Hello, my name is Ron Struthers, editor of Struthers' Resource Stock Report (picture is a few years old when on a field trip To Bralorne Mine, BC, holding a gold dore bar just poured at the mine).  I  retired at an early age from IBM, where I spent many years In Customer Service and as a System, Business and Inventory analyst . I also began investing over 25 years ago and have practiced many investment products and strategies, mutual funds, stocks, currencies, bonds, commodities and futures, future options, stock options, T bills, spreads and commodity options. I have taken investment courses and have read numerous books on financial markets and economics. In other words, investing and the markets has been my passion. I began the Struthers' Resource/Tech Stock Report almost 20 years ago.

With my background as an analyst for a multinational computer giant, I am able to research and analyze vast amounts of investment data with the aid of the most technically advanced computer hardware and software. This compliments my 25 years experience investing in the resource and tech sector, along with numerous inside contacts I have nurtured over the years to provide a top notch subscriber service. Numerous brokers, fund managers and CEOs are subscribers, read what others say about Struther's Reports.

It is really who I know and who I can trust that gives you the advantage and is what you can leverage as an investor with my newsletter!

I have developed and time tested my own computer based market timing program. This timer always gets you out before major declines and in for major advances. This market timer works for most markets, stocks, stock sectors, commodities, precious metals etc. This is a technical momentum indicator that I have time tested for almost 20 years and yes it did have myself and others out of the market weeks ahead of the 1987 crash and again, ahead of the turmoil in 1997, 1998, 2000 and in/out of 3 bear market rallies since 2000. I use the market timer, along with other technical analysis, including candle stick charts to time entry/exit and prices for investments followed in the newsletter.  Recently April 2011 I had readers sell and take profits out of silver the day before and day of the recent peak

The performance measures the average gain of all stocks in the newsletter from Jan 1st to Dec 31st of each year, that way it can be compared to other bench marks that are measured on a yearly basis. The Struthers Resource Stocks is the average gain of about 80 stocks (pared down to about 50 as of 2008) followed in the newsletter each year and includes the sold or closed positions for that year. The Millennium Index is the average of about 10 to 15 blue chip/senior/dividend paying type stocks that are maintained in the index. The Model portfolio is how I suggest to diversify your investments in Struthers Resource Stocks, Millennium Index, Tech Stocks, Cash, Gold, Bonds, ETFs etc. depending on the market environment.

Last 11 Years (2000 to Dec 31, 2010) Yearly Performance vs Benchmarks

                                           ************ Track Record ***************

          {**         Struthers         **}                                                                            Struthers
Year    Model    Resource   Tech      Nasdaq  S&P 500 TSX 300  TSX Gold   Gold     Millennium
          Portfolio  Stocks    Stocks     Index      Index       Index      Index                      Index

2000     14.9%    14.0%      8.7%      -39.3%     -9.3%       6.2%     -10.9%    -2.5%
2001     28.6%    10.9%      6.7%      -19.1%    -13.1%    -14.0%     16.9%     -1.8%
2002     45.0%    90.1%      1.0%      -31.6%    -20.2%    -14.0%     31.0%     25.1%
2003     33.3%    68.1%     53.0%       50.0%     21.4%     24.3%    26.7%     19.1%     42.6%
2004      7.4%      0.5%     42.0%        8.6%        9.0%     12.5%    -11.4%      6.3%     27.5%
2005    26.5%    34.9%     27.0%        1.4%       3.0%      21.9%     21.4%    17.1%     36.8%
2006     25.3%    47.0%    -12.6%        9.5%     13.6%      14.5%     29.9%     23.9%    17.0%
2007      5.2%      2.6%    -26.4%         9.8%       3.5%       7.2%      -5.2%     31.6%    15.3%
2008    -16.2%  -38.2%     Sold          -40.5%    -38.5%    -35.0%       0.7%      7.2%    -22.7%
2009     67.7%  154.9%    Sold            43.9%    23.4%     30.7%        6.9%    27.6%     41.3%
2010     28.6%   99.0%     Sold            17.3%    13.0%     14.0%      26.0%    29.0%     12.5%
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$1000 invested in 2000
         $9244    $25,896    $2079           $670      $865       $1592       $3106     $5109      $4123


The best measurement of the general market is the broad S&P 500, an index of 500 stocks. We can see that the return was absolute negative in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2008. In 2005 and 2007 the return did not beat money
market yields. We only seen a positive return in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2010. I would say that Alexander is correct so far as we have seen 6 poor years out of 11 It is also obvious if you look at the total return in that period. If you invested $1,000 in 2000, it was only worth $865 at Dec 31, 2010. A substantial loss, no doubt U.S. investors in mutual funds and other U.S. equity investments have done very poorly in the last decade.

