The 22-day
"Media Lag":

How to legally INTERCEPT and profit
from America's Top News Stories -
BEFORE they get printed

Dear Reader,

There's only one thing that always makes stock prices go up.

It's not earnings reports, or economic data.

It's not a ratings upgrade, technical trends, or oil prices either.

No, the only thing that always makes stocks go up is a big news story.

Take U.S Airways Group...

The company's share price jumped 547% in less than a month this summer.

What happened?

Big news in the Wall Street Journal: New Gov't report revealed surprisingly positive data about U.S. Airways...

Had you invested BEFORE the announcement, you could have turned a $5,000 stake into $32,350.

But here's the thing...

Typically, you only hear about these stories after it's too late... and after the easy money has already been made.

In the case of US Airways... the stock had raced from $2.80 to $4.54, only a few hours after the announcement.

Several days later, shares had already tripled in value.

So... how can you take a position before the story breaks?

Well, as unbelievable as it may sound right now, we've actually found an astonishing technique that allows you to cash in on Wall Street's biggest news stories weeks – sometimes months – BEFORE they appear in any press release or newspaper.

We call it the 22-day Media Lag, and yes, this is completely 100% legal.

It's also EXTREMELY lucrative.

Let me show you what I mean...

How $5,000 Becomes $32,350 – in a Bear Market

Consider the U.S. Airways example I just told you about...

Incredibly, you could have acquired this information nearly a month before the company told the world about it...

Here, take a look:

As you can see, the Wall Street Journal story ran on July 15.

You could have intercepted the news on June 16th – nearly a full month earlier. In other words, you could have gotten a 29-day heads tart on the rest of the country.

Had you invested $5,000, you could have cashed out with as much as $32,350.

Yes, but how... ?

How could you possibly intercept a message 29 days before it hits the newspapers?

I know you probably don't believe that's possible...

At least I didn't at first. No free-thinking, discerning investor should.

But I'll show you EXACTLY how it's not only possible, but also why it's one of the most reliable ways to make money on the planet.

Also, you should know that U.S. Airways is not an isolated example.

Something similar happened to a company called Middlebrook Pharmaceuticals earlier this year...

The company announced it had received government approval to market its strep throat drug.

The stock jumped 203%.

Even if you'd gotten lucky and read the article the minute it appeared in the Washington Post on January 25, 2008...

Chances are good you wouldn't have made much money.

You see, just a few hours after the story broke, the stock had already doubled in value.

But incredibly, using the technique I'm going to tell you about... you could have "intercepted" this news story 33 days before it first appeared in the press!

Had you invested $5,000, you could have made as much as $10,150.

Add that to the easy money you could have made from the other example I showed you...

And you're up to $43,500 – just on two trades!

I have literally dozens of other examples, much like these.

But again, I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm sure you're probably wondering...

How on earth is this possible?

How can you possibly "intercept" the news before it appears in the mainstream media?

Simple...

It has to do with a phenomenon we call "The 22-Day Media Lag."

As you know, most news stories cover real time events.

Meaning, the story you're watching on CNBC is unfolding as you watch it.

So, let's say an earthquake hits San Francisco...

If you're watching the city shake or the buildings falling down on CNN...  then you're watching the story in real time. In other words, the story is happening as you watch it.

We can't intercept those kinds of stories.

No one can.

On the other hand, if you're interested in finding out which companies are going to receive State funds to repair the city... which company will receive patents for a new medical technology... or which company is going to announce record profits...

Well... then we can probably help you out.

You see, these kinds of events don't happen suddenly and unexpectedly. They require meetings, deliberation... and most of all – time.

So when the Mayor of San Francisco holds a press conference to announce the 3 or 4 companies it's going to pay to rebuild the damage caused by our hypothetical earthquake...

You've had enough time to analyze the signals...

We call this difference the "Media Lag."

It's a gap between the moment a financial event occurs... and when the mainstream news media actually runs a story on the event.

These are the kinds of events we can intercept.

Let me show you an example...

WHAT KIND OF "MEDIA LAG" events
can you INTERCEPT?

This summer, the Atlanta Journal Constitution ran a story on Crawford & Co.'s (CRDA:NYSE) record high profits.

It was the first piece of good press the insurance provider had gotten in a longtime. The company's share price jumped 157% pretty quickly – much too fast for the trader scanning the papers to take advantage of.

But you could have gotten this news months before it broke... and picked up shares BEFORE they began to jump.

How?

It's super simple, believe it or not.

All you have to do is look for a few legal documents the company MUST report to the Federal Government.

Take a position...

Wait for the news story to appear... and then cash out!

