Over 26 years of providing research to serious investors!

We have been called "the unknown advisory service that beats the big names!

We've been quietly outperforming them for 24 years. The reason we're unknown is that while the 'big names' spend most of their time out on the interview and seminar circuits promoting themselves, we keep our nose to the grindstone, working on what our subscribers pay us to work on - constant analysis and research of the markets.

Two strategies: (Click on this link for our 'Seasonal Timing Strategy').

Our Market-Timing Strategy:

We have been consistently ranked in the Top 10 Market Timers in the U.S. by Timer Digest since 1990.

1990: # 2 Stock Market Timer in the U.S.
1991: # 2 Long Term Market Timer in U.S.
1991: # 1 Gold Timer (Gold Timer of the Year).
1992: # 1 Gold Timer last 2 Year Period.
1992: # 1 Stock Market Timer last 3 Year Period.
1992: # 3 Stock Market Timer last 4 Year Period.
1993: # 1 Gold Market Timer last 3 Year Period.
1993: # 2 Long Term Stock Market Timer 3 Yr. Period.
1993: # 5 Stock Market Timer last 4 Year Period.
1994: # 5 Gold Timer last 12 months. May, 1994
1995, 1996, 1997: Did not publish, so was not tracked.
1998: #10 Stock Market Timer in U.S.
1999: # 2 Bond Timer last 12 months. July, 1999
1999: # 4 Gold Timer last 12 months Sept., 1999
1999: # 3 Stock Market Timer last 6 months Nov., 1999
2000: # 3 Stock Market Timer last six months Jan., 2000
2001: # 4 Stock market Timer last 6 months August, 2001
2001: # 3 Bond Timer last 12 months. August, 2001
2002: # 1 Stock Market Timer last 12 months. April 8, 2002
2002: # 3 Stock Market Timer last 12 months, July, 2002.
2003: # 1 Gold Timer last 12 months. September, 2003
2003: # 4 Stock Market Timer last 3 months. August, 2003
2004: # 2 Gold Timer last 12 months. February, 2004
2004: # 9 Stock Market Timer last 3 months, May, 2004
2004: # 2 Bond Timer last 12 months, May, 2004
2005: #2 Gold Timer last 12 months Nov. 2005
2006: #5 Bond Timer last 12 months Dec., 2006
2008: #4 Stock Market Timer last six months. August, 2008.

2009: #9 Stock Market Timer 12 months. April, 2009.

2010: #1 Gold Timer 12 months. October, 2010.

2011: #3 Stock Market Timer 3 months. June, 2011.

2011: #2 Bond Timer 12 months. July, 2011.

Sy Harding:

• Book: Authored Riding the Bear - How to Prosper in the Coming Bear Market! Released March, 1999, predicting the worst bear market since 1929-32 was just around the corner. The Dow topped out just 9 months later on January 14, 2000.

• Called the Nasdaq top and advised selling it short in early March 2000 as it passed 5,000 predicting it was about to plunge 35% to 3,300. (Confirmed by an article in Barron's March 6, 2000 issue). The Nasdaq topped out just four days later, on March 10, ending its great 1990s bull market, with an even larger plunge than forecast, and has recovered only half of its losses even 11 years later.

• Gave a buy signal for a "significant bear market rally" April 2, 2001! The market bottomed just two days later, on April 4. Eight weeks later the S&P 500 was up 19%, the Nasdaq up 41%.

• Took the profits from that rally in June, 2001, and with a sell signal on July 6, 2001, moved subscribers to 100% positioning for the downside with short-sales, etc., in anticipation of a resumption of the bear market.

• Then after the terrorist attacks, took the profits from the downside on September 20 and 21 (2001), which were the exact two days of the market's September bottom.

• Then in spite of the terrorist attacks that had everyone spooked, gave a buy signal on October 3, 2001 for another significant rally. The Nasdaq was up 44%, and the S&P 500 up 23% just two months later.

