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Hi —

My name is Brad Castro.

I spent a good chunk of a decade learning everything I could about the stock market and making just about every mistake in the process.

  • I chased hot stocks and hot sectors . . . just before they cooled down.

  • I tried my hand at deep value investing . . . in broken companies that really had no value.

  • I subscribed to popular newsletters that recommended a set number of stocks each month regardless of market conditions . . . while I began to suspect that more effort went into rationalizing the recommendations than went into actual stock research.

  • I fancied myself a contrarian investor for a while . . . until Mr. Market demonstrated that he was right more often than I was.

  • I subscribed to aggressive option trading advisory services . . . and learned not only what a dumb way that is to try to make money, but also that fraud is alive and well.

  • Amateur day trading? Tried it . . . and was lucky to have any money left when I finally threw in the towel.

  • And when I did occasionally find services and methods that had merit . . . I discovered that they didn't match my own personality.

In short, I caught falling knives, paid top dollar for overpriced and overhyped stocks, and looked everywhere I could for some ideal shortcut that I could harness in order to gain long term wealth. All to no avail.

But then I made a startling discovery — Investing Works.

Now that probably sounds either really obvious or really naïve. But I'm not talking about "investing" in the generic sense. The way 98% of people use the word.

I'm talking about REAL, TRUE, LONG TERM INVESTING. The way Warren Buffett invests. The way smart investors who got in on the ground floor of great companies like Walmart, Microsoft, or McDonald's invested. The type of investing that profoundly changes your life.

The problem is that most people think that true investing is either too hard or takes too long. And so they start looking around for quick fix alternatives.

The only problem? There aren't any.


The Get Rich Quick Myth

The internet is crowded with hucksters promising you instant stock market riches. And their come-on usually goes something like this. They will supposedly:

  • Show you how to consistently make a ton of money with virtually no effort on your part or

  • Give you regular trade recommendations that will turn you into a gazillionaire in no time at all or

  • Let you in on some little known "secret" that the "big boys" on Wall Street "don't want you to know about"

Now, I like reading fiction as much as the next person. But not when it comes to my portfolio.

I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but the sad truth is this: no subscription service, system, or seminar is going to make you rich overnight, no matter how many hundreds or thousands of dollars you pay for it.

Sorry - it just ain't gonna happen.

Can you potentially make a living as a professional stock and options trader? Sure you can. But don't let the hucksters fool you - it's hard work. It's a full time job, not a part time hobby. And plan on spending several years before you master it.

That's the bad news.

And the good news? Remember my epiphany? Investing Works.

In fact, let me be even bolder:

There are NO substitutes for true, long term investing.


How To Actually Get Rich

The great irony is that once you really understand the power of true, long term investing, and once you start applying that power to superior businesses, and once you learn a half dozen or so conservative, customized option strategies designed to perpetually enhance your long term returns, You won't need or even WANT a substitute.

If you're a gambler at heart and love the tactical cat and mouse game of stock or option trading, then I'll be the first to admit that Leveraged Investing is probably not for you.

But if you have a more strategic perspective, just consider the ultimate goals of Leveraged Investing for a moment. Do any of the following prospects excite you? Imagine what it would feel like to:

  • Own large stock positions in 20-30 of the best, most durable, reliably profitable businesses you can identify

  • Generate a ton of income just from regular dividend payments

  • Consistently grow your net worth

  • Regularly increase your cash flow

  • Routinely outperform the stock market

Wait a minute . . . that sounds like I'm describing Warren Buffett.

Well, why not? After all, Warren Buffett is the most successful and influential investor of our lifetime. He essentially transformed Berkshire Hathaway, a struggling New England textile operation, into one of the largest, most profitable, and most respected companies in the world. And in the process he became one of the richest people on the planet.


Warren Buffett's Secret

So how exactly did Warren Buffett achieve this kind of business and personal success? How did he accumulate such staggering amounts of wealth in the stock market?

Did he:

  • Chase the hottest stocks?

  • Get Lightning Round tips from Jim Cramer?

