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It fails many Americans! So says the father of the modern day 401(k). Do you mind if I share some of my insider viewpoints why this is? Great! The 401(k) passed into law under the Revenue Act of 1978. The... Revenue Act? Hmm... What's more unusual is that IRS was in charge of the 401(k), which is the same government body in charge of getting as much money from you. That's a little conflicting, right? Before the 401(k), companies offered pension plans to employees. Companies started to realize the amount of risk that these pensions had put on the company. The way the could transfer the risk and responsibility from company to employee was through a 401(k). One of the common rebuttals is that it's tax-deferred. True... But here's the fine print. Federal Income Tax is deferred, but Social Security and Medicare are taxed 7.6% a year. The 401(k) tax benefit was to help executives on their yearly bonuses, not the middle-class worker. That is why I make the case that most people are not in a position to benefit from the tax benefit. Usually, in life, you end up paying more for something later; than you would if you paid now. But, if my employer matches my contribution, it's free money. That's your decision to make, but I don't think it's worth it. After the introduction of the 401(k), this opened the door to bankers getting their hands on your money causing most to turn a blind eye over the years saying, let a professional do it. 99% of 401(k) plans provide limited options which all happen to be mutual funds that have management and hidden fees. After fees, the average return drops down to 2%-4%. Then factor in a conservative number of 3% for inflation, poof! You take all the market risk while the funds collect their fees and you can't touch it. From what I've researched, the average 401(k) balance is around $96,000. Let's pretend you retired today with $250,000 in your 401(k). Let's say the annual interest rate earned on that nest egg is 2% with inflation at 3% (annually). If took $15,000 a year from that account to live off, it would last 25 years, that's it. That is a real problem most Americans face today because that's not enough to survive. I saw this first hand with my Great Grandma (Nan). Before she passed at 87 years old, she was battling cancer, buried in debt and still searching for a job. That is the mission OptionSIZZLE was founded on, which is to help people like you take back control of your money and become independent money making machines. To your wealth, freedom, and options! Joshua Belanger

It's the internet of money... It's tough to understand how it works at first. But... so is how the FED keeps creating helicopter money. The future is here, and it will be a dancers dream come true the day they don't have to lug a hefty bag full of singles to the bank teller. Only 8 years old… Bitcoin has become a game changer for finance. You probably remember hearing how Bitcoin traded up over 1000 and then collapsed two years ago. Since then, more volume (adoption) has stabilized Bitcoin prices. The CME Group just launched a pair of indexes designed to track the cryptocurrency's price. It's the starting foundation for a derivatives market, which means the chance to start trading options on Bitcoin is very near. Today is a big deal… Because we announce that, OptionSIZZLE will start accepting Bitcoin. I'm very excited to finally share that with you and also keep learning about it. I've already seen a lot of fiction around Bitcoin similar to trading options. Can I ask you... What do you know about Bitcoin? (good or bad) Do you have any Bitcoin? Do you think it makes sense to learn more about Bitcoin? To your wealth, freedom & options! Joshua Belanger

In 2008, I went down the rabbit hole. I thought I could make money in any market. A naive and unrealistic perception. I was starting to manage client accounts while working on a trading desk. And then, I was fired! It was time to go full time on my own. I tried to be superman, but realized it was only a custom. I lost money! I panicked! I became desperate. I needed a quick fix, and that's how it started. It's like a baseball hitter who's struggling mid-season who tries to change their mechanics. I didn't stick with what I knew and allowed things play out. I invested a lot of time and money chasing returns following other people's proprietary systems that used indicators, candlesticks, charts, fundamentals or when Jupiter crossed the 3rd Solstice. Maybe they do work, just never for me. I guess I'm average, but over the years I've mastered an approach that has consistency worked, and the numbers don't lie. If you're like me and haven't been able to find success with going down those other roads, you're in the right spot. http://www.OptionSIZZLE.com/courses To your wealth, freedom and options! Joshua Belanger

