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 am writing today to explain how even just a small stake can turn quite large over the next 12 months, or so.

If your trading fund is $1,000, you can turn it into $10,000. If you start with $10,000, you can grow it into $100,000.

I target a 10-to-1 return over time, but in truth, people often suggest their returns have been much higher than that.

They all started like you – reading a message from me… taking a small leap of faith to try trading my way… and then reaping quite spectacular trading profits, leading to unsolicited comments like these:

In the past two weeks, we’ve received two very important developments in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease — one good, one bad.

I’ll begin with the bad.

On Tuesday, drug giant Eli Lilly announced it was halting development of its late-stage Alzheimer’s drug, Semagacestat.

According to Lilly's press release: “Patients taking Semagacestat saw their cognition, or memory and reasoning skills, and their ability to complete daily living activities like getting dressed worsen ‘to a statistically significantly greater degree’ than patients taking a placebo.”

Gold stocks is known as perhaps the No. 1 "safe haven" in harsh economic times. Between mid-2007 and 2009, gold prices went from $940 an ounce to nearly $1,220 an ounce. That's more than a 33% gain at a time when equity prices, real estate prices and the value of the greenback were in a freefall.

That alone is reason enough to make investors want to add gold stocks to their portfolio... And they have.

In 2009, investors bought a total of 573 tonnes of gold through exchange-traded funds. That's 20.2 million ounces, and at the average price per ounce in 2009, that's an investment of $19.6 billion!

But with the strength of the dollar rising in the wake of the euro's near collapse, and the still-green shoots of recovery pushing up into the sun, individual investors might need more than one reason to keep or add gold stocks to their portfolios.

Indeed, here are five...

Happy Friday the 13th. An inauspicious type of day, if you believe in that sort of thing. (Better not to, of course. They say it's bad luck to be superstitious.)

Ben Bernanke certainly had his share of bad luck this week. The carefully planned actions of the Federal Reserve - calibrated just so to walk that fine line between too accommodative and not enough - were thrown into a cocked hat by a barrage of ugly data points from around the world.

China slowing. Britain slowing. New sovereign debt jitters from Ireland. Japan sinking back into the muck. Perhaps worst of all, a U.S. trade deficit that clearly shows the "recovery" spinning its wheels.

What will the Federal Reserve do now? Should Bernanke and Co. react swiftly to the latest thumbs-down by Wall Street, or would that look like pandering? Has the timetable for full-blown "QE2" - shorthand for quantitative easing II, though it sounds rather like the name of a cruise ship - been sped up? Only the shadow knows.

Lighter than air, the Hindenburg floated to its destiny over the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. 

In virtually an instant, the picture that has since been burned into everyone’s brain began to unfold...

Suddenly bursting into flames, the great ship was completely destroyed.

And ever since that fateful day, the mere mention of the Hindenburg has carried with it a certain sense of the ominous, portending disaster.

That’s why, when I came across a reference to an obscure technical pattern known as The Hindenburg Omen on the blog Zero Hedge, my interest was piqued.

To top it off, I stumbled upon this particular article on Friday the 13th...