Onward and Upward!

I would like to welcome everyone back to the blog! I hope all of you had a wonderful New Year. Last year was a monumental year for Crowder Investment Research. The goal when we started the newsletter in 2006 was to teach and present sound investment techniques and strategies to our subscribers with an emphasis on research, patience, and effective capital preservation techniques. Judging by our subscriber growth and more importantly, our performance, we met the initial goals stated for 2006 and hope to expand on our original goals in 2007.

Our performance speaks for itself in 2006. Both of our investment strategies were higher on the year: the Gap Fade finished 3.6% higher and our ETF Extremes strategy was higher 47.5% on only 10 trades. We we would have been happier with a better performance from the Gap Fade, but after revising our stop-losses our performance has improved dramatically.

In 2007, we have decided to expand on our two acclaimed strategies with another option-based strategy called the Short Iron Condor. We started several months ago and have reported the results and techniques over the last few issues of our newsletter. Our goal is to teach people the ins and outs of this powerful strategy. Other services disguise this simple strategy by using other names when they are indeed using this same exact strategy.

We have also decided to offer our newsletter subscribers access to our stock-based ETF investment strategy. Much of it is based on the successful trader Vaughn Okumura, we intend on using some of his oversold investment techniques with a Crowder Investment Research twist. We will initiate this portfolio in the 1/8 issue of our newsletter.

I will back tomorrow with the usual daily commentary, overbought/oversold levels and a new and hopefully improved blog. Take care and have a great night!

Join us for another great year in 2007!

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