The Abundance Engineer

No Obligation Trial of my Video Trade Alerts - Last 4 spots available

2012-10-10T03:22:00.001-07:00

Dear Investors,

This is your last chance to grab one of the 4 remaining slots for my Video Trade Alert Service at a $150 discount. 3 months of video trade alerts for only US$97, (EUR75, SGD$119) with no obligation to continue the service. This offer closes at 9PM Singapore time tonight just 30 minutes after market opens.

10 minutes is all it takes to place any of these trades when you follow my instructional videos. That means 30 mins to 1 hour a week is the maximum time you will need to follow and execute these wining trades. Plus you will be learning how hedge funds manage money. You will learn about simple and complex options, hedging, risk management, portfolio allocation and much much more.

The 2 trades you will be able to enter tonight are perfectly hedged. Bernake's QE3 instead of adding steroids to the market has left investors cautious, so a sideways move for the next few weeks is the highest probability.

Trade 1: The first video trade alert guarantees a maximum profit if Gold goes up, sideways or down up to 5% which is below a strong support level for Gold.

Trade 2: The second video trade alert guarantees a maximum profit if the stock market goes up small, sideways or down short term. This position hedges the Gold position and ensures maximum security of your capital while gaining maximum profit on the traditional October correction or sideways market. If the market does miraculously go straight up our Gold position will go up with it and hedge our portfolio risk.

This is how all the best hedge funds manage money and you can learn how to trade like them for a tiny fee of $97.

Happy Hedging & Safe Profiting,

Robert McManus

2012-10-05T08:37:00.000-07:00

Dear Investors,

We are now entering the fun part of the year the Gold season. The recent breakout in Gold brought on by QE3 and hyper driven by the mass strikes of workers in Africa's Gold mines has lead me to add to my Gold position in my client accounts. This evening we will be placing a complex options spread which if Gold goes up, sideways or down up to 5% will expire at maximum profit. This is how the top hedge funds manage money and I have decided to make a video of this trade to walk you through it.

The normal cost of my trade alert service which is up 26.39% this year is US$997 per annum.

To encourage you to try out my new video trade alert service I am offering a 90 day trial to you for $97.

All trades are low - medium risk. Comprising of option spreads, call/put options, ETF's & Stocks. If you are unfamiliar with these types of trades then the video walkthroughs will be very educational for you.

If you are not comfortable with options every trade will come with an alternative Stock, ETF or inverse ETF suggestion.

All trades will be risk adjusted for a $100,000 account. If you are running a $50,000 account or a $10,000 account then you just need to buy half or 1/10th of the contracts I buy. All will be explained in the videos.

Applying The Right Amount Of Leverage at The Right Time

2012-09-27T07:39:00.001-07:00

Dear Investors,

Leverage can create great wealth for the Intelligent Investor. However, it works both ways and I have seen many inexperienced investors get wiped out using too much leverage at the wrong time. The volatility we are seeing in the markets over the last 2 years is creating higher returns for investors, the downside of higher returns is higher drawdowns and over leveraged accounts get cleaned out. Brokers don't even lay off high leverage accounts.

My client accounts rarely have more than 50% of the account funds at risk in the market at any time. Leverage is achieved using options with unlimited upside profit potential and the sum at risk is the sum invested. Hedging is used to insure against black swans.

For example back in May this year we were short the market in all but one position. I had an Apple Long Call option with an October 2012 expiry as a hedge. The market sold in May for the third year in a row and clients were rewarded with a 30%+ portfolio return for the month of May. Short positions were closed a few weeks into May to lock in the profits and the Apple call was allowed to run. Apple turned out to be the greatest stock of 2012 so far and gave a 100% return.

We got back into Gold at the start of seasonal strength towards the end of the summer and the crossing of the 200 Day Moving Average a very bullish sign.

The announcement by the Fed of QE3 guarantees Golds run to $3500. Hold onto your Gold buy more if you can but use the right leverage at the right time. October is like May we generally get a stock market correction. However, it would be highly unusual for a big correction so close to an election.

Happy Investing.

Gold Season upon us again

2012-06-19T05:37:00.000-07:00

Dear Investors,

Gold season is in full swing again. Gold has rocketed from it's low and the 50 day moving average has been broken. We were short US markets, the Euro for the last few months up until May. June the markets turned and we are long again. It's an election year and the markets will likely rally until October at least. Subscribers will capitalize on specific stock recommendations.

For a free tip buy Gold as it will likely rally alongside the stock market for the next few months. Bullion Vault is where I buy my Gold. There's no additional costs with storage etc. Easy to set up an account and quick turn around times.

http://www.bullionvault.com/#ROBMCMANUS

Best Regards,
Robert McManus

The Abundance Engineer May 2012 - The May Effect Happens Again Like Clockwork

2012-05-07T05:14:00.000-07:00

Dear Subscribers,

Global markets went into freefall today. The US market is yet to open but pre market trading is looking like another typical May correction.

