Problems in Detroit may have been developing over many years, but there were still surprises when the city announced that it was filing for bankruptcy. No one who is in line for payments due from Detroit is 100% safe. In the bankruptcy process, creditors, employees and retirees are… Read More
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
Successful investors buy low and sell high. It sounds simple, but neither task is easy to do in real time. I am constantly singing the praises of put selling as a strategy for generating consistent income, but it can also be used to buy stocks when prices fall to bargain… Read More
Although most investors think of options as short-term trading instruments, they can actually be used as part of a long-term, market-beating strategy. If you think a stock will go up in price, you can buy the stock to benefit from the expected gains. Unfortunately, many investors have more buy ideas… Read More
While all investors know stock prices move both up and down, many only utilize strategies that take advantage of rising prices. Buy-and-hold investors benefit from a long-term uptrend in the stock market. Over periods of 20 years or more, investors expect stocks to deliver average annual gains of 7%-10%. Confident… Read More
Bear markets bring lower prices and increased volatