sitting with cash…not knowing which way to run. The market is so volatile & seemingly directionless without rhyme or reason. The broker to put me into the market then forget about me. Is there a better way????
I’d love to follow an expert step by step through their paces – and for free -can’t beat that!
Sounds good! Count me in.
Best regards,
Reiner
I need all the help I can get. I await your rules and guidelines. I follow your blog – statements and reader responses and have formed this opinion: I trust you and Mike and try to follow your advice and recommendations However, one of your associates pushes gold, another hypes currencies, a third China and oftentimes their recs are contrary to yours. This leaves me with the sense that your associates gain personally when their recs are followed thereby impinging one’s faith in you. When you write about yourself, when I see your photos and see more and more of Mike, I suspect you’re not far from retirement. Please leave behind you the strong principles and values I think I’ve perceived in you. Thank you. William
Yes it would help – be nice to see someone actually but their money where there mouth is!
I want to thank you for helping me hang on to my future. The country seems to be
headed down and you have kept me up right. Thank You, JHILL
Absolutely……YES!
And as mentioned above, timing (my weak link).
I would love to hear how what your trading system might look like. I would love to know what you trade and how you time your entry and exits.
JOhn
Yes, I would certainly welcome expert advice during these trying times. Would you be recommending specific stocks and timing, or just general bear market principles? I am nearing retirement age and have watched my previous investments dwindle away. I certainly agree that the next millionaires are to be made in markets such as we have now.
Right on. Keep up the gppd work.
Marty
Yes I would love to hear your steps for avoiding pitfalls and the steps you take to guide your portfolio through difficult times. I do have my own ideas, however would be interested to see how they compare with my own ideas. Maybe your ideas will cause me to improve on my own methods or to adjust my thinking, because the markets I find are a continuous learning experiense, and even though I have had many years of market experience I know that there is always much more to learn especially in this once in a lifetime market. I am a 78 year old person who has been trading for approxiametaly 50 years, and I realize that after all this time I still have a lot to learn. I want to thank you for all your help, it has been exceptionally accurate.
Best wishes Doug
Would love some ideas on making money in these times. Sorry, but I cannot afford the price for joining your groups. I suppose it’s the same old same old – you have to have money (big money) to make money. Do you have some good, viable ideas, for those of us who cannot afford the bog subscription costs, but still want to make some money in the market?
Count me in! I’m a single mom and grandmother who finds it hard to plan in today’s economy. I have a modest pension & was using earning from a 457 plan to supplement my pension, which lost 20 % of its $140,000 balance in Oct. I’ve since transferred everything into CD’s & money market accounts. I just refinanced my house (to 4.87% interest rate), paid off my car and am nearly debt free except for the mortgage (the $128,000 down pay. on my home purchased 2 yrs ago now worth half ). I need more than income from that account; I need growth! A broker proposed $400@mo. income, but no growth. I said no. I’M ALL EYES AND EARS. HELP!!!
I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR RULES FOR SUCCESSFUL INVESTING AS YOU OUTLINED IN YOUR LAST MONEY & MARKETS
We have all experienced good and bad teachers and guides. I think that you have the perspective and history to be a good guide/teacher. I am all ears. John
The opportuniity to share your guidance and counsel would be welcomed in my world! FREE only enhances the anticipation. Eager to learn. Thanks!
/s/Keen McHugh
A dissociated outside expert can only be helpful to
individuals such as myself to make important financial decisions during these
times of financial crisis. This is why i am looking forward to your correspondence
and advise.
Thank you.
Dan Bleicher
Yes, by alll means .
This sharring by you will certainaly add to the creditably of you and the Weiss Company. May I add that the addition of a “case in point” weekly or other rather short time frame will cement the ideas conveyed to actual real time issues.
Regards,
It seems like the people making the most money in this market are the one’s writing newsletters.
sounds like a great deal. go for it
Yes, I would love to hear it and see first hand how you use your own money to make investments. Thanks, Josh
Yes, definitely would appreciate step by step analysis instruction.
Yes – please continue to share your knowledge with us. You have a great team & I believe you cover All of the major points well. I truly think that You are amongst the top 2-3 people in the Financial News & Investment Industry. I would rank your Wisdom along with Professor Roubini who also warned us of our current mess before it happened. I am also happy to know that your father was a friend of Mr. Baruch. You are fortunate to have had a Father that was also a Teacher & Mentor. Thank you for everything.
That information would help a lot!
Most every piece of advice and reward comes with a benefit or cost and your assessment of the risk seems to be on track so far. You are building trust with your readers so my bet is most of us will follow your advice.
Martin:
Having read your periodicals for nearly ten years, I know that you and the people in your firm are the smartest people around in terms of understanding what is going on what the implications are going forward. You have saved me a ton of money and I want to thank you for that. I would be even better off had I heeded your advice earlier and with greater tenacity. Yes, please count me in.
I enthusiastically await your online 11-point strategies and tactics event. However, knowing my erratic schedule, I am very afraid I may miss it. Would you please reiterate it later in “Money and Markets, which I read daily? Your previous advice over the years have certainly helped sustain my portfrolio, though I admit sometimes I was a day late actiing on your advice and occasionally came up a dollar short. Keep up the fine work!
Millie Thomson
Dear Martin,
My guess is, you made up your mind already. ANd since I am always curious to learn something new I could benefit from, I made up my mind already that I will sign up and listen.
Thank you,
Henk van der Wijk
Good idea
Great Idea Martin, any way you would like to do it. It would be nice to have the information in some form to revisit and study. I list of good web sites to gather the info would also help. I look forward to see results of your endeavor.
Thanks for your concern, Bob
yes
Love to hear it.
I suppose there are no short cuts to becoming a successful trader or investor, but there many known relationships of facts, which indicate the health of company/economy, and this is where the confusion comes in. As a dear, late good friend said to me several years ago, “Many people you talk to, have full knowledge of subjects of which they know nothing”.
Anything to boost confidence is a good thing. I believe deflation will take most everything to a lower price in the immediate future, so cash and near cash assets are not a loosing proposition. Shorting the market takes timing, and the rationale behind trades along with the expected return should help those who hesitate to commit.
Everyone is calling on gold to soar, which, to me is a bearish sign. The price realized for an ounce of gold is dependent on availability of cash, and cash is becoming increasingly scarce.
Martin,
Any input your willing to give, is truly appreciated. I feel that your are one of the few individuals, as well as your staff, that I trust to give good advice and tell it like it is, good or bad. I also love the way you try your best to keep your readers money safe, so we can be ready when the country is on the upswing, as well. Thank you, Bob K.
You seem to be one of the few financial planners with a voice of sanity, to please share. Thank you.
Please, help clear up the confusion. Give us the confidence we need to make good money in this difficult market.
I’m listening.
Dear Martin,
Feeling as so many people do in these difficult times, I would be very interested in your viewpoint and recommendations. Thanks.
I would love to hear you talk about how you watch out for the pitfalls like this last few months. If you decide to do that, count me in!
Carl Wootten
MARTIN… THAT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA TO SHARE YOUR DAD’S THOUGHT, BECAUSE HE DID GO THRU THE DEPRESSION AND CAME OUT WHOLE. THANKS
Very good idea to hold such a ‘webinar’. Agree with E. French and others, especially about timing. Hope you also discuss some key technicals, e.g., moving averages, MACD, and how to use them to help with timing. Also, include info about stop-losses, to minimize loss of stock profits.
I would be delighted to learn anything from you; it would certainly be useful. But, now, my biggest problem is trying to figure out the mutual funds which compose my variable annuity. The penalties for leaving the annuity altogether are very high and my financial advisor says “just be patient”.
Hi Martin
Thanks for all you invaluable advise. You got my attention years ago when you called the demise of Reliance Insurance Group long before anyone else did. You certainly see things the others don’t and you’ve got the track record to prove it. Thanks for recommending inverse ETF’s. I’ve been able to preserve most of my IRA money during this recession. Thank you. Thank you. I wish I had heeded your (and Mike Larson’s) advice on real estate. Just keep the good advice coming. You are doing a great service to your fellow man, and we (non professsionals) very much appreciate it.
Always interested in how successful people build their wealth. Avoiding major losses is more important than squeezing out an extra per cent ROI. Bring it on.
Absolutely Martin. Do you cover anything for the emini daytrader?
Kind regards, Mike
yes martin that would be helpful. this deflation now is probably temporary and knowing when the shift needs to be done to a different type of investment could save my retirement.
That would be great. It would definitely be very helpful. It will further help in keeping me on the right track in this difficult market.
Thank you so much for holding our hands in this difficult times.
You are promoting what I need!!
Dan
Dear Dr. Weiss,
I appreciate all of the advise given to me. That is the service I believe I am
paying for. I also understand that nobody has all of the answers and we each have
to decide to take then what information is given and put it to good use for each of
are financial needs. I also believe a transcript format is good because my mac does
not always work with the video and or the convenience of my work with my clients as
far as timing of broadcasts. So yes, yes , yes…
Financially prosperous,
MEG
Martin –
I invest primarily in real estate and am not well versed with investing in the stock market. That being said, I would love to have someone walk me thru the stock buying process step by step so that I feel more confident. It would be great if you could lead me to the investments that hold the most promise.
Thanks for your help.
Linda Locascio / New Orleans
we would be very interested in such a presentation
long time subscriber through thick or thin
I’m ready !!
Martin: I’d love to hear how to invest in this market. What a downer it has been!
I would love to get your advice.
Norm Arnold
Yes, please teach the steps.
i would crawl a mile on my hands and knees to hear it.
Yes, it would help Martin. I for one would certainly appreciate it. I am a fairly sophisticated investor always willing to learn more.
Yes, please use real stocks in your examples.
Yes it sounds good, as I am an Auto retiree (read ,a shrinking pension looks to be on the horizon)biting my nails but not wanting to leap into a deeper pit, so this could actually be a life line.
Hi Martin,
I have been following you in the past few months and really appreciate your help and insight. I wish I had come across “money and markets” much sooner.
Yes, I certainly would love to hear about your checklist.
I would be interested in your thoughts on this matter.
Thank you
Martin, I’m a small fish in a big sea. Your thoughts, guidance, and insights have helped preserve the wealth I have worked hard to accumulate. Paul B
Sounds good. Please count me in.
Thanks and regards.
Kumar
this is the only time i ever heard anyone offer this kind of advise. of course i would like to hear it.
Wonderful idea. I don’ t see many analysts willing to give up their faimily jewels to show people how they to can also cah in on the best investments today. Kudo’s to Martin Weiss for takling te lead in this sector.
I read the email updates you provide daily with relish. The different views expressed by your team is more than helpful and I thank you, very much for the free flow of wise advice. I have been successful at wealth accumulation, mainly with real estate and business operations, in the past but now need to reinvent my skill sets if I wish to continue with my good fortune. I am surprised, and a little embarrassed by, the difficulty I have had with wealth/money management. It is a different and for me, much more difficult concept to grasp than accumulation. I would love to read something concerning the differences between accumulation and maintenance in the coming emails. Your list of guidelines for investments would be a blessing.
Thanks Again,
Donovan
glad to discuss strategies with anyone at any time!
Dear Mr Weiss, I would carefully read and consider your advise, as always.
Wood Eppelsheimer
Yes Martin, that would be very helpful and educational.
I always read your emails. As I live in Australia I would love to have the the tools applicable to the aussie market.
ta
Paul
PS keep up the great work you really are a blessing
Yes, that would be a great idea.
I would be interested in learning more about your ” list”.
Yes it would be great help.
I suppose there are no short cuts to becoming a successful trader or investor, but there many known relationships of facts, which indicate the health of company/economy, and this is where the confusion comes in. I can think of no better advisers than you and your group of associates to eliminate this confusion.
Hey Martin – I would love that. I know you can make money in this kind of market, but there is so much conflicting advice. I am doing well long in gold and shorting bonds and retail, but I would love some broader strategies.
Yes, Yes, Yes! As I stated before, I’m paralized in this type of market. A mistake now can take me and my family out of the game. Any help and advice you could offer would be valued. thanks for thinking of this.
Absolutely. Your advice thus far has been awesome. Long time multi-subscriber and grateful to God for His provision of you and your team in my family’s financial life.
Yes Martin- It would help me to make money in these difficult times, as well as being a great confidence booster! In these times when decisions are so difficult to make about what and when to but I believe you would be offering an enormous adveantage to creating real wealth.
Thanks, Jim Crozier
I would like to know the approach you use.
Martin, knowledge coming from an experienced individual can do no harm and it would certainly be appreciated.
The Check List that you mentioned would very helpful to an inexperienced trader, like
me, as well as experienced traders. Also, I am anxiously awaiting my Money Machine
To answer your question, such an event should be of great help. You have hit on the key words – confusion and confidence.
Of course, new ideas are always welcome.
Yes, please, life is a learning process.
Yes, good idea. I like it
I would very much like to see how.
Yes I am all ears.
Duh!
I read M & M daily, and also enjoy “Jack-the-pipper’s” astute views of the global economy, as well as his WCO recommendations!
Please include me.
Best to you and yours,
Ken
Martin,
I value your recommendations and I dream of being able to cash in on the coming market decline by following your early contrarian market calls. Please Keep your recommendations coming! Next week the market should begin a tradable up move though. After this wave, it will be time to short most sectors, but now people should be wary of being net short the market. Your dad waited to go all in on thr shortside until the 1930 uptrend played out. That is what we need to do now as well.
Good luck to all!
Brian Cook
Take care,
Brian Cook
I feel safer following you and your associates advice than any other advisory service.
You are a remarkable man and a very smart one at that. I believe this is a life time
opportunity to invest in some great companies and double your money in the
next two to three years. I believe it is a great time to buy gold eventhough it
has risen somewhat, and may back tract, then what a buy and hold on for the
fun over the next years. My problem is I don’t know when to sell because you
always want to be greedy. Ha.
Yes, this sounds like exactly what I would like to know!
I’m all ears…
It would be helpful if you are a successful investor.
YES – - – my mind is quite muddled by all the things going on [and NOT going on] now. And I wish for some enlightened ideas or suggested rules to review. Please put them out, Martin.
Yes I would like you teach me the steps.
I would love to see your 11-point checklist. I would very much apprciate it, in fact.
Martin,
Yes Please, I have always valued your insight and generosity of information.
Your guidance will be gratefully received.
Sure would tune in!
Absolutely! And thanks!
Go ahead what you are waiting for?
Yes, I would.
Martin
It should make the difference, but Im thick headed and slow to learn if at all.
Thanks
Vernon
Hi Martin,
Down here in Australia, I’ve been now reading your emails since before this whole bust thing got going. Although my evidence was anecdotal / uneducated, I felt in my gut that most things were overheated and most investment markets just weren’t right.
Now my gut is telling me that some things may be realistic investments, although I think lots of money might yet be lost. I don’t have a lot of resources at the moment but I have had a sense that investing is as valid in troubled times as any other time. So I guess I am looking for a modest starting point with healthy potential.
You may know that Australia has had a property market boom (with not enough bust yet, in my view). Our mining / mineral sector is reeling at the moment from lost sales to China, and this is going to have a big impact on our GDP. Where do you think is a sensible place to start?
Regards,
Mike McSweeney
Unless it takes little time to incorporate your guidelines it would not help me. Alot of people do not have the time to do a timely search.
Dear Martin,
Of course, I would sign up for an event such as this, but the extent to which I would follow it would be dependent upon knowing how your strategy has paid off for you during the past several years. What have you invested in and when have you been wrong or right?
You have counseled your readers to be prudent investors, would you not expect us to invesitgate a bit further?
we need all the help we can get!
Yes, I would be interested.
I respect your advice.
I would be interested.
I’m all ears – your insight and experience would be greatly appreciated – and, most importantly, your optimism…
I have all the confidence in the world in Dr Weiss. Why does he not have a fund which I could invest into and he could manage?
I would truley appreciate anything like what you are decribing to help my trading. There are so many news letters and offers that I receive in the mail that promise this and that, they are all in file #13. Receiving an offer from some one whom I have followed for so many years, I feel would be a great opportunity for me as well as many other traders that is trying to play this insane game of opportunity.
Larry
Your recommendations are thoughtful, well articulated and even make sense. They bring many elements of the US economy and interplay with world economics to the fore that I would not think of and for that education, it helps us to be a little more aware.
GO FOR IT!
I am in a phase of learning and I want to be prepared when I have money to protect.
Thanks ,Martin JJR
Yes, your help and advice would be invaluable considering the situation where one cannot believe anything anyone from government (not a new thing)says or knows,or anything that comes out of Wall Street and international corporation CEOs, unless they were finally confessing to their criminal activities, ( being the real axis of evil ) and stand ready to face justice. Maybe even a believable apology and recognizable work to help turn things around.
Martin i think that would be a great idea i would thank you very much .
The trouble with the world to-day is that production is so huge that people have been buying things they cannot afford and have no chance to pay for. Which unfortunately cannot go on forever.
I would like your comment.
Martin,
Of course, put your 11 steps together and share them with your loyal subscribers!
Yes, I would like you to teach me your steps!
The more I learn about how to make better decisions, the more confidence I will have to make money in this market and to help others do the same, just as you are doing. Now is the time for us to learn how to make good money in this difficult market and to be winners.
Hi Martin,
I’m very interested – and still looking forward to receiving my “Personal Money Machine” package – where I’m certain you have packed lots of “gems” with the help of your team. What I find most concerning is the extreme contradiction in opinions, now more than any other time in my memory. If there was any one factor that would keep me from following any one particular piece of advice it is the number of contrarians out there to refute it – and with seemingly good statistical back-up information. I think this is extremely frustrating to both new and experienced investors alike. I do appreciate your newsletters each day though… helps abate the “groupthink” that victimizes the market and our whole country.
Dear Martin,
I am a private client international asset manager from Europe and I read your ‘two pence worth’ everyday.
I value every comment you have to make, and would welcome this opportunity to learn from you and your fathers experience.
Kind regards,
Derek
Your answers to what you do personaly would be very interesting to me. I will look foward to it.
Thanks in advance.
Great idea, thank you. Free is even better! Richard
Martin,
Are you kidding? Please, I read everything you and Mike write!! Understanding what you know is what I’m trying to do every day. Learning what you do with your money would be extremely interesting to me. Having a checklist would be doubly so. The two of you seem to know more about bear markets than most out there. So lay it on me! I’M all ears!!!
I think it is a great idea. Let me know if you schedule it.
This would be very much of interest.
I think a check list for buys would be just, if not more, important
I would like a seminar, but would like to access a replay on podcast as most of those happen during my work hours, and I can not participate live on line.
Let’s get er dun!
Martin
Your checklist is a really great idea. However webcasts/online events need backing up on your site so those subscribers outside US time can review them when possible. The ability to check in when we can and also replay was an invaluable part of your earlier “seminars” – please keep this up. A lot of us “retired” folk travel e.g. in the next 6 weeks I’ll be in UK, Moscow, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and then offshore sailing near Antigua . . . and when I was working I used to travel a lot! We need simple strategies as we don’t spend all day watching screens, also, sadly, satellite downloads are still as unaffordable now as then!
Regards
Ron
Would love to have such a report
Thats a no brainer. Count me in.
Sounds like a very good offer and idea. WHEN?
Of course! Sign me up.
I am as confused as everyone else and would be interested in hearing your ideas.
You would sure solidify a lot of subscriber loyalty if you share such time-tested wisdom at no charge.
A great idea; thank you.
I would love to see your 11 point checklist.
I find stocks very confusing.
Ray O’C
Your help would be appreciated. The newsletters give a lot of information but hearing it from the source once more would be helpful as, if I read the comments accurately, many of us are mostly frozen into inaction by not knowing what to do.
I’d love to see the info, but not in a video. Just type it up in a PDF or other document. It’s much easier to refer to the information, re-read what is necessary and keep for reference than video format. Not to mention it’s a lot faster to read than listen/watch!
I cannot come up with one good reason why hearing your investment strategy could be harmful.
Thanks for all of your effort and independent perspective.
great idea but how about short gains for us older guys who haven,t got years available
Thanks for the offer. You always have great insights.
Martin
My dad did not raise a fool….YES….when are you going to do it!!?
Brian
Yes, I would be very interested in the proposed information.
You are a voice of sanity in a world gone/going increasingly mad. What you have to say I am keen to hear. I’m in Aus so any stock tips you ever have for the market here would also be greatly appreciated.
I have been living on a very small amount of money and cannot buy the investment packages offered. I wish I could pool my small amont of cash ( maybe $100-500) with other po’ folk like me and have your team do the things you do with it. I would like to try doing that in some creative way.
Yes, I’d like to hear that.
Hey Martin,
I read all yours and Mikes comments every newsletter that comes out. Whatever ideas or plans you come up with would be enormously appreciated. Rather than lose money in the coming depression I would much prefer to create wealth and security.
Bring it on,
Peter (Australia)
Yes, everything you write is very educational and I read it first thing. Allthough I only trade actual stocks and not options,futures or other tools. Nor do I invest in hedge funds or similar funds nor do I use fund managers, allthough I do ask advice and read about what i purchase. And I do not trade international only in Australian stocks. But I know whatever happens in the US does affect the the rest of the world usualy worse then the US itself.
I really think that any information on how to handle this market is well worth hearing about. I would be happy to try to understand how someone is able to manage a portfolio in this environment.
Thank you.
Martin, I know that I can use all the help that I can get. Thank you for wanting to share your knowledge with others.
I think that is a brilliant idea!
yes i am interested in what you have to say.
Martin:
Yes, I would like to see your pointsand suggestions. I would prefer a written document rather than a video, however. Easier to refer to, and handier.
Enjoyed all u r reco’s – as always and saved me from great fall. Looking forward to learn from u real time. I am very keen on understanding the trading dynamics – looks like to make money in this market u need to be a trader.
We all need help. Proven, reliable, honest, trustworthy help would be a blessing.
dear martin, yes your latest suggestion will great thing to do for us folks still in limbo. like so many others i just can’t trust the gov’t. we really don’t know what totally nefarious “legislation” they will pull next! thankyou, thankyou, thankyou for all you do. i have met challenges in my life, but this time i really think the deck is stacked, and i can’t afford to lose another dime. i have made a few bucks on SRS and SKF, but i know the risk.
It would be very helpful!!
Thanks, yes, we want you for president!
I would be interested in hearing or seeing your check list.
This would be a wonderful idea, if it were easy to follow and actually took you step by step especially of those of us who are not real savvy to all this sell buy sell stuff !!
I read everyone’s comments but it is hard to always decipher what to do when and how.
Would love to purchase your package, but times are tough right now and can’t afford it.
thank you
That would be a great help, Martin! We would love that! S
YES! sounds like a great idea, count me in! Walking in your footsteps so as to notstep on any landmines is about the only way for me (a divorced mom with a son) to even THINK about investing any of my diminished savings at this point.
Thank you for all you do!
Blessings,
Liz
How do you get into this if you are not American????
My UK brokers ream me when they buy for me…..
You think you’re all ears…… Mine stick out like taxi cab doors when I hear an offer like that.
Please, let’s get going.
Regards:
Fred
Yes Martin I would be very thankful for your sharing of your knowledge.
Like a number of other respondents I am from Australia. We have an economy that has has been based on the resources boom over the years. Up till now it has been well managed and it does not have the structural weaknesses that so many other developed economies have . Nevertheless we are part of the world economy and we cannot exist independently of the rest of the world. So your offer to share your knowledge is so generous.
Jim Cramer alerts people before he purchases and sells a stock when one subscribes to his action alert,however it does not work for everyone since each person has a diferent size portfolio. Last year many of his purchases did not yield the results expected.
Everyone likes to make money and therefore people are searching for saver recommendations,if your approach can provide such a service I think all america would follow your advise.
you seem to be the only one right so far….i was taking about you in the doctor’s lounge…one doctor said he has always been a bear,so if you wait long enough of course he would be right….well i think he had a point ,but it does not help me now,as long as you are right i keep following you….thanks
Yes, I think this would be a great thing – to see what you do with your own money. However you will have to remember that most of us are probably playing with substantially less! Go for it, I look forward to this!
It would be great to know what companies and industries will give the greatest opportunity to go bargain hunting. It would also be great to know what foreign economies are going to rebound the fastest and what lesser know companies may show the greatest growth.
I echo Nancy’s comments about recieving the Personal Money Machine and about contradicting opinions. Nothing is certain in this time of volatility, but a bit more consensus would really help.
I say this tongue in cheek as no one needs only to hear what sounds good. Your pessimism/realism about the economic situation has been refreshing.
As I indicated in the last survey, I would find value participating in a real-time investing environment following your trades (including options and currencies), using real money, to learn by doing and to navigate these crazy world markets.
When my wife went through medical school they had a methodology for learning they called “See One; Do One; Teach One”. Kind of a hands on approach.
Thanks for your wealth of knowledge and for saving me at least $100,000 in your “Congress, Please Don’t Spread The Panic” memo.
Kind Regards,
Andy
Like Linden I am in Australia but appreciate your insight and advice very much. Thankyou for sharing.
^Sounds like a great idea -Do it!
I think many people would be open to hear how others are using the tools in the market place to protect and manage their assets. If you are not savy about all the different possible solutions for protecting your interests you can feel stalemated to making a move when you see so much uncertainty every where you look. I know I feel the need to be more prepared to know what to do. Thanks for suggesting a solution.
Works for me!!!
I’d like it better if you emailed a pdf. file for us follow along and make notes.
There is so much OUT there these days. I am never sure which way to go.
Are we there yet?
grouping investment strategies by age is needed. under 55, 55 to 65, over 65.i am 72 and interestsd in enjoying the remainder of my journey. having over 35 years as a counselingpsychologist i need a revisedplan ASAP!
I am always looking for a way to improve my income.
I believe that you are correct in your analysis in your stating that the market will decline
to 5000 – 5500 but I lack the confidence required to make a major call. That is, I will make a profit if the market does drop but I will use caution which will limit my profit.
But it will limit any loss.
I do not fear the market but I do fear the government intervention.
Sorry, didnt’ answer your original question…would love any additional help I can get.
Am interested in your expertise and knowledge on this subject.
Absolutely –yes.. You have been on the mark, so I would like to hear what you have to say.
Martin :
I am very interested in anything you have to say!
I would need help. I think I would need to act against my feelings.
That would be my challenge! I would need help to act against the
herd mentality!
Hi Martin:
There is a difference between solency and profit making capability. The government may buy a bank’s toxic assets and thereby restore it to solvency but that will not necessarily convert the bank into a profit making entity.