As I said last week timing is everything in the markets and the elections in Europe were the catalist this year. Happily we had all our shorts in place last week in anticipation of the high probablilty of a correction. May will likely be one of the best months of the year for our subscribers.

Our largest short position is up 20% and our Euro short position is performing excellently. If you got your trades in last week well done. If not. There are still some good value short positions to take advantage of in our portfolio.

The market works on volatility and this volatility gives rise to additional opportunities. I am adding some additional short term trades to take advantage of the volatility. The Euro hit it's January low today and I have a very low risk trade for our subscribers to take advantage of the Euro situation.

If you have a portfolio that you want to hedge or insure against downside risk you will find the best insurance with our trade alerts.

If you want to learn to make money in the market regardless of what direction it goes you will also learn how to do this subscribing to my trade alerts.

If you have a portfolio whether it be stock, property or currency exposure you are attempting to insure against. Contact me by email for more information on my private 1 on 1 consultancy service specific to your portfolio.

Best Regards,
Robert McManus

The Abundance Engineer May 2012 - Can This Man Keep The Market Afloat Until November. Yes We Can

2012-05-01T06:41:00.001-07:00

Dear Investors,

The stock market has had an unprecedented run for the last 7 months. Normally we see a correction in May in the markets as I outlined in the last post. The chart below shows that June, July, August and September have been the worst performing months for the S&P 500 Index since 1988.

Our shorts are in place in anticipation of the usual correction. However, this is a presidential election year in the U.S. and it seems that Obama wants to get in for another term. Looking back over the last 30 years election years have historically produced positive stock market returns. Since 1972, the stock market has rallied in 5 of the 8 election years, according to J.P. Morgan, with market gains of 12-26 percent. Only during recession years (2000 and 2008) did the S&P 500 provide negative returns.

Therefore to hedge our bets I am adding a long stock position which I will likely hold until the election in November. It is common practice for portfolio managers to take a long position in the most fundamentally sound, undervalued companies with the greatest growth potential which is what I have added to our portfolio. Our short positions with a July expiry will hedge our long position and we will benefit greatly if there is a correction in May or June. If however we do not get a correction our long position will cover any losses on our short hedge. This is how the biggest hedge funds run their office. Low risk. High return.

To get access to my specific stock recommendations outlined in my posts you can subscribe to my premium stock alerts below. The investment is EUR79.95 per month.

Best Regards,
Robert McManus

The Abundance Engineer April 2012 - Sell in May

2012-04-24T21:14:00.001-07:00

It's that time of year again. For seasoned hedge fund managers this is the time of year when money managers close out their long positions and either move to cash bonds or go short the market. The 1st of May heralds the start of the summer holiday season where very little happens in the stock market.

Of course like always the average stock market investor with a 401K or a Bank managed fund gets amnesia and forgets the sell in May and go away adage of the market and gets caught long the market while the Bank hedges their clients risk positions and wins once more with the client bearing all the risk and the losses.

Last year the crash in May was avoided as Osama Bin Laden was "caught" on the highest risk weekend for the stock market the May bank holiday weekend creating a newly invigorated patriotism in America and of course confidence in the stock markets. The crash was delayed until August however even Osama's capture couldn't keep the stock market from falling 10% through to the middle of June.

See chart of the S&P below.

This May the stock market is only 15 points off it's all time high which was back in October 2007. 2007 being the year we took our funds out of the US market prior to the crash.

The stock market has been on a tear since October and is now at least 20% overbought by the most conservative of estimates. The only thing keeping the stock market up is the fact that it is an election year. The plan seems to be to keep Obama in and Obama's popularity rating is directly proportional to the performance of the S&P 500.

Whatever trick they may have under their belt for the May weekend this year we will see. However, all the fundamentals and technicals are indicating that we are over extended and due a correction very soon. Couple this with the fact that May is the time of year everyone in the business gets out of Risk assets and you have the perfect storm for a correction.

The Apple calls that we sold in March expired worthless on Friday for a full profit for us and the 3.4% portfolio return we received on that trade has brought our portfolio performance up to 15.47% for 2012 so far. I have decided to start making the closed trades viewable to everyone on my blog so you can see our performance. New and open trades will only be available to subscribers.

I have placed 5 new positions in the portfolio this week to capitalize on the May effect. There is something for everyone to invest in whatever your level of Risk or experience.

If you have long positions on the market these positions will act as a hedge. If you are in cash remember there's more money made on the downside.

You can get access to my positions and buy and sell alerts here for a monthly fee of 79.95. The performance of this subscription is 15.47% for the first 4 months of 2012 so far.

