The strange asset that doubled in the 2008 crisis... and went up more than 4X in the dot-com bust...
And yet, nearly every independent investor holds far too little of this hedge asset in their portfolio today... just like in 2008... just like in 2000... and just like in every other preceding bubble, right before it burst...
And no, it's not gold or other hard assets. It’s not Treasuries or farmland, or real estate. It’s not energy or resources, and definitely not crypto...
And it doesn't require any risky short-selling or volatility trading, either...
Below: Discover the incredible wealth-building power of this strange and sometimes hated asset, and how you can add it to your portfolio in mere moments...
Dear Investor,
If the recent mess in the markets hit your portfolio hard, you’ll want to pay special attention to this message.
Take a look for yourself. During the Great Recession, this anti-crash asset—“VMQL”—went up 2.25 times while the rest of Wall Street crumbled...
And here again, when the dot-com bubble popped in 2001 and the NASDAQ fell by 78%, you can see how this asset’s value grew by four times...
Even now, 10 years after the Great Recession, we are once again seeing the value of VMQL bolster investors’ portfolios in hard times.
The market corrected twice in 2018. And twice this asset—VMQL—proved its value as a crisis hedge.
Between October 1 and December 31, 2018, the S&P’s correction left many investors wondering if the end of the bull market was here. Take a look at how VMQL performed during the market’s slide...
See for yourself: Its value ended the quarter up by 17.5%, while every major index lost its momentum.
And this was after VMQL increased in value by 11% in just 13 days during the February 2018 correction.
VMQL isn’t anything new, either. It’s been protecting investors’ portfolios for years. In the earliest days of the Great Depression—as America’s economy crumbled—the value of this asset went up by 25% in just four days.
If you’d simply been in VMQL for the first three years of the Great Depression, you’d have seen the value of your portfolio go up 10X. Stocks would take decades to recover, but you’d be sitting pretty.
In fact, the wealth-protecting power of this asset is older than the stock market itself...
Take the Black Monday market massacre in 1987. If you’d been among the few who saw trouble brewing, you could’ve loaded up on VMQL ahead of time. And when the market fell and the proverbial blood filled Wall Street, you would’ve been 22% ahead by the end of the day.
Now here’s how holding VMQL during this one-day market massacre could have significantly increased your net worth...
Imagine two investors. One holds VMQL during Black Monday’s 22% drop, the other doesn’t.
The investor who hedged with VMQL starts the following day with $100,000 in their portfolio.
The investor who didn’t hold VMQL starts with 22% less—$78,000.
Through the rest of the 80s and 90s, the market would rip higher by more than 1,350%.
If both investors simply matched the market’s performance from that day forward, one would end up $300,000 richer.
That’s right: a $300,000 difference...
By matching the market’s 1,350% increase, the VMQL investor’s $100,000 portfolio would turn into $1,350,000.
The other investor’s $78,000 would turn into $1,050,000.
If you’d been the investor who hedged with VMQL during that single bad day in the markets... The net result would’ve been an extra $300,000 spending money in your bank account.
Remember that the next time the market has a particularly bad day...
At the end of any bull market, it’s just about the last strategy you’d hear from most investment advisors or pundits in the financial media. In fact, if you asked many of them directly, they’d look at you like you’re an idiot.
By 2017, I started pounding the pulpit, telling my private clients and readers to get into the VMQL hedge.
I didn’t care if pot stocks were up, cryptos were soaring, and FAANG stocks were all the rage. By my book, stocks and just about everything else were overpriced, and there was too much market risk.
Volatility would come. And when it hit, it would hit hard. It was time to hedge.
I’d seen it all before.
I worked in an Options Exchange in San Francisco at the peak of the dot-com bubble.
A year later, I was on Wall Street—and was trading a billion dollars a day by the time the 2008 crisis hit.
I’ve been on the front lines for both bubbles and busts. Everything seems like it will only go up, then one day it starts going down and the floor falls out.
That’s what I felt again in 2017, when I started to tell readers to go heavy on the VMQL hedge. And as you’ve seen, it paid off—in fact, the VMQL hedge would make headlines as the best play of 2018, beating stocks, bonds, commodities, and real estate.
And even after two major corrections in 2018, I’m still recommending my clients load up on VMQL.
In just a moment, I’ll show you exactly what this ignored, underappreciated, and sometimes-hated asset is, but first, here’s why you should care what I have to say...
Hi, my name is Jared Dillian.
Until recently, the only way you would’ve heard my name is if you were a trader for a major Wall Street bank or hedge fund.
