How Can You Make Solid
Money in a Roller Coaster Market?
By Jim Fink, Chief Investment Strategist, Investing Daily
Dear Investing Daily reader,
My name is Jim Fink, and I'm an investment analyst with Investing Daily. 
I've spent decades perfecting my strategy of racking up triple-digit winners…
But it doesn't take an investing genius to know that tracking the markets has been a roller coaster ride of late.
However, I've seen that most people are expecting the market to "get back to normal" soon and start giving them fat profits on any dartboard selection from the Dow.
Ah, yes. And soon thereafter, Amelia Earhart will show up, the national debt will get paid off, and the Middle East will revert to the Garden of Eden.
All right, so things could return to the good old days. But don't hold your breath.
Today, most investors are living in a dream world, betting on the romantic scenarios issued nonstop by the permabulls of Lower Manhattan—and losing a lot of money.
Maybe the Market Dives Again. So What?
As patriotic Americans, we at Investing Daily clearly hope the markets rise long term.
But short term, we really don't give a wet hanky what happens.
Because we know how to make money whether the market's going north, south, clockwise, or upside-down.
If the good times start to roll, we'll be the first to break out the champagne, but in the meantime, we're thriving on pure action.
We make money on anything that wiggles.
Here are three ways we do it...
Our First Secret to Successful Investing
The success of Investing Daily is built on this credo:
Yes, it is possible to find a needle in a haystack.
Sometimes we feel like Madame Curie, who spent four years distilling countless tons of uranium ore and ended up with just enough radium to fill the tip of a teaspoon.
Sure, it's messy work, sifting through some 10,153 U.S. stocks. That's why hardly anyone does it. But that's what it takes to find the few stocks that keep climbing while everything else falls.
As a team, we spend most of our days sifting through very large haystacks. And looking under lots of rocks. What makes it even harder is that we can't allow ourselves to build on other people's work. It's too unreliable.
For instance, you may be surprised to know that we rarely read brokerage analysts' reports. Why?
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Because they aren't really evaluations. They're thinly disguised sales promotions. They seldom make clear the scary side of a stock. They're junk.
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The stocks they analyze are too popular! Too many investors are playing with them. It's hard to guess the direction of a feather in a tornado, and that's what you have in the NYSE and NASDAQ.
So we spend long hours putting the entire stock market through grid after grid, sniffing out the lesser-known, often smaller stocks that will defy gravity and withstand the next whirlwind.
Nobody does more spadework than we do. But the extra work keeps us #1.
Successful Investing Secret #2
Be even more paranoid than Joe Market. Buy real assets before he does.
Now, it's nice to be rational but remember: Joe isn't. So to stay ahead of Joe, you sometimes have to act just a little crazier than he does.
HERE IS THE CURRENT OPPORTUNITY: Joe has been burnt on paper assets. His trust in them is halfway to hell. Joe is ready to bite like a trout at the next real asset that gets airtime on CNBC three days running.
At any time, that could skyrocket the price of platinum, gold, or tall silos stuffed with soybeans. Whatever. Just make sure that when the panic buying starts, you're already at the head of the line before Joe arrives.
Again, we can help you with that because the time is very ripe for a massive shift to real assets—many of which are rapidly vanishing forever.
When Joe finally figures out that stocks are no longer in glamour mode, he will moo his way with the herd toward greener pastures with real grass.
Successful Investing Secret #3
You can make money faster on the way down than on the way up.
There are oceans of overpriced stocks today that richly deserve—are even begging —to be sold short or get plastered with put options. We'll try to get you nicely comfortable with that in the e-letters we send you as we tell you more about how options work.
From time to time we will give you the opportunity to make a quick killing by selling something short—because sometimes it's irresistible!
Yes, we'll admit that short sellers can be sharks sometimes.
But in well over 90% of cases, short selling is like the safety valve on your pressure cooker, letting off excess steam continuously. If there's no valve, pressure can build (a stock price can inflate wildly) until finally there's an explosion, and great damage is done (the stock crashes and perhaps brings down the company).
If you want to make money in both directions, you'll find that profits actually come to you faster with put options because stocks tend to fall faster than they rise. Bear markets are naturally shorter and move faster.
But remember, short-selling is something we do only when a stock has turned south and it's a slam dunk. And we never do it without a snug stop-loss.
OK, that's it for today. I know I've given you a lot to ponder.
Stay tuned for tomorrow, you're going to love the 3 special investing tactics my colleague has in store for you.
Jim Fink
Chief Investment Strategist
Editor's Note: If you'd like to hear a little more about Jim Fink's options strategies, and how he can employ them to generate profits no matter what's happening in the markets, click here to see a special report he recently put together on the subject.
—Jim Pearce
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