Our readers could have turned $5000 into $1 million in just over 5 years

Since Steve Sarnoff, options guru, relaunched his exclusive e-mail Alert Service, Options Hotline, on Oct. 24, 1999, with an initial $5,000 recommendation to buy Barrick calls...the profit opportunities for his readers have just doubled and tripled and quadrupled...again and again and again.

That $5,000 would have grown to a quarter of a million on Dec. 3, 2000.

Then half a million dollars on Sept. 30, 2002.

And then to...$1 MILLION on Dec. 2, 2004!

His track record: 100% winners so far in 2006 and in all of 2005!...95% winners in 2004! 91% in 2003! Steve's record just keeps getting better and better!

WOW! $1 MILLION in a little over five years with a startup investment of just $5,000! I'm so sorry you missed the ride. But get ready. Because you're invited to:

Join Steve as he shows you the way to $1 MILLION...it's simple and straightforward and we'll show you how with Steve's one weekly option buy recommendation

His readers call him "prophetic." Read on to find out why.

Dear Future Millionaire,

The stock market of the past few years has produced very few millionaires. You just can't make a million dollars with a $5,000 initial investment on a seven-year average annual return of 1.25%. To do so would take you more than 426 years. You'll never live to see it, and neither will your grandchildren, great-grandchildren, even your great-great-grandchildren.

Hello, I'm Steve Sarnoff, recognized options expert and the editor of Options Hotline. I'm here to tell you that even if you've never traded options before, you can do it. In fact, it's quite possible you could grow over $1 million richer...just by buying one option a week...in as little as five years. My proven system is all you need.

In the time it takes you to read this letter, I'm going to show you step by step how you can trade options with a minimum of risk and a maximum chance of profits.

Just ask one of my subscribers, Mr. Eckert: "My very first trade using your service was the GE August $30 call. I couldn't be happier with the 116% profit in just three weeks!"

Or Donna, who says, "I am very pleased with your recommendations, especially with the Bank of America. It's unbelievable for it to be up more than 200% in just a few days."

Mr. Abbott, another one of my happy subscribers, confirms, "Joining Options Hotline was the best decision I've ever made...since I joined -- three months ago -- I have doubled my money."

Why are we getting such rave reviews? Simple. I have the track record to prove it: My wins have overpowered my losses, and my small group of readers has had the chance to reap $1 million in profits in just over five years.

And I'm not talking about a million-dollar portfolio that looks good on paper...I'm talking about the type of wealth you have only imagined. Seriously...$1 million on just one investment a week!

Enjoy Doubling Your Money! We have a track record with a 100% average gain on every pick since August of 2004. Compare that to the pitiful average yields of the S&P and Nasdaq! Here are a few highlights from my decisively winning trading record:

• Of the 8 options I recommended in the final 10 weeks of 1999, 7 were winners, ranging from a 17% gain on DJX puts to a 628% gain on Intel calls. You could have made $87,000 on those 8 picks...and lost only $5,000 on one trade?

• In 2000, I recommended 32 options that triggered (meaning the option reached the price I recommended for buying). That year, readers had the chance to pocket $173,214.55 in total profits with only $5,000 into each play - MORE THAN DOUBLE what we saw in 1999

• In 2001, the year of the terror attacks, I made 47 recommendations that triggered. We had some big winners. GM puts gained 1,202%, or $60,000! Pfizer puts, 431%! Biopure puts, 341%! Total profits that year could have been as high as $216,164

• In 2002, we crossed the HALF-MILLION-DOLLAR MARK when the 3M puts recommended on Aug. 16 of that year gained 103%! Total that year - $205,101!

Are you noticing a winning pattern here?

• In 2003, only 4 of the 39 triggered picks I recommended lost. Readers could have racked up $189,463.32 by reinvesting $5,000 in every pick. For the average investor, $5,000 is certainly a manageable risk when there's such a huge upside potential

• In 2004, I cut my losers in half! Only 2 out of 35 lost! And we HIT THE $1 MILLION MARK on the Disney calls first recommended on Nov. 7, 2004. You could have added $221,300.36 in total profits to your income that year and lost only $363.50! That certainly shows how your wins do overpower your losses.

