“Man in the Arena” — Looking back on 2022

The Fed’s not the only one who can pivot… ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Dear Trader , It’s a sunny 38 degrees in my neck of the Virginia woods as I write this. I spent some time with my daughter this morning. And it just hit me, all at once — the sheer magnitude of the last year. The ups, the downs, the stagnation… and the full-throttle effort resurgence. Because we do our best to have a true, honest relationship with you here at Rogue… I’m going to be absolutely candid. As a company, 80% of the year was an uphill battle. For some inside perspective… Our industry, the world of publishing financial research, took a beating over the last twelve months. Some fly-by-nighters provoked the ire of several regulatory bodies… and that brought the wrath of bureaucrats down on everyone… (Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat slighted). While it never created a problem for us, as we maintain real money, real trading portfolios, and have the best customer-care team on the planet… It wasn’t without hurdles. A few key relationships deteriorated. Some companies we were acquainted with closed up shop or pivoted to something else, rather than be under the scrutiny of the regulatory leviathan. These folks didn’t do anything wrong. But nobody wants to get audited, even if your paperwork is in order. However, we weathered the storm… and with my friend, Dr. Kent Moors, we prepared to kick down the door during the summer months with some of Kent’s most poignant predictions ever… A Death in the Family June 19th. It started with a text, of course. "I’m so sorry." I was standing outside the gym on a Saturday morning when the call came. It had been a long night with friends visiting from out of town. My friend, Morgan, was on the other end of the line. "I’m sorry to hear about Kent. That’s awful." It didn’t take long before I called Kent’s grieving wife, Marina, to get the full story. The inimitable Dr. Kent Moors had passed away the evening of June 18th. The shock was two-fold: the loss of my friend, and the loss of a major force at Rogue. Figuring out how to continue delivering the same value to the thousands of folks who purchased Kent’s research was a trial. His breadth of experience when it came to geopolitics, finance, and international policy was unparalleled. If you read his forecasts in Classified Intelligence Brief or Sigma Trader, you know he called the tumult of the year to a letter… Including the surging of energy prices, collapse of tech, and the decline of crypto. He had so much to say, and so much help to bring investors across the world. More importantly, I know he still had a lot to give his family. But, of course, Kent wasn’t the end — the bad news bears still had work to do. Circling the Drain I think all of us hoped the market would ricochet. We hoped there would be a light at the end of the tunnel. But every time I sat down with Mr. X and Chris Hood, we couldn’t find the silver lining. Whether you’re a technician or a fundamental investor… a global macro professional… You could see things were shifting. It is only now, at the close of the year, that we have real hindsight. The American Association of Individual Investors published their sentiment survey. It shows that investors have been more bearish than ever in the 35 years of the study’s history. For good reason… While the Dow fared well enough (with consumer goods, energy, healthcare, and security giants as their main holdings), all three major indices collapsed. We won’t retread well worn ground. It has been a bad year. And this meant all of us had to change how we trade… It means you, as our reader, change what you want to invest in and hear about. It also means that some of the tools which spit out profits at a clip in bull markets… completely came apart. And the outlook for 2023 hasn’t been much better. Every bank from Goldman Sachs to Deutsche Bank to JP Morgan and Bank of America — the who’s who of finance — are "going to the mattresses," to quote The Godfather. Some are even saying we could be in for a Lost Decade. Rock Solid at the Bottom But this message isn’t a eulogy. It’s a summation and celebration. We had a brutal year. While I was able to trade my way through the chaos with Chris and Mr. X using [the TradeCommand]( ) system and my [Dragnet program]( ), our business hit a wall. I watched my beloved small caps fall end over end off a cliff and I rewired my brain to get back to the basics, albeit with a twist… and even then, that was tough. Around August we knew something had to change. We had to shift from the death of Kent, the regulatory headwinds, the market collapse, the sentiment