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"...It is amazing to actually have a master stock trader on your side for once! Finally someone I can trust! The portfoliocrafter could not be more helpful, understanding and more right! I have been stunned again and again over some of the gains I have seen."

Justin English
Windermere, Florida, USA

"Dear Manuel...I became a member two weeks ago and I have already made $7822.09 with ACF, holding it less than a week. What a great call!"

Eusebio Nanni
Herstal, Belgium

"I'd like to thank your for developing a great trading system. I've tried a lot of stock trading services over the past three years. I've made money with some and lost money with most. It seams like the ones that do make a little require a lot of your time which means sitting in front of the computer for hours.

I'd like to congratulate you on your system. First and most importantly my portfolio is up higher and faster than any other system I've used. I'm making a lot of money - I mean a lot.

I'm also free to do what I want during the day. I don't have to sit in front of a computer all day. Thanks for offering so many different ways to get your alerts. I can even travel on vacation or business and keep trading with your system. I just check my email a few times a day call in a trade or two and that's it.

Thanks again for the great calls."

Jim Bischoff
International Falls, Minnesota, USA

"Regarding your congratulations to all your subscribers, if we were holding NVDA:

Well, I was holding it! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

This is the first time, I was ever positioned to reel in the benefits of being in the right place at the right time. (Several times, I have been in the wrong place.)

Oh.......what a great feeling!

I only hope you have a huge house on a lake, fancy sports cars, several SUV's, wife and many children to support and put through college. Sadly, I hope this for selfish reasons. (Not that I do not think you deserve it. :-)) I would like you to continue providing this service for a very long time. Five years would be nice. Ten years would be ideal. If our next 7 months are as good as your first 5, I will have the choice of working from home as a trader versus driving 2 hours every day back and forth to my full time job. (Depends on your definition of a trader. At the very least, working from the house following your trades.)

Keep up the great work and thanks again!"

Gloria Tidwell
Katy, Texas, USA

"I have been trading stocks for more than two years. So I am not a rookie in this. The style I trade is swing trading. That is one reason I like Portfolio Crafter's trading style, which is very similar to what I am doing.

What amazes me about Portfolio Crafter are two things. One is the consistency of the profits, which never fall below 10%. And in this month, we are already up 34%, which is truly amazing. Second is the precision of the entry & exit points. It's uncanny the way Manuel enters a long at nearly day low, and exits a few
days later at nearly day high; which will maximize the profit.

With this kind of performance, I believe I've found the right place for my money. Since joining Portfolio Crafter 3 weeks ago, my account is already up 12%. Right now, the only wish I have is for this site to last a very long time."

Robert Wang
Sunnyvale, California, USA

"I started using the service on September 8 and I am amazed at the accuracy of the stock calls. The service constantly keeps the user updated and answers any and all questions that are asked.

I have tremendous confidence in this service - take the 30 day trial and you will see for yourself. You will be glad you did. I look forward to many future profitable trades using this service.

The crazy market behavior has made it very hard for traders to make money which makes the trading results of this service all the more incredible. Thanks for the Outstanding Service."

Bob B.
Highland Heights, Ohio, USA

"I just joined up last week and bought 11,500 shares of Lucent @ 1.75. I'm a real happy guy. Thanks. You earned your $99 fee.
I'm very excited about the potential Lucent has. Putting a stop at $2.00 just in case. Thanks again..." (Ed. Note: At the time he wrote this, Lucent was trading above $2.20)

John Gallagher
Weston, Florida, USA

"I'm extremely happy with how my portfolio is doing under your guidance. As of Friday's close, it's up $1200 because of your calls--that's 6% in 13 trading days!

More importantly, now stock trading is less distracting for me at work than it used to be, which reduces the impact a self-managed portfolio has on my work ethic. In reality the actual time spent responding to your advice is at most 10 minutes a day, which is probably less time/day than I'd normally spend just deleting junk mail.

Thank you very much!"

G.H.
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

"I did not get started until the 29th of April so bought into JNPR a little late but did enjoy the short ride which with my 200 shares I have paid my first month dues and show a 6% gain to date I am enjoying the ride…”

David W. Wik
Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

"...I've just signed in and started my portfolio with NVDA. Already 5.5% up tks!"