Yours Sinceerly,

Robert McManus

Sell Alert Apple

2012-04-21T01:54:00.000-07:00

The Apple Calls we sold on 6th March expired yesterday at the maximum profit.

The $600 calls made $975
The $630 calls made $2430

For a total profit of $3,405 a nice portfolio profit of 3.4% bringing our portfolio performance for 2012 up to 15.47%

New Trade Alert AAPL

2012-03-06T01:57:00.000-08:00

Due to the success of the April $630 AAPL short trade I have just sold 3 more contracts

Sell Short the Apple (AAPL) April, 2012 $600 calls for $3.25 or best

Symbol:

AAPL 120421C00600000

Contracts: 3

Order Type: Sell Call

Max. Profit Potential on a $100,000 portfolio = 3 x 100 x 3.25 = $975

Best Regards,
Robert McManus

New Trade Alert

2012-03-02T04:07:00.001-08:00

It seems Apple has climbed it's wall of worry along with the entire stock market at a time of increasingly terrible economic figures.

I will close the Apple Spread tonight for a net price of $29.65 or best.

To execute this trade you must place two positions simultaneously:

1) Sell The (AAPL) March, 2012 $430 calls at $103.25

2) Buy to cover the short position in the (AAPL) March, 2012 $460 calls at $73.60

It is best to place spread orders in one order ticket that cuts down on order costs.

I am also going to enter a new trade to:

Sell Short the Apple (AAPL) April, 2012 $630 calls for $4.05 or best
• Portfolio weighting: 20% with a 12% delta
• ($20,000/100/$4.05) X 13%= 6 Contracts
• maximum potential profit on April 20, 2012
• ($4.05 X 100 X 6 ) = $2,430, or 2.43% for a $100,000 portfolio

Considering Apple's recent stellar move I do not think it can continue to $630 by April 20th. A breather will be necessary. Our profit is made if it stays below $630 we sell the calls so they will expire worthless and we will get full profit. If Apple does continue to move up we will hedge our bets by entering into a call spread thus limiting our downside risk.

The second trade is another one on the VIX. Looking at the attached chart of the S&P & VIX. We are due a breather in the S&P and it will likely be sell in May and go away this year again. So you may aswell plan on closing shop and taking a nice summer holiday in May. With your VIX position you will enjoy the greatest return from a stock market correction.

Buy the IPath S&P 500 Vix Short Term Futures ETN (VXX) at $24.52 or best

· Portfolio weighting: 10%

· ($10,000/$24.52) = 410 shares

Sell Alert

2012-03-02T01:06:00.000-08:00

I am selling the March Apple 2012 $430-$460 call spread for a net
price of $29.65 or best

We have made a nice profit on this and I'm going to take the money and run.

You will need to place 2 orders to close the position:

1) Sell to close the march, 2012 $430 calls at $103.25

2) Buy to close the short position in the march, 2012 $460 calls at $73.60

Best,
Robert McManus

New Trade Alert

2012-02-18T01:01:00.001-08:00

Apple has fallen from $525 to $500 in the last few days. I am looking to do a call spread on Apple the jobless claims were positive news for the fourth week in a row and the market may get some upside from this.

This trade makes the most money when Apple stays above $460. This is to hedge our SDS & BAC positions. If all goes well we will make money on both sides.

If the price goes down we get to buy Apple shares at $463 each. I am extremely happy to buy Apple at $463.

Buy the Apple (AAPL) March, 2012 $430-$460 call spread for a net cost of $26.00.

Portfolio weighting: 10% when in the money
($10,000/100/$26) = 4 Contracts

2 trades are required:

1) Buy 4 x AAPL120317C00430000 at $72.00 or best

2) Sell 4 x AAPL120317C00460000 at $46.00 or best

Total cost 2600 x 4 = $10,400

Best Regards,
Robert McManus

The Abundance Engineer February 2012 - Yoga Will Make You A Great Trader

2012-02-17T08:00:00.000-08:00

Headline - Yoga Will Make You A Great Trader

We have entered a binary market of long or short or "Risk On" "Risk Off". Details released this week show that the average hedge fund returned only 1% in 2011. The S&P returned only 0.4%.

It is difficult for hedge funds to change their tack quickly all decisions go to boards of management and need to get approval.

Individual investors have a superior advantage in that they can get in and out of the market quickly.

We have been long since October and I stated back in December that Apple will be the stock that will break the market.

From December's Premium Newsletter...

"I see the big Apple crash coming in March or April. It could be as early as January but unlikely."

Read Full Newsletter...

In the last week alone Apple has added $75 Billion in market cap. The market now boils down to one stock. Everyone wants a piece of it. I get Y2K Deja Vu all over again.

In March 2000 I sold 85% of my tech stocks 3 weeks before the crash. I did the same in 2007.

