Good day all. This is John Monroe. Many of you may remember me from last year, as I was the Editor of the free daily newsletter you continue to receive from us here at SmallCap Network. I've since moved on to become the Editor-In-Chief and Senior Analyst of our new SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity (SCN EO) service, which we launched for serious traders and investors earlier this year. I wanted to reach out today and provide you with a unique opportunity giving you the chance to try it out for FREE. However, before you decide to give it a shot, let me give you an update on what we've accomplished for our SCN EO Members year-to-date. A bit of a report card, if you will.
Earlier in the year when the markets really started to move, naysayer after Wall Street naysayer came out and suggested these markets couldn't go any higher with concerns over our deficit and government spending. We strongly suggested to SCN EO Members the markets were going higher, and they did. Then, the sequester hit center stage and again, Wall Street continued to suggest these markets couldn't go any higher. Well, again, we strongly suggested the markets would go higher and they did.
To further support the value of what we're providing our SCN EO Members with on a daily basis, I had a head Wall Street desk trader of 25 years write me and say, "SCN EO was one of the best market services he's ever seen in his 25 years in the business". That meant a lot to us. Our daily market commentary and analysis keeps traders and investors right on top of what's going on, not only on a daily basis, but what to look for when it comes to identifying tops and bottoms that may be starting to surface in the days, weeks and months ahead. We couple our technical analysis with a macro view of the economy and more importantly, tie it all together to give you a strong indication of what may lie ahead. Our analysis and opinions are very leading in nature, which is critical to anyone's trading or investing decisions, no matter what your goals and objectives are.
In addition to providing an ongoing dialogue with respect to what these markets want to do on a go-forward basis, we're constantly researching and identifying individual ideas we believe will outperform the markets. Since the beginning of the year, we've provided our Members with individual stocks that have yielded in excess of over 30% returns since initiating our service. CRAY and NVTL were a couple of stellar performers for us. With twelve ideas opened and closed since the beginning of the year, including losers, our total pick return is over 100% with an average return per pick of almost 9%.
We recommended Google (GOOG) at $733 and suggesting selling it at around the year's high of $840 per share. We told SCN Members to stay away from Apple (AAPL) until it achieved $420 per share, which turned out to be its absolute bottom a few weeks ago. However, we've currently got eleven other open ideas now we believe will continue to perform throughout the year. Our current list of open ideas range from small cap to large cap, from financials to tech and even a few biotech plays we believe have a tremendous future.
Over a month ago, we strongly suggested the markets were going to run into significant resistance around certain levels. We're at those levels now and have been for over a week. After hating gold for a trade for over a year, which proved to be correct, we recently identified, what we believe to be, at least a short-term bottom in gold last week. So far, that bottom has not been breached. We even suggested getting long UGLD, which is a leveraged ETF tracking the price of gold. We're currently up roughly 3% in just a few short days already.
This morning, on the heels of the highly publicized cyber terror threats coming from China last week, we believe we've identified the single best stock which stands to handsomely benefit from increased government spending in an effort to secure our cyber borders. It's not only a stock that has been outperforming other cyber security stocks over the last week, it's a mid-cap idea which has also confirmed a long-term key reversal signal on its monthly chart. This is often a prelude to a major run-up for any stock that confirms this type of technical reversal signal. This is precisely the type of situation we're constantly looking for on behalf of all of our SCN EO Members, so I felt compelled to share with you a little of just how we go about determining if an idea merits your investment dollars or not.
We're tracking over 100 ETF's daily, 50 indexes and thousands of individual stocks in an effort to provide our SCN EO Members with the type of information Wall Street Professionals pay an enormous amount of money for every year. However, it's our goal to help level the playing field and allow individual investors with this same kind of information, and better.
Most investors believe if you're in good solid fundamental companies, that's enough. Truth of the matter is if you don't know where the markets are going to top or bottom out on a short or long-term basis, you're likely going to have a rough time generating any sort of substantial returns. Even if you're a long-term investor, we will typically always provide individual ideas we believe will not only provide excellent short-term profits, but ideas we also believe are good long-term investing prospects for anyone's retirement portfolio.
We remain completely objective and unbiased about our analysis. We don't let the media or any online tout sheets suck us into anything. We put a tremendous amount of effort and pride into correctly and accurately analyzing the markets and individual stocks. Our success speaks for itself.
As you can tell, this isn't some sort of raw-raw service touting 1000% returns only to leave you disappointed. This is a real service for real professional traders and strongly dedicated investors. As a matter of fact, if you're looking for some sort of get rich quick market newsletter, this likely isn't for you. However, if you're serious about making money in the markets, are committed to improving your financial future or simply looking to expand your knowledge and education of the markets, our SCN EO service is proving itself to be one of the best online equity market services available to anyone anywhere.
For a limited time, I am personally inviting you to enjoy a two week FREE Trial of our SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity service. I'm convinced if you try it for two weeks, you'll never want to miss another edition again. By becoming a SCN EO Member today, you will have complete access to our exclusive SCN EO Member area and will also receive our SCN EO Daily Newsletter around the middle of the trading day, which is an excellent time for most traders and investors to assess what's happening on any given trading day.
The choice is yours, however, we all know information is power and the equity markets are no exception. I hope you at least give us a shot and decide for yourself if we can add to your investing arsenal or not. I really don't think you'll be disappointed.
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