In a moment, I'll show you EXACTLY how to do this.

This technique allows you to intercept all kinds of news events: mergers, acquisitions, dividend announcements, oil discoveries, FDA approval notices... you name it.

If there's "lag time" between when the story happens... and when it appears in the news...

You can probably intercept it and trade on it.

But the type of news event isn't nearly as important as the size of the companies involved...

Let me explain...

Trade the "Lag" for 246% Returns

Big stories for tiny companies... .

That's our rule of thumb for intercepting news events.

It doesn't really matter much if it's news of a medical breakthrough... a landmark patent on a new deepsea oil drilling bit... or an acquisition...

Just so long as the "big news" involves a fairly small company.

For example...

On November 7th, 2008 AT&T announced it would acquire Centennial Communications – a New Jersey wireless provider.

You could have intercepted this news story months before it broke in the Wall Street Journal (on July 22nd, 2008)...

But which company should you care about?

The $165 billion telecomm giant? Or the little-known company 1/191th the size?

The smaller company, of course...

It was the second acquisition AT&T had announced in the month of November alone. No big news for them...

Case in point: when the story appeared, shares of AT&T only moved 1%.

But for Centennial shareholders, it was the biggest payday they ever received.

Shares jumped 102.6% that day alone.

Altogether, they're up 246% – in just about a week and a half.

Big stories for small companies.

Those are the kinds of stories we try to intercept.

So I've told you the kinds of news stories we intercept... and how much money you can making intercepting them...

But I still haven't answered the most pressing question:

How exactly does this work... ?

Better yet, how can you start taking advantage of it?

I'll tell you all about it in the pages ahead... .

The Origin of the "Media Lag"

What makes this "media lag" possible?

The Federal Government... Who else?

No other entity in America could create such a disruption in the markets.

Here's the gist of what happened...

In 2002, after big corporations like Tyco, Adelphia, and WorldCom stole billions from shareholders...

The U.S. Congress passed Public Law 107-20.

Also known as: The Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act.

Basically, the Feds wanted to make sure corporate accounting scandals never happened again.

Whether or not the law worked, I'll let the academics and pundits debate.

We're traders here...

And we only care about what this law inadvertently created (The Media Lag)...

And how we can use it to generate profits.

One of the law's 65 provisions requires NASDAQ, AMEX, and NYSE-listed companies to file previously non-public information... often indicating that a BIG news story is about to break.

When it does... the stock shoots up.

Let me show you an example...

STEP 1: WATCH FOR THE FILING

On March 18th, a company called Sequenom (SQNM) filed several of these legal documents.

They end up at a small Federal building at 100K Street in Washington DC... and, of course, it looks nothing like a news story.

Here's what Sequenom's looked like:

Next, you...

STEP 2: TAKE A POSITION

You could have bought shares of Sequenom through any online broker.

Then you...

STEP 3: WAIT FOR THE NEWS STORY TO APPEAR.

On June 5, 2008, the story appeared in the San Diego Tribune:

What do you think happened next?

STEP 4: WATCH AS YOUR SHARES SHOOT UP

Shares of Sequenom jumped 459%.

In fact, the company's share price started to climb in the days leading up to the news story.

Why?

Sequenom has 192 employees. Word gets out. Legal or not.

Good thing you had the opportunity to intercept the story BEFORE the stock price began to rise.

Take a look:

You could have gotten in on this opportunity nearly 2 full months before it appeared in the mainstream press... .

Had you invested $5,000, you would have cashed out with $22,950.

The media reports these stories when they're TOLD to report them. We "intercept" them as soon as they are available.

But how, exactly, do we get to these government filings BEFORE they appear in the mainstream press?

Last year we found a specialist to do the time-consuming work of locating, tracking, and interpreting these government filings...

Retired Defense Department Specialist
Seeks Us Out...

Last August, I received such a letter from a gentleman I didn't recognize. The subject line said: "I don't need a job. But I'd like to work for S&A Research."

And the resume was marked "TOP SECRET."

I thought this was a joke, but intrigued, I read on...

This individual claimed to have spent nearly a decade as an engineer and computer networking specialist for the U.S. and global intelligence community.

He constructed and installed portable, NSA-encrypted networks – in backpacks, car radios, and corporate attaché cases – so "intelligence officers" could discretely and securely access the Defense Department network from anywhere in the world.

In 2003, he provided technology support to the U.S. Special Forces in Bogota...

In 2004, he traveled to NATO Headquarters Lisbon, Portugal... where he installed a high-security network known as Black Communications...

Bottom line, this guy was a networking whiz... and tech specialist with all kinds of experience navigating top-secret government databases...

