The #1 Sign You're a True Outsider

Matt is just one horror story… [Outsider Club Header] Feb 22, 2024 By for the Outsider Club The #1 Sign You're a True Outsider Here’s why this millionaire farmer hasn’t beaten the market in 5 years Dear like-minded friend: It’s Brian Hicks here. A true “outsider” in every sense of the word. And I love it. And so should you, if you consider yourself a true outsider. This is Part 1 about my friend Matt, a wealthy farmer who is, to put it lightly, pissed off. I’ll get to why he’s pissed in a second. But first I want to explain why I started the parent company of the Outsider Club — Angel Investment Research – almost exactly 20 years ago in 2004. It was to show investors that were like-minded to myself how to build wealth “outside” of Wall Street and “outside” of what I call the financial advisory corruption complex. And I wanted to show investors like you, that beating the market – much like how a professional golfer beats par frequently – is very doable if you follow some simple rules. There’s no better way to show you this than to tell you this particular story about my buddy Matt and his nightmarish dealings with money managers and financial advisors. But he’s not alone. About 1 in 3 Americans actively use a financial advisor to oversee their investments. That’s a huge number, representing about 100 million Americans. Around 70% of Americans – well over 200 million Americans – contribute to some form of a retirement plan. When added together, that’s roughly $37 TRILLION in retirement assets in the U.S. And you’d be surprised that hardly any of them beat the market! Matt is just one horror story… [URGENT: This Parcel of Land Could Gift You Half a Million Dollars]( [JMT Buried Under the Land Image](In a remote corner of North America, a team of geologists and explorers just found something truly amazing. Mining experts call it the last GREAT gold discovery on Earth. And if you invest in the tiny firm that owns this land — before Big Tech and Wall Street investors catch wind of it... You could turn $10,000 into over $500,000! [Get the lowdown on this urgent gold opportunity right now.]( If You Want to Retire Early, Handle Your Own Investments Like I said, I have a great friend named Matt. We’ve been friends and neighbors for over 20 years. We play pickleball together twice a week. After playing 2 hours of pickleball, we typically grab a few drinks at our local bar, where we discuss politics, the economy and our investments. Matt is a super successful and savvy businessman. How he makes a very good living might surprise you. In fact, according to Schwab’s Modern Wealth Survey, he’s considered wealthy. In the top 10% to be exact. But you would never know it. You see, Matt’s a farmer! That’s right, he’s a farmer. He gets his hands dirty every single day growing vegetables on his 4-acre farm. (I should also tell you that Matt has a tennis and pickleball court on his farm.) That doesn’t sound like a lot of land, but the produce he grows and sells is so niche and in high demand, only cannabis might command a higher price. He owns a “boutique” farm. Boutique farms are known for their unique, exclusive and high quality produce they grow. On Matt’s farm, he grows specialty organic vegetables and microgreens like wasabi, basil, and my favorite, sunflower. It’s so successful that Matt and his boutique farm have been featured in documentaries as the new revolution in farming. He supplies his produce to fine dining restaurants all throughout Maryland and Pennsylvania, as well as to local grocery stores that sell products you typically wouldn’t find in large, conventional grocery store chains. Recently, Matt and his wife just purchased a new waterfront vacation home in North Carolina. They hope to retire there in a couple of years. Matt is only a year older than me. I’m 55. Now, Matt knows what I do for a living, so he likes to pick my brain. The other night though, he was very upset when he got his 2023 stock portfolio returns from his financial advisor. His 2023 results and returns from his professionally managed investment portfolio – the so-called experts -- didn’t even “do par” with the market again last year. In fact, it didn’t even come close. His annual return was just shy of 16%. That’s compared to the Dow, which returned 13.4%, the S&P 500 that returned 24% and the NASDAQ who blew all the others away with a stunning return of 43%. Combined, the three indices returned 26.6% for 2023. Matt’s portfolio, which returned less than 16%, underperformed by almost 40% in 2023! 9 Billionaires Shifting Funds Here (Plus Warren Buffett) The smartest investors in the world are making a BIG move right now. David Tepper, Steve Cohen, Bill Gross, Paul Tudor Jones, Jeremy Grantham, George Soros, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, and Larry Fink... They're jumping into oil and gas stocks with both feet. Meanwhile, 99% of investors can’t see what’s coming. According to Keith Kohl, our oil and gas analyst, three powerful economic triggers are converging on the oil markets right now... A "perfect storm" unlike anything we’ve seen in 50 years. The last time this happened, a small group of oil companies made 20x returns in a few years. Some gains were as high as 3,000%! That’s exactly the type of oil company Keith is recommending today.  He’s calling it "the No. 1 oil stock of the decade." [Get the name and ticker here before oil prices surge higher.]( Read that again! Matt’s portfolio underperformed the market by a shocking forty-f-ing-percent. This, my outsider friend, is unacceptable. Like I said, Matt is angry again. I say again because his financial advisor/money manager hasn’t beat the market in the last five years. Here’s a screenshot of my conversation with Matt regarding his portfolio’s flaccid percentage returns for the last 5 years. [Matt's convo] This compares to the markets: - 2019: 29% - 2020: 22% - 2021: 30% - 2022: -16% - 2023: 27% So you can see why my buddy is fuming. In tomorrow’s Part 2, I’ll show you Matt’s portfolio’s dollar amount returns for the last 5 years and why his anemic stock performance is part of a grand design by the powers that be to keep you from building much bigger wealth. The Profit Prophet, [Brian Hicks Signature] Brian Hicks P.S. In the meantime [if you want access to our care-free dividend portfolio, make sure to click this link right here.]( [[follow basic]Check us out on YouTube!]( Brian is a founding member and President of Angel Publishing. He writes about general investment strategies for [Wealth Daily]( and [Energy and Capital.]( For more on Brian, take a look at his editor's [page.]( Follow the Outsiders [YouTube]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. 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