David Gardner is finally BACK and inviting you to follow along — trade for trade — as he builds a BRAND-NEW portfolio for “maximum upside” in 2021 and beyond

Dear fellow investor, If 2020 taught us anything as investors, it’s the value of having a plan. A plan for the unexpected. A plan for volatility. A plan to harness the opportunity created by massive disruption – and ride that wave of change to titanic profits. Because while there was a clear bifurcation in 2020 between the sectors that were winners and losers, with tech coming in on top while real estate, banks, and energy languished…

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The REAL separation was between those who built and implemented a plan to target “maximum upside” and ride the wave of disruption to incredible profits… and those who didn’t. You see, a select group of Motley Fool members not only outperformed 2020’s losers… but every sector in the stock market. And it wasn’t even close.

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The secret to their success? It wasn’t loading up on risky options trades or using excessive leverage. It wasn’t a hot stock tip from their friend or the internet. (Nor was it riding the bitcoin rollercoaster.) Nope, it was much simpler than that: They followed Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner’s “Blast Off Formula” – the proprietary system that has enabled his team to beat the market by more than 4x…

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Now, our team here at The Motley Fool has spent months poring over the data from the COVID pandemic and its effects on the market and economy both in the U.S. and Canada, and we’ve come to two logical – and I believe, inescapable – conclusions. Conclusion number one: We need to face facts. The world is changing. Rapidly. Formerly “safe” sectors like energy, financials (yes, even the big banks), airlines, and real estate sank as the COVID pandemic swept across the world. While at the same time, tech stocks have been on an absolute tear as companies like Amazon and Shopify have opportunistically seized market share. We don’t believe this is a temporary “market rotation” that will reverse itself in the next year or two. We think we’re seeing the early stages of a permanent shift in consumption patterns. The rules of the game have changed. Old titans of industry are failing, and new winners are rapidly emerging. And we believe individual investors must adapt or risk getting left behind. Investors need a plan and a strategy for not just weathering or surviving this disruption – but harnessing its energy to profit from it. I’m talking about targeting “maximum upside” with some of the most ambitious and aggressive stocks on the market. Which brings me to conclusion number two: I believe that David Gardner’s “Blast Off Formula” is that plan, and I want to take just a few minutes of your time today to show you the evidence and explain why I believe every Motley Fool member who is serious about sustaining success in 2021 and beyond must consider adopting David’s investing approach. But before I explain why David and his team are so confident in their ability to continue beating the market as we enter the new, allow me to briefly explain how and why David Gardner agreed to even make his “Blast Off Formula” public…

David Gardner is The Motley Fool’s #1 U.S. stock-picker, and it’s not even close. Just look at the numbers…

By now, you’ve probably heard a lot about David Gardner. His fully-verified two-decade track-record turns Wall Street and Bay Street fund managers green with envy. But don’t take my word for it. A 2016 independent analysis from Manifest Investing compared David’s track record to every single U.S. mutual fund listed by Morningstar with a trackrecord of 15 years. Here’s what they found: So yes, you probably already know that David Gardner is The Motley Fool’s #1 U.S. rated-stock picker, but here’s what you may not know. David built this legendary track-record by breaking all the conventional investing rules. See, many Wall Street and Bay Street managers churn in and out of stocks—trying to cobble together a profitable portfolio by finding small wins—hoping 10% here and 15% there will eventually add up. David play an entirely different game—small gains of 10%, 20% or even 50% over the short term simply don’t interest him. Instead, David hunts stocks with massive upside—I’m talking about stocks that can make you 5x, 10x or even 20x your money—because it just takes one of these stocks to supercharge your portfolio. And when you hunt these massive winners—it’s true that you might make more errors than someone who is just looking to make 10% on a stock. But here’s the thing: With David’s strategy, it doesn’t matter if you make more errors… because even a single 10x stock can have a dramatic impact on your returns. Now, I won’t pretend that it’s easy to find stocks that go up 5x, 10x, or 20x—but David’s track record proves that individual investors can buy these massive winners. For proof consider this—since just 2002, David has identified:

118 U.S. stock recommendations that have gone up 5X or more in value.

61 U.S. stock recommendations that have gone up 10x or more in value.

30 U.S. stocks recommendations that have gone up 20x or more in value.

And that’s how David has built his incredible track record—not by being right more often than other investors, but instead by making more money when he is right. Because a single 10x or 20x stock can cover your losers many times over.