The bank needs borrowers that are willing to take on debt at an interest rate that is profitable to the bank. Today’s crisis resides, in large part, in the fact the the supply of borrowers is very meagre indeed. So, a bank may be solvent today but will not stay solvent if it cannot make a profit.
The government is fighting war on two different fronts!
Regards,
Kirk Valanis
Yes, I am impressed with the materials you present and would like to learn more of your expertise in the market.
Martin,
I would definitely be interested in knowing more about how you make your decisions.
I beleive the way the financial direction of our country is headed will be a major
disaster. Knowing what to do and the reasoning for these actions would be of benefit
to all of you e-mail members.
I do hope you will provide a video on this subject as you have on other financial
topics.
Keep up the good work. It’s good to know there are some people who will tell
the story as it actually is. We can’t rely on politicians or wall street to do this.
Martin, Yes I would see that as a blessing. I am freighten to invest another dime for fear that I would lose it. I understand why you think we should have alot of cash stacked away. The problem is that with all the incentives I was unable to sell any Real Estate this Past Year. So, If I can make money with you and feel secure of not losing the funds thatI will need to support myself, business and family during the coming months-years , I would consider your proposal.
Sounds like a great idea….let me know when. Thanks
YOUR COMMENTS ARE WORTHWHILE TO ME!
I believe this information would be most useful.
Great idea!
I’d be especially happy to hear more from you about the inflation/deflation problem. Larry Edelson’s “Real Wealth” has a different take on this than do “Safe Money” and “Crisis Opportunity ETF Trader.” Simply saying you disagree on the short-term or that there’s a huge war going on between inflationary vs. deflationary tendencies doesn’t help me to decide my short-term investment strategies more intelligently.
Having said that let me add that I routinely recommend your investment letters to my Canadian friends.
Yes! I’m sure your presentation would be a keeper and something to be studied and used. When do we tune in?
Hi Martin – Yes, please share your thoughts, strategies, and plans to protect and grow your portfolio with us. Many publications are free to recommend advice on where to put our money, but few share exactly how they handle their own money, how investment decisions are made and why, including timing and risk management. This is especially true in turbulent times, when fear and greed are running rampant, and good advice is hard to come by. Thanks for your advice – my portfolio was 30% larger in 2008, and a great part of that was due to advice from you and your team (Mike, Sean, and especially Larry).
The market is so frighting that I have gotten out of the market ( Late ) and can only hope to save what I have left of my savings. I need help.
Dr. Weiss…..your logic seems to be similar to Mr. Buffets….namely…. in order to sow great opportunity” run to where the crowd is running from…” and ” study carefully those things which have been open rejected by market fear….. Base assessments
with the long term in mind…and glean value….from great companies who have been market rejected….
As I see it Dr. Weiss…..you have a system for a bear market….a market which is largely defined by pessimism and negativity………and which by definition…..allows for dilligent investors….to reap bountiful profits….( based on your 11 commandments of bear market investment…)…..
I want to thank you for the opportunity to hear your story of your dad….
Such an approach….might inspire some things rare in a a bear market…..first hope…..then perhaps even confidence….
I believe going against the flow….in carefully measured reasonings….is always interesting….if not profitable…
I want to thank you for sharing memories of your dad Martin…..your greatness is a living tribute to him….
thank you
steve.
As I indicated in my answer to your recent survey, you have saved me at least $1M by having me exit the stock market in August 2008
However your organization does not seem to offer a service that recommends stocks that will drop in price so that your subscribers can take advantage of puts or short selling of stocks or ETF’s.
I would very much like to see you offer such a service.
Keep up the good work
Burt
I’m all eyes. Sounds like a great idea. – Elizabeth
Please share your check list with us. I’m a tipical novice invester and need all the help I can get. I have faithfully followed your recomemdations in Safe Money and look forward for more info. Your Safe Money has kept my money safe and I thank you.
OK, you’ve got my attention. I’m all ears…
Every “financial body” event is different, because no event is exactly like another although there can be similarities. The severity of the deflationary spiral that is under way will be far greater than anything ever experienced in the United States including the Great Depression. All contries will be effected by the events of a global depression that
can not be reversed with any stimulus package at the present time.
You cannot solve a debt problem with more debt. Excessive debt accumulation and little cash flow is like trying to mix oil with water. It does not work.
It would be very appreciated esp. if there was no requirement to pay for another special service. Just free advice. I already am in 4 Weiss related services…Getting difficult to keep up with all of them.
I like the idea. Let me know the date!
Hello Martin, Your advice and insights would be greatly appreciated. Even though
I live in Australia, the fog of confusion in the market place reaches everywhere. Feel
very fortunate to come across your newsletter in the last few days and look forward
to learning more. The independent wisdom you offer in these times is certainly a
force for good.
George
Yes, I appreciate the efforts you are making to really help people and not just profit
from them. joseph
Would be quite interested in hearing your opinions and strategies.
Dear Martin,
I follow your advises since 1 year and I am doing really great
just from beginning of this year 2009 till today I simply made
USD 183,000.00
I bought skf, scc ,sij and srs in end/ midlde of Dec
and I bought end of Dec -50- put contracts of FXE
I have now tears in my eyes
thanks amigo mio
Juergen
Martin,
Yes, guiding us through your shorting checklist would be very helpful.
Shorting is something I’ve always wanted to do but it is so contrarian to what I normally do (buy low first, sell high second) that I don’t have a feel for it and therefore don’t do it. I have been using bear ETF’s recently so that helps but they are typically thinly traded, don’t cover all tradables and I WANT to become adept at shorting.
Thanks for your help. Stay objective, constructive and real.
Aaron
Sacramento, California
I have followed your messages on the economy and investing for several years now and I would have to say that you have been very accurate. Your advice has saved me money and made me money. I believe that in chaos there is great opportunity but the investments selected and the timing is of paramount importance. Based on past performance, I would certainly listen to/read your ideas.
Martin;
Great idea, I agree with Kevin about pdf format and with jaydee about short and long term investments.
If you can clear up the confusion of the investment community today you rate up there with the geniuses of all time.
Yes, I think the advice would be greatly welcomed. At the moment, I am currently buying distressed real estate assets with a group of international investors. Any addtional information will be helpful.
Normally I would be interested in that. I subscribed to you for a couple years, but in the last few I only have gold and silver stocks & bullion. That’s the only place I want my money. I’ve concentrated in them so, I believe I know more about them then most analyst. That opinion is justified by the fact that I’ve avoided the hit everyone else has suffered in the past year. So for now until this thing is over, I’ll “stand pat”. Then I’ll be intetrest in income.
Martin,
I know you and your gang are super imvestors
and I would like you to tell us just how you go about deciding when to buy and when to sell and when to short. Thanks, Don
Martin,
Absolutely, I have found your advice to be very helpful. After getting bad advice in the early 90s by a broker I lost all confidence in anything these sharks had to say. I have been listing to your reports for the past couple months. This month I decided to take action rather then just sit on the side lines. So far I am on my way to making a 10% return on my investment this month.
Any other pointers you can offer would definitely be helpful. Like your dad who had $500.00 I have probably the equivalent of on today’s standards of 6k.
Best regards,
Ron Klug
well Martin I do have a lot of respect for you, and would be willing to go along with your suggestion.At the present time I’m exceedingly cautious—-so yes with reservations.
Martin,
Yes,I would like your proposal to have weekly sessions.
Al White
i am waiting for your free online event
There are a lot of us who really need a “shirt tail” to hang on to during these turbulent times. Thanks for the offer.
Would love to hear them!
I am a peasant farmer, and like you my father and grandfather left steadfast advice concerning farm economics. I can keep you out of trouble in the farming game from a to z but I am unsure about your game with the moneychangers!
Your proposal sounds interesting and informative to me. I hope you can find time and
energy to do it.
YES! please do it, share your deep personal insights with everyone. We need unbiased expert advise to know what to do.
Yes, think it’s a great idea. Need more trading rules and discipline to time markets better.
Sounds great Thank-you
Yes, please. I’d love to know what rules you learned. Sounds like your dad was a great teacher and friend.
sounds good
I would be very interested. When??? I also like the idea of a pdf format.
Thank you for your insights.
Yes I think it would greatly help but in some aspects and technicalities your approach may have to be along the lines of “Markets for Dummies.”
I think you are an outstanding caring person. I am so thankful that somehow or other your introductory e mail was sent to me.
Best regards, Stan
Who to believe? The pres & all his merry men say they are “crafting” the programs to help us all. But all free market, private sector folks are dumping everything. Should we put everything in DXD and close our eyes for the rest of the year? HELP!
hi Martin,
i read your email’s all the time, i have never invested £1 in my life and i know i have to do so, i have set up a small food business that i love and want to grow over years, though times are hard, the u.k. is going mad and i wonder!!! i would love to take the risk with a small amount of money like £100 a grow from there, well i dont know if that is anoth or i need more to pay for a broker, i just dont know, but i would love to get going, i grow up dyslexic lernt to read at ten badly did a degree in sculpture, couldnt make money from it so ended up as a builder for years, hated it, so here i am importing cacao and other foods into the u.k. having torght my self to read better use a computor and do some maths. i would love your addvice what ever it be, your one of the most possative men i read from. thank you for that.
all the best Julian Salt
when?
I am all ears in a market that is destined to fall with the outrageous abuses of this administration and Congress.
Martin
I would very much appreciate someone that could ‘take me by the hand’ in these troubled times. Thank you.
Whitout Wall St., it sounds great. When?
I’m sure everyone would like to hear your reasoning. I will listen to anyone, especially a successful person such as yourself. I will make my own decisions based on my own experience and all I have ever learned from others. Please let us hear from you. HWH
What a wonderful idea!
Martin:
It’s a no brainer. Anyone interested in the markets must read all they can to keep up.
Such a session would be good. I have trouble keeping live online appointments so a transcript after the fact is best for me.
Also, thoughts on how to stop this incredibly stupid run-away government.
Martin,
I can’t imagine anything more valuable than for you to share what you do with your own money! The vast majority of “advisors/experts” out there, one discovers, do not even take their own advice. You have saved me and my famlily from huge loses and I am in your debt for that. Bring it on man, we anxiously await!
I certainly would like to see and understand some workable written rules to practice which predict the market so that I could improve account. Count me in.
Hi Martin
I do find the articles by you and your team very insightful. As an Australian though it is somewhat difficult to relate it all to our specific needs as, obviously we don’t have the same options or solutions open to us here. Any direction you can offer for us ‘Aussies’ would be greatly appreciated.
I must say I do fear though that we will all end up in the same boat in our ‘global’ pond.
Many thanks to you,Mike and all
Anna
Yes, I would.
Please, I think it is a wonderful idea
Please let us hear from you. HWH
Even if I knew the parameters you use for decision making, would I have access to the tools of measurement to measure them? What I do now is buy newsletters that hopefully keep me informed abou some of these things. Could a layman keep upwith it on his own?
I think that’s a GREAT idea!!!!
Count me in!!!!!
8=)
I’m in. I also believe there are great opportunities in a bear market.
Show us the way Martin.
Yes I would be very interested in what you have to share with us…
Love to hear your whole teams opinions and commentary. Read your book The Safe Money Guide as well. The info was astonishing and opened my eyes to several things I suspected were going on. Keep up the good info.
Even if you give us your 11 point checklist it seems that considerable time would be required to research potential investment opportunities prior to applying the points in your checklist. Many people like myself work every day and have limited time to do research. That is why we read your research and follow your recommendations for those investments that fit within our investment objectives. Although I would like to know what is on your 11 point checklist, I doubt whether I would have the time to apply it to potential investments myself. You must already apply your checklist to your recommendations prior to making them, right?
Your guidance on the US market is an excellent guide to the Australian Stock and
Property markets. Monthly Coppock Indicator Excel Spread Sheet Plots are still falling
significantly with no signs of reaching a bottom inflection point just like the OEX index in the US .
Knowledge is power, sign me up.
Thanks for all you do
John
yes, i would like that
Ithink its agreat idea. also, talk agin about how high a stack of 1000 dollar bills would be to reach a trillion dollars I heard on cnbc. ifyou saved one million a day sense christ was born you still wouldint have a trillion. true or false. kinda puts things in perspective , no.
Things are complicated in a complicated world. Making it simple is not an easy chore. But, sounds like some simple principles would do just fine. And a way to post them to ones mind. How about “MARTINS TEN COMMANDMENTS”.
Rick
I think it would be great! It would help us fend for ourselves and be better traders!
Another opinion is not to be disregarded !!
Anyone not interested would be insane. I like Kevin’s idea of having the checklist in pdf format but in addition to the video rather than instead of. I just got to say, you rock!
I find this proposition extremely exciting and still smarting from the whipsawing we all got the last year it would be most comforting . As I am sure you felt as your dad introduced you to this caliber of information that you where so hungry for in your investment formative years . You where most frotunate to have so wonderful a father .Many of us did not find ourselves in such a special situation when it counted . so I for one look forward to experience with great anticipation. GREATFULLY MEL.
I’m interested and cannot participate during the day so an after hours or weekend would be best for me. Thanx for your continued commitment to the people. Also I’m Canadian and have some questions about the differences in our bank and tax systems.
I would participate.
Yes, Yes, Yes – it would be most appreciated to hear your advice on how to invest safely in these times of severe economic crises. It was surprising to read that your Dad made a fortune when the market crashed because I always thought it was because he bought stocks for pennies on the dollar at the bottom. Your advice is always refreshingly honest. Why aren’t you Secretary of the Treasury??
Dr. Weiss … hi
I always appreciate the opportunity to hear and consider what both you and Mr. Larson have to say. However I want to be candid and transparent with you … my actual involvement in the market is a very solitary thing (I hope without having to say anything further you would understand my meaning). However I certainly enjoy both studying and learning about the market and the camaraderie had in the exchange of ideas and thoughts with others who are of like inclinations and passions. And certainly considering the wealth of information and knowledge that you all are able to bring to any market oriented discussion … it goes without saying that hearing what what you all have to say would always be of interest to me. Thank you for the invitation.
I would appreciate a lesson on the eleven points.
Yes, I’d love to hear your program. If you do it, please put it in an e-mail, rather than a webcast. Investing is confusing right now. e.g. Two folks in your organization have two opposing viewpoints on the strength of the US dollar. I understand that each is approaching his analysis from differing perspectives and with different goals in mind but it would be helpful if the goals each one had in mind and what their key barometers were, were spelled out.
Thanks.
Chris Lyons
Yes. it would help me immensely as I am about ready to take investment advice from onc of those publication companies that I receive a ton of emails from.
I am a good listener and would like to hear more.
I can smell the amout of money that will be earned trading this bear market. I am desperate to get involved.
Pretty much I think the faith in money is gone and we need to use gold silver etc.
Good Idea. I have a personal question, I am holding quite a bit of bullion gold and would like to know your idea if I should sell most of it now or just hang on.
Any chance that the new administration might recall gold again?
I’d be interested.
Where do I sign up?
Just yesterday I was fantasizing about having you sitting here next to me at the computer as I monitor certain “real-time” market events, and saying to you, “What do I do about this, Martin?”
So my fantasy doctor must have ordered your 11-point checklist. Wishing you blessings upon blessings, I thank you for this offering.
That would bea tremendus help. Perhaps we could avoid some of the multitude of pitfalls on the road to prosperity. 02/13/09
Maybe it’ll keep us from having to join a 12-step program (8~).
Martin,
I like video but I need to be able to review the information. It would be great if you could present your thoughts in writing as well as video. If I had to choose, I’d choose to see it rather than hear it. Some of need to be able to take a little longer to take it in. Thanks for trying to help us all out during this crazy time. It’s nice of you to take the time.
Carol
That might be very interesting. The possible issue I would see with that approach is that there are probably wide ranging personality styles. Those who watch, study, think about investments constantly and trade frequently, as well as those who (possibly run there own businesses like myself) really don’t want to devote more than small slice of personal time and energy.
Being retired and near 80 with only 20 or so more years of life expectancy, I feel I need to hold on to the purchase value of the assets I own. I try to accept the “losses” of the face value of my stocks, while accepting the 15% or better dividends they yield. So long as I do not need to live on principal, I feel my value is growing, even as the value of my stocks decline. Ouch??? Am I confused, or just willing to wait???/
Yes I would certainly be keen to watch and listen.
I was badly burned in the last recession and am still clawing my way back up.
I want to learn to avoid the pitfalls if possible.
I do only have limited funds available but from acorns grow……..!
Regards
Andre
Good Evening Friend,
Specifics of your portfolio(s) would be interesting, yet I have to think, until I know
more it is “different strokes for different folks”. I trade through a ML broker,my niece, recently told me I am her most conservative client.
So I cannot give a simple answer of yes or no. Just a “tell me more”, I’m listening.
yes , sounds great let me know asap.
thanks don
Martin
I’m so over scammers from the Top End of town that it is hard to have confidence in anyone. Your observations and comments make sense to me but I’m wary of a sting these days and so we all should be. The Governments lines globally seems basically to me , “We got into trouble spending too much we didn’t have, so lets get out of trouble by spending more money we still don’t have”. Huh?
I would be happy to invest with/through you IF your fees for service (which seems terrific) were only payable as a % of PROFIT. Bruce Revie AUSTRALIA.
Looking forward to learn what you have to tell us. I just want to be able to log on to your MAM site and view the talk, later, rather than live.
It all sounds to good to be true. Anytime something sounds great there are always extenuating circumstances. No one in this day and age gives good information that benefits others for free. So the ulterior motive has to be monetary in nature. I’ve listened to a few of your info programs and you are very knowledgeable and to the point. I appreciate all your advice, but after being taken to the cleaners so much during my life its hard for me to trust anyone anymore. But what you say does sound interesting. I wish you the best!
Hi Chris, I know which 2 folks in the Weiss group you are talking about. I agree Larry who opposes the dollar and for precious metals. I candidly think Jack is dangerously too sentimental about the dollar and I have lost some bets recently with some trades he recommended that was pro-dollar. In the past, that sentiment was a great thing when the dollar WAS king and WAS the trade currency of choice in the world economy. Now everyone is dumping the dollar- OPEC nations, China, Brazil, and the list goes on….
It would be a great, great, great help. The way the markets are going, it leaves one scared to make a move. I followed your advice to sell all stock last year, and you and your staff were dead right. Now I am very, very cautious. Martin
Martin, that would be fantastic. I look forward to that opportunity to get an insight to your specific recommendatiions.
Martin,
I, for one, would love it if you did write such an article. To learn what criteria you use for investment would be an invaluable aid to me. Whatever I have using so far has been, at best, hit or miss. I don’t have time to do the research to be a successful daily trader. Nor do I have the assets to make it worthwhile. This past year, my “comodities/precious metals”-heavy portfolio took a severe beating, down about 25%. The only silver lining was that my portfolio is so small ($21k) that it seemed a minor loss compared to the major wealth being lost by so many others. It is a bad trend for me though, as I am 55, unemployed and trying to build some kind of nest-egg feels impossible at this rate. Anything you could write to give me some investment guidelines would be immensely appreciated.
Michael Reilly
Yes certainly, I’m eager to learn from the experts as I am trying to become one myself.
I’d be very interested
Martin:
Splendid suggestion. I’m all ears, too. However, if it is a relatively long check-list, would it be possible to download the list later on ? I think it may be easier to better understand the specifics.
Great post.
Yes, please do hold a web conference. They are always informative.
Thanks,
Jeff Laeng
HAVE ENJOYED YOUR DAILY UPDATES ON THE MAELSTROM. I TOO HAD A WONDERFUL FATHER WHO CAME FROM A POOR SLUM AND WHO LEFT THIS WORLD A MULTIMILLIONAIRE.
I NEVER WILL FORGET HIS WORDS TO ME, HOWEVER, ABOUT FINANCIAL ADVISORS.
“IF THESE GUYS ARE SO SMART, WHY THE HECK DO THEY NEED YOU?”
HE WAS A CRUSTY LOVING MAN AND I HAD GREAT RESPECT FOR HIS OPINIONS.
HOWEVER, I THINK THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING A GREAT JOB IN ALERTING US’NS
Where to put my money now? I have around 700K in cash.
Yes sir, Please let me know when. Thank you.
I would love to see and hear your ideas. I have been sitting on the side lines and am ready to jump back in but cannot decide where. I run my own business and have limited time and funds, but I prefer activity to apathy.
Definetely I would like to know all the steps you follow.
Additionally, it would be very beneficial to be able to make a print out of all your steps, plus any other info useful to us.
It would be nice the printout to keep reviewing it and studying it while at the same time doing my investment work on the internet.
Thank you..
I would be anxious to participate
I am eager to hear and learn about your ideas for a turbulent market like we have now.
Thank you for your offer – and I say, “Yes, please.” However, I also am in the camp of wishing for written data to reread. Do you think that might be possible?
Hello Martin, I would love to hear your insights into when to buy and sell to help me become a better investor.There are just so many opportunities out there,good and bad it overwhelms me somtimes sifting through all this info,i end up concentrating too much on technicals instead of fundamentals,I dont think beyond a week or so.Any help from you is always appreciated.Thank youfor all your advice over the years. Jim
Thanks Martin. You could soon move from financial guru to messiah.
Would be delighted to hear your proposals.
Best regards,
Clive Bambury
I’m all in and i suspect it would be great as the prior online talks.
I’d be interested in hearing what you have to say. You usually cut through the BS and shoot us straight. I’m all ears.
MR. WEISS
WHEN I RECEIVE YOUR LETTER I SIT DOWN AND READ 2X SO THAT I TRY NOT TO MISS ANY THING. YOU HAVE THE GOOD THAT EVERY ONE WANT’S PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKS. AND THANKS GOOSE@NETDIRECT.NET
If you shared your trading secretes with us -you would be the nicest guy in the world and one of my heros . You are always so correct in your stock picking decisions. I just do not understand what is so wrong with the other million investment advisors in the US. They need to learn from you. I have lost over 250,000$ in my IRA, because of those who thought they knew what the correct way to play the turbulant markets. They no longer have my account. I am always eagar to read your e-mails and learn. Maybe you should send this to the professioal who think they know it all. Ha!!! Happy President’s Day/Charlotte
Yes Matin a free on line event would help very much indeed. Specialy at this economical times. I am sure many other people would like it too.
Thank you for your guidance. Have a great day.
Augusto
Hi Martin. To answer your question quickly, for me, absolutely YES! You have far more experience than I will ever obtain ( 70 now but still learning ). I found you to be very honest and very straightforward, one of the FEW people in the Investment world that I trust. I have been flooded lately with both emails and snail mail from investment “gurus” that I have never heard of, plus some of the old standbys, all claiming that they were first to warn us all way back in 2007 of this big collapse. Ya, RIGHT!! Martin, you were the ONLY one that warned me early.
Bottom line, I will take all the advice from you and your team that I can get!!!!
God Bless you!
I enjoy reading your information, both from you and your associates. Your information made me decide many months ahead of the fall to sell all of my stocks. Your advice saved me hundreds of thousands. So, am I interested, it goes with out saying. I AM VERY INTERESTED.
Great if no strings attached!!
I would especially like some pointers in timing. I know there is plenty of money to be made in these volatile markets….I’ve made great amounts……and then lost it within the next month or two. It would be great to have a nonemotional set of rules to know when to get in and when to get out! My little Roth IRA has been moving up and down like a roller coaster. Unfortunately ending up about 40% down over the last two years. Timing is everything and I don’t have it!!
It sounds like a dream…
I am a current subscriber to several of your organizations newsletters and find the information both timely and informative.
I am a 45 year old financial adviser, married only once, a homeowner with tremendous equity, a responsible parent, and hold a retirement that has lost half, and a reasonable cash position that may well be swallowed if we don’t see some reprieve in the financial services industry. I regularly incorporate your strategies with my more aggressive clients, but in no way can I justify selling every asset I own out of pure speculation that the second coming is here. I witnessed my parents both die in fear of the next great depression only to have virtually no assets left to pass along to future generations of our family. I feel that am also witnessing the onslaught of some of the laziest bastards ever know to mankind reaping HUGE government incentives no to produce. Ultimately, I agree with you and think a substantial chunk of what is left of the producers in this country are turning into your “wild card” group that may, in fact, just give up and leave, as there is no incentive whatsoever to continue forward like this. So, to make a short anwser quite long…I’m all in and fully prepared to incorporate your stategies in my personal and professional life.
I would like to learn as I know very little about techniques used in the investment world. To me, I have lost much money on paper in my portfolio because I have some stocks and some mutual funds. I am retired and live mostly on social security and a small pension. We own our home and my wife has alzheimers. My daughter stays home and takes care of her.I feel fortunate in many ways but I am 78 years old and am afraid to invest the small savings I have in the local bank. I really do wish I knew more about EDT , puts, options etc. I am not the greatest on use of the computer .
Yes that might be good if it was not too long and too technical. Following it with a transcript of what you said would be great. There are so many variables though and so much information to digest which you have a staff to do each day and we do not.
carnt beat experience and knowledge BOOK ME IN thanks
Martin,
We would gladly listen to you to guide us in the right direction cause we have faith in you.
look forwardto the info.
let us know what you would do
Martin, I also forgot to mention, I share your info with my 4 children who are busy with family and work and have 0 time for any investment research. They love your daily emails from you and your team, and hopefully they will join the loyal followers soon. You are building a strong base of followers because you have integrity and honesty, and most importantly, you know what your talking about, you have done your homework.
look forward tothe info
look forward to the info
Martin –
I think we’d all benefit from this type of education, and I thank you in advance for it.
I began my first Safe Money subscription when it was your dad’s newsletter, maybe a year or two before you became the principal. It was an aptly named read… when I followed his advice my portfolio slowly grew, but it seemed to always grow. I owe it to Irvin Weiss for my very first education in markets. Now, if I’d been a better student I wouldn’t have had as many “Oh, no!” moments.
Thanks very much.
Hello Martin ,this sounds like a great idea ,I have valued your opinions over the years and this sounds like just the ticket.
Jim
Yes, it would. I like the way you end your comments with “God blessf”. I believe you are sincere with it and I appreciate it.
See comments above. I have always enjoyed the personal touch that Martin and his associates have used in their e-mails. Thank you all for your input over the years.
Richard R. Bailey
I live in Australia and I am 68 years old. 2007 I tried to retire and since then I have lost a substantial amount of my super. I am totally inexperienced in money markets and trading, but late last year, when I came across your website I clicked to subscribe your financial News. I am so grateful for what I am reading daily. I am learning, but I am still very scared.
