Bert Dohmen’s EasiTrader is our newest, exciting service.

The NEW advisory service from Bert Dohmen is designed for the serious trader as well as the smaller trader. Both want an excellent, weekly analysis of the markets, especially the technical factors, and forecasts of what may be ahead. They want to know what the current Fed policy really is, not what Fed officials say it is, and what the potential for future changes are.

These traders want specific recommendations, what to buy or to sell short, when to do it, and what protective stops to use. These traders may make some of their own stock selections, based in part on the commentary in EASYTRADER, but utilize Bert Dohmen’s analysis, views, and recommendations to enhance their profit potential.

Those who are familiar with our advisory services may ask, how does it differ from the excellent SMARTE TRADER service, which is our oldest advisory service for active traders, and one of our most expensive offerings?

Bert Dohmen’s EasiTrader has the same type of commentary as our highly regarded SMARTE TRADER service, but at a fraction of the cost. However, it is limited to a maximum of 5 recommendations in total, compared to 10-20 positions in the regular SMARTE TRADER service.

Those recommendations are based on technical analysis, and include either long or short positions. That way you can profit, whether the markets go up or down.

Furthermore, the time horizon of the selected trades is somewhat longer in Bert Dohmen’s EasiTrader . Therefore, it is issued on a weekly basis, instead of virtually daily for SMARTE TRADER.

Here is what you get as a subscriber to Bert Dohmen’s EasiTrader :

1. the same evaluation of market action, economic numbers, geo-political events, which has made SMARTE TRADER one of the most successful advisory services for serious traders and professionals.
2. Bert Dohmen’s evaluation of his sophisticated technical indicators, which have given the right signals at most critical turns in the markets.
3. Our evaluation of the most important sentiment numbers and other technical factors, which give excellent clues as to the path of least resistance.
4. Up to 5 special stock recommendations, based on proven analysis, either long or short, as well as suggested protective stops.
5. But most important, you will get the benefit of over three decades of trading experience of a real pro, Bert Dohmen. You will learn techniques of analysis which you can practice for the rest of your life… and help you build your nest egg for eventual retirement.

Even floor traders on the floor of the major exchanges, as well as the best hedge fund managers, subscribe to Bert Dohmen’s advisory services. You are in great company with Bert Dohmen. His regular consultation fee is $1800 per hour. Just imagine, you can get the benefit of his thinking, analysis, and forecasts all year long, for considerably less than one hour of his consultation fee.

SAVE A HUGE $2,505!

Bert Dohmen’s SMARTE TRADER costs $3500 per year. But you can get the same expertise working for you, and save $2505. Yes, you can get Bert Dohmen’s EasiTrader for ONLY $995 per year, or $99 per month (autocharge). That’s a great value in these interesting times.

SERVICE	Smarte Trader	Bert Dohmen’s EasiTrader
Stocks	*	*
Longs and Shorts	*	*
Based on Special situations	*	*
and technical indicators	*	*
Bert Dohmen’s research	*	*
Analysis of the economy & Fed
Number of recommendations	5-20	maximum of 5
Number of issues	over 300/year	over 50/year

EASITRADER

Why Active-Investing beats “Long-Term Holding”

If you want to make your own decisions instead of using a money manager, don’t let anyone keep you from being an active investor. That means instead of holding a stock for a year or longer, you’re using a time horizon of days, weeks, or months.

Unfortunately, Wall Street and mutual fund manager consider a shorter time horizon as being “speculative,” or much too aggressive. They tell you that you should hold stocks for the “long term.” Well, in today’s world, nothing is a good and prudent long-term hold. Corporate management changes, the economy can go into sudden recessions, or new and better opportunities emerge. To ignore all that is to be an Ostrich, sticking your head in the sand.

The “long term hold” approach is based on the theory that “the tide lifts all boats.” Money managers who use that approach have an easy excuse why a stock they are holding is down 50%. They just say, ‘we don’t care about short term moves. We are in it for the long term.” Well, that’s an excuse for not doing your homework, and not using risk control.

You don’t have to pay anyone for that type of advice. Besides, that theory is very much flawed. Many stocks do NOT go up over the long term. Just ask the investors in Global Crossing, Enron, MCI-WorldCom, Tyco, or other big, institutional darlings which went into bankruptcy so fast, that Wall Street couldn’t even issue ‘sell signals.”

Just ask, who are the most successful investors? It’s the hedge fund managers. They make fortunes with active investing. They don’t hold a stock for years.

They buy when it appears to be a bargain, and sell when everyone wants it. It’s exactly the approach I had been advocating for many decades. Now of course, hedge fund investing has become very popular, in spite of the high management fees. Obviously, when too many participants use the same approach, it diminished returns for everyone. It becomes more difficult to find undiscovered opportunities. But I will find those opportunities for you, in Bert Dohmen’s EasiTrader.

Hedge funds make billions of dollars in profits, for the clients and for themselves, by NOT following the “long term hold” approach. By analyzing market behavior with the use of sophisticated computer models, they have found that the long-term hold increases risk significantly. Of course, that’s not what Wall Street tells you.

But it’s logical: a stock may rise 10% or 20% in a week or two, once it breaks out. Does it mean that suddenly the intrinsic value of the company has increased by that much in such a short time? In most cases, no. It’s just that several institutions have suddenly made the decision to buy the stock. Once they have bought their intended number of shares, the stock price settles back, and often goes back to the price before the up move.

The smart hedge funds, with their computer programs, take advantage of this. They sell before the stock settles back. And then they use that money for the next situation. They don’t wait for the prior stock to eventually rise 10-20% again, which may take a year or two.

There is an even better reason for active trading or investing: avoiding huge declines! For many decades, it was easy money for traders to buy the stocks which were breaking out to the upside (above a prior high), as it was an indication of something important happening in the firm. But over the last 5 years or more, such breakouts are manipulated by those who want to sell their positions, mostly the big hedge funds or “proprietary” trading operations. They generate the breakout with their own buy orders; then the breakout buyers show up, and the hedge fund dumps their stocks.

In that case, the breakout fails, reverses, and is followed by a sharp decline. Therefore, instead of buying upside breakouts, it’s now often better to fade the breakout and sell short. Or for those who buy the breakout, use a close protective stop, just in case it was a false breakout