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Investment Programs:

 

We do not hold your money.  You open an account with Rydex Funds and we provide the signals to Rydex a few minutes prior to market close on a daily basis. 

We have four investment programs:

Our Primary program trades between the Rydex NDX or SPX 2x fund, the Rydex Inverse NDX or SPX 2x fund and the money market. Active since December 31, 2005. Our maximum daily exposure is 1.5 times that of the market itself, but since we spend time out of the market or at reduced exposure levels, your account is 30% less exposed to the market overall as the NDX. This results in less risk to your account compared to the market. The total return over the past six years has been a number of times greater than that of the market.

Our 2nd program trades between the Rydex 2x "long" funds and the money market using a different focus to offer diversification. This program is sensitive to possible down days and often moves to the money market for protection.  It was introduced November 1,2010. It does not go short. Currently it is targeted at an exposure level of half that of the market. The program uses a slower moving algorithm than the Primary Program so last minute market gyrations do not have any effect on next day's position

The new Hot Money program is for those clients able to take on overall risk equal to that of the stock market and able to handle large daily changes up to twice that of the stock market.  The program trades between the Rydex NDX or SPX 2x fund, the Rydex Inverse NDX or SPX 2x fund  and the money market It can use up to 2x leverage at times, but the overall exposure, which is a major component of risk, is designed to be the same as that of the NDX. The program currently uses proven algorithms from our primary program and will move in the same direction on a daily basis, but due to the different use of leverage the results over a year's time can be significantly different. 

The new Retirement program is designed for those investors that are not comfortable with large swings in the stock market, but still would like to have the potential for strong returns. This program does not use any leverage, and is designed to be only 30% exposed to the markets overall. It is unaffected by last minute market gyrations and will move long, short or into the money market as required.

Please contact us if you would like us to send you a free information package. We are currently registered in California, Texas, Florida, Michigan New York and Pennsylvania and are limited to only 5 accounts per state where we are not yet registered so please check with us. 

With the exception of our "Hot Money Program" our rates are very low, accounts over $78,000 are only 1% per year on total investment, paid quarterly (0.25%/quarter) . Below $78,000 a flat fee of $15 per week applies (paid quarterly).  

The "Hot Money Program" fees are 2% per year with a minimum of $195 per quarter. 

Rydex sets the minimum investment amount which is only $15,000.  We recommend that since our fees are a flat rate at that level you would be better off starting at $25,000 or more. 

You can get additional information on the Rydex Funds from the  http://www.rydexfunds.com web site. 

We also work with Jefferson National Financial Corp. to provide our management services to their Flat Fee ($20 per month) Annuity product "Monument Advisor" using Rydex funds. This provides tax deferred compounding. We only offer our "Retirement" program in the Annuity. You can contact them at  http://www.jeffnat.com      1-866-667-0561

A significant portion of our own funds are invested in these programs.

If you would like to speak to me directly please call me at 1-800-556-2226 or 1-310-459-7528 

Best Regards,

John Vitale

 

The first years of man must make provisions for the last.

---Samuel Johnson