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Why Advance and Protect?

Markets go through cycles

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Why Advance and Protect?

Remove emotion from the investment

process

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What is Advance and Protect?

Combination of Capital Preservation and

Market Participation

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What is Advance and Protect?

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How it works

Cash is held

Position begins upward trend

Cash is deployed

Cash experiences

market participation

Position begins

downward trend

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The power of participation

“The most powerful force in the universe

is compound interest”

-Albert Einstein

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The power of participation

What if you had been out of the market

for only 10 days in the last 15 years?

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What if you missed the 10 Best Days?

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• Average Annualized Return drops from 6.5% to 1.98%

• What were CD rates during that time?

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What if you missed the 10 Worst Days?

• Average Annualized Return almost doubles

from 6.5% to 11.66%

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