  • Max out his 401K and IRA and invest in actively managed mutual funds or passively diversified index funds?

  • Perfect his technical analysis skills and brilliantly time the market?

  • Make a big, short term gamble that really paid off?

Sorry - The correct answer is . . . NONE OF THE ABOVE

Warren Buffett's secret? Well, it's not actually a secret. He's spelled it out in public many, many times. In fact, it's a quote you may already be familiar with: "It's far better to buy a wonderful business at a fair price than it is to buy a fair business at a wonderful price."

Sounds pretty simple, doesn't it? Almost easy. Like anyone could do it. Well, it IS simple — deceptively simple.

But look a little closer. Even as Warren Buffett tells you exactly how to invest like him, his quote also reveals why doing that is so hard. In order to duplicate Warren Buffett's success, it's up to you to:

  1. Identify wonderful businesses

  2. Determine fair prices

  3. Have the discipline to only purchase wonderful businesses

  4. Have the patience to wait for fair prices

And how easy is all that in the real world? Ever paid too much for a stock? Or bought something you later regretted? A lot? Ever ask yourself what you were smoking or what you were thinking when you made one of those incredibly poor investments?

Of course you have. And so have I.

My theory is that Warren Buffett makes his superior style of investing look so easy because . . . well, because he's so good at it. He's one of the best in the world at sizing up a business and knowing what it's really worth. And he's extraordinarily patient and disciplined, willing to sit on stockpiles of cash for years at a time waiting for an investment to come along that he really, really likes.


Can You Beat Warren Buffett?

Warren Buffett had one other advantage that most people lack - a large investing base to begin with. Prior to acquiring Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett ran a successful investment partnership and received 20% of the profits, much like an early hedge fund.

So when he dissolved the investment partnership and began looking around for another investment vehicle (Berkshire Hathaway), he already had a significant stake.

The formula for mega-wealth? Start with a large investment, apply double digit compounding returns, and then just wait a few decades.

Can you beat Warren Buffett? Maybe not. But it seems to me that you can at least emulate him. Still, if you're going to aspire to invest like Warren Buffett, you better have Warren Buffett's skills and insights.

Or a good back up plan.

If you want results like Buffett, you either have to be able to replicate his process...or come up with something comparable to achieve similar results.

And since I already learned first hand that doing exactly what Buffett does is a lot harder than it looks, I knew I'd need a very good back up plan indeed.


Stop Wasting Your Time

Of course, there are a lot of bad back up plans out there, too. Plans that may target Buffett-like returns but that have virtually no chance of ever delivering on their promises.

Why?

It's simple — they have NOTHING in common with Buffett's style of true, long term investments in well-run, dominant companies.

It's almost as if we feel that true investing is so difficult and takes so long that we get discouraged. And then we get desperate.

Ever been desperate? It's not fun. You start looking around for shortcuts. You start taking bigger risks. You may even spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on weekend seminars or some professionally-marketed "system" or software where, strangely, there's a whole lot of talk upfront about yachts and expensive red sports cars.

My guess is there's quite a few people out there still waiting for their yacht and expensive red sports car.

Think this is the yacht they're talking about?
The Get Rich Quick Yacht

And in the meantime . . . more time passes. You may not be growing any wealthier, but you are growing older. Now you really have to play catch up. Take more risks, go to more seminars, subscribe to more market-timing services.

And even though it's understandable — believe me, I've certainly wasted my fair share of time (and money) down dead-end streets — that doesn't change the sad reality. It's a vicious circle that just keeps getting uglier and uglier over time.

And the worst is when you even begin to wonder if you would've been better off just keeping all your money in CDs?

Yikes — that's when you know you've REALLY hit bottom.

Remember - There are no shortcuts. At least not in the way we want there to be shortcuts when we're feeling desperate. You know — get rich quick, cheat the system, transcend reality and build an instant empire.


Gaining An Investing Advantage

But just because there are no Get Rich Quick shortcuts, doesn't mean that successful investing is a lost cause. Not by a long shot.