See issue on Market Cycles on Alexanders Book at this link

The Nasdaq is far worse, your $1,000 is only worth $670, 11 years later. You still have to make another 49% in Nasdaq stocks just to break even again at $1,000. It may be another 10 or 20 years before that happens. In contrast, the TSX 300 that has a strong weighting in resource stocks has gained 59.2% in the 11 year period. Not as bad as U.S. stocks, but nothing to brag about. You would have done better in money market funds or Treasuries.

You would have been much better off simply in the TSX Gold index that more than double, up 210%. Better still simply buying and holding gold would have given 4 times your money, up 410%.

I am happy to report the performance of our Model Portfolio, that increased over 8 times, up 824.4% in that 11 year period. Our resource stock selection list did simply amazing up 2,489.6%.

You may find this hard to believe but the secret of long term investing is compounding returns and not to lose a lot of money in any given year. 2004 and 2007 were poor years for our resource stocks but we still managed to break even and hold our gains from other years so we can compound those gains in strong years. Of course 2008 was a disaster and nothing escaped carnage. At end of 2007 we were up 726% since year 2000 and got whacked down to
+410% by Dec 31, 2008.

I vowed to subscribers that my goal for 2009 and 2010 was to have back to back years of average 100% plus gains to make up for 2008. I felt I could do this because so many stocks were unbeleivable bargains.  We had to sell about 25 to 30 stocks in late 2008/early 2009 paring my list back from about 80 to 50 stocks so we could raise cash to buy the new bargains. This was a bit painful taking many losses but you cannot create cash out of thin air, especially in 2008. This strategy proved to be a huge success, we had an average return on all stocks in 2009 of 154.9%. We made several 100% gains on stocks like, Hecla, Nova Chemicals, Teck Cominco, along with big gains on some juniors that made discoveries, Canaco, West Timmins bought out by Lake Shore , Potash North, Exeter, New Gold and Century Mining. And we kept our best juniors that recovered nicely after in some case been beaten down under $0.20. Our senior/mid tier gold see solid gains to and our energy picks.

That gave us a very strong gain in 2009 and then the icing on the cake was doubling, compouding this huge gain in 2010 with an average gain that year on all stocks of 99%. I did not quite make my goal of a 100% gain, but obviously was pleased. There was still many good bargains to be found in the resource sector in 2010, but opportunity is tougher in 2011, but I still expect  double digit gains

Our tech stocks got hit hard in the 2006 and 2007 as we did not have many in the portfolio so a couple poor performers affected the average, then we got out of tech stocks all together. However, once again in the bad years that seen the Nasdaq plunge, we managed not to lose money, but make small gains. Our techs have gained on average 107.9% over the 8 year period.

My Struther's Millennium Index has only been around for 8 of those 11 years, but still the return has beat all the indexes etc. over the 11 year period, as the Millennium index has gained 312.3% over 8.0 years

Remember, this is  an average taken at year end. This will fluctuate up and down throughout the year but it is the only way we can compare our performance to the bench marks.


