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Are You Still Using Mutual Funds?

They are one of the most popular investment vehicles for the majority of people…but are they really what you should be trusting to fund your retirement?

We don’t think so. They keep you fully invested in the market with your money fully exposed to the risk of the market falling while providing very little in upside gains.

In fact, over the last 20 years, mutual funds have only provided an average gain of less than 5% a year.

If you had fully invested your money only in the S&P500, you would have averaged a 7.5% return per year. In both of these scenarios, you would have had to ride out the 50% loss in 2002 and the 50% loss in 2009.

But there is a better way.

When you join our membership, one of the first things we teach is how to keep your money fully invested in the market to take advantage of all upside gain, while always protecting it from any declines the market may experience. This very basic portfolio management strategy has provided average annual returns between 20% and 30% a year for the past 20 years.

We construct a portfolio each month during our course with our members, teaching how to ensure we can fully invest our money while never having more than 5% at risk at any time. Where do you want finances to be 20 years from now?

Don’t ride out another decline in your portfolio feeling hopeless. Join us this weekend at our upcoming course. There’s still a few spots left.

For the past 20 years we’ve been helping our lifetime members understand how to use strategies they are already familiar with to protect and grow their portfolios. Our lifetime membership enables you to progress at your own pace. You can repeat any part of the weekend program as often as you choose so that you can master using technical analysis or fundamentals and each month there are additional tutorials and hands-on trainings to further enhance your skills.

Our goal is to provide you with the knowledge required to begin trading confidently combined with a professional and supportive trading environment where you can interact with other traders and staff.

If you’ve been thinking about using trading to add to your investment portfolio or supplement your income then we’d love to support you.

George Karpouzis

George Karpouzis is the co-founder of Learn-to-Trade and has been personally providing education and mentoring to over 3000 members since 1999. George has been trading in the stocks, options, futures and forex markets using technical analysis since 1986. With the help of advancements in trading technology the Learn To Trade program is now accessible worldwide. His background and passion for teaching brings an invaluable asset to our members. George is constantly striving to improve the program content and develop new strategic relationships for the benefit of the members.

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