I have started working again (almost full time for little money ) to be able to survive better. On line education would be fantastic for me. In Australia we are not quite as much in trouble compared to US yet, but with our present government we are sliding into the global abyss very fast.
Yes, I would be very interested in such an on-line conference.
However, I have one caveat. No one bats 1000, either in baseball or investing. I would want to hear about some of your investments that were not successful either because the “signal” did not apply to that particular situation or it was a misjudgment on your part.
Sounds good to me. Most of my investing mistakes were made when I didn’t follow your advice……
Looking forward to the event.
Count me in, Martin I am all ears
You seem to be the only one who called this downturn on the nose
God Bless you for your efforts!
What a wonderful idea! I would value the opportunity to hear your thoughts on how to benefit through these difficult times. An audio recording or video conference would be terrific!
Martin, I have enjoyed your first three blogs very much. I have learned a great deal. I have also made some money from following your advice over the last couple of years. This time I am really ready to rock and roll with the advice of you and your team. I actually feel like one of the family. I also want to recover some losses that I recieved from brokers before I utilized Weiss research. This time I am certain to be on the right side of the zeitgeist. Thank you! From ANTHONY G
YES, Martin I for one would greatly appreciate you sharing your investment selection system with me. And if you do a web cast I will be there I have not missed one since joining. May God Bless us all and help us get through these bad times.
That would be a most welcome surprise. Would look forward to having a recipe to follow
Absolutely love your columnist’s and all the great viewpoints. Even when some things shock me, and some I disagree with, and some I pray will not come to pass.
Most I file for “reference” , and I don’t think that I have received any that were read less than three times.
Always Great- Thanks a Million, down from 2 Million. (but the advice you have given has made my “new” portfolio a WINNER!!
I’d be interested in attending the free online event. As a novice investor, I find your e-newsletters enlightening and highly useful.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment — and for your offer to share more valuable insights into navigating the financial crisis successfully.
I’d love to read your guide to safe investing. As I live in australia, and am not a big investor, I am not able to take advantage of your recommendations on how to make money. I want only to safeguard my savings, which have been shrinking as the markets and interest rates drop. Australia is not exactly like the US, but it follows US markets closely, so what you have to say about US markets is a useful guide to what will happen in australia. thank you for your interesting and insightful reports. If i’d paid closer attention and not bought any stocks in the past half year, (I did) I would not have lost some of my hard-earned savings.
Huang
Yes I would be very interested in how you pick good stocks in a bad market and if you could also share how you would determine when the market has bottomed out it would be doubly good!!
Absolutely, bring it on. Thanks for your willingness to share this valuable information.
God Bless.
David
Yes! I’m very interested. If possible, would you make it available to view after your live event as you have done with some of your other webinars, as my work schedule often does not allow me to view the live presentation. But, it would be something I’d find exciting. Please keep me posted as to when you would do this.
Yes, we love hearing these stories because human nature never changes and what drove markets in the 30’s is what drives markets today – collective psychology.
Any more investing tips are greatly appreciated.
thanx!
Yes, I would like to hear this.
would be interested. especially on ideas regarding gold, silver, oil
That sounds great!
I would greatly appreciate simple, concise steps to “grow” my money into a nice nest egg. I don’t have a lot for the initial investment, but would like to know how to turn $500 into $100,000 as your father did. Thanks for caring enough to share your knowledge Martin.
Kim
Of course Martin. I’m an octogenarian and I made mine in commodities years ago.
I’m writing a book on currency trading and I’ve subscribed to the Personal Money
Machine. I trade in the Forex market….and I’m afraid that those who subscribe to
PMM will think it’s the “Holy Grail”. A trader by the name of Charles Drummond was
my mentor and it was with his “Point and Line Methodology” that I made mine. But
what worked then would not work today. The currency market is a 24 hour market
and there are “time zones”. Most of the Forex traders aren’t aware that the price
is the function of time. P=f(t)…where Y=mx+b….thus Price=slope x period + intercept.
I think I’ve come up with a different concept…where the market is a quadrant. But
there are two parts to this quadrant….where the second quadrant is a moving
quadrant in relation to “time”. It is this time factor that the only truth is the “tick”…
called a “pip” in the currency market. Stock traders will have change their mind set
if they’re entering the currency market. The stock is like a horse race…at the Belmont
the signal is ….THEY’RE OFF. In the currency market…..it’s like an old freight train…
it starts real slow, and then it picks up speed. The market starts in Syndey, Australia
at 5 o’clock EST…then Tokyo..then Hongkong and Singapore…now this is the Asian
part. After the Asian comes Frankfurt….and NOW THE BIGGEST ONE OF THEM ALL…
LONDON……and finally New York. A trader will have to know how to trade in them
all…..or select one section and learn that one. It is here that my Quadrant theory
and where the second part, I call the “quad” comes in. Remember Price is the function
of time…and the “quad” starts at the “open” and in the 24 hour, 1440 minutes, and
86400 seconds ends at the “close”. But one must remember there are people in the
market. While you’re sleeping….people in HongKong are having lunch. This has an
affect on the market. Also, you would want to be trading where there is the most
activity…HongKong, Frankfurt, London, and New York…all the rest are “dead zone”.
I’m stopping….I am beginning to get the scribal diarrhea. God bless…Martin.
Sell, buy, hold – what is the rationale behind each of these moves for a successful investor in this market? Isn’t timing important? When prices seem unbelievably low shouldn’t I buy and hold?
What areas/stocks do you follow when you want to buy again?
Recently been put off at work, now have time and some finances but very lacking on knowledge. For someone to share knowledge and to share that without cost would be a blessing. Seems today that almost everyone has the WIIFM attitude i.e. ‘What’s In It For Me.’ The Bible verse “Give and it will be given unto you, pressed down, shaken together and running over” begins with ‘Give’, then promises that the giver will receive abundant blessings. Go ahead with your ‘giving’ Martin and you will have it given back to you!
Appreciation from Australia.
Re: Definitely a FIVE STAR idea – Proposed financial step conference .
I find that when I talk to others not in my field many times I make statements that are very simple and clear to me but not to them. In finances I am the second person alluded to. So thank you for the simple steps for simple folks proposal.
SEE it to believe it!! I believe it will be much too simplistic and general. What would be nice is a class you could teach us on line, even if there was a fee. This is how you really learn. The careless will lose early and the lucky ones will lose eventially. Those that study and are patient may succeed.
I appreciate your resourcefulness. Thanks for spreading it around.
Martin,
I am a very new weak-kneed investor and I don’t have that much to invest too boot. I would diffenitely welcome the step by step hand holding. In fact you may need to lead me by both hands.
I love the stories about you and and your Dad! It inspires me to plunge ahead!
So my answer is an overhelming yes to the online conference and from my early learning from you, the sooner the better !
Colette
Yes.
Your suggestion to explain what amounts to an multistep screening process is a great idea. I have much more faith in your views on the market’s future direction than the many TV and other pundits. The problem today is that there so many conflicting viewpoints and the market seems to jump around without any logical rationale.
This would be kind and generous! We need your wisdom. I believe all your hard work is to benefit investors that can not afford to lose their money, and need to make money in an safe and intelligent way.
‘Sounds (reads) like a welcome event to me. Please feel free to keep them coming. I read your articles with interest.
Martin
Absolutely ….. this is exactly the type of expertise and assistance that could help us increase the probability of making the right buy or sell decision, at the right time , on the right stock.
Thank you for listening and thank you for asking.
My problem with investing is that it appears that everyone doing business in the mareket are crooks. Everywhere you look there were swindlers, liars and thieves that would do the most henous things to cheat the public and the government did little or nothing about it. The market is rigged!
David Beardsley
Go for it Cowboy! Your advice is always the best in the West! Doc S.
Yes. I would like to hear it. My ideal would be for someone else like yourself manage my money. Buy/Sell
You hold that webcast and I will show up!
Thanks for everything.
Kevin
Count me in!!!!
I would love to hear about these 11 steps. I have also been trying to take advantage of the other hints as well on your website.
I have already moved my savings from a weaker bank to a stronger bank.
Thanks,
Yes, I would LOVE to hear it!
Martin,
I would greatly appreciate your expertise. I don’t have a lot of money to invest– roughly the same amount that your father started with- $500.
My husband and I have no retirement– we have a business which in the last few years took all of our savings– we work hard for our money – we are both in our 50’s- and I would love to think with your help that we could turn things around and be able to retire someday.
Thank You,
Karen Lyn Miller
Martin, please share your picks. Steve
Yes you will surely be blessed yourself multiple times if by sharing your knowledge you will put money on some person’s pocket.
Dear Martin, thanks for answering me and for being so helpful in your desire to lead
me to make the best use of my money in bad times. Thanks for the photos which
shows the similarity between you and your dad.
Martin, I am your age, born 1946. I am not a US citizen. Live on an island, being the
smallest EU state. I admire your desire to help lead others for the better and
similar to you, I love to help others far less better than I am. I help people from
Myanmar ( Burma ). I met some sick and desperate students in Rome and helped
them to be medically treated as they were pennyless. In their country they earn
less than $1 a day of 11 hours. I just helped a village to construct a road as they
had no access to anywhere axcept through a path. Still nobody has a TV. Another
village asked me to help them to dig a well as they have no water in this village.
Etc. I want to help them and the only thing for me is to make the best use of
the limited sum I have. Sorry to tell you this. May be its nonsense.
Yes, I want you to lead me. Please do. God Bless us. Andrew.
YES!!!
I’m as ready as ever. Been subscribing since the 70’s to your Dad’s newsletter, and never
could devote the time to get invested. Lots of time has passed. You saved me a bundle
knowing this decline was coming. I’m ready when you are.
Thanks.
Baruch once said:
“If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.”
This is only good sense and I would like to see more of your own thinking on this…. and how it is best done in your investment programs.
Yes! If you are talking of a time frame of 10 years or less for a turaround because I’s in my 80’s.
Martin I think it would help a lot of us who are confused and just plain frightened at whats happening for you to have an online siminar about how you run your money.
That would be amazing. If we just had a bit more confidence with what to do we would not have to leave our money so much at the mercy of “financial advisors” and “managed funds” who in our experience mostly “manage” to get rid of a large percentage of your money but still walk away with their fees intact and nil responsibility!
It would help me a lot. I don’t have a lot too lose. I did sell all my stock just in time. But now Im not sure what to do. I’m retired. Thans for you help. FMM
Yes, I would like very much to be included in an online walk-through during which you discussed the criteria that you use in screening your investments. I would like to know how you risk weigh the parameters as well. Thanks for asking.
Regards,
Paul
Yes, I believe following your checklist and knowing the specifics of your trading strategy would be very helpful to me. Please bring it on.
Dear Martin,
I am so grateful that I found you just after Lehman Brothers tanked last year. Sometimes I think that you are being melodramatic:-) But your strong words “get the heck out of the stock market!” gave me the courage to dump my portfolio of 10 years which was sinking fast. Thanks to your advice and strong conviction, I have not been wiped out by the events of the last year.
To answer your question of today—yes it is a wonderful idea to share more of your knowledge and experience with us but I have to also say that I cannot devote myself to investing full time or even part time. And so I have to echo some others who have responded to your earlier blogs and say that what would be most helpful would be a service similar to your monthly Mr. Speculator and Mr. Conservative newsletter that gives specific buy and sell recommendations so that we can take advantage of the rallies in this volatile market.
Thanks for your help
Regards
Julie
What I’d rather see is what I remember you doing years ago – actual portfolios (conservative & aggressive). It’s easy to brag about all the right calls you’ve made over the last year, but easy to overlook the wrong ones.
I appreciate views on direction economy is taking as education and value the fact that your different gurus don’t always agree. I can track a hypothetical share of Berkshire Hathaway even if I can’t afford it: I’d like to do the same with you.
It would be better than anything I have going for me at this time. Great Idea!
Martin, another great idea, an online video conference that walks us through
investing wisely and safely!
Dwane Lauinger
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Yes. I’m quite interested…
Would love to see your checklist.
I will join and listen with interest as long as the conference is held in the evening or on the weekend. I am still working and cannot join from my office. I have sold all my mutual funds and most of the stocks in my retirement accounts following your advice in one of the recorded previous conferences and therefore suffered only relatively minor paper loss. Hopefully, you can show us a way how to protect or even grow our money in current deflation and upcoming inflation that will undoubtably follow.
If I cannot join the live conference I would at least be interested in the video recording of it. Many regards.
Absolutely…always nice to hear how a pro thinks!
Yes it would help. During this period we need advice from people who know without them be rewarded with those of us who follow their advice. A stockbroker calls and says he has a hot one. You place an order and the stockbroker is rewarded before you the investor are rewarded. Very backwards. They need to get commission only on those stocks that you make money not the losers they recommended.
Martin….
More youthful and studious appearance is beneath that beard…. and more beard is beneath the youthful and studious appearance should you ever want it back….
Hi Martin
Sounds great to me I put 15,000 in a retirement acc. in 1994 and that’s about all
that’s left after the big wreck of 08!!
Thanks Glen
I am always interested in learning skills that I can apply to the market place. The data in Money & Markets along with Safe Money Report is excellent and confirmed by the market place for the past 8+ years I’ve been a subscriber.
Martin, Wow!! Yes count me all-in, I am all ears. If this is your strategy to preserve and grow your portfolio , then I would like to learn about it.
I also would like to see a webcast on your financial advice. I’m interested to see what a person like you who adivses people on investing does with his own money. It’s like when I ask my nutritionist “what vitamins do you take?”
Definitely !
I would be very interested. Please let me know if you do it…thank you, Barry
I would be most interested in hearing just how you invest your own personal funds. Your suggestion to list or discuss the eleven step check list would be most welcome. I look forward to that blog. I read everything that you and your associates forward very carefully because I quickly realized that you know what your are talking about.
David
That would be good for me,I read your emails every day. Thank You
First of all what can I do and where do I start if I live pay check to pay check? That’s what I realy
want to know. My bi-weekly income 830.00 after childsupport,bill’s,and car payment. I hate this
situation. Sign: despress
If your checklist can give me the confidence to re-invest, then please do the walk-through. If I am a successful investor as a result, then I will never forget what brought my success.
But Martin, what’s in it for you?
ME TOO yes, I believe following your checklist and knowing the specifics of your trading strategy would be very helpful to me. Please bring it on.
Thank you sooooooo much, and “May God Bless You”
Don–76 years young.
Yes Please,
I would very much like to have your input during these uncertain times.
Thank you,
Roscoe
Hmm. Bernard Baruch, your father, you (seasoned investment scholars), partnered with people like me (new to the game and getting both rewarded and chastised by the market on a daily basis) . . . and for free? I’m IN !!!
Sign me up!!!!
Will the dollar hold all the printing of money? Is it time to move into other currency or precious metal? If not now, when?
If you are willing Martin I believe any sane investor would jump at the opportunity to learn what you do with your money. We are once again in uncharted territory and any insight based on a desire to truly help us understand how we can still turn a profit would be most helpful to all. What I have gleaned from your blog is how fearful so many are; they have worked hard and this insane economy has robbed them blind. We know DC is not the answer, we are. We must deal with this ourselves but we need insight. Help provide us with that information. Thansk.
Martin –Lets go –but everone must agree not to get upset in the event you have a bad call !
Advisors are always heros until get that 1-100 pick wrong. When are we going to have a 2-3 day live trading and charting seminar in Palm Beach? Too Jays for dinner !—–Keep up the good work-god bless–m.
Yes, it would help me very much.
Everyone could benefit. As we are looking through the woods for some day light your traditional wisdom keeps us focused and mindful.
This year already is being covered with a big curtain. The signals from Washington are incoherent and rolling backwards.
It appears it takes generations to develope a winnings system for all investment seasons.
Mr. Weiss:
Am already a subscriber to your Safe Money Report. Am wondering if you have
a different publication or service in mind. I have made some mistakes, frankly, in
mostly not following your advice exactly, and trading too frequently. Still, I haven’t
really been hurt. At the same time, I haven’t made the kind of gains I was hoping
for. Also would like to know whether you have changed your position on gold in
light of recent developments.
Sincerely,
Terry Major
Sounds great. Send info.
I would love to learn from you.
Zoreena
Yes, it sounds good. I confess my hesitancy is due to lack of knowledge and direction.
That would be greatly appreciated
I think your step-by-step will be most welcome. My concern is the amount of time, confidence and expertise you will need to follow the process. I am retired and can devote as much time as I want to follow the markets, read newsletters and analyze my portfolios and then decide what to do. Many people do not have the luxury of so much time, and for them a more buy and hold strategy with a rebalancing 2 or 3 time a years may be sufficient. For those with minimum time and expertise the “Couch Potato portfolio” (type that into Google and follow the links) strategy which takes only 15 minutes per year may be sufficient.
Martin, I think you and your team is offering an excellent service. Keep up the good work.
I was hoping you would tell us what to do.
How will you know the future impact of the gov.s actions on stocks. The profits of the stocks in the short and long term and world currencies w/ protectionism on the rise worldwide?
Yes! Absolutely!
Martin, I can hardly find the words to express my gratitude to you for sharing your guidance. You have provided me with guidance, knowledge and understanding about what is going on in the markets such that I have been able to replace stress, fear, and uncertainty with hope, optimism, and confidence. No one else comes even close to providing pithy, lucid, and rationalized guidance such as yours.
Your Safe Money Report guidance protected me from what would have otherwise been substantial losses in my retirement fund. Daily, I look forward to reading your emails, more than any other investment and economic information source. One result of all this economic turmoil is that I too lost my job late last year. I used your economic guidance to alter my job search, to directionally change the focus of my search to different industries, which resulted in my recently getting the precise job that I targeted, no small feat in this economy.
I have the highest respect and admiration for you.
Thank you!
Martin, I subscribed to the Safe Money Report for many years and read it with great interest. However, I discontinued the subscription because it seemed to me that you were unduly influenced by your father’s experience and the history of the great depression. So, I went off on my own and invested in the great tech boom and lost my buns. At long last, I have recovered from most of the big loss and am now –pursuant to your advice– in a strong cash position. I know there is money to be made when the market starts to recover, so I’m ready to listen again.
Would be great if you could provide that step guidance!
Yes, that would be so helpful.
I just hardly can wait to read, what you have to say. Great job.
Of course…
Yes Martin
I would like to understand how to make money in this market on a consistent basis
and be able to help others in need, such as feeding the hungry or helping the homless
or other things along this line. Please count me in.
YES – I would be very interested to learn more about how you time your investments to make $$ and survive these markets.
That would be great if you would share your list with us and show us how you handle these conditions and avoid some of the pitfalls of this crazy market. I do enjoy reading your articles and if you would share your list with us, it would be great. I thank you for all your work and concern for investors, keep up the good work.
Yes, it would help very much, as long as you lay it out in details because I have never played the stock market. So for me, i need to learn how to purchase stock as I am a rookie. I am invested in real estate. I have picked stocks that I thought would do good (without putting money down) and much to my surprise, they have done well! I have attended Rich Dad’s seminar on investing in the stock market and it taught me the basics but too chicken to plunk down the money! I look forward to your emails and newsletters everyday as I value your opinions and inteligence.
I am confused and need help. I don’t have any control of what has happened in the past or what is about to transpire. I have to rely on myself period.
LP
I am always interested in the approach other people take to investing today, and yours would be of great interest.
Hi.Martin
I would love to sit in on your online training, as I am sure it would be most helpful.Have had very poor luck with fund managers and/or brokers that say they will help with good picks. I believe that most are sell you there junk at over inflated prices. Count me in.
It’s great getting info. from a person that tells the trueth.
Thank you , God Bless
Dave
Absolutely! I have trouble holding long enough to make gains. I am too unsure of the longer term direction of any trade right now. I feel like a bear, but am afraid to hold shorts because we may be at a bottom. If we are at a bottom I am afraid to hold long because we might not be at the bottom..see my dilema
This is a very tricky investment world particularly since Sept 15th and i read your newsletters, but i would love to have a checklist kind of approach and do my own research.
YEs the understanding of the principles that guide you the process of system execution and the particulars of wisdom from experience and insight that will allow me and others to act in practical application is the best.
And thank you for giving your assistance to help others you will be blessed in more ways than one especially helping all of us save this american way of life.
I would welcome your check list as a guide. I almost always mute the audio or turn the volume down when I watch the ticker on cnnfn . I do enjoy and look forward for your daily post. JR
Sure !
That would be GREAT if YOU could give us some step by step points !!!
Thanks.
Jeff Young
Martin:
Your father was a very smart man who shared info with his son. You took that info along with your own education and experience and became very successful. The people that listen to you need some of this wisdom and knowledge, as well as the trust that your father shared with you. The question is: How much should you share and how much should we pay for?
rarely is silver mentioned,in mr edelson reports and he mentioned that silver is not money ..history says otherwise what is silvers future …thanks you
Sounds great to me.
If you’d show me the steps you took with your own money, it would sure help me make much better decisions. Thanks
Hi Martin,
Sounds like a very interseting and informative event… I would love to expand my knowledge in investing and have a starting point and specific set of rules to follow.
Martin:
Yes, I would like to know the 11 criteria you use in a bear market, in order to make profits.
Martin, Yes I would be interested.
By the way Martin I am in Wash, DC and my job focus is to techinally keep this Country Safe, So my time is primarily focused on that and family any way you can help me use my limited time more affectively to improve my present and future financial situation and family security is greatly appreciated. You have helped secure and minimize loss
now I hope to gain info on how to take advantage of this once in a lifetime oppurtunity, like your Dad did in the previous financial melt down, for me and my family the next few years.
Yes!…it would be great to have information that we know would be correct and be willing to follow it rather than try to pick & choose from wall street. Knowing your experience is tried and true would give us more confidence.
DR Weiss, After reading many of the posted commits to your questions I believe the most compelling answer that most investors are looking for is, can they feel comfortable with the person they are trusting their financial future with? I believe that you are the most qualified person that I have watched during this whole financial mess that could truly help your fellow investors… I believe that your father instilled in you the ability to be successful in the financial sector, but more importantly the desire to help real people through these challenging times. I know that if you share the things that your father taught you with us it would be a true blessing. Thank You for caring about your fellow traders and customers.
I’ll be there if I can work it around my job schedule. As long as I’ve got your ear, how about a Monday or a Friday? Thanks.
Earlier today I pitched all my back issues of Money and Kiplinger. They have been 100% wrong. Same with CNBC, and most of the stock pickers on the internet.
I have done better just using my gut and trying to figure out what to do next.
I think it would be great to have a set of rules that allows me to sleep as well as my gut has over the past 6 months.
what will be the cost for me to take a gamble on you. i think you know what you are doing, you hit many things right, but i am a little weary of trusting people who are suppose to be knowledgable and cost me money.
I look forward to learning from you. Do you think you can teach a 73 year old some fundamentals of the markets?
I think you are in another class when it comes to spotting the trends that were unfolding long before the market began to plunge. By following your advice, we’ve been able to hold on during this terrible market. I would love to have you as a mentor
Oh! Yes that would help.
I would love to know how to invest. Thank you for the invitation. I am looking forward to the time.
Dear Martin, it sounds like you are offering some tools that we inexperienced and less savy investors could use to try to understand better how and when to invest and what and what not to invest in. I think this could be extremely useful. At the present time I find the current market so confusing and so obviously unstable that I need all the help I can get to establish some kind of bottom line where to begin. What I appreciate the most from your offer is that it relates to your personal experience and your personal finances. What we usually get is high-priced offers for expensive professional advice that is mostly based on theory and not on the reality of the advisor’s own investing patterns. Thank you for whatever you can share with us!
I am always eager to add to my understanding of the economy and markets. Your guidance has been invaluable in protecting my family’s funds. Please keep it up.
Martin,
It’s a great idea! But how can we be sure you really follow (with your own money) what you pray. And will you charge us for it an arm and leg?
It would be a great help and much appreciated. I know for myself that timing is one thing that I’m very bad at. I’ve gotten 2 out of 10 tries right. Not very good odds.
Vages gives better odds.
Your idea sounds very interesting. I’d go for it, if it’s free. If you wanted to be paid, I’d be willing to pay you out of any profits I might make from using your ideas in the futue. Paying out of my current income is something I’d not be willing to do, even with “guarantees,” which I generally don’t trust very much. But generally, your idea is great!
I need to understand the process of buying & selling and set up. I am from down under in Aus land.
While I would very much appreciate your insights, my feeling is and has been for the past two years that what we are witnessing and are about to witness is unlike anything that has occurred before. It is not 1929.
All of the pundits seem to equate today with then. Then the US was a creditor nation; then there was very little globalization;then Goldman Sachs did not run the Treasury; then the deficit was manageable; then although FDR closed the banks to stop a run, they were for the most part solvent; then, although there was anger, there wasn’t the kind of anger that is becoming evident today, where the people have lost faith in all of the country’s institutions; then, as much as the Republicans were against FDR’s proposal, they did not vote as a bloc not giving one vote to the Democratic bill
We are on terra incognita with the government, the bankers unable to figure out a solution, because it might just be that whatever appears to be a solution dredged up from the mud of the past, will not work.
Does it make sense for the stimulus program to be based on getting the consumer to buy and not putting every dollar to production? Isn’t anyone in the US ashamed that we consider ourselves consumers and not producers?
While I am not for protectionism, neither am I for unfettered free trade that rewards low wage countries at the expense of high wage countries. Are we to sacrifice the work of generations in producing a country of upward mobility to peon like labor so that corporations can seek the lowest wage scale? Will the US and other western developed nations have to give back hundreds of years of striving so corporations can milk free trade solely for their benefit?
No one has ever explained to me, where, with the exception of a small part of the US industrial world, the ordinary citizen has benefited. Unfortunately, it turns out that Ross Prot ws correct when he remarked that the “sucking sound you are hearing are jobs leaving the US”. And we all laughed.
So, you tell me how pertinent your 11 points are in this confused and turbulent world.
We all know that history repeats and using strategies which have been successful in past similar circumstances sounds like a smart idea to me.
Mr. Weiss,
Your checklist is exactly the type of investing advice that I could use to create wealth and increase it.
It sounds great, especially for novice investors. At least we would get the opportunity to learn ways to shore up our investments. It is difficult to know which advisers are giving sound recommendations.
Why not ???
Do you have money management operation ??