Struther's Resource Stock  Report service includes:

• At least 12 regular issues/year of Resource Stock Report 
• Unlimited and timely email market and stock updates, 1 or 2 a week or perhaps more
• Several special reports throughout the year, on market cycles, gold, commodities, options etc.
• Investment Strategies how and when to take profits as well a buying
• Struther's Mighty Millennium Index of market leading, high dividend paying stocks. The index was started in late 2002 and has returned steady dividends and capital gains.
• Model Portfolio suggested weightings on, cash, bonds stocks etc. and time to change
• Access to subscriber section of website
• Subscriber email questions answered 95% of the time

The Resource Stock Report covers resource companies, mostly mining and oil&gas and  the odd tech stock. I search for stocks that are not discovered yet and get in before the crowd. Most of these are special situation stocks that are on the verge of new mineral discoveries or are moving to producer status or simply on an accelerating growth path. My goal is to find stocks that can appreciate several 100%. I do not rely on the price of oil or metals, gold, silver, copper etc. to move my selections. Coverage includes senior and junior companies with lots of trading liquidity, mostly trading on the Canadian and U.S. exchanges as well as a few trading on foreign exchanges.

The techs are mostly emerging technologies, the next Intels, Microsofts so to speak. For example, wireless technology was featured in Future Tech long before it was popular. Research in Motion was picked as a leader in Resource/Tech when it was just priced at a few dollars. Learn about the companies who will lead in new image technology, smart cards, software and wireless optics.

I use my extensive contact list and experience to seek out the right companies. As a newsletter writer, companies will divulge more information to me because they want promotion, but I also carve though the hype. As a subscriber you benefit from my leverage here. Before I approve a stock for either newsletter, besides technical analysis, I also analyze four important fundamentals.

• Management - People make companies and they must be the best and well experienced financial/business people, experts in engineering and technology or mining people and geologists in the case of resource companies. The board must have leading experts in their fields.
• The Goods - the properties must contain the resource whether it be gold, silver, copper, nickel, oil etc. If the reserves are not proven, I must be convinced the chances are loaded in my favor that the resource is there and proper permitting can be obtained. Environmental and mine permits are a very important factor in North American properties. For tech stocks, the technology must be capable of being a leader in it's field, patent protected and the company must also have the means of bringing it to the market successfully.
• Cash - Great management and properties or technology are useless if the company does not have the financing or backing to bring the technology, oil field or mine into production. Low levels of debt or no debt and adequate financing is a must.

• The fourth item is the trends and direction of the market that the company is in. I then use my market timer, technical and fundamental analysis to aid in buying before market developments and at market lows as well as selling near tops.
• The prove of success is below - The High Since Recommended is the high price after the stock was selected or the takeover/buyout price if the stock was bought out by another company, or the price we closed/sold the position. 16 Stocks were bought out  and the average gain of 91 stocks is 1034%.  
• These are just the best stocks but with 91 that is about 8 stocks per year and since I only pick about 14 to 18 per year it is roughly have my picks have these kind of gains

Tech Stocks

Tech stocks have been selected for the past 8 years (2000 to 2007), but we have moved to a 0% weighting in tech stocks in 2008 and that is why you see no active positions on the above list. 

Active stocks with big gains, usually means we have taken part profits but not sold the entire position

A lot of newsletters just put out a pile of recommendations to ensure they don't miss a big winner. They then tout these big winners and the losers get forgotten, "coverage is dropped" is how many put it. Just hope you were able to chose the right one out of all these recommendations. Not the Struther's Resource Stock Report, I only pick one or two stocks a month, the cream of the crop. In Techs, there is less than 4 picks/year. I then give you ample data and analysis to feel comfortable with your investment choice. I also give lots of contacts to do your own due diligence, phone numbers, web sites, analyst coverage, brokers, promoters etc.

Even poor years in resource/mining like the 1997 disaster in mining stocks, with the BreX fiasco, only 4 mining stocks had big runs that year, Western Copper, Donner, Crystallex and Cross Lake. We picked 3 of the 4 for huge gains. Western Copper $1.17 to $12, Donner $1.15 to $4.20, Crystallex $2.30 to $11.30 In 2000, tech stocks got slaughtered, but Future Tech picks still had a 68% average gain by December 2000.

Newsletter Investment Strategy

It is just as important or more so on how you manage your portfolio or in other words your investment strategy  and this what seperates the Struther's Reports form most others. I seek stocks that can give you several 100% gains so we need an investment strategy to go with this.

