The Stockopoly Plan - Investing for Retirement
Charles M O'Melia
Preface to The Stockopoly Plan
The book contains 236 pages - IBSN 1-589-82228-5
First and foremost, the Stockopoly plan uses an opportunistic stock market investment strategy for creating income for retirement. And Stockopoly's opportunistic strategy for creating income in the stock market for retirement is based on two ingredients, a plan and a goal. The Stockopoly plan is a definite, concrete plan of investing in the stock market which, I believe, will profit you and your family for the rest of your lives.
Stockopoly's opportunistic investment plan does not profit anyone else - not a stockbroker, a mutual fund or a financial advisor. This means that you must have confidence in yourself and in your own judgment as to whether the investment strategy you begin through Stockopoly has merit. So, before you begin Stockopoly's opportunistic investment strategy, the plan must and will be proven to you. Stockopoly's definite, concrete plan for creating income through opportunistic investing in the stock market also has a goal. The goal is clear and specific, and once you have made up your mind to achieve that goal, then you can go forward and make that goal a reality.
What are the opportunistic traits of a strategic investment plan built on a concrete foundation that would actually allow an investor to profit through all the turmoil of an up and down stock market; no matter what the direction of the stock market is heading?
As in what appears to be the most difficult investment question of all to answer, the answer lies in simplicity itself - investing in those companies that have a historical record of raising their dividend every year. Whether or not you can take this statement of fact to heart is your own judgment call. But it is this opportunistic trait that can and will create wealth for you and your family for the rest of your lives.
A company's ability to raise its dividend every year, coupled with stock appreciation is a very powerful wealth creating formula!

INTRODUCTION
“Great moments start in obscurity with obscure people and sweep on to success if those obscure people are servants of great ideas.”
-Nashua Cavalier
Stockopoly is a stock market investment strategy that helps you to realize cash dividends for the rest of your life. Each company you purchase using Stockopoly's direct dividend-investment strategy has been tested by the rigors of time and has been proven to be as safe an investment as the stock market can offer. Whether you know the difference between a P/E ratio and a potato doesn't make a difference, for you are about to learn the most cost-effective and safest method of investing in the stock market. You are going to be traveling “back to the future” and learning just how successful a Stockopoly investor (like yourself) can become.
You'll find that it will not matter if the stock market is going up (bull market) or going down (bear market); the dividend income while using the Stockopoly strategy will continue to increase every week, month, and year as long as the companies purchased continue to, at least, maintain their dividends. In addition, the Stockopoly strategy selects only those companies that have an extended current record of raising their dividends every year (one company in the plan has raised its dividend for the past forty-one consecutive years—more on this later). While using the Stockopoly strategy, your investment decisions will become better focused, as you will have discovered the tools necessary for developing a concrete, definite plan of investing that will benefit you and your family for years to come.
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CHAPTER FIVE
“Good humor is a tonic for the mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is a direct route to serenity and contentment.”
-Grenville Kleiser
As an aside, I would like to share with the reader an article printed in the financial section of USA Today on March 7, 2003, which exemplifies the awesome power of dividends.
MICROSOFT TO ISSUE FIRST DIVIDEND TODAY:
Microsoft investors will get their first payday today, when the tech giant shells out its first dividend. At 8 cents a share, the dividend will cost the company $850 million. Co-founder Bill Gates, who owns about 1.2 billion shares will receive a dividend of $96.5 million. The dividend marks a shift for Microsoft, which had long hoarded cash—to the tune of $43.4 billion—for research, acquisitions and legal claims.

