Why The World War 3 Is Coming
Continuation from yesterday……
Why Will the War Start? All wars repeat in cycles. In the preceding chapter I have identified a clear 84 year cycle associated with all of the major American (USA) wars. With the Nuclear World War 3 being just 15 years away, I believe it is important to understand what fundamental factors will set things in motion. Understanding such benchmarks will help us keep close tabs on exactly when the war will start. And while some people might assume that this gives us enough time to prevent the war from happening, unfortunately, real life doesn’t work that way. Based on my stock market work, the future is predetermined and cannot be altered by “spiritually unconscious” population. Simply put, the war is coming and cannot be stopped.
Further, as I write this in July of 2014, it appears that that most of world’s geopolitical and macroeconomic factors are already lining up to usher in the war. Let’s take a quick look at what is happening in the world today …..
- Israel is fighting another war in Gaza.
- Civil wars in Syria and Ukraine.
- Iraq is about to fall in the hands of a terrorist organization ISIS. Afghanistan will follow the same scenario in a few years time. Both countries will face catastrophic civil wars.
- NATO is pushing closer and closer to the Russian border. Russia blames the US and the EU for being directly responsible for financing the unrest in Ukraine. In order to expand NATO even closer to Russia.
- The US is readying the next round of unilateral sanctions against Russia.
- Russia responds by getting further involved in Iraq, Syria and Ukraine.
- Russia reopens its spy base in Cuba to spy on the US.
- Cold War 2 between Russia and the US is accelerating.
- China is trying to establish its dominance in the South Pacific region by bullying the Philippines, Vietnam, Japan and Taiwan.
- China has already told the US, in no uncertain terms, to get out of the South Pacific region.
- China and Russia are already aligning their interest through their military cooperation and the biggest oil/gas deal that was signed between the countries in the mid 2014.
- Massive speculative stock market bubbles throughout the world and an upcoming financial crisis.
And that’s just the beginning as things will continue to deteriorate on all fronts.
To Be Continued Tomorrow…….
Best Buy That Stock
| Company Name: Best Buy, Inc | Stock Symbol: BBY | Industry: Electronics Retail |
| Percent Appreciation: 4,000% | Number of Bags: 40 | Holding Period: 9 Years |
| Entry Date & Price: March,1997 @$1.25 share | Exit Date & Price: December, 2006 @ $51 share | Original Investment($10,000): $400,000 |
Company Description: Best Buy Co., Inc. operates as a multi-national, multi-channel retailer of technology products in the United States, Canada, China, and Mexico. Its stores offer consumer electronics consisting primarily of television and home theaters; digital cameras and camcorders; DVD and Blu-ray players; portable electronics, such as MP3 devices, headphones and speakers, car stereo, navigation and satellite radio; and all related accessories. The company’s stores also provide computing and mobile phone products, including notebook and desktop computers, tablets and e-readers, mobile phones and related subscription service commissions, and related accessories; entertainment products, such as video gaming hardware and software, DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, digital downloads, and computer software; and appliances, including large and small appliances, and kitchen and bath fixtures, including faucets, sinks, toilets, and bathtubs. It also offers extended warranty service contracts, technical support, product repair, delivery, and installation services, as well as offers snacks and beverages
Quick Trading Overview & Objective: While Best Buy’s stock price has appreciated over 44,000% (440 bagger) since the company first went public in the mid 1980’s, we will be concentrating our attention on a more recent period. We will initiate our coverage at 1997 bottom of around $1 a share (split adjusted) and see what had caused the company to appreciate over 4,000% between 1997 and 2006.
We will now go back in time and take an in depth look at the company in order to determine if we could have taken a long position at that time. More importantly, we will look at Best Buy’s fundamental and trading patterns over that period of time in order to ascertain if we would have been able to maintain our position over a 9 year period of time while getting out at the top.
How To Come Up With Million Dollar Business Ideas
Continuation from yesterday…..
Understandably, the answer to this question is different for everyone. It is the question that can only be answered when one has complete freedom from all circumstances and enough financial resources to be able to do anything. While for some of us it means laying on the beach all day while drinking margaritas, others might spend most of their free time shopping. I am not entirely sure how that can be of interest for very long, but to each its own.
For people like me, it might be travelling the world, learning about various cultures while having the luxury to stay at any given place for as long or for as little as I wish. Others might concentrate all of their attention on giving back, starting a charity or running a business. Finally, the rest might simply enjoy spending more time with their friends, family and kids while having the financial freedom to support their loved ones.
