The REAL Threat to Your Retirement

Dear Reader,

This is Dylan Jovine with Behind the Markets.

Happy Friday. TGIF.

You might have noticed we've been marketing a new service recently called Portfolio Payouts.

Today I want to take a few minutes to explain why we created it.

A Diet Coke at McDonald's

I took my son out after a game yesterday and stopped at McDonald's.

I ordered a Diet Coke.

$2.50.

Before COVID, that same Coke was $0.99.

That is why we created Portfolio Payouts.

The Real Picture

Look at your Social Security check every month and ask yourself honestly — does the cost of living increase they give you actually match the increase in prices in the real world?

It doesn't!

Go to your local grocery store and take a hard look at who's bagging the groceries.

At Publix here in Florida, I see a fair number of elderly people doing that job.

And it's hard to see.

I walked into a diner with my kids a couple of weeks ago and there was a 74, 75-year-old woman serving our table.

I always give those people the biggest tips.

Now look — some people go back to work because they want to.

They're bored at home, they want to stay active, they love what they do.

I'm not talking about those people.

I'm talking about the people who had to go back to work because they outlived their money.

Why We Built This

We work for you.

That is not a slogan — it is the actual point of everything we do here.

And our job is to help you avoid that fate.

Outliving your money is the single biggest financial risk most Americans face right now.

Portfolio Payouts was built specifically to address that.

Here is how it works.

You have stocks sitting in your portfolio — core positions, things you've owned for a while.

There are ways to “rent” those stocks out every month to people who want to trade options around them.

When you do it the right way, it has an 80% to 90% success rate.

An extra $2,000 or $3,000 a month from stocks you already own.

That is not nothing.

That is real money in a world where a Diet Coke costs $2.50 and groceries feel like a slap in the face every time you walk through the door.

What We Built

We spent a lot of time designing this tool with one person in mind — someone who knows absolutely nothing about options.

The whole dashboard is red, yellow, and green.

Red means avoid. Yellow means think about it. Green means go.

That's it.

We built it so I could use it myself when I retire!

We built it so my mother could use it.

We went to great lengths to make it as simple as possible because we know the people who need this most are not Wall Street traders — they are people who worked hard their whole lives and deserve to have their money work just as hard for them.

And we priced it at $997.

The cheapest product we have ever offered, because we understand the situation.

We want to do right by people.

The Bottom Line

Inflation is killing people.

Everything is more expensive — food, gas, utilities, everything.

And I am not talking about the short-term spike at the pump that will probably resolve when the Iran war ends.

I am talking about real, structural inflation that has permanently changed the cost of living.

The biggest risk you have right now is outliving your money.

Portfolio Payouts was built to help you fight back against that.

Anyway, that's all I have today.

Have a wonderful day.

I'll see you tomorrow.

“The Buck Stops Here,”