By Matthew Carr
When you’re young, everyone has words of wisdom for you. You’re peppered constantly with suggestions about what to do in school, work, love and every other part of life.
Your predecessors earned thousands of little nuggets through experience… and are eager to pass them on. We all do it.
I regularly offer unsolicited advice to my nieces, nephews and goddaughters.
And I’ve been given gobs of advice over the years. Plenty of it has been good, and an equal amount has been bad. But a handful of these tidbits completely changed my life. And that’s because I was smart enough to realize their value – even if I didn’t fully understand them at the time.
At the top of that list is a gem from my father. One that became the foundation of one of my most successful investment strategies.
Ever since I was young, my father drilled it into my head: “Remember, most companies make money only a few months out of the year… The rest of the time, they’re just trying to keep their heads above water.”
This just rattled around inside my noggin until I started working at my after-school jobs in high school. At age 16, I waited tables at a beer and pizza joint nestled between two ski resorts. During the winter, I made a killing. There was a line out the door every night – we were one of only two restaurants within reasonable driving distance. The orders were easy: a couple pitchers of beer, a couple large pizzas.
We flipped tables all night long and went home with our pockets stuffed with cash.
It was fantastic… at least for a couple months.
And then spring arrived. Ski season ended. Business dried up. Everyone was let go. And the cycle just repeated itself over and over each year.
As I moved into other fields, including oil and natural gas, I realized those words from my father rang true. Companies across almost every industry had similar cycles.
I then learned real-world financial analysis… I learned not to panic, because the markets ultimately head in one direction – up. I learned about business cycles – both long and short – and how they impact a company’s shares.
All of this led to the creation of my Prime System.
In essence, it tracks and targets shares of companies that “make money only a few months out of the year.” Wall Street will tell you that this shouldn’t have an impact on shares… but it does. And even better, the moves are predictable, meaning they can be targeted again and again each year.
Shares of these companies are volatile… but that’s exactly what we want.
Let me show you what I mean…
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