After reading this article I couldn't help thinking about a report, which I believe stated that there were an estimated thirty-three million people in America living under the official poverty level. Bill Gates, by giving away his Microsoft dividend to those living under the poverty level, could begin to create ninety-six millionaires, year after year after year. What a boost to the economy that would be! Imagine all those new millionaires every year spending money on something other than food, Salvation Army clothing, and shelter.
Bill Gates (by giving away his Microsoft dividend) could begin to eliminate all the hardships for those people currently living under the poverty level. Of course, I would probably start feeling sorry for all those people who were living right at the poverty level. I could almost hear Ma telling Pa now, “If we only didn't sell those $40.00 worth of aluminum cans, we could have been millionaires right now.” Then again, those newly created millionaires would probably begin buying computers filled with Microsoft software and Bill Gates would start getting his money back. And, if that weren't enough, the newly created millionaires probably wouldn't have read my book! They would probably start using their computers to start day trading in the stock market and end up right back where they started. Holy moly! I better finish this book or they won't stand a chance!
(Note: Bill Gates and family have already given millions and millions to charity. It was announced on CNBC that on April 24, 2003, Bill Gates had just donated twenty-eight million dollars to South Africa's AIDS program.)
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CHAPTER TWENTY
“The beginning is the most important part of the work”
-Plato
Do you know what you're going to do with your 401(k) money when you retire? If you are going to hand it over to a financial expert to manage, see if you can get the names of some of his/her clients. See if you can call some of the expert's clients, tell them what you're planning to do, and ask them if they're satisfied with the expert's performance. Or you could talk to those people you've once worked with who have retired and went with a financial advisor or planner. Try to get some references from live bodies that have already been there, rather than just a bunch of statistics thrown at you by the expert.
Today's 401(k) plans are excellent vehicles for saving money, and here's what I like about mine:
I like the 10 percent contribution being a tax write-off (some plans are 16 percent). I can go to 16 percent, with 6 percent being after taxes are paid.
I like that the monies made in a 401(k) are tax deferred.
I like the company's 70 to 100 percent (it differs every year with my company) company match up to 6 percent of my contribution.
I like the option to move my 401(k) money into my company's stock or an interest income fund, bond fund, mutual fund, or index fund, at no cost.
I like the option to roll over into an individual IRA account, twice a year, any after-tax and company-matched dollars put into my 401(k), with no penalties, even while I am still employed with the company. This allows me to select individual stocks and allows the dividends from those stocks with a dividend-reinvestment plan to be rolled over automatically into more shares of each company, at no cost. (However, there are commission fees for the purchases of the stock. Only dividend purchases are commission-free.)
I like that the company's dividends in the IRA (set up by monies from my 401(k) plan), are also tax-deferred (and now all dividends from any account are 85 percent tax-free).
I like knowing that when my retirement day arrives, I'll already have an individual IRA set up to move the rest of the 401(k) monies into, with twelve stocks already chosen, owned and proven to provide reliable dividend income.
I like knowing the dividend income I can reasonably expect to receive from the stocks in the IRA account, after rolling the rest of my 401(k) monies over (upon retirement).
I like the free 1 percent the company gives me, just for being in the 401(k) plan.
I like the option to borrow money from my 401(k) plan, pay a low interest rate on the loan, and know that the interest rate I'm paying on the loan goes to me (if I was paying a credit card bill of $3,000.00 at 18 percent, I know I have the option to pay off the high-interest credit card loan and pay only 6 percent interest [to myself] on the $3,000.00 loan from my 401 (k).
I like knowing that when I move my 401(k) monies into the IRA when I retire, I'll know about how much income I can reasonably expect four times a month, twelve months a year, from both my Stockopoly investment plan accounts and my IRA account. The companies chosen in my IRA, coupled with the Stockopoly plan companies, will provide the comfortable, worry-free income which I believe investing should be all about.
My advice on 401(k) plans is to talk to an expert from the firm your 401(k) monies are with and find out what options are available to you and/or what your company allows. My point was simply to inform you that you may not be restricted to just putting your money into a mutual fund or your company's stock You can transfer monies from your 401(k) to an individual IRA (traditional, rollover, or Roth) at no fee and build your own mutual fund. (I have been doing this in my 401(k) plan for years while still employed with my company.) If those companies you choose in your IRA have a dividend-reinvestment plan, you can request to have the dividends reinvested each quarter, commission-free. Check with your company and/or your 401(k) provider to find out what options are available. Some company plans will not allow rollovers while still employed with the company; others have no restrictions. My 401(k) is so liberal that I can trade in and out of my company stock or any number of mutual funds in the plan at the close of every business day.
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Charles M O'Melia - author of The Stockopoly Plan - Investing for Retirement
I would like to take this time to explain something to you. I have never considered myself a writer nor am I a stock market professional. I am simply a man with over 40 years of experience and a passion for the stock market, trying to share what wisdom those years have given me. When I sit down to write an article, I seldom have an idea on what I'm going to say. It was the same way when I sat down to write my book. I just meant to put down a few words on paper for my 18-year old son so he would have a sound, concrete plan for investing in those companies that make up the stock market (quite frankly - I didn't want him to blow his inheritance). Whether you find merit in what I've said on my website, I have no idea. What I do know is that life is just too short to learn everything you need to learn by yourself, without the help of others.
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I beleive that if you do not have an investment plan in the stock market you are subject to impulses, urges, hunches, premonitions, strong feelings, greed, panic, fear, indecision, and just plain foolishness. In my opinion, without a plan, without that clear conception of a total stock market investment strategy, the chances of successful investing in the stock market are pretty slim.
The Stockopoly investment plan is a means for you to follow a certain arrangement or procedure, it is a method of action that will aid you to ensure a successful investment in the stock market. With Stockopoly's concrete definite plan of action, directed toward a predetermined goal, the most difficult aspect of successful investing in the stock market is already accomplished. The proven Stockopoly investment plan has already done the work for you, and the predetermined goals that you set for yourself will give you the desired power to fulfill them.
Don't underestimate yourself and the power within you to accomplish what you set out to do. Set your stock market investment goals high, and steadily aim for them. Make up your mind you are going to fulfill them and get excited about them, and your goals will become a reality!
(And sometimes, it only takes someone to tell you what you already know you can do!)

