Dear Reader,

You’ve got absolutely nothing to lose (as you’ll see in a moment)...

Whether you’re down $10,000… $100,000… even $1 million. It doesn’t matter. What I’m about to detail in this letter WORKS. Plain and simple.

On October 27 alone, while the DOW slumped 232 points, this overlooked crisis-proof strategy locked in six winners… for an average gain of 118.4%.

And that wasn’t a one-day fluke, either.

If you used this simple, but effective strategy on every single stock in the Russell 3000 index… you could have booked gains on 2,400 of those stocks since January 1.

That’s right.

Sounds unbelievable. But the fact is I’ve handed a small group of honest individuals the chance to double their money 11 times in 2008… including six times in the last two months.

And I’m even more optimistic about the opportunities in the next six to twelve months.

That’s why my publisher is willing to guarantee – if you respond immediately – you’ll have the opportunity at gains like these…

So give me 10 minutes and I’ll explain all the details. And show you how to use this practically crisis-proof strategy… starting today. At absolutely no-risk to you.

We Booked 41 Winners Last Year Using A Proprietary
Crisis-Proof Strategy… All While the Markets Tanked

My name is Louis Basenese. I’m the Senior Analyst for The Oxford Club.

And I was fortunate to learn this crisis-proof strategy during the last bear market, while working on the inside of Wall Street’s second-largest investment bank, helping manage over $1 billion in institutional capital.

Before I detail it, let me first say this…

Over the past few months many investors have been learning the hard way. Their “time-tested” strategies that have worked well in bull markets are sputtering and collapsing when the markets turn treacherous.

Instead of looking for ways to profit, many have even given up and joined longtime market commentator Richard Russell’s school of thought that “the winner is the one who loses the least.”

But you shouldn’t join them.

And you certainly shouldn’t resign yourself to losing. Especially since the practically crisis-proof strategy I’m about to reveal is designed to make profits regardless of which way the markets move.

And it’s designed to make them fast.

So let’s get to it…

“I took $10K home today. Thanks for the free money!”
–Jeffrey C.

Regardless of market conditions, most investors only go long. Few ever trade short. And that’s a huge mistake.

I know what you’re going to say…

…“Trading short is risky.”
…“Short sellers caused this financial mess in the first place.”
…“The potential losses are limitless.”

But that’s patently untrue. All of it. (As I’ll explain in a moment.)

All you need to understand now is this:

If you’re not willing to sell short – sorry to say it – then you’re not serious about making money in this market.

It’s the ONLY strategy that’s consistently working. As many of my readers can attest…

Staking a Claim to “Free Money”
“Mr. Basenese, I did stick it out with BID and took $10K home today. Thanks for the free money!”
– Jeffrey C.

Up 140% in “A Few Weeks”
“After reading about FXE from you… I went ahead and bought the Jan 09 $140 puts a few weeks ago for $0.55 and sold half for $1.40 for a significant gain and am still up ~ 140% on the balance.”
– Phyllis T.

Not to mention, the gains often come much faster than you’re accustomed to on the long side. Just consider…

Earlier last year, I alerted readers to some “troubling” bond market activity for Georgia Gulf Corp. (NYSE: GGC) – a home improvement supplier. I warned bankruptcy appeared imminent and suggested they get short immediately.

Imagine for a moment earning an immediate 47.8%, for instance, when a stock gets sacked at the opening bell.

It would take almost five years of average stock market returns to get that kind of performance.

But right now – and for the next six to nine months by my estimates – you can profit from plummeting stocks ... simply ... easily ... safely ... and effectively.

Here’s how…

Again, selling short may sound exotic if you haven’t tried it.

But that may be only because you're unfamiliar with it…

Think back and see if you can recall a cocktail conversation with any of your friends about selling stocks short. Chances are you don’t recall any.

And the reason’s simple…

On any given day less than 4% of investors engage in short selling.

So what’s keeping the other 96% from using this completely safe, legal and potentially profitable trading strategy?