M.B
Sao Paulo, Brazil

"...Today I completed my first trade since subscribing a couple of days ago. Made $1104 for a 9.5% net return. That comes close to paying for a full years subscription. I may not do as good the next time, but the first trade is certainly impressive. Exact details, bought NVDA at 14.35 on 4/30 and sold for 15.73 on 5/2. You may use this if you wish."

B. Schmidt
Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA

"...Recently I tried quite a few these kinds of services, and I cancel most of the them, but I like your service very much because it is quite reliable, accurate and honest, so I feel like to be a long term member. Thank you very much for your through research and careful calls!"

B.B.W.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

"Hi, in 24hrs. your NVDA pick paid for my subscription to
portfoliocrafter.com for the next 8 years. I'll be watching you. Thanks."

Bob Steffens
Birmingham, Alabama, USA

"...After cautiosly following your trades, I am now copying your trades. Bought this week LU and NVDA, both are up. Great. Finally I am making money..."

Fritz Deigner
Clearwater, Florida, USA

"Manuel, you might not call it 'big bucks" (though it is big percentage returns) but I invested $23,051 in LU on April 23rd. I sold half of this on May 5th for a gain of $1,765 (15.31%) and the other half on May 21st for a gain of $4,626 (40.14%) after commissions.

THANK YOU so much for (1) sending alerts out promptly after you effect a transaction, (2) selecting securities that can handle larger investments, and (3) making such great picks! I am shifting increasing amounts of investments among several services your way."

F.E.
Utah, USA

"I have already recommended your service to all of my friends. In my first week I bought SLR, AGEN, & SONS. I have already made a profit of over 10 %. In my second week I bought SONS again & made another 3% in one day. Keep up the good work. I have tried over 10 stock picking services. None of them really worked for me. Usually the other services give you a blanket of several stocks. I like your approach to the market. Thanks again."

Dan Tiller
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

"...I just sold 200 chkp at 18.22 that I bought at 17.06 on may 15 for a profit of 6.8%. and 200 endp at 15.71 that I bought at 15.00 on may 22 for a profit of 4.7%. Today is may 29. Keep the good work."

G.L.
La Presentation, Quebec, Canada

"...Thank you, thank you for the positive call on JNPR. I closed out my position on Friday, also took my profits on NVDA and I am a happy camper!

This is my first month subscribing to your service and I have major money for the weekend thanks to you."

Karen Ariele
Olney, Maryland, USA

"Manuel, Just wanted to let you know that I think the pre-alerts are a vast improvement to your program. By having this pre-alert, I can place my order with the limit price from your pre-alert and then not have to keep checking my e-mail to see if the price that you have set has been reached. This has been a real time saver for me. It makes your system so much more convenient. Thanks for this improvement."

Tom Jackson
Cedar City, Utah, USA

"Hi Manuel,

Just hit on an order to sell the remainder of gnta. When the stock was down to 16.07, I put in a trailing stop of .07, and the stock went back to 16.09 and I got filled at 16.02. A gain of 2.17 or 15.67 %. Thank you very much! I realize you have not sold yet, but I was getting a little anxious and did not want to lose any previous gains. My last 10 trades have been profitable!

...Will keep you posted, and thank you again for responding to my questions. Feels a little bit like family, sort of."

R.M. Certified Public Accountant
Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA

"Good news to pass your way: Off of your initial alerts, I purchased 6000 RBAK shares at .31 ... and sold them yesterday at .61 for almost a 100 percent profit! I also purchased (back off of your initial alert) 30 contracts of NKTR Sep $10 calls for .50/share. I cashed them in yesterday at a healthy $4.00/share!! That's a
700% profit ... totalling $10,500 !! Thanks for your alerts, Manuel"

Michael Kavanaugh
Pacific Beach, California, USA

"...Concerning PRSF, I did do well with this trade. I was able to purchase 2500 shares at 3.10 and sold half at 3.60. Not bad for one day!

Also, I'm not sure if you have looked at your picks from a longer term perspective, but I took all of your buy recommendations from back in April forward and charted them through 9/12/03. There were 30 buys and only two of the stocks failed to get to 10% at some point within 60-90 days. One happened to be PRSF at 9% and also CCK at 9%. Only two of the 30 wouldn't have made money having being held until 9/12. The returns were quite amazing. Just a thought. Thanks, Bob."

