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Why Trade?

In the year 2001, the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P-500 each declined. But our trading strategy resulted in 370%+ during the same time period. Can you achieve the same kind of gains?

The answer is YES---but you can't just buy and hold. You have to trade.

Unlike long-term investing, successful trading produces cash flow---small, repetitive trades, though each resulting in small gains, will add up to very large returns. An experienced taxicab driver knows this technique intuitively. What the veteran driver learns over time is that many small runs produce far greater profits than a series of long runs. It is a question of volume---for every short 1 or 2 mile taxi run, the meter clicks in several dollars. Hundreds of such runs produce three or four times more profit than a handful of longer $20 runs.

So it is with trading. Many successive stock “runs” can outperform even the best long-term investment strategies.


"Unlike long-term investing, successful trading produces cash flow---small, repetitive trades, though each resulting in small gains, will add up to very large returns."


For instance, suppose daily trading produced an average gain of 0.5% (half a percent) per day. It doesn’t sound like much, yet the annual gain per year would be 260 trading days X 0.5%, or 130%. There isn’t a portfolio manager alive who wouldn’t kill for that kind of return!

Furthermore, 0.5% is rather conservative in the hands of a skilled trader. When averaged out, the Gar’s World Conceptual Fund produces more than twice that percentage, even in a "bad" market.

Quick “taxicab meter” trading is particularly superior to long-term investing when the market is very volatile. Even in bear markets, an experienced trader can catch the edges of volatile stocks and pile up almost shocking returns. Meanwhile, the long-term investor suffers through agonizing corrections or, at best, sideways no-gain markets.

The trick is, of course, to know how to choose the right stocks and to catch the edge of their volatile swings. That’s where GarsWorld comes in. Using our newly released flagship product, the OracleTrader, you can locate the stocks that are most likely to engage in a substantial swing. In in many circles, this is known as swing trading, and that is what we do.