Dear Martin,
Thank you for your honesty, and for all your good hard work. I am a complete novice, but am very wary of who I listen to. I listen to you, and I would like to learn anything you have to say. I have never invested in anything, but during these times I find myself close to being destitute, like so many of my countrymen right now. If I had no more than $2,000 to gamble with what you advise, WHAT WOULD THAT ADVICE BE ??
Thank you. Please take REAL good care of yourself, and may God bless you, sir.
Sincerely,
Bob N.
Yes, I would be interested.
As I see it in todays environment, even the pros are somewhat confused. If you hold a position more than a few days you could get your head taken off. The only place I feel confortable is in options out a year or so. I guess my question would be, do you have some guidence on how to manage this volatile market.
I would like very much to hear your rules explained. So far I have done nothing right
I would be interested
If you could show us how you make those decisions step by step that would be a big help–but only if you aren’t “selling” the information. I can’t afford to buy another thing with the little money I have left. I need to start making my money work for ME not everyone else.
When and where?
I AN A TERRIBLE STK PICKER. IS THERE A SUCCESSFUL WAY TO BUY CALLS FOR LONGER PERIODS ON THE GREAT COMPANYS THAT WILL SURELY MAKE IT THROUGH AND EXCEL OVER THE LONG TERM? I BELIEVE YOU GET THE GIST OF MY THINKING. ANY GUIDE LINES TO APPLY THAT METHOD WOULD BE MORE THEN WELCOME!!
JAMES
would love to see/know your check list -specially helpful for newbies like me.
thank you
Martin
I think that would be very beneficial. I would hope that it could be viewed in the evening. I would also like to know which discount broker ( TD Ameritrade, etc ) you recommend that is the safest with the lowest cost.
Thanks
Certainly I would be interested.
Emil Rechstiner
Martin,This free online event would be coming at a most needed time. Would it help someone,such as myself,with only a small amount to invest, now that the Wall Street stock machine ran over me? To your health and wealth
I think the million dollar question is knowing when the market is near the turning around stage and our economy is back on track. I feel that Mr. Martin and your work force and with your expertise should be able to show us and prepare us for the up comeing BOOM, also show the fields and stocks or suggest the investments we should be in, I know with the many years you have behind you and with your father advise in the past, We the people in your organization money and markets would have the greatest assets anyone could ask for. I’m sure the people would be glad to pay dearly for or compensate you and your group. Thank you for allowing me to make my comments and hope this has some benefical to you and your group. Thanks once again and God Bless you and your group. Chuck
What a breath of fresh air to have an offer for valuable teaching at no cost. I really believe you have a heart for confused and uneducated investors and that you genuinely want to help us through this difficult time. Thank you!
I agree with james slater. I lost a decent-paying job to India. And it happened on the very eve of Bush’s second “election” (notice quotes) that our company announced to us that they were going to begin sending our work overseas to India to save the company their “bottom line”. Two of us spoke up in that meeting with management and asked “what if the Democrats get in instead of Bush” and the CEO got irritated with us. These companies knew ahead of time that this all was going to come down. They knew it the day we had that meeting. They were just letting us know that soon we would be out of a job, however gradually that would happen. AND we had to train the people in India how to do our jobs. It was part of our work schedule to make sure they knew how to do our work and do it properly. How can this country survive this kind of thing. We need our jobs and our manufacturing base back again. That’s the ONLY way we can rescue this country from what’s happening, and I think people are beginning to finally realize that.
I will like you to hold the investment conference. We are new to the investment world and your insight will be very valuable.
Martin:
I think that would be a great ideal. I have enjoyed the seminars you and Mike Larson have done in the past. I will look forward to your discussion.
Yes, I like the walk through idea. Could we also do that with retired people who rely on interst bearing returns? This is a unique approach you are contemplating. I’m impressed.
Art B
Yes.
Martin,
I have been interested in all of the commentary coming from MoneyandMarkets for
some time now. Although I think there is a lot of valuable information, I think there
is also too much hyperbola. Yes, it is possible to make large percentage gains using
ultra short ETFs in a falling market, but if your timing is off and we have a rally before
the market falls, you can also take huge losses quickly. I know everyone wants to catch
our eye with huge percentage gain potential, but if it were really as easy as some of
your writers make it out to be, why wouldn’t they just trade it themselves instead of
trying to sell some high-priced advice?
I do have a lot of respect for your foresight, analysis, and knowledge of the various vehicles for trading/investing and I would read and consider the rules and steps you use. Thanks.
Dear Martin,
I will be greatly interested in rules and steps you take in confronting the current economical turmoil. I’m sure such info from you wiil be most helpful to me.
All those ideas would be very helpful.
please, please do so…and Soon.
Thank you
yes….do it
yes….do it…..it would be extremley helpful
I have managed a trust fund for my family since 1981. As you know with proper investing excellent profits could have been made. In the years of my learning, I have never had a broker call and say “We need to get out of this position.” Losses were accepted as cost of learning. Finally comes along someone who has experienced all trends and learned from experts before him (your father). For this I am extremly gratful. Even though I am sixty-seven, I am still searching for skills and knowledge. Please load us down with all we can stand, but keep in mind, even though we were warned, our financial worth is considerly less. I would have loved to have joined your elete group but could not afford such an expense. In reference to Mr. Slater comments, get ready for socialisum, that is what the stimulus mainly contains. I am astonished that Democrats feel for this bill. Sorry, this is probably not the place to get into my opinions.
God Bless America
Yes I would like to explore your 11 point check list, but not if it going to cost me $2500 like your currency trading platform. Unfortunately, it seems like specific advice comes with a price. Hopefully the Money and Markets platform can be expanded to include more specific recommendations in lieu of the more general ones available today. Thanks.
Dear Martin -
yes, as an “educational lesson” it would be interesting to know what strategy you use;
there is certainly nothing you are going to loose and there is sure not guarantee for us to gain/profit from that ‘lesson’; because – as you know:
WE CANNOT STEP INTO THE SAME RIVER TWICE…
personally – i’d like to learn
Best regards
Tomas
Youn have been right so far, so I think your idea would be worth it to all of us who TRY to figure out the market
Martin, your insight would be helpful and appreciated. Thank you for sharing it.
Dear Martin,
Yes, I need help; I would be interested in attending the meeting you propose.
Best,
Nancy Spector
I would love to hear your list of rules. More education means more tools in the arsenal.
But, “it’s different this time”. Are your “old” rules still applicible to this “new” market?
You talk about a bond bubble, if deflation persists the Federal Reserve Bank can buy long term treasuries and keep yields low. So how can there be a bond bubble?
I would be very interested in your guidelines/checklist. I subscribe to Safe Money Report and assume the recommendations you provide there are a direct result of your guidelines/checklist. However, there seems to be many conflicting opinions on exactly what to do…. even within your own team of advisors associated with moneyandmarkets.com. Better clairity would indeed be very helpful.
I would be interested. As a novice any help would be appreciated with what I currently have.
I’m all ears. I never refuse good education from some one who has alot of knowledge of the markets with the type of enviroment we have today.
Count me in!
Yes, a good “bear market” strategy is very relevant now!!!!!!!
If we could learn from your experiences, it would be welcome
If you are going to adivse us ,please tell us what your track record has been in this down market. Terri
Mr Weiss,
To put it in your words I’m all ears ! Who would’nt be willing. If nothing else listen and pay attention.
I would also like to Thank You for your closing” Good Luck and God Bless” it is a pleasure to have someone state God Bless, so to you Martin God Bless
Martin, you pointed me to Petroleum Royalty Trusts before oil when ballistic. You pointed me to gold stocks when gold was at $300 per ounce. My broker asks me what I think. What I love about it is when I talk about investing I never give you any credit. I can’t help myself. I just sound so damn smart. Seriously, you saved my house with your investment advice. I can’t thank you enough. Count me in.
Martin, I just love to look at those pictures of you and your dad.If you can spot the bottom of this market and tell me what stocks to buy, I am all ears. I have $20,000.00. I need to hit a home run big time.
Absolutely, I’d try to be first in line.
It is hard to play the market. I find if you stay on side line it si safer as when you get the very next moment it goes down. It si just like stock wait fro me to get in and it plunges.
Such an event would be of great interest and value. I appreciate the advice and commentary of you and your organization.
Thank you.
I would, will, welcome such good advice, Mr. Weiss. My Dad was a fifty-year banker when he retired. and I am so glad he can’t live through these tough and crazy mixed up times, all because of the greediness and lack of moral character on the part of so many, and in such high places. and especially in the government. I am truly perplexed as to where to turn with any money or resources now, but I surely want some answers. Thank you. Sharon is to get in touch with me regarding my portfolio-evaluation, but we have a weekend, and a holiday ahead. mb
Go for it….Id love to attend
Since I inherited some stocks about a year ago from MY dad, who was pretty savvy himself, I’ve been on a crash course to get up to speed on investing (at a terribly difficult time, obviously), and SAFE MONEY REPORT has proven prescient in most cases. I have moved money into inverse ETF’s, a gold SPDR, and some energy exploration companies (which SMR recommended, but which tanked due to the drop in oil prices). Well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad. And, of course, I’ve dumped almost everything else, though remain on the fence about muni bonds, which I know you think is a ticking time bomb…Knowing how I felt when I first got up to snuff on stocks at a difficult time, I’ve decided to write a book, CRISIS INVESTING AND ENTREPRENEURING, because while I am somewhat of a novice in stock market investing, I have a wealth of experience starting profitable home based businesses, buying/re-selling real estate, relocating to cheaper locales, and other strategies which can make or save money during a recession. The key is DIVERSIFICATION. Hell, I once started a resume writing service in a town with 17% unemployment–and cleaned up! I will be quoting Weiss Research in the book, particularly in the area of currency trading, which I do think is something beyond most people’s radar screens and worth considering as an alternative to a general bear market. I look forward to getting any additional info from Weiss Research, which I luckily stumbled on early in the game.
So far your predictions and and analysis have been spot on, so i would be very interested in what you had to say.
You are fortunate to have had your father as a mentor. Inviting us to share your father’s wisdom, through you, in these difficult times is very noble of you.
Thank you
Good evening
I appreciate your news letter. Your webinar for making money in these times was excellent. My concern regarding investing in currency was that there would be a time committment I would not be able to follow, if I was understood correctly. Any rules and or advice you are willing to offer would be welcomed. Thank you for your time and knowledge
I would love to hear what you would buy, not what you would sell short. Great , Positive
idea to help lead us out of this mess before I take all my money and put it in the mattress.
Martin, thank you for all you have been doing to help us navigate this treacherous time.
We would be very grateful to you and your staff for all the guidance you can offer us.
Yes, it might be a great help.
I would love to learn your eleven points. And love your upbeat healthy ideas enough of bemoaning current politics and politians. I could use some ideas on what to do.
Thanks Earl
I would be very interested to learn.
Yes, my wife and I would be interested. We dug a financial grave for our young family when we bought a home in 2007, the worst time we could have done so. We thought we were doing the “right thing”. Sob story aside, we did not have any money in the stock market during the whole meltdown, so that’s a bright spot for us. We still have most of our savings in cash and have subscribed to your M&M newsletter as part of a broader attmept to not just weather the storm but also try to offset our homebuying blunder.
In other words, if you do decide to do what you have proposed, please let us know when. We’lll be there, sitting down with paper and pencil.
Dear Martin,
Yes, your offer is exactly what I have been waiting for. Having taken your previous advice to park my money in T-bills and a Fed insured money market, I have just been sitting on it. I thought at first it was just fear, but I realized that I just don’t know where to start with my action plan. I totally believe as you said, this is a great time to position onself for fabulous future profits. If you are serious, sign me up!
Absolutely Martin… I would be glad, if you can schedule such a session. I am sure, that, at a minimum, it will make me more knowledgeable about the ways to handle the current market situation, if not anything else. I am sure, that there is no downside to it.
Cheers
Great idea.
Dear Martin, I am a 60 yr old woman,on disability. My Dad passed away in 2006 , left me 15,000 that I put into a roth account. Now it is about 10,000 give or take. I don’t have the nerve or know how to do stocks, the chart thing scares me. I wish I knew how to do it but it jumbles my mind. The broker gets his share every time he trades, which is fair, but it takes a lot away, whatever I may make in dividends disappears, and I don’t seam to make any headway. I don’t dare move anything, I know you said to pull out, but he says to hold on, I’m confused. I read your articles, Forbes and the tycoon report I just don’t know where to go from here. Everyone has things to sell to help learn, but I don’t have the money to waste, if I don’t learn it. It’s kinda like paying to go to the spa to lose weight , and gaining it all back again. Almost all the people on these sites have a lot of money, and I don’t think anyone would even bother with someone like me with this little amount , that is about what they would use on one stock. But thanks for listening. Sandy
Absolutly…can’t trust nice guys in Armani suits on Wall Street now can we!
it looks like the only things that will work in a market like todays is options or something along that line but options are risky.
I have followed you for many years and feel any information you have would be a big help You have grown your communication abilities with the internet.Thank you and your staff
Dear Martin, if you held a free online event to walk your followers through your checklist,
I will be on the front row seat (like it was a soul-saving church service). After witnessing all your predictions come to pass over the past several months, I am a believer in your abilities to predict and be successful in the market place. You are the only business person I know of that has taken the time to compile and disseminate all the accurate data on the continuing meltdown (and free of charge). Nobody from Wall Street (including Schwab) has given me any insight on how to navigate through this financial quagmire and make good money. I have lost all confidence in the system, and don’t have a clue on which way to move. I feel like I am in check no matter which way I move with respect to investing in this market. Right now, I am sitting in 100% cash (25% invested in Schwab Value Advantage Money fund (SWVXX), 25% in Schwab Cash Reserves Sweep Shares (SWSXX), and 50% in cash). I have a very uneasy feeling about which shoe will drop next. I don’t feel like the U.S. dollar is safe either. I have NO confidence that the Stimulus Package is going to solve our country’s (or the World’s) financial woes either.
When I was a boy, my Mother and Father often talked about the great Depression and how dad earned a dollar per day. He had a Victory Garden as well to ensure that the Family had food on the table (there were eight of us children to feed). We managed to survive, but times were very tough for several years. The world was simple then. There was no TV or Internet Then, so news and progress was very slow. In this day and time, news (good or bad) travels at the speed of light. Dad always said that he hoped that we would never have to experience another depression. I am now retired, and feel like we about to topple over the edge into the second Great Depression. The world today would have a difficult time coping with a depression. It would change the world as we know it. Well, enough gloom and doom.
So, Dr. Weiss, I am open to all suggestions. I sure don’t have any of my own.
Thanks for the opportunity to vent.
Respectfully,
Lloyd Byers
Your past advice has “saved” me many dollars, and much embarrassment. So, YES, I
would welcome any new ideas you have to share.
all the world is a stage
Everybody is saying something about the mrkt. but no starting point for the new comer, I would like to hear what you would do with your own money.
You have 2 questions:
– would it help you make better decisions without having to rely on Wall Street?
Answer: Yes, because I have confidence in you.
– Could it help clear up the confusion and give you the confidence you need to
to make good money in this difficult market?
Answer: The flexibility steps taken in relation to the unfolding market may clear the
existing confusion.
Hi Martin
I find your talk heartfelt and sincere. I am watching from afar (AUS) and would be interested in your rules.
I have used your services for many years. I know from first-hand experience and conversations with Wall Street brokers (hostile to your efforts to warn the common people) that Wall Street tracks your recommendations and advice, with the purpose of undoing it. Therefore I urge you to take this surveillance into consideration in publishing your knowledge.
A great idea. I really value your opinion and would love to learn more of your insights on how to survive and prosper in these trying time. Just tell me when and where.
That would be a big YES.
Yes Martin, I for one would like to hear your idea’s on how to invest in all kinds of market conditions.
I have been learning by reading your newsletter but I am reluctant to purchase stocks. Do you have to have an ETF to purchase an inverse ETF?
I would like to know the secrets your dad told you…….Marilyn
Martin -
I think your principles would be a great benefit to me: a novice investor with a very small portfolio ( < $3,000 ).
Your Safe Money Report has already prevented some ill conceived actions on my part.
Thanks for your market wisdom.
Best regards,
John
You’ve already provided a good deal of advise to us subscribers, which I feel has been
quite helpful, but your specific rules/guidlines should be even more helpful, particularly
in these trying times.
The eleven tips sound useful for most investors. Here is a suggestion for a future presentation – offer strategies for the working man with kids in school and only a couple thousand to invest. Most of your recommendations, which are excellent, seem to to target those with 5-10 times that to invest.
yes. i’m all ears.
I have done somethings right and some wrong. Would like to improve with safe investments.
Dear Martin,
I would be most interested in hearing your strategies. I may not understand them all but I am trying to learn all I can, especially before it is time to “jump in again.” Thank you for considering doing this.
Joan Kaul
I am not a stock market investor, but now that we are retired (66), I need to put our money ($400,000 to work. I am scared to death to try it alone. Right now we are invested in Treasuries, cash (B of A) and Corporate Bonds.
Martin, love your work.
I am continually telling friends about you and your colleagues — that you have called this unfolding drama/depression every step of the way and with compelling insights to back up your views. It has been extremely important and helpful to me.
That said, I would look forward to a “tutorial” from you.
Bert Russo
I would be very interested if it is a free service. I have gained much knowledge and insight from reading your newsletter.
Your idea sounds very interesting. There are many stars in these markets
however none of them have time to share their activity knowledge or know how.
They would like to keep a very low profile.
If a tested and proven method exists naturally when followed is likely to produce similar results.
There will be opportunities in abundance and those who have the right knowledge will have the confidence to act and create the wealth they have been visualising for so long.
If you can assist, they will always pray for your well being. Everybody will be able to catch a fish if someone shows them how to fish.
Thanking you in advance for wanting to share your wealth of knowledge.
Sounds good. Seems like it can’t hurt. Kinda wonderful actually.
A wise man harkens to counsel,but fools rush head long and are destroyed.Of course I’d like to learn some principles for sound investing>
I would love to get that education.
I receive multitudinous mailings from all manner of self-proclaimed experts in how to get rich for only $39.95 a month, a year, pick you period. They mostly make good heating fuel during ice storms when the power is out.
I’ve subscribed to your Safe Money Report for a few years now; I have yet to invest a penny based on your advice. That may strike terror or revulsion into your soul. Know that I have also tried subscriptions to other publications, and have watched the advice and the predicted events. I chose to do this “dry run” reading after getting burned really bad by one “reputable” Special Situations Report.
You’re a bit more “gloom and doom” than others….but you’ve been more accurate. Over the last two years you’ve called our market situation rather accurately, and now I’m ready to plug dollars into the market based on your advice.
So, yes. I’d love to hear what you have to say, because it will give me that much more understanding and confidence in investing based on your judgements.
I would certainly listen to what you have to say. You have a talented staff and when they write articles they don’t sugar coat things.
I retired 10 years ago and have a pension from the state teacher retirement program. My pension and modest IRA are what I rely on for myself and a disabled adult son. My plan has been to spend as little as possible and invest for the long run to benefit my son, a daughter and her family. My investments have not been as conservative as one might advise for a 73 year old and I have lost 40% in the last year.
However, I have been diligent and studying hard for a couple of years to learn to trade and manage my own account. There are several newsletters that I am following currently. I especially like yours because you seem really sincere and experienced. However, I am very cautious at this point. I have been focused on raising more cash in my account as you suggest. The program you offered regarding currency trading sounded interesting to experiment with using a small portion of funds but the cash outlay was more than I wanted to risk at this point without more confidence as to outcome.
I have enjoyed your history and the writing of your colleagues. Certainly I will continue to look forward to any wisdom you can convey and use it as best I can. Thank you.
Linda
interesting
how can a blind man see the way? you lead us by the hand,you have been there!! Thanks again Martin. from Lloyd W.
Martin,
A checklist like that would provide the kind of discipline I need to avoid jumping into the wrong thing at precisely the wrong time. Bring it on! Please.
As the saying goes “Put your money where your mouth is ” I am very sure it will
help instill confidence in making decisions……
I’d be very interested to hear about possible solution strategies if it’s prefaced with a consideration of matching but alternate future scenarios. I agree with some of the points Mr. Slater mentions previously; that the global outcomes of the current crisis may be somewhat similar to the post-great depression era but with some significant new twists that result from global financial restructuring. For example what investments provide security and growth if the denomination of currency changes? What if the US dollar is rebranded and revalued in an attempt to rebalance the books and write off the growing deficit? Would U.S. Treasuries hold value? What alternate currency or securities would preserve value then?
If the current crisis evolves into a global depression with a long drawn out recovery period, what investments have the lowest carry cost? It would seem real estate would be the worst investment if property taxes would have to be paid while waiting for financial recovery and buyers to show up…….
Thanks.
Sounds like a plan, Martin. Thanks for all the thought you’re putting into trying to help us.
Dear Martin,
Thank you for all your counsel and advice. I have come to trust your opinions – but I am a complete novice – and don’t know how to buy and sell stocks or anything else (perhaps that kept me out of trouble) – but I see a huge nightmare scenario on the horizon and I think that cash will be wiped out by inflation. I need to find safety. I don’t trust the brokers and bankers and am paralyzed with indecision because I am overwhelmed with my lack of knowledge and understanding. I appreciate your words of wisdom and guidance. God bless and keep you.
I have only recently come across your website and find it is an invaluable help. I know very little about investing but am trying to learn as much as I can. I would love to find a good financial advisor but none of the ones I have come across had the foresight to protect themselves or their clients. I look forward to reading your advice.
Thanks,
Norah
This would be a very great benefit to me, as I am sure it would be to many others. I am ready to make good decisions, but just need the idea tools. Thanks for your help.
Lately, anyone that I have believed in as far as investing my money goes, has turned out to be no more than a hoodwink pretending to be an expert. Consequently, I have lost dearly at a time when I can least afford it and the hoodwink continues to charge for his so called expert management.
I have come to the conclusion that a bunch of monkeys throwing darts at the moving ticker could probably have done better. Moreover, there is very little comfort to be had knowing the immorality that seems to be pervasive in the American system…not a day without some scoundrel caught with his hand in the till. Not very pretty, is it?
Your advise would definitely be welcome.
Hi Martin!
I thank you for all the information you have shared already! I would love such a seminar.
Helen
Yes, please clear up the confusion and help us build confidence to make twise choices in these confusing and insecure, scary times!
I’m older than dirt. I’ve got enough already because I read your book yrs. ago as well as others who made more sense than J.M. Keynes. Keep up the good work. Don
I am somewhat synical about offers to make other people money – it the offered method is a sure fire bet there would be no need for the offerer to sell his method to make money – just make the money using the method.
I would love a world of alturists but people are not like that in my experience – even the good guys at my church
I am intrigued by your proposal to share for free – it raises the credibility of proposal – but still you may not be right – but I would listen harder to your thoughts and recommendations if offered with no strings attached
Martin,
I have been reading your Safe Money Report for a year now. I have learned so much. If you decide to instruct your subscribers with more details about how to invest, who would complain? Your credibility is high, and people trust you. I have followed your advice and your predictions, and so far, I have been extremely happy with the results. Of course, I want to know more about what you do!
Thanks,
Deborah
Would it be the type of list that a layman in investing could understand and apply with success? When you listen to enough conflicting advise, it’s hard to know what to do.
I live in Australia. MoneyandMarkets was one website amongst a few plus a timely piece in the UK paper “The Guardian” that alerted me in mid 2007 about what was to unfold. I moved my superannuation into a cash option in Nov 2007 – thankyou! But talk of possible stagflation at the time and memory of my parents dealing with high inflation in the 70s and 80s had me fix the home mortgage (at present a bad idea) though I knew there was a risk of interest rates collapsing too. Oh well still ahead overall.
Throughout late 2007 and 2008 talk of put options etc had me realise that one can make money in a falling market, and I eventually got set up to do this by late 2008. Only with AU$7k to play with but within a month had doubled to A$14k. But went the wrong way with the bear rallies over Dec and now back to $7k. At present talk of a big bear rally or a plunge to Dow of 5000 from various MoneyandMarkets and other commentators. So am sitting on the sidelines, but that is no way to make money either….
How in this volatile market to pick the bear rallies and the plunges? Especially with so much govt intervention. Maybe there it is just luck with the timing?? Some clearer indications would be helpful but perhaps too much to ask…
Widow.. IRA…..well diversified……..but all going down, down, down. Have no idea what to do………would love to hear your rules explained
Why not?
Martin,
Had I listened to you completely, in September (before the market began to tumble) and not let my X-broker convince me to keep some money in mutuals and “ride it out”, I would have about $100,000 more today than I do, as I’m new to all this investing (inherited money) and am trying to learn on a curve that has been speeding along at 200 miles an hour! You were correct in saying that cashing out was the best way to preserve your wealth. I believe you are bold and brave to stand in direct opposition, with insights that go against the grain of most brokers, the gov’mt and wall street itself. What you have offered for advice, so far in this bear market has been uncanny timing and advice, that if followed completely would have saved people from the losses they have experienced. I respect what you have to say, you have earned my complete attention. I’m interested in hearing what you suggest. You did help save much of my money from greater shipwreck than I had. Thank you so much. It’s tough to know where to turn and who to trust, but I believe you are right in most of what you say. Thanks again for giving me a place to turn for sound thinking and direction.
I can hardly wait!
God Bless You for your hand holding during these tumultuous times.
I would like to receive your information on financial survival. Unfortunately, it cannot get to me over the internet because I have only dial-up facilities available. As a retired Bell Telephone engineer, I regularly answer Verizon’s offers for fios lines; they cannot provide the service to me. I am sincerely grateful for the Emails of financial data that you and your staff send. Even to an amateur such as me, your observations are well thought out.
I’am always very keen and open to new ideas to create, generate and preserve wealth.
I would like to watch what happens and then invest of the leads seem to be solid.
Be happy to receive any advice you may care to give.
Your idea sounds very interesting. I need to understand the process of buying & selling and set up. I hope it’s not “option” or “currency” which I don’t know and not understand.
Terrific idea, Martin. I don’t know about others, but I find myself often either flailing about in a morass of uncertainty, or suffering the familiar paralysis-by-analysis as I peer at charts hoping for a single, strong signal rather than the usual half-a-dozen conflicting indicators that more commonly emerge.
Some clear steps to follow towards defining a course of action that has a better than random chance of a good outcome would be an enormous help.