Today was the day the iPhone 7 was unveiled to the world. I admit, I watched most of on my iPhone 6s Plus using Google's free internet at Starbucks during my mid-day break. While I walked upstairs to sit outside and drink my coffee while I streamed it, I noticed a dozen people watching the event on their devices as well. There's a lot of excitement about these events with Apple. These are binary events, and when there's uncertainty, there's opportunity. Looking at the options that expire this Friday, the market was pricing a $2.30 range with prices closing at $107.70, yesterday. Because the market knew this event was coming, the shorter dated options had more priced in risk. This is the #1 reason why so many lose money trading options. Some may buy a call because they think the iPhone 7 is going to blow everyone's mind, while others may think Apple's run is over and purchase a put. Either way, they are choosing a direction and buying option premium before this event which implied volatility is elevated. Long-term success with options isn't based on picking price direction. With stock, it's a 50/50 coin flip. With buying options the way most do, the probabilities will decrease against you. With prices closing at $107.70 in Apple last night, selling to open the 108/107 straddle, (technically a strangle because they're no half point strike options) would have brought in around $2.60 per transaction. The probabilities of this trade working were greater than picking a direction. With a standard margin account, it would have used around $2,000.00 of the buying power. After the dust was settled today, that 108/107 strangle closed at $2.10, which is a 20% ROI overnight. During the session, though, this position traded lower meaning it could be bought to close for more of profit. Tip: Because this was a strangle, this does carry more risk, and it's more advantageous to manage these types of positions at 25%. That means those who took the other side of buying options, most likely lost. Success with trading options works just like this over and over again. If you're still struggling to learn how to trade options and want to learn the right education and systems to become an independent money-making machine, then head over to our courses page and get started. http://www.OptionSIZZLE.com/Courses To your wealth, freedom and options! Joshua Belanger

Earlier today, I stumbled upon an article titled, "Stocks Your Parents Should Have Bought the Year You Were Born". Now, this article was for the baby boomers, because I wasn't born yet. One example they provided is if my grandparents had bought $1,000 worth of stock in General Electric in 1943 and held it to now, it would be worth $197k + dividends. However, $1,000 in the 1940's isn't the same buying power today. A $1,000 investment back then would be $16,894.64 in 2016 due to an annual inflation of around 4%. My great grandma, June wasn't an investor, she was a hoarder. While cleaning her house after she passed, we found a small amount of money hidden in odd spots. In one place, we found $10,000 stashed in a pocket of an old sweater, which was buried under years of other clothes that she accumulated. She would rather stash her money even though it depreciated and also risk losing it all in a house fire. That is how most approach investing. They stash it away or give it to someone else to deal with it. Baby boomers who are trying to retire now are now seeing that was a huge mistake. They lost money and are behind because inflation. Having that much money to invest into one stock was very unlikely during the war. If you did, it's very tough to hold onto the stock that long. You don't have control of the company, board or direction. You're just along for the ride. There have been many companies that have come and gone during that span as well. You can't bank on picking the right stock and holding onto it as a reliable investment approach. The world has changed and to succeed we need to change the way we think and invest. The days of just working hard until you retire and then you would have a pension, savings and the government don't work anymore. There isn't income or job security anymore in this globalized world. That is why I share different ways of doing things with different opportunities. That is why I encourage you to learn about the different solutions out there; that are non-traditional because we don't live in that type of world anymore. While things have changed, there are ways to pivot and take advantage of these changes. We have to take charge of our future now and take the bull by its horns. When a door shuts, a window opens. There're some exceptional business and investment opportunities that still allow you to create a better life. One of those opportunities I've benefited from and stand by involves Amazon. It allows you to have more upside return without the stock market risk and more control. It's simple to implement and get started because I lay everything step-by-step for you. If you're ready to expand your thinking and open minded to different opportunities to create more freedom and options for yourself. I invite you to join me for this free presentation where I will share everything in more detail about this opportunity. http://www.OptionSIZZLe.com/plr To your wealth, freedom and options! Joshua Belanger

Joshua Belanger from OptionSizzle tells us how to remove the fear and greed, overcome common financial obstacles and take control of your own money.

