Good afternoon everybody, and an early Happy New Year to you all! We're sending today's edition of the newsletter out to you a little bit earlier than usual because, well, we can. Although stocks are down a bit, they remain stuck in the same range they've been stuck in for a few days now, and it's unlikely they'll get unstuck during the last few trading hours for the day, week, month, and year. Just because the market's been lethargic all week, however, doesn't mean we haven't been busy. One of the best practices any trader can employ is taking a good, honest look at how they've done in any given year, assessing what's been working well and what hasn't been working well. This includes any trading advice you may have gotten during the year. In fact, this also includes my personal subscription to the SmallCap Network's Under the Radar Movers service. You know what I found out about the URM newsletter? It's done incredibly well. I can't believe I had forgotten about the 62% score on Rxi Pharmaceuticals (RXII), the 100% profit on Heat Biologics (HTBX), and the 102% gain on the Nova Lifestyle (NVFY) long trade. There were plenty more recent picks that did almost as well too. Even more amazing is how none of those mega-winners needed to be held longer than a month. That's not to say they were all that great; there were even some losers. There were more than enough big winners to offset those other trades, however. On that note... There are a hundred different ways to analyze the numbers, and we know that no two people use the Under the Radar Movers newsletter the same way. Some subscribers act on every trade. Others pick and choose which trades they pull the trigger on. Some subscribers may only take the long/bullish trading ideas, and different people may allocate different-sized positions to each recommendation. Point being, not every metric I can share with you will mean something to you. There is one set of data, however, that tells the bigger-picture story in a way that will put things in perspective for all of you. That is, since May 23rd of this year (when the Under the Radar Movers service went active), the newsletter has issued 222 short-term trading ideas -- long and short -- and when you add the gains and losses of all of those trades together, you get a sum total of 644%. Folks, that's a lot of big winners in a short period of time. As we mentioned, most of these trades are held less than a month, letting a subscriber get in, get out, and quickly move on to the next trade without tying up capital. That may be one of the biggest unspoken stumbling blocks for traders... not having access to cash because too much of a portfolio is tied up with other trades. It's never an issue for the URM newsletter. In any case, like we said, no two traders do the exact same thing with the Under the Radar picks, but just for kicks we thought we'd run all the short-term ideas through a portfolio simulator, acting on every recommendation. Assuming we allocated 5% of a $10,000 portfolio to every trade suggestion and followed the service's advice to a "T," you know what we came up with? In less than eight months, that portfolio would have grown to a value of $13,700. That's growth of 37% in just a little over seven months. People, the market gained less than 10% during that time. Just for the sake of disclosure, that simulation does not factor in the cost of commissions, and you may or may not have achieved quite the same results doing it on your own. You get the idea though - the Under the Radar Movers team has been en fuego. Even more impressive (to me, anyway) isn't the size of some of the service's top picks, but rather, the sheer number of good picks the URM newsletter was able to pick in such a short period of time. As a guy who's spent much of his adult life on the hunt for cheap, underestimated stocks, I know how hard it can be to find hidden gems priced under $10 per share day in and day out; they don't exactly land on your plate just because you want them to. James Brumley and his team don't seem to have any problem doing it though. The newsletter has been averaging well over one new swing-trading idea per day, and the sheer volume of activity -- not just a few big winners -- has been a key component to the service's outstanding performance. Oh, and that's just the short-term portfolio. Brumley and his crew also maintain a long-term portfolio as well that's suited for accounts which to managed more conservatively than aggressively. If you add up the gains and losses on all 19 of those long-term positions, you come up with a sum-total profit of 98.5%. That's equally fantastic considering its mission is to hold its trades for a year or more and there may not always be room in the portfolio for a new position. With that as the backdrop I'll pose this simple question... do you plan on getting more out of the market in 2017 than you did in 2016? If so, what are you going to do differently? After all, if you keep doing the same thing, how can you expect to get a different, better result? The Under the Radar Movers newsletter is very likely the change you're looking for. It sure was the solution I was looking for. I just still can't believe you can become a URM member and gain access to all those great trading ideas for less than a dollar a day. Here's how to make 2017 a great year for your portfolio.