At the time, we were looking for a way to build a research service around the idea of the "Media Lag." We'd always known it was theoretically possible to use these government filings to "intercept" news stories...

But we never had an individual with the rare combination of skill sets that was necessary:

And as it turned out, this gentleman had left the Defense Department several years prior... because he'd made a small fortune trading and investing on his own!

His name: Bryan Heyliger (pronounced: hI – lih – gir).

And here's the incredible thing...

Brian had been using the "MEDIA LAG" on his own, with his own money... to make a fortune...

	"MEDIA LAG" FIELD TEST:
	425% Returns on Telecommunications Systems (TSYS)

In early 2003, while Brian was still working for the US Defense Department... he intercepted several legal documents in reference to Telecommunications Systems (TSYS)

A tiny company in Annapolis, Maryland...

These guys develop wireless location and messaging software for the Naval Academy... for Hutchison 3G – a British multimedia company... even for 911 emergency dispatchers in Baltimore City...

Brian knew something big was on the way.

No news had appeared yet in the mainstream press... or anywhere on the business wire. But it looked like contracts... new licensing agreements... something contractual involving large sums of money was about to go down.

So he loaded up on shares...

Care to guess what happened?

Several weeks after Brian intercepted the news... and took a position, Telecommunications Systems announced the big news:

The story went out on the business wire... and ran in the Daily Record – a regional business journal.

That's all it took to move a stock this small.

Shares shot up 425%... and Heyliger made a killing.

Unless you'd intercepted the Gov't filings when Heyliger did... you probably never would have known this trading opportunity even existed...

Well, it won't surprise you to hear that after a day-long interview in our office, we signed Mr. Heyliger to a contract.

He moved to our headquarters in Baltimore... began fine-tuning his strategy for taking advantage of the “22-day Media Lag”…

It’s important to point out:

Not every single story occurs exactly 22 days after we intercept one of these government filings.

For some, like US Airways, you get more lag time. In other situations, you’ll have to act much faster.

But you won’t have to worry about knowing when to get in and get out of these trades.

We built a research product around the idea… and tailored it to Brian’s unique skill set.

We call it Inside Strategist.

We've allowed a small group of readers to test Inside Strategist for themselves.

These folks weren't gophers or test subjects.

They are, by and large, wealthy, successful and sophisticated investors and traders... who knew that they were trying a radically new trading strategy... from a trader with whom they weren't yet familiar.

Once a week, we've been emailing these individuals, Brian's picks directly. He broadcasts which news stories he's intercepted... the best ways to trade on them... and whether any of his other trading strategies have triggered opportunities.

I'd like to show you what a few of these folks had to say. To protect their privacy, I've changed their names. But the quotes haven't been changed a bit. They're all from real subscribers:

For the next few days, we're offering you a limited-time opportunity to join these folks at a substantially reduced price.

Why?

I'll explain why we're extending this offer to you, specifically, in just a few moments... along with what we're offering...

But first, there's one important thing I forgot to tell you about...

It's happening very soon, and quite a bit of money is at stake...

We just intercepted the biggest
News story of 2009...

Several times a year, Brian intercepts a story so big...

It doesn't just trigger a run-up in a single small company...

It also affects many other companies like it – all at once.

You might remember several months ago, when a whole slew of financial companies shot-up in value:

What most people don't realize is that these companies, just weeks before their explosive moves, were filing very detailed documents, with the government, with specific numbers that indicated a very big move was coming in their share price.

By the time the investing public realized that they'd overreacted... they were reading in the Wall Street Journal about the big returns they could have made as many financial stocks soared...

Had you known these facts BEFORE they appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg...

You could have made a lot of money, like some of Brian's readers.

While this opportunity has come and gone... here's the good news:

"The nature of this event gives us a lag time of a couple months. But we could double and triple our money very quickly, when this story does hit."

I can't go into the specifics in these pages. Only subscribers to Brian's Inside Strategist can access the details.

You can sign up today... and Brian will email you directly... the moment this trade becomes active.

Remember, the way this works is simple:

Case in point: Consider Hovnanian (HOV) – a small homebuilder Brian's been tracking for most of 2008...

Brian "intercepted" a government document with important numbers regarding Hovnanian and its business on July 11, 2008.

As soon as he had this document in his hands, he issued an immediate trade alert to his readers.

A week later, the stock jumped 51% in a single week, and Hovnanian appeared in writeups in The Wall Street Journal...

The stock jumped 51% in a single week. That's an easy and safe gain. Of course, if you'd used options to trade this opportunity as Brian often does, you could have made as much as 142% on your money.

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Editor in Chief, Stansberry Research
December 2008

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