Bob L.
Lighthouse Pt, Florida, USA

"At your buy signal I bought IIJI on 9/11 @ 7.13. Three trading days later it was skyrocketing into the stratosphere. Normally I wait for your sell signal but I jumped the gun and sold without you @ 8.68 for a 21.74% gain. IIJI continued going up that day and into the following day where you sold at a 29.58% gain in 4 trading days. Are you better than I am at this? The figures dont lie. Am I happy about the trade? You bet!"

Ann Hauck
San Diego, California, USA

"My name is L. F. and I'm coming from Eastern Europe. I'm running my own business for some time and this year decided to start investing, so after some web surfing, came accross the Portfoliocrafter web page from Manuel Jesus Backus.

Since I came accross of some more newsletters at some lower prices , I was hesitating for a while to subscribed, but then I took a chance and subscribed to all. I can tell you that I joined the play at the most inappropriate time, in the middle of July 2003, when the dolldrums hit the market, but hanging on to Manuel's picks, my portfolio is up 30% by now (October 2003), which is a fantastic run so far and I'm very grateful to him!

I can tell, that he is a mastermind at picking the momentum stocks and when looking back, around 90% stocks he picked so far made money, over some time period. Besides, he is very open minded and understands business, and I will be a subscriber to his service as long as he will offer us the service. Plus, I hope that one day, he get's the time to start with online trading courses!

I decided to follow him on every pick in between 5000 – 10000 USD, and he made me money on folloving stocks:

- SUPG, BPUR, GNTA, RBAK, XYBR, VRSN, UBET, TXCC, ISSX, NXTP, CCK, VLGC.

Thanks for the gains, Manuel J !"

L.F.
Sentjur, Slovenia

"...I've been an active trader for years and always did pretty well in the stock market. But I got caught up in the fever when the market went berserk and ended up losing a bundle when the bubble burst. After I finished feeling sorry for myself, I decided to step back in to the market only to find that I was not very good at trading in this new market.

In my search for help, I came upon Manuel and the Portfolio Crafter. His trading plan was music to my ears and his discipline was something I sorely needed. I started this year with a $100K portfolio and just broke $219K today!

Manuel is a wizard when it comes to finding amazing short term trading stocks. He sets great entry prices, tells me when to exit and keeps me up to date on the status every day. Most importantly, Manuel is not afraid to take losses. He takes them before they get too serious. This takes significant downside out of trading.

I have never experienced a service so well run, so friendly, so customer oriented and so darn great. Other services I tried sometimes give good recommendations, but they leave you hanging. No information flow, no strategy, no communication. It's just the opposite with Manuel.

Every morning I get a view of what he is watching. Every evening I get a concise and insightful wrap-up. When Manuel is ready to make a trade, an IM let's me know in real time. This man has restored my faith in making money with the stock market and has made trading fun again. If you're going to try trading, try Portfolio Crafter first. You'll never leave.

Some examples of my trades:

M.G.
La Jolla, CA

"...I'm a signed member since July 03. I tried to test and find out about Manuels perfomance. And I got suprised, so I opened an account at ameritrade. It was not just simple for a foreign German, to realize all the paperjam and the funding even made problems at first, because the banks did'nt know, how to transfer amounts above 3500 Dollars (It seem not to be business as usual for them) But after 3 weeks of lot mails, phones and faxes and communication with banks in Omaha we worked it out.

I started up with an amount of $20.000 exactly 40 days ago. I tried to copy nearly all of Manuels trades very close in time (whats not allways possible for me) Today (40 days later) my account is allreadey at $23.330.

I got in sometimes late and so maybe I paid more, and sometime I got out earlier, or maybe I did one more trade with the same thing - all at my own opinion possible near Manuel. Last days I allready started some own investigations, but in Manuels manner and they even worked profitable at all.

