Financial Independence: How to Build a Million-Dollar Portfolio From Scratch
by Robert Williams, Associate Investment Strategist
Monday, June 8, 2009: Issue #1013
I wanted to take a brief timeout from the fast-paced world of small caps to talk about something important: building long-term wealth and finding financial independence.
If we’re honest with ourselves, most of us finish school with a fairly low level of financial literacy.
As a result, we usually end up learning things the hard way. We learn that buying stuff “on sale” with a credit card that charges us 18% interest is no deal. We learn that adjustable-rate mortgages ratchet up as well as down. As for our 401(k) plans… well, let me just say I have neighbors who are still afraid to open their statements.
If we haven’t learned the essential lessons of personal finance, what are our chances of going even further and reaching genuine financial independence?
I’m talking about a place where money is no longer a concern. Where your retirement is comfortable and secure. Where you can spend your time doing what you want, where you want, with whom you want.
That’s real financial freedom…
The Principles of Wealth Building: Established But Not Distributed
Fortunately, the principles of wealth building are well established. However, they are not broadly distributed or well understood.
Worse still, the people who do understand the principles of great wealth, in most cases, really don’t want to share them with you.
Why would they want to surrender their advantage? Especially when they can make you pay through the nose for it through a brokerage account, a financial plan or some other high-cost Wall Street product that is long on promises and short on returns.
But I have good news…
The Shortest Route To Financial Independence & Money Mastery
Investment U is now revealing the shortest route to financial independence with its new money mastery course: “How to Build a Million-Dollar Portfolio From Scratch.”
It shows you exactly how to compound your money at a high rate of return, so your portfolio grows like a snowball rolling downhill. So you can look forward to a life of pleasure, relaxation and peace of mind.
Sure, there are plenty of articles at Investment U about momentum stocks, value plays, takeover candidates, hot IPOs and more. But the course covers everything, including:
- Mastering stock basics,
- To the best ways to easily increase your profits,
- In short, tricks for succeeding in any kind of market.
Reading this course is like getting a Harvard PhD in financial mastery. Soon you’ll be giving good investment advice instead of seeking it.
Bear in mind, the course is not just about enjoying high returns. To become independently wealthy, you have to minimize risks, cut investment costs and lower your taxes. All these topics are covered here, too.
The Investment U Course Is Simple & Straightforward
Even better the Investment U course is simple and straightforward. In fact, to keep things light-hearted, your guide is… get this… a prairie dog.
No kidding! I mean the best way to get you to both read and use the course to create your own million-dollar portfolio from scratch is to keep things light and entertaining, right?
This new course is your ticket to a whole new lifestyle, one where your choices are never determined by what you can afford. Master these principles and you’ll be able to afford what you want!
Three Choices For Achieving Financial Independence
The way I see it, investors have three choices for achieving financial independence.
- You can learn from the mistakes you’re bound to make in the market (which is both distressing and expensive).
- You can have that “nice young man down at Morgan, Goldman & Lynch” handle your account and service your portfolio the way Bonnie and Clyde serviced banks.
- You can learn to build a million-dollar portfolio from scratch – and have the pleasure and pride of doing it yourself. (And please be sure to share this with your kids and grandkids, too.)
Personally, I hate learning things the hard way.
Our goal is to give you impartial, no-nonsense investment advice on how to build a long-lasting legacy of wealth, so that you and your family can live the life you deserve…
The price is a bargain. Especially when you consider what you have to gain.
As my high school principal used to say, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
Good investing,
Robert Williams
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In addition to once being a full-time trader of equities and equity derivatives, Robert Williams has served as the lead financial analyst for a Forbes top-50 private corporation and an analyst for the endowment of a major academic institution. He's also been profiled in such books as Trade with Passion and Purpose and Alexander Green's The Secret of Shelter Island. 
I think that you and your buddies are out of your mind and the best way to become independently wealthy is to pull as much cash out of other peoples pockets and serve yourself to the catch of the day. None of you really has any idea what you are talking about, you can not predict the future and if anyone thinks you can, they are more crazy than you are by a long shot. Period. Stick to doing your own research, study hard, and make your own decisions based upon what you know not what others believe they know.
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Will this info be useful for people living outside of the US? we may not have access to invest in US equities.
Josefa T Fermin
Iloilo City, Philippines
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Will it be helpful in India.
Dose it cover the stock market here
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I will take all the advice I can get my hands on. Yes, I WILL do my own research, but input is essential. Most people don’t know from whence to begin, so give me a starting point and I’ll do the rest. To date, no investment newsletter guru has EVER placed an order on my behalf. If you, Brian. are so Au Currant, please advise those of us who seek advice. If you have the chutzba, if you know to what I refer ! -Mack
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Does the “From Scratch…” program work or is it worthwhile doing if your are 63 and retired living on savings?
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