From 2001 through 2008, I worked my way up on Wall Street, on one of the most notorious trading floors in the business.
By the time I was done, I was the head of their ETF trading desk...
That gave me a $250 million trading account—with total discretion to trade on the bank’s behalf.
I’d routinely make over $1 billion in trades in a single day.
In my time on Wall Street, I made over $1 trillion in total ETF trades—that’s about 1/20th the entire US GDP.
Have you ever met anyone who’s handled trades worth 1/20th the entire US economy? I’m guessing the answer is no.
As glamorous as that may sound, it came with a price—my state of mind.
I wasn’t the worst of them—but I also wasn’t the best of them, either.
At one point, I was constantly screaming across the trading floor and got a reputation for smashing my phone when a trade didn’t go my way.
Yeah, I was that guy. And it wasn’t healthy.
I’m not going to go too deep into it here. I published the whole rotten story in my memoir Street Freak, which was Businessweek’s #1 business book of 2011.
But I’ll tell you this. The stress of trying to be a good person, while working on Wall Street, is enough to have you temporarily committed. Literally.
I knew I needed a way out. I knew, no matter how much they paid me, I couldn’t buy peace of mind.
Listen...
I’m the child of two public servants. Growing up, I thought making $80,000 a year was a big deal.
I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth—my parents worked hard for what they had. And I’ve worked hard for everything I’ve achieved. I served in the military. I paid my own way through my MBA. And I earned one of Wall Street’s top trading jobs—through hard work, every step of the way.
And yet, as successful as I was, I realized I couldn’t stick around for long.
I had to get out of there. And I was looking for my out. I needed an escape plan.
By 2008, I’d guessed the real estate guys at my bank were up to something. They were absolutely rolling in it.
But nobody outside of real estate knew how the heck they were making so much money.
Turns out, it came from massive leverage... A huge trading risk.
Then, the real estate bubble started to bust... Their trades went south faster than they could sell. And even though I’d been making profits the whole time, suddenly my bank was bankrupt.
Maybe you remember us in the news? The bank was Lehman Brothers. And our bankruptcy is widely seen as the moment when the crisis hit Wall Street.
At this point, we all thought we were about to be thrown out on the street. Most of my coworkers were newly broke. And I lost a fortune in company stock I couldn’t sell.
Most people were relieved when we got bought by Barclays, but it had been my final straw. Despite a cushy offer to stay and keep trading, I’d had enough.
I had worked, or more accurately, “showed up,” that entire week during the bankruptcy. But I knew my days of actively trading there were done.
I high-tailed it out of NYC and headed to the Carolinas. Even without a job, I knew I had two things going for me...
I probably had more ETF trading experience than anybody else on Wall Street.
And I knew I could help people benefit from my experience—part of my reputation on Wall Street came from writing about the market and how to trade it.
My plan was to figure out how to use my Wall Street experience for good... To help independent investors actually get ahead, despite all the ways the deck is stacked against them...
Since leaving the Street, I have been a regular contributor at Bloomberg View and Forbes and have appeared in a number of other media, including MSNBC, Bloomberg TV, The New York Times, LA Times, Business Insider, and dozens of local and syndicated radio programs.
I also recently teamed up with the world-renowned Mauldin Economics, who agreed to give me carte blanche to publish my market research and recommendations...
The market and the economy are high on debt again. And with the Fed raising rates, it’s only a matter of time before it all blows up in our face.
I know it may be hard to believe. But for all the market’s struggles last year, my experience—and a pile of data—suggests the worst is ahead of us.
The market mess in 2018 felt bad, yes. In December alone, the Dow was down 15% before Christmas Day...
But zoom your chart out far enough, and you can see the market still has a long way it could fall.
I won’t make specific crash predictions. I won’t tell you exactly when it’s coming or how far it will fall.
I don’t like to play the fear game. But I’m a realist and a pragmatist.
There are times when the pragmatic thing to do is to batten down the hatches on your portfolio strategy.
The best thing you can do right now is to get ultra-realistic about the risks we face. Don’t get greedy when the market ticks up and hedge your portfolio to weather the next storm.
I firmly believe that the best way to do this is with an asset I call VMQL.
Take Warren Buffett—arguably the world’s most successful investor. Buffett has already loaded up on over $100 billion in this asset, just waiting for the markets to go down.
He’s holding more VMQL today than at any other time in the history of Berkshire Hathaway.
Buffett also held comparatively high levels of this asset in the periods preceding the last two major bear markets, in 1999 and 2007.