In essence, few ever explained its simplicity. And, as we can all attest, we don’t like to try things we don’t understand.
But let me assure you, short selling is remarkably simple.

It can be done through an online brokerage account… with a couple mouse clicks.

Or you can simply phone up your broker and tell him you want to short XYZ stock. And he’ll take care of the rest.

And just like the goal of long investing, profiting from short selling involves buying low and selling high.

Because…

The world’s most famous and successful investors do it.

Including George Soros, Carl Icahn, Bernard Baruch, Jim Chanos and Jesse Livermore (to name a few). And there’s nothing stopping you from using the same powerful technique as the “smart money.”

There’s an endless universe of opportunities.

How easy is it to find a “hot” stock to invest in? Ones which are growing earnings rapidly, consistently increasing profitability or about to launch a new product that will revolutionize an industry? We can all agree such companies are scarce.

But what about companies with just the opposite? Ones with failing business models, continued losses, stock dilutions, fraud, scandals, obsolete products?

These companies are plentiful. And often overlooked.

Short sellers are actually a positive market force.

Forget what you’ve heard recently. Countless studies (out of the Univ. of North Carolina and Yale) show that short sellers are good for the markets.

One study emphatically concluded, “short sellers can often see through accounting manipulations and profit extensively from this skill.” That’s because they counter the “irrational exuberance” that company officials and bullish promoters parade about their stocks, and encourage a more sensible valuation of a company’s worth.

Just like long-time short seller Jim Chanos did. He pinpointed the problems with Enron’s accounting for special purpose entities a year before the crash. “If he didn't ask questions about Enron, the stock would have gone to even higher levels and eventually fallen even further,” according to mutual fund manager, David Tice.

Stocks fall 3 times faster than they rise.

Fear and panic are more powerful feelings than greed and euphoria. And research shows that when bad news strikes, stock prices fall, on average, 3 times faster than they rise.

Just consider it took the NASDAQ from July 1996 until March 2000 for the market to peak, but less than 12 months for it to drop to where it started.

And this time was no different.

So if you don’t sell short, you could be passing up one of the fastest strategies to make money in the markets.

And with the markets collapsing around us, selling short is practically the ONLY strategy working right now.

Which brings me to the most important question: How do we identify the perfect companies to short? The ones with the worst news on the horizon and the highest likelihood of delivering ridiculously high returns?

That’s why I’m writing you today…

You see, in the past year alone, I’ve recommend 22 (out of 31) winning short recommendations. (That’s more than a 70% success rate!).

Like on September 30, when I told readers “disaster” was afoot for LeapFrog Enterprises (NYSE: LF).

Sure enough retail sales checked in weak. Consumer confidence hit the basement… and management eventually lowered guidance, sending the stock into a freefall.

Readers Were Alerted to Trouble at LeapFrog
Right Before it Plummeted 65%...

A few weeks later, on October 14, I published a report listing 10 reasons to sell short The New York Times, Co. (NYSE: NYT)… ranging from shrinking profit margins, a flailing turnaround plan, stubborn family ownership and worst of all, nasty declines in advertising spending.

And in no time, the fundamentals (and shares) deteriorated. Earnings came in below guidance. Management announced more layoffs and restructurings. They even decided to slash the dividend by 74%.

Subscribers Learned About The New York Times
Right Before it Cratered 61%

Before that I singled out MEMC Electronics Materials (NYSE: WFR) – a supplier of polysilicon wafers to the semiconductor, and particularly the solar industry.

On February 25, I argued capacity was ramping up way too fast… that its product was quickly becoming a commodity… and that the stock was grossly overvalued.

Again, getting short at precisely that time could have paid switched-on investors handsome dividends.

MEMC Tanks 83%, Subscribers Win Again

Add it all up and the small circle of honest individuals that follow my research on potential short opportunities could have pocketed a cumulative gain of 1,039% (including losers). Since January 1.

I perfected my short-selling strategy while working for Morgan Stanley. Back then I had no choice but to sell short to profit from plummeting stocks.

But things have changed… for the better.