Joshua Belanger from OptionSizzle tells us how to remove the fear and greed, overcome common financial obstacles and take control of your own money. Display TranscriptRobert Plank: Today's guest is Joshua Belanger. He was a once struggling professional wrestler delivering pizzas and is now recognized as one of the leading experts with trading options and alternative investment opportunities to generate passive income. That's a mouthful but I'm super glad to have you on the show Joshua. Joshua Belanger: Yeah. You need to shorten that, but thanks. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to rock the mic for the next 20 minutes. Robert Plank: Awesome. What is it that you do? Joshua Belanger: Listening to that, and listening to it a few different times I think the way that I've shortened it down is that I help investors get over the 2 biggest obstacles I've seen over the last 12 years. What are those obstacles or hurdles? Fear and greed, so that's what I look to help them with. Robert Plank: Isn't that the stereotypes, like the Gordon Gekko you're supposed to be? You're supposed to play to your strengths and stuff like that? Joshua Belanger: Yeah. Right. No one's successful at being fearful or also greedy, so it's about keeping yourself in check. When it comes to the marketplace you can get both of those sides of it pretty good. That's not a real good way to explain it but, fear and greed is really what controls the marketplaces, but you can't provide proper expectations on being fearful and greedy. That's what I look to sum up for people to be able to help them become successful. Robert Plank: You're saying that can take over if you don't manage it well? Joshua Belanger: Yeah, that happens for most people. Why do most people lose money? It's because they are either too fearful and also are too greedy, meaning that they don't, if all the greedy side they're not getting out of positions because they think, "Man, if I would've just had Amazon and I bought that IPO in 1995 I would've been up 2000%." No. It doesn't work that way, and the same thing on the fearful side of it when the financial crisis is going on, and the S&P 500 is at 666 and you're like, "Oh well, the world's going to hell in a handbasket." You could think that way but at that point you've got to say, "Maybe I should buy some stuff here." Robert Plank: That's like the weirdest thing because I haven't done stock trading in a couple years but when I did do it I was surprised at just how a number would take over, and then even I went through a stage where I would do some paper trading and be like, on certain days, say the price is this, and I played around with that, and the same psychological stuff like you're mentioning, like the fear and agreed, it still messed me up even though it wasn't real money, it was just numbers on even a piece of paper, but it's crazy how much, you have no idea how much all that dark stuff comes in until you're playing with your stock trading stuff. Joshua Belanger: All that dark stuff is all the stuff in your head. You're looking at stuff and you're making your own interpretation but there's millions of dollars traded every day, back and forth, and not back-and-forth meaning one side to another, but there's a buy and sell. The wonderful thing about the marketplace is that there's no other opportunity out there like the financial markets, meaning that you don't like Apple, so you could take the other side of the trade by selling it. You could sell short, say "Hey, Apple's overvalued here." You can't do that in anything. You can't go to a piece of real estate and, "Hey dude. You just sold your house for how much money," and like a new buyer, "I'm going to short that house." You can't go to Vegas with an edge and say, "Hey I want to take the other side of the trade." They'll take the other side of the trade, but with their edge, but you can't be Vegas. The only opportunity is in the financial markets with that,