I follow your opinions closely, but sometimes have a little difficulty relating specific thoughts to conditions here, in Australia. Our markets tend to move in tandem with the U.S., but our current situation differs in that our banking system has been quite strongly regulated so no bail-outs … so far. And, of course, we’re very dependent on Asian markets, and particularly China’s need of great chunks of our country, to keep us going. If you and your collleagues ever have a chance to comment on Australia specifically, I’m sure it would be hugely appreciated by your many Aussie followers.
Best regards, anni
What people need right now is not information, but hope. We thought that hope was going to come from a new administration, and new policies. So far, all we have seen are bad government beaurocrats, being replaced by terrible ones. This administration is clueless, and the fact is everyone already knows it….but won’t admit it. Socialism has officially arrived in America. The question then becomes not how do we profit from it, but how do we survive it? Count me in.
Martin,I learn slower than than Iwould like to and am working to improve myself. Keep teaching us. I trust you like a dad . Thank You!
Dollar Doom,
I have hedged against losses in the dollar by shorting dollar futures (DXH9- the march contract. Since the dollar has gone up I have large paper losses for my trouble. As an offset to my paper losses I presumably have an increase in the purchasing power of my dollars. Due to the possability of competetive devaluations of the fiat currencies in the DX index I question that I am accomplishing my objective. Is there a better hedge or does it work?
james dillworth
Let’s hear it.
I want to know how to determine the timing to get back in on the big blue chip stocks such as GE that have been over sold. Do you see that time in the upcoming year?
looking forward to learn from you.
I too would like to take 500 and turn it into a million
Absolutely! You are one of the few I feel I can trust and – have become paralyzed with fear for doing the wrong thing by being foolish
I am all ears. Many thanks in advance !
Yes-very interested. This would be very useful
Yes,but your problem(and mine and many like me) is that we are scared witless by some financial instruments,e.g i have never shorted a share.I buy in the estimation the share will go up in value and any form of leverage terrifies me.You assume more sophistication of your readers than most possess.
yes – an 11 point plan would be very useful
Yes please. You guys seem to know what it’s all about.
A lot of the money market stuff is hard to understand. Alot of people seem to talk ” double dutch ” but you guys explain it very well.
So please enlighten me.
Cheers
Peter
I’m all ears, Martin. You are truly one of the few sources that I’ve found that I can trust to give accurate and timely information. A checklist sounds like a great idea, but make it specific enough that it’s easy to apply.
Ok give me your list!!
Dear Martin,
I was really surprised about your question. Did you receive only 1 (one) answer to the effect “No, thanks!”??? I suspect – No. I suspect as well that you have been aware of that in advance. So I am asking myself: “What is he cooking up”? Of course, everybody wants to become rich, would like to have a 100% sure investing-strategy. There is a lot of people who are promising that. But ….I am afraid there is none. And – I am afraid you know that also very well.
Of course there is a lot of methods to reduce risks or to improve the timing of investments. It is a science you have to learn for many years and unfortunately it is no “exact science”. Every decision you take to-day may in the future turn out to be right or wrong. The only certainty we have remains the uncertainty. Therefore, forecasting the future is always a probability calculus. In this field, I admit, you have been admirably successful during the last years. Many people are trusting in you and your team. So do I – please don’t misunderstand me. But … there always remains this awful
little word “but”.
My answer: We are all dying to get to know your 11-points-checklist! We are all in confusion, have lost confidence, need someone who takes us by the hand. That’s the reason why we are reading your comments.
Although – please excuse me – in the back of my head will always remain this diabolical little word.
Thank you for having read to the end.
Thank you so much for all your efforts!
Sincerely yours
Christiane Schulte
Hi!
Love your site and e-mails. You saved my family much heartache and loss since we’ve tuned into your blogs. I would love to study the currency thing in detail but haven’t the time, unfortunately. So, the next best thing might be this video seminar you’re speaking of concerning the moves you make and “how to know” stats. Keep us posted, we’re on board.
Kind regards,
Judy
I have been reading your advice since 1995 and would be delighted to hear it now.
Thank you for all your insight Dr. Weiss.
Go for it! Need all the help I can get in these troubled times.
Very interesting, would love to participate. If you’ll do it, please send me an invitation!
Martin Hi,
I’m a long time subscriber to your leters. To answer your question, yes I’m also all ears to hear what are your check lists, rules & ideas you offer to share with us regarding how you would be managing your own assets to protect them & even profit – like your father – in this wild historic epic period. I’ve never doubted that history always repeats itself which is the main item I remember from a high school professor ages ago.
Your wisdom, integrity & compassion has come through to me over the years with your service. Many thanks, John Peters MD
YES PLEASE!!
Yes I will benefit immensely from your guidelines since I am very new to this stock market and want to know bear market strategies.Moreover I know you will give different opinions different from what common men do .I will be highly obliged if you explain me the stategies
We have been in total cash for over a year & thinking the market will be ready to start back up in the near future, but still have some fear because this economic turmoil is unprecedented since it is a world wide situation. We would be interested to see what your take is & look forward to your thoughts.
Claudette & Paul Gerhold
I am a young adult from Nigeria. I gladly look forward to reading your mail. What i find out is that certain things you said does not apply in my country because we dont buy things using credit cards. Our economy is cash and carry. I would be glad if you could release your checklist enabling me to take position of things at botton level. The economic crisis is getting closer to us now.
You are always generous, pls tell me about it. God bless you.
Dr. Weiss, I read most of your newsletters and with your education and experience both with you Dad and family you definitely have given out the best advice possible for the investment world. I realize that the following method of operation would not make a large amount of money for your staff but it sure would be comforting if you opened a fund for little investors lets say you have 500 people with 3 to 5 thousand each and you manage this like you do for the richer people. I’d rather place my confidence in an experienced individual like yourself rather then flying by the seat of my own pants.
yes, pl share specific strategy on how to profit from this market.
i know this is a great opportunity to pick up cheap stocks but i dont know how.
I have been very impressed by your analysis of the current instability, and would certainly like to hear more from you.
I am convinced we will all need to think out side of the box in the coming months and years as the world turns up side down. All the help to cope most welcome!!!
Martin i need all the help i can get,
john c
Go for it….all knowledge is greatfully received….no knowledge…no hope..
Hi Martin,
An online discussion around your specific checklist criteria would be very useful. I have no doubt it will be very enthusiastically received.
Keep up the excellent work and thanks….
I’m sure it will be very interesting if you explain your 11 point checklist but my english comprehension is not good, so I must wait for the transcription.
I use this chance for my little forecast : a daily close under 800 for the sp 500 index will be a short signal at very low risk and Dax index probably is not stronger
For both the target is very very low.
If there will be a top within 18-19 February ( dax 4550-4640 – sp500 850-865) , the sell signal will be stronger.
Good trading and good luck.
Dear Dr Weiss,
I have been fortunate enough to make a little money(UK),however,Ihave shorted stock and currencies.Now all I see are debt production by our governments of the G7,so inevitably currency devaluation looms large,but not yet.My brokers,who incidentally never shorted anything during 2007 or 2008,are now advising me to buy farm land and commercial property.Now I need to know :
1.How do I secure money whilst our governments are hell bent on destroying it?
2.What brokers do you suggest I use for trading in currencies?
Best Gerald
i can’t wait to hear it….
I would like to hear what you have to say.
Keep your comments coming. Can!t wait for the next one.
Absolutely! I was looking for straight answers and found marketing gimmicks until a friend of mine directed my attention to your site and news letters. I want to know what someone like you does with his own money… not pay for suggestions from people who do not make a living off of their own investments and trading, or as my great grandfather used to say “practice what they preach”.
Thank you all for helping me dodge this big market bullet,your role was significant.Doc,im all ears,i need some guidance if im going to play any offense here.i seemed to have avoided losing[im grateful],but cant seem to capitalize,and make money,its an intimidating tricky environment out there.Respectfully,Guy
That kind of program is just what I need. However, I would also like for you to address the idea that capitalism has failed the average American and only a ‘”savior” socialist government will save the day. Perhaps, you don’t like to discuss politics, but with the center of the financial world switching from Wall Street to Washington, how do we deal with this new emerging dynamic. Will Washington be successful in re-inflating the economy?
Martin, I am pleased to be on your and your staff’s mailing list and read with interest
what you guys have to say. I agree with 95% of your messages.
Unfortunately, I am one of those people who is now unemployed due to the greed and
stupidity of those who have been in control of my former employer and government.
Keep up the good work,
Jim
OK would listen be very interested
Martin, i am 72 almost semi-retired and in stocks 180k and i need to learn to buy ETFs,
Good ideas are always welcomed
Priscilla
Dear Martin Weiss
This is a wonderfull idea. I read your news-letter since at least two years and observe your previsions become realities. I am a 73 years old semi-retired and enjoy life. Lately I entered into the canadian stock market with very small amount invested in order to test my mental ad financial abilities and I follow Benjamin Graham guideline to carefully study companies before investing any amount of hard earned money. So a guideline, advice or checlist coming from a man that I respect will be more than welcome.
Louis Chatel
Absolutely.
The kind of checklist you describe is very necessary.
Martin:
I think everything you’ve said is right on the money and I’d appreciate any additional advice/information that you can provide. I’m sure options and currency trades are valuable tools to use but only if completely understood. Since I don’t understand them I would not take that kind of risk at this time. What I want to know is what can the average investor do or how can he/she evaluate good investment opportunities when they ocurr.
Yes please
Doc Weiss, I think that is a capital idea.
Do it.
Great idea, I am froze on the sidelines in fear and don’t seem to be able to make much investment headway BUT I think the reason is all the bumps we are getting from each little stimulus and bail out…May be it would be easier to just let it fall , hit bottom , shorten the suffering and pick up the pieces…Currently it is hard to play the down side of the down turn due to all the stop gap measures handed out by congress in the name of SAVING the economy that really needs to reset and then restart./
Sounds wonderful
I think you 11 point check list would be wonderful. Over the years you have gained the expertise that we all need to servive bear and bullish markets. I have always been taught to keep my eyes on those who are successful and you will become successful. Your father was successful and now he has passed it down to you. what a blessing he was for all of us.
david
I would very much like to see your approach to investing.
I will be grateful to receive your guidance.
I certainly would enjoy getting more specifics on ways to profit in this market. I always listen to your presentations and benefit.
Your Idea well wxplaind.
Thnk you very much
Bring it on, this is the kind of information i’m sure everyone wants to hear.
HI Mr. Weis,
I would LOVE to attend a free session about investing
Especially learning when to buy and when to sell . I have the basics , but I need that extra confidence booster of a wise investment person like yourself ,who knows what to watch for. I don’t dare to invest in anything anymore I think I have a case of
analysis paralysis.!
please count me in on that teleconference !
Andrea Stamm
This would be a wonderful and reassuring service to those of us who have read your Money and Markets newsletter for years, but could not respond to the endless offers of expensive help from members of your team.
That would be sweet We need the help
I’m retirement age, but sure would like to know anything that would help at this point…..
It Times like this we need a steady voice who knows how to navigate this market place
Great Newsletter.
Martin i have my own oilfield business thats not looking real good right now,i aim a real slow learner,i have been with you about 3 mths. now,i havn,t made a trade yet,you and your staff have great idea,s,i tried the etf,s then the wco,s,Jack says a 10 yr. old can do it,well i cancealed it i am back to etf,s,i need to understand the buying and selling and set up procedure,i have problems with brokers not understanding wco options,you guys are great,mike and jack both,thats why i keep paying attention to the program and info.
yes, that would help rebuild the necessary self-confidence to play in such a land mine as todays’ market.
I have learned not to depend on “Wall Street”, but TOTALLY on God who is Jehovah Jireh (our great provider/provision). He is the source of everything. Greed is the problem in todays world.
I trust totally in God Almighty. He will see us through this economical mess we are in, if we trust in HIM alone.
God has given us brains to make intelligent decisions about debt and wealth, so any information is always helpful for making good clear decisions for now and the future.
Thanks!
c.
Dear Martin, I have been a subscriber to Money and Markets for almost a year now and I really enjoyed reading the articles you and your staff has provided for subscribers. My husband passed away 10 days ago and I find great comfort in reading your commentaries. You appear to be honest & concern about what is going on in this world and sincere in trying to help people like me who struggles to rise above it all. One day with your help, I will find the courage and (money) to invest to help myself and my family. God bless you. Marilyn Anden Toronto, Ontario, Canada
by hook or by crook i would dig up $500.00
Just what I,ve been praying for… and from the people I look to for my advise!
Hi Martin I read your email with interest. My position is I have just retired ,bad timing I know. As my properties, shares and pension have tumbled ,I have decided to take a lump sum and trade the market. I am of couse a little weary and not too sure where to start. Having done all the right things I thought (savings, stock and pension )it has turned out to be all the wrong things unfortunatly. Many people are in the same position and think they will give the stock market a go and like me are open to all the guidence possible. Take care and once again carry on with the advice -very interesting – Regards Anne Russell
Achecklist would be a great idea. My problem is I never know when to buy or sell. You are never going to get it right all of the time but it would be nice to take advantage of the downturn this time!
please let me hear of the specifics from Martin
All ears.
Mary Jo
Hi Martin,
I have to tell that anyone prepared to share such fantastic information must either be a saint or a fool – and I don’t think you are fool. I would welcome your insight in to how we steer through this traitorous market place.
Regards,
Bob
Even though I don’t live in USA Dr Weiss’s advice would be applicable in UK.
What is the first sign to detect, when it’s time to go long on stocks?
Any suggestion from you is worth a lot more than what Wall Street offers. Keep up your informative work.
I see the wisdom of using stop loss orders, but I have read numerous times not to enter them in the market, because the price will be dropped momentarily to pick you off and then raised again. I assume the alternative is to use some monitoring software and only enter the trade when your alarms go off. How can I do that when I am at work and cannot respond rapidly? How can I use stop loss orders if I can only check the market 3 times a day when the market is open?
Always best to have a plan and a strategy before you are thrown into the whirlwind.
I would love to hear what you have to offer.
Thanks for all your good advice.
Mike
Great idea.
I can never attend live because of my work schedule, but I am more than happy to see the video later.
Thanks
Phil K
The Weiss Research team is on my very short list of qualified finance people worth listening to. Being a finance professional myself (college degrees, CPA, Fiduciary Management, Corporate Internal Auditor, and investment success) I’m a tough audiance. The characteristic of an unqualified financial ‘expert’ is one who premises his or her advise “with your money and my know-how.” Included in the unqualifieds are all the bankers, brokers, and Madoffs of the world. A good strategy for coping with the current financial situation is for individuals and families to hunker down and plan for a 10-year recovery.
Martin I only wish I had listened to you when in the end of 2007, you made the statement “Well Are You Ready” yours is the only voice that was clearly saying its time to get out of stocks. We had just come through October when I think the DOW had hit 14000. I was sure we were on the road to recovering the losses of 2000 and 911. That’s when I got interested in what you have to say. I lost about 27% of my retirement fund in a global fund. At first you were just another voice but now I have to say you have been a Blessing to me with your honest views and knowledge. Had I known of you sooner I would have saved 22% of the fund. You have my attention.
Your insight is greatly appreciated and welcomed. Thank you,
Paul
I would benefit greatly through your sharing your checklist.
Yes Martin I think that would be fantastic. I have valued your advice so far.
Who wouldn’t ?? they would be foolish not you – have proven your worth with the fountain of knowledge you and your team have shared with us – and from that knowlegde we can most certainly see you all know your stuff.
Yes, yes, yes it’ll help us to understand Dos and Don’ts and your reasoning behind them. It’s an excellent and generous idea.
I can’t wait! I look forward to your checklist.
Yes and could you tell us how to keep our credit lines? I have a credit score of 800 and
have had a business Amex card for 10 years. Friday night at 10PM I received an email saying my limit was reduced from 30K to 2K. I carry no balance on the card and have paid it in full each month for the ten years. Thanks
Hello
Show me how you manage your money in a bear amrket !
Hello Mr Weiss
I am intersted to know how you manage your money in a bear amrket !
I followed your advise last year and went to short term treasuries. Currently i am with Merrill Lynch and they have been pushing me to jump back in but I will not committ since I have very little faith in Wall Street Firms. I would greatly appreciate your assistance.
We are all ears!….perhaps I should say eyes, since this is the computer.
Yes indeed ! I could use a checklist to guide my investment activity. Your past advice has been right on.
Sounds Good……..
Thank you
May you elaborat the cost of each stock they bought.
Yes please and Thank you for the generous offer.
To be given pertinent input from an analyst of your caliber would be absolutely
AWESOME!!!
There are so many in the community who are so….so… desperately in need of a little bit of just the right touch….. to enable them to face….. yet…. another day.
The average Joe is often too busy trying to avoid other traffic on the 12 lane wide highways of life. If he hits a pothole, his automatic reflex is to slam on the brakes, which unfortunately can cause the car to go into a skid, in the wrong direction……… out of control.
The “Yes” is Unanimous.
You just got all your subscribers back aain.
yes sounds great
You have been right so far,so Iwould love to know your thoughts.
Thanks Martin for your insights.
Eric
thank you for your invitation. i think that one topic of interest to many could be in deciding how to deal with shares which are ‘value trap’ as many dividend rates now are very appealing. but will they last? what signs are of value in deciding when the shift from a deflation mentality to an inflationary expectation do you use? what currency crosses do you follow most closely? thanks for the chance to ask some questions that are not easily answered.
I look forward to your advice & insite; this advice can be applied to any situation; I have several agriculture investments; food/fuel hard assets that are sustainable/renewable which I would like your help to find investor; your a ray of lite in tough times Earl J Eckerson 601-214-9157
I think you call this, “common sense.” Make sure that the companies you are investing in have a reasonable underlying value. They should have a track record of being profitable in any economy and not be overpriced. Like your father, you have to use your own understanding of how things are, not some broker who doesn’t care if he loses your money or not by his recommendations. Unfortunately, like Peter Lynch, most of us can’t go visit companies to see how they operate before investing our money. We are stuck with what they tell us. Dennis Kozlowski is in jail. I worked in one of his companies. Who knew?
Mildred M. Marble
Martin,
I would think it would be agreat idea to share those thoughts with us. I have been a subscriber to your Safe Money Report for several years now and enjoy reading and your thoughts. I credit the Safe Money Report with helping me understand and deal with the situation in our financial markets. Thanks to you I have made changes to my portfolio that have helped me deal with this mess.
I would like to try some of your other services but my portfolio is not quite big enough and not sure I can spend that much as some of your other letters are a tad expensive. But good advice is worth a premium.
I agree with you. This mess will be with us a long time.
Sincerely,
Dale
North Carolina
WE NEED ALL HELP WE CAN GET.
I’m eager to learn as much as I can in order to make well educated investment dicisions with our money.
Yes Martin, It would be helpful to me to get your explanation of the rules you follow to determine what to buy or sell, to improve timing and lower risk, and to boost the profit potential in bear markets. Thanks for offering to share your rules.
Ed
Yes, go for it! Please comment on high-yielding investments — can they maintain their dividend? Stocks like PWE, NLY, PHK, RVT, MSD, etc. Paying 12 to 16%!
Thanks! John
Lets do it! Information is the key to making sound financial decisions, unless its from CNBC.
Federal obligations exceed world GDP
As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800 billion deficit-spending economic stimulus plan, the American public is largely unaware that the true deficit of the federal government already is measured in trillions of dollars, and in fact its $65.5 trillion in total obligations exceeds the gross domestic product of the world.
Any comments on this ??????????
Please share
Please share everything I need all the help I can get…Tom
At this point I’m down 20%, I did this by following all the great advice of my money handlers. I did all they advised, all the right things, 401K, Stocks, Bonds, this plan, that plan etc. My early years were in physical labor, and now, because of age, I’m unable to return to that. I have about 20 to 25 years remaining on this planet
(judging by when Mom and Dad died). Soooo do I spend another $2500.00 and cross my fingers ? Or what ?
Sounds great!
yes it would help tp have steps, but it not work because people sometimes fear they still lack enough knowledge to invest wisely to make money and they do not take action, It might be due to a lack of confidence or they do not think that the time is right to invest, or other people are telling them to do something different.
Martin, Fantastic idea. The more educated we become, the better investors we become.
That is a good idea. Hopefully the “public” will learn something.
That is a wonderful idea and one which I think would be of great benefit to all of us. Please do so as soon as possible.
Thank you and may God bless you, your family and your employees.
I am very impressed by your calls on the market and I continue to follow your advise even though the urge to jump back into the market at this point seems irresistible. I am interested in your calls on commodities paticularly oil and energy related stocks. I am still in cash and waiting for you advise as to when to get back in.
I believe that the public is largely afraid due to tv, newspapers and the conversations with friends and aquaintences. They believe in bank cd`s due to FDIC. But who really knows when the FDIC will payoff if the banks fail and close when the Government gets tired of throwing money into everything. It`s just like the dutchboy plugging up the holes in the dam and we know what happens eventually to the dam. The sad thing is that people will not read some financial history as it takes a little effort.
Martin:
I’m hopping to get $ 60,000 +- some time this year and would greatly appreciate your guidance. I lost what I had ($ 237,000) making bad decisions on my own.
Martin, I hope you will be able to generally say when the deflation has ended and inflation has begun. I wish you good luck.
Yes, that would certainly help me !
YES, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ALL OF YOUR INPUT.
JIM
We’re all in. Judy
A free online event walking me through would certainly help in this market where you have a few ideas but timing and confidence might not be there. The rules would ensure discipline which is what is required in investing.
Therefore I would certainly welcome any guidance.
This question has really piqued my interest!!!I would LOVE to know about the strategies you use to pick stocks that will make money.Since I have dialup, I am very hopeful that you will have it in printed form.Looking forward to hear from a guru of investing.
Millions of people have lost billions of dollars in the stock market in 2008.
You would have to be Genius to make money in this environment or be faithful reader of Money and Markets daily news letter.
I am all eyes and ear for these “steps”.
One must always be open to get all the information. I am constantly hungry for more knowledge. But the important key is that knowledge goes to waste if it is not applied!!! You can’t steer a parked car. Ya’ gotta git movin’.
Martin,
Sometimes I think to world has gone insane. Take Bank of America. They bought Campion Mortgage for a whole lot of money gave Angello many hundreds of millions as a golden parachute. Then B of A took billions as a bail out. All the bailouts. Unbelievable.
Now the stimulus with all the pork. All the kings horses couldn’t put him together again but, they sure made huge sums of money.
Martin, help us. I’m afraid it will get worse b 4 it gets better.
Hank
Martin,
I think your idea would help many of us who are near retirement to achieve more than a subsistence level of existence during our future years. I’m all for it.
You are all ready a lighthouse for me! Anything else you shared would be a extra.
I sincerely need any assistance I can get in order to start understanding the current economic situation we all face, and also to better understand how to trade in this market. Whether it’s buying/selling stocks or options, or iron condors, you name it, I’d like to learn. I need to secure the future financial status of my family. May God bless your willingness to help in this time.
Yes It would be valuable. EGE
please share your wisdom with us
Yes, I believe your checklist would be a great tool for us everyday folks trying
to continue to build our financial “house”.
You have been amazingly right on your predictions thus far! I am not sure about your prediction of the bottom at Dow 5000. Would you be to be wrong on that forecast?
What do you think the Dow to be at the end of 2010?
” ” 2015?
When do you think that we will get back to 2007 market peak?
GM
A concerned a retiree
I think it is a great idea. I think all your readers are interested in learning and you and yourteam do an excellent job of sharing knowledge for better investing.
Always willing to learn. Putting answers into action is difficult when working and
not being able to spend the time necessary to follow results. How about developing
a Martin Weiss Mutual Fund where one could invest in your knowledge.
I read your information regularly. I’d appreciate this information you are speaking of in this e-mail.
Thanks
J
What Tom said!
Of course this would be great. I’m just hoping you want to share, not charge, for this valuable information
market timing is everything – it would be nice to see how you do this and with what market instruments
I do not believe in the government medleing in the market place; just let the markets find the point of discovery no matter how painful it may seem or be at the time.
Martin, It sounds like you have a plan, GO FOR IT. RICH.
Yes in deed it will help! The sole reason for my yearly subscription renewals and loyality to the Weiss Group, is the knowledge that you share with your subscribers. I believe we become your students as we are mentored in our own financial environment.
I try to follow your advice and the advice in your Safe Money Report. Please share your methods.
Naturally I would like to hear your ideas re “what to do in bear markets.Your advice so far for years has been right on.
Yes, I’m looking forward to hearing your father’s strategy. It might prove as useful as the 6-6-6 rule I read about many years ago. (Buy stocks around the price of 6, with a 6 PE, that pays a dividend of 6%.)
Pleasse share. I need all the help I can get.
Please share your evaluation for all sectors of the market….especially energy, agricultural and precious metals. Over the next 18 to 24 months which sectors will be the place to be??
I sold all my stock and eqity positions based on both your comments and the market action in August and September sustaining a loss in total ,but not as bad as if I held on. However,I kept my energy and natural resource positions rather than take a large loss on them.What do you recommend?
Marvin
Yes, Martin iit would help me gretly. i have only been losing money in this market
Martin, I have been burnt to many times and always value good information to make better investmnet decision in the future. All your help is much appreciated. Keep up the good work.
I think this would be a good idea and help clear up confusion on how to handle todays market conditions.
Thank you
Great idea….Please do so.
Martin,
Sounds great. You can pick a company with good fundamentals, but the timing is still critical and the most difficult to predict short term.
Your father would be proud of you Martin, not many people today in the investment world are TRULY out to REALLY help their customers. They are ruled only by their greed for more money for themselves, one look at the corruption on Wall Street says it all. They tell their customers one thing while they invest in another direction.
To answer your question…… YES
Dear Dr. Weiss……Thanx for advising me about inverse ETFs. They’ve saved me most days and have even made me a profit on a few. However I took a bath at first on SRS but now that I’m down to 25% I’m sticking with it because it still gains more than it looses NOW. I’ve put 25% of my other money in a US short term treasury fund but now you say that could be hazzardous and that I might have to place $1000s in cash into a SAFE DEPOSIT box. If it gets that bad, won’t we have riots? Bob Nichol @ 10:52am
I strongly believe it would! I really started to follow you since the Fall of ‘07, I wish I would have heeded more of your advice. I was one of many who didn’t really believe the “doom and gloom” could really happen. Only because of your advise, I saved myself from total disaster as well as my future inheritance. Sitting on the side line is very hard and requires a lot of patience. To have trusted advice would really be helpful.
