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Here's How You'll Make 700% Gains This Year With Your Own Private “Money Machine”
By Teeka Tiwari
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Strolling the docks of superyachts in Cannes last year, you might have caught a glimpse of a reclusive gray-haired billionaire sauntering the polished teak decks of his $100 million superyacht, Archimedes.
What’s so special about spotting a billionaire in Cannes? The place is full of them… Well, this particular billionaire holds a key to making you richer than you can imagine.
His name is Jim Simons. Jim started as a math professor at Stony Brook University in New York. Today, when he’s not on his $100 million yacht or flying on his $45 million jet, he’s checking up on his $18 billion net worth from the comfort of his $20 million Long Island mansion.
He built his wealth from a hedge fund business called Renaissance Technologies. He’s most famous for his successful Medallion Fund. According to one report, the Medallion Fund has created more billionaires than any other hedge fund in the world.
By any yardstick, Jim and his team at Renaissance are the most successful investors the world has ever seen. For 29 years, they’ve possessed a secret that has created what one Bloomberg reporter called “a fountain of money unlike any other.”
In this month’s issue, I’m going to peel back part of that secret and show you how to gain access to some of the same type of information Jim has used to fund his lavish lifestyle.
I’ll also show you how you’ll make at least 83 times your money this year—and as much as 333 times your money over the next 2–3 years.
That would turn every $1,000 into at least $83,000. That’s the kind of life-changing, asymmetric trades we look for in Palm Beach Confidential.
Before I show you how we’ll do that, let me tell you a little more about the company behind the Medallion Fund, Renaissance Technologies.
Crypto Corner
We’ve recently renovated the entire Palm Beach Confidential Crypto Corner. If you have questions about anything cryptocurrencies, chances are you’ll find the answers there.
There, you can access our research and step-by-step videos on web-based wallets, hardware wallets, and other cryptocurrency services.
Be sure to check out our wallets and exchanges list to see which exchanges you can buy all our recommended coins on and which wallets we recommend holding them in.
The Closest Thing to a Crystal Ball
Renaissance has two unique features:
If you previously worked on Wall Street, they probably won’t hire you.
They do zero fundamental analysis.
The company is staffed almost entirely with astrophysicists, string theorists, and all manner of mathematicians. Three hundred scientists—including 90 who hold Ph.D.s—spend all day doing one thing…
Analyzing the price movements of stocks and commodities.
This is what a Bloomberg article said about Medallion last year:
[B]ased on models that find signals hidden in the noise of markets, [the Medallion Fund] has become probably the world’s most successful money machine. Powered by millions of lines of computer code, it has made about $55 billion over the past 29 years, thanks to average returns after fees of an astounding 40%.
If you want to invest with Renaissance, forget it. They stopped taking outside money in 2005. Want to get a job there? I hope you have an advanced degree in astrophysics or you’re an expert in string theory… Otherwise, you have no shot.
For decades, the ordinary investor had no access to funds like Medallion and its unique strategy. You had to be to be very well-connected… very rich… or smart enough to work there.
But all that is about to change…
A small team of blockchain coders has figured out some of Jim Simons’ juiciest secrets. This small band of computer scientists, neuroscientists, mathematicians, and linguists have put their brains together to create a money machine unlike any I have ever seen outside of a hedge fund like Medallion.
Here’s a sample of the publicly released test results of nearly 900 financial events their analysts have predicted:
On January 19, 2017, five minutes before the markets opened, the team published price predictions on gold, silver, the U.S. dollar, the Russian ruble, and Brent oil. Each prediction included an entry point, stop-loss, and profit-taking point. Over a three-week public test period, the team had average annualized gains of 47%.
On December 11, 2017, their computers said to buy Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX) at $20. At the time of this writing, the stock was around $24. That’s a 20% rise in just 27 trading days.
In early January 2018, they publicly announced that Netflix would beat estimates. On January 18, Netflix reported earnings of $1.15—a 15 % earnings beat—and the stock shot up 9%.