Knowing what you really want out of life in crucial when it comes to developing your next big business idea. When money is no longer an issue it becomes a force multiplier. In other words, it allows you to concentrate on business ideas that really spark your passion. The exercise above is designed to uncover what that is. By putting money aside and by making it a non issue you will able to discover what your true passions are and what really gets you going. It is only by concentrating your attention on this area that you will be able to achieve success on top your brilliant business idea.
On the contrary, going after a business idea for the sake of making more money or for the sake of getting rich is a recipe for a disaster. As you probably already know, generating great business ideas is just the first stepping stone on your path to success. Undoubtedly, you will run into a multitude of problems, issues and failures as you continue to build your business. Yet, if you are not passionate or love what you do, the probability of you quitting along the path increases exponentially. In fact, in 95% of the cases it is the difference between failure and success.
Perhaps Steve Jobs said it the best in his interview a few years ago (Link To Video)
“People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you are doing and it’s totally true and the reason is, because it is so hard and if you don’t have that passion, any rational person would give up. It’s really hard. And you have to do it over a sustained period of time. So, if you don’t really love it, if you are not having fun doing it, you are going to give up. And that’s what happens to most people actually.
If you really look at the ones that ended up being successful, in the eyes of the society and the ones that didn’t, oftentimes the ones that were successful loved what they did so they have persevered. You know, when it got really tough. And the ones that didn’t love it, quit, because they are sane. I mean who would want to put up with this stuff if you don’t love it. So, it’s a lot of hard work and it’s a lot of worrying, constantly and if you don’t love it you are going to fail. So, you have got to love it, you have got to have passion”
Truer words have never been spoken and that is exactly what it takes. First, find your passion and what you truly love. When it gets tough, as it undoubtedly will, this passion will help you through the sleepless nights and through the near death experiences that you will surely encounter on the way. It will make all the difference between failure and success. When you really know what you want out of life and what your passions are, life becomes a whole lot easier. So, forge your next big idea out of your passion and success becomes a guaranteed outcome. Let’s get to it.
Killing Stress
Continuation from yesterday…... As they have reached the spot, Alexander sent a few soldiers to go fetch the man. The soldiers came back a few hours later, empty handed and dumbfounded. They have reported back to Alexander, “We have never seen such a man before. He was standing naked by the river and he laughed at all of our gifts, offers, demands and threats. He simply stated that he will not go anywhere and that no one can make him”.
Understandably, Alexander was aggravated, eventually making a decision to go see this man himself. Walking up to the river bank with a naked sword in his hand and seeing this man Alexander was immediately taken aback by what the man said.
“Throw the sword down little child. Either that or cut my head off. We will both see it fall to the ground and we will both have a good time.”
Alexander was shocked as no one had dared to talk to him in such a way before. Yet, in that instant he realized something profound. You cannot kill nor do anything to a man who is not afraid to die. Certainly, he would not be able to force him to go anywhere. On the flip side, the “Enlightened Man” was absolutely stress free, fearless and completely indifferent to what Alexander had in store for him. Even if his death was imminent, the man didn’t even have the slightest amount of fear or stress associated with what was about to happen.
The question becomes, what if such a state of absolute fearlessness and stress free existence was available to us all. A state where stress or fear simply bounce off of us like a rubber ball bounces off a wall. Let’s call this state “Fearless Indifference and Bliss” (FIB). Well, it is possible. Not only is it possible, but it is also possible to take the energies associated with fear and stress and transform them into the positive state of happiness, joy and bliss. Or anything else for that matter.
That is what this book is all about. We will look at the subject matter in the following fashion.
- How Stress & Fear Works Behind the Scenes: Before we can transform fear and stress into positive energies, we must first understand how fear and stress work behind the scenes. We must understand what drives them.
- Understanding Your Mind, Body, Feelings, Stress and Fear: Further, we must gather how stress and fear interact with our body, with our mind and with our feelings. That is a prerequisite to gaining the ability to transform it.
- Separation and Control: This incredibly important section will teach you how to completely eliminate fear and stress from your life. Once and for all.
- Tools and Exercises: Shows you the tools you will need to completely eliminate fear and stress from your daily life.
- Transforming Fear and Stress into Positive Energies: Shows you exactly what you have to do in order to transform your fear and stress into positive energies that you can then use for other things in your life.
- Living Life Free of Stress and Fear: An in-depth look at what it is like to live your life free of stress and fear.
It is my sincere hope that this book transforms your life in a positive fashion. From the present state of where fear and stress rule your life, to the state where you can consciously take this negative energy and transform into a positive experience. A state where you live in absolute happiness, bliss and joy. Completely indifferent to stress and fear within our daily lives.
To Be Continued Tomorrow ……..(Why Am I Seeing This On A Financial Website?).
