The Bull Hunter: Tracking Today's Hottest Investments [Hardcover]

Dan Denning (Author)

Book Description

Series: Agora Series | Publication Date: June 3, 2005

The Bull Hunter is a personal road map to making big money in the days ahead–retirement-level wealth that only early investors can enjoy. Influential global market analyst Dan Denning reveals what readers can unearth exceptional short- and long-term profit opportunities. He outlines numerous techniques to mine raging bull markets and extraordinary profits in emerging countries, sectors, industries, and companies that are just beginning to flourish. He also shows readers how to protect themselves from disastrous risks, get in on the stocks of hard-asset companies, profit from the fastest growing economies in the world, and more. The Bull Hunter shows readers how, with simple trades they can make with a phone call to their broker, their investment performance and profits will jump today, tomorrow, and over the next decade.

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The world of investing has changed dramatically in the past few years, and this change is building steam. No longer can you settle for a portfolio of American companies and expect to watch your nest egg build over time. Even Warren Buffett predicts that the S&P will be lucky to eke out 5% to 6% a year over the next decade. The days of the secular bull market in American-only companies is long gone. But there is a way to the big bull markets right now—markets poised to return double- and triple-digit gains—if you know how and where to invest.

The Bull Hunter details exactly where you should be looking, what you should be looking for (as well as avoiding), and why. In fact, it's like your personal road map to making big money in the days ahead—retirement-level wealth that only the early investors are about to enjoy.

Influential global market analyst Dan Denning reveals what you need to do to unearth exceptional short- and long-term profit opportunities. He outlines numerous techniques to mine raging bull markets and extraordinary profits in emerging countries, sectors, industries, and companies that are just beginning to flourish. He also shows you how to protect yourself from disastrous risk, while supplying the information you need to:

• Uncover the almost magical profits of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and how to make a killing with options on ETFs and indexes
• Get in now on the stocks of hard-asset companies—Denning names them—that provide the world with essential energy, food, and more
• Divest from open-end mutual funds while you still have time, and place your financial future in flexible vehicles designed to respond to today's market
• Profit from the fastest growing economies in the world, India and China—the growing superpowers of the East—and do it without dangerous direct stock investments in foreign exchanges

Even as you read these words, a raging bull market is developing somewhere not far from your hometown, thanks to our new, fast-paced global economy. And the informed investor is about to become very rich.

The Bull Hunter details proven rules for identifying specific markets that are poised to move fast—really fast. It promises to show you how, with simple trades you can make with a phone call to your broker, your investment performance and profits will jump today, tomorrow, as well as over the next decade.

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Praise for The Bull Hunter

"Just as the sun always shines upon half of the world, there is always a bull-market raging somewhere on this planet. The trick is to find that bull-market, and make it work for you. Dan Denning has written a primer on how to uncover and exploit the best investment opportunities in the world, right now. In Dan's new book, The Bull Hunter, you will quickly learn the critical points of how to deploy your investment funds in the fast-changing arena of the global marketplace."
—Byron W. King Attorney and Financial Writer Contributing Editor to Whiskey and Gunpowder

"One half practical investment guide and one half history of how the West got rich, The Bull Hunter shows you how the investment world is changing, and what you must do to keep up."
—Bill Bonner, New York Times bestselling author of Financial Reckoning Day

Written by influential global market analyst Dan Denning, The Bull Hunter reveals how to uncover pending bull markets around the world, and turn today's often threatening economic climate into personal investment success.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (June 3, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471719838
• ISBN-13: 978-0471719830
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,284,276 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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101 of 105 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Introduction to Dan Denning's Strategic Investing Advice, June 18, 2005

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This review is from: The Bull Hunter: Tracking Today's Hottest Investments (Hardcover)

I've been a subscriber to the influential newsletter, Strategic Investment, for many years. From that exposure, I've often learned about new investing ideas before I found them mentioned in other parts of the financial press. While I don't buy all of their recommendations, I've prospered from the ones I have bought.

I found out about Dan Denning when he became the stock picker for Strategic Investment. Although I was initially skeptical about his thinking, I have come to respect it.

In The Bull Hunter, you will find many of his latest recommendations from Strategic Investment. If you are going to buy, read and apply this book, do it soon. Otherwise, the advice will become stale in terms of particular emerging markets and commodity-based plays.

As a result, I've graded this book for how well it will inform you about how to invest in the future . . . rather than the recommendations it has today.

The book's key themes are:

1. The negative outlook for the dollar, American stocks and bonds and the U.S. economy as the debt-driven binge will eventually run out of steam . . . to be followed by a long, ugly period of reckoning in which buying power will shrink, asset values will drop, and many will be overwhelmed by a pile of debt.

2. The promising outlook for scarce global commodities such as oil, soybeans and raw materials where there has been no new capacity added for 20 plus years. Globalization means that many more people will be able to afford to consume these commodities, and their prices will be on the rise for a long time to come. You can prosper by picking particular companies who are well positioned to supply these needs, such as Bunge.