For me, (and, for any of you that have read and are already acting on my book) Stockopoly's successful investing plan in the stock market means only one thing! Money! I want money from all my stock market investments, and I want money sent to me every week of the year, for the rest of my life. It's a simple plan, but I'm a simple man. Nothing tricky here! If a company wants my investment dollars, they must pay me for them in the form of dividends every quarter. And if they want me to continue investing in their company, they will have to increase their dividend to me every year. I will have faith in their company as long as they continue rewarding my faith with more money! It's an arrangement that's non-negotiable. I guess you could call it a form of security analysis, a JerryMaguire ‘show me the money' form of security analysis.

Not only do the companies have to raise their dividend year after year, they have to show price appreciation in the market place on a historical basis. An investment plan should be geared towardreceiving both ever-increasing dividends, as well as stock appreciation. After all, isn't that what investing in the stock market should be all about?

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The Stockopoly Plan is a book based on almost 40 years of experience and passion for the stock market. The book's plan describes a method of investing that is the most cost-effective (no stockbroker is needed, thus no commission-fees) and safest method of investing in the companies that make up the stock market. Whether you are a novice or 'an old-hand' in the stock market, you are about to learn one of the most profitable and risk-free approaches to investing in the stock market; and you will learn how to validate that statement as you travel along the investment journey of a Stockopoly investor in my book.
Below is the introduction to The Stockopoly Plan, a few pages of the first chapter and several excerpts. The book contains 30 chapters (277 pages).
THE STOCKOPOLY PLAN
By Charles M. O'Melia
copywrite@2003 Charles M. O'Melia All rights reserved.

INTRODUCTION
"Great moments start in obscurity with obscure people and sweep on to success if those obscure people are servants of great ideas."
-Nashua Cavalier
Stockopoly is a stock market investment strategy that enables you to realize cash dividends for the rest of your life. Each company you purchase using Stockopoly's direct dividend investment strategy have been tested by the rigors of time and have been proven to be as safe an investment as the stock market can offer. Whether you know the difference between a P/E ratio and a potato doesn't make a difference, for you are about to learn the most cost-effective and safest method of investing in the stock market. You are going to be traveling 'back to the future' and learn just how successful a Stockopoly investor (like yourself) can become.
You'll find that it will not matter if the stock market is going up (bull market) or going down (bear market), the dividend income while using the Stockopoly strategy will continue to increase every week, month and year, as long as the companies purchased continue to, at least, maintain their dividends. And the Stockopoly strategy selects only those companies that have an extended current record of raising their dividends every year. (One company in the plan has raised their dividend for the past forty-one consecutive years - more on this later.) You will discover that when using the Stockopoly strategy your investment decisions will become better focused, for you will have discovered the tools necessary for developing a concrete, definite plan of investing that will benefit you and your family for years to come..

