I dropped out of Philosophy graduate school to start Top Gun in 2006 to profit from the bursting of the housing bubble. The stock market peaked in 2007 and Top Gun beat the S&P by more than 50% in 2008 as the market crashed.

It took me many years to understand that while betting against the market worked when I first started Top Gun that is not the way to make money over the long term. Because the market trends up strongly over the long term you want to have a Bullish Bias. Just having that bias is half the battle as it will cause you to be invested and stay invested – and therefore on the right side of the long term trend.

To amplify your returns, you need a good stock selection strategy. You can’t do much better than Warren Buffett’s Philosophy of buying great companies and holding them for the long term. Perhaps the greatest quote in the history of investing belongs to him:

It’s better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

For my own particular take on how to do this be sure to get my Free Report: “Buy Right And Sit Tight: How The Big Money Is Made In Stocks – And How You Can Do It Too”.