10-06-2003 1289454671 Buy or Sell Security BUY 3000.000 SHARES VLGC @ 1.50 -4510.99 close to Manuel

10-06-2003 1289452312 Buy or Sell Security BUY 2000.000 SHARES TXCC @ 2.45 -4910.99 close to Manuel

10-06-2003 1289447612 Buy or Sell Security BUY 500.000 SHARES WSTL @ 8.01 -4005.00 close to Manuel

10-06-2003 1289447611 Buy or Sell Security BUY 500.000 SHARES WSTL @ 8.00 -4010.99 close to Manuel

10-06-2003 1289440168 Buy or Sell Security SELL 1000.000 SHARES MANU @ 6.45 6438.70 close to Manuel

10-06-2003 1289398586 Buy or Sell Security SELL 1000.000 SHARES MANU @ 6.15 6138.72 close to Manuel

10-06-2003 1289392083 Buy or Sell Security SELL 500.000 SHARES POS @ 15.56 7768.64 own

10-03-2003 1288109622 Buy or Sell Security BUY 600.000 SHARES CPKI @ 18.27 -10972.99 own

10-03-2003 1288007611 Buy or Sell Security BUY 500.000 SHARES POS @ 15.26 -7640.99 own

10-02-2003 1286954618 Buy or Sell Security SELL 500.000 SHARES ISSX @ 13.10 6538.70 own

10-02-2003 1286695851 Buy or Sell Security BUY TO COVER 1000.000 SHARES RHAT @ 10.50 -10510.99 close to Manuel

10-02-2003 1286656748 Buy or Sell Security SELL 600.000 SHARES CTMI @ 12.96 7764.64 own

10-02-2003 1286631984 Buy or Sell Security BUY 600.000 SHARES CTMI @ 12.40 -7450.99 own

10-01-2003 1285652233 Buy or Sell Security SELL 650.000 SHARES TTEC @ 6.64 4304.80 close to Manuel

10-01-2003 1285555111 Buy or Sell Security BUY 500.000 SHARES ISSX @ 12.48 -6250.99 own

10-01-2003 1285542617 Buy or Sell Security SELL 1000.000 SHARES ARIA @ 6.50 6488.70 own

09-30-2003 1283982143 Buy or Sell Security SELL SHORT 1000.000 SHARES RHAT @ 9.70 9688.55 close to Manuel

09-30-2003 1283888630 Buy or Sell Security BUY 1000.000 SHARES LVLT @ 5.35 -5360.99 own

09-30-2003 1283877810 Buy or Sell Security SELL 600.000 SHARES OXGN @ 12.05 7218.67 own

09-29-2003 1282837272 Buy or Sell Security SELL 100.000 SHARES PRSFD @ 15.51 1550.92 close to Manuel

09-29-2003 1282837271 Buy or Sell Security SELL 100.000 SHARES PRSFD @ 15.50 1538.93 close to Manuel

09-29-2003 1282744938 Buy or Sell Security BUY 1300.000 SHARES TTEC @ 6.15 -8005.99 close to Manuel

09-29-2003 1282579054 Buy or Sell Security BUY 600.000 SHARES OXGN @ 10.90 -6550.99 own

09-26-2003 1281065246 Buy or Sell Security BUY 500.000 SHARES ARIA @ 6.20 -3110.99 own

09-26-2003 1280973889 Buy or Sell Security BUY 500.000 SHARES ARIA @ 6.21 -3115.99 own

09-26-2003 1280588720 Buy or Sell Security SELL 1500.000 SHARES NT @ 4.20 6288.71 close to Manuel

09-24-2003 1278081695 Buy or Sell Security BUY TO COVER 400.000 SHARES VRSN @ 14.02 -5618.99 close to Manuel

09-24-2003 1278005729 Buy or Sell Security BUY 1500.000 SHARES NT @ 4.58 -6880.99 close to Manuel

09-23-2003 1276770133 Buy or Sell Security SELL 200.000 SHARES ARTG @ 2.56 500.98 close to Manuel

09-23-2003 1276770132 Buy or Sell Security SELL 1800.000 SHARES ARTG @ 2.55 4589.78 close to Manuel

09-23-2003 1276494980 Buy or Sell Security SELL 500.000 SHARES IIJI @ 8.95 4463.80 close to Manuel and own

09-22-2003 1275233518 Buy or Sell Security BUY 500.000 SHARES IIJI @ 8.09 -4055.99 close to Manuel and own

09-19-2003 1274003211 Buy or Sell Security BUY 1000.000 SHARES PRSF @ 3.32 -3330.99 close to Manuel

09-18-2003 1272762485 Buy or Sell Security BUY 2000.000 SHARES ARTG @ 2.72 -5450.99 close to Manuel

09-16-2003 1270504608 Buy or Sell Security SELL 850.000 SHARES IIJI @ 8.75 7426.16 close to Manuel

