Author: Michael Foster, Contrarian Outlook

If you think 2018 is going to be oil’s year, and if you want a big income stream while you wait for the market to realize the commodity’s potential, these are the funds for you…

All three should go up in value next year…

One of them more than doubled the performance of the S&P 500 — even when you include the dot-com meltdown AND the Great Recession. But it gets even better when you consider two other things: It paid a rock-solid 7%-plus dividend during the entire mortgage crisis and Great Recession, and it did all this by investing in real estate — the very thing that caused the meltdown in the first place!

That’s enough to hand you $2,500 a month on a $500,000 investment…

When choosing CEFs, I look at five crucial points that drive each buy call I make. And they can help guide you, too. They are…