Many experts thought Japan would curb their monetary stimulus program, but they decided early this morning to approve $130 billion fiscal. All this helicopter money should concern you because I'm very concerned. With markets just right off all-time highs and with every extended bull run in the books, buying anything in the market right now I believe is too risky. Many are not comfortable with shorting as I am or are seeking other types of investment opportunities. That's why I've been talking about how to create a passive income stream from Amazon lately. Remember the financial crisis? What company thrived during that time? Amazon did because people still need their toilet paper, TVs, etc. Right now, you can get in on the ground floor by partnering with Amazon with selling private labelled physical products; which is paying out HUGE DIVIDENDS for those getting involved. It's just like buying a stock, buy low and sell higher. When partnering with Amazon, they take care of the inventory, advertising, customers, shopping cart and shipping. You just collect the paychecks. I believe if you desire real freedom from money, the quickest and easiest way to get there is to have several different income streams. I wouldn't be sharing this with you if I didn't have experience or skin in the game. I got involved with Amazon three years ago that generated passive income, and I just sold my the asset to another investor in June. Now that I retired, I want to show you exactly how I did it. If you asked me what I thought the best opportunity right now that could outperform the market with only $10,000? I would tell you about this Amazon opportunity. If you're under $25,000, you're at a disadvantage because of the pattern day trader rule. The system is one of the easiest methods I've seen to do that because all the guess work and major roadblocks are eliminated. It's changing many lives of people who struggled and failed at trading, real estate or tried other types of businesses. If you're interested in learning how to overcome your biggest roadblock to creating wealth, become your own boss and create a stream of passive income; I have a free training that can solve that for you. Register your spot here: http://www.OptionSIZZLE.com/plr To your wealth, freedom and options! Joshua Belanger

If I told you that I generated a 1200% ROI, you'd be skeptical... And you should, I would be as well. For some, though, it makes their buttholes pucker up. However, It's unlikely you will achieve those same results if you invest into the same opportunity I did. Because you're right, I'm not you. You could do worse or even better, but even doing worse isn't too bad. I was lucky, who knows. However, I can talk the talk because I've walked the walk. That's important to you, right? We are all different. I hate posting numbers publicly because it doesn't matter. You can't spend my money nor can I spend yours. I'm happy if you do better than me, that's my goal. It's not a who's d*ck is the bigger contest. There's always going to be someone better than us or further down the road. We can't control that, but we can control our journey and enjoy it. Stay in your lane and focus on what we can do with our resources. Once you let your ego get too large, that is when you lose discipline. You got keep moving and taking advantage of opportunities when they do come. If you're interested in hearing about this 1200% return with creating a passive income stream by leveraging Amazon and not owning any shares, trading an option or buying any of its corporate debt. Then you're going to want to register a spot for this free training session, which will show you exactly how I did that. Sign up here: http://www.OptionSIZZLE.com/PLR To your wealth, freedom and options! Joshua Belanger

This might be a shocker, but they don't rely solely on the stock market. They usually have a stake in other businesses, real estate, etc. Having a skill set or business outside of trading that can help generate income is a must in my view. Having a valuable skill set or something creating side income will take a tremendous amount of pressure off you when you're going through that learning curve of trading options. Not only that, but it brings balance into your life. I know for me, it helps with getting in the right mind frame when I'm a position goes against me. I approach trading options as a business with the goal of making money. However, every day isn't going to be profitable. Sometimes, markets will be slow; sometimes you'll experience drawdowns. You will lose and be humbled. That's life! I believe one of the best ways to stay consistent in the markets is to eliminate the fear of having to make money consistently from the markets to put food the table. You want to avoid being at the mercy of the financial markets. As Warren Buffet has says, "Mr. Market Is A 'Drunken Psycho'." Being able to generate other streams of income will help you in so many aspects of your life as well as your trading. You will be more disciplined and not stressed when things don't go your way. There are ways many can do this. One way is real estate. For instance, you can buy a family duplex or a home in a college town and collect the rent checks. That is what my friend Kirk over at OptionAlpha and his wife do. However, you need a lot of capital tied up to do that. One thing I love about the financial markets is that I'm in control with everything at a click of a button. I have zero experience in real estate. I rent because I have no interest in real estate, I just see it too much of a hassle. I invest into other things such as digital properties. I think that is the new real estate. In fact, I know fund managers who diversify outside the market with investing into digital properties which provide passive income. That is kind or how I stumbled into this opportunity. You may not believe it, but with few thousand, you can conservatively start a stream of passive income and generate a better return than anything in the market with little risk. It involves a company who's stock is up a mind-boggling 20,000% since going public on May 15, 1997. That means for every $5,000 invested it would total into nearly $1 million today. While that sounds great, there's no way you would have held this stock for two decades. There's too much risk doing that. However, people are able to take that same $5,000 investment today and possibly create a 100% return in just one year. The company is Amazon, and all you have to do is partner with them, which means you don't have to own it's shares to profit from it tremendous upside growth. This is an alternative opportunity outside trading options, but if you like opportunities to make money, then I created a piece of free training that I teach you exactly about this opportunity, how I took a $1,000 investment that returned $12,427.24 that same year and how you can get started today. I share my results and how I can help you achieve them so you can create an alternative stream of income right away. This is a long presentation so make sure you're ready with a pen and paper because there will be solid, step-by-step content delivered that you can start using right away. Register your spot here: http://www.OptionSIZZLE.com/plr To your wealth, freedom and options! Joshua Belanger

