The Bull Hunters Guide

Bullhunter in Melbourne

Well my fellow Bullhunters, I met with the Bullhunter himself in Melbourne the week before last and Sean assures me that the next installment of the Bullhunters Guide will be out by the end of the year and I can promise you it will be well worth the wait.

Sean told me a little about the book so far and it does take time to put all this useful information together in one package for you so just stay tuned. He will be using real trade examples so that you can follow what he has been up to and the way he is formatting it, even the newest of newbies will be able to get it - the stock market that is.


Graduate of the Jamie McIntyre homestudy

I am not writing about the stock market or trading in this post as such, but rather, a little about my journey since becoming a 21st Century Academy homestudy Graduate that culminated in something that I ventured out to do this week.

I joined the 21stCA in April 2006 and I had just received this big box containing I think it is around 16 DVD’s, a workbook and a whole lot of other bits and pieces. It is loaded with information and strategies in regards to share strategies and property investing - and just on that note, did you know that you could potentially make around $35,000 tax free dollars every year with an investment property! Aside from that, there are free tickets for the 4 Day Education for Life seminar, Internet and Business Mastery seminar, Property seminars and the list goes on.

The Internet seminar was the first on my list so I attended and got to meet some very successful Internet Marketer’s who had such an impact on me that my time here is due to that seminar. Then I attended the 4 Day seminar and meeting like-minded people got the ball rolling for me to source out some personal development. We all know that your wealth matches your knowledge and mindset so I got working on mine and have not stopped.

My time spent online allows me to meet some very interesting people from all over the world and getting involved in forums and social network sites like Facebook, is where I learned about the Free Hugs Day event being held worldwide on Monday September 10th 2007. It prompted me to think back to Jamie McIntyre’s words when he talks at the seminar about mindset and that giving and receiving are reciprocal. It is a natural law. So because I have received so much abundance in the way of good friends in this last year, I wanted to do something to help others and make a difference.

So I attended the Free Hugs day with a friend and it was an awesome day. Let me tell you though, that there were times when it felt like ages that I was holding up the sign and no-one would approach me. The reason I am telling you this is not to impress you, but to impress upon you that once you start on this journey of reprogramming the way you think, there are many doors that can open up for you if you let them and when they do, be ready. That is the key.

Not everyone can go out and give hugs in a public place to complete strangers, and I am not suggesting that it is for everyone, but there are other ways that you can give back for the abundance that you receive. Whether it be in the form of material acquisitions or an inner awareness, being grateful for what you have will only increase your abundance.

So that is just a little more about me that you may not have known. I wish you all well with your trading and what the future holds for you.

To Your Success

Angela Recchia
Graduate Support
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2007

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“The only reason it took me nearly 2 years to fire my boss was purely because that’s the time I set for the goal. Had I set a 1 year target, I have no doubt that it would have been acheived in that time ” - Sean Rasmussen July 2006

So here’s the letter I wrote on that day, in it’s entire unedited form:

The Path To Freedom - leaving captivity

Sean Rasmussen - Karratha, Western Australia, Thursday, 8th December 2005

I’m finally there! In the next level.

Today, 8th December 2005 at 7am I walked away from my job a free man. No more shackles from the day to day grind of conforming to the will of society. I’ve replaced my income thanks to Jamie McIntyre (thanks Jamie) and the road is no longer rocky. My life has turned for the better. Big Time.

My new title: Full Time Investor & Life Coach

I can now do what I love to do. Invest during the day and help others achieve the same.

Look up the word Happy in a dictionary and you’ll see a picture of me. Actually, you’ll probably find my photo next to “ecstatic”, “excited” & “over the moon” as well.

Nearly 2 years ago, when I did the Jamie McIntyre homestudy program (the same month as Bill Stacy did his), I set a 2 year retirement target. Retire to do what I want to do, not what I have to do. There’s a big difference. I have been getting up in the morning and going to work because I had to.

Now I’ll be getting up and doing what I want to. Big difference.

My target has been achieved 5 weeks ahead of the deadline, January 15, 2006.

Meanwhile, I’m living my dreams. I’m in the Next Level. I’ve stepped up to the plate and I’m ready! Bring on life. It’s beautiful!