So why did he load up on this strange hedge asset in both 1999 and 2007—and why again is he holding even more of this asset now than he has at any other time in the history of Berkshire Hathaway?
Because he understands just how much VMQL can increase in value when the market hits the skids.
So, he hedges the Berkshire portfolio with VMQL—and waits.
Just like me. Just like my readers. Just like some of the most successful, seasoned investors and traders I know on Wall Street.
In fact, it’s beginning to show up in the cryptic research reports of some of Wall Street’s biggest banks...
VMQL "will represent a competitive asset class to stocks for the first time in many years," according to Goldman's top strategists.
Schwab advises their clients that VMQL can “mitigate downside risk” for stock investors in the face of market downturns.
Even the Wall Street Journal admitted VMQL is considered “heresy” by many investors, but still advised readers to “consider the sacrilegious” and add it to your portfolio.
And Nasdaq published an article in late December calling VMQL “The best asset class of 2018.” And I quote, “Beating out US stocks, global stocks, investment grade bonds, junk bonds, commodities, real estate, you name it...”
And yet, most individual investors are still holding far less of this asset than they have at any previous time since the dot-com bubble was about to burst.
It’s what I call “VMQL.”
VMQL are “Volatility-Minimized, Quick-Liquidity” investments.
“VMQL” refers to a specific class of near-cash investments that don’t whipsaw with the market, but provide wealth-growing potential, beyond simply stuffing cash in the mattress.
Most people don’t understand just how powerful these plays can be during downturns in the market.
To truly understand the wealth-building power of VMQL, you have to be willing to think differently than the crowd.
VMQL investments—cash alternatives I’ll share in a moment—went up 2X and 4X in RELATIVE VALUE during the Great Recession and the dot-com bust, respectively...
I’ll illustrate...
Let’s say you were invested in an S&P 500 index fund during the Great Recession.
For every $10,000 you had at the market’s peak above 1500 in October 2007, you would’ve had just $4,400 when the market bottomed at 666 in March 2009.
And yet, if you’d held VMQL while the market was falling, you would’ve still had your $10,000. Plus a few more bucks in interest and other gains.
And as any second grader can tell you, $10,000 will buy you more than twice as much as $4,400. More than 2.25X as much.
Pour that into that same index fund at the bottom, and you’re sitting on more than 2X as many shares as if you’d simply stayed invested in stocks.
The same math applies to VMQL when the dot-com boom went bust—except $10,000 invested in the Nasdaq at the peak in March of 2000 would’ve been worth about $2,200 at the bottom.
If you hedged with VMQL during the market’s fall, you could’ve backed up the truck in 2002 and bought 4X as many shares for every $10,000 in your portfolio.
Nobody who makes a living selling financial advice tells you this because it’s not sexy enough. Call me crazy, but here I am choosing the truth over what’s sexy.
Because THIS is what I’d want you to tell me if our roles were reversed.
Because THIS is what will lead you to be wealthier 10 years from now.
Because THIS is the honest truth.
It’s like the saying at a poker table. If you don’t know who the mark is, you’re the mark.
If you don’t understand VMQL and the secret of relative value, you’re the one who will get fleeced every single time the market heads South.
In fact, there are a ton of traders licking their chops, just waiting for it...
All the pros on Wall Street know (but most won’t admit) that the typical independent investor is always doing the wrong things, at the wrong time, with their investments.
Many on Wall Street make their careers by taking advantage of this fact.
And this is part of the garbage I saw that made me nauseous.
The research is evident. Study after study shows that the majority of investment shortfalls are the result of poor investor psychology.
Your biggest enemy isn’t even the wolves on Wall Street.
It’s that big lump of gray matter between your ears.
Most independent investors get greedy and pile in at the peak of bubbles... And run scared after the market has crashed... Buying high and selling low, when they should do the opposite...
Wall Street’s darkest element knows this. And they know how to make money off of you if you repeat these same mistakes that most casual investors have made for time eternal.
They prey on the little guy investors’ mistakes, and in doing so, make huge profits for the big banks.
I saw it firsthand while trading $1 trillion in ETFs at Lehman Brothers. It made me sick to my stomach.
That’s part of why I’m writing to you today.
To pound the pulpit to tell you to hedge yourself right now. And if you’re already heavy on defensive plays, to consider going even heavier.
Load up on VMQL—even if you hate the idea of being in a cash-like investment. Even if you feel like your money needs to always be making you money.
Load up on VMQL before the market falls further. And watch and wait for your opportunity to buy twice as many shares of the best companies in the market.