We have been told to follow the trend, right? That's all you need to do to be successful in the market. Trends provide valuable input in other parts of life, but not so much when it comes to the financial markets because they are random and efficient. There are many stable companies you can invest in like Microsoft, but the street only loves companies with hockey stick type of growth such as Amazon. However, does it make sense to buy stock of Amazon here right off its highs? I wouldn't, but that's what makes a market. You could if you wanted to, but what if you could profit from Amazon's incredible growth trend without the risk of owning shares? And still, generate higher returns without the market risk? Amazon has opened a door what that allowed people all over the world to become the "new money" millionaires online. We are talking about people with zero previous experience, beat up by the market or just looking for alternative ways to generate passive income. In fact, some individuals are making passive income streams upwards to $100k per month! It's the early stages of this opportunity and why so many can create success right off the bat. The process is simple, but unlike most who want to try to learn themselves; there's a certain proven (and simple) method that can fast-track your success. OptionSIZZLE is about teaching you how to create wealth, freedom and options for yourself. Trading options are one way, but one thing I learned managing money for affluent clients is that you need to diversify your income streams. I understood it during the 2008 financial crises seeing large daily swings in my account. That is why I want to share my real world experience on how I was able to profit from this Amazon opportunity and how it can help you achieve more freedom and happiness with more money. I created a piece of training that I teach you exactly what this opportunity is and how to get started today. I share my results and how I can help you achieve them so you can create an alternative stream of income right away. This is a long presentation so make sure you're ready with a pen and paper because there will be solid, step-by-step content delivered that you can start using right away. Register your spot here: http://www.OptionSIZZLE.com/plr To your wealth, freedom and options! Joshua Belanger

This past Friday, Nicole and I were at a friends surprise birthday party. While at the party, I got to talking to a couple who are about to married in a few months. They are about the same age as Nicole and I and live in the building next to us. Later in the evening and a few wines later the wife to be asked me what I do for a living. I told her I inspire and teach people investing skills and knowledge that will help them take advantage of the right opportunities and feel like they are in control of their financial destiny to create more wealth, freedom and options. Intrigued, she asked if I were a financial advisor or knew a good one. I smiled and told her I used to be a financial professional and left the industry in 2008 to start my own thing (OptionSIZZLE) to help people like her take back control of their money and fire their financial advisor. I explained that I was sick of watching investors make mistakes, bleed and lose money while professionals circle investors like vultures only focused on collecting their fees and leaving clients worse than when they found them down the road. A little taken back, I explained a simple way that they could manage their money with a low fee market index fund or ETF, which would save them many of thousands of dollars over the years and would have more control of their money. She said that sounds great, but she's not confident that they could do it themselves or that her fiancé would be on board. It's a tough sell to convince a 30 something-year-old to take control of their money when all their life they've been told to let someone else do it. I see it similar to life. We all know down the road; we will face age, disease and death. Early in life for most of us, it's too far down the road to see it until one day you wake up, and it's actually in the distance. It's the same with managing your money and making your own investment decisions; most people have to go down the dark road and get mugged to create that spark in their ass to learn how to do it themselves. The financial industry doesn't make it easy by discouraging people from doing it themselves and reiterating outdated financial information and approaches that force investors into their web. However, the system is starting to force people to think outside the box to seek returns because risk-free rates are at zero. If you're sick of making mistakes, bleeding, losing money and being ripped off by financial professionals, then I can teach you how to stop it and overcome the two biggest hurdles that cause most to lose money. Your first step in the process is reading this book here: http://www.FearlessInvestingWithOptions.com To your wealth, freedom and options! Joshua Belanger

