Where to invest cash other than in equities at the moment

Hello,

You have a sound idea on investing at the right time on the downturn. I think you should look at investing with derivatives. They are like super cars of the finance world, and you can get gains much faster than investing with stocks regardless of the market going up or down. This is a great way to protect against the financial downturn as you can get gains while the market it going down. This is not something bankers will normally tell you about.

My name is Russell. I am Finance-educated and Wall Street - trained. The knowledge I gained while working on Wall Street in an investment bank, membership the trading division in which is by invitation only, is normally reserved only for the privileged investment banking clients who get access to extremely valuable and highly confidential information. Now I am using my Wall Street small investment bank expertise to help smaller investors; I trade with success and at times make as much as 10-20% a day off my investments. I might be able to team up so we could both benefit from my experience and the opportunities in the market. What I would recommend you do is start small and put a part of your investment in derivatives and see how well it does. You can give me a call or e-mail me, and I can help you decide what the best investment strategy would be for you. My number is

Sincerely, Russell

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Cor.

Wow.

This all sounds too good to be true.

But this comes as a huge surprise. I was almost sure you'd be based in somewhere like Ghana.

Not really Cor I would have said more Wow!

So if we give him our money on a Monday morning he will give us back twice as much by Friday evening. As you say this sounds (almost) too good to be true.

Of course if he just had US100 and did it with his own money in less than four weeks he would be a billionaire and could then just live off of the interest..

"Paul Harris" wrote

NO! - look closer at what he said : notice the phrases "at times" & "as much as". He might make 10-20% on one of the days of that week, but could lose 50% on one/more of the other days!

"Paul Harris" wrote

Eh? Even 20% every day for four weeks on US100 would only give US16,500!!

He must have meant months. 89 working days would be needed.

"Ronald Raygun" wrote

That would be *over* 4 months, not "less than four" as he said!

Sorry, as you say that should have been months as I was only looking at an average of a mere 15% a day which is still not a bad investment for a retirement fund (if you believe him).

Of course in the real world (as has been pointed out) investments can go down as well as up.

In message , Tim writes

OK it wasn't meant as that much of a serious suggestion for you to invest in but just to clarify then how many days do you think it would take at 15% compound?

That would depend on how many "working" days (a bit of a woolly concept in this context -- perhaps I shouldn't have introduced it) there are in a month.

The Lord only rests one day a week, so I don't see why our money should get two days off. :-) If our money works 6 days a week,

It would take 116 days. If the investment compounds 7 days a week, you're right, that would also be just less than 4 months.

That's what I thought, but perhaps I should have considered that it might only be traded five days a week.