There’s never been a better time to make sure YOU aren’t the one getting fleeced the next time the market falls.
Speaking of VMQL—you really do deserve a much better definition. It’s NOT CASH—it’s way better than just stuffing money in the mattress.
And no, it's not gold or other hard assets, or bonds, or farmland, or real estate, energy, or resources either.
My primary recommendation for a VMQL investment today is a special type of fund that...
This is a great way to stay flexible and wait for the perfect buying opportunities, while you’re still making some money.
But what exactly is VMQL? Breaking it down, “Volatility-Minimized” means these funds don’t go UP or DOWN very fast.
Want to guarantee you’ll screw up as an investor? Then buy things that move fast. Whipsaw prices eat up even seasoned traders. I know, because I’ve been there, done that—on multi-million-dollar trades. You have to have some serious intestinal fortitude to handle fast price swings.
I’m sure you’ve seen the illustration. Take a 50% loss and you have to find a 100% gain just to get back to even. Your chances of dumb mistakes go up dramatically in that situation.
99.9% of investors and traders will be far wealthier in the long run with even slow, consistent growth.
That’s why one of my key strategies to growing richer in any market is to minimize volatility. Most traders don’t emphasize this. Because they haven’t learned the lessons you only get from $1 trillion in trading experience.
And “Quick-Liquidity” is critical, because the reason the floor falls out of the markets when it starts to fall is because there’s no liquidity—aka cash—available to make trades.
When it’s time to back up the truck and start buying stocks at fire-sale prices, available cash is the #1 asset you can have.
And it’s not Treasury bonds, CDs, a savings account, or a money market fund. Sure, these are okay. But our goal is to have our cash working a little harder for us. Instead of passively sitting there, getting eaten by inflation.
In a moment, I’ll give you the chance to access my current favorite VMQL hedges in a critical investor action plan. You can get my recommendation today and immediately implement it to protect yourself from further carnage.
By mid 2018, I’d built a portfolio for my readers that was more than 40% hedged with VMQL. My personal allocation is a bit higher.
Here’s how those recommendations did against SPY—the S&P 500 ETF—from July 2018 through December 2018...
The “safe” strategy of buying a low expense ratio market index ETF would have lost you almost 7% in six months.
However, a mixed VMQL hedging strategy based on my July 2018 recommendations would’ve had you up 1.3% in that same time.
I explained, “Managing volatility is probably the most important thing you can do... The goal is to avoid [a] large loss to begin with. Large losses make people do stupid things.”
When the market was falling in late 2018, I was getting praise from readers who’d watched the market drop 2 to 3% in a day while their portfolios were flat. If you want to be thankful the next time the market drops 3% or more in a day, you’ll want to grab my VMQL recommendation.
And yet, we’re not just hiding in our bunkers...
In today’s uncertain market, we’re protecting ourselves by putting 40% of our portfolio in VMQL. And that means there’s another 60% of the portfolio aimed at another purpose—building wealth...
Again, I’m not trying to resort to unnecessary scare tactics. And I am not hard selling you on the fear that everything’s going to fall apart.
There will be a time to get greedy—very greedy.
But I see a lot more downside than upside in the near term. And I’d rather you hold onto your net worth than lose it.
Which is why you MUST prepare for another market contagion.
In 2007, the real estate market started to crumble. Then the crisis spread to pretty much every other asset class you could trade—just like a disease. Just like a contagion.
There was pretty much nowhere you could run and hide in the last few months of the crash because everything was dropping in value.
Then central banks stepped in, and for 10 years, we saw everything go up in value. It’s the way the market works today. Everything goes down. Everything goes up. And then everything goes down again.
The worst news about this is: The next big downturn could easily become a contagion, too. We must operate under the assumption there will be few places to run and hide.
And that’s what you need to fully prepare your portfolio against.
I’ve put together an investor action guide on The Anti-Contagion Portfolio that I’d like to send to you today. I’ll tell you how to get it in a minute.
And I’m sure you’ll want to read it, because...
Have you ever heard this saying? “Return OF capital is far more important than return ON capital.”
Some investors are so desperate chasing gains that they’ll risk it all to go for a few percent win.
You’re far better off making sure you get your money back.
Imagine if you had been on the verge of retirement—or even already retired—at the peak of one of the last bull markets.
Let’s say you’re sitting on $1 million—expecting that you can draw down 4% or $40,000 per year for life. Sure, it’s not much, but it works for the illustration.
