Author: Rob Trader
Shocking Poll Results: 80% of smart traders admit they never make money in down or sideways markets.
This shocked me.
A friend of mine did a poll of active investors and traders recently, and 8 out of 10 of them admitted they don't make money in down or sideways markets.
I don't want to say they're one-trick ponies, but when 80% of traders from THIS group are only consistently making money in up markets, it makes me sit up and take notice.
First of all, that's heartbreaking and completely unnecessary.
If you're not consistently making money in every market condition – up, down or sideways – you're practically a buy and hold investor.
Look, most top hedge funds make money using a long-short trading strategy.
My colleague,
John Thomas, the Mad Hedge Fund Trader
explained it not too long ago.He should know, too; he is one of the top performing hedge fund traders in the world, and this is the core strategy he uses.
In a nutshell, you go long the best undervalued assets in the world and short the worst, most overpriced assets in the world (click here for a complete breakdown of how John trades his Global Macro Long-Short trading strategy).
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He shows it's also the most versatile trading strategy, because… You can go long/short with countries like the U.S. vs. India, Europe vs. Indonesia, etc.
You can go long/short with currencies. One of the next big short-term moves will be that Europe is going to slow down, while the U.S. has short-term economic speed-up, so the trade will be short for the euro and long for the dollar.
You can go long/short with sectors like health care vs. real estate.
You can go long/short with commodities like food, water, metals, rare earths, lumber, natural gas, and so on.
You can go long/short with stocks like Apple or British Petroleum.
And you can go long/short with paper assets vs. hard assets, which, you may know, is one of the biggest unstoppable trends in the world right now. Now that you can get ETFs to cover countries, sectors and even inverse ETFs that let you short assets without margin, it's never been easier for you as an individual investor to use a long/short
macro strategy.
If you want to trade a long/short strategy:
STEP ONE is to identify the unstoppable macro trends. I did that for you in my last presentation.
STEP TWO is to develop a watch list of trades – both long and short trades.
A watch list is just a list of trades you're waiting to get into when the time is right, so you'll have a series of ETFs and stocks labeled "buy on dips". These are your long positions that have nowhere to go but up, so when the market has a short-term pull-back, you want to get in at a better price.
You also make a list of positions you want to sell on rallies. Right now, if you have a lot of U.S. stocks – particularly big blue chips and the like – you want to sell them on rallies like the Fed creates with QE II.
Plus, you want a list of potential short positions.
You want to be like every good Boy Scout: Always prepared.
So when the market moves, you're not wasting time trying to figure out what to do. You're swooping in and making money.
But, I have bad news: This is not something where someone can just give you a five-step how-to manual you can follow to get rich.
Someone has to show you how to do it, and – in the beginning – give you the exact trades to make, PLUS handle the market timing for you.
The reality is there a lot of secret little tips and nuggets you can ONLY get from firsthand experience and interaction with the top traders in the world.
For example, years ago, Carl Van Horne, then the chief investment officer of John's alma mater, JP Morgan, once taught him a rule that I have found incredibly useful in staying ahead of trends: Follow the DIRECT INVESTMENT in a country because the stock markets always play catch up.
He says that nugget alone has made him a lot of money over the years.
And he has 40 years' worth of nuggets like that to share.
If you want to trade a long-short trading strategy, click here to now to hear about how John is teaching Main Street traders to profit like Wall Street sharks.
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It's the fastest way to move into the tiny little group of elite traders who are almost always making money regardless of what direction the market is going.
Obviously, John's long-short trading strategy is effective, because in the last 7 weeks alone, the Main Street traders John's been teaching are UP 24% on their entire trading book.
Think about it… what's 24% of YOUR portfolio? If you have just $10,000 to trade, you would've made $2,400 in the last 7 weeks if you were in lockstep with the
Macro Millionaires.
If you have $20,000, you missed out on $4,800 in profits in just the last 7 weeks.$50,000 to trade? You lost $12,000 in 7 weeks – that's over SIX GRAND a month you could've had.
But, if you're not a Macro Millionaire, that $2,400… $4,800… or $12,000 is money you DON'T have right now. Those are profits you missed out on.
Click here if your entire portfolio is NOT up 24% in the last 7 weeks, and you want to learn more.
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Rob Trader - Forex Expert
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