That's right! Since hitting the first million-dollar mark last year, on Dec. 2, 2004, we've given readers the chance to make another $276,319.44 in profits since. They're well under way to our next million dollars, and I'd like to invite you to join them in this upcoming profit bonanza.

An unbelievable record: I haven't picked ONE loser since August 2004! Steady consistent winning on only one pick a week ismy No.1 million-dollar strategy. It works. If you follow my recommendations, it can be your killer strategy, too!

In fact, my win rate for 2004 was 95%. That's right, 95% of the weekly picks I recommended either could have made money or didn't lose a penny. In 2003, it was 92%.

And in 2005...I didn't have one losing pick. I was 100%!! And still 100% so far in 2006! You simply won't find a better record anywhere else.

You can even check it out for yourself. I've attached my personal Pick-by-Pick Proof Sheet that lists every recommendation I have made since 2005.

While I do not issue specific sell recomendations, with my proven selling strategies, you'll learn how to minimize your risk and lose as little money as possible. See...we're well on track to racking up even bigger gains for this year:

• 192% on Starbucks July $35 calls on February 23
• 266% on Newmont Mining March $55 puts on March 8
• 148% on TLT March $91 puts on March 13
• 210% on FedEx July$110 puts on May 20
• 153% on SPY June 130 puts on May 24

• 113% on DIA July 112 puts on May 24.

These triple-digit winners have been great. Big winners like this are a real high, and when I make any recommendation, that's certainly my goal.

But the real secret to making a million dollars with just one pick a week...is not just hitting the triple-digit home runs now and again, it's the solid base hits and the steady stream of winning picks...9%, 21%, 40%, 62%, 80% gains on almost every one.

It's why acting on only one play a week can work. You're not wasting time and risking large amounts of money taking a scattershot approach of buying dozens of options hoping one will sell big for you. Instead, you could be focusing on the one winning trade that matters...week after week after week.

IN FACT, if you were to average out the gains on my picks, you'd get a 100% average gain on each and every play I have recommended since 1999. That's a double your money average on every pick!

Compare that to the pitiful returns of the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq for the same time period:

• S&P 500: 1.25 % average annual return for the past 8 years! Actually, from 1998 to June 30, 2006, the S&P's TOTAL cumulative return has only been 8.75%! 8.75% in 8 years. It's pathetic!

• The Nasdaq has done slightly better...5.7% average annual return and 46% cumulative return since 1998. Better than a savings account, but really...

Just how fast do you think you could build real wealth with those sorts of returns? Perhaps your entire life. It would take more than your and my lifetime of investing combined to even hope to get anywhere near a million dollars on 1.3% and 5.7% returns.

I think you'll agree that my way of trading options is certainly the fastest and easiest way (and it's less risky too - more on that in a moment) to make your FIRST MILLION DOLLARS.

So now you may be asking...

What are options...and why doesn't everyone invest in them?

For far too long, options trading has been shrouded in mystery for the average investor. But no longer. I've been studying options my entire life (my dad, Paul Sarnoff, was a brilliant master options expert), and I have to tell you it's the one investment that truly offers limited risk for unlimited gain.

Many people don't invest in options, because they've listened to all the misconceptions or myths of options trading. Perhaps the No. 1 myth of options trading is that options are too risky, but that simply isn't true. In fact, you can make money trading options in up, down or even sideways markets.

Trading in the actual underlying stocks is more risky, as more of your money is on the line when you purchase a stock. You can buy an options contract for as little as $100 and see it double in price in a short period of time. You certainly don't see stock prices doubling very often or witness the spectacular gains in stock prices that you do in options.

Another big myth is that most options expire worthless...but as you'll soon see from my profit-building strategies, you should sell the option long before the expiration date to maximize your profit or minimize the loss.

In fact, you have to go back to the 3M puts I recommended back in October 2003 to find the last option I recommended that readers didn't sell before expiration, when it expired worthless.

So don't stay on the sidelines and miss out on the huge profit potential of options any longer...not when you allow me to be your expert guide and I have an astonishing "double your money" potential in average gains on every pick since 1999! Just take a look at my year-by-year gain-and-loss chart. The proof of success is in the numbers!