But it’s not just stocks; they also released test results of their crypto trades:
On December 11, 2017, they said to buy NEO when it was at $35. As of this writing, it’s over $115.
On December 14, 2017, they said to buy the CRED token ICO. As of January 5, 2018, CRED had peaked 20 times higher.
December 20, 2017, they said to buy Ripple at 70 cents. Two weeks later, Ripple was at $3.30.
What’s amazing about their results from January 19, 2017, (when they predicted the prices of gold, silver, dollars, rubles, and Brent oil) was that 40% of their analysts had never made a trade on an exchange in their lives.
Just like Renaissance, these guys have found out how to make money from the markets without using a traditional Wall Street staff.
They have figured out a way to tap into a brand-new form of research called hybrid intelligence. I’ll explain what that is in a moment. What you need to know now is that hybrid intelligence can make you richer than you ever thought possible.
The Wisdom of Crowds
The way to access this intelligence is through a crypto token called Cindicator (CND).
We recommended Cindicator in the short-term trading portfolio on December 18. Let me explain to you why I am adding it to the long-term portfolio this month, and why, if you don’t yet own it, you absolutely should get some right now.
The insiders of Cindicator are a group of scientists from across the world. They’ve come together to create what I believe is the most undervalued crypto token on the market today.
Cindicator is a utility token. That means you need to use Cindicator tokens to access the project’s trading signals. Here’s what took my breath away: It’s been trading on the exchanges for just 14 weeks.
It’s largely unknown, which makes the following information even more impressive.
Relative to its launch date, Cindicator is the most heavily used utility token I’ve ever seen. Again, I have never seen a token gain so much utility so quickly.
20% of its tokens are already being used to secure Cindicator’s prediction services. Compare that to other prediction coins such as Augur, Gnosis, and Stox. 100% of their coin holdings are for speculation.
That’s because none of those projects have a live service yet, and they’ve been trading since October 2015, May 2017, and August 2017, respectively.
So what makes Cindicator so different from Gnosis, Augur, and Stox?
Tapping Into Collective Wisdom
Aside from having an actual working product, Cindicator utilizes hybrid intelligence. Hybrid intelligence works in two parts.
The first part uses something called crowd intelligence…
Crowd intelligence is a method of making predictions of future events by polling a group of people and averaging their answers. The average opinion of the crowd is generally more accurate than that of a single expert.
The Bull Display and Jelly Bean Jar Experiments
A famous example of the Wisdom of the Crowd phenomenon was in 1906. That’s when British scientist Francis Galton visited a rural fair where he invited fairgoers to guess the weight of a bull on display.
About 800 people—some of them professional farmers, others not—wrote their figures on tickets. After collecting the tickets for analysis after the fair, Galton averaged all the guesses. The result: 1,197 pounds.
The actual weight of the bull was 1,198 pounds. The collective wisdom of the crowd came within less than one-tenth of 1% of the bull’s actual weight.
A more recent example was in 2011.
That’s when Professor Marcus du Sautoy, a presenter for the BBC, asked 160 colleagues how many jelly beans were in a jar. The guesses ranged from a low of 400 to as high as 50,000.
The average of all the guesses—4,514. The actual amount of jellybeans in the jar was 4,510.
What’s remarkable about this experiment is over a hundred years after Galton’s experiment, the wisdom of the crowd once again came within one-tenth of a percent of the actual number.
Sophisticated hedge funds like Renaissance and intelligence agencies like the CIA already use crowd intelligence models to forecast outcomes in economics and geopolitics.
Cindicator has done something a little different. It merges crowd intelligence with artificial intelligence (AI). By adding AI, the company can make even better predictions than by using crowd intelligence alone.
Cindicator proved this when it released the prediction results from the January 19, 2017, test on gold, silver, dollars, rubles, and oil prices.
Its very best of crowd participants averaged annualized gains of 25%. But when Cindicator added its AI component to its human component, annualized returns leaped to 47%.