Today is similar it is looking more and more like a market top every day. However, there are better and more profittable ways to short the market than to short Apple or the S%P.

Nothing goes straight up Apple will have to correct.

I sent out a trade alert yesterday to buy puts on a financial stock that has been one of the worst perfoming companies of 2011 for good reason. This stock has added 50% to it's share price in the last few weeks. Volatility works both ways. When the market falls again this stock will likely fall hard and the put premiums will go through the roof.

I also sent out a second trade alert for those learning to trade options.

Since I started the premium subscription service last July our portfolio is up 18.9% in 7.5 months. That's 2.4% a month or an annualized return of 29.1%. Here is a complete list of all the trades we bought and sold in our portfolio since July 1st 2011.

http://www.theabundanceengineer.com/SubscriptionPortfolio.xls

Would you like these kind of returns ?

Owing to the fact that our returns have been so good I am taking this opportunity to incresase the cost of the subscription to 79.95 per month on the 1st March 2012.

I will keep the old price of 59.95 for the rest of the year for all current and new subscribers prior to the 1st March.

To avail of the old price Subscribe below

One a seperate note one of our subscribers Julie Siebt is running a Yoga and meditation retreat in March in Thailand and asked me to send out some information.

http://www.theabundanceengineer.com/March_2012_poster.pdf

Yours Sinceerly,

Robert McManus

Premium: The Abundance Engineer January 2011 - Sharing Of Resources

2012-01-15T04:03:00.003-08:00

Headline - Sharing of Resources

I trust everyone had a relaxing and peaceful Holiday & New Year. I have decided to share some of the best reports that I pay for and some of the fund managers worth checking out so that after some time you will be able to analyze the markets yourselves with help from the best Gurus. I have already shared the trend mining software from Gecko with all subscribers and if you are interested to try and find trades yourself it is a very accurate tool for finding cyclical trends. It works for stocks, futures and forex.

http://98cc9nr4g3za4v5d13h2peq018.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=TRADEMINER

Euro

Trademiner software indicates that there is a trend for the Euro to drop form the 5th January to the 9th February. The accuracy of this trade is 91.7% dating back to 1999. Therefore traders may want to sell the Euro.

Reports

I would also like to include Marc Faber's Gloom Boom Doom report which goes out to most of the financial institutions around the world. Marc is one of the best analysts I know. He lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand and understands the need to spend time away from the busy marketpalce to get clear perspective.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23261285/Stock%20Portfolio/Marc%20Faber%20GBD%20REport%20January.pdf

I agree with Marc's conclsion that Gold & Silver are likely at a bottom and therefore good value.

The latest portfolio is here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23261285/Stock%20Portfolio/Marc%20Faber%20GBD%20REport%20January.pdf

Commodities

Cocoa & Copper have both spiked up in january. Cocoa from 2100 to 2300 and copper from 3.3 to 3.6. Both are up 10% so far.

Here is an article on some ETF's that track the copper price.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/311963-copper-etfs-in-focus-5-ways-to-play-metal

Here is an article on Cocoa ETF's.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/318989-cocoa-etfs-surge-on-supply-worries

For 2012 I anticipate that commodities will move more into favour among fund managers andinvestors. Real assets will become more and more important as complex financial products are exposed for what they are weapons of mass financial destruction.

If you haven't seen Wall Street 2 I highly recommend it. Oliver Stone has a good handle on the markets and how greed is the destructive characteristic that you need to keep an eye on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w4VKhjllzs

With this in mind let's make 2012 the year of real assets, commodities, property, low leverage, low margin, low risk. It's back to basics.

"Whatever happens commodities win"

Best,

Robert McManus

The Abundance Engineer January 2012 - Empowerment For 2012

2012-01-06T05:10:00.000-08:00

Headline - Empowerment for 2012.

Dear Investors,

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a peaceful and prosperous new year. To celebrate our move into 2012 I have decided to share the software used by many of the great fund managers to predict market trends based on seasonal tendencies for the last number of years. This software is used by some of the biggest commodity trading advisors such as John Person & Larry Williams.

John Person is the co author of the Commodity Traders Almanac and The Stock Traders Almanac. He originally shared this software with me and now I share it with you.

This software will analyze all stocks, commodities and currencies and ascertain which ones have the highest probability of movement within a specified time frame. It is the most accurate I have found. This overcomes the amnesia factor where every year the media forgets what happened last year and sensationalizes market moves which are part of an ongoing seasonlal trend that investors with the right resources can predict with a high degree of probability.

This software will save investors a fortune in the long run.

Remember the trend is your friend.