The Stinky Truth Behind How Financial Media Manipulates Investor Sentiment
A mixed day with the Dow Jones up 5 points (+0.03%) and the Nasdaq down 24 points (-0.54%).
If you were to read some of today’s financial headlines without seeing the tape you would surely think that the Dow just crashed to the tune of 1,000 points. Case and point….
- We’re in the third biggest stock bubble in U.S. history
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Yellen and Fed raise flag over some U.S. equity valuations
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How to Profit From the Coming Correction
Yet, the Dow is sitting just 50 points shy of its all time high. As I have suggested in the past, the stock market could care less what people think, hope or forecast. It has a beautiful internal mathematical structure that it traces out. In fact, it will only roll over and start heading lower when all of its upside targets are hit and the mathematical structure is complete. Not a day sooner.
For now the stock market continues to accumulate energy. And it has been doing so since the beginning of this year. When this energy if finally released, we shall see an amazing fireworks display. In other words, the kids will get no allowance, the wife will get no jewelry and the husband will get no sex.
This conclusion is further supported by my mathematical and timing work. It clearly shows a severe bear market between 2014-2017. In fact, when it starts it will very quickly retrace most of the gains accrued over the last few years. If you would be interested in learning when the bear market of 2014-2017 will start (to the day) and its internal composition, please CLICK HERE
(***Please Note: Due to my obligations to my Subscribers I am unable to provide you with more exact forecasts. In fact, I am being “Wishy Washy” at best with my FREE daily updates here. If you would be interested in exact forecasts, dates, times and precise daily coverage, please Click Here). Daily Stock Market Update. July 15th, 2014 InvestWithAlex.com
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Investment Wisdom Of The Day
“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.” ― Mark Twain
How You Could Have Made A Fortune Investing In Apple (AAPL)
Continuation from yesterday…..
In the case of Apple, if you were fortunate enough to take a long position in 2003 it would not have been an easy ride up. As suggested above, the stock had suffered a 60% drop in 2004, another 60% drop during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and a 45% drop in 2012-2013.
Would most investors be able to hold on to their Apple stock while going through such massive sell offs?
It is highly unlikely. Most of us would not be able to sustain such massive drops without first getting out. Most likely at exactly the wrong time. Well, that is unless you were in a comma during the time or if Apple Inc represented only a small portion of your overall well diversified portfolio. For the rest of us, neither one is likely to be the case. That is why a proper application of set trading rules becomes so important. So much so, that in many cases it can easily double or triple the overall return on the underlying stock. Easily turning Apple’s 37 bagger into a 60 bagger over the same period of time. Once again, please check our Tenbagger Trading Rules & Maximizing Returns chapter for more information.
CONCLUSION:
Apple, Inc gave us plenty of signs that its stock price was about to stage a substantial rally from its 2002-2003 bottom. Why we would not be aware of the extent of the rally at the time, it would have been wise to ascertain that the rise would be substantial. Here is why.
First, as our fundamental analysis above showed, an analyst working with Apple would be aware of iPod’s growing popularity and the real possibility of iPod becoming a runaway hit for the company. And while iPod’s parabolic growth trajectory was still unknown, it could have been anticipated as one of the possible growth rates. Further, while the rest of the Apple’s revolutionary products where at least 5-years away at the time, investors could have assumed that Steve Jobs’s insatiable drive for innovation would ensure that Apple will continue to introduce new revolutionary products well into the future. While not a clear cut case for a guaranteed future success, it provided a positive fundamental framework for investing in Apple at the time.
Our investment case for Apple gets even stronger at the 2003 bottom and after the realization that Apple’s stock price is selling at a multi-decade low. Primarily due to the Nasdaq’s collapse and a slump in the tech sector. An analyst familiar with the cyclical composition of the overall stock market would know that the bear market of 2000-2002 was over and that the Nasdaq was about to stage a multi-year rally. Since Apple’s stock price has synchronized with the overall market, it would have been safe to assume that Apple’s stock price would push higher as soon as the market does. Suggesting that investors should seek out a good entry point. A point that was clearly defined on a chart in April and May of 2003.
Separately, neither fundamental, technical nor timing analysis would allow us to take a position in Apple’s stock. Yet, when we combine all of these factors together we get a high probability setup as it becomes evident that Apple’s stock price is likely to outperform the market by a large margin. From both the fundamental and the technical side. While not a sure bet, this case presents us with a clearly defined low risk and a high ROI opportunity.
Final Prescription: Fundamental Analysis + Technical Analysis + Timing Analysis = A Massive ROI.
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Why The Nuclear War Is The Only Logical Outcome
Continuation from yesterday…..
The Reason Why This War Will Be A Nuclear War.
I believe this will be a nuclear war for two reasons.