Chapter 1
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."
-Socrates
I have been an individual investor in the stock market for over 35 years and would like to share with the reader some insights and strategies I have developed over those years. To begin, you might look at playing the stock market as though you were playing a game of Monopoly. That's right, for playing the stock market game is not unlike playing a game of Monopoly! There are definite comparisons and parallels. Let's call the real stock market game "Stockopoly" and then look at the strategies of this real game.
In Monopoly, a player will need to own properties (three of the same color) before building houses, and eventually a hotel, to attain that comfortable, worry-free income - income that the player knows will come. In a sense, in the parallel game of Stockopoly the investor also will build houses, on the way toward owning a hotel, but the difference is that the properties aren't buildings but stocks that have been paying an increasing dividend for years. So right away you see I am not talking about the miracle dot.com stocks of old that make a person rich in a week, but stocks that allow conservative building of reliable income - and I am referring to dividend paying stocks!
All the companies listed and researched in this book have been around for years and have proven themselves throughout the cyclical turmoil of both up and down markets and economies. The selected Stockopoly stocks in your plan should show throughout their history that they have can be counted on for income, as well as for capital preservation and appreciation and one method on how to verify this is explained in the book. The Stockopoly plan's investment strategy focuses on supplying you with ever-increasing cash dividends for the rest of your life.

In Monopoly there is a Boardwalk, a Marvin Gardens; there are Utilities and Railroads etc. In the stock market you have the same type of properties (stocks), as in the game of Monopoly. The stock market has a GE (a boardwalk), a CSX (railroad), Duke Energy (a utility) etc. The object in the investment plan of Stockopoly is to buy ‘properties' (quality stocks that pay yearly increasing dividends) and to build ‘houses' on them. Each ‘house' on one of the properties (for example, the company's stock of Dominion Resources, Duke Energy etc) is equal to 100 shares of stock. The object of Stockopoly is to build 4 ‘houses' and to eventually own a ‘hotel' on each property (a hotel being 500 shares of a stock). The amount of ‘rent' (dividend payment) collected every 3 months will depend on how many ‘houses' or ‘partial houses' (shares of stock) are owned on the property.
The object in the Stockopoly plan is to own 10 to 12 properties (stocks), with ‘hotels' (500 shares) on each property. The ‘rent' (dividends) collected every quarter are used to buy more ‘houses' (shares of stock), until a ‘hotel' is acquired. For diversification, no more than one ‘hotel' on each property is advised. Dividing the money into 10 to 12 different properties (a different company's stock) allows for prudent diversification. As in Monopoly where a player must own three properties of the same color before being allowed to buy houses on them, the Stockopoly investor should wait to buy houses on each property until three properties (stocks) are owned; one property on each side of the Stockopoly board/diagram (simply a visual aid listing stocks according to their dividend payout dates) shown on page 19.

There are opponents in Stockopoly, just as there are opponents in the game of Monopoly. An opponent in the game of Monopoly is anything that takes money away from you (remember those fees you sometimes had to pay from those pesky Community Chest Cards?). In Stockopoly anything that takes money from you is an opponent, taxes, credit card payments, stock commissions, booze, fast cars etc. To eliminate any of these opponents in the Stockopoly plan will aid the Stockopoly investor in the quest toward building houses. President Bush's request of eliminating double taxation on qualifying dividends would eliminate one tax opponent in Stockopoly. And did you know you could eliminate those pesky stock commission fees to stockbrokers? In Stockopoly, stocks are purchased commission free, without the need of a stockbroker. The stocks purchased using the Stockopoly strategies are purchased directly from the company, through the company's stock dividend reinvestment plan, at no cost to the investor.
In Stockopoly the services of a stockbroker is not required, even though some companies stipulate the investor must own at least one registered share before being allowed to enroll into their commission-free stock dividend reinvestment plan (more on this later).