They call this merger of human intelligence and AI hybrid intelligence.
What’s amazing about hybrid intelligence is that it can be used for just about anything. Stock market research, political polling data, consumer research, sports betting… The applications are endless.
This means the potential market for Cindicator is huge.
Think about this…
During the last election cycle, spending on political polling topped $6.8 billion.
Wall Street spends $50 billion per year on research.
Over $1 trillion annually is spent on sports betting.
Large corporations spend an estimated $12.5 billion annually just on consumer market testing before launching a new product.
Insurance companies pay $185 billion per year trying to predict risk.
Each of these industries is a potential buyer of the Cindicator token. For now, the team focuses on the finance sector, but as it grows, you’ll see a slew of new services being offered to other industries.
Just How Does Cindicator Work?
At this point, you might be wondering, “Exactly how does Cindicator work and how do I make money from holding the token?”
Cindicator gathers data by polling 30,000 analysts through its Android app. These analysts answer questions about future events. (The analysts are paid proportionally from a reward fund based on the accuracy of their forecasts. The more accurate their predictions, the more they are paid.)
Cindicator then aggregates the polling data and runs it through the AI component, which sends trading signals to Cindicator token holders.
The more tokens you own, the more (and better) information you receive. To date, Cindicator has been correct 72.4% of the time across all of its predictions (according to its published forward test results). As I’ll show you below, certain data packages have done even better than that.
To access Cindicator’s data, you have to either spend (i.e., send tokens to Cindicator) or “stake” a certain amount of coins. Let’s focus on staking for now because that’s my recommended way to access Cindicator’s predictions.
When you stake Cindicator tokens, you put them into a wallet that proves your ownership. So long as the coins stay in the wallet, you continue to receive trading signals.
Cindicator offers four tiers for data access. They require as little as 5,000 tokens for the beginner package and as much as 1 million tokens for their “Cryptometer” Bot 2.0 package. (Trading bots automatically execute trades based on preset algorithms, indicators, or parameters.)
Earlier in the report, I wrote that I thought Cindicator was the most undervalued token on the market today.
Here’s why I think that…
The cost of each level of service is way undervalued relative to the gains users can make from each tier. There are four tiers of service: Beginner, Trader, Expert, and Cryptometer.
I’ll explain them in more detail in a moment. But first, let me share with you Cindicator’s outstanding results…
I was able to obtain and review Cindicator’s published test results from their crypto-asset indicators. (Keep in mind, though, that Cindicator also has indicators on stocks, indexes, and commodities.)
Here’s what I found:
Its weekly bitcoin price forecast indicator did 38 trades between January and June 2017. Of those trades, 24 were winners. And the average return for all trades was 0.95% per week. That works out to 49.5% annualized.
Its monthly price forecasts on bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin executed 15 trades between January and May 2017. There were 13 winners and two losers. The average gain of all trades was 58.2% per month. That works out to 708.1% annualized.
Since its release on December 11, 2017, the Cindicator Bot has issued 128 alerts:
17 Beginner Package Alerts
29 Trader Package Alerts
82 Expert Package Alerts
Of those total 128 alerts, 58 have closed with a 72.41% win rate. (Below, I break down each Cindicator alert package.)
Cindicator Packages
Cindicator offers several trading packages. The more tokens you use per package, the more services you receive. If you want to know how Cindicator will make money, then you need to understand what each package entails. (If you’re not interested in buying a Cindicator trading package, you can skip this section.)
Beginner Package: 5,000 tokens will cost you around $350 at current prices. That will get you access to the Beginner Package. This package gives you:
Community choice indicator: One crypto pick per week
Market events probability indicators: A weekly prediction that can cover traditional markets, politics, or cryptos
As an example, the Cindicator Bot sent an alert to Beginner traders on December 20, 2017 to buy Ripple (XRP) at 70 cents. It rallied to over $3.