Download TradeMiner

Yours Sinceerly,

Robert McManus

The Abundance Engineer December 2011 - Gold Futures Higher, Jim Rogers & Trip to HK

2011-12-18T05:16:00.000-08:00

Headline - Gold Futures Higher, Jim Rogers & Trip to HK

Gold Futures moved higher Friday in line with seasonal strength beginning 17th December, it will be interesting to see what next few weeks has to offer. Time will tell if Gold is to become the ultimate currency.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-futures-edge-higher-after-losses-2011-12-16?link=MW_story_latest_news

I had a meeting with Jim Rogers at his villa in Singapore on Saturday morning and we talked about our plans for 2012. Jim is famous for the Quantum Fund he ran with George Soros which returned 1400% for investors over a 10 year period. He retired at 37 and has been travelling the world for the last 25 years investing in emerging and fontier markets.

Our premium subscribers will be availing of the wisdom of Jim Rogers. You can take a free trial below.

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Buyers of Physical Gold & Silver I suggest you sit back, relax and enjoy the next few months. Any further declines are opportunities to buy more.

Hong Kong Trip

Myself and Louie who is on the left of the picture with his wife Jinnie are taking a trip over to Hong Kong & Shenzhen in late January. If you would like to join us on the trip we would be happy to accomodate you.

Our tailor Christine will make you any suit you want of Hugo Boss / Armani standard for $200, shirts $50, Silk Ties $25 anything you need.

www.shenzhentailor.com

If you want help opening up HK or SG bank accounts or offshore companies / trusts we can arrange that for you aswell.

We will be spending a week in HK & Shenzhen. Louis lived there for a couple of years so you will have a local guide and you will be able to get anything you want of the highest quality for a lot less than you pay in most other countries.

We will also be visiting one of the best spas in Shenzhen which is a favourite of the local Hong Kong residents.

We only have space for 10 people email me for more info and to reserve your place.

rob@theabundanceengineer.com

Yours Sinceerly,

Robert McManus

The Abundance Engineer December 2011 - Gold at 200 Day Moving Average. Physical Buyers in Asia get excited.

2011-12-14T05:22:00.000-08:00

Gold today broke the 200 Day Moving Average. In the Physical Gold business this is the most well established support level. This has remained unbroken for 2 and a half years. Physical Gold buyers are getting very excited. Gold Dealers are hoping buyers will wait until the price goes back up so that they can clear inventory they purchased over the last few months.

We notified our subscribers last week of the tendency for Gold to dip in mid December so we were well prepared for this and we have selected low risk trading strategies in our premium portfolio to profit from this. Now would be a good time to avail of a free trial for our premium alerts below.

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A few days ago I wrote this.

"Physical Gold & Silver buyers here is the dip. Get ready to buy if you've been sitting on the sidelines. 17th December to mid February is the strongest time of the year traditionally. This is lining up to be the 11th year in a row."

Nothing has changed everything is as it should be. Gold is currently at $1603. We were selling down hard at $1900 and did very well now we are buying hard and accumulating from $1603.

FREE TRIAL

Yours Sinceerly,

Robert McManus

New Trade Alert

2011-12-14T04:10:00.002-08:00

Gold has fallen to the 200 Day MA. This is the strongest support we have for Gold. It has not broken the 200 Day MA since January 2009. See attached charts or yahoo chart link below. Expect a bounce here and this could be the bottom and strong support for a rally from here.

http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=GLD#symbol=gld;range=04112008,12122011;compare=;indicator=sma(200,,)+volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=;

This is very bullish Jan 2013 calls are expensive but worth it.

We are buying January 2013 calls with a strike price of 160. GLD130119C00160000

We are also adding to the GLD ETF position.

Best,

Robert McManus

Trade Update

2011-12-14T04:08:00.001-08:00

It's been a rough week across all assets. Gold is at it's 200 Day and 3 of our stocks SCHW, DIS & NYX triggered their stops which were at or above break even and closed out.

I took off the January AAPL put as we have not entered the trade and time value is decreasing fast.

Revised portfolio is here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23261285/Stock%20Portfolio/15%20December%20Portfolio.xlsx

Yours Sinceerly,

Robert McManus

Premium: The Abundance Engineer December 2011 - Discipline & Action

2011-12-12T05:36:00.000-08:00

Discipline and Action

The opportunities we are getting right now in the markets are exceptional and typical of this time of year. I mentioned that we seasonally see a dip in Gold in mid December and then 3 weeks of upward price movement. The best and safest strategy you could use right short of buying Physical Gold is to buy GLD ETF or Jan 2013 options. These are both in our portflolio and are very attractively priced. This is a minimum 3-6 month trade. Gold as I write is under 1690 !!!!

Silver

Silver has a tendency to make a seasonal bottom in September, and then has a tendency to post major seasonal peaks in April. It tracks the price moves of Gold, but from a traders or investors perspective, it is considered the poor man's gold. Due to technology and the age of digital imaging, silver has lost a major portion of it’s industrial demand element because there is no longer a tremendous demand from the photo industry. It is still needed, however, for film and x-ray processing.