And that brings me back to the unusual challenge I issued to David two years ago. As the Vice President of Membership here at The Motley Fool, I have the honor of getting to speak to hundreds of Motley Fool members every year. And here’s something I hear from members all the time: And I can definitely understand why some members think this way. After all, the vast majority of current members were not with us when David bought Amazon in 1997 (and in fact, Motley Fool Canada did not yet exist!), and so they weren’t able to get in with him as Amazon soared 1,000x in value—turning every $5,000 invested to over $5 million. And most of our members weren’t around The Motley Fool when David recommended Netflix in 2004—and so they missed out as Netflix turned every $10,000 invested to over $2.7 million. And hundreds of thousands of new members have joined us just since 2016 when David recommended first recommended Shopify—and that means that hundreds of thousands of Motley Fool members missed out on the chance to get in on Shopify at the very beginning before it soared 50x—turning $10,000 into over $500,000 in less than 5 years. And that’s the reason I challenged David to start again two years ago… I asked David to launch a new U.S. portfolio focused on finding stocks with massive upside—so new members can really get the full experience of David Gardner’s contrarian investing approach, AND start from the beginning so everyone who joins knows that they haven’t missed out. The name of this portfolio was Blast Off 2019—and it was The Motley Fool’s first portfolio specifically designed by David Gardner and his hand-picked analysts to find the market’s highest upside stocks. (At the time, we weren’t able to invite Canadian members.)

I’m happy to report that Motley Fool U.S. members lucky enough to get in on the ground-floor with David and his team were able to profit from some of the best performing stocks of the past two years:

An emerging e-commerce powerhouse from Ottawa up 904%

A Dallas company transforming the way we meet people up 297%

An under the radar San-Francisco cloud company up 387%

A tiny producer of security gear from Scottsdale up 224%

But there’s no need to cherry pick returns, the entire Blast Off 2019 portfolio has returned 274% — vs just 53.5% for the U.S. S&P 500 – in just 24 months!

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And while the absolute performance of the Blast Off 2019 portfolio is astounding, perhaps more impressive is that ALL 24 U.S. stocks in the portfolio have made money. That’s right… Not a single stock in the portfolio has generated a negative return for investors! With returns like that, I would understand if some people reading this might think David and team just got “lucky” in 2019 and surely, they could not replicate that performance… Well, this is the part of the story where I tell you: In January 2020, David and his team took the exact same process and applied it to the timeliest opportunities they could identify in a new Blast Off 2020 portfolio… This time, offering membership to Canadian investors just like you. And just like the Blast Off 2019 portfolio, it handily beat the market last year: 120% to 19%.

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And again… With 100% accuracy.

That’s right – literally every stock that David’s team recommended in Blast Off 2020 is up.

Same approach.

Same formula.

Two different portfolios.

Incredible results in 2020.

Now, if you are a long-time Motley Fool Canada member, you might recall receiving an invitation like this one to join and follow along with David’s Blast Off 2020 portfolio about this time last year. And frankly, if you opted to decline that invitation, I understand and don’t hold it against you!

I entirely understand waiting for David to prove out the “Blast Off Formula.” But what I don’t want to happen is for you to miss out on David’s team’s top “maximum upside” picks THIS year.

Because after living through one of the wildest stock market years of our lifetimes, David and his team are now ready to do it all again…

The SAME “Blast Off Formula” for targeting “maximum upside”

The SAME extraordinary stock selection and vetting process

The SAME rigorous portfolio sizing and allocation approach

And they’ll focus all of their considerable firepower on TODAY’s newest and timeliest “maximum upside” opportunities – EXCLUSIVELY in the new Blast Off 2021 portfolio.

Now, I can’t predict whether David and his team will achieve 100%+ gains in 2021 as they did in 2020… And whether they’ll match the astonishing 100% accuracy they’ve managed to date… But if there’s one thing I’ve learned here at The Motley Fool, it’s that betting against David Gardner is a mistake.