The only consistent way to make huge gains is to be patient and invest for the long term. The big gains are made over the long term by investing early in companies that grow big, and sometimes I mean really BIG! As you can see in the list above, many of my picks started as a micro or small cap company and grew into a $muti-billion company and the stock rode up 1000s%.  Generally we take 1/3 profit when the stock goes up about 200%, This removes all of our original $$ and we can invest this in new stocks. We than may take another 1/3 profits at a higher point, this could be anywhere from 300% to 1000% or more. We often leave 1/3 on the table for the long haul. As long as the company is progressing well and seems to be on track, meeting goals, we let management do their work and grow the company. This 1/3 for the long haul is where you can make enormous gains.

Of course not all of the stock picks go up 200% and more. Often we take profits at lower levels and sometimes sell the entire position for a good profit. This could be 50%, 100% or more over a short time or maybe we sell 1/3 at 200% or less and sell the entire position 2/3 later on.

Market conditions and fundamentals with a company/stock can change, so we change too.

The other issue, investing for the long term means our selection list of stocks is a bit lengthy. Typically the newsletter is following between 70 to 90 stocks at a time and stays pretty consistent. While I add 15 or so new stocks each year, we also see about 5 to 8 stocks a year get bought out (taken over by another company) so they drop off the list (We had a record 12 companies bought out in 2007, all for big gains) . We also close out, selling about 5 stocks for a good profit and not every stock is a big winner or winner at all. Each year I usually close out positions on about another 5 stocks that could have small or no gains or at a loss, big or small.  This keeps the Selection list pretty consistent aorund 90 stocks, it is not as hard as it seems, because once we take our 1/3 at 200% or so, we don't have to watch the stock as closely and certainly when you are up 500% or so, it does not matter much if the stock fluctuates 75% either way. We can pay closer attention to our new picks and that is where it is needed. Unlike most newsletters, I don't ignore and forget about the losers, I ignore the winners

Another strategy we often use is to average down. Sometimes a stock gets driven way down in price by either market conditions or a temporary issue with the company. Often stocks will get over sold. If we buy lower and average  down our cost, quite often we turn a loser into a winner.

Diversify is another important strategy and not only do we diversify with our stocks picks, I also have a model portfolio where I suggest weightings in different sectors. Our own stock picks, my own Millennium Index, Cash and bonds as well as physical precious metals and bear market hedges, such as bear funds or ETFs

To be fair I must warn past performance does not guarantee future success.

I use the 'SELL' word quite a bit too. I let you know when to sell, whether be partial profits or closing out the entire position

The prices, targets, stop losses and gain/loss of all stock picks are listed and updated on the web site and in all updates until we close out a position. No hocus pocus, my track record is right there to see all the time. As well subscribers get up to the minute info and reports via email. I may send out 3 or 4 updates a week on my stock picks and the markets. This is the beauty of an email subscription, info can be given when needed and when market timing is correct. The Resource/Tech Report, takes NO kick backs or promotes any products, stocks or service for fees. My only fee is your subscription and our only goal is to make you money and keep you as a happy subscriber.

I started this service many years ago as a private newsletter, that spread by word of mouth. I never did any marketing, my subscription list grew as word spread among friends of friends about my track record. I began using email in early 1995 to send out the newsletter and progressed to a full internet account at the end of 1995 and here we are today with email and a web site.

As a first time subscriber, you can signup on our introductory offer of only $199.00 per year ($199US). You can make many times this yearly subscription price on just one of my picks. 

As a free bonus you will receive the following special reports

• Graphite - A new strategic metal for future technology 
• 2011 Market Outlook

Coverage of Tech Stocks started in late 1997 originally called 'RSA Hot Technology Stocks and later the Future Tech Report'. This was to diversify and help gain some profits as the resource sector went through a severe bear market. The tech picks are new emerging technologies that will be the leaders in their field. The number of tech picks has been reduced in the past several years to about 2 or 3 tech stocks selected each year. We sold out of tech stocks in 2008. The newsletter also covers special situations such as takeover targets, options and generally more speculative plays. 

Our goal for both subscriber services, is to make you money and keep you as a long time subscriber. If for any reason you are not happy with the service in the first 3 months, just say so and we will promptly give you a full refund. After 3 months the refund will be prorated. I am confident you will be happy as my current clients are.

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