It just means that if you're going to aspire to invest like Warren Buffett, you're going to need two things: an approach similar to his and some kind of personal investing advantage.

We already summarized Buffett's investing approach: buying wonderful businesses at fair prices. Ideally, his holding period is "forever." Obviously, that type of investing has worked out extraordinarily well for Buffett. But have you ever wondered why?

When you purchase shares of a superior business at an attractive price (the cheaper the better), just look at everything you gain:

  • Superior compounded returns — The lower your cost basis on an investment the higher ALL your future compounded returns will be.

  • Increasing and compounding dividend streams — Superior and growing companies regularly increase their dividends, in effect giving your portfolio regular "raises" and automatically putting more money in your pocket.

  • Stability in your portfolio — Superior and durable companies thrive in the good times and easily weather the bad times so you can sleep comfortably every night, regardless of market conditions.

  • Peace of mind — The only thing that feels better than the confidence you get from choosing an investment model with a proven track record, is the feeling you get from experiencing those results first hand.

  • Minimal maintenance required — Investing shouldn't feel like work. If it feels like a full time job, or even a part time job, that's probably not investing — that's probably trading.

  • Freedom from nonsense . . . no more wasting all that time trying to "get rich quick" or trying to "beat the system" or lying awake at night worrying about long term failure from all your short term trading.
Blah, blah, blah - A little too abstract? How about backing it up with some actual numbers?

Suppose you purchase a stock for $50/share that pays $2 in annual dividends. That equates to a current yield of 4%. But if you'd purchased at $25/share, your yield doubles to 8%. And if you'd purchased at $10/share, you'd be earning 20% each year in dividends alone.

So how do you buy a $50 stock for $25/share or even $10/share?

You have two choices - you can wait and wait and wait and hope something really terrible happens to a company you want to invest in and then scoop up shares once they've hit some ideal bargain basement price.

Or you can learn specific, customized, conservative option strategies designed to achieve over time the same results but without all the drama . . .



Using Options Intelligently and Powerfully

So now we come full circle to my original proposition: for less than the price of dinner, I'll show you how I've learned to use options to mimic Warren Buffett's investment approach.

Skeptical?

After all, aren't options risky? And what can they possibly have to do with long term investing?

Sure, options can be risky. But they can also be conservative. And everything in between. In fact, that's the very function of options — to allow investors and traders the opportunity to manage and trade risk.

So if you're willing to be aggressive and assume a lot of risk, you can use options to, in effect, try to win the lottery. But good luck — you're going to need it.

[Know any lottery winners? Or even professional gamblers? My guess is that the most successful people you know, either intimately or casually, are either business owners or partners in businesses, not those who either assume a lot of risk or who rely on luck.]

I believe that aggressive option trading (and don't believe the hype — most of what's touted as conservative option trading isn't remotely low-risk) is just more of that desperation we mentioned earlier.

In fact, I think it's fair to say that the primary function of option trading today as most people practice it is to be a substitute for investing. After all, it's hard to imagine option trading having anything to do with true, long term investing.

But what if the two could be reconciled?

What if instead of using options as a substitute for investing, you could use them to enhance investing?


Introducing Leveraged Investing

To compete with Warren Buffett, all you need is a low cost basis and a portfolio of great companies.

Don't be intimidated by the term cost basis. All it means is the average price you've paid for each share of a stock that you own.

If you purchase 100 shares of a stock at $30/share and then later purchase another 100 shares at $35/share, the cost basis on your entire position is $32.50/share.
You've heard of Buy Low, Sell High? Well, Buffett is a billionaire many times over because he buys low, he buys quality, and he almost never sells.

What if there were customized option strategies you could use that would help you essentially do the same thing? And do it faster?

What if you could use options to reduce your cost basis when you first acquire shares of a high quality stock?

And what if you could use options to keep reducing your cost basis, after the fact, again and again and again, as long as you owned those shares?

Do you think that might level the playing field a bit?

How would that be for a personal investing advantage?