Blast Off 2021 is your rare “second chance” at discovering the portfolio formula that has delivered +100%+ returns just in the last year alone…

Just recently, our team here at Motley Fool Canada is happy to open the doors of this brand-new portfolio service created David Gardner and his analyst team to loyal Motley Fool Canada members like you. By launching a new portfolio, we cannot promise the same type of performance as these portfolios have had in the past, but we can ensure that our charter members are able to get in on the ground-floor with David and his team. And as you’ve seen, getting in on the ground floor with David and his team has been quite lucrative. As I just mentioned, the name of this new portfolio is Blast Off 2021. And just like Blast Off 2019 and Blast Off 2020 were designed to find the highest upside U.S. stocks of 2019 and 2020, respectively—Blast Off 2021 is designed to pinpoint the highest upside U.S. stocks of 2021 and beyond. I’ll tell you how you can unlock access to this new portfolio and see every stock they’ve selected in just a minute—but first I want to take a step back and explain the formula David and his team use to find stocks with 5x, 10x, and even 20x potential. This is the same formula David used to build his incredible track record. It’s the same formula he and his team used to build Blast Off 2019 and Blast Off 2020 —and it’s the same formula he and his team are using to build Blast Off 2021.

The simple math that explains David’s “unfair” advantage

I promise I will share the exact method David uses to find his giant winners in just a minute, but first I want to show you the math that explains WHY David’s approach is so powerful. If you’re a math person, here’s the simple reason you shouldn’t be afraid to hunt massive upside stocks:

Stocks you invest in have finite downside… because you can’t lose more than you invest.

Stocks have potentially unlimited upside… because you can potentially increase your initial investment by 10x, 100x, or even 500x (and I don’t mean to brag, but we have the track record to prove it).

And this simple idea is at the core of David’s insane record of success…

The size of your HOME RUN investing winners will have a much bigger impact on your overall returns than will your stock-picking “batting average.”

And that’s why David thinks you should spend less time worrying about whether you’re right all the time with your stock picks… and spend more time looking for stocks that can rocket to the moon. David’s contrarian investing approach has been baffling the naysayers for more than 25 years. When David founded The Motley Fool with his brother Tom back in 1993… the “smartest” investors in the ivory tower swore up and down that it was “impossible” for an individual investor to beat the market. David built the original U.S. Rule Breakers real-money portfolio back then to prove them wrong. Investors with enough foresight to listen to David’s unconventional approach then were rewarded with massive winners, like… A small coffee company from Seattle called Starbucks…

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And Amgen, a biotech company that was changing the future of medicine…

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Now, David is always insistent that I bring up his losers as well as his winners, so I want to share a couple of examples that didn’t go well… And I think that is important for a couple of reasons. First, that’s just the kind of guy David is… he tells it like it is and lets the chips fall where they may. Second, taking big swings and missing is part of the point… If you are never missing with your stock picks, I bet you aren’t being aggressive enough to hit massive home runs either… after all, Babe Ruth led the American League in strikeouts five times! So here is one of the worst stocks David bought in the original Rule Breakers real-money portfolio. In June 1997, David recommended a small U.S. tech company called Innovex that eventually was de-listed… Now, most of David’s misses haven’t done as poorly as this stock… but I bring up this extreme example to illustrate the simple point that big winners more than make up for even huge misses. The best example of this fact comes from another company David bought just a few months after Innovex… I’m talking about Amazon, an online bookseller that eventually sold everything.

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Imagine for a second that you were one of the Motley Fool U.S. members who were following along with David in 1997 and 1998 in the original Rule Breakers real-money portfolio… If you had made 600x your money on Amazon, do you really think you’d be worried about losing a few thousand dollars because Innovex didn’t work out? I sure wouldn’t. Now, the naysayers said David just got lucky. “Anyone who bought Amazon back in the late 1990s would have monster returns,” they said… But David’s a pretty competitive guy… So in 2002, David agreed to start over from scratch… and David’s been picking one stock every single month for the past 18 years in our U.S. newsletter, Motley Fool Stock Advisor. The numbers don’t lie… David has proved again and again that his system finds massive winners… David’s Stock Advisor US picks have returned a mind-boggling 827%, versus just 113% for the S&P 500 over that same period. How did he do it?

You guessed it… the same strategy… and it’s led to monster winners… companies like:

Apple, up 2554% since 2008

Activision Blizzard, up 5582% since 2003

Match Group, up 1,498% since 2016

Adobe, up 1,422% since 2009

Have there been misses along the way? Absolutely!

Again, that’s the point… if you are out there swinging for singles, you’ll never discover the next Amazon or Netflix.

By consistently using the “Blast Off Formula” that he has developed over the past three decades, David has consistently found stocks that shoot up 5x, 10x, 20x or even more

When David and his team utilize this formula to build a brand-new portfolio from the scratch, there are four factors they look for. Now, not every giant winner includes all four of these factors —but if David and his team see a company that shares a couple of these factors, you might be looking at a stock with massive upside.

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