Then, September 2008 came along, then October…November…December…even January and a new year—yet the market was still going LOWER! Even a 1,000 point drop in the DOW in a single day—something that had never happened before in history!

Had I left my 'retirement dreams' invested in stocks in my mutual fund, I would be sitting here today looking at a 41% loss in value. (And, they say that the worst isn't over yet.) But, enough of that; there is (and can be) a much brighter side to this story, and I'd like to share a brighter thought or two with you.

We learned in our youth that " we …must be the captain of our own ship." How grateful I am to a young lady (actually a stranger), who asked me (another stranger) if I knew about trading e-mini's? My response was: "What's an 'e-mini'?"

I had been active in the stock market all of my adult life…investing a little here, a little there as I could afford to, but I had never even heard the word 'e-mini' before meeting her.

What she told me in a very brief conversation about how she makes money in the stock market, set me on a whole new life-changing course. I immediately closed my little business I'd run successfully (making a decent living) for over 25 years, so I could devote my full attention to learning how to trade e-mini's. I invited my employees to follow me. I've never looked back. I will forever be grateful to her for asking a stranger …if he knew about trading e-minis.

Now, I'm that stranger….asking you if you know about trading e-mini's? Whether you've ever heard the word before, (most folks still haven't!), or even if you are a stock day trader, and especially, if you are an investor, agonizing over the present state of your portfolio, would it inspire you if I tell you that we e-mini traders have had the best, most profitable trading conditions since last September that have ever been known in the history of the stock market? Yes, in deed!

We're a very conservative bunch: we don't take much risk and we know how to manage well even what risk we do take. We look at e-mini day trading as just a nice safe little 'home business' that we can do on our laptop…trading a couple of hours each morning.

Doesn't take much money: Minimum $2,000 to open a trading account, but I recommend keeping $10,000 in your account…so you can take advantage when market days like we've seen recently come along. We normally concentrate on just 'grinding out' an average of $500 a day for oneself–doing 2-3 trades each morning; but, recently we've had days when we made an entire month's income goal in single days—several times!

VOLATILITY…and especially, wide ranging volatility is why e-mini trading has been so profitable– whether the market is going UP or DOWN.

As I said in the beginning—I never would have even dreamed that such BAD times could also be such GOOD times. There truly is a 'silver lining' in this present BLACK, ominous cloud that's hanging over the stock market.

This stranger would like to do for you now…what that lady did for me back in early 2002. There's a ton of FREE information for you should you care to visit http://www.EminisBeatStocks.com The only thing there that I'm selling is my book that I've designed to be a 'road map' for anyone wanting to follow in my footsteps.

Any questions? Please post them along with any comments, here on my blog.

I was invited as a guest of TradeGuider, to mingle at the seminar and help 'spread the word' about e-mini's and the TradeGuider software. Of the 180 traders in attendance, I didn’t find one who was even aware of the ‘e-mini’ let alone how much more advantage e-mini’s offer, as compared to ordinary stocks. It’s amazing, because the e-mini has been around since 1997, yet those who only know [and think] ‘stocks’ have somehow never managed to bump into it. I guess myopic vision really is a common frailty of human nature.

Here’s just a couple of the advantages: To place a trade on a $20 stock you need $20 cash in your account for every share you want to put in your trade; A 1,000 share trade would require $20,000 CASH, plus commissions for your brokerage. You go LONG … and successfully capture a 50 cent per share profit. The trade has produced for you $500 profit. Your ROI = 2.5%

Now, let’s do a trade with e-mini’s. You need $500 cash in your account for each e—mini 'contract' you want to place in a trade, e.g. a 5-contract trade would require $2,500 cash. You go LONG again…and your trade successfully captures 2 points of the S&P 500 Index. Each point is worth $50 per contract. You had placed 5 contracts in the trade (times) the 2 Index points you captured = 10 total points, worth $50 each = $500 profit.

Your ROI on the e-mini trade = 20%! That’s ten times greater! And, you only needed $2,500 verses $20,000 for the stock trade! You could have been in the trade as little as ten minutes. And, you can make profitable trades like this even when the market is going DOWN by going 'short'.

Stocks don’t even come close to e-mini’s when it comes to ‘bang for the buck’.  Ask any e-mini trader and they'll tell you that e-mini's offer the fastest, safest, most profitable way and least costly ($$ needed) way to participate in the stock market.

If these numbers catch your interest and you would like to hear more about trading e-mini’s, you’ll find several hours of free information on my web site. Incidentally, there’s a good reason why the public has never heard much about the ‘e-mini’. Mutual fund managers and stock brokers will never tell you anything about e-mini’s because they know you’ll want to do your own trading yourself. The 'e-mini' was designed for first-timers in the stock market, a financial trading instrument that ordinary folks could afford to learn to trade with.

Check it out. Give e-mini trading a shot. You’ll never look back….especially if you are an experienced stock trader.

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