I’ve met some fantastic people over the last 21 months. Jamie McIntyre, Andrew Dimitri, Bill Stacy from Planet Wealth (mate, do you inspire me), Nik Halik, Adam Thomas & John Chapman from Investor Finance, Ian Daley, Roger (my graduate mate from Brisbane), 150+ Graduates that joined 21st Century Academy with me in the last 18 months, numerous speakers at seminars and literally hundreds of new people I’ve met through Jamie McIntyre’s program.

Has this been a fortune cookie of life, or what? Small things make big changes. I nearly didn’t see Jamie’s add in the paper that day in December 2003. I sent away for his free VHS and the rest is history.

Look up the word Happy in a dictionary and you’ll also see a picture of my wife, Cherie.

When she broke the board at the seminar in Fiji, I knew there and then. This is it. We are in the Next Level. Financial freedom is only a matter of time in my own mind. Success is approaching fast in the shape of happiness, freedom, gratitude, love, security, and financial rewards.

I am actively supporting charities. People want to know what I’m doing and want a piece of it. Life is looking pretty great right now, to say the least.

I’m really excited and there are a thousand things I want to do. Now I will be doing so with balance. For nearly 18 months, I have been working in a day job (10 hour days, 13 day fortnights), investing on the stock market, helping people get started with Jamie’s program and pretty much been up to 11-12pm every night with few exceptions.

Most mornings, I’ve got up at 4.30am to walk the dog and be at work on a construction site for a 6am start. 45 degree heat in summer, working in the sun in North West WA. I was nearly crippled or possibly killed by a near miss 6 weeks ago when a 6.75kg scaffold tube was dropped 12meters to the ground, landing within 6 inches of my right shoulder.

In all this time, I’ve watched about 6 movies, read no newspapers, watched maybe 1 hour of news and been 100% committed to the task. I only had $20,000 to start investing with and had no stock market knowledge worth mentioning 2 years ago.

Then I went to Fiji with my wife and 2 boys. That took me to the next level.

Now, I am planning balance in my life. This means evenings off. Lots of time with my family is not only on the cards but happening from today onwards. I’m scheduled to take my family to New Zealand in July 2006 and Hawaii in November 2006, followed by a few more destinations in 2007.

My next Big Holiday will be 4 weeks in France with my family. Don’t know when, but it will have to be soon. The world is too big to be sitting around, waiting for things to happen.

I’d like to share parts of my goal list I wrote out during a Jamie McIntyre homestudy session in January 2004:

• Retire to full time investor by January 15, 2006 - achieved
• Financial protection by 5 May 2005 - achieved
• Financial security by 5 May 2006 - on track
• Financial independence by 5 May 2007
• Financial freedom by 5 May 2008
• Absolute financial freedom by 5 May 2010
• Take my sons to all 7 continents by their 20th birthday – on track
• Travel to one major world destination every year – on track
• Donate 10% of profits to charity – ongoing and being honored
• Establish my own charity for educating children by 2016

There are many more. Some were achieved a lot easier than I thought. Others were possibly a bit ambitious but still workable. The main thing is this:

If I hadn’t written these goals down, I would have lost track and got off target. Today, I would still be at work and heading on a path towards retirement at the age of 65.

My inspiration source is massive. I will be sharing as much of my learning with as many people as I can. Anyone who wants to be a part of this, email me urgently. I’m building a team of 10 people to help me share this with many more people and help them do the same as me and many other 21st Century Academy Graduates. Who doesn’t want to be a Bill Stacy, right now? ( Bill, you’re a legend)

While I was writing this post, I jumped on the phone and joined up as an ongoing monthly sponsor of Greenpeace to add to my list of charities. When I nominated the amount, the response was hugely rewarding! Look. I’m taking action! I’ve been an onlooker for too long. Now I’m taking action.

One piece of advice I can give from all this:

Write down your dreams, Take Action and do it!

It’s all in your mind.

I’ll see you in the next level. Join me there.

Regards
Sean Rasmussen

So that was it. I wrote that testimonial within 1 hour of leaving the workforce forever. At the time I was overwhelmed by the fact that I had actually done it. All the critics, sceptics, cynics… all the people who told me it was a pipedream… they are still back there somewhere at the same job or another one. The beleivers who rewarded me with their support and who listened to me; some are advancing in leaps and bounds. Others are on their way or thinking about it. Life is surely beautiful and must be lived to its potential.