"The Essential

Leveraged Investing Guide"

The best way to describe The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide is to share three short excerpts from the Guide itself:

"If you can, on balance, acquire high quality stocks for less than what others are paying for those stocks, and if you’re able to generate additional returns above and beyond what everyone else is getting from those same stocks, you’re going to do extremely well over the long term, and you’re going to dramatically improve your life."


"Are you starting to see the picture? Is it beginning to dawn on you just how profound and exciting this kind of investing really is? Is it actually possible to adopt specific option trading strategies and mimic or augment an already exponentially superior investing style?"


"Leveraged Investing is just that — the flexibility of options combined with the power of true, long term investing. The investment portion and the option portion support one another, and by doing so, they ease the burden each would have to carry were each working alone."





More Than Covered Calls and Naked Puts

If you're already familiar with options, you might be wondering if all I'm doing here is hyping simple covered call and naked put writing strategies.

On the contrary, detailed descriptions of covered calls, naked puts, and 14 other specific option trading strategies are all available for free on the Great Option Trading Strategies main website.

Call writing and put writing are popular income strategies employed by certain option traders. They're popular because they're relatively simple strategies and, when successful, can produce some great cash flow returns.

But these are trading strategies, not investing strategies.

In contrast, the six specific strategies detailed in The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide are all customized strategies with the long term investor in mind:

  1. Writing Cash Secured Puts (ATM) to Acquire Stock
  2. Bull Put Spreads to Acquire Stock
  3. The 1/3 Covered Call Writing Strategy
  4. Covered Combos to Acquire Stock
  5. LEAP Covered Calls to Acquire Stock
  6. LEAP Covered Combos to Acquire Stock
Take a moment and really consider the implications: If you could learn to acquire quality stocks at a significant discount and continually lower the cost basis on those stocks for as long as you owned them, why would you ever settle for risky, short term, speculative trading strategies?

Leveraged Investing & Retirement Accounts

Since many self-directed, long term investors keep the bulk of their investments in tax-advantaged retirement accounts, an important question arises: can you employ Leveraged Investing in your IRA?

The good news is that in the U.S., most online brokerages offer option-enabled IRA accounts upon application and approval. That doesn't mean that every Leveraged Investing strategy will be accessible within your account, of course, but using every single strategy detailed in The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide isn't required in order to be successful.

And some online brokers are more option-friendly than others, giving you even greater flexibility in choosing which Leveraged Investing strategies are right for you.

The important thing is that even in an IRA, you can still gain access to valuable tools designed to accelerate the returns on long term investments in high quality companies.


Benefits of Leveraged Investing

With The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide you get:

  • A Full 60 Day 100% Money Back Guarantee
  • 130+ Pages of Substantive but Easy to Digest Material
  • 6 Separate Leveraged Investing Strategies — Strategies for every investor and every portfolio
  • "An Options Tutorial in 30 Minutes or Less" — New to options? No need to worry — You'll be up to speed in no time at all
  • Immediate, secure, downloadable access to the electronic Guide



With The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide you learn:

  • How to acquire quality stock at a significant discount
  • How to grow and maintain your own Mega Dividend
  • How to achieve the benefits of dividend growth investing even if there are no dividend increases
  • How to manually and repeatedly increase the dividend yield on your long term stock holdings
  • How to generate additional returns on your portfolio
  • How to select the best long term investments
  • Why mutual funds in general are a terrible investment
  • Why you should NEVER sell your high quality stocks
  • Why the purchase price of a stock is far more important than the selling price, and how to adjust that purchase price to your advantage repeatedly over time
  • Why successful investing is superior to successful trading
  • Why Leveraged Investing gets easier over time
  • The 3 types of powerful returns available to investors, but not to traders
  • The 3 major drawbacks to trading
  • The qualities that comprise a great company.
  • The one characteristic ALL successful businesses share
  • The essential way to view options - and the 2 important benefits you gain by doing so
  • The 2 core tenets of Leveraged Investing and why adhering to them will have profound wealth-building consequences
  • The #1 Rule for investing success


With The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide you gain:

  • Hundreds, even thousands of dollars of savings from never having to attend another overpriced and overhyped options seminar again
  • The satisfaction of taking ownership over your own investments
  • The confidence gained in your ability to outperform, over time, the majority of all passive investors, speculators, retail traders, and even the market itself
  • Regular increases to your cash flow
  • Consistent growth of your net worth

. . . All for less than the price of dinner.