Here’s the great thing about investing on the short side right now. We don’t even need to sell short to rack up the gains.

Thanks to inverse mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), we can get short with a single purchase. It’s like buying a stock.

Some even allow us to benefit from leverage. A powerful tool. And one I recommended using June 17 when I shocked my subscribers by telling them to get short oil.

Remember, at the time oil traded for close to $140 per barrel. Goldman Sachs and T. Boone Pickens and Jim Rogers, among others, were all calling for a super-spike… above $200.

But the indicators I use all predicted the opposite, arguing the oil bull market got ahead of itself. That’s when I suggested subscribers consider the ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas Fund (NYSE: DUG).

And the rest, as you know, is history...

Oil tanked 63%. But because the fund uses leverage, it soared more than double that amount from June 17 to October 10.

A Wildly Contrarian Call Nets Brave Investors Big Gains

If you want access to my latest short recommendations, there’s only way to get them.

Sign up for a 3-month, no-risk subscription to my stock research advisory service – The Long and Short Alert.

It features precisely the kinds of short recommendations that I’ve talked about in this letter. Whenever I discover an opportunity – like a credit card giant about to get barraged with a wave of defaults… or the newspaper publisher certain to slash guidance and its dividend – I write it up immediately and then my research team blasts it out to subscribers by fax or e-mail.

All you have to do is decide whether you want to act on the information, and then do it.

And don't worry if you've never sold short before.

Each recommendation will not only detail exactly what we're selling short and why, but will include explicit directions you can read to your broker or enter online.

**Plus every recommendation will include a stop loss order to protect your profits ... and your principal.**

(Just like you use trailing stops on stocks you buy, you can use a similar stop loss strategy on stocks you sell short. And it completely limits your risk.)

If you’re still with me at this point, you’re probably convinced selling short is an effective strategy. But here’s one more thing you need to know: The more volatile the markets get, the better the proprietary indicators behind The Long and Short Alert perform.

Just consider. As the bear market really kicked into overdrive on September 1 – and the sell off accelerated – so, too, did the winners from our crisis-proof strategy.

But don’t think the best is behind us...

Given the severity of the financial crisis, I estimate the short side of the market will be target rich through 2009. Some economists believe we’ll be in this mess through 2010. Either way, there’s still plenty of time to capitalize on all the short-selling opportunities.

And even when the economy recovers, we’ll still be overwhelmed with opportunities.

Remember, not all stocks and industries recover at the same time. Not to mention, at any given time there are countless companies falling on hard times – losing market share, missing earnings forecasts, cutting dividends, facing lawsuits, etc.

So there’s never really a bad time to be selling short.

That said, I’m sure there’s one question you’re dying to ask…

It’s inevitable. The bear market will end, eventually. But we’ll be prepared.

As the name – The Long and Short Alert – suggests, I don’t just focus on selling short. I look for compelling long opportunities, too.

Believe it or not, by playing both sides of the market we can actually reduce our risk. That’s why some of the most successful investors – including Warren Buffett, George Soros, even Jim Rogers – do the same thing.

And we’ve enjoyed respectable success going long, even in this market.

For instance, subscribers to The Long and Short Alert had the chance to book gains of 49.9% on Lindsay Corp…. 51% on Water’s Corp… 60.7% on ABB Ltd. … even 96% on Cal-Maine Foods.

As we speak, I’m researching a medical service company – tapping into an underserved market for diagnosing leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma.

Sales and earnings are up 102% and 198%, respectively. With plenty of room to run. The company only controls 4% of the market. By my estimates, the stock could easily double by the spring.

But the only way to find out its identity – and the three other compelling long investments I’m researching now – is to become a subscriber to The Long and Short Alert.

There is a small catch, though…

My publisher only agreed to a very limited time offer. That’s why I encourage you to take advantage of it while our shorting strategy is making so much money.

Here are all the details…

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Sincerely,

Louis Basenese,
Senior Analyst, The Oxford Club
Editor and Founder, The Long and Short Alert

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