I beleived in Jamie McIntyre and 21st Century Academy. It paid off for me. I decided to make up my own mind and not let anyone else do it for me.

As I write this, I’m at a 21st Century Academy Education For Life seminar on the Gold Coast in Australia. It’s day 1 of 4. I have been to 6 or 7 of these now (it’s a benefit of working close with Jamie). I was listening to Jamie McIntyre inspire the 400+ people attending and I was inspired to jump into my hotel room during the break and post this. I remembered how easily I could have given this whole “wealth thing” a miss… The though scares me.

Beleive in your ability, back yourself in and take action! It’s the only way to find out what is really in store for you in life.

Thanks for reading my story.

Sean Rasmussen
21st Century Academy
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2007

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Hello fellow Bullhunters

Okay… so we have discussed how a corporation works.  We have taken a look at how to determine the value of a stock and if a stock is just a piece of paper.  We have even considered the components of the DJIA and how they cycle.  Now it is time to look at HOW we are going to make money on the stock market by weighing up growth as opposed to value of stocks.  More of The Bullhunters Guide to the US Stock Market.

The name of the game in investing is maximizing your returns.  Simply put, you want to buy stocks that are going to make you money.  There are two ways that this can be done - capital gains and dividends. 

We’ve already discussed dividends.  They are distributors of company earnings to shareholders on a per share basis.  But most of the 13,000 publicly traded stocks don’t pay any dividends at all - does this mean that they are worthless… of course not.

You realize capital gains when you sell a stock for more than you paid for it.  Gains in a stock that you have not yet sold are said to be unrealized capital gains.

Stocks go up because people want to buy them - it’s all about supply and demand.  People decide they want to buy a given stock because they think that it offers them a good chance of maximizing their future.  Institutional investors (banks, pension funds, etc.) who purchase the bulk of shares are looking further ahead - 5, 10 or even 20 years (or longer).  The question they ask themselves is At what rate will this stock grow its earnings into the future.  Once they answer that question they ask How much am I willing to pay today for those future earnings.

One way to evaluate a stock is by looking at its price-to-earnings ratio  (P/E ratio or just P/E).  A stock’s P/E ratio compares its current selling price to its earnings share (EPS)  If Wal-Mart’s most recent selling price were $48.32 and its most recent EPS number were $2.56, then its trailing P/E ratio would be $18.88 (48.32/2.56 = 18.88).  If Wal-Mart expected EPS of $2.80 next year, then its forward P/E ratio would be $17.26 (48.32/2.80 = 17.26).  Some people like to look at the trailing P/E because it is a historical fact and not a projection.  Others like to look at the forward P/E because what happened in the past is irrelevant - it’s the future that’s important.

Who’s good at maths because that was a lesson and a half.  Well Sean really worked on this and all the links go to his Stock Market Glossary of course so you can follow those in to see what they all mean just in case you are not quite clear on all the terminology.

It’s all a science that must be studied to know the ins and outs of the stock market and know what you are trading and how much you could potentially make.  So whether you think the trailing P/E ratio is the marker or the forward P/E ratio is the marker is entirely up to you.  As long as it follows your trading system is what is important.

To Your Success

Angela Recchia
Graduate Support
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2007

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This is a testimonial by 2 dear friends in Perth.  I’ve known them for about 12 months. Their journey to retiring from their dayjob needed little more than determination, passion and ofcourse the right strategies. You know where the strategies came from, don’t you? 

Here is their story:

WE HAVE STOPPED WORK

Hi everyone firstly we’d like to thank Jamie and his crew so very much for having meet him and doing his homestudy in may 2005.

For now we have achieved our goal and have stopped work as from end of june 2007.

We’ve been in business almost 25 years and our last business was a cleaning service.  It was great but because of health reasons we had to look for other alternatives.  That’s when we came across 21st century academy and his strategies.  We’ll as we’ve posted previous and have succedded in our trades , we now can finally say that we’ve stopped work no more cleaning, but now working from home on trades and internet marketing. We love it . It’s great because now we can spend more time with family and friends.