Trader Package: 200,000 tokens will cost you around $15,000 at current prices. That will get you access to the Trader Package. The Trader Package includes everything from the Beginner Package plus the following:
Weekly support and resistance levels: Projected highs and lows of a selection of cryptos and traditional financial assets
ICO ranking: A ranking of upcoming ICOs from best to worst
Price level indicators: Predictions on whether a crypto will reach a certain dollar value by a specific date
As an example, the Cindicator Bot sent an alert to traders on December 11, 2017 on Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX) before the market opened. VRX made 8.5% in just a few days.
Expert Package: 700,000 tokens will cost you around $52,500 at current prices. That will get you access to the Expert Package. The Expert Package includes everything from the Beginner and Trader Packages plus the following:
Price level indicators: Tracks a basket of the most popular stocks and indexes and predicts they will reach a certain dollar value by a specific date
On December 14, 2017, the Cindicator Bot indicated Verify (CRED) as the highest-growth ICO on its list. Those who acted on the alert when it was sent made 20 times their money priced in U.S. dollars.
Cryptometer Bot 2.0: 1 million tokens will cost you around $75,000 at current prices. That will get you access to the Cryptometer Bot 2.0 Package. It includes everything from the Beginner, Trader, and Expert Packages, plus the following:
The Cryptometer Bot generates 1–5 arbitrage trades each day. An arbitrage works by buying a token on one exchange (where the price is lower) and selling the exact amount of the same token on another exchange (where the price is higher).
Here’s a published sample of some arbitrage opportunities you would have had access to over the first two weeks:
An opportunity to make 13.7% on Bitcoin Cash (BCH) as it traded higher on Poloniex compared to Bitfinex.
An opportunity to make 14.1% on Ripple (XRP) as it traded higher on Kraken compared to Poloniex.
An opportunity to make 152.9% on NEO (NEO) as it traded higher on Bittrex compared to Bitfinex.
Cindicator says you should expect to make 1–3% per day with Cryptometer Bot.
During its first two weeks, five trades could have made you 5% or more. The NEO trade was notable. A flash crash on Bitfinex on November 29, 2017 caused NEO to plunge.
There’s no way you could manually find such an opportunity. But Cryptometer Bot 2.0 users had a full five minutes—an eternity for cryptocurrency arbitrage—to make over 150%.
If you can make 1% per day with Cryptometer Bot 2.0, that’s 3,678% annualized. Does a $75,000 cost for the potential of 3,678% annual gains sound rational to you?
You can see in some of the trade examples generated by each trading package above that, relative to the potential returns, the price of Cindicator tokens doesn’t make sense. In fact, they’re radically underpriced.
But that’s about to change.
Cindicator is on the cusp of launching a global marketing campaign that will put its market-beating trading signals in front of every major hedge fund in the world.
Cindicator says the strategy includes reaching larger audiences through finance, tech and business media… increasing online marketing… and working with opinion leaders and influential bloggers.
We have a unique opportunity to jump ahead of the hedge fund elite and get into Cindicator before they’ve even heard about it.
What’s It Worth?
The way you access Cindicator’s signals is by proving you own a certain number of tokens.
To keep getting the information, you have to maintain your ownership. This effectively shrinks the pool of available tokens. To date, more than 20% of CND tokens have been removed from the market via staking.
The total token count is capped at 2 billion. (There are 1.4 billion actually in the market; 5% of the tokens have gone to rewarding contributors and the rest are held by Cindicator under a two-year vesting schedule.)
That means there can never be more than 2,000 users of Cindicator’s most valuable product, Cryptometer Bot 2.0 (It costs 1 million tokens. 1 million x 2,000 = 2 billion).
So how high do I think this can go?
This year, I think we’ll see at least $5 per token. Here’s why…
Let’s assume users have the ability to make 1.5% per day using Cindicator.
A $100 million hedge fund dedicated to this strategy would make approximately $1.5 million per day. Let’s ignore compounding for now and assume over the year, the fund continued making $1.5 million per day.
