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I’m not too keen on starting off my first post on my first blog with a caveat, but I don’t see any way out of it. You see, this is my first post on my first blog. I have no idea about proper blog etiquette, or if that even matters.

I’m an investor at heart, so please, bear with me.

Now, an introduction. I’m Ian Wyatt, chief investment strategist for three highly successful investment advisory letters. I also created a website devoted to small cap stocks, called SmallCapInvestor.com.

As you may know, SmallCapInvestor.com reports on small cap companies. Hence the name. However, we also throw out some investment ideas from the small cap world. We call them “spotlights.”

I used to let free-lance financial writers cover whatever stocks they wanted for SmallCapInvestor.com. I figured they’d do a better job if they were personally interested in the subject matter. And the articles were good – well-written, entertaining.

But there was one problem. SmallCapInvestor.com’s “Spotlight” companies didn’t consistently outperform the market as I’d expected.

No disrespect, just telling it like it is. Or was.

Well, it wasn’t long before I realized a change was necessary. You see, articles from SmallCapInvestor.com was about to be picked up by Yahoo! Finance (yes, that Yahoo! Finance). The thought of my email box crammed with hate mail from hundreds of thousands of angry Yahoo! Finance readers got me thinking…

A couple years ago, I hired two analysts to do my stock-picking for me. My business was growing fast, and I simply didn’t have time to read quarterly reports and crunch the numbers on all the stocks I was interested in. Now, we work as a team to uncover the best stocks in the strongest sectors.

I guess it all started about 6 months ago. My analysts, Benson George and Jason Cimpl, started working with a top-notch programmer to build a stock-picking machine.

At first, I didn’t pay much attention to their work. Whatever they wanted to do to uncover the hidden gems in the stock market was fine by me. As long as they were picking winners.

But after hearing Benson excitedly buzzing through the office and high-fiving the programmer, for a couple weeks, I decided to have a look at the stock-picking machine for myself.

And what I saw absolutely blew me away.

Now, I’ve been investing for 20 years. And I’ve been writing investment advisory services for the last 7 years. I’ve been around. But nothing in my experience could have prepared me for TRIGR, as we now call it. I’ll tell you about the TRIGR acronym a little later.

I’m sure you’ve heard about hedge funds that use secret computer programs to analyze complex trades that “guarantee” 2%-3% returns. Well, imagine a program that can “guarantee” a 70% win rate and 10%-15% in a matter of days.

If there was a Holy Grail for investing, a golden key that could unlock the door to untold winning stock picks and a fortune in stock market gains, there for the taking, this was it.

This was real “black box” stuff.

I knew right away what I had to do. I asked Benson to start feeding me TRIGRs stock picks for my SmallCapInvestor.com writers. The results were phenomenal. I mean, it’s like night and day.

The column to the left has some numbers for you. These are performance numbers for SmallCapInvestor.com “spotlight” stocks from August 2007, before TRIGR began picking the stocks. Not a pretty sight, is it?

That’s a lot of red, which is bad, and not very much green, also bad.

As you can see, there are 20 stocks, and 15 of them lost money. You can probably understand why I wanted to do something a little different.

Now, check out this next column. These numbers are from first month of picking stocks using our TRIGR system, March 2008. There are 23 stocks. And just 3 months later, in a pretty difficult market, 16 are showing gains.

That’s a 70% win rate, which is remarkable.

Now, just look at some of the gains. These aren’t little 2% and 3% gains I’m talking about. These are 30%, 40% even 80% gains!

Holy Grail, indeed. Except there’s no mystery here. In fact, that’s the point of this blog. I want to show investors just like you – investors who’d like to put the profit-making power of TRIGR system to work for them – exactly how this remarkable system works.

I’m going to show you the entire development process for the TRIGR system. I’m even going to share some of the stock picks with you as we continue to refine our TRIGR system.. We’ll track them together, right here.

You’ll be able to see firsthand the unlimited profit potential of the TRIGR system. And you’ll actually have the chance to share in those profits. Eventually, we’re going to optimize TRIGR to trade all sorts of assets. Small cap stocks, penny stocks, options, short selling, you name it.

And you’re in on the ground floor. So bookmark this blog. Add it to your favorites. Check back often, because we’re going to be making some money here.

Ian Wyatt

Chief Investment Strategist

TRIGR