First, my research shows that the weapons that were “brand new” at the preceding 84 year cycle war are used on a massive scale during the next war. For instance, machine guns (Gatling Guns) were first introduced during the Civil War in 1861. Subsequently, they were used during the World War 2 on a massive scale, inflicting a devastating casualty count.
As you know, the first Atomic Bomb (Little Boy) was used by the US on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. Followed by a bombing of Nagasaki on August 9th. If we take 84 years from those dates, it will bring us into the summer of 2029. And while I don’t believe the nuclear weapons will begin to fly at the onset of the war, I strongly believe that they will be the weapons of choice towards the end of the conflict.
Second, the eventual use of the nuclear weapons becomes the only logical outcome. A war between the USA/NATO and Russia/China alliance cannot possibly be won by any conventional measure. Despite the overwhelming might of the US military machine it is still unclear who would have an upper hand in a traditional war between the US, NATO, China and Russia. The wars that the US has fought over the last two decades, in Afghanistan and in Iraq, are fairly poor indicators of what will happen when the war with Russia and China erupts. It is one thing to blow up 1977 Toyota pickups full of unorganized Taliban fighters and an entirely different thing to fight a real military machine as is the case with China and Russia.
Again, while the war will begin as a conventional conflict in the early stages, it will very quickly transition into a nuclear war. Simply put, the losing side will have no other choice but to defend itself with the use of nuclear weapons. There could be no other possible outcome. If Russia/China or the USA/NATO find themselves on the losing side of the battle or at the threshold of a collapse, they will have no other choice but to push the red button. Yet, once the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) leaves the launch pad, it will be all over for the rest of us.
It is also important to understand just how many nuclear warheads each country has in its arsenal. Let’s take a quick look.
In a nutshell, both Russia and the US have enough nuclear warheads to turn this rock we call Earth into a desolate radioactive wasteland for the next thousand years. Certainly more than enough to kill every human being on the face of the Earth.
In conclusion, this part of the book has clearly illustrated the main war cycle associated with all of the major wars in the American history. This 84 year cycle is scheduled to arrive, once again, in the summer of 2028. Ushering in the Nuclear World War 3 that will be fought between 2029 and 2032 (based on my stock market timing work). In the next part of the book we will take a look at why this war will be fought and how today’s geopolitical and macroeconomic indicators are already lining up for what is to come. To be continued tomorrow…..
How To Kill Stress & Fear
Stress & Fear Kills. While my personal story above might represent an extreme example of stress, it does a very good job illustrating what stress can do if is left unattended.
If you live in a Western Society your life is filled with stress and fears. From the minute you wake up to the minute you fall asleep. And while different people handle or react to stress/fears in different ways, it is always there. Right underneath your skin. Family, work, finances, relationships, friends, desires, hopes, dreams, anxiety, depression, failures, goals, etc… The list goes on and it never ends. All of that brings an immense amount of pressure into your life, causing all sort of medical, psychological and other life issues.
On top of that, all of us stress about or fear different issues. While some people stress out about the world ending because they are addicted to the negative news coverage, others stress out about not being able to afford their next meal. And while you might be stressing about the security of your job, your best friend might fear the deteriorating health of his wife. One thing is for sure. Every one of us lives an extremely stressful life, full of fears. In one form or another.
In fact, according to the American Psychological Association (American Institute of Stress), over 50% of all Americans deal with extreme stress on the daily basis. Particularly,
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As you can imagine, this is a huge health hazard and it is literally killing you. What’s more, if you work in a high pressure or a high stress environment, that number is likely to be at 100%. Professionals who are involved in the fields of law enforcement, medicine, warfare, financial markets, business, sports, high pressure sales, etc… feel an immense amount of stress on the daily basis. With my primary source of income coming from investing and trading on Wall Street, I can attest to that with firsthand knowledge. As was demonstrated earlier.
Can anything be done to reduce stress and to get rid of fear?
Absolutely. That is what this book is all about. But I am not talking about minimizing or reducing stress and fear. I am talking about something that has never been done before. I am talking about taking stress and fear related energies and transforming them into a powerful force that can then be used for other purposes. Imagine not only being able to completely get rid of stress and fear, but also taking the energy associated with such negative feelings and applying them towards something you love. Channeling that energy towards a creative process or spending more quality time with your kids or even starting a business. This book turns this dream into a reality.
This reminds me of a story about Alexander the Great. As he was leaving India on the way back home, he remembered that the elite ruling class back in Macedon had asked him to bring back an “Enlightened Man”. As no such man existed in the West at the time. After asking around he was told that such a man exists and luckily for Alexander he lives right on the path that led home.
To Be Continued Tomorrow……(Why Am I Seeing This On A Financial Site?)