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Saddam's Lost Oil Thanks to an epic fleecing in the oil community, you have the rare chance to get in on a cache of crude that no one (even Saddam Hussein) knew existed. There are 13.7 billion barrels of oil just underneath the surface in the last place you probably ever expected... and one small company is already pumping it out of the ground. Click here to see why this opportunity could be even better than the last one. You're About to Miss the Next Buying Opportunity By Alex Koyfman | Tuesday, December 16th, 2014 The following story may leave you a bit in disbelief, but it should also leave you angry. You'll see why after I'm done telling it. The main character of the story is a graffiti artist, an occasional criminal, and a natural — some might say pathological — gambler. Like most graffiti artists, he didn't care much about the finer things in life. He certainly didn't care much for modern marvels like the Internet and social networking — even though the latter would change his fate forever. In late 2004, this young man, who was 29 at the time, was hired by the partner of a fledgling Silicon Valley start-up to paint some X-rated murals inside their office. Being a gambler, however, this artist decided to take his payment for the first job not in cash but in shares of the company — which was still quite small at the time and years away from going public. Like I said before, he didn't care much for what the company did. In fact, he claimed he thought it was a "ridiculous and pointless idea." But the idea that this artist — who many considered little more than a glorified vandal — thought was ridiculous ended up gaining traction. A lot of traction. In fact, it got more traction than almost any website that came before or has come since. Advertisement How Did an Old, Solitary Woman Turn $5,000 into $22 million? You've seen these rags-to-riches stories in the movies and in fairy tales. But the story of Betty Landbourne is true — which makes it all the more shocking. You see, Betty, living alone in her New York apartment, managed to turn a $5,000 initial investment into a fortune worth in excess of $22 million by following a handful of simple trading rules. Betty is no longer with us today, but the rules she discovered are known to modern traders as "The Secret of Rich Man's Row." Today, that secret can be yours too. Click here to learn more. A Story for the Ages Five years after the completion of this artist's second job for the start-up, the company went public. The day of the IPO — May 16, 2012 — this artist found his stake in the company was worth a bit more than the original $60,000 contract... More than 3,300 times more. The artist's name is David Choe, and the company is Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). If you don't believe me, go ahead and Google his name. I promise you'll reread this story on a number of different sites — including David Choe's own Wikipedia page. Today, this slightly anti-social graffiti artist, who has spent more than a few nights sleeping in the streets, is worth more than $200 million. Amazing story, right? A true rags-to-riches tale of the American Dream coming true in spectacular fashion. But if you think a story like this might befall you at some point in your life, I hate to burst your bubble. Now this is the part where you're going to get angry. The Original Class Warmonger: FDR The reason you're not going to make nine figures in a sudden change of fate like the kind that changed David Choe's life isn't because you're not talented or smart or lucky... It's because there is a federal law on the books that prevents ordinary, everyday people from even being eligible for this kind of a stroke of luck. The law is known informally as the accredited investor rule and was written into the books as Rule 501 of Regulation D of the Federal Securities Act of 1933 — Roosevelt-era legislation that imposed the first major regulations on securities trading during the early years of the Great Depression. And here is the part that should make you angry... Under the guise of protecting "unsophisticated" investors from overly risky business ventures, this law defines exactly who can and cannot put money into non-public companies — companies like the kind Facebook was back in 2007. The main condition affecting most people is the wealth- or income-based requirement. If you want to invest in a non-public company, you need to fit one of two categories: Have a liquid net worth of more than $1 million. Be a "natural person with income exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse exceeding $300,000 for those years and a reasonable expectation of the same income level in the current year." Now, there is another way you can be an accredited investor, and that's if you either work for the company in question or are personally related to or associated with (friend or family) a major shareholder. David Choe was able to get shares of Facebook thanks to his close association with Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker (Facebook's first president). However, since few of us have friends like Mark Zuckerberg, the most common way for a private investor to get a piece of a highly prospective start-up is simply, for lack of a better phrase, to be rich enough. Once you meet the threshold income or net-worth requirements, the world of private equity investing opens up to you, and you can move forward to become even richer. And