• Then gave a sell signal on April 24, 2002, which was followed by six straight months down to the October, 2002 final bottom of the bear market.

• Then gave a buy signal on October 17, 2002, calling for a substantial rally, which would "likely be the beginning of the next bull market". Which it was.

• Developed the Seasonal Timing Strategy© in 1998, which had a compounded total return over the last 12 years (from 1999 through 2010) of more than 7 times the total return of the S&P 500 (when 85% of professional money-managers and mutual fund managers fail to even match the S&P 500 over the long term). Further it did so with 50% of market risk and just two trades a year. For more information on how and why it works Click here.

• Book: Authored the 2007 book Beat the Market the Easy Way - Seasonal Timing Strategies That Double the Market! which explains several short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term seasonal strategies, and provides important information on secular bull markets and secular bear markets, and why in 2007 another bull market top was probably near.

• Called the early March, 2008 bottom of the first leg down of the 2007-2008 bear market, making profits from the subsequent bear market rally off that March low.

• Then called the top of that rally almost to the day in May, 2008, took our profits from that rally, and repositioned for the downside.

• For 2008 our Market-Timing Strategy portfolio was up 9.2% for the year, in that terrible bear market year in which the S&P 500 lost 38.5% of its value, the Dow lost 33.8% of its value, the Nasdaq lost 40.5% of its value, and even 'best investor in the world' Warren Buffett was down 31.8%. It put us on the Hulbert Financial Digest's Top-Ten Newsletters of the Year list. 

• Then called the bottom of the severe 2007-2009 bear market within a few days of the March 9, 2009 bottom. In fact, while not issuing an official buy signal until March 16, we actually recommended that subscribers move our then 70% cash position to 70% invested on March 10 because the market was so oversold.

• However, we took our profits too soon, and moved to downside positioning in 'inverse' etf's against the market, and kept them too long when the market continued higher. So we had a loss of 9% for 2009, a year when the market was up.

• And in 2010 we struggled again, as we were concerned that the market was only being held up artificially by Fed's easy money policies, and concerned about a potential serious market correction. So we were down 9% again.

ABOUT PERFORMANCE.

In a recent article and issue of the Hulbert Financial Digest, Mark Hulbert wrote that:

"Most investors still insist that it's entirely realistic to expect that a market-beating advisor will not lose money in any given year. That's totally unrealistic. Of the nearly 200 equity-oriented portfolios HDF has monitored over several decades, not one has beaten the market over any ten-year period and also avoided suffering through losing years. It's not even close in fact."

"On average each decade's top market-beaters experienced 2.5 losing calendar years along the way."

It's true.

Absolutely no one has ever been right all the time, or has escaped periodic rough patches. Not any professional money-manager, mutual fund manager, hedge fund manager, or investment advisor, not even Warren Buffett, who has been down several times over the last 15 years, and by as much as 50%, before getting back on track.

Or as the VP of Research at Morningstar Inc., the mutual fund tracking service, has written, "When choosing a mutual fund most investors look at which funds had the best performance over the last one or two years. But research shows they'd be better off selecting from the list of worst performing funds, since they are probably due to get back on track, while the best performers are probably due to run into a reversal to the mean."

And so yes, our non-seasonal Market-Timing Strategy under-performed the market in 2009 and again in 2010.

But in 2011 we are clearly back on track, and expect that we have had our turn at two under-performing years and are now back on track for the long-term again.

Our goal is not only to help you make profits from both rallies and corrections, but also to help you be street smart! You'll never buy low and sell high listening to brokerage firm and mutual fund spokesmen, and the media that kowtows to them!

Let our research and market timing help you continue to make gains, but also protect your assets from the periodic losses that buy & hold investors are guaranteed to suffer.

Recommendations are based on our best judgment and opinions but no warranty is given or implied as to their reliability. It is each reader's responsibility to decide which, if any, of our opinions or recommendations are suitable for their own individual situation, and in what manner to use the information. Past performance does not guarantee future performance or prevent losses.