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and that is where we’re unique at IBD because we get into the facts
behind why stocks move up and why they eventually falter and turn
down. Investors walk away with a clear understanding of what to look for
in potential leaders.

Jonathan: Through the years, we’ve heard horror stories of people losing
much of their life savings because they don’t have a system that they fol-
low, or they’ve received poor professional advice. The aim of our work-
shop series is to give investors a proven system with sound rules that will
provide the tools necessary to make money when the market is in an
uptrend, and more importantly, protect their capital in a downtrend. We
want our investors to leave the workshops feeling confident and prepared
to handle whatever the market throws at them.
Ralph: Another impediment to investing are emotions, most people invest
from an emotional point of view. When they take a position in a stock and
it begins to go down in value, they typically rationalize why it will come
back. So at IBD’s workshops, we give you some specific rules that will
help take the emotions out of it. We’ve found in our many years of teach-
ing workshops that thousands and thousands of investors now feel much
more secure with their finances and with their retirement because we’ve
had a dramatic impact in helping them improve their investing returns.