Martin,
I’d welcome the opportunity to see your checklist. Can you please also tell us if your checklist is to pick securities for the long term or short term?
Ross.
YES!
Yeah, the joke on late nite was—-stimulus —-hey, I’m not pissed off—-the people that are going to pay for all this are not even BORN yet—-crazy huh?
yes, by all means.
What I really would like to see is an integration and summary of the individual consensus of all the Weiss contributors that could result in a “menu” of investing choices based on risk/reward potential. Also, it would be great to have guidance in how to track sector rotation and then identify those stocks within a sector that identify with good buying/selling opportunity.
LET”S GO
As your father in the past had experienced during the onset of the Great Depression, we witness the same today having seen banks, great corporations and our portfolios wiped out in a matter of weeks since October of last year. Yes, the opportunity to rebuilt exists. For example, previous untouchable big name stocks by the average wage earner can now be purchased for pennies to the dollar compared to pre October 08 prices. However the decline in the value of their stock assets that these corporations depended upon to leverage and fund there operations have left many of them cash strapped and in dire circumstances, many of whom will not be able to ride out the Depression of 09.
Their survival and our ability to stabilize our portfolios depends on when the market (how quickly) finally hits rock bottom followed by sustained long term growth that we all imagine will follow. However, today premium stocks are still declining and although now very affordable to the average investor, these name brand stocks may still go further down or go bust.
Whatleading market indicators did your father discover that determined that point of inflection during the Great Depression where the market finally hit rock bottomand where real growth ensued? and were there certain market sectors that indicated this point in advance of the recovery and growth stages?
Let’s GO
Yes, I’m sure it would help me. Thanks for your v kind offer.
Love to see such a talk, even while knowing rules are not infalable, they can help a lot to avoid bad decisions
One more thing Martin, if you were 70, retired, had over $230K in debt, a portfolio remaining after the “slaughter of the bulls” in the arena of only $70K, in good health, so one might expect to live 20 more years, what would you think we are all looking for? INCOME, INCOME, INCOME!!! So anything that you can provide for us that can help us is a rather obvious YES!! Sitting on a horse in the middle of a river waiting for flood to cease is really unnerving. I am trying to pick Dividend paying companies that will not drop their dividends, and I have invested in Gold and your inverse ETF’s recommendations, but we need INCOME, a regular stream of income.
Yes, thank you Martin. While I have been an investor since 1978 I am still learning from professionals like you. I will be very interested in seeing the rules you follow. These days we all need as much help as we can get for making good decisions.
John Geuting
Your “Safe Money” team of experts have lived up to your companies name.
Their advice has always been way ahead of the rest of the financial experts.
You may have been a wee bit early on some of your calls …. but early certainly beats
being late !! Your market insights have been inspired and dead on. Your service and your team opened my eyes over the last 4 years and saved my hard earned nest egg and my daughters college fund. If you have more advice I can use to navigate the difficult financial waters ahead – I am all ears.
I am for it. It will give me a lot of confidence in investing in this markets. Right now all my pension and non-pension are all in cash.
Martin,
I relish the thought of your online line seminar. We all need the help and advise you offer. As another person mentioned, your Dad would be very proud of you.
Thanks
Hi Martin,
I would love to learn about your checklist.
Thanks once again for everything.
Bill
Yes, let me know what you do. Being ‘in house’ on my products with different companies, still does not give me the understanding I need. All that does is to let me help myself and be my own boss until I should change over.
Yes, I need help and any thing you can do would help.
Martin,
I am very grateful for your knowledge. Like you, my dad and I were very close. Before he passed away last year we enjoyed many conversations about the ideas and strategies in your newsletters and subscriptions. Through your guidance my portfolio is in very good shape and I’ve even made great money using inverse ETFs. Anything you are willing to share is of value to me.
It would be nice. I am on dialup so have an option to a video affair.
Great idea! And isn’t this, in part, what buying into your trading services demonstrates? They demonstrate to me what side of the market to be on, or the trend, how to use stops…I only make money when I sell stock! And, it causes me to read profusely, watch charts, the overall market very carefully/daily, and sometimes hourly. Oh, but could the sales pitches and “back up the truck” comments be expelled from print, please! Because when those trades tank, he who has recommended them looks a fool. I’ll listen and play when I admire the example/results. I understand when the market shifts, but strongly dislike being BSed. For the most part I benefit from all of your commentary and it is appreciated. Thank you and kind regards to you all. Lisa Monticelli
Martin,
The sooner the better, hopefully, you have already shared a portion of these with us!
If you and your father’s insight not only help us through this greed driven mess, but we can actually make a decent (not greedy return) on our monies, I will be a client for life. Thanks
Hi Dr. Weiss
I ccan also use all the help I can get! The first of my mom’s annuities are about to fund–and for the portion I am going to invest, I want it to be wise investments. Things that will survive and grow and prosper.
Of course, Martin. We, your readers, appreciate all your timely insights to the economics of the day–espescially now when times are so gloomy. Thank you!
Yes I’d like to see your checklist.
Thank You!!!! I really enjoy all the great information in your newsletters, but I
need specific details. I have never traded one stock in my life and honestly I have
a fear factor concerning the first step. Sylvia
I can’t afford a new computer and my windows 2000 doesn’t pick you up. May we get print outs on the computer?
DO IT! Please We have learned so much from you!
Amen!
Dear Martin,
I don’t want to harp on the “I have little money” theme, I’m doing the best I know who on what I have. Please also produce a print version of your information. I have dialup and no speakers at present. I truly appreciate the sound advice you have presented in your free eletters, it saved our 401k from being decimated.
Sharon
Martin, a great business man always goes above and beyond the norm. You sir, are a great business man- thanks, Frank
Yes, I would like to have free access to your checklist.
It sounds like a good plan. I don’t see any reasons yet why the stock marlet should go up. This is a world wide downturn and the game is changing. Everyone should know what to do in this sad time.
Great idea, Martin. Thanks for sharing your knowledge through this difficult time. Are you going to ring a bell at the bottom? :)
Your friend,
Steve
Martin, I look forward to, “The Rules you follow”, on buying and selling. Thanks Gerald
Wonderful idea in this bear market, you are just what the doctor ordered.
Count me in…..
Martin
You prove that there are honorable, giving people in this world. I thank you for your
sharing.
You-bet, I’m In
I have never purchased any stock or investments. I recently visited a local broker and investment firm. I would like to learn how to buy stocks without the help or fees I would pay a broker. Thanks, quan
Martin, with so many in need of direction and wisdom in times that appear so bleak, an offer such as this is greatly commended and appreciated. I feel this as an answer to so many prayers and we are all blessed to have been able to cross your path. Thank-you and may God Bless !
Buck
Martin,
I would say yes, emphatically.
your advice and comments have been very useful and wise.
Merrill Markham
Sounds great, we all need a little help from our friends at this present crossroads, thank you for all your concern and assistance it is most appreciated. You have taught me a great deal.
History repeats itself so I would love to see what may be coming and who to protect and profit from your experience.
Lay it on me.
I am extremely interested in your checklist and it’s implementation. Whereas, I may not be able to attend the live event, I would enjoy having it available in a format that I could access and refer back to, as I make my investment choices.
Thank you for offering to help.
Dr. Martin
Wonderful idea! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.
I greatly appreciate.
Yes,this would be a GREAT help!
Martin,
You and your team are the best! I wish I would have found you a couple years ago! I have followed your advice in the areas that I understand and feel comfortable with and have recovered 58% of the losses I was down at the time of my subscription. And, it keeps getting better each week.
I would welcome any and all further guidance from you and your team!!!!!
Many Thanks,
Jerry Hutchins
Dear Martin
The idea is great. I have wanted to know, from someone who really knows, what investments prospered during the great depression.
Best regards,
You and your team are the best! I wish I would have found you a couple years ago! I would welcome any and all further guidance from you and your team!!!!!
Education is always good. Hopefully you will distribute the rules via e-mail, since some of us are not able to tune in to the online events. BTW, while you’re at it, you might consider the fact that we now have a socialist in the White House; which might affect (change) some of your rules.
Dear Martin,
What I’ve been doing up to now appears to have got me into a mess with the prognosis of “worse to come”. Is this what I’ve worked for all my life? My thinking evidently requires bending, stretching, inverting, squashing or perhaps …. GUIDING???
Thank you for your kind and philanthropic offer. Please help me to change.
Best wishes, Glyn.
Martin: Thanks for your excellent explanations of the investing environment & economic
conditions we are in. I’ve only been a Safe Money subscriber for 1-2 years and I wish I had known before I subscribed to some other newsletters in the past. I would be interested in any other advice you could offer through your checklist online.
Thanks very much;
Harold Walls
I WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO LISTEN.
I would like to receive the rules you follow for making investments.
I’d like to see your checklist for investments in this environment. Sounds like a great idea.
I think sharing your checklist for successful investing in hard times would be most useful. I am particularly interested in miminizing risk and maximizing the chances of success. Thanks.
Hubert Mador
Martin- I would really appreciate the valuable info in your checklist. Bill
ENJOY VIDEO CONFERENCES BUT NOT ALWAYS AVAILABLE ON HAND HELD DEVICE SO APPRECIATE WRITTEN VERSION VERY MUCH.
Of course, I have confidence in your beliefs and need a lot of courage to make changes. Thank you and God Bless
Martin,
I’d love to hear your thoughts. I also respect the fact that no one knows what is going to happen. History is pretty clear and there are lessons to be learned, but I’d try to keep your comments in the context of “my educated guess as to what is going to happen and how to profit by it”. I trust your judgment more than most and appreciate that you want to help your country by educating its citizens.
I would appreciate an on-line event like that.
Martin – Sounds great! – Hope you can do … THANKS very Much!
Good Idea. I would be interested.
Indeed, that would be interesting to compare your checklist with our knowledge.
Count me in also…
Yes! Thank you for the offer. I am sure it would be of immense help in this climate of fear and uncertainty. I have a question in advance. If you do hold this on line session could one assume that the steps you reveal to us would hold true not only for your own money but also apply to rules that would be followed by your portfolio management team?
To answer your question, YES. But first let me take the time to say thank you for what you and the staff at M & M have done for my family and I. I failed to do that in my first response. I started to listen to you some time ago and am really glad I did. So presently, I have unloaded unnecessary real estate, moved from risky banks, sold my risky equities and currently hold cash, bullion and ETF’s. I can sleep at night. But I question what is coming and wonder what to do next.
It would be great. One can never have too much information.
“give a man a fish, and he eats for one day. Teach a man to fish and he eats everyday.” The bromide has a great deal to say, but it doesn’t cover everyone. Some people don’t have the necessary tools to fish. Some may not have the time to fish. Others may not be in the position to abandon their present situation to take up full time fishing. Others simply aren’t good at it–don’t have the necessary background or patience to learn the new skills. My point: telling a large audience pocessing various degrees of skills and understanding is an onerous task both for the teacher and the students. Insuch a case, it is often more effective to have the informed and the experts do the legwork, relay the results to the large body of “students”, then explain the results and reasons for the conclusion. Long story short: Specifics are far more helpful than generalities.
Dear Martin -
Although it’s your profession to give financial info — your caring, humanity shines though your messages. I’d VERY MUCH appreciate having the privilege of learning your 11-point check list!
Bless you – Rama
Knowledge; as they say is power. But I am after truth and the independent knowledge that comes from it. As I told someone lately; if I am going out I am going on my terms. Not from the recommendation of some snot nose broker who’s only job is to pimp commissions. How can anyone trust those people in Wall Street ever again! Your recommendations have been pretty close to right on so your knowledge is worth pursuing, investigating and testing. I would very much be interested in what you have to say.
YES – would you address mutul fund investing in indexes and sectors?
Martin,
Thanks for all you do, and any help/advice you could share from your father’s experience & wisdom would be deeply appreciated!
You have been very helpful in warning us about the risk and dangers in the present investment environment. I am very interested in your rules for investing in a bear market. Thanks!
I’m all ears; when can I sign up? Muriel from WNY
Hi Martin
You saved me from desaster on my retirement money.
Your check list would help greatly.
Thanks for your good advise, you are the only one adviser I consider.
jp
I’d like to see or hear those 11 points…
Martin – Thanks for all your insights, and the other’s at Weiss Research. Can I nominate you for Treasury Secretary? Strike that; you deserve something much better….someone’s GOT to lead us!
I always welcome your information. Sometimes I act on it, sometimes not, but it Always goes into my mental hopper for serious consideration. Thanks.
Near the top of your list must be “…enjoy a debt-free lifestyle.” Debt/credit are modern consumer addictions, followed closely by Greed. Now let’s hear your’s!
i think it would be a tremendous help to people like myself – a retired steelworker -union man -non management – who put two kids thru college – and then ltv steel went bankrupt and we lost insurance benefits – so thanks to you – we are making a slow but safe recovery God Bless – fred & sharon
Always appreciate your take on direction of the market. Keep educating us and continue to help us investors become more self-reliant .
Martin: Sure, I’d really like to see your eleven point checklist. Thus far, I have depended on you, Mike, Jack, Larry and Nilus for advice. So far, you have been mostly right, with the exception of options which are high risk Vegas type bets at best. Regrefully, I didn’t pull out of the market dive as soon as I should have so there was some pain. That’s what I get for giving a slice of the pie to traditional, well meaning brokers to play with. Now its all cash, gold and some minor dabble in ETF shorts you guys highlight.
By the way, i hope your Dad paid grandma back that $5,000 (in today’s dollars) he borrowed. I wish my grandkids would pay some of their borrowed money back before I croak! I don’t really expect it. Especially when these college educated young adults only get part time menial jobs in the present and recent past environment. Even the folks at Disney won’t make jobs permanent to avoid paying basic benefits. It takes them two such jobs to survive.Thus, some subsidies and bail outs eminate from grandpa in spite of their fiscal transgressions. Maybe biz ad degrees from Florida State don’t sell well (which I always suspected). This from an intellectually arrogant engineer from UC. Berkeley.
Jerry Hayes
I can’t think of anything more valuable! Especially if it was followed up with a transcript. Pure gold!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!! Martin, let me know when!
A checklist like you mentioned would be extremely helpful. I would be very appreciative just like I am for “Safe Money Report” and Money and Markets” which have saved me from tremendous losses and instead made money for me.
ALWAYS OPEN TO SOUND ADVICE! MANY THANKS. C
sounds interesting. Id listen.
Thanks, Martin.
We’ll be much blessed to join you for such an event!
That would be fantastic and a change from all the charlatans and the sharks that are posturing for yet another holdup. I am all ears…
It would be interesting to compare your checklist with what we think we know.
Count me in …
It would be a privilege and an honor to listen in on such an event of such sage advice.A definite and emphatic YES!!!!
YES, I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THIS. YOU ALWAYS
SEEM TO BE WAY AHEAD OF THE THOSE KNOWLEDGEABLE FOLKS
Yes, Martin. The sharing of this information would be very helpful.
Thank-you.
Thank you- that would be wonderful
From Italy,
I’d love to see such an event.
I read you daily from here.
Thank you,
Fil
I would very much appreciate such an event. It would help to cut through all the “hype” that we normally get as investment advice.
Absolutely, yes.
Lynn Forbes
Sounds good to me.
Yes, I would enjoy receiving this information. Very timely. Thank you.
Warm regards,
Callie
yes, knowing the language, and underlying mechanics will help my confidence, p.s. i’ve been a reader of your safe money pub. for about 4? years. and I believe my slow moving brain is finally getting engaged and I’m ready to progress. Thank you for being such a great teacher. Mairin loftus
Yes, by all means include me in for the 11 point checklist. This can improve my base knowlegde on investing. Count me in.
that would be fantastic, Martin; the only caveat would be to give an indication of the buy /sell time span, if possible. thank you.
Dear Martin,
I’ve enjoyed your newsletters and would be interested in a hold your hand presentation. I get very depressed at times with all the doom and gloom, please inject a little good news, I wish I would have paid more attention in my economics classes. I am retired and my biggest dismay is that I have accumulated cash over 1.5 M by refinancing an apt building in 2007. I was doing good accumulating interest on this money and also secure in the knowledge I could pay down the note when it was due in 2015. I put this money in the Capital Preservation account as you suggested and have gone now with six months of next to nothing earnings. Please give me SAFE ALTERNATIVES. I am a novice when it comes to other than real estate investments and cannot afford to lose the money as my health would not allow me to earn it again. I am sure there are many other simple people in the same boat needing your direction.
Thank you, Joanne
Yes I am willing to listen to anyone that thinks they can help. Dave
How can anyone refuse information from a mentor s with your experience.
Yes, thank you.
Great Idea I would watch.
Yes, Please include me as I’ve been following you for awhile now. Specifics that would help me are buy and sell time frames for short term trades, as well as, long term plays. A target prices would be helpful too. Thank you
Good morning,
I would love to participate in your online seminar.
Cheers,
Jaana
I would be very interested in learning about your 11 point checklist and hope that it will translate well to investors with very different circumstances. I am inexperienced, working with less than $5,000, trading penny stocks on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Is there anything in your strategy that I would find helpful?
I WOULD LIKE YOUR OPINION ON ENERGY, MINICIPAL BONDS, MUNICIPAL FUNDS , PIPELINES , GOLD AND SILVER.
please send me your steps to invest in a down market
Who would refuse information like this from a mentor with your experience. Thanks
Yes, your insight would have a major impact
This is a good idea. I appreciate how you are always thinking of more ways to help us
especially now in these difficult times. Thanks.
I would love to have you show me the way. I don’t trust anything I hear or read, except what comes from you. Thanks, i’m looking forward to tha!
Count me in!
I would definitely attend any video conference
I am one of those investors who likes to be 100% invested in good times or bad. Lately mostly bad. When I spot a stock that I can afford my first check is what the insiders are doing. I can expect any insiders with many thousands of shares to sell when conditions are favorable at oppertune times but when I see all insiders are selling I’ll look elsewhere no matter what the guru’s say. Next is company report then paperwork filed with SEC.
A person with a spare million could make excellent investments for retirement. Gold, oil and trusts and maybe a few closed end funds will provide safety for the future.
Seems to me it would help, or am I just stupid??
and missing something. The more we know the
better to make decisions.
Top of the class for confidence in yourself Martin. I like winners every time, so please, please walk me through your strategies.
How could we possibly have and listen to a better mentor to give us the confidence to guide us through this most difficult time. Listening to and gaining confidence from someone as knowledgable as yourself is a NOBRAINER. Thank you so much.
Top of the class for selfconfidence Martin. I love a winner everytime, so please please walk me through your strategies.
Anything I can learn to help me navigate these waters is appreciated.
I am always interested, that is why I subscribe to your News Letter. But if there is more I am interested.
Hi,
I would appreciate of you please send me your thoughts on the subject
thank you when
I would love to have your checklist! Getting help from an expert like you is definitely needed in the current state of affairs.
Peter
Sounds good to me!
Great idea. Will look forward to it.
I would love to hear what you have to say.. Thanks for your help.
I have been burnt so many times with financial services. I am starting to trust you, and would appreciate much more indepth of your ideas. Thank you and God Bless.
It will be great.
Thank you.
P S The only problem is that so many investors will jump in after getting the advice from you,and the stock/etf will be up immediately.
I would definitely like to attend. Attending webinars is so much better that just reading a Q & A session. Any info from the Weiss group is good information. It would help me if the webinar (or whatever format decided on) had a flexible schedule with more than one time frames to choose from.
Thanks for everything
Ray
Mr. Weiss, in answer to your question this would be an answer to prayer. I miss all of your live video because I am a union Ironworker working 7am to 330 pm m-f in california. I long to be home logged on to your website gaining all this valuable information and experience that you share with us. I always register to watch knowing that I will have to log on after and watch the replayed video if available. I value everything you share. I am new to trading with little success, but I am not giving up, I am determined to become a smart and successful trader.
Martin,
I could use all the information you could supply.I certainly have become very wary of “analysts” and other”gurus” of Wall Street,your emails have been the closest to describing what has happened and what is in the foreseeable future.
Thank you
Have no idea at this time, I’m 75 and need to make some money. I need good speculative advise, not save havens for the long haul.
We could really use some ” positive” guidance during this critical time. Any investments need to account for future and TRUE inflation levels for preservation of wealth and tax consequences, without risking our principle. The MILLION dollar question ? Let it roll !
Mahalo
I can’t imagine not benefitting from such a sharing of your information, experience and certainty about your judgements.
Love to hear your 11 point strategy for surviving and profiting in a major bear mkt
Martin bring on the free online conference to teach us to the promise land. I have been waiting a long time for this type of opportunity. This is a story like David and Goliath. The Washington and Wall Street folly will play out just like Weiss research called it. I am aboard the right train this time. From Anthony G
yes, thanks for offering!
Martin,
If this is program you are planning to offer at no charge, as a service to your clientele,
then yes I am most certainly interested.
If it is, thank you, I will look forward to your offer.
Milt Heilweil
I was lost and I did not know what to do. Then I found your website. You saved me. Now I am confident that I am handling this financial crisis correctly. Thank you,
Paul Wescott
I like inverse ETFs (a lot, at present). Bring it on!
Let’s get it on !!!
Martin;
I would be most interest in what you have to say or write as the case may be. Most of use are like sheep in this market. What do we do if inflation should come back around? The questions are endless.
Thanks for your concerns,
Bill Foushee
It would help principally because few people today are informed regarding what happens in a market correction like the one that we are going through today. Most people do not realize what to do, and continue to think that things are the same as before, but that are not.
Hi Martin,
I would like to hear your ideas about profiting from the economic downturn and the down stock market. Then, what timing mechanism would you use to move back into the market as it begins to recover and go back up?
Lead onwards!
I only hope that the meat of the discourse can be translated into the Queens good English. I live in Canada and sometimes things are lost in the translation.
Thanks for twigging me onto what I really need at this time.
Les Groberman
Let’s do it!
martin–my secret is i,ve known about you and your dad since the early 80s—kids,making a living,just life,staying busy,not enough time to keep up or stay tuned in–but now i,m retired and i have lots of time-so you speak i,ll listen
Your suggestion of the rules you follow would be very welcome. If I have learned one thing since taking over my own investments 10 years ago it having investment rules goes a long way to making the best decisons. One one predicts the future but having some common sense data driven rules certainly beats pure emotion. I beleive that we can never totally take emotion out of the equation and some emotion based intuition can be helpful but not without data driven rules.
thanks,
John
I’M ALL EARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Yes Martin, I’d be very happy to have and use the information for improving my financial situation during the time markets are in depression.
Dear Mr. Weiss
I would be very interested in joining you on an online seminar to hear your advice on how you pick a certain stock, and why.
I read every e-mail from your company and haave gained many insights into how to invest in today’s market.
Please include me if you decide to have the seminar.
Eric Hoggard
I appreciate your efforts to guide your readers through these difficult times of investment. Of course, I would be interested. As you have said before, this is not a time to go it alone.
Believe it or Not; The vast majority of people in this country choose NOT TO BELIEVE . The titans and icons of commerce in this country have failed us. I am 62 years of age. For me it is just another experience of a journey in life. I really wonder if we are conditioned to be GREEDY as human beings. HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? This thing has to be controlled. Is this really possible. Certainly the supposed BEST OF THE BEST have created massive fear and distrust. Is this the start of the failure of capitolism/??? I think you’re suggestion os well founded. Best
.
Thomas Moore
Any of your ideas are welcome, however I believe an economic Hindenburg is just
nearing the mooring mast for landing. The forces that have been set in motion are
going to be uncontrolable in very short order. Central governments are going to fail.
Twenty states of the U.S. have already initiated and announced documents of Sovernty
to the Federal Government. We will see Central governments all over the world going
into economic failure with catastrofic consequences. Globalism is officially dead. This
isn’t business as usual. Duck and cover! Start your planning now and execute!
I would love to have you walk me through your strategies.
Yes, w/b very interested especially in charts & sources for charts. thanks.
Yes I am sure it would be a great help. The only problem I don’t have access to the resources you have like knowing the banks are making loans that will blowup while it looks like to myself and the public they are doing great.
YES, I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOUR LOGIC AND APPROACH TO THIS BLACK HOLE THE ECONOMY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS ARE IN. FEW OTHERS HAVE A CLUE HOW FAR DOWN THE BOTTOM IS. ANY PRUDENT GUIDANCE WOULD BE HELPFUL AND APPRECIATED.
I’m all ears. I would pour over each rule and try to learn and understand the implications of each. So far everything I have read by you and your team has been a tremendous benefit.
If your giving, I’m taking..
Would love to hear the step by step…maybe then
I wouldn’t trip so often….
Your advice has been right when so many others are just guessing – would love such a course in your fundamentals – especially in these tough times. Make it affordable…I’m hurting because of a long and costly divorce.
I would like to know if there is even a possibility that we can pay back the money being given away or if all this is designed to put the U.S. into bankruptcy and a global monetary system.
iknow u wii probilyfollow in fathers foot steps the apples dont fall from the tree
Martin,
If the US dollar is headed toward the junk heap of history, like so many of the failed fiat currencies, what are the best strategies for protecting and growing $1 MM cash in today’s world?
Onward and upward,
Rob Martin
No comment
No moderation.
Yes I would certainly be interested in what steps you take to safeguard and grow your money.
In a new book ‘THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC’, Dr DANIEL J LIVITIN MD writes , that to become an expert in anything, you need to practice at least 10.000 hours and every day for a something like 8 years to become realy sharp at it. Well you did much more so I see you as a super-star, because up to now your prediction have been absolutely honest and true. So yes lets have your adweiss , Martin
I’d love to view your complimentary web event.
Value your insite and recommendations (with a critical eye*). For the last ten years my wife and I have been doing the right thing. Sold a home in Palo Alto for $1m, invested it in land and a new home in the mountains with abundant clear, pure air and water, excellent soil, near a viable small town. Continued to work after retirement and have cash, cds, money market accounts, gold and silver coins and bullion, with 0 debt.
Question: How can I best invest current cash and deposits to protect against catastophic inflation and make some modest gains, and avoid being a sucker for the nest “Black Swan”?
*(Advice re gold investments has not anticipated gold’s actual track during the last 15 months.)
Would like to go for a walk with you.
Gratefully yours,
Roger C.
Your 11 point check list would be a tremendous help to my family and I in surviving these times. Thank you for all you do.
Right on ! I’m listening.
Please proceed. Any serious investor would treasure such advice.
Please proceed. Any serious investor would treasure such advice.