Silver prices are also subject to spikes in demand from the investment community, which uses silver as a hedge or protection from concerns over inflation or times of economic instability and uncertainties. Dollar weakness helps support silver’s value. Longer-term cyclical forces can dramatically impact the seasonal price moves of this market, like we saw in the June – August time period in 2007, just ahead of the credit bubble bursting and the onset of recession in December 2007.

The reason I am very bullish on Silver this week is that since 1986, there has never been a time when commercials (banks and institutions) held more longs than shorts on Silver contracts. The lowest for this indicator was +4.9% in July 1997 (not shown), before the Warren Buffett rally.

It can also be noticed from the chart that whenever the % net shorts go down the price tends to move up. The general expectation in the Silver markets is that the commercials will have closed their short positions before the big move up in Silver. It looks like that may be happening now.

Silver ETF SLV, SLW, Silver Stocks & Jan 2013 options are all a Strong Buy in our portfolio.

Cocoa

I still see strength coming in the Cocao markets in 2012 we will keep an eye out for an entry point. Here is a prediction from a friend.

Copper

Copper prices tend to form seasonal bottoms during the month of December. Traders can look to go long on or about December 14th and hold until February 23. This trade in the last 38 year history has worked 28 times, for a success rate of 68.4%. Since 2001this trade has been profitable 8 out of 9 years and profittable every year since 2007.

Commercials (red in the bottom indicator) have been establishing a long position as we move into seasonal strength (orange in middle indicator). Price will likely follow.

Copper and Cocao can be purchased using Futures contracts or spread betting spot price movement.

Best,

Robert McManus

The Abundance Engineer December 2011 - Our Sri Lanka Fund - Top Performer

2011-12-12T05:31:00.000-08:00

Headline - Our Sri Lanka Fund -Top Performer

While our Premium subscribers have a very compelling reason to invest this Christmas and you will see why if you accept our free trial. I cannot think of a better time to invest there is so much opportunity in the markets now that I have not seen since Hurricane Katrina.

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There is a very strong compelling case for investing in some great commodities at thestrongest seasonal time of the year which is right now. Check out our free trial and see for yourself.

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Our Commodities & Frontier markets Seminar with Jim Rogers is coming along well. We have scheduled it for early March. We are in talks with a number of sponsors. If anyone is interested in sponsoring or advertising do contact us. We are very excited to be hosting the great Jim Rogers and will be eagerly anticipating his wise words.

The Sri Lankan fund that I spoke about a few weeks ago has been labelled the top performing fund in Sri Lanka in 2011. This article was just published in the Sri Lankan Financial Times

http://www.ft.lk/2011/12/08/ceylon-income-fund-is-top-performer-in-2011/

I met with Michael Priess a few weeks ago in Raffles Place and we discussed exactly what he says in this interview. 'What was ‘risky’ yesterday is not risky today and vice versa. Therisk in the west is rising while risk in Asia is declining.” '

Singapore currently has over 60 billionaires. Impressive for a country of 5 Million people. People like Jet Li, Jim Rogers & Eduardo Savarin of Facebook have all moved here in the last few years. Characterized by low risk, safety, security, comfort, luxury & ease of doing business it's hardly surprising that the rich are moving along with their money to Asia. If you invest wisely with the tide just follow the money you will likely do very well. As Jim Rogers says to me a lot of people are going to make a lot of money over here.

If you are interested in the Sri lankan Fund emailme for more inforamtion.

For those interested in learning more about Myanmar. I can recommend a great book written by Thank-Mint-U called Where India Meets China - Burma and the new crossroads of Asia.

After reading this book you will realize preciselythe value that Myanmar (Burma) brings to thetable as one of the greatest ever investment destinations.

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Physical Gold & Silver buyers here is the dip. Get ready to buy if you've been sitting on thesidelines. 17th December to mid February is thestrongest time of the year traditionally. This is lining up to the 11th year in a row.

While Governments warn things ar going to get worse next year they will get a lot better for owners of real assets. Be a victim or a proffiteer. Your choice.

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Yours Sinceerly,

Robert McManus

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2011-12-12T04:14:00.001-08:00

Please see attached Silver Report for fundamentals on Silver Wheaton & other leading Silver companies.

Best Regards,
Robert McManus

Silver Report

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2011-12-10T04:50:00.001-08:00

We are still looking to buy puts on any big momentum shifts in the upward direction like we are seeling today. We are in a weekly sell signal and support is now at 1421. We will be looking to exit the trade on or before 1420.

