BetterTrades

Long term – Short Term, Inc., doing business as BetterTrades, provides finance and stock market education in the form of distance learning audio/video recordings and on location seminars. As of 2007, Long Term – Short Term (LTST) was a $60 million dollar company. Freddie Rick founded LTST in 1998 and it is incorporated in Nevada.

BetterTrades has established business relationships with former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson and Forbes. Freddie Rick has been featured in two published books: "Talking with Giants!" and “The Wave 3 Way to Building Your Downline.” In addition, several BetterTrades instructors are published authors in their field of expertise and have been consulted as subject matter experts.

Supporting the IT and marketing efforts for BetterTrades is CodeReady Solutions, Inc., which Freddie Rick founded in 2007.

History

  • 1998 – LTST is founded.
  • 2002 – BetterTrades web site launched.
  • 2007 – CodeReady Solutions, Inc. is founded.

Background of BetterTrades

Freddie Rick grew up in Kentwood, Louisiana – the same hometown as Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears. After a career as a sniper in the Marine Corp, he worked in network marketing in the mid-1990s. By age 29 he was a millionaire, but lost it by the time he was 31 years old. This story is documented in “The Wave 3 Way to Building Your Downline.”

Rick rebuilt his fortune by focusing on stock and options trading, though he initially lost large amounts of money in the process. He documented his successful trading strategies and went to work for a stock market education company. After leaving that company, Rick and his wife began teaching others about finances and trading as a “love offering” in various churches. He started the BetterTrades web site in 2002.