Today, we're talking about emails and how you can utilize emails to generate money, specifically, how to use simple daily emails to double your sales. That's why I invited Joshua Belanger on the show today to talk about this exactly. Joshua started his business OptionSIZZLE in 2008 where he teaches self-directed, struggling investors how to […] The post TSE 278: How To Use Simple Daily Emails To Double Your Sales appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

Joshua Belanger from OptionSizzle.com joins us to talk options: why do people see them as risky? Joshua sees the opposite: options are a great way to invest, and he’ll share why on today’s show! In our second half, our usual Read more › The post MTI060: Are Options Difficult and Risky? appeared first on Money Tree Investing Podcast.

Some people say, “I would never put my money in the stock market because it’s too risky.” Yes there is risk, but without risk there would be no reward. There are companies in the DOW jones that are less risky because they have proven their revenue - companies like Coca Cola, Disney, Apple etc. In the Wealthy Investor Program we try to balance risk by leaning a little more conservative and having most of our money in DOW stocks.  Today Tyrone talks with someone well versed in risk. Josh Belanger is an option trading specialist and author of the book Fearless Investing With Options. Josh began working at 19 as a pizza delivery boy. He told one of his regular customers about his dreams of becoming a stock broker, and the customer advised him to get a Series 7. While Josh studied to pass the Series 7 exam he worked on the floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange as a runner - the lowest man on the totem pole. After the test, Josh had a career as a stock broker, or financial adviser.  After paying his dues, Josh started to see how the internet and technology was changing the industry. He also realized that he wasn’t really learning to play the game of the stock market. He got out of the finance industry and started trading options aggressively. Now Josh is the founder of www.OptionSIZZLE.com where he publishes free daily investing and trading tips and teaches struggling self directed investors how to become more profitable trading options while reducing risk, creating higher chances of success and generating better returns in any type of financial market.  Having been on the other side, Josh believes that mutual funds are legally stealing everyone's money. The monstrous fees taken by the financial advisors and firms compared to the little amount of money they make you in return is unreasonable. Also, financial advisors are required to operate under so many legal restrictions, that there's not much they are allowed to do to grow your money. Now trading on his own and helping others to do so, Josh has focused mainly on options trading. In Tyrone’s Wealthy Investor approach, he teaches LEAPS options trading. In a LEAP, the option has a one year expiration date. Josh’s strategy utilizes shorter time frames; his options usually expire in 30 - 50 days. Josh looks more for income generating opportunities instead of focusing on long term investing or day trading.  Josh believes that one of the first things you need to understand is implied volatility. Ideally if you buy an option you want the implied volatility levels to be low. If you buy an option, you want to look to sell it. Your fear about what could happen is greater than what really happens in the market. Typically Josh buys an option and sells another option. He does this to reduce the overall cost and increase the probability of success. This would be considered a spread. As Tyrone always says, "The Stock Market is a game with a hundred ways to play it." To learn how to build your strategy and get in the game visit WITradeSchool.com. 

In this session of The Option Alpha Podcast I had a chance to flip the script on Joshua Belanger from www.OptionSizzle.com. A former CME runner in Chicago, Josh has been a long time industry trader both on the professional and retail level. What's so great about his story is that over the last 10 years he's been able to learn how markets work from many different angles including being a broker, raising private equity, managing money, and running orders on the CME floor. During our interview he'll explain how his overall trading plan has evolved and also opens up about his more specific strategy for looking at (and profiting from) unusual options activity.