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
My years in the military have allowed me to see the world in a totally different way. While deployed overseas I tracked IED locations, went on convoy missions and gathered intelligence from local villages. I learned the importance of analyzing data to forecast what was likely to happen,… Read More
My years in the military have allowed me to see the world in a totally different way. While deployed overseas I tracked IED locations, went on convoy missions and gathered intelligence from local villages. I learned the importance of analyzing data to forecast what was likely to happen,… Read More
One of the best income strategies in the world involves a market most investors completely ignore. We call it the Retirement Income Cash-Haul — or RICH — System. Put simply, it’s an award-winning, 10-minute-a-week income system that can give you $386 or more every week from the best… Read More
When most people think of investing, they think of the stock market, which is valued at about $36.6 trillion. That’s a lot of money. But few people realize that there is a much bigger market out there — one that’s valued at over $790 trillion, 21 times more… Read More
It’s a part of the market most investors aren’t aware of, and Wall Street uses it to collect thousands of dollars daily. But recently, many investors have started figuring out how to intercept these large payouts. These people didn’t have any specialized skill or training. Yet, each learned… Read More
It’s a part of the market most investors aren’t aware of, and Wall Street uses it to collect thousands of dollars daily. But recently, many investors have started figuring out how to intercept these large payouts. These people didn’t have any specialized skill or training. Yet, each learned… Read More
Income investors, like all investors, are susceptible to traps. One of the best-known is the value trap. This occurs when an investor buys a stock that’s underpriced based on some quantifiable measure of value — like a low price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio — only to see that stock fall… Read More
Income investors, like all investors, are susceptible to traps. One of the best-known is the value trap. This occurs when an investor buys a stock that’s underpriced based on some quantifiable measure of value — like a low price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio — only to see that stock fall… Read More
Today, I want to tell you about a way you can legally skim tens of thousands of dollars a year from some of the largest firms on Wall Street that has been called safe enough for widows and orphans. It may sound fishy at first, but I promise it is… Read More
I took my son to preschool the other day and, for the first time, he ran off without saying goodbye to me — he just saw his friend and off he went. I walked back to my car wishing I could turn the clock back to a time… Read More
There seem to be two kinds of investors right now: those who believe the next bear market is here and ready to destroy trillions of dollars in wealth, and those who proclaim every up day in the market is the end of the pullback. This is largely the… Read More
One of the best income strategies in the world involves a market most people ignore. It allows individual investors to generate income from the best companies in the world — often without even having to buy shares. I’ve been recommending trades in this market for three years and so far… Read More
Many investors think in binary terms, like the tendency to distinguish between value and growth investing. While value investors focus on companies with low valuations — whether based on the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, price-to-book (P/B) ratio or something similar — growth investors focus on earnings growth, expecting share… Read More