Best Regards,
Robert McManus

The Abundance Engineer December 2011 - Gold's Final Seasonal Dip ? Jim Rogers says Myanmar is the best place to Invest now

2011-12-07T05:39:00.000-08:00

Headline - Gold's Final Seasonal Dip ? Jim Rogers says Myanmar is the best place to Invest now

This is it folks. If you were waiting on the sidelines for a time to enter the Gold & silver market this is it. Mid December to February are traditionally the strongest time of the year.

Jim rogers was interviewed by Chris Waltzak yesterday and he reitterated that the inflation adjusted high for Gold is $2400 so it will hit that at least. How far above that figure it goes is anyones guess. I recommend you listen to the entire interview. I am well known for going out on a limb with a prediction from time to time based on solid quantitative and qualitative analysis. I predict Gold will hit $2400 by end of April 2012. Silver will hit $75 at least probably a whole lot more.

Listen here

If you listened to the end you will have heard Jim's take on Myanmar. "Myanmar is the best. If I could figure a way to put a lot of money to work in Myanmar I would never have to invest again. Today it's where China was in the December of 1978. They decided it didn't work for the past 49 years they're gonna try something new. Huge huge profits are going to be made in Myanmar."

If you didn't listen -

Listen here

An interesting article appeared in the International Business Times last week -

New Israeli exhibition pulls 2000 visitors in 2 days. Israel’s first overseas property show TLV EXPO attracted more than 2,000 visitors last week with, the organisers told OPP, “most interest being registered in distressed properties in the US, Greece, Spain and the neighbouring island of Cyprus. The show was a great success.”

The two-day event took place in the port of Tel Aviv and, according to the organisers, “private investors, fund managers and local brokers were offered properties and investment opportunities in more than 20 countries. Read More

Could this be a low in property .........

New subscribers to our premium alerts are capitalizing on the seasonal strength in Equities that we have been witnessing over the last 2 weeks. There are still a few stocks in our portfolio below our buy price you can avail of our free trial below.

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Physical Gold & Silver buyers here is the dip. Get ready to buy if you've been sitting on the sidelines. 17th December to mid February is the strongest time of the year traditionally. this will be the 11th year in a row.

While Governments warn things ar going to get worse next year they will get a lot better for owners of real assets. Be a victim or a profiteer. Your choice.

FREE TRIAL

Yours Sinceerly,

Robert McManus

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2011-12-07T04:28:00.001-08:00

Headline - Gold & Silver Stocks Added to Portfolio

Dear Premium Investors,

Another great week for our stocks. While we got stopped out on 2 stocks. The rest are up nicely and we have adjusted stops up to ensure we take profits off the table. The Bond position looks like it's not going to break in our favour in time. We will look at it again another time.

While we expect the last seasonal dip of the year in Gold & Silver in the next few days I have decided to add some buy and hold Gold & Silver stocks to the portfolio. Buy on the dips all are on US & Canadian exchanges. See our new portfolio here.

We like Ivanhoe Mines in particular.

We feel IVN is one of the most overlooked gold companies today with the greatest upside potential. IVN has the potential to become one of the biggest gold winners that we ever come across.

IVN is currently focused in Mongolia where it owns what many people believe is the world's largest untapped copper-gold development project, Oyu Tolgoi, which is 80 km (50 miles) north of the China border. This project is world renowned and has been in development for over 4 years to date with an ultimate mine life that is expected to exceed 40 years!

Oyu Tolgoi comprises a rectangular block 10 x 9 kms in area, in which exploration prospects are named South Oyu, Southwest Oyu, Central Oyu and Hugo Dummett (North and South).

IVN is set to make history with its Oyu Tolgoi project and many people are not even aware of capitalizing on this rare investment opportunity.

What is extremely exciting to us is the fact that the second largest mining company in the world, Rio Tinto (RTP), has formed a strategic partnership by investing in IVN and, through an Ivanhoe-Rio Tinto Technical Committee, will jointly engineer, construct and operate Ivanhoe's Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mining complex! The agreement creates a defined path for Rio Tinto to become the largest shareholder in IVN.

Now that IVN has formed this joint venture with Rio Tinto it should allow them easy access to the capital they need to fully develop Oyu Tolgoi. Rio Tinto’s total investment in IVN may reach as much as $1.5+ billion!

In September 2006 IVN announced that an independent Integrated Development Plan (IDP) prepared by a joint venture between AMEC Americas Limited, of Vancouver, Canada, and Ausenco Limited, of Perth, Australia, with input from 12 other leading international engineering and environmental consultants, confirms the potential of IVN's Oyu Tolgoi Project in southern Mongolia to become one of the world's largest copper and gold producers and a model of environmentally-sound mineral development.

The independent study indicates that the Oyu Tolgoi Mine will be capable of average annual production in excess of one billion pounds of copper and 330,000 ounces of gold for at least 35 years. Peak annual production in excess of 1.6 billion pounds of copper and 900,000 ounces of gold is projected to be reached six years after initial production begins.