whipsaw among our readers… Many of our colleagues have closed up shop. But then, I read Theodore Roosevelt’s famous speech: "The Man in The Arena." When I struggled as an advisor in my prior career, my managing partner had sent this to me… And I thought not just about myself… and Rogue… I thought about you. I thought about what it is to be you, our reader, who looks to our work for guidance, for hope, for a way through the labyrinthine financial system. When everyone criticizes. When everyone says hope is lost. When pundits and bankers and billionaires think your dreams and your goals are reasonable collateral damage. Your portfolio is a casualty in their mismanagement of the markets. And still you try — try to build a life you dream of. Try to accumulate wealth. The privilege that brings to me, and to the team at Rogue, is never lost on us. I also saw the emails and thoughts from our Rogue Elite members — people who have invested themselves to our research for life — and made some sharp decisions. In August, I read that speech (I’ll reproduce it below for you) and had an emergency meeting with our team: Things have to change now. That’s why we launched the landmark [TradeCommand Network]( ) — a service CENTERED around a 3 hour LIVE trading room 4 days a week. There are details about it [here]( ) if you’re so inclined. That’s more than 12 hours of trading with me and Chris Hood. You see the exact algorithms we use to make trades intraday, to chart our course for the markets, and to always stay winning. We unleashed my new program, [Dragnet Trader]( ), where I reveal how I trade ONE ticker symbol to collect weekly profits. I reveal that exact ticker symbol [here]( ) if you want to take a look. Mr. X came out with his biggest forecast since the Covid Crash — when he precisely called the biggest shakeout winners of the historic V-bounce… and paved the way for quadruple-digit gains for his readers. You can read about his Trade of the Decade [here]( ). I empowered our customer care manager, Amanda Jones, to take even more action to reach out to you… to build out a team of the best, most dynamic representatives we could. I brought in Brian Jones (no relation to Amanda) — who you may have seen in the trade rooms with me and Chris. Brian is a college professor, jiu-jitsu black belt, and skilled trader. You may not know it, but his fingerprint has been on many of the trades we’ve published over the last few months. (We had a talk about bourbon during the trade room yesterday. Some of you seemed to enjoy that!) You’ll see a lot more of him. We’re making changes to my Before The Bell editorial… We’re refining Chris Hood’s Hood Talk… And The Dawn Report… And The X-File. But here’s the thing. This is just a warmup. We have more research to publish… More incredible breakthroughs that are almost ready to be put in your hands. Remember — everything we share at Rogue Investing, every single strategy, is tested LIVE with real money. We don’t give you "back tested" research. We don’t run numbers through a Bloomberg terminal or program to generate hypothetical figures. We live and we die by our trades. I feed my family with them. Mr. X is invested in every trade he recommends in Rogue Investing Daily. Chris Hood IS a full time trader. If you’ve seen him trade, you know the man is a machine, with more strategies and ideas at his disposal than most would know what to do with. He’s a trading algorithm come to life. In short… 2023 isn’t daunting. We haven’t sat around idly, wondering what to do. We’ve planned. We’re ready to execute. In a few weeks, I’ll be bringing my most powerful 10x hunting strategy ever to you… It’s a market anomaly I call "Theta Waves." One of the trades I tested went from $8 to $104 in an hour. That’s 1,200% in 60 minutes. I know — it gives me a nosebleed to type that. I know you’ll love it when we take the research live in February. To wrap things up… 2022 was tough. 2023 is likely to be tough too. But we’re in the arena together. We’re going to fight through the pandemonium. We’re going to let the naysayers bury themselves. And we’re going to come out winning, against all odds. We’re here for you — even just a phone call away at 308-889-4853. And before I forget: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." (Bolding is mine). Stay strong. Stay vigilant. Stay bold and ambitious. We’ll do the same. And most importantly… Keep Moving. Have a Happy New Year — and I’ll see you on Monday, January 2nd, to start kicking the doors down. Corey Snyder Publisher, Rogue Investing P.S. The special offer for my Dragnet Trader research service is expiring Monday at midnight. 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