But then it’s those final few months of the bull market. It seems like the market will just go up forever. So, you call your broker and make sure you’re fully invested—to maximize what your $1 million will do for you in retirement.
Then, the market tanks by 78% like it did in the dot-com bust. Suddenly, your portfolio is a miniscule $220,000, and your 4% draw is down to $8,800 per year.
You’d have to make 454% in returns, just to get back to even.
That’ll kill your retirement dreams.
And I have seen seasoned, professional investors go broke chasing after returns like that—much less someone who’s just trying to grow their savings in their spare time while also balancing a career, family, and a personal life.
It’s way too much of a gamble.
I’d rather not lose money, so I don’t have to chase those returns.
And instead, I’d rather aim for getting a little richer every year. Going for conservative 6% to 8% annual gains, year-in and year-out.
And only going for bigger gains when odds are so overwhelmingly in our favor, the opportunity can’t be ignored.
For example, I recently sold two positions. We held them from March 2018 to November 2018.
Both of them had easily beaten the S&P’s negative 4% during the holding period, providing 9% and 12% growth, respectively.
That may not sound very sexy, but it is honest. And it is the type of straight-talk and contrarian thinking that will prevent you from eating cat food in retirement.
But what does it really mean? It means you’d be ahead of the S&P by almost 15%. And remember, most investors fail to beat the market over the long run.
The over-hyped, double- and triple-digit projections so many pundits make are just outright dangerous.
None of us have a crystal ball. We can’t predict what the market will do. So why would you want to try to gamble your peace of mind and standard of living on a wish? Or, even worse, a hyped-up promise. Hope is not a strategy.
Sure, some stocks take off for the moon. And yet most promising stories never pan out. In any group of 100 “surefire” winners, 99 could tank. Many in the investment business would point to that one winner and crown themselves a stock genius.
I’ve been in this business since the turn of the century and have over $1 trillion in trades to my name. If I’m not chasing these promises of triple-digit returns, maybe that tells you something.
Why would you gamble on those promises—when that gamble could tank your portfolio?
Risk is the killer. Volatility is the killer. If you minimize risk and volatility, you can get a little richer every year. If you chase these hyped-up promises, you’ll win a few, but the ones you lose will be devastating...
My goal for you is to beat the markets in the long run.
That means I’ll help you get fearful when others are greedy. And greedy when others are fearful.
This should keep you one step ahead of the next big moves in the markets. So you can ride the bull moves as they come and don’t barf up your portfolio in a bear market.
I’ve spent the last couple years knowing this time was coming—identifying all those investments most likely to actually increase in value as the rest of the market falls...
And these investments are what I’ve used to compliment the safety-first strategy of VMQL in The Anti-Contagion Portfolio.
If you’re still reading, I know you don’t want to lose money...
The upside of VMQL is that it doesn’t go down fast when markets fall...
And the downside is that it doesn’t go up very fast either.
Yes, VMQL is better than just stashing cash under the mattress for compounding your wealth. And yet, its main purpose for you is to NOT LOSE MONEY.
But because I know that most investors want and even NEED to make a profit, I have allocated 60% of our portfolio to other targeted growth opportunities.
In today’s overpriced market, it’s best to...
That means, investments with a performance that don’t run lockstep with the broad markets.
You ARE NOT diversified if you follow the Investing 101 advice of buying low-cost index funds.
You ARE NOT protected from the next crisis.
You ARE NOT protected from contagion.
Academics and the financial media have done a ton of research since 2008 to wrap their brains around why the so-called “safe” strategies like diversification failed to protect investors from catastrophic losses.
The findings were not news to those of us who were there when the crash happened.
When the liquidity crisis struck, everybody panicked and sold almost EVERYTHING THEY HAD.
It was an irrational hysteria. Traders and investors were running for the nearest exit.
And nobody was buying. It was like a vacuum had sucked all the buy orders out of the market, and the prices of everything went into freefall.
That’s when having VMQL investments paid off.
But even as people were selling, they were still putting that money somewhere.
Don’t get me wrong. These are investments you can make from inside your IRA, 401(k), or other brokerage account.
But we’re not talking traditional stocks.
The recommendations you’re about to get are special funds of the sort I know more about than just about anyone working today. Exchange-Traded Funds—or ETFs—set up as a way to invest in specific sectors and markets that will not move in lockstep with the S&P, unlike the much-touted index funds.
Mostly, we’re talking about buying funds that own STUFF. Physical things you can hold in your hands.
But also, specific sectors and markets that are out of favor even in the “everything bubble.”
