Contrarian Profits What is Contrarian Profits?

Founded in 2007 by Will Bonner, Contrarian Profits is the Internet’s first contrarian investing portal.

It’s dedicated to bringing you the day’s best alternative investing ideas from the world of financial newsletters and blogs.

It’s contrarian because in today’s financial markets you’re either a contrarian or a victim. [Look at the recent financial crisis. The contrarians saw it coming a mile away, while the mainstream was taken completely off guard.]

A contrarian investor profits by taking a position that runs against conventional wisdom and consensus opinion.

We offer the ideas and opinions of the some of the world’s most successful newsletter writers. People like Bill Bonner, editor of The Daily Reckoning, Byron King, co-editor of Outstanding Investments, Mayer’s Special Situations editor Chris Mayer and commodities guru Doug Casey, founder of Casey Research.

Every day Contrarian Profits reaches thousands of readers and subscribers, through its own dedicated newsletter, Hidden Value.

The site champions independent thinkers, Peak Oil advocates, Austrian School economists, value investors, gold bugs and critics of managed economies, central bankers and big government.

What We Do

Contrarian Profits brings you the day’s best contrarian investing ideas from some of the world’s most successful investors, bloggers and financial newsletter publishers. Ideas you won’t find in the mainstream press. Ideas that give you the insight to profit in volatile markets and take control of your financial life.

Subscription Services

Contrarian Profits is updated hourly. It’s available to read free of charge and online. The site is also allows you to sign-up for free to some of the world’s most widely read financial newsletters. You can also sign-up to Hidden Value, which brings the day’s top four contrarian investing ideas directly to your inbox.

How The Site Is Organized

The Dollar and Forex: This covers everything from the slow demise of the dollar to the unwinding of the yen carry trade to steady inflation caused by the Fed’s loose money policy. You’ll also find ideas about the direction of the Canadian loonie, the euro, the Swiss franc and the Aussie dollar.

ETFs: This covers a broad range of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). These funds behave like single stocks. They’re a great way going long or short on specific sectors or regions or currency movements.

Emerging Markets: This covers profit plays in the world’s fastest-growing economies. Place like China, Brazil, Vietnam and Turkey.

Gold and Resources: This is where you’ll find gold and silver bugs, commodities bulls and investing ideas about anything that ranges from rare alloys to water to farmland.

International: Australia, Japan and Europe are different from emerging markets in that they have slower growth rates. This doesn’t mean there aren’t a wealth of profit opportunities in these mature overseas markets.

Oil and Energy: This is where you find ideas about Peak Oil theory and what it means for your portfolio, America’s dependency on foreign oil and alternative energy plays like solar, wind and geothermal.

Politics and Economics: Like it or not, politics seems here to stay as is the dismal science. This section covers how the institutions like Congress and the Federal Reserve impact on the markets. It also keeps a close eye on our great leaders. People like Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, George Bush and Vladimir Putin.

Real Estate: This section primarily covers the US and international real estate markets. It also deals with homebuilders, the mortgage market and investing in REITs (real-estate investment trusts).

US Stocks: Investing ideas on penny stocks, blue chips, mid caps, small caps, micro caps, the tech and biotech sector and the major US indexes, the Dow, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ.