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“Huge Competitive Advantage.”

June 3, 2022

Hi Attendee,

Alexander Green here.

People admire history's greatest innovators, like Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers and Steve Jobs.

Few of us are great innovators ourselves, however.

So it doesn't make a lot of sense to try to create a novel investment system - or some entirely new method of securities analysis.

It's far more lucrative - and much less trouble - to shamelessly clone the best ideas of others.

Let me give you a few examples...

In my previous life as a portfolio manager, I regularly studied the top investment holdings of the nation's top equity fund managers. (They are required to report them each quarter in their 13F filings.)

I would search for ideas that overlapped and then work backward to see what made these companies so exceptional that the best managers in the country were avidly buying them.

I picked up a ton of big winners this way.

I also read the books and research of William O'Neil - and pored over every issue of his paper, Investor's Business Daily.

Every technique he recommended that worked... I kept. Every one that didn't... I rejected. Or at least modified.

(For example, O'Neil recommends that you sell any stock that goes against you by 7% or 8%. But that's too tight a stop - and will cause you to stop out so often that you feel like you're spinning your wheels. I've found a 25% trailing stop to be the sweet spot.)

Over the years, I copied and refined my own trading systems. 

Arguably, my strongest system of all is geared toward momentum stocks.

But I freely admit... I didn't invent momentum trading.

I just took these good ideas, tested them exhaustively and kept tweaking them to obtain better and better results.

In fact, I've recently discovered a powerful new technique that applies perfectly toward momentum stocks.

In short, it's an unusual signal that appears - as clear as day on a stock chart - and lets you know exactly when a stock is primed to soar.

We saw it in Diamondback Energy this past September.

One unique trade on Diamondback could've delivered 1,171% in a four-month period.

That could've turned $10K into $127,100.

We saw the signal appear three times last year in AutoZone, which took off.

And it appeared twice in Builders FirstSource, which soared.

This signal is perhaps the single best way to determine when a stock is deeply undervalued.

So I'm not surprised The Wall Street Journal is reporting that this particular strategy is set to experience a record $1 TRILLION in investment activity this year.

And I plan to reveal exactly how it works for the first time ever... this Thursday at 8 p.m. ET.

I assure you, it's something easy, yet powerful that you can apply toward your own investments.

And look, modifying "what works" happens all the time in the world of business.

Walmart founder Sam Walton invented absolutely nothing. But he copied everything that everyone else in retail was doing that was smart.

Then improved upon it.

In the process, he created the world's largest chain of retail stores - and became one of the nation's richest men.

Steelmaker Andrew Carnegie wasted no time trying to reap great wealth from radical innovations in metallurgy. "Pioneering don't pay," he said.

Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett cloned the approach of his mentor, Benjamin Graham.

And plenty of others - including me - have cloned parts of Buffett's approach.

In fact, Buffett has been personally relying on the strategy I'm going to show you on Thursday... for more than 50 years.

"If you do it at the right price, there's nothing better than [this]," Buffett said at Berkshire's annual shareholders meeting just six weeks ago.

Why don't more people do this in business... in investing... and in life?

Some folks seem to prefer learning things the hard way. I've never understood why.

Unless you really are a Jonas Salk or an Alexander Graham Bell, it's hubristic to start from square one and try to create something entirely new.

It's also time-consuming, frustrating and expensive.

Yet people seem to have something in their DNA that prevents them from adopting good ideas easily.

That's unfortunate.

If you watch what the smartest people are doing, you can apply their best ideas to your own life, your own business and your own portfolio.

Make a habit of searching for the best ideas.

And adopt them unhesitatingly.

I'll have a video to share with you tomorrow.

Good investing,

Alexander Green

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