When a little-known micro-cap company retains a top-tier investor-relations firm to promote the company... or when the company announces a reverse takeover is taking place (which almost always results in new management coming in)... or when that new private placement comes in for debt restructuring or major investment... it’s as close to a guarantee as possible that new blood is brewing at these companies and that their stock price is about to take off!

An investor-relations firm being hired by a micro-cap stock is a perfect example. An investor-relations firm gets paid handsomely to do one thing: drive up the near-term price of a client’s stock. It’s like an ad agency or a PR firm, but instead of peddling soap, breakfast cereal, or automobiles, its mission (in the words of one investor-relations firm) is to draw the attention of stockbrokers, analysts, institutional decision-makers, fund managers, and significant private investors to the market potential of a client’s stock.

Think about it; what we’re talking about is perfectly legal! And, if you know when a promising but little-known company retains a top-tier investor-relations firm to drive up its stock price – you’re almost guaranteed fast and significant profits. It’s just that simple. It really is a “license to steal!”

Is it really legal?

It’s perfectly legitimate for a corporation to retain an investor-relations firm to flood Wall Street with a carefully crafted awareness-building campaign. Who do you think gets all those CEOs on the morning financial shows?

On the other hand, it’s totally illegal for the employees of either the hiring company or the investor-relations firm to buy stock, because they know a contract is about to be announced – that’s insider trading. But, when the contracts become a matter of public record, the name of the game becomes, “Who knows about it first?”

And therein lies the rub.

Run the words “investor relations” through your favorite search engine, and you’ll come up with something like 8,400,000 related sites. We’ve developed a system for cutting through the clutter, which lets us know instantly when a top-tier investor-relations firm has signed a new contract in order to tout a company’s stock.

We’ve already done the homework to know which investor-relations firms have the best record of success. And, we overlay that information with a careful look at a target company’s technical and fundamental data before making a recommendation.

Remember, the most successful investor-relations firms won’t take on a dog. They want to protect their own record, so by sticking with the winning companies, we greatly increase our odds of success, too.

The record shows that when these deals are done, there is usually a lag before the work of the investor-relations experts kicks in and stock prices go up. In the meantime, the general investing public hasn’t paid much attention. But, as the news trickles out, savvy, in-the-know investors begin to suck up these payload stocks. By definition, we’re talking about little-known, mostly micro-cap companies that are way below Wall Street’s radar.

The few investors who are on to this have been making a killing buying stock in companies that have recently closed deals with top investor-relations firms; the companies that are fully loaded and getting ready to explode with incredibly fast profits.