Maverick Investors specializes in seeking out non-standard and little-known investment routes. They do not believe that investing is necessarily ‘difficult’, or that it should be left entirely to ‘experts’. Experts have their place, of course, but the investment industry wants you to believe that they are vital and your only route to smart investment strategies.
That is simply not true.
Let’s take a look at a couple of examples of what a Maverick investor might be doing, even as you read this article.
Example 1 – Covered call options. It would take too long to explain this in depth, but it’s a bit like renting out the shares you own for a monthly income. It is safe? Well, it’s allowed within your 401k, so the US government certainly thinks it is! Do you require a great experience? No! You need to know how to do it, of course, but you can learn that in one day. From then on, it will take you two to three hours a month to implement it. It’s worth it? Well, that depends on your criteria. However, you can safely expect a return of between 3% and 6% per month if you do it correctly, and that is much more than any bank or brokerage house will offer you!
Example 2 – Online Business. If you’ve ever tried (or are trying right now) to find a way to make money online, you probably know that it’s a frustrating, time-consuming, and ultimately fruitless task. And yet, and yet… there are some people who are making steady fortunes on the Internet, day after day, without working all that hard for it. In fact, I know a guy who consistently makes $100,000 a month in what I would classify as largely passive income, that is, he does very little, if anything, to “earn” it. So what’s the difference between him and you (other than that income figure)? The difference is that he has a largely automated system and a way of thinking strategically that puts him at the forefront. That’s the bad new. The good news is that he will teach you everything he knows and won’t charge you a fortune for it!
Example 3 – Volatility trading. The biggest stock market myth is the idea that some people can consistently predict the direction of a given market or stock with a high degree of accuracy over an extended period of time, say years. Is not true. Nobody has that ability. However, what if you had a technique where you could a) predict which stocks are due for a big move, b) predict, with some accuracy (a matter of days), when this big move is likely to take place, and c) position yourself in the market so you would make money on that move, regardless of which direction the move takes. Wouldn’t that transform the performance of your investments in the stock market? Well, there is such a technique, and it is there for the taking.
Example 4 – Properties below market value. In the field of real estate investing, what kind of difference would it make if you could consistently buy properties without using any of your own money and instantly turn those properties into cash cows? How many would it take to quit your job and be a full-time Maverick Investor? Not many, let me tell you! And yet, there are no real estate brokers to show you how to buy houses and apartments 10%, 20%, 30% and more below their retail value. I wonder why?
Now, there is too much advertising on the Internet to want to add it in any way. So let’s back up a bit and put some of the above examples together in a very conservative “what if” scenario.
What if you already have a $50,000 stock portfolio? By implementing a covered call strategy, you could be earning 3% a month on that, giving you an income of $1,500 a month for a couple hours of work and leaving your portfolio pretty much intact. And what if you could plug into an online business system that’s bringing one man $100,000 a month, and what if it ‘just’ made you 1% of that, that’s still another $1,000 a month in income by far Passives.
Using just two of the four examples above and taking very conservative estimates, you’re already up to $2,500 per month with very little extra effort.