Welcome to the weekend, folks, and what a wild Friday it was! Just when the market was about to pass the bearish point of no return, some stellar employment numbers swooped in to save the day. Friday was not only an encouraging end to the trading week, it was also the biggest daily gain we've seen in a while. So what does this mean for stocks, and what does it mean for you? I've got some thoughts on the sudden and surprising U-turn from the market. Honestly though, any analysis of today's action is going to be incomplete. The real litmus test for the market is going be the reaction to today's pop, which of course we won't see until Monday. That's not to say we don't have something great for you today. It's just not our usual market-handicapping fare. Instead, with a little time on our hands (right in front of a weekend, no less), let's look at something that may be more valuable to you than anything we could say about the market at this point. Numbers Don't Lie I'll confess I haven't been keeping track of the bottom-line results I've been getting as a subscriber to the SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity service. I just know John Monroe and the SCN EO team have been knocking them out of the park, with more winners than losers, and with the winners being much bigger than the occasional loser. It wasn't until one of the SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity's subscribers crunched the numbers that the value of the service became crystal clear to me. Rejean writes: John, I've been following your trades since January 9th and my yield [return] is 37% YTD (with 10,000$/trade equal in each trade meaning an average portfolio of 110k). Really good. [In comparison, gains from the] SPY=15% and IWM= 22%. Thanks. That's right. Over the course of 2013 so far, the SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity has done what most hedge funds and mutual fund managers rarely accomplish ... which is beat the market. Honestly, I could stop writing right there and tell you how you can get your free trial to the SCN EO service. Heck, I probably should do that. On the off chance you don't quite get what the SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity service is though, I'll add a quick word about it. As Good As It Gets Yes, the SCN EO is a stock-picking service. It's not a term that does the service justice, however. If you've been a subscriber to another stock-picking club before, you might have a preconceived notion of what the SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity daily e-mails look like. All I can say is, flush those notions out of your head. Having been in this business for more years than I care to admit, I've seen, heard, and done it all... some of it twice. I've seen good newsletters, and I've seen some not-so-good ones. I've seen some occasionally profitable ones, and I've seen more frequently-unprofitable ones than you might believe is possible. Throughout my journey in this crazy business though, I've never seen anything quite like the SCN EO... and I mean that in a good way. I mean it in a great way, actually. See, where as most trading services pick stocks by proverbially throwing spaghetti on a wall - just to see what sticks - the SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity carefully scrutinizes every trade it suggests. Also unlike most other trading services out there, the occasional clunker doesn't just magically fall off the radar over time. Every trade the SCN EO recommends has a clear entry and exit point. And as Rejean's note above made clear, the careful approach works. In fact, as today's subject line read, the SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity is just about as good as it gets in the premium newsletter world. Anyway, while we know a bunch of you ladies and gents are already members of the SCN EO club, we also know many of you aren't. For those that haven't upped their investment "game" by signing up, if cost is the impasse, we get that. But, just think about the way Josiah recently viewed his subscription price in this recent feedback: Thanks for all your great work this year. It's been great to learn from your analysis as much as it's been profitable to follow your equity advice. I just looked at my portfolio last night and realized my gains in a small (~$3k range) position in ADEP over a couple weeks already paid for my SCN subscription for a year! Can't beat that! He's right - you can't beat that. Adept Technology (ADEP) ended up being about a 110% gain for the SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity portfolio, which probably more than paid for most people's subscription if they acted on the trade. The gains reaped on all the other trades were pure gravy. The Next Step If you're just not a leap-before-you-look kind of person though, or if you've never even invested in a newsletter subscription before, there's a solution. That solution is, use your free two-week trial to the service. See what it's all about. Follow the trades. Follow the service's market analysis too. If at the end of two weeks you still don't get it or you don't see the value, than walk away, no questions asked. That's about as fair as it gets, no? With all of that being said, here's your M.O. and motivation. We're now starting a weekend where the weather is miserable for most of you, and the market itself is undecided about where to go next. With little else going on right now, spend some time over the next couple of days to review the newsletter archives (access is included even for trial members). Then start reading the daily newsletters when they begin being delivered on Monday. Feel free to ask questions during your trial subscription. You'll get the daily updates for two weeks, but I suspect you'll know whether you love it or not in just a few days. Start here, or copy and paste this: http://www.smallcapnetwork.com/?vmpd_ckstr[click_track]=SCN+Newsletter&vmpd_ckstr_redirect=/pages/SCNEO/v1/. It may well be the best investment of your life.