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Chapter 5
“Good humor is a tonic for the mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is a direct route to serenity and contentment.”
-Glenville Kleiser
As an aside, I would like to share with the reader an article printed in the financial section of U.S.A. Today on March 7, 2003 which exemplifies the awesome power of dividends.
MICROSOFT TO ISSUE FIRST DIVIDEND TODAY:
Microsoft investors will get their first payday today, when the tech giant shells out its first dividend. At 8 cents a share, the dividend will cost the company $850 million. Co-founder Bill Gates, who owns about 1.2 billion shares will receive a dividend of $96.5 million.The dividend marks a shift for Microsoft, which had long hoarded cash - to the tune of $43.4 billion - for research, acquisitions and legal claims.
After reading this article I couldn't help thinking about a report which I believe stated that there were an estimated 33 million people in America living under the official poverty level. Bill Gates, by giving away his Microsoft dividend to those living under the poverty level could begin to create 96 millionaires, year after year after year. What a boost to the economy that would be! Imagine all those new millionaires every year spending money on something other than food, Salvation Army clothing and shelter.
Bill Gates (by giving away his Microsoft dividend) could begin to eliminate all the hardships for those people currently living under the poverty level. Of course, I would probably start feeling sorry for all those people who were living right at the poverty level. I could almost hear Ma telling Pa now, “If we only didn't sell those $40.00 worth of aluminum cans, we could have been millionaires right now.” Then again, those newly created millionaires would probably begin buying computers filled with Microsoft software and Bill Gates would start getting his money back. And, if that wasn't enough, the newly created millionaires probably hadn't read my book! They would probably start using their computers to start day trading in the stock market and end up right back where they started. Holy moly! I better finish this book or they won't stand a chance!
(Note: Bill Gates and family have already given millions and millions to charity. It was announced on CNBC on April 24, 2003 that Bill Gates had just donated 28 million dollars to S. Africa's AIDS program.)

