Investors Could Be More Serious

Here's why this service exists and why it is the culmination of a long and sometimes rough road of experience in the investment industry and the investment markets. This is story of Paul Thornton the founder and Research Director of www.investorbootcamponline.com.

In 1986, I started my investment industry career as an Investment Advisor with a large firm. Following the crash of 1987, I inquired with management why there was no research/info. prior to the crash, giving us a heads up before or after the crash on how to handle it. I was told there was. So, I went back through all of the print outs (yes, that's how we did it back then), and found nothing. Three years later, I changed firms only to discover that another large firm had little to offer for real world investing success. I certainly didn't see how I was doing my clients any good.

Prior to joining my first small firm, I ran a number of historical studies. The studies were done on numerous options markets analysing the results of trading puts and/or calls on those markets. The studies were based on what was essentially a flip flop in my assumptions. Using what appeared to be a backwards approach, based on the traditional theories from the investment industry itself, an 87% success rate would have been achieved using the methodology employed in the studies.

My Assumptions Were Backwards!

During that time, I was incidentally reading some trading information on the stock market. Based on this information, and the success of the options studies, I realized my assumptions had been backwards. Now I knew how to trade in the stock market.

My experience with smaller firms was another lesson in the school of hard knocks. Trading success, based on my own research, was substantially better than my colleagues and every other alternative that I was aware of, but my experience with the investment banking product in these firms was terrible.

Eventually, I decided to leverage my expertise in real time market analysis, identifying the best stocks and the exact time to buy and sell them. That led to the creation of the investment information/research and portfolio management strategies service known as Investor Boot Camp Online. The name came from a seminar series called Investor Boot Camp. It's probably not the best name for the service because the research goes far beyond the idea of basic training. In fact, it's my belief that more active and experienced traders are the biggest beneficiaries of the extensive information provided. For everyone else, who wants to know what's going on I developed the Investor Tool Kit that gives full explanation on how to manage a portfolio successfully.

Put It All Together

There are some good Investment Advisors out there. However, there are far too many who talk a good story, but take their clients down a road that works for the Advisor and not so much for the clients. I got tired of seeing investors victimized by certain advisors, investment dealers, the self serving interests of the mutual fund industry and the media. Advisors, as I was, also pay a big price for not operating with information that is actually useful. Investor Boot Camp Online is the refinement of extensive specific research systems that are actually proven effective and combined with professional portfolio management strategies and trade execution practices. The focus is to provide investors and traders with useful information that is timely. Investors cannot succeed without effective market timing and trade execution.

As Seen On T.V.

From time to time, you'll see me on television as a guest discussing the markets. My purpose in these interviews is to provide investors with the truth about what is actually going, without speculation, and what they can do about it. It's a presentation of the realities of markets.