when it comes to private equity, it doesn't take much of an initial investment to become much, much richer. Advertisement Time to Buy This... The time to buy an oil or gas company drilling in a new shale formation is when: Production is just starting; Initial wells are showing great results; and The mainstream investing public knows very little about it. There's a new $1 company in the historic Petroplex formation that meets all three of these conditions. With nearly 20,000 acres of land and great initial results on its horizontal wells, it's only a matter of time before this company trades at $10. Click here for the ticker symbol. Big Wealth Can Start Small Reid Hoffman, for example — one of Facebook's early venture capitalists — kicked in a paltry $40,000 in the very early stages. Today, that $40,000 is worth more than $900 million. Just think... In the right circumstances, for the price of that kitchen remodel you want to do or that Lexus you've been eyeing, you could become 90% of a billionaire. Only you're not even in the running because the federal government, in all its wisdom, doesn't think you're smart enough to manage your own money well enough to take the chance. I know it sounds oversimplified when put into these terms, but the sad fact is that it's exactly that simple. For more than 80 years now, this one law has been the very tool by which the rich get richer and the middle class stays essentially stagnant. It's why giant investment houses and their clients make billions each year, whereas you only get a bite of the apple after the company has gone public. Between 2004 and 2012, Facebook went from a $5 million microcap start-up to a $100 billion global brand. Why You're Always Late to the Party Since May 16, 2012 — the first day regular investors were able to buy shares of the company on the open market — Facebook has merely doubled in market capitalization. Still not bad for two and a half years of public trading, but nothing close to the sort of mushrooming growth it experienced in the early days. Not surprisingly, most of the early investors dumped their shares the day of the IPO or soon afterwards. If you invested in Facebook after that point, it's your money, along with that of millions of other retail investors, that went into the pockets of early investors. Click Chart to Enlarge Mark Zuckerberg himself pocketed $1.1 billion in cash that first day by selling off less than 4% (30.2 million shares) of his position. His partners and the venture capital firms that financed the company's early growth took home billions upon billions more — even as shares careened from $42 to $18 in the early months of trading. The same happened with Google and its early investors. The same happened with Microsoft. The same happened with Apple. The same happened, and happens, every time a successful company goes public. Advertisement This event occurs in 8 minutes... Soon, a very special stock market event will occur. And if you're aware of it, you could be $495 richer in the next 8 minutes. The best part? So long as you get in on this, the payout is 100% guaranteed. I know because I've been personally cashing in on this daily occurrence for the past 15 years. Click here to get in on today's guaranteed payout. Don't Blame the Winners... Blame the Gamemakers As much as it seems justified to do so, don't go blaming the billionaires for this. They're just exploiting the rules the federal government, under Democratic icon Franklin Roosevelt, set up for them. This law isn't merely unjust; it reeks of governmental abuse. It essentially says to middle class Americans that their money isn't really theirs to do with as they please. All for your own good, of course. Okay, so maybe you're not going ballistic over this. Maybe you're one of those people who have accepted this as a fact of life. If that's the case, I urge you to stop and rethink this situation right now. Because while this may seem hopeless, it's not. There is a way around this rule. It's legal, it's easy to do, and it's effective. Think it's Hopeless? Think Again You can use this work-around to make returns similar to the kind private equity investors close every day — and you can get started right now without even leaving your computer. I recently put together a report that details how people just like you have elevated themselves into accredited investor-caliber wealth and even grown rich without ever having to step into the mysterious and risky world of private equity investing. Their stories are inspiring, and, just like David Choe's story, they're factual. Most importantly, they're stories you can reproduce in your own life. Click here to access this free report instantly. It may change your life. Fortune favors the bold, Alex Koyfman Coming to us from an already impressive career as an independent trader and private investor, Alex's specialty is in the often misunderstood but highly profitable development-stage microcap sector. Focusing on young, aggressive, innovative biotech and technology firms from the U.S. and Canada, Alex has built a track record most Wall Street hedge funders would envy. Alex contributes his thoughts and insights regularly to Wealth Daily. To learn more about Alex, click here. I liked this article | I did not like this article Follow Energy and Capital on The Bottom Line Recently... In 25 Years Oil Demand will Grow 30% Natural Gas into Jet Fuel If You Only Need $1 Million, Read This ... 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