And buying those as easily as you’d buy or sell a stock.
If the market stumbles—and even more so if it falls—these are exactly the kind of assets that you want to hold onto.
Today, I’m recommending five specific anti-contagion ETFs.
This is a portfolio that is diversified first to protect your wealth against the next crisis—and second, to provide true wealth building.
Recommendation One: a specialty ETF focused on select hard assets. $10,000 put into Recommendation One as the last crisis hit in late 2008 could’ve turned into as much as $45,000 in under three years.
Recommendation Two: a food and agriculture play. Even in a recession, we still need to eat, and that’s what makes this fund pay off. It would’ve made you 29% richer if you’d held through the last recession.
Recommendations Three, Four & Five: I’ll hold off on the details of these next three recommendations for the investor action plan I’ll tell you about in a few seconds. Though I can assure you, a couple of them will surprise you.
I won’t guarantee any of these recommendations will soar to the moon. I’m not going to play on the same human fallibility that so many others are happy to exploit.
Instead, I’ll simply state that these are the kinds of investments you want to be in right now. Until the dangers of another crisis have blown over or blown through.
I’ve written up my current recommendations on these five funds as part of my investor action plan...
And here’s how you can get them...
This is meant for you to take action. It’s meant to help you protect yourself from any further downturn—or worse—in the markets. And to set your portfolio up to profit, based on my $1 trillion trading experience.
The entire investor action plan is laid out in a downloadable report titled, The Anti-Contagion Portfolio: Grow Richer Through the Next Downturn and Beyond.
This is a $79 value, and yet I’ll show you how to grab it for free in just a moment.
In it...
You’ll discover how to increase your VMQL reserve almost instantly and make money while doing so (this is far better than just stuffing cash in a mattress)...
You’ll get the list of five specialist ETFs to protect your net worth from the next contagion, while positioning you to profit the next time other investors panic...
Plus, you’ll get explicit recommendations on how to structure your Anti-Contagion Portfolio around these recommendations.
In short, everything you need to tweak or totally overhaul your portfolio today, so you’re fully hedged and protected against the next crisis... And perhaps even grab some profit when it hits.
I know some pundits pretty much always predict the collapse of civilization and the end of our economy as we know it.
That’s not me.
The market is extremely overpriced right now. And it has been for the last couple of years.
The choppy market and corrections of 2018 haven’t exactly made things cheap.
Whenever the market is overpriced like it is now, it corrects itself. Usually through a big downturn and crisis.
And once it starts, it tends to happen very fast.
But after that happens, I expect prices to go UP.
The entire strategy behind The Anti-Contagion Portfolio is designed for you to be ready and waiting for that moment.
And you can be right there with me, ready to get greedy too.
When the right time comes, you could be buying 2X to 4X as many shares of the best companies in the market...
With much more upside...
More yield...
And much bigger gains and wealth-building power for you.
By the time we get there, the market may be UGLY. Stocks may be down, big. News headlines may tell you never to buy stocks again.
Yet if we see that, it could be the best time in a generation to buy stocks and the sort of specialized ETFs I know from long experience will lead the pack as the market rebounds.
And I’ll be the angel on your shoulder. Ready to make the contrarian call. Telling you which funds are the highest-quality, most-liquid, and poised for the strongest growth in a recovery.
Of course, you will need to be ready to buy. Which brings me back to my investor action plan and how you get it for free...
I’ll give you the details of your ETF 20/20 trial in a moment, but first, here’s what you need to know about the service.
I hesitate to call ETF 20/20 a “newsletter.” Or any of the other monikers given for similar services.
Sure, on its surface, it is a monthly investment newsletter.
But I’d like to disabuse you of the notion that this is just another investment newsletter.
So much of the investment advice industry on and off Wall Street is built to exploit the weakness and inexperience of the average investor.
By preying on both fear and greed, they make a mint at your expense.
I consider ETF 20/20 readers to be my clients.
It is my job, first and foremost, to protect your financial wellbeing by providing my best research and recommendations. To use my $1 trillion in trading experience to guide you to a lifetime of wealth.
Even when that advice requires me to take a stand against popular opinion.
Even when I have to make contrarian calls—like VMQL.
Even when I know I could sell a ton more subscriptions if I were to simply exploit investors’ greed by promising 100%, 200%, even 500% returns.
I’ll take the high road, thank you very much.
Too much of the investing research industry will drive you to high-risk gambling and speculation. To exploit your emotional decision making.
In other words, to sell you greed when you should be fearful. And fear when you should be greedy.