By the end of the year, the $100 million fund would have made $547 million. That’s more than a 5x return. How much would an institution pay to make nearly a half-billion dollars?
$5 million? $10 million? $20 million? $50 million?
As a former hedge fund manager myself, I’d have no problem green-lighting a $5 million spend on research if I thought we could make $1.5 million a day from it.
That’s why I think funds will easily pay $5 million for a shot at those types of gains.
Remember, funds will have to own 1 million CND tokens to access the best research. That would suggest that Cindicator could reach $5 this year and still be a highly profitable research source for a hedge fund.
After a solid year or two of predictions, we think we’ll see a widespread surge of institutional buying of Cindicator tokens. Now match what we expect to be an excellent track record with a slew of new prediction products that cover all manner of financial and nonfinancial predictions… and we think the price of the token could be pushed to as much as $20.
Your initial response might be, “Hold on, Teeka. You said you think this will hit $5–20. That means you’re looking for a $10 billion–40 billion market cap. That’s crazy!” (Cindicator’s current market cap is about $140 million.)
Before you write me off as a lunatic, think about this…
Unlike any other coin I have written about, market cap doesn’t matter when it comes to CND. It’s not market cap coin. What matters is the expected return on investment of the research versus the cost to access it.
The experts I have spoken to in the institutional research space tell me institutions will pay as much as 20% of the expected return for a research source.
So for instance, a customer would pay $100 million for an expected payoff of $500 million.
As you can see, buying 1 million tokens and investing $20 million (assuming $20 per token) is actually a conservative number relative to the potential value of the research.
You might be concerned that if everybody has access to this great research, it will cause the profit opportunities to disappear quickly as big-money hedge funds jump on the ideas.
Here is what you need to remember… The number of data users is capped by the number of tokens in the float.
If every potential user decided to buy 1 million tokens to get access to the best research, only 1,400 spots could be taken because the float is 1.4 billion tokens.
Even when every single token is in the market, the maximum number of users (assuming everyone wanted the top package) could never be more than 2,000.
This hard cap of users ensures that token holders will be part of a very small and elite group of traders.
Here is my prediction:
Over the next two years, every major hedge fund, day trader, and bank trading desk in the world will buy Cindicator. You will be priced out of this resource if you don’t take action right now and own some.
As the value of Cindicator grows beyond the reach of all but the very wealthy, you’ll share an enormous edge with the richest investors and traders in the world. If you’ve ever dreamed of owning an investment that could fund your lifestyle forever, then you must own Cindicator.
It’s a holding that will continue to make you money year in and year out. It has the potential to be your very own money machine the way the Medallion Fund has paid for Jim Simons’ superyacht, private jet, and lavish Long Island mansion.
Here’s What Takes It Higher
We believe we’re in the early stages of a mass migration from traditional assets (like stocks) to crypto assstes. In the past, we’ve written about the non-correlated aspects of crypto. That means crypto prices are not affected by movements in the stock and bond markets.
As we told you last month, research suggests that money managers can reduce the volatility in their overall portfolio by adding crypto assets. We think as much as 10% of the money in traditional assets will migrate into crypto assets.
Institutional money managers will be hungry for proven research sources in the crypto space. That makes Cindicator an easy choice for them. Over the short term, we think the biggest buyers will be hedge funds. This is where Cindicator will be focusing its marketing efforts.
There are 150 new crypto funds launching in 2018, with hundreds more coming. All of these funds will own at least 1 million CND. On top of crypto funds, there are an estimated 15,000 hedge funds worldwide.
If 10% of them add crypto exposure, that’s 1,500 hedge funds that are likely buyers of Cindicator tokens. Remember, the top-tier research package requires holding 1 million tokens. So that means if 1,500 hedge funds need to buy 1 million tokens each, that’s 1.5 billion in potential token demand.
But guess what?
There aren’t enough tokens to go around.