I won't give you a detailed explanation of options, because frankly, at this point, you don't need one. Right now, you just need to know how they work and how to profit from them. (I am offering TWO FREE BONUS REPORTS that will serve as your crash course in options. You'll get both of these gifts just for trying out Options Hotline.)

Simply stated for our purposes...an option gives you the right to buy or sell 100 shares of a specific stock at a certain price within a set period of time.

If you expect a stock to rise in the future, you buy a call, the right to buy the stock at a certain price. If you expect a stock to fall in the future, you buy a put, which is the right to sell the stock at a certain price. You're not actually buying or selling the stocks, just the "option" to do it.

And that's what makes option trading a real profit shield against disasters and world events...hurricanes, oil shortages, high gas prices, terror bombings, sluggish consumer sales...whatever! If the stock market goes bearish, then I start looking for puts to recommend to take advantage of the down market.

In fact, 8 of my last 12 recommendations have been puts. And we've seen some pretty hefty returns. Take a look:

• 113% on DIA July $112
• 210% on FedEx July $110 puts
• 57% on newmont mining June $50 puts
• 153% on SPY June $130 puts.

And you don't actually have to exercise an option to make money. In fact, all of these staggering gains could have been made on buying and selling the option!

The secret of "SUPER-LEVERAGE"...and how it can?make you far richer in a short period of time!

"Super-Leverage" is, quite simply, the potential to make large profits from changing prices while strategically limiting your risk. The instruments of Super-Leverage are nothing fancy...just exchange-traded puts and calls. It's the simplest strategy, but most often, it's the most effective.

The BIG advantage to you is that you don't need to be a financial wizard or have large sums of money to participate. Remember, you can purchase an option for as little as $100!

The disadvantage is that options are wasting assets. And if the underlying security doesn't move enough to give you real value before a specified date, your options will expire worthless. It is a risk...but you're only out the price of the option. But usually, we've recommended that readers sell the option for big profits long before it expires worthless.

Here's a play from 2006 I recommended that shows you the power of Super-Leverage at work:

On May 8, 2006, I recommended to my readers that they...Buy the Cephalon August $65 call, for $500 or less, good this week.

What this means is that I'm recommending readers buy one options contract at $500 (or less) for 100 shares of Cephalon stock at $65 a share sometime before the third Friday in August. Options always expire on the third Friday of the month.

Now, if the Cephalon stock climbs higher than $65, your option starts to increase in value. Why? Because you have the option to buy them at $65 a share when others are willing to buy them at a much higher price. Say Cephalon rises to $70...that means you can "exercise" your option and buy 100 shares at $6,500 and sell them for $7,000, for $500 in profit minus the $150 you paid for the option - or $350 net profit. Not bad - a 14% potential return on your investment!

But if you sell the $65 call option (instead of exercising it), you could sell your option outright for at least $850 and pocket a return of 70%! Since I suggest a $5,000 investment, at a 70% return, you could have sold it for $8,500 or $3,000 in net profits.

Now that's Super-Leverage, and why options are so profitable...and why you need to risk only $5,000 on my one weekly recommendation.

In fact, one of my subscribers, Mr. Carson, wrote in to tell me he had made "a 70% return in just two days!"

Here are a few more plays I recommended that produced the HUGE Super-Leverage gains in just a few days, like Mr. Carson's:

• Coca-Cola Sept $45 calls, 40% in less than 1 day
• Yahoo! June $55 puts, 167% in 4 days
• Alcoa March $35 puts, 100% in 3 days
• Microsoft August $50 calls, 32.5 % in less than 1 day.

You see why there's no need to buy a lot of options and risk a large amount of your money and hope for one big win to make up for all the losses. I closely look for the one option to buy each week that can make you huge profits in a short time. It's my full-time job...not yours.

