I want to take some time to introduce myself to those of you who may not know me, as well as talk a little about what’s in store for my upcoming sit-down interview with Jared Levy at the Extreme Tech Profits summit on Wednesday. I began trading and investing in stocks in 1996. I was a young professor back then, teaching philosophy at a liberal arts college in Ohio. Because I needed to supplement my salary to support a growing family, I took some money earned teaching summer school and opened my first brokerage account. After… Read More
I want to take some time to introduce myself to those of you who may not know me, as well as talk a little about what’s in store for my upcoming sit-down interview with Jared Levy at the Extreme Tech Profits summit on Wednesday. I began trading and investing in stocks in 1996. I was a young professor back then, teaching philosophy at a liberal arts college in Ohio. Because I needed to supplement my salary to support a growing family, I took some money earned teaching summer school and opened my first brokerage account. After several years of mediocre results, I buckled down and took steps to improve my investing performance. As part of that process, I put myself under the tutelage of some of the best investors and traders in the business. I studied under Martin Zweig, famed hedge fund manager… William O’Neil, founder of Investor’s Business Daily… and from Dr. Len Zacks, the MIT PhD who founded Zacks Investment Research. Once I combined three key tenets I learned from each of these masters into a stock-selection system and added a few rules from technical analysis for timing my entries and exits, I started… Read More