Subject: Re: Dow hits record high
I remember the first MI strategy I ever used was the "Dogs of the Dow", which I first read about on TMF in 1997. But the Gardner brothers were also recommending Amazon and AOL at the time. Investing in those stocks, plus following Jon Markman's FOG MI strategy from '97 to 2000 changed my life.

Wow, takes me back.

I had about $2000 invested at Olde Discount Broker, in ETFs in a trading system based on the discount to NAV. I had sold one about $1000 and was holding cash for the next buy. One day Olde called me and said they saw I was just sitting in cash and recommended a Dog of the Dow fund. Never heard of it.
I googled it, which led me to TMF. Heck, don't need a fund, I can do it myself.

Datek was a newish deep discount broker- $9.99 commission. So I sold the other ETF at Olde and transferred to Datek.
Olde "Discount" charged me $65 commission to sell a $1200 holding.

I eventually bought some Amazon, but I sold it at 10X gain. Bad move, I should have held on.

Yup, made a potload of money with FOG (FlareOut Growth). Especially using the FOG picks on 6/3 Options.
I even created a web page called "The House That MI Built", when we used those profits to build our 5 bedroom "retirement cash cow" house.
Until 2000/2001 when everything stopped working. :-(

Years later, I had a stockscreener123 (now portfolio123) account and ran a backtest on FOG. Bad, bad, bad. That 3-4 year period was the ONLY period where FOG returned a profit.


Rememeber when everybody was pointing and laughing at the guy who wrote the book "Dow 30,000"?
And here we are. Dow 44,000.