This is almost always the exact opposite of what you really need to achieve your goals of growing richer in two years, three years, five years, 10 years.
This is why I bailed on Wall Street.
I had a job offer from Barclays to keep trading billions of dollars’ worth of ETFs.
I had followers all over the Street, based on my writings and my best-selling book.
I could’ve landed a cushy trading job almost anywhere.
And yet—I knew the only way I’d be happy (and be able to look myself in the mirror) was to offer an independent voice and better alternative than the nonsense being peddled.
ETF 20/20 is the first and only investment newsletter dedicated to growing your wealth based on over $1 trillion worth of real-world trading and investing experience.
You won’t find any get-rich-quick ideas. I never hopped on the crypto or pot stock trains. No high-risk speculations as likely to break you as to make you.
The idea is to get rich slow in a steady, deliberate, and sustainable way.
You’ve heard the story of the ant and the grasshopper. The ant works through the leisurely summer to gather grains. The grasshopper laughs at his hard work. Winter comes. The ant feasts. The grasshopper starves to death. The end.
ETF 20/20 will ensure you eat with the ant when winter comes.
In every monthly issue, you’ll find the research you need to help you construct a portfolio that will first and foremost minimize volatility.
Because whenever your portfolio moves fast, you risk getting emotional and making terrible decisions.
And beyond minimizing volatility, you’ll find my best experienced advice to grow consistently richer, through thick and thin. Advice meant to help you achieve long-term wealth building.
It’s what I’d want from you, if our roles were reversed. It’s the only advice I can put in a newsletter and sleep at night. And thankfully, it’s exactly what John Mauldin and the Mauldin Economics team wanted from me when they offered to become my publisher for ETF 20/20.
John had been a reader for years. And in a case of “actions speak louder than words,” I was flattered when he offered to share my writings with his hundreds of thousands of readers. And yet, John was not alone in his praise...
As I said, I’ve been writing about the markets since my time trading at Lehman Brothers. And I garnered quite a following, including many who have stuck with me through today...
Here’s what my readers are saying:
Just pulled my mutual fund statements for Q4 [2018]. Had I listened to my Dave Ramsey ELP, I’d be painfully down Q4 and YTD. Thanks to the themes you taught me this year, up YTD, admittedly not a lot, but up, not down. I like that.” Andrew P
I like the updated portfolio showing exact results. Some people ‘recommend’ investments and wait for the perfect scenario to enter and exit a trade and say, ‘See I’m a genius. I told you so.’ You are being honest about the performance which is rare.” Jon S.
Big fan of your content, especially ETF 20/20. In a perfect world, everyone should fire their financial advisors, pull out of mutual funds, and just follow the monthly newsletter. It should be a $40 trillion in Assets Under Management newsletter.” C.B.
Well thought-out macro analysis, great ETF rating system. Considering the price, this has to be the best value in the investment advisory world." John M.
[I like] that I now have an ally who is sifting through the ETF morass—something that I don't have time to do.” Pete P.
It’s a great day to be an ETF 20/20 investor, Jared Dillian, thanks!” (Tweeted October 23, 2018—while the Dow plunged 549 points.) J. S.
I'm most concerned with preservation of wealth and way of life. ETF 20/20 is the right size in terms of depth and breadth of info and explanation and is an extra point of view.” Russ R.
Straight forward, logical approach that is explained at the proper level for non-professional investors.” Bob D.
[ETF 20/20 gives me] a sense that I’m being honestly regarded, not talked down to, and conservatively and expertly guided.” Larry D.
Already have recommended [ETF 20/20] to two friends. Love Jared’s work.” Jim K.
To the point. And witty.” Warren B.
Of course, you should absolutely make up your own mind and make your own decision on the quality of my advice...
In a moment, I’ll share with you how you can activate a risk-free trial of ETF 20/20.
When you do, you’ll get a link to instantly download your copy of The Anti-Contagion Portfolio: Grow Richer Through the Next Downturn and Beyond.
Read that first. It will give you the specific moves to make in your portfolio. The best funds to buy to implement the VMQL hedge strategy, plus the five specific ETFs that could make you richer even as contagion spreads through market after market.
You’ll also be setup with access to the ETF 20/20 members-only website, through Mauldin Economics. This includes the complete issue archive back to the very first issue, recent alerts, and the online portfolio with all current recommendations.
Plus, throughout your trial and for the length of your membership, you’ll get the monthly newsletter delivered straight to your email inbox, plus email alerts between the monthly issues when markets demand more pressing action.
