James Edward Martinez
James Edward Martinez
Born and raised in San Jose, California, James Edward Martinez had spent his early years simply trying to survive in a high crime neighborhood in San Jose. Surrounded with crime , gangs, drugs and negative belief systems James avoided falling into this life style and held fast to his internal sense of truth, right and justice. James wanted to improve his lot in life and that of his family. James made the commitment early on and dedicated his life to achieving this mission. James read many great books written by great authors. He listened to self development tapes to keep his conscious from being overwhelmed by the constant negativity and ignorance surrounding him. When finances where available he would attend self development seminars and training.
James Edward Martinez attended College where he studied Engineering, Electronics, Computer Aided Design and Drafting Technology, Computer Information Systems, Robotics and Business. However, he could not escape the allure of a better life for his family and quickly began studying and exploring business ventures to become financially independent. He began by investigating every opportunity for one to become a millionaire. From Real Estate, Stock Market Investing, Business, Sales and Network Marketing a.k.a. multi-level marketing.
James loved the concept of network marketing because you could start a home based business with very little start up capital and have the potential to build a million dollar sales organization. The thought of exponential growth compelled James to use some of his college financial aid to have enough money to fund his first business venture. Once he began in business, he never stopped. Even while having a short career in the medical Industry. He secretly dabbled in his business ventures. Did his coworkers know they where associating with a millionaire in the making?
James Edward Martinez left college before earning his degree. He decided to start a direct marketing company and located his office in Santa Clara California where he could experience real life business, and study the stories of successful entrepreneurs. “I became a student of business”, he recalls. James made a small advertising investment to market a solution to home based business entrepreneurs. This campaign generated over $15,000 in initial sales revenue. A year later he built an direct sales organization to well over 4,000 distributors all across America and the rest as they say…is history.
In the mid 90’s I began to diversify my business earnings by investing in real estate. I think my timing was perfect. While many people laughed at me and said it was a bad time to buy I disagreed and began investing in foreclosure property in Florida. One of my first homes in California I picked up for $130,000. Can you believe it… a three bedroom in CA for only $130,000, well then again it was 1996 and a fixer upper. I eventually sold that particular home for over $630,000. Who’s laughing now!
In January 2006 I was out of the real estate market having completely sold off ALL my holdings including my personal residence. This is all documented. I believe my timing could not have been any more perfect because as we all know what happened around six months later – the real estate bubble began to implode and home values began crashing and falling through the roof! I was telling everyone I knew at that time that now was the time to sell!, sell!!, sell!!! I even encouraged/pressured a close friend to sell IMMEDIATELY because he was behind on his mortgage and I knew the market was weeks away from collapsing.
To this day I am irritated with those so called real estate gurus on late night infomercials preaching that now is a great time to invest in real estate. Interestingly you’ll hear the same speech from real estate agents because quite frankly that’s how they earn their living. So of course it’s always a great time to by. Well I’m here to tell you to not buy their bull! They were wrong then and they are wrong now! The Facts are the next wave of foreclosures WILL start after April 2010 due to another round of loans resetting to a higher interest rate making it impossible for struggling people to pay. My secret: I surround myself with a mastermind team of real experts many smarter that me in their chosen field.
In the late 90″s I began to diversify my wealth and began investing into the stock market. I also discovered a great way to make up to a 20% return on my investment IMMEDIATELY! Yes an immediate 20% ROI the same day! The strategy I used is called Covered Calls. I would search and find a stock with great fundamentals and a great price on the call option. Lets say I purchased a block or 100 shares at $20 per share 100 x $20 = $2,000. I would then immediately sell the Call Option at $1 for each share of stock 100 x $1 = $100. As you can see I invested $2,000 for the 100 shares and then received $100 for the call option. This is a 10% (ROI) return on my investment THE SAME DAY! I know what you’re thinking “But wait James you made a mathematical error” $2,000/$100 is only 5%. No I did not miscalculate because the truth is I used leverage. I did this strategy all on margin. As with many wealth creation strategies the use of leverage is fundamental including real estate with only 10% down, in the market and in business using (OPM) other peoples money in the form of a mortgage, a margin loan, a business loan and even using credit cards.
As the stock market, as a whole, was headed up this was practically a 100% winning strategy. If the stock was called away from me at $25 per share 30 days later no problem because I still kept the Call Premium and banked and the profit on the sale of the shares. If after the 30 days the shares where not called away, I would simply create another $100 by “renting out” my stock for another 30 days. I would sell another 30 day call option.
Many of the stock strategies I used included: IPO’s, splits, bottom fishing, dead cat bounce, covered calls, options, calls, puts, shorts, naked shorts, straddles, inverse positions, ETF’s, and many others. Learn to trade like the pro’s do and you can make money no matter if the market is moving up, down or is flat.
Again my master mind team saved me from financial devastation ie: the market crash in 2000 and only by about a month and a half. I ceased my day trading, leveraged activities, sold off my stocks and went into cash.
The Millennium Y2K and The New World Market >>> the INTERNET. In my stock trading days I watched as the huge Google search engine grew and grew and grew and grew and grew… as well as their IPO in 2004. They have a simply business model – a search engine. What’s different is they way they earn revenue. Do a search on Google and you’ll find sponsored links on the right hand side. These small ads are all paid ads. There are millions of searches done on a daily bases on millions of different keywords. Therefor millions of different ads being displayed simultaneously on computers all over the world. Google had created a new virtual world market place – a new economy.
The next decade 2010 and beyond James Edward Martinez now moved to master internet marketing the #1 skill you need in “The New Economy” and James now teaches others the who, what, where, when and how. Master these new wealth building strategies and you too can write your own ticket for life. Learn about the only business James recommends here: Online Business