The IDP also indicates that Oyu Tolgoi could produce approximately 35 billion pounds of copper and 11 million ounces of gold over the projected, initial 35-year life of the mine, based on resources delineated to May, 2005.

A paramount priority for Ivanhoe Mines and its strategic partner, Rio Tinto, is the completion of an acceptable Investment Agreement with the Government of Mongolia to permit the investors to proceed with full-scale production of the Oyu Tolgoi mine and ore-processing complex.

The Mongolian Government is the only thing left holding IVN from getting the Oyu Tolgoi project into full production however we feel that the long time waiting is finally coming to an end very soon.

Since Mongolia's national general election in June 2008, Prime Minister Sanjaa Bayar, members of the Cabinet and members of the State Great Hural have publicly endorsed the objective of ensuring that Oyu Tolgoi is placed into production as quickly as possible. Speaking in September, the Prime Minister described his policy of "accelerated development" of Oyu Tolgoi and other large mineral deposits as an "historic" economic growth opportunity for Mongolia.

Recently, IVN announced that a draft agreement was approved in principle by the Mongolian Cabinet and National Security Council in March and Ivanhoe is awaiting Parliament's review and approval which has been said to be at the top of the Government's action agenda. You can read the press release here- http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Ivanhoe-Mines-Ltd-Mongolian-iw-14627771.html

As you can see, IVN seems to be right around the corner from receiving an agreement with the Mongolian Government! This could be the perfect time to invest into IVN before the potential big news!

Rio Tinto and IVN have spent more than US$1 billion on the project to date and underground construction has continued while they await the finalization of the investment agreement.

IVN is well positioned with quality assets and a significant cash position of approximately US$384 million.

IVN also holds interests in various mineral resource projects in the Asia Pacific region, including the Ovoot Tolgoi coal mine in Mongolia; the Cloncurry project for the exploration and development of copper, gold, and uranium in Queensland, Australia; and the Bakyrchik gold project in Kazakhstan.

IVN’s CEO John Macken is a leader in his field coming from a 19-year career with mining giant Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold, most recently as Freeport's Senior Vice-President of Strategic Planning and Development, based in New Orleans. He spent a total of 13 years with Freeport's operating unit, P.T. Freeport Indonesia, culminating in the position of Executive Vice-President and General Manager at Freeport's Grasberg mining complex in Papua, the world's largest single copper and gold mine. The company is now valued at over $18 billion!

With the most recent surge in copper prices and all the right characteristics forming to take gold to record highs during the upcoming years, there is no doubt in our minds that IVN with its Oyu Tolgoi property could become one of the biggest winners that we ever invest in.

Masa Igata of Frontier Securities, one of the largest Financial Institutions in Mongolia is a regular speaker for SGX here in Singapore. I include his most recent presentation which will give you a very good insight into the new Mongolia.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42112581/Introduction%20to%20Mongolia%20presentation%20-%20Nov%2024%2C%202011.pdf

Another company I like is MGN

MGN is a U.S. based mineral company focused on the acquisition and exploration of silver dominant mineral deposits. MGN's primary focus is on the advancement of the Montanore silver-copper project located in northwestern Montana, with a goal to ultimately become a new mid-tier producer of precious and base metals.

MGN has 28.74 million shares outstanding and a market cap at $1.92 of $55.18 million. MGN is sitting on $21.98 million in cash and has no debt. After subtracting MGN's cash position from its market cap, MGN's actual business and property is being valued at only $33.2 million.

MGN's Montanore silver-copper project located in Montana has a resource estimate of about 230 million ounces of silver and approximately 2 billion pounds of copper. Based on MGN's enterprise value of only $33.2 million, MGN's silver resource base is currently being valued at less than $0.15 per ounce! To the best of our knowledge, MGN's silver resource base has the lowest valuation per ounce in the entire industry.

Silver prices have been starting to rally big once again over these past couple of days. Silver is now back above $35 per ounce and for MGN's estimated resource to be valued at less than $0.15 per ounce indicates to us that MGN has enormous upside potential.

If MGN is successful at eventually building a mine at the project, MGN expects the project to process 12,500 tons of ore per day and produce 8 million ounces of silver and 60 million pounds of copper annually!

MGN's project has excellent nearby infrastructure including a highway, railway, low cost power, and a large available supply of labor. It is located in one of the most prolific silver regions in the world, at the northern end of a trend extending south to the Coeur d'Alene Silver District, which has historically produced more than 1 billion ounces of silver.

Earlier this year, MGN raised $15.2 million in a private placement at $2.96875 per share. MGN is currently trading at a discount of 35% from where the company raised $15.2 million by offering 5,120,000 shares of its stock to the public.

"Whatever happens commodities win"

Best,

Robert McManus