Closing excerpt:
Before we close the book on The Stockopoly Plan, I'd like to offer you some personal opinions formed from almost 40 years of experience and passion for and in the stock market. Hopefully, the opinions (and they are opinions, only!) will offer a little insight, hope, wisdom and humor!
Have you ever noticed how some words in the English language are so perfectly named for what they describe? And how some words seem to be, I guess you could say, backwards? For instance, the word sunflower! How wonderfully aptly named is the sunflower, that beautiful yellow flower that follows the sun from sunrise to sunset.
And then there are those words in the English language where their meaning appears to be backward, so to speak - like parkway and driveway. When my car is parked at home, I would think it would be parked on, well, a parkway - and when I'm on the road driving somewhere, I would think I'd be driving on a - a driveway.
In the stock market world, I think the word analyst is a perfect word in the English language and stockbroker sounds right to me, too. And this puts me in the mind of what I call the ‘brainwashing mantras' of Wall Street.
The brainwashing mantras of Wall Street may take the form of a number, such as a stock rating of 1, 2, 3 etc. Or the mantras may be a star, 1 star, 2 stars etc. The mantras may be a word or a group of words- attractive, unattractive, neutral, market perform, market out-perform, market under-perform, market under-weight, market equal-weight, market over-weight, sector perform, strong buy, buy, sell, strong sell.
These mantras are so ingrained in Wall Street and investor's minds that they have created multi-billion dollar industries. There are other types of mantras, such as RSI (relative strength index-a trading volume indicator), Bollinger Bands (named after its creator John Bollinger (he use to be a regular on CNBC) and the bands deal with the channels a stock trades in, in relation to its ‘moving average'- another mantra), Stochastics (used to tell if a stock is 75 % overbought - too many people have been buying) or 25% oversold (too many people have been selling), Momentum, MACD (Moving Average Convergence/Divergence- price of stock, up or down, in relation to its moving average), 50 day, 200 day moving averages, triple bottoms and tops, pendants, flags, bear and bull markets, head and shoulders formations, double bottoms, P/E ratios etc, etc, etc, etc.
All those mantras serve a purpose (and if you're inclined to trade in the market they are, I admit, useful tools) - they create commissions. And in my opinion, have no meaning what-so-ever for the long-term, dollar-cost averaging, buying investor of company's shares, free of commission charges, whose companies raise their dividend every year, with the investor's idea or purpose being to provide an 85% tax-free income, through ever-increasing dividends for the rest of their lives, no matter what the price of the stock at any given time in the market place may be. (Whew! What a sentence!)
Here's another mantra that comes to mind - ‘consensus estimates'. This mantra is created by the analysts that follow a company on Wall Street. There may be 3 analysts or 30 analysts following a company and a consensus estimate of the company's next quarterly earnings will be projected from these analysts. For example, last quarter the company XYZ had record earnings of 90 cents a share. The company's consensus estimate predicted by the analyst for the next quarter is for one dollar a share. XYZ on the day the earnings are to be announced is selling at $40.00 a share. The earnings for the company are reported during the day and XYZ reported making 95 cents a share, missing the analyst consensus estimates of one dollar and the stock immediately drops to $38.00 a share. Never mind that XYZ had just made another quarter of record earnings, never mind that XYZ is paying a 4% dividend and has raised their dividend for the past 25 to 30 consecutive years (and 3 months from now the normally scheduled dividend increase will occur; after all, they'll have the money to raise it again, with record earnings and all). The only words that I can come up with to explain this type of stock price behavior after seeing something similar happen time and again through the years are ‘brainwashing mantra at work.'
I think I would be remiss if I didn't at least mention the mother of all mantras - the Mutual fund, though I hesitate to mess with this mantra. (They being soooo big in investor's minds, and me just being a lowly gadfly on a dinosaur's butt - it really shouldn't matter what I say, one way or the other.) As I write this, some are in such a mess - caused by illegal trading practices costing investors tens of millions of dollars. One Mutual fund has been fined 100 million dollars, another 125 million. I wonder where they'll get the money to pay the fine. I believe all investors in a fund pay the fund's operating expenses, as well as the fund's marketing and management fees. They are called ‘hidden fees' (I don't believe there is a hidden ‘fee-fees'- this would be a fee that enables you to pay the fees - naw! Don't laugh! One Mutual fund had just recently been fined $450 million for 'hidden fees' practices). It is really, at the time of this writing, to early to determine if the Mutual fund industry has been ‘riding a good horse to death.'
There are an enormous amount of investor dollars supporting some whopper salaries on Wall Street. Just recently (the summer of 2003), Richard Grasso, the once former head (CEO) of the New York stock exchange was forced to resign, after his salary for the past 2 years were made public. His salary - 12 million a year for the past 2 years, a check for 48 million, which his advisor suggested he return (which he did) and a pay-package of 139.5 million dollars (which he hasn't returned, as of this writing-mid-2004). Now, that is just one man's salary on Wall Street and it is certainly good work if you can get it! Where did all this money for his salary come from? If the money didn't come from investor's dollars, why were Pension fund managers so outraged by Grasso's salary that they threatened to pull billions of Pension fund dollars from the New York exchange? I really don't know where the money came from to pay his salary. What I do know is the one place where the money for his salary didn't come from, and that is from the Stockopoly investor. Not one cent!
What I'm going to say right now is a very bold and opinionated statement (and I can because an editor hasn't read it yet to delete it!). I believe The Stockopoly Plan should be made mandatory reading for all High School seniors! I don't care if that senior is heading to college or the local car wash after graduation. The local car wash would even supply enough dollars to begin the Stockopoly strategy, and starting at age18 by the time age 50 or so rolls around he or she will have choices. Do I want to continue washing cars, buy a couple of car-washes or retire?
In closing, I hope you found this book entertaining and enlightening, with its timeless and profitable approach to investing in the companies that make up the stock market. It has been said that the right book can change the world. Imagine what this book would change if every investor took it to heart. Every investor having his/her own individual Mutual fund, without any fees supporting thousands and thousands. An investment revolution! I would venture a guess that those ‘billions of dollar' industries (brokerage houses included - all built on investor dollars) would pressure companies to start charging comparable fees for purchases of their stock through their direct dividend reinvestment plans. Who knows?
If you do not begin the Stockopoly plan after finishing this book I don't believe it would be due to the flawless strategy of the commission-free plan or for the lack of motivation by you the reader (buying the book proved motivation). The fault would be mine, the author. It would mean I didn't put down on paper the words in a correct sequence or at the right time or place to thoroughly convince you of the powerful win-win strategy of the plan. For those of you I have reached, I believe you've found a path in the wilderness and confusion of investing in the stock market!

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