Leveraged Investing Guide Testimonials

What's For Dinner?

OK. So I keep mentioning this offer — for less than the price of dinner, I'm offering a copy of The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide.

So what's my obsession with dinner? Am I hungry as I'm writing this?

Not quite.

I just think it's important to put the offer into context. We usually don't think twice about eating out and spending $50 or $75 or even $100 for a first class dinner for two. Even a reasonably nice dinner adds up if you bring along family members or friends.

But how often do you spend an equivalent amount (or less, in this case) feeding your portfolio?

Simply investing in the stock market isn't enough. It's equally important to invest in learning better ways to invest. You need to invest in yourself.

And so, for less than the equivalent cost of a nice dinner for two, I'm willing to share everything I've learned over the last decade about using options, not to become a better trader, but to become a better investor.

(If only someone had made me this offer ten years ago . . .)

So what kind of "nice dinner" are we talking about?

Why don't I charge more for this Guide? Two important reasons. First, I don't want this information to be cost-prohibitive to anyone. I remember what it was like to have limited investing funds. I want this information to be just as accessible to the young or just getting started investor as it is to the investor who already has significant funds to invest. Ideally, I want anyone with enough money to open a brokerage account to be able to earn back the cost of this information with the first trade.

And second, since Leveraged Investing is how I invest myself, and since Leveraged Investing works for me, I don't need to brainstorm ways to hype this in order to charge more.

Dinner for two at a good restaurant - including an appetizer, drinks, perhaps dessert, sales tax, tip - no question about it, you can easily spend $100. And that doesn't take into consideration other costs such as transportation costs or (if you need one) getting a babysitter.

I honestly believe that The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide is worth far more than even the most expensive dinner for two. The information and perspectives contained in it can help you transform your financial life - just as they helped transform mine.

But I simply don't want price to be an issue for anyone. And I really want people to adopt this approach. The more traders I can convert into investors, and the more investors I can empower with specific options-enhanced strategies, the better I feel about myself.

I feel that $97 is easily a bargain to gain access to all the information contained in the Essential Leveraged Investing Guide. After all, that's an amount that can quickly be recouped once you begin implementing any of the six strategies detailed in the Guide.

But I don't want to limit access to this information. I want anyone with any size brokerage account to be able to afford it.

I simply don't want price to be an issue whatsoever.

So I say, skip the appetizer and dessert. And get drinks another time. You can scale things down and still have a nice dinner. No need for all the trappings and distractions. Keep things simple and focus on what's really important - your long term investments and the future you really want.

I really believe in this information and I really want to get it into your hands. I'm keeping the price as low as I can for as long as I can. I'm offering it right now for just a fraction of its true value. If you act now, you can secure your copy of The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide for just $37.

There you go - for far less than the price of a nice dinner for two, I'll share with you all the details of how I've learned to combine options with long term, Warren Buffett style value investing to create the absolute, best, smartest, and most profitable long term way to invest that I know of.

The Guarantee

The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide is backed by a Full 60 Day 100% Money Back Guarantee.

Why 60 days rather than the standard 30 days?

Not only am I completely confident in the value of this information, I'm also a firm believer in the long term.

So take your time with the Guide. I believe you'll find the information both exciting and engaging, but I still want you to really let it sink in.

And if, after reading The Essential Leveraged Investing Guide yourself, you're not convinced of the profound implications and value of Leveraged Investing? Not to worry - you have 60 days to request a full refund. No questions asked.

(All contact information is included on your confirmation email, or you can always communicate to me directly via the Contact form on the Great Option Trading Strategies website.)

You have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain. Let's have a conversation that might profoundly change your life.

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