Amber Hestla is Lead Investment Strategist behind Profitable Trading's Income Trader, Profit Amplifier and Maximum Income. She specializes in generating income using options strategies that minimize risk by applying skills she learned on military deployments and intelligence training to the markets.
While deployed overseas with the military, Amber learned the importance of analyzing data to forecast what is likely to happen in the future, a skill she now applies to financial markets. Prior to that, Amber studied risk management working undercover. While risk management is no longer a matter of life and death, she believes it is the most important factor in long-term trading success.
And although she makes her living in the markets, she continues to study the markets and trading daily. Her writing has been featured in trading magazines including the Market Technicians Association newsletter, Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities and Stocks, Futures and Options in the United States, and Shares, a weekly trading magazine published in the United Kingdom.
Analyst Articles
Last week, like many analysts, I was closely watching events in Saudi Arabia. An important oil...
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Last week, like many analysts, I was closely watching events in Saudi Arabia. An important oil facility had been attacked, and initial reports indicated that 5% of the world’s supply of oil was...
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This week, the most important image isn’t a chart of the stock market… It’s a...
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This week, the most important image isn’t a chart of the stock market… It’s a pair of pictures telling a fast-paced story about oil prices. The first is a daily chart of oil...
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For the past few weeks, I’ve been closely monitoring sentiment. Sentiment indicators measure...
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For the past few weeks, I’ve been closely monitoring sentiment. Sentiment indicators measure what investors think about the markets. This class of indicators includes the weekly survey...
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Tariffs and the trade war are still in the news. But they will be for some time. The uncertainty of...
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Tariffs and the trade war are still in the news. But they will be for some time. The uncertainty of trade is now the new normal. That’s important because uncertainty is often associated...
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The Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate cut set off another round of reports noting that...
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The Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate cut set off another round of reports noting that interest rates are at 5,000-year lows. Sound crazy? Well take a look at the chart below, which...
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This week’s analysis of the market seems to come down to one chart. It’s a...
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This week’s analysis of the market seems to come down to one chart. It’s a one-minute chart of the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSE: DIA). This chart shows the...
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An old trader once told me, “Trading is the hardest easy money you’ll ever...
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An old trader once told me, “Trading is the hardest easy money you’ll ever make.” In theory, trading is easy enough — all you have to do is buy low and sell high, right?...
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If you follow financial markets, you almost certainly heard the news that the yield curve inverted....
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If you follow financial markets, you almost certainly heard the news that the yield curve inverted. That news sparked a steep selloff in the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell...
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Last week, stocks sold off and the week ended with a popular indicator showing a “sell”...
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Last week, stocks sold off and the week ended with a popular indicator showing a “sell” signal. To understand, let’s look at a simple chart. —Recommended...
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Today, I want to start by looking at some basic facts: 1. The Federal Reserve cut interest...
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Today, I want to start by looking at some basic facts: 1. The Federal Reserve cut interest rates. 2. The Fed’s mandate is to “promote effectively the goals of maximum...
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