09-15-2003 1269218769 Buy or Sell Security SELL SHORT 400.000 SHARES VRSN @ 15.37 6136.72 close to Manuel

09-15-2003 1268943615 Buy or Sell Security SELL 820.000 SHARES BPUR @ 6.96 5695.94 close to Manuel

09-11-2003 1266659875 Buy or Sell Security BUY 850.000 SHARES IIJI @ 7.06 -6011.99 close to Manuel

09-10-2003 1265151757 Buy or Sell Security BUY 800.000 SHARES MANU @ 5.53 -4434.99 close to Manuel

09-08-2003 1262595646 Buy or Sell Security BUY 1200.000 SHARES MANU @ 5.60 -6730.99 close to Manuel

09-03-2003 1256525240 Buy or Sell Security BUY 820.000 SHARES BPUR @ 7.90 -6488.99 close to Manuel

08-28-2003 1251061892 Buy or Sell Security SELL 430.000 SHARES GNTA @ 14.95 6428.19 close to Manuel

08-26-2003 1249290736 Buy or Sell Security BUY 430.000 SHARES GNTA @ 13.86 -5959.80 close to Manuel

So I can tell you, I'm a really beginner in trading, but I believe in what Manuel is doing and I'm sure about his experience and try to find a good mix with my own feeling and whats possible (technical and my restricted time orientated) to be close to Manuels trades. So I earned more than 16,5% in 40 days.

I love to continue very long time.

All the best to Manuel and his greatful team of Portfoliocrafter." - 10/07/03

Marcus Burdach
Cologne, Germany

"...I have been following the VLGC trade of yours and I would like to say that was an excellent pick. I bought the share at $1.46 and sold it at $1.76 to make a 20.54% gain :) Keep up the good work, I would like to see more great picks such as this one.

T.N.
Fairfield, Australia

"...so far everything is great made money on all trades since i started 2 weeks ago account is up approximately 15%"

A.J.C.
Cranford, New Jersey, USA

"...Thank you very much for the NXTP recommendation I made over $4,500 in one week on this trade alone. I have been trading with you since the end of May this year off and on as my job allows me(professional fisherman & hunting guide) and I am up over 40% in the last five months not bad considering I didn't trade for over six weeks in July and August because of an extended vacation and I have missed probably another 3 or 4 weeks because of my job. Thanks once again for your invaluable advice."

N.D.
Brandon, South Dakota, USA

"This is my story re IIJI - last week we were away from home and I couldn't receive emails during the night in Australia.  However, I entered the stock at $7.16 and 4 days later sold at $8.20.  This is definitely not big bucks for you, but for us it certainly is, as it translates to a profit of A$780 (as you can see, we are very small investors)..."

C.T.
Coffs Harbour Jetty, Australia

"How do i love thee let me count the ways"

I love thee because it is just plain fun trading with you.

I love thee because of the personal touch you give to me. That includes actually asking for feedback and answering my e mails with little added tips.

I love thee because of the wonderful entry and exit points you give to the trades.

I love the way you keep me abreast of what is happening with the watchlist and trades.

I love the pace you keep with something always happening.

I love the profits!


Thank you,

Ann Hauck
San Diego, California, USA

"I am quite new to Portfolio Crafter, so my experience is limited to the past several weeks. But I am very impressed with what I've seen to- date.

With previous services, I was unable to get alerts immediately; now I get messages IM'd to the screen instantaneously, and posted to my e-mail in real time. In three out of the first five cases, I got in at an even better price than Portfolio Crafter.

Second, I much happier buying long and selling short rather that dealing with options, which begin to time-decay as soon as you buy them, and which can drop precipitously. Four of the first five transactions (in and out) that I've made have been winners: With ERES, I sold the first half and made 6.1%, and then three days later, sold the second half for an 17.1% profit, all within two weeks. With PMTI, I made a 20% profit in 7 days. With MVSN, I sold half for a 7.7% profit in a week. With POWI, I lost 12.4% in four days. Of the five stocks I am holding at the moment, four are up, and one is down fractionally.

I can't predict the future, and no one else can either. Every single trade can't be, and won't be, a winner. But if Portfolio Crafter can help us select the right stocks in a timely manner, cut losses short, take profits nimbly but let the big winners run, we will make handsome profits over time."

Dr. Norman M. Wechsler (Ed.D.)
Bronx, New York, USA