There are only 1.4 billion tradable CND tokens. 20% of those are already locked up. That leaves 1.12 billion tokens facing a projected demand of 1.5 billion tokens.
And this demand projection is just for hedge funds. It doesn’t include the 7 million global crypto traders… the 20 million traditional stock traders… or the 10,000 mutual funds.
You know what else it doesn’t include? The projected demand from:
The $6.8 billion spent on political polling research during election time
The $1 trillion per year wagered by sport bettors
The $183 billion spent each year on insurance risk research
The $12.5 billion spent each year on corporate research
The $50 billion spent each year spent on traditional Wall Street research
That’s why we think you’ll see a massive demand-driven rally in CND tokens that will take them to $5 this year and $20 over the next couple of years.
At the time of this writing, we can buy them around 7 cents.
What Is B.I.T.S. Saying?
B.I.T.S. is designed to automatically alert us to ideas when investor sentiment is low. We call this buying at the bottom of the fear curve. You can read how the system works here.
B (Business Value Ratio): The business value ratio measures the daily dollar value of all transactions compared to the total value of the cryptocurrency. When the business value ratio dips below its average, it’s a sign the crypto token is cheap.
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The Cindicator business value indicator rose higher recently as trading volume in CND has dropped. As buyers come into the market, the ratio will drop and put Cindicator back in the buy zone. Also keep in mind that Cindicator has only been trading for three months… so there’s minimal data to work with.
I (Insiders): When the business value ratio is flashing, I go to my insiders.
Two advisers to Cindicator that you may be familiar with are Anthony Di Iorio and Charlie Shrem. Anthony is one of the founders of Ethereum and Charlie is one of the earliest investors in bitcoin.
When I asked them why they chose Cindicator, they told me they loved the idea, but most importantly, they respected the team.
Here’s what I discovered… Cindicator received over $500 million in buy orders for its ICO. Instead of being greedy, they capped the ICO at $15 million. They took the time to find investors they thought could add value to the Cindicator ecosystem. They also limited the size of each investment so trading wouldn’t be dominated by “whales.”
Cindicator isn’t a money grab for these guys. If it was, they would have taken the $500 million. The team is devoted to the idea of helping people make better decisions through hybrid intelligence. The restraint and maturity they showed in the ICO says a lot about the integrity of the team.
T (Technicals): We use technical analysis to tell us when the selling is over. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) measures how strong a cryptocurrency is based on its previous trading history. If today’s price is higher, the RSI moves up. If today’s price is lower, the RSI moves down.
The RSI is showing us that the current sell-off is overdone. It hasn’t flipped to a buy yet, but given the recovery in prices, we expect it to flip to a buy signal in a day or two.
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S (Social Media): Our research has shown that before a cryptocurrency takes off, we always see a surge in “chatter” on our social media tracker.
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As you can see, our social media “chatter” indicator broke above its baseline in December 2017. While it has tailed off recently, we put that down to the recent crash we’ve seen in the overall crypto market.
Bringing It All Together
Cindicator is a unique crypto token in that it’s incredibly useful right now. We’re not waiting for a testnet or alpha launch. You can start extracting value from your token ownership immediately.
At the time of this writing, Cindicator is relatively unknown. But that’s about to change. The team is getting ready to unleash a global marketing blitz that will put Cindicator in front of just about every major hedge fund, family office, and serious trader across the globe.
The time to buy is now, before the media blitz happens.
Action to Take
Cindicator is a unique utility token in that it’s up and running right now. Even when I recommended Ethereum at $7, it wasn’t being used as much as Cindicator is right now.
Remember: 20% of the tokens have already been staked to get access to their research. Can you imagine what will happen once the team gets this idea in front of every hedge fund and family office?
The demand for the token is going to skyrocket. The time to take action is now.
As always, place no more than $200–400 for smaller accounts and $500–1,000 for larger accounts into this trade.
Trade to Make: Buy Cindicator (CND)
Buy-up-to Price: $0.30
Stop Loss: None