And if you’re not already a subscriber, you’ll also get my regular insight into the markets, investor psychology, and growing your wealth in The 10th Man, my weekly email newsletter.
All-told, five or more times each month, you’ll get my best research and advice on growing your wealth and have the opportunity to see for yourself whether I live up to your best expectations and the accolades above.
The retail price for a one-year membership to ETF 20/20 is $199 and worth every penny. However, you don’t have to pay $199 to get started today.
I’ve worked with the team at Mauldin Economics, and as part of a special membership drive, we’ve temporarily lowered the new member price to just $49.
That’s $150 off and just over 75% in savings. It’s the lowest possible price to join.
But even still, I want you to make sure you are making the best decision for your long-term wealth. Which is why I want you to...
Put down that $49 reduced-price membership fee today to get started, knowing full well that you do so without risk or obligation.
You’ll get your instant download of The Anti-Contagion Portfolio plus access to the members-only website and all the other member benefits. You’ll receive the next monthly newsletter, as well as alerts and my other email commentary on the markets.
You’ll have a full 30 days to review all these member benefits and decide for yourself that you’ve just made a smart decision.
I want you to be 100% convinced once you get in there and actually experience ETF 20/20.
If not, reach out to the Mauldin Economics customer service team. You can reach them at (602) 626-3100 or toll-free at (877) 631-6311.
Let them know within 30 days that you’d like to cancel your membership, and you’ll get a prompt and courteous full refund of your $49 membership fee.
Or, do nothing, and you’ll lock in a full 12 months’ membership at just $49—less than fourteen cents a day for access to over $1 trillion in trading experience.
That’s 30 days to try it at no risk or obligation.
I have a twofold responsibility to you as an ETF 20/20 member...
To give you my best current advice for protecting yourself and profiting from today’s current market conditions.
To give you the research and knowledge gathered from my $1 trillion in trading experience to help you build a lifetime of wealth.
If I succeed at the first responsibility, I’ll make you richer while you are a member.
If I succeed at the second, you’ll count today as the first day of the rest of your richer life.
Which is why when you become a new ETF 20/20 member, you’ll also get two more valuable free reports:
The Ultimate Street Freak's Contrarian Guide to Picking Trends, Trading Trends, and Mastering Your Inner Instincts. I was successful on Wall Street because I think differently. I consider the psychology of Mr. Market to be more important than either fundamentals or technicals. This report reveals the deepest, darkest secrets of investor psychology—and how you can get richer because of them.
Your ETF Crash Course. This is what you need to know about ETFs, based on my experience as the “ETF Guy” on Wall Street. It’s what to know about any ETF before you buy it. Which ETFs to steer clear of. The best way to think about ETFs for long-term wealth building. These are the fundamentals you should know before putting a penny into any ETF.
Each of these are a $79 value, though you’ll get both free—in addition to The Anti-Contagion Portfolio—when you try ETF 20/20 for the next 30 days.
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You’re locking in the best available price for your first year’s membership, saving more than 75% off the retail rate.
Plus, when you try ETF 20/20 today, you’ll get immediate download access to The Anti-Contagion Portfolio, The Ultimate Street Freak's Contrarian Guide to Picking Trends, Trading Trends, and Mastering Your Inner Instincts, and Your ETF Crash Course—a combined $237 value, yours free.
And perhaps all of those are good reasons to respond right away, though I’ll give you one better...
When the market crisis hit in 2008, my biggest losses were in my locked-up shares of Lehman stock I legally could not sell. Thankfully, I had hedged and diversified where I could and wasn’t hit as hard as some of my colleagues. And I was young, with a ton of productive years ahead of me. I grabbed my bootstraps and pulled myself up.
Many folks were not so fortunate.
As nearly every financial market plunged, many saw their dreams of retirement, travel, or even just financial security slipping away.
There was nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. They just watched as their portfolios and net worth turned blood red in the contagion.
In the 10 years since, it’s been easy to forget. Especially when the price of everything seemed to just go up together.
But let 2018 be a reminder. What goes up can come down. And if we see another downturn like 2008, it could come down by 50% or more.
If you wait until it’s over, you will have made the same mistake that doomed so many investors before you.
I urge you to take the hint from the recent market volatility and get fiercely protective with your portfolio, while you still can.
Your action guide is in The Anti-Contagion Portfolio. Simply click this link and fill out the form that follows to activate your risk-free trial and grab your instant download.
See you inside,
Jared Dillian
Chief Investment Strategist, ETF 20/20