You have been correct for years and I have followed your advice. I would appreciate any help you can offer at this devastating time.
It would be great.
You define the problems well. Thoughts as to the solution appreciated by this non-US resident.
Yes, I would like to have your checklist. I have been with your company for over 15 years and trusted your judgment for most of it. Thank you
Of course I’d be interested!!!!
Good idea! Lets hear them.
I will not give a mutual fund manager a Penny. I was lucky to get all our funds out. I invested them in gIC and provincial bond. I do not trust corporate bond now either. I do have gold stocks,grocery store stocks ,and a good pipe line. I got stuck holding coal stock but I will wait for them.
Kind regards
Mike
Sounds good. I am ready for the 11-point checklist.
I would be very interested in hearing your ideas. I have a problem reconciling your views re US$ and those of Jack Crooks. He advocates the US$ will be stronger and retain or return to the world currency of choice by simply being the best of a very bad bunch. You and other team members express contrary views. I can see merits and logic in both arguments. Very confusing! Joe
Martin,
For 4 years I paid a financial planner 1% annually to manage my wife’s and my IRA accounts. In September 2008 after our accounts lost about 15% from the October 2007 highs I asked the financial planner to liquidate our accounts. Liquidating at that time helped us avoid the October 2008 massacre. At this point most of our equity is in fixed rate annuity investments earning about 6% per year.
I also have about 5% of my IRA in a trading account with ScotTrade.
My current trading strategy is to invest only 1/8 of my trading portfolio in any one issue to minimize risk. I utilize technical analysis (StockCharts.com) to evaluate potential investments and then monitor them after purchase. I only invest in stocks or ETFs that have a potential to gain 20% or more. My strategy is to let the investment run if it is gaining and sell it as soon as it loses 3% or more.
After about nine months my trading account is down about 20%. I need help!
I would definitely be interested in learning your investing approach. I think you would be a great teacher.
Best Regards,
Jim Gocek
I have been lucky to have subscribed to SAFE MONEY for a bunch of years. You have steered me away from serious potential problems. Keep up the good work.
I am getting more and more computer savvy every day, but sadly I am still learning, and as a result I sometimes can’t figure out how to tune in to some of your computer seminars. I’ll do my best, though.
As a novice investor I would be most grateful for the insights you mention.
Thanks in advance! rj
I think that what you suggested would be a GREAT idea. I ‘d like to know what other things I could put my money into — that would not crash and burn— instead of T-bills and money markets.
Absolutely please go forward with the online event! Even partial investment in the traditional investments recommended by Wall Street minions has been devastating!
I would be interested in knowing these eleven steps.
YES YES YES! Please do that for all of us. Thank you.
I would very much be interested in your full created 11 point checklist of the strategies and tactics for a bear market approach. I have been using many of your suggestions but would like a full outline.
For those of us on Dial Up Internet Service that don”t get good reception of your Web Events. Please provide an Email or a web site that that we can read.
Thank you for your help.
I’d grab a cup of coffee, pen, paper and take notes.
Yes, by all means, I would love to hear the check list. Since reading your site almost daily since September I got out of all my stocks and into Treasury Bills. That alone has saved me thousands. Thanks.
That’s really cool. I will be interested.
great idea Dr Weiss !
you speak highly of treasuries. do I bonds over 5 years old meet you saftey requirerments?
Sound like a great idea. I’d like to here more.
In 1959, another ex-Navy pilot and I bought an inland island in Maine for $5500. We surveyed it, split it and built log houses on our halves with our own blood, sweat, and dollars. I built three buildings, ramps and floats on my side of the island. On one lot I built a 7 KW power house.
Now since my wife and I are 88 years old, we have formed an LLC for our half and deeded the land and cabins to our two daughters and then to our grandchildren. This is not intended as an investment but to keep in the family as a wonderful place to raise children in the summers.
Needless to say the specific lots have increased in value despite this recession-so have the taxes and insurance. one daughter and two grandchildren have trouble maintaining their own homes and paying huge taxes and insurance so one daugher and I contribute to the LLC to pay what they cannot pay. This and the market have kept us out of the market. I have $260,000in cds and savings. I am aware that money can be made as you so clearly explain. I am hesitant to procede based on our age and the isalnd that we want to keep in the family. I own my own home and an addition built to one daughter’s home for when we can’t live alone. I have no debts, have social security and a pension.
Is this reason enough to stay out of investing as I have been doing? What do you suggest? Please do not discuss this on your program. Thank you.
Hello Martin,
Your investment advise and market insights have been remarkable. Yes. Please share your 11 pt. checklist. Your the only investment analyst my husband will listen to in these economic times. Go Martin!
I am nearly 74 years old…widowed. I cannot replace all we scrimped and saved for so we would have it easier in retirement. We both continued to work at least part time until we were about 71. More of my money was in my house than in cash. I did liquidate our rentals in 2002. Earned a little on that in cd’s and t bills. would have liked to have bought some gold but did not have anything extra and did not want to break into principal. And, anyway, all gold could be confiscated. They did it once before. I’d like to take everything and put it into something safe…but a box full of dollars may not be worth anything either. i’m not one to play the stock market or bet against it either. but if I could come up with a small business that I could run from my garage to start it…I might do that. The long and the short of it are..I am so glad i take your SAFE MONEY REPORT because I would have lost so much more if I had not known to sell my rentals…But I can’t think of any way to protect myself from inflation. HELP!
My ears are open
I am definitely interested in your checklist. I am getting an excellent education from reading your newsletters and attending your video sessions. Your comments are well thoughtout and accurate. Your checklist would help to focus on common sense in a world of economic confusion.
I DO BELIEVE YOU ARE A DOWN TO EARTH MAN WHO HAS BEEN BLESSED WITH THE WISDOM OF A GREAT MAN, WHO IS WILLING TO SHARE THOSE LIFE EXPIERIANCES, WHICH MAKE YOU A VERY WISE INVESTOR. YES I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR HOW YOU DETERMINE YOUR OWN INVESTMENT CHOICES. I HAVE DONE WELL WITH YOUR ADVICE, AND THE ADVICE OF YOUR ASSOCIATES, SO I TRUST WITH YOUR GUIDANCE I WILL DO WELL IN THE PRESENT AND FUTURE. SO I MAY USE MY NEW FOUND WISDOM FROM YOU, TO TOUCH THOSE IN MY LIFE. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU A WEISS RESEARCH. I HUMBLE MYSELF BEFORE YOU.
PETE
novices and experts alike would welcome your insights
Yes!
Martin, I would certainly be interested in your methodology – bring it on!
I would be interested particularly if it pertained to Australian shares.
Please include me.
I would be most interested in hearing what you have to say. I believe you are correct in saying that things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. One question I have is do you believe we will see hyperinflation to the point that the US dollar will be worthless and does this mean we will be facing the release of the Amero?
I’m all ears.
I have a question.
You recommend inverse ETFs. I agree.
But why don’t you also recommend some double inverse ETFs?
Such as SKF.
Ralph Carey
Yes, it would help if you showed me how to make money in a bear market. Although I have a feeling that it will cost me. I’ve subscribed to Money and Markets for more than 20 years, so maybe I’ll finally get a break.
Regards,
George
Of course I would like to hear about it…thankyou..looking forward to it..fk
As a 66 year old retiree I would most certainly be interested to learn the rules you follow as to what where & how you place your own funds.
Also, as I am a firm believer that something for nothing does not exist I would be prepared to pay for good advice.
I read this website all the time. One thing I find difficult is that there is not a consensus from each of your writers about the market. Especially two writers frequently say things completely opposite each other. I am referring the market and the dollar. Without saying which writer is saying what – one is Dollar Bull the other a Bear, same goes for the market, most of you say the market is a dangerous place but one writer says we are going to see a bull market, maybe even for a year or two.
I would love for you to reconcile this issue.
Thanks.
YES! If your 11-point checklist is anything like the insight, straight talk, and forward thinking I have grown to love from your team there is no doubt it would be a huge benefit to anyone wise enough to listen. As mentioned above…I am all ears.
I would love a free on line event to walk me through your strategies. I’m hoping to fall onto a penny or cheap stock that’s maybe going to take off that will help me get some spinn on the ball.
Thanks Margaret
Martin, your father must have been a wise man. He seems to have taught you well. I would absolutely like to hear of the eleven-point checklist. Your sage advice has benefited me many times. Thank you for that.
this idea seems like it would help us little guys a lot. just as long as it’s not geared towards people with $100k or more to invest then i think it would be a terrific concept. therefore, martin, if it is possible create the checklist for those of us who only have $1-3k to invest so we can grow it and be able to swim with the big boys.
thanks
Sounds like a good idea. Will a MP3 version be available so I can listen to it while commuting to work?
I’m interested; wonder if a few of your 11 points have application to the older risk-adverse generation (like me)?
Sincere best regards to you Martin.
Interested in more investor education
Think it is a very good idea and I am all for it.
I would certainly like to review your system. Once I understood the logic of how your system works, then I would be willing to use it to invest in the market. I would risk some money or trying out your 11 point system.
My father made a system for investing in commercial real estate in Florida, and 50 years after he came up with his system, it still works. Putting together a winning strategy is step one, and it is probably the most difficult step in the process. 7 out of 10 systems I have read about, work only within a given context.
Martin I would like a list of the companies that you would invest when the market hits bottom
Yes, that would be helpful, thankyou.
Yes, the proposal you made made sense. That would be the most helpful thing for investors. Becasue, we know you take care of your money. Hence knowing that how you do is a beacon for us who are sinking ships with our money in investments and 401K.
Yes Martin, yes, a thousand times yes,
As I’ve previously explained, I do not have the funds to follow most of your good advice but it is so therapeutic to hear really good and sound advice for once, instead of all the claptrap that so many ‘Expensive so-called Advisers’ try to sell to the unsuspecting.
So, I am also ‘All ears’ and waiting with baited breath.
My Old Granny used to say “it takes a wise man to learn from another man’s experience” Well he’s one wise old man who’s “willing, waiting and wanting to learn” regards, George
I would love to here your 11 point strategy but because we do not have high speed internet a written version would work much better for me.
Glenn
sounds great
Yes, I too will be interested. I also want to take this opportunity to thank you for the free webminars you have hosted and the emails you sent as follow up. You are one of the best for todays markets in crisis.
Love any advice that would help me take a step out of my confusion and uncertainty about the stock market !
By all means, do this. I welcome your advice!
OF COURSE!!!
Your advice has been very helpful, and I’d love to hear more. Thanks
Martin, you certainly have the economic and equities market bloodline so I would be interested to hear more from you.
Cheers
Martin
I always appreciate your advice.
As well as the audit, it is always good to have a typed up version of your conferences for us Aussie down-under.
Regards
John Miller
great idea keep me posted jb 2/15/2009
Martin,
Yes, I would like to hear about your 11-point checklist but I would also like to hear from you how the location of the investor (I am from the UK) might affect his approach, as opposed to someone in the USA – where I imagine most of your interested investors come from. Would this make any difference?
Thanks
Irvin
Lay it on me Martin ol’ boy….
11 points sure sounds interesting!
There is no such thing as bad advice…
We all have opportunity try it or not !
Martin,
Your offer to share your thoughts about the steps to take, in the market, at this time, is a very generous one. I cannot think of any reason that subscribers, to your service, would think otherwise and not willingly accept your offer. So please go ahead and I will most certainly listen to what you have to say. I am sure it will help me decide on future action. Thank you for your thoughts. Regards, PR
I would like to pick up this webcast – could you please time it so it is at a reasonable time in the UK.
Also, please could you show some data for the slightly different financial and legal constrains we have in the UK?
Yes I would be interested in your 11 ideas on how to handle a bear market. Learning from your experience and that of your farther would put us miles ahead in this down market. Thanks,
Thanks for asking!
Great Idea! You and your team are #1 in my book. There is a group of us at work (thank God were still working) known as the “Weiss Guys”. Nobody believed what recently happened to the economy. They thought the mortgage crisis would only turn into a small recesion.
Please keep up the great work!
I look forward to learning more.
I would very much like to hear the eleven-point checklist.
While reading the inverse ETF prospectus I noticed they used derivatives. Please explain if you feel this is safe.
We are confused. Everyday investors are losing money. We want to know the alternative medicine.
I am feeling somewhat overwhelmed with information. While I am sure that a good screen could give some profitable choices in both stocks and also in currency trading, I am focusing on the deflationary spiral, (at which time I hope to be short the S&P) and the subsequent inflationary spiral (at which time I hope to be long metals and oil.). If I can manage that, I believe I will be well (financially speaking), and I hope that by not increasing other information, I can remain focused on the above, and get them right. (After loosing about 42 G in gold by being there too soon)
Hi Martin,
Your timely warnings allowed me to save my skin from the disaters happenning in the stock market, your advice gave me enough knowledge and strength to cope with the recomendations of my brokers at the early stages of this collapse, I am very interrested to read your 11 points check list, to evaluate better the available opoortunities.
thank you.
Martin, hardly anyone else has hit this cycle on the head as you have. I’m all ears.
Love the idea. Martin you are an enlightment in this world of darkness.
Yes, that would be fabulous. Your insights are most valuable, and you are doing a great job preparing your readers for coming opportunities by encouraging us to build cash on the sidelines awaiting these opportunities. I’m all ears!
Yes, I would be most interested in hearing what you have to say.
Bring it on Marten and Thanks
You have given me a great deal of benneficial advise and money making strategies. I would welcome and eargerly look forward to an online seminar with exposure to the wisdom you so graciously offer.
Martin,
Go for it!!!!! We need the knowledge and wisdom from folks like you and your firm have blessed so many of us with rather than the STILL continued hype that Wall Street wants us to believe.
Chris Muscia
Chicago
Dear Martin,
I am an avid reader of Money and Markets as well as a subscriber to the Safe Money Report and I can tell you that I have applied the proverbial “kick in the rear” to myself more than once for not following your advice even though I consider myself pragmatic and conservative.
Your question deserves a resounding “YES” insofar as your sharing of more specifics concerning strategies and tactics.
There are many people in my camp who are beginning retirement with small invesment portfolios and although we have done all the right things to insure our monies are safe we are now faced with absolutely no growth (dividends) prospects to see us through the coming inflationary period without undue risks. Thank you.
Yes Martin,
I’d be interested to learn more about the rules you use that guide you through your investment decisions. thanx
I would love to be shown how to do this! I recently was laid off from my job and I need to put my 401K into something that will make a profit and not lose money!
Yes I would love to learn from you and your Dads experience.
We all need your help in this time. And few have the background
that goes all the way back to the Depression. Thanks.
Yes. I would be very interested in your 11 Point roadmap.
Yes Please Martin! A very generous offer and could you make it as clear to begginners as well/ And bear in mind the UK too?
Thank you !
Regards,
Ann M-B
Martin
YES YES YES.
Please continue to share the wonderful education your father has provided you !!
Steve
Yes. Martin we would love to hear your 11 point strategy.
HI Martin, I would love the oppertunity to learn all you would share. I have been reading your Safe Money report for several years and have found it informative and a great predictor of future events. I value your insight would look forward to hearing more. Thank you, Terry Weimer
Yes, tell us how!
My concern is if they have a bank holiday and confiscate gold.
Can the greenback go to 0 ?
Yes I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on the best things to look for and how to time investments better during this bear market!
Sincerely,
Steve Kuhns
That is a great idea.
yes!!!
Marty–Of course it would—your team has been the only wide-ranging and reliable place available for honest, accurate predictions and advice during this whole disaster.
My compliments and good wishes to you all. We continue to need all the help you can provide!
You have a great grasp of the economy and a background of depression economics. Yes I am looking forward to the eleven-point checklist. Thank you for all your help.
Of course Martin, your 11 point check list would be of great value to an investor who doesn’t have much time to research investments. For example: Marriage, kids, carreer, major illness or accident. So a check list of what to look for . . . why that would be great!!
So when are you going to do this great thing . . . Waiting.
Martyin:
Your information over the past 18 months saved me tens of thousands of dollars. My friends first thought I was crazy in mid-2007 when I was talking of a coming meltdown. Now they think I’m Nostrodamus–but I was just following your sage advice. Of course I’d like you to share your checklist with all of us. And many, many thanks for your honest assessment of what has… and will go wrong with our financial system.
Would I listen? You bet!
I know you are truly trying to help many of us who do not have enough time…and some money:-) Closer to $100K than the $250K needed to work with the investment service. I’ll do it myself…with as much education I can squeeze in my free time.
Thank you ! …again, do it!
The greatest wealth is borne from times of strife and struggle. Timing is everything. I believe, at this point we have “the times of strife and struggle”; we just need to time it right to create the greatest wealth for ourself. This said, I would be really happy to have help from somebody like you and your team. But, please, keep in mind small and unexperinced investor like myself. The ones, who does not have the ability (yet) to invest a great amount of money. I am talking about portfolios within $5000-10000. Thank you. Alla.
Yes I certainly would like to hear from your tested and proven experience …
Go for it . We will all listen attentively!
Hi Martin,
Of-course I would be interested.
I look forward to hearing when you plan to do this,
Cheers,
Jon-Michail
Definitely do show us how you make your decisions with your own money and how it plays out. Because writing about it is one thing, but doing it in practice is another.
Martin,
What a great idea at an even greater price!! I continue to learn as an investor and would love to know the rules you use in your investing. I will likely borrow them and use them myself. It’s rare I get an opportunity to peek inside the gameplan of a successful pro. I hope you do it. I will sign up.
Thanks,
Ron
Thanks for your fruitful efforts educating and guiding your readers through these troubling markets. I sure would appreciate hearing more of your thoughts and recommendations. Please count me in!
Bring it on; I’m all ears!!! WB
Might be interesting; would have to see it
Marty u are #1 in my book. You have been right on. I am all ears.
your father talked highly about gold. is it when interest rates go up that it will move higher?
Absolutely, I’d welcome a chance to attend an event like that.
Yes I would like to hear the criteria for how you invest.
Always appreciate your straight honest attempts to explain what is happening on the economic front. Keep up your good work.
please do give us a list
I have always enjoyed your webinars-let’s hear it!
It would help me. And, it would help me understand where you are coming from and how you think. Thank you.
It would help me. And, it would help me understand where you are coming from and how you think. Thank you.
Dear Martin,
The greatest thing that you can do is to teach the process of how you view the market. Your thought process. There is mention of some writings on your web page by Irving Weiss with regard to the Next Great Crash. Since your father lived and prospered through the last great crash, I was quite interested to learn his thought process that was applied to that time. However the link to the book does not exist. This information would have been taught to you. What I want to know is if you were in your father’s position today, with only $10,000 of borrowed funds; what would you be doing? How exactly would you be managing those funds?
I’m all ears ! You have the experience and knowledge. I think it would be great.
Yes, Martin, it would be great if you will share the rules you follow to avoid investments that “blow-up”, especially in the current environment! Many thanks & blessings, Glenn Sacra
Martin, your offer is great!
I am interested to learn how to invest in stocks. Right now I have a few obstacles:
a.I never invest in stocks and similar products( I don’t know how to do it),
b.I have little amount of money available for this learning!
It is generous of you,Martin, to help the average people to learn to sweam in the ocean of the financial market. I think for me it is really importent learn every simple move in
the process of stocks investing, even how obtain the stocks.
If I am going to have enough cash, I am going to follow you lead. Thank you again for this unusual offer.
Great Idea, Bring It on.
Yes, I’d like such a program! When?
Of course I try to absorf as much information as possible concerning my invesments. Your input would be valued very much. My one question causing me unrest at the moment;
what do you think of the possiblity of the Goverment once again making it illegal to own gold? If they do that what would be the consquences? Thank you. Ron
I would be delighted to listen to your advice. Are the shares you recommend for “long time hold” or for “trading”?
Have already learn so much from your website that has saved the biggest part of our 401K. Would love to here the eleven points. Thanks so much..
Yes I do.Thanks.
Martin, I enjoy your written words and would love to hear you speak. Sign me up. Terry
Sounds like a great and very generous offer to me!!!!
a great idea to follow your advice and methods-will be looking forward to it. jordan
I would liek to participate in your online event. Thanks
I would like to learn how to invest in equity trade funds.
Yes, yes, and yes.
I’m all eyes. (my dial-up doesn’t support video)
Abosolutely, I would totally welcome that. Especially if we could see some track record behind it.
Obviously I’d be greatly interested. Best regards, Ploni
Yes, Please share the salient points.
Thank you!
I think we should be asking the billion dollar question now. All information in this market will be welcome. I feel everyone who has a prudent solution for these times would be greatly appreciated. Everyone can contribute their ideas and feelings in this market, after all we are all pretty much in the same boat, and the big picture says it is sinking. Perhaps if we can all put our heads together and profit from everybody’s success stories we can stay afloat. SRC
Yes, I’d be interested in participating in that sort of on-line conferencing.
Yes it would be very helpful. Bring it on ASAP
Martin,
Your insight’s ,advice and market forecasts have been extremely accurate over the course of the past 18 months. you have truly been blessed with knowledge and wisdom that has helped many of your readers who followed your warnings save ten’s of thousands of dollars in market losses. I can not express my appreciation and thanks enough for steering me clear of these financial losses.
I look forward with much interest to your offer to assist small investors with the methods and techniques that you have learned so well under your Dad guidance and that as prepared you to whether these turbulent times.
Your generous offer is one that demonstrates your sincere efforts to help many on Main Street , USA who have watch much of there hard earned investments go up in smoke thanks to regulators who turned a blind eye over the past ten years to Wall Street’s financial engineering practices and sheer greed.
With your guidance you can lead the charge in restoring the cadre of money and markets readers and investor’s confidence in a corrupt system that has caused many to distrust almost all of our nations financial leaders and institutions. Looking forward to your help.
God bless,
MJC
Sounds like something extremely interesting ans helpful
Absolutely! Love to compare your strategies against mine, so I can fine tune mine to get even more value out of this market. While watching some of your online sessions has been valuable, I find that I prefer the written summaries. Also in this case, it would provide me with a an electronic version to put into my list of criteria. Thanks again.
your proposal would be a blessing to thousands of your readers’.
Of course – if you had an open seminar to reveal your checklist on rating stocks for buy/sell actions, I would love to be part of it.
Only a fool would not be interested in advice from someone with your reputation and years of market analysis and research.
It sounds like a very generous and great offer that would benefit many of us in these very cruciual financial times. I can’t wait to get the information. Thanks.
Eager to expand my knowledge with your expertise.
Yes please. Very grateful for your help.
Sounds like really good offer, I will look forward to it.
Taito
Sounds like a winner Martin. How can we time these once in a lifetime events as accurately as possible? Thank you.
Sign Me in, thanks a lot!
First what are the key strategies for all investors now, i.e. like preserving capital. Different portfolios for different types of investors, i.e. we all have different resources and investment tolerances. Third what tools are available and institutions that may be trusted. Fourth how to use these tools with your strategies.
Comment: I believe you can charge a nominal fee or subscription for this, i.e. sometimes free advice is hard to accept.
Martin, you r advice got me thru 2008 in good shape. Let me on on your new advice.
Yes, please. We’re ready.
yes, would read with interest
yes, interested
Sure, I’d like to hear your checklist!
Hey Martin!
We look forward to this education, thanks
PS Could you give us your perspective on Madof????
Martin,
I have been a Safe Money Report subscriber for a number of years now and I can’t begin to tell you how much it has improved my economy and investing IQ. I think your 11 point checklist is a great idea for all of us who would like to create a profitable trading strategy and be confident implementing it.
Sounds like a great idea. I would like to hear you speak.
Good Evening Martin,
If you could provide comparable mutual funds to the ETFs that you recommend to profit from the Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq falling to your predicted lows that can be purchased in my 457 plan, I would appreciate it. Unfortuately, ETFs are not permitted.
Thank you.
Gary
i’m all ears
I do not live in the U.S.A. but everything you comment on I feel you are absolutely correct.
I have quite a substantial amount to invest. Unfortunetely my money is most in Sterling.
That is the reason I feel to only invest in England, but their economy is worse than most countries so I am scared.
What should I do?
YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB.WAY TO GO AND FINALLY -THANK YOU SO MUCH TO HELP US ALL OUT DURING THIS HOUR OF CRISIS.
ARUN.N
Dear Martin,I value your opinion highly and I welcome your idea of sharing your checklist by holding an online event
Thank you and may God bless you
Yes please, would be extremely helpful in the current economic climate
Martin, giving us the opportunity to learn from the wisdom that has been passed down from your Dad, and enhanced with your own wisdom means this truly is an opportunity of TWO lifetimes!
A guide, based on tried and tested methods and wisdom, would be a very valuable thing thing to have.
I am all ears.
Martin what you say makes sense and it’s good to know that there are positive people out there even in these unprecedented times.Keep up the good work.
At least someone out there is talking sense. Count me in!
Martin, This sound very interesting to me. I have been a real estate appraiser for over 35 years but refused to take assignments from mortgage brokers in the early 1990’s (who came on the scene to be paid for loans on a commission basis). This was clearly a classic “fox guarding the henhouse” routine. We see the results of this front line behavior as it played its way through the marketplace to wallstreet. Please have your readers please answer this simple two-part math question…
Part 1) It looks like the FHA/VA will save the day for America’s homeowners. Hypothetically, if according to published sales statistics, residential real estate market (as a whole across the nation) is dropping at an average rate of 12% per year across the nation, in how many months will it take for a new FHA (or VA) home buyer (regardless of his current credit rating and government-subsidized mortgage interest rate charged) who purchases a single-family owner-occupied home at its actual “market value” to be “upside down” in his equity position if he brings a 3.0% or “no money down” payment to the closing table?
Part 2) How will such an FHA/VA underwriting guideline collectively impact such homebuyers’ motivation to continue to to make their monthly payments on such mortgage loans?
Martin
Would love to hear your thoughts and have been follwoing you for several yeasr as well as having “tunred several friends on” to you site who have subscribed.
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Martin:
Would love to hear/see the 11 tips. As usual, I am a working stiff–so, cannot view on the weekdays at mid-day. If you’ll send access after work hours or on weekends it would really help me.
Thanks
Tom
What a good idea. Like some of your other readers, I am UK based and it would be useful to know when and how strategies can be applied over here.
Martin,
I have not been with you long(october 08) but, the insight from you and your team has already proven to be invaluable. I’m talking about etf’s. I’ve been buying and selling inverse etf’s and plan on riding them to the bottom to capitalize. With out your clarity I’m sure I would be at a loss already, and considering the end of my stock quest. I live in michigan and we have had an “economy problem” that I’ve felt for about 4+years already. Stocks have been a small alternate income for me until october 08. I don’t see huge dollar signs yet, but anticipate a profitable outcome. I have never had the kind of positive percentages selling stocks and do not look forward to the end .
