Mike Fagan,
Editor
Feb. 7, 2025
Investing in private placements — especially in the small-cap resource space — can pay off handsomely and consistently.
But ONLY when you have direct access to the right deal flow.
That’s why all accredited investors need to be checking out Nick Hodge’s and Gerardo Del Real’s Private Placement Intel service as this brand new metals bull market catches fire.

And the best way to do that is by attending our FREE live webinar this coming Wednesday, February 12th at 12pm ET, which the guys have aptly named: Direct Investing: Buying Shares Privately.
Inside, Nick and Gerardo will be covering:
- Precisely how and when to purchase shares directly
- How to qualify as an accredited investor
- A look at their impressive long-term track record
- Plus, the NEXT private placements on offer
Together, Nick and Gerardo have been at this in one form or another for well over a decade — and to great success.
The guys get scores of private placement prospectuses across their desks but only bring what they believe are the surest opportunities for near and long-term gains to their valued Private Placement Intel subscribers.
They do this by methodically and systematically vetting each deal in a way most others simply cannot.
You see, Nick and Gerardo, who co-own Digest Publishing, have spent decades building an exclusive industry contact list that’s truly second to none. And it’s much more than just a list of names and phone numbers of the best and brightest in the global resource space.
In a word, it’s invaluable.
They’ve grown to know these serially-successful CEOs, geologists, and management teams intimately by meeting with them in person multiple times a year at the top investment conferences around the world.
They hop on planes and helicopters to see these companies’ exploration and development projects — no matter how remote they may be — with boots-on-the-ground alongside the CEOs and geologists.

They then take all of the information gleaned and galvanize it into what they believe is the best decision for their subscribers and for themselves.
Sometimes that decision means doing nothing at all. After all, without proper capital preservation, your long-term growth prospects (in any market sector) don’t stand a chance.
And that’s vitally important. You see, Nick and Gerardo believe in having significant skin-in-the-game with the private placements they recommend to their subscribers.
Point blank, if a deal isn’t good enough for their own portfolios, then it’s not good enough for their members’ either.
Or put another way, when Nick and Gerardo win, their subscribers win too. And when a deal doesn’t work out, well, everyone loses… but the lesson is well-learned, and the knowledge gained is then put to task in future deal vetting.
It’s also critical to point out that, in that rare instance when a deal fails to produce, it’s rarely the structure of the deal that’s at issue. Nick and Gerardo are exceptionally well-versed at weeding out poorly structured deals that are essentially DOA.
And they stay away from “Reg D” and other so-called crowdsourcing deals that have no clear path to return of capital since you can’t profit if you can’t sell your stock!
The bottom line is that mineral exploration is a risky endeavor… Mother Nature can be very stingy in the metals she leaves behind… and sometimes the drills just aren’t able to hit the type of grade and scale that moves markets.
That’s mining for you… and, as a speculator, you have to be willing to live with those facts and with those odds if you’re going to be investing in the junior miners either through private placement or directly.
Yet, because of Nick and Gerardo’s vast experience — plus the immeasurable benefit of having direct access to these CEOs, management teams, and geos — the guys win far more often than they lose.
And the size of some of the wins can oftentimes dwarf the losses to such a large degree that those rare few private placements that don’t work out are barely even noticed.
I mean, just take a look at a few of their recent winners:
- Financed Patriot Battery Metals at 16-cents Canadian ahead of its run to over C$17 — a gain of over 10,525%.
- Financed Lithium X at 15-cents Canadian before being bought out at C$2.61 for 1,640% gains a year later.
- Financed Bravo Mining while it was still private at 64-cents Canadian ahead of its IPO and run to over C$5.20 — a gain of 718%.
- Plus dozens of other big wins that are often leveraged with warrants or half-warrants that allow Private Placement Intel members to buy more stock at a set price over a certain timeframe.
Plus, it’s not just the resource space that’s on offer here.
Nick and Gerardo delve into many other market sectors… one current example being a privately-held deal on a national direct-to-consumer bank headquartered in Colorado. Again, it’s the deep industry contacts and personal relationships that make all the difference.
So… it’s not over-hyping to say this webinar could truly be life-changing. When you attend, I’d like you to pay special attention to the personal touch Nick and Gerardo bring to the table. There’s really no other private placement service like this available anywhere else.
Again, the guys could not be more excited about the deal flow that’s lining up for the first half of the year… especially in this booming metals market that’s just now getting underway!
Nick and Gerardo will be delivering the details on that forthcoming deal flow this coming Wednesday at 12pm ET. It’s free to attend. Here’s how you get that done.
Yours in profits,
Mike Fagan
Editor, Daily Profit Cycle