What is it going to take for some people to realize that the buy and hold (actually, "buy and hope") strategy does NOT work? Many investors have lost over 40% of their retirement savings and have delayed their ability to retire by a decade or more. However, investors are still doing nothing, expecting to be able to "ride out" the worst financial situation since the great depression. The stock market took over 20 years to recover after the depression in the 1930's!

The typical domestic stock fund in Morningstar's database lost nearly 40% of its value in 2008, and international stock funds fared even worse, declining more than 45%. Even bond funds - often safe havens when stocks are selling off - were often in the red. The typical taxable and municipal bond funds were each down about 8% for the year.*

Most investors only know how to make money when the stock market goes higher. Join us for a free InvestView Trading Room. We will teach you the art of growing your accounts in this current bear market. Stop hoping, waiting and praying that the market will come back. Take action and take control of your future.

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You will receive, at no cost to you, one session of the InvestView Trading Room, our live, interactive class that we hold every Saturday morning. We provide a weekly market breakdown and discuss upcoming events for investors to watch. We also give out trades that we are planning on making the coming week in the market. In 2008, the InvestView Trading Room picks were profitable over 70% of the time and returned an average of 5.8% per trade!

* Closing the Book on 2008, Morningstar, Laura Pavlenko Lutton, January 21, 2009