Thanks to You and Your Team,
Jeff
Looking forward to your comments !
Martin,
Last year I didn’t want to believe in the disaster you had warned us of, and I waited until half of my portfolio disappeared before taking your advice, and moving to safety.
I hate to admit to failure, but now I’m more than ready to listen. Tell me how I can make up my losses.
I would be interested.
Jerry
I’m open. How’s it work?
I live in Canada. Would you please give me some global insight , such as emerging market, Korea, India, China & etc?
Thank you.
I’m new at all this, but I have been reading your reports and I would like to learn how to invest a little money I have. I need to know how the ABC’. Can you help me.
your dads wisdom aint broke, dont fix it. just repeat it! thanks martin
Dr. Weiss…..I wish to again thank for the opportunity to hear your bear market strategies…..Yes… I ll sign up to your program…
I believe you have the right questions under the economic microscope….and the answers for these unstable markets…..
These times for many are like no other….where many of the experts are seemingly confounded…and where SOME of the old economic axioms…are being ignored by investment advisers who continue to act as if there is not a new enviroment paradigm at work here…..and they want to plow you back into funds or securities without a specific plan….or oversight…
But I choose to have confidence in you….and your ongoing investment research, these are times for insightful experts….the times for listening to you…
thank you
steve.
dear martin. i wish i did follow all of your advice on investments that profit from market collapse. Unfortunately i couldnt believe that we may be experiencing all of your predictions to actually come through.
is it to late to to make money on this disastrous event or is there something that will work , to make money in this market , i am very confuse.
I flat like to play options. However these are time sensitive and most vulnerable to short term volatility. Taking into account fundamental and technical analysis can be helpful but also the fact that government interventions lie in wait plays havoc on my portfolio in the produced wild swings in the short term. I noow find I now find it prudent to follow the “when you see profits take them” and not wait for the multiple payback as in years past. 20%, 30% take it! $40% 50% down get out. I will admit I have succumbed to your Safe Money report recos for the speculator, the reverse etfs etc. and gold, whilst I wait for a new day to dawn. But anyway, just a comment, not a question. I want to thank you Martin for being a beacon and for everything you stand for. I’ve seen you on TV when they would barely let you speak when this crisis was developing. Washington and Wall Street do not want the truth to get out. I do hope for your continued safety. Sincerely
Martin,
In refrence to your web cast on Feb. 26th.: You asked what the one thing you could do for me at this event that will help me most.
I was laid off from my job, as an Engineering Technician, in November. My work was closely related to the housing industry and now I am having a hard time finding work. I was making good money had great benefits. Now I am on um-employment and I don’t know what I am going to do when that runs out.
The one thing that you could do that would help me the most is show me, teach me, how to earn money from the markets. I desperately need to earn an income to support my family and I am not afraid to learn new things or to work hard. I have a little money left to invest but I am afraid to loose what I have left.
Show me how to make this money work for me. Show me how to help my self. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for life.
Thanks,
Dan
Most of our retirement money is in Bank CD’s. I know that they are FDIC insured, but what are the chances that we could lose part or all of it if the entire banking system of the United States collapsed. I know that you recomend the Treasury only Money Market funds but arn’t these just as vunerable because the collapse of the banking system would surely cause the collapse of the economy of the U.S. government. Wouldn’t this collapse insure that no country would buy our Treasuries thus making the financing our on going debt impossible.
Donald
Read your M&M today. The one thing that hit me in the face
was “$9 trillion and counting”.
Here’s my take:
-Every single mortgage in this country could have been paid off
with a lot to spare. (or)
-Every man woman and child (minus the illegal’s) could receive
$30,000. EACH. A family of four would receive $120,000.
There would be so much surplus in everybody’s pocket there
would be an almost an instant turnaround. The banks would get a
flood of money right away. Either paying off mortgages, savings,
whatever.
Somebody has their fingers in this pie!
Very Simple approach and procedure because most people get so overwhelmed with the media, they can’t see the forest from the trees. Simple yes and no procedures that anyone can apply would be wonderful and valuable for all your readers.
Please do and do it as soon possible. I will be much more comfortable knowing how to invest in today’s economy. I am totally confused now and would greatly appreciate an investment strategy.
Ron
Yes Martin it will be great to get your “free” advice in these times when dollars are tight. Certainly, for me long term if I can benefit from this advice it would further my confidence in purchasing additional services from your team of experts.
Where can I put my money now to protect the principal. It would be nice to earn interest, but I am scared to death and my main goal is to protect the principal.
Yes, it would be extremely benefical to have you walk us investors thru your procedures for investing.
I’m thinking that dollar will remain strong and possible raise in the next 3-4 months while the stimulus money is being dealt out and that gold would make a correctiion in the same period. I was going to inverse the market then and add to my gold position
What do you think.
floyd
Martin, I would like to know if it is possible or better to work in teams on these projects as opposed to indivisually. I would also appeciate knowing which tools the Weiss group has the most confidence in. Thank you! Anthony G.
I’d like some solid advise on the best way to invest and grow my funds during the these troubled times.
With all of the banks in trouble are credit unions a safer place for our money? In the past several months I have not seen any mention of them in anything you’ve written.
Sounds great Martin.
As well as being educational it could certainly help sway many of us that haven’t already bought into your offerings.
You guys are certainly tuned into your customers/prospects.
Keep up the great work incl the listening to us!
I agree with “Cruiser’s” comment:-
Please do and do it as soon possible.
Thanks in advance
Nick
Mr. Weiss,
Your no-nonsense approach to investing is an inspiration and the stories of how you got started under the tutelage of your father are wonderful. I for one would love to see or hear about the checklist you use for investing your own money in a market like this one. Some of your ideas are new to me, but some just resonate with what I have been taught over the years and it is comforting to hear such intelligent commentary in opposition to what is on the TV. Thanks for providing this timely and interesting info.
I just read many of the inputs – they are all looking for the goose that laid the Golden Egg. I’m more and more convinced that the average so called investor is as dumb as a rock. You have been telling them what to do for how long? Why didn’t they listen!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe these comments also apply to the average voter.
frank
Hi
I would definitely appreciate any on line seminar you would give. I have read your emails for years, but didn’t heed your advice enough because well the market kept rewarding me. Then it took it all back and then some. I wish I had been less greedy.
One issue I have is your currency guy, Crooks, and your commodity guy seem to conflict each theor somewhat? can you resolve that. Are you long on the dollar?
John
Timing is everything. Some of us cannot afford all your subscription services. I have picked $$. Please let us know in general WHEN to do things.
Timing is everything. Some of us cannot afford all your subscription services. I have picked $$. Please let us know in general WHEN to do things.
Please add my name to your list – I am all ears.
Thanks to you I sold my home in CT at the top of the market Oct 2007in a bidding war. It would now go for $300K less (down 20%). Unfortunately I’m sitting on cash that earns virtually 0% while paying rent so it’s like burning money. I want to buy a house for myself and my 3 teens, but you recommend not…but I’m still burning rent money at a rate of 5% of the purchase price of a home. At what price discount is it safe to buy a home???? I can buy with cash or a mortgage if that’s more advantageous.
How will the price of gold reflect the trillions of dollars be pumped into the Marketplace? I know that you currently state that deflation is the rule of the day, but does that apply to gold when so much money is being created?
great i am all eyes and ears
Bank checking accounts are demand deposits, not loans to the bank. If my bank fails, what (if any) restrictions will likely be placed on my checking account? It seems to me that there should none, nor should there be any delays cashing my checks or immediately closing the account and transferring the funds to a solvent institution. Please tell me I’m right. Otherwise “Demand Deposits” are not really “Demand Deposits;” they are “What The Bank Says They Are Deposits.” In this case, please tell me what to do to regain control of my checking account assets. Best Regards, Ron
Thanks; please announce it as soon as you are ready. We will be much more comfortable knowing where and how to invest in today’s economy. I am totally confused now and extremely concerned. Thanks.
Martin, your comments on the economy and the stimulus this morning, Februay 16, were excellent. I greatly appreciate the well thought out comparisions to Japan’s long recession and failed stock market that you layed out. I am looking forward to your Internet meeting on the 26th. As for what I would like from you, just keep up the great overall market commentary and analysis, I also love the stories about your Dad’s experience, and I take Smart Money so I get your actual investment selections. Just keep it up. Thank you.
I can’t find a reference to my online bank, EverBank, a division of Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB (WSFS) on thestreet where you have directed us before to check our banks. I have input all of the word combinations I can think of but can’t find it. According to the bank’s 2002 ads, “Veribanc has assigned WSFS its highest rating for equity strength – - -”. How can I verify the present strength of this bank?
Thanks
geh
I am like the majority of your respondents and would welcome your thinking and method of finding good investments.
Why should I trust inverse ETFs when they are run by the same outfits that peddled Mortgage Backed Securities? They have had a good run but are now acting skittish although the same driving forces are at work. Please, if you can, explain this phenomenon.
Respectfully John
Martin,
Georges Santayana said that if we cannot learn from history, we are condemned to repeat it.
So how do we stop governments unsuccessfully wasting money and landing us with mountainous debt?
Looking forward to your 11 Bear Market laws on 26th February.
Keep up the good work because it’s all appreciated by me and I’m sure by thousands of others.
Best regards.
Dr. Weiss: I am definitely interesed in hearing you describe your 11 point checklist. I am a 78 year-old ex-executive and professor (my second career after 30 years in business), with a portfolio of almost $1 million. I lost 26% during the past year, learning that I am not as astute in choosing investment alternatives as I thought.
My wife and I raised a large family of 8; we now have 21 grandchildren. We didn’t have much in savings until about ten years ago, when we finished getting our “tribe” throught college (and one through medical school).
Also, since I left industry and joined academia in 1982, I had a minimal amount in a retirement plan. My wife didn’t work until 1976 and retired from teaching elemetary school with only 21 years of service, so her pension is also modest.
However, we managed to take advantage of the boom years and fortunately, made some sound investment decisions; now, I’m concerned that I make better decisions, and that’s why I would very much like to hear you explain your 11 point checklist.
I await this 11 point program with great anticipation. I am slowly shedding my paralysis on making choices but I could use all the help I can get making sound choices and not just acting on fear and public panic.
In refrence to your web cast on Feb. 26th.: Advice i could use – I will retire in two years and was influenced by your economic predictions a long time ago leading me have a 100% of money in cash with 95% in short term treasury funds. I have not had an investment loss yet. Should my future investment strategy be different from people who have lost money up to this point and are looking to recover their losses?
Can you make this webinar available to us that are working and cannot attend during the specified time? I really don’t want to miss out on this information.
What is the capital requirement of brokerage firms? Do you think more will fail, and what about the insurance companies? Looking at your list, it looks like many are insolvent, so how much longer can they operate, being basically “insolvent?”
Can you tell me please, should I buy more gold.
I have about 10% of my portfolio in gold at the moment.
Thank you so much.
Looking forward to recieving an answer.
Kindest regards,
Truus
Dr. Weiss,
Your insight is incredible but it’s a full time job to actually decide what actions I should take.
Why don’t you have a fund that I can simply invest into and you can manage?
Thanks,
Bill Riechers
With the volatility, I have placed several profitable straddles.
By the way, what is your PHD in?
I’m willing to listen. I have great respect for both you and your father. Ditto for all the contributers to Money and Markets.
I just read your M&M post “Million Dollar Question”. YES! I would personally gain a great deal by being personally tutored by you with a checklist of what to do now.
MANY THANKS for this great idea of interactive feedback about the current situation. I am looking forward to the 2/26 online briefing.
I always buy & sell at the wrong time?
I am in my 70’s & have to live off my capital/investments. There doesn’t appear to be a SAFE instrument to provide enough interest, dividend or appreciation to meet my budget without depleting my capital?
I would most definitely be interested in such a presentation. I am the archetypal “newbie” investor, I thought I understood balance sheets, until CDO’s came along. I sort of understand shorting, for the most part… Derivatives sacre the pants off me. You get the picture, I hope.
my wife and I are fortunate enough, like many taxpayers, to be scraping along on one salary, we therefore don’t don’t have a whole boat load of cash to throw around at the monent, so I really would like what little spare we do have to be used effectively.
Thanks for the great work you do on here, I’m an avid reader (and occasionally I understand the articles too!)
I am not sure I would have the data available to follow you steps in buying or selling stocks. I would like to see what you select to buy and sell in the Safe Money Report.–not reserved for some expensive service you would like me to buy.
Your advice has been excellent and allowed me to minimize the October disaster. Concerning the gold ETFs, are you confident that they will “survive”? Are they “as good as gold”? Many of us need some source of income, having dumped most/all common stocks. Are preferred stocks (utilities) a reasonable gamble?
Martin,
Please send. Thank you so much.
Sure, let’s here it. We’ve heard a lot from you already. I suppose most of your 11 principals are included in what you’ve put out already, but having it all gathered together can hurt.
Blessings, Jim
You talked about the free mkts abiltiy to handle the difficulties of todays mess. Previously you have been big on nothing but Treasury bills. Are you switching to stocks now?
Will you supply a list of companies that will benefit from the “stimulas” money?
Barry
Your offer provides a sound comprehensve approach in dealing with the complexities of the events that are encompassing our lives. I personally have read countless email offers on what they perceive as what course to take. Most are single recommendations as opposed to the comprehensive approach you are suggesting. The information derived from your father’s experience with individuals like Bernard Baruch sounds great to me. They have lived it & history does repeat itself so your offer in my mind is the best approach on how to successfuly proceed in these very complicated times we are dealing with today. Bring it on & thank you.
You are like the light house that protects us in a storm…solid in your facts and ever present in your interpretation of what’s happening.
Can you explain why it is so important to accumulate cash in a deflation? Is it so you can pick up real bargains later?
The only debt we have is the mortgage on our “cherished” home and we are on a relentless schedule that will finish in 3.5 years. All available cash is going toward this goal. Should we rethink it?
Thank you.
Martin this personal walk through of your financial accumen would be greatly appreciated. It would definitely build our confidence in your life experiences. Ps the canadian government has made all credit union deposits 100% covered regarless of limit this just came into affect last month.
Thanks for your wise advice.
Regards.
Rup S.
You have never mentioned I-Bonds. Are they still a good investment? Are they a safe investment? I have some I bought some years ago. Thanks, Evy
I would welcome the idea
Wasseem Moussa
Martin:
Thank you for all the excellent advise. You have saved my stock portfolio from ruin and made me more. My broker said it is now time to exit the short ETF positions as the counter party risk is too great. He has helped me make a killing following your advise.
Is he correct or should I let my profits grow? I don’t want to be greedy. Thank you.
Martin,
In the 1970’s we were in the oil and gas business with local partners in Argentina. We bet that the Peronistas would win the election, not Campura, and sold out our interest in the venture to our Argentina partners and got all of our money out of the country. The Peronistas won and Juan Peron returned from Spain and took over the government.
Subsequently, the country’s currency went from 6 pesos to the US dollar to 100,000 pesos to the US dollar. Then they abandoned the peso as a currency and went to the Austral. Then the Austral blew up and I another currency was installed. Inflation was 20% a month!
During this period, I returned to Buenos Aires and asked my former partners how the were coping with the inflation and the currency termoil. They said that they put their money ASAP into land on the Pampas, oil in the ground and gold, silver and other precious metals and gems. Hard assets, no paper.
We are now 70% invested in Treasury MM, Fidelity FDLXX, and 30% in oil and mining stocks. We are scared as hell that when the recession/depression ends, the US dollar will go the way of the Argentine peso in the ’70s. It will go sudden and drop in value like a rock in a wooden cistern due to hyper inflation, and we will suffer unbearable loss before we can get reinvested.
At what stage of the US and/or Global economy do you recommend aggressively converting cash into hard assets and other currencies?
All the stocks investments I currently have, you recommended. I certainly need your advise . Thanks, Ray
The one thing you can help me with is clear information on the best way for me to retire in 15 years working with just $100,000 right now. It is so important to me that I support myself until my time comes.
Yes, I would love to hear the rules you follow to deal with economic cycles.
Regards.
Martin,
Yes, I would be interested in understanding your checklist.
Tx, jb
For all of your subscribers who, like me, have a dialup internet connection, it is almost impossible to download your vidio conferences. We can read and don’t need sound and visual effects. Please provide transcripts as soon as possible.
Hello,
To know more specifically how you do what you do would be great for the readers who have the time, energy and temperment to be constantly following markets and companies in order to buy and sell stocks, bonds, currencies, derivatives, etc. I, as well as many others, don’t have what it takes for all this trading. Also, I have heard that much trading for most people (people like me) under most circumstances is a cause for lower returns over the long run.
I enjoy your general information about market fundamentals and trends. More of this – with more fundamental information of economic principles and realities, as opposed to the mass media lies, omissions, distortions and mystifications, would be very valuable.
Also, advice for folks in different age ranges and financial circumstances would be helpful – as advice for the young financially secure folks could be extremely detrimental for those people approaching retrement, or in retirement, and with very different financial situations and needs.
I do very much enjoy your e-mails since much of it is a good learning experience – so many other financial e-mails are only full of hype for products they want to sell.
SJ.
I hold mature I-Bonds [check form.] Are they as safe and versatile as Treasury Bills?
Thanks,
Jim Corbin
I live in Australia, so naturally trade the local market. There are differences with the US situation: firstly, there was no real estate bubble, and in fact, the housing starts are rising now, secondly, although equities have lost over 60% since July 2008, the banking sector remains robust. So, what gives? Is the effect of the world recession simply delayed Down Under, or are we experiencing it`s milder version? So then, what should be the investment/trading strategy be? Are there any particular stocks that offer a way out of the possibly impending doom?
What can retired investors do to preserve capital but get better returns than Tres MM funds? I am not into inverse ETF’s etc.
Martin, Thank you so much for your wisdom and for sharing with all. YES! – A FREE online class to share a checklist of things to do NOW to help us with our investing would be a great help for sure. I would really appreciate it and I’m sure others would too. Thanks again. Elaine
Weiss Group—Great job on the blog.
I agree with Joe Malanio 2/16/09 after all it is the taxpayers money, when I see what those top executives have done to their fellow Americans, it makes me physically ill -
Someone needs to look into this situation very carefully before they go splashing about all this money. The West is fast looking like the new poor of the world, except for the few who have taken their money off shore in millions and left their own countries to suffer. (exactly what occured in history before the downfall of places like Rome).
I so look forward to money matters e-mail with great appreciation.
Yes I would love tp get you take on the 11 thinges to know during these bear market times.
Yes! If you speak I will listen. jb
I would be very interested in the techniques you use to measure and mitigate risk, size positions, and structure (and restructure) a portfolio as market conditions change. For example, in a neutral or uptrending market, a portfolio structure with about 60% in primarily income producing investments, 30% in part income –part capital gain investments, and 10% in higher risk –all capital gain investments makes sense. Under current market conditions, even with hedging, there is too much capital loss in many income oriented investments to make holding them profitable. How should a portfolio be restructured in these circumstances? What I have done so far is to shift to inverse ETF’s and other inverse investments. This leads to a portfolio oriented primarily to trading. What I haven’t been able to quantify is how this shift in strategy alters overall portfolio risk. Any advice you can offer on how to structure a portfolio and measure risk as market conditions change would be appreciated.
Yes, Martin, I would be interested in seeing such a list. I’m sure it would help me with my decision making.
Michael T.
Martin,
One of the problems for active investors/traders are the overabundance of information available. Many are offering advice on how to play the markets and various types of investments in today’s volatile and deadly environment. To sift through this massive amount of information, some of which contradict others, is overwhelming. In addition, the types of strategies to be deployed may also not be suitable for a particular investor/trader.
I believe an individual investor/trader must select one approach (among many good sound advisers out there) that he/she has confidence in, and closely follow that approach (strategies) because listening to too many other advice will lead to confusion and not applying or executing well on the one chosen approach. A person needs to do some self-analysis to determine one’s style of investing/trading, risk aversion, available time to monitor positions and to advance on learning curve in markets they may not be familiar with, etc.
Definitely, a clear road map is necessary to navigate the dangerous markets today.
I look forward to what Money & Markets presentation. I believe your analysis has been correct and prescient on developments in the financial markets and the economy.
I need a kick in the butt to built confidence in trading in this kind of market, the fundamental i can handle but the technical parts with different direction are not a clear given me a clear signal to put my retirement money in this market. What is it?
‘FEAR’
I live in Australia. How will your advice and system work for me in the Australian Market?
I have sent your stuff around the world incuding to friends and family in South Africa they are impressed and frightened.
Dear Martin
I would, although I live in Australia love to see the steps that you take when investing, because I am sure it would help me with my investments. You are doing a fantastic job and I am sure you are hitting the nail on the head with your predictions of the market and where and what the world is heading for.
Thank you and God bless
Michael
Hi Martin,
God bless you, you have done wonderful things, and given from your heart. Indeed it is refreshing!!
I have follwed your advice by being mostly in Tres MM and some ETF’s. I’ve noticed you haven’t said much lately about SRS, is it still viable for 2009? When do you think inflation will kick in? With all this money being printed I’m thinking it will be higher then during Carter years, am I thinking right? Sorry for so many questions… Keep up the good work.
Yes your step by step would be very helpful
God Bless,
George C
Yes. I subscribe to Safe Money Report but some info to supplement that would be good. Alsoit would be great if we could e-mail brief concise questions to a knowledgeable professional in your organization. Thanks.
Do you have any recommendation for emini stock index like : ES (emini S%P 500), NQ (emini Nasdaq), emini russel etc ? Thanks
Yes, please do as suggested.
In a down market such as we’ve had in 2008, I’ve done extremely well with
bear market funds, BEARX and GRZZX. They’re up again in 2009. What
is your opinion on these entities?
Could you please give an update on the status of the Derivatives?! Thank you!
Yes Martin I would be interested in your check list of how to invest
yes, pls share your checklist
Yes, we didn’t live at the time of the Great Depression, and it is foolish not to look at ways to avoid the catastrophe that many people endured. We need all the help we can get.
Yes, I would definitely be interested in being part of this training. Thanks for your continued concern for invertors.
as a main street economist [columbia grad] who fights for seniors rights , without their help ,ur list would be the thegreatest navigating the present economy. bcs
it would be foolhardy to not seek out all the best advice from people with a proven history of success… Yes, i am inerested
If the house of representatives is supposed to initiate all spending bills, why is the senate doing the bailout bills?
An investment strategy session would be welcomed.
“I’m talking about specifics: The rules I follow — to determine what I’ll buy or sell, to improve my timing, to lower my risk, and to boost the profit potential in bear markets.”
I would like to hear more about your system.
I think a web broadcast of your check list would be a great service and would greatly assist the casual investor to correct his/her mistakes and do a better selection process.
Martin; I’ve been a subscriber for several years now and thanks to your wisdom and recommendations my portfolio remains in the black. I thank you from my heart.
Your strategies are some of the best I have been advised of. I am still belaboring the currency trading innovations. Your pinpoint analysis has been hard to accept but you have informed us well on precise targets to safety.
Yes, Martin, that would most helpful.
Tom
I may have had more years of contact with you than most – - the popular national Wall St. Week programs where you were THE star and later as a subscriber to your newsletter prior to your managing other investors money.
I would love to hear your checklist of rules which you have developed and learn your
thoughts of what to do at this juncture.
Bill
It would help us all make better decesions when trading. If you made a DVD of your presentation it would help us to remember your reasoning and logic.
An on-line event would be terrific. It would also be great if you published your steps since I may be at work during your seminar. I would love to see your strategy. Thank you. Dave
I certainly would be highly interested in your checklist. I certainly believe what you say that there are opportunities out there despite the poor economy.
Looking forward to the answers in the financial difficult times.
Please, you are good enough to impart your father’s wisdom of the only event that remotely compares to this mess, I will make myself available to learn as much as you are willing to share.
This certainly seems like the point of no return. Can”t miss your seminar. Thanks
Any wisdom you are willing to share about how you protect your own money would be respected and received with with gratitude in these confusing times in our country and the world. Suzan
Martin,
I can agree with all of the preceeding comments. Thanks for the info thus far.
Look forward to the online seminar.
WE ARE IN A NEW ERA OF GROWTH WERE WEALTH IS GOING TO BE SHIFTING HANDS FOR THOSE COGNIZANT INVESTORS WHO ARE MOTIVATED TO INVEST. I AM VERY INTERESTED AND LOOKING FORWARD TO RECEIVING YOUR LIST.
It sure would. My conventional thoughts to this market are just not working. I would really appreciate your help. Thanks.
Am in Queensland Australia,what time would it be here for your conference?
Since you have been through some difficult economic events and you have the benefit of your departed Dad’s insights & wisdom, the web seminar would be of great benefit to others & me.
Indeed, we would like to hear more.
Martin,
Have the markets already had their so called “Obama Honeymoon”, reach their highs, and it’s only downhill from here?
Best regards,
Ray
today i’m keeping all in cash in my state farm cr un. only pays 3% but credit unions usually do not hold any home mortgs except some home improvs, auto leins, and personal loans to employees. if you think i’m risky let me know and will consider your alternatives. thanks…tal
We all sound very interested! when is your online event?
I still believe this is a wonderful world of great opportunities if we can see the truth in this crisis, and to be motivated to move forward. The past is to be looked at to learn our mistakes but we now must look to the future for new and exciting direction. May our higher wisdom come forth, for all. Thank You for your wisdom.
I raise cattle in Central America. I wish to raise capital and deploy it in Central America in ventures relating to infrastructure, alternative energies, micro-finance and agricultural/ livestock management. I am a 21 year old student that relates to your investment philosophy. I will attend the online event.
YES I’D TRULY APPRECIATE YOUR INPUT TO INVESTING CAREFULLY ESPECIALLY DURING THESE TIMES. KEEP ME INFORMED. THANK YOU, SINCERELY, LORRAINE
I liked Richard Mogey’s timing cycles info. After googling him I noticed he is also linked to astrology. Are his timing cycles astrological? Can anyone enlighten me on that? Does anyone have more info on his cycles? I will be sure to watch Part 2 of Martin’s Program.
i want to join
Yes, Honestly I think you are right about this. I wish you will let us know more about this in future posting as well. Waiting for that.. Thanks again ;) ;)