We challange you to think out of the box.  If you wan’t your life to change your first step is to take action and that means now , because everyday that goes by is a day less to your success .  Make it happen don’t be scared.  It’s great to be sceptical, but do it as we did and make it happen because we choose to.  No more looking back, this is for real.

Jamie, God has blessed you to help others achieve their dreams and ours, and we thank you so gratefully.  Also we’d like to thank Sean and Cherie who has given us the confidence with the internet marketing which is now also part of our new venture.

The reason to our success is firstly getting rid of that fear that keeps you locked in and secondly you must Educate yourself , that will give you the confidence and getting rid of any fear.  And thirdly don’t hesitate in fullfilling your dream.

Your dream will become reality if you put full confidence in what you realy want in your life.

When we first started we thought we’d stop work once we reached 8 to 10k a month, but now we have more than doubled that and we are going into further new ventures into property inner circle and internet marketing.
You can do the same just believe in yourself , you don’t need to be a highly educated person, as Jamie McIntyre has made it so simple for anyone at any level for understanding the strategies.

It’s not how much you make but the fact that you start now.  Slowly but surely and finally get to your goal.

By the way we only bought the homestudy in may 2005 and have only traded live in the last 9 months, so does that make you think what you can achieve if you only set your mind to it.  So act now and remember the key to your success is to educate yourself get the fear out , and don’t let others take your dreams away and stop you from succedding.

Ciao from Pierre and Maria Perth.

You would have to be proud of that!  There will be plenty of sceptics out there (none reading this ofcourse) and to them I would say:  This is real !!!  These things do happen to ordinary people and it happens because they make a choice.  A choice to take charge of their own destiny and be fully in charge of their own financial future.  Pierre and Maria made that choice and they now know who is running their life.

They are!

Well done guys. I salute your determination.  I wish you Universal Success

Sean Rasmussen
The Bullhunters Stockmarket Guide
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2007

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Hello Fellow Bullhunters

Today I will take another excerpt from the eBook The Bullhunters Guide to the US Stock Market and discuss with you one of the averages that makes up part of the DJIA.  In general the Dow 30 stocks can be broken down into the five groups: Industrials, financials, cyclicals, consumer non-cyclicals and technology.  The Industrials is what we are looking at today.

Although the idea of Dow Jones Industrial Average industrials may seem redundant, the fact is that the term industrial average is a bit outdated.  Long ago Charles Dow created several averages to simplify market watching.  At the time, it was the Dow Jones Transportation Average that mattered most - this is the age when railroads ruled.  Over time the importance of manufacturing has lessened so instead of allowing the DJIA to become obsolete the Dow Jones company (which owns The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and SmartMoney magazine) decided to make it more inclusive.

General Motors (GM) is the industrial of all industrials.  It used to be said As GM goes, so goes the United States.  Well fortunately for the USA that is no longer the case.  Generally industrials do well when the economy is good and do poorly when the economy is bad.  This makes them cyclical stocks.  But GM’s problems are of a more secular nature meaning they are not entirely related to the business cycle.  As the largest corporation in the world for several generations, GM grew arrogant.  It made cars that nobody wanted to drive and made promises to its workers that were financially unsustainable.  Once unthinkable the very existence of GM into the future is in doubt and its credit rating has been lowered to junk status.

In reading this little piece of the eBook, we can form an opinion of the Industrials.  Being that they are clycical stocks these companies do best when the economy is in the early stages of the business cycle. Most companies are cyclical.   But GM’s problems as we see here were drawn out over a longer time-frame making it a secular trend rather than a business cycle.  The  five stages of the business cycle are growth, peak, recession, bottom (or trough), and recovery.   They are predictable cycles of economic activity that repeat over time.

I don’t know about  you but the more I read the more I learn.  Every time I go over a section of the eBook I pick up something new.  It’s like that with anything that you study.  You may hear or read the same thing over and over again until one day the penny drops and you retain some more information.  If you haven’t yet downloaded your very own copy, please do so now so that you can read it at your own leisure and revise it in here with me.

Stick with me on this as I know that if I am learning you certainly are too.  It’s all good.  By the time you are ready to trade on the US Stock Market you will have plenty of background into how it works.

Yours in prosperity

Angela Recchia
Graduate Support
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2007

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