3. World trade is about to soar. Those who will facilitate such trade should do well such as those who will build LNG carriers.

4. Unless a stock is an incredible bargain (such as Korean Electric Power), you are usually better off buying ETFs to get exposure to non-US bull markets, especially in emerging markets (which you can buy through EEM and individual country ETFs like EWS, EWZ, EWY and EWW).

5. You should search the world looking for bull markets to play . . . rather than hunkering down in the doomed U.S. markets and dollar. When a bull market is over, move on to another one.

Basically, he is arguing that you invest like being your own global hedge fund manager . . . but by employing less risk . . . rather than being a buy-and-hold type (which used to work well in the U.S.).

Only time will tell if he's right or not, but a good quality of this book is that Mr. Denning looks for low-cost, less risky ways to play the main trend. I like that about his advice.

If you do find you like the book, I recommend that you subscribe to Strategic Investment. That will keep you up-to-date with his latest ideas, and you may well prosper from some of them.

Why do I rate the book down to a three-star level? The book doesn't give enough guidance to help you select your own investments in the future. So most investors will soon be off in the wrong foot if they try to apply this book on their own after 2005.

By the way, if you are a subscriber to Strategic Investment, you can skip this book. There's nothing in it you haven't read about before.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Little Bit of Bull, August 1, 2005

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John Corney (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bull Hunter: Tracking Today's Hottest Investments (Hardcover)

I expected more of this book than I got, and by the end realized I'd been "had". I subscribe to several of the Agora Publishing newsletter services, including the one that Dan Denning writes. I like Dan's newsletter, but found the book a regurgitation of his themes in the newsletter, hurriedly thrown together, with some of the same stock recommendations he has given in his newsletter many, many months ago now. Which meant the themes and the recommendations are old news; if you want them hot off the press, join the newsletter. I found the book poorly edited too, with many typos and missing words. I expected more of the Agora editors and proof readers. The one that took first prize was the reference to the "cubes" as QQQ. The ticker symbol was changed to QQQQ several months ago now, long before the publishing date, so they could at least have caught that one to engender confidence in savvy readers. Of course, the immense power and might of the Agora publishing machine was thrown behind the promotion of the book. All in all, it left me with a bad taste in my mouth: a mediocre book at best, and strong overtones of conflict of interest in the way Bill Bonner pumped the book in his "Daily Reckoning" newsletter and emails to all of his paid subscriber lists to get the book to #1 at Amazon.com, and also the recycling of material long ago published to paying subscribers of Denning's newsletter in what could be viewed as pumping old recommendations. (To all of you who bought based on your reading of the book, "Thank you!" You pumped up my portfolio for me!) The success of this book is yet another testament to the fact that Agora publishing has skillfully adapted old direct mail copywriting techniques to the internet. Long may they prosper, but I will be putting my copy of the "Bull Hunter" up for sale on eBay. It's not a keeper in my opinion.

49 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Depends on your Perspective, June 10, 2005

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Llama Sherpa "Llama Sherpa" (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bull Hunter: Tracking Today's Hottest Investments (Hardcover)

If you are already familiar with many of Denning's cohorts and the general rants and raves of the Agora Publishing crew and their free daily newsletters, and especially if you know Dan's own fee based monthly Strategic Investment newsletter, this book is a little soft. Still, it is of paramount value to someone fresh to the message since it will go unnoticed that the core theme is a retread from the last year of Strategic Investment.

Bull Hunter holds itself out as an informal back end to Financial Reckoning Day, an Agora family book that frames the current global macro structural problems fairly well in a concise, stinging rebuke / expose of American financial recklessness and structural imbalance. Reckoning Day wraps up leaving the reader with the question, "So what do I do??" Enter Denning, who provides readers with a summary on options, ETFs, a sophomoric introduction to China and India as investment opportunities (he's no Jim Rogers "Investment Capitalist", which Denning himself acknowledges in the book), finishing with a couple of investment recommendations thrown in for good measure to serve as an example of the soundness of his logic, front to back.

That's not to say the book is not worth a read. Definitely if you are new to the perspective, you should give it a go (if not as an immediate follow-up to Financial Reckoning Day). Even for one familiar with Denning's day-to-day ranting, Dan's opening third on what he calls "The Great Money Migration from The West to The East" is entertaining, even if it is a bit familiar. For newcomers, this migration is the crux of a very important paradigm shift taking place at the moment, and one that is going virtually unnoticed by the mainstream of America and much of Western Europe. That fact is to be ignored at your own peril, and this book is well ahead of the curve in framing the issue in sober terms.

All said, the broader message promoting thinking outside the box / being global-macro and geo-politically aware when investing, is important given the present cult-like mass psychosis of passive buy-and-hold asset allocation in the U.S. among professionals and non-professionals alike. The Bull Hunter will likely come across a bit like a set up for Denning's newsletters for those more experienced on the subject matter, but there is still some fresh meat on the bones. For others, that's not a bad thing, as more than a few Americans could use the sober message to balance excessive amounts of investment hype (from folks with journalism degrees) via the more popular outlets.