Prosper Newsletter: February 2006 > Stock

You understand that the following information is educational in nature and is not intended to be legal, accounting, or tax advice. You are responsible for your own financial decisions and should consult your own legal, accounting, and tax advisors before making your financial decisions.

Coaching Recommendation Creates Another Lifetime Student!!!

I am so glad to have decided to hire the coaching service of Prosper Learning and my coach! I came upon this service through a conversation with a friend who has used this group for the Real Estate coaching, they highly recommended them and I learned they had coaching for Stock Market Investing. Before I hired this coaching, I was a long term investor, knew very little about the markets, and depended on financial advisors to make my investment decisions. I learned more about investing in the markets and the leveraging power of options than I ever knew existed. With the strategies that were taught to me, I was able to practice in a "paper trading" account to see the powerful potential this type of trading can provide before I ever risked working with real money. Since I started trading with real money, I have paid off my tuition for the coaching and have doubled the value of my portfolio in a time period of three months!! I feel like I have control over my money's destiny and I definitely have a greater return on investment than what my financial planners could do!!

Thanks again to my coach and Prosper Learning for this awesome service!

-Glenn M.
Colorado Springs, CO

January started with some promising results, but since then certain factors have sent mixed messages. Natural Gas has dropped significantly and thwarted a rally in Natural Gas stocks. Crude oil is bouncing up and down dependant upon the foreign news. However, there is some good movement in Oil service companies like SLB, HAL, RIG, and CDIS. Coal looks like a viable investment along with precious metals and Uranium issues. Also, technology stocks like BRCM and MRVL are on the move. Currently it is advised to be defensive and hedge your positions. PUT trades are available for companies that do not give good forward guidance.