My dad Paul Sarnoff was one of the legends in options trading for more than 40 years. Wall Street turned to my dad for the best in options trading advice. He is to options what Warren Buffett is to stocks - a genius! In fact, it was my dad who started Options Hotline, his private options advisory service available only to a select few, back in 1989. About 30 years ago, my dad brought me into the "family business" - sort of a Sarnoff & Son. For years, I literally soaked up every word he ever spoke about trading options for big profits. I watched him trade. I listened carefully to his reasons. I analyzed his every pick. I did what he did. It was awesome to watch a master trader at work. As his apprentice, I saw firsthand how my dad raked in profits. And I'll always remember what my dad said to me nearly every day: "Son, options are the best...perhaps the only way to get rich very quickly." While I was learning trading secrets from my dad, I also earned my college degree, worked on the floor of the Commodity Exchange and founded my own research company, developing my own charting and analytical techniques to build on what my father had taught me. In 1995, Dad asked me to join him as co-editor of Options Hotline. I was proud that this options genius felt I was ready to join him as his equal. Sadly, my dad passed away in 1999, but his legacy lives on through me and the ongoing success of Options Hotline. My first solo recommendation was Barrick Gold calls on Oct. 24, 1999. Not my best pick, with a 100% loss, but I made up for it with my next four picks ... Home Depot calls, 289% AMEX calls, 150% Disney calls, 315% Cisco calls, 386%. In fact, my next nine recommendations were all double- and triple-digit winners! As a subscriber to Options Hotline, you'll get more than 50 years of my dad's options experience...combined with my 30 years of technical analysis...for 80 years of options experience you can depend on to give you the winning picks. I just don't know where you would find a more authoritative source for profiting from options. But don't take my word for it. Read what Dr. Robinson, a longtime subscriber, said... "I have followed your father's recommendations and now yours. I am very pleased. I am very impressed by your ability to pick specific trades with prophetic wisdom. Somehow you know what's going to happen before the rest of us do!"

Triple-digit returns without buying, selling or owning a single share of stock! That's Super-Leverage in action!

To illustrate that point, one of my newer subscribers, Earnest Lawson, told me, "My very first trade using your service was a 50% gain. My second trade is hard to believe, a 750% gain in one working day."

Even though I have had a 100% win rate in since August of 2004, I want to make sure that you know losses occasionally do happen. I had two in early 2004. But also remember...your risk with options is LIMITED to the cost of the option...not the underlying stock.

But again, you have my promise that your wins will overpower your losses and you will steadily and surely get the chance to make money - week after week, month after month, year after year...more on this promise later...

To pick the steadily consistent winners, it takes me a week of painstaking research. I thoroughly study the market technicals, the economy and the impact of events upon the market's direction. I diligently research the companies whose underlying stock is the foundation of our options picks.

It's why I only make one solid recommendation at the end of the week. It's the one pearl among swine. And it's why my track record is so good. Quality, not quantity.

Plus, I don't stay in just one area of the market. You can see by my Pick-by-Pick Proof Sheet that I'm researching whatever sector of the market has the potential for big profits...commodities, hi-tech, retail, financial, consumer products and services, health care and others.

This all-around diversity immediately minimizes your investment risk, so you're never heavily weighted in one area of the market. In other words, your investment eggs are all over the place...dodging risks and discovering profits.

And I also employ a unique charting system with a proprietary computer screening program that I personally developed that allows me to be just a little bit "prophetic" in picking the options that will return single, double and triple the gains...90-100% of the time! I am unable to reveal the details of these systems, but again, you can see that they work on my undistorted Pick-by-Pick Proof Sheet.

Don't waste a minute wondering what option to buy...I'll pick 'em. You decide if you want to play 'em. And together, I'll help you make a million dollars!

Obviously, the hardest part about trading options is picking the right options...BUT you don't have to worry about that at all. With my personal Options Hotline Alert Service, you'll get one extremely well-researched recommendation per a week on Sunday night, in plenty of time to call your broker by the opening bell Monday morning if you feel confident in my play.

I suggest you follow each and every one of my recommendations. That's the one proven way I know of that you can be sure that your wins overpower your losses. If you were to cherry-pick week to week, I would be unable to maintain my promise to you of steady incremental gains week after week after week. But the choice is ultimately yours.

The main reason people fail at trading options is that they play too many of the wrong options, hoping for one winner. But one trade per week is all you need. You can clearly see by my attached 2005 Pick-by-Pick Gain Sheet that this strategy DOMINATES! 95% wins in 2004...91% in 2003 AND 100% so far this year!

Action Item No. 1 toward your MILLION-DOLLAR GOAL: Think it over and call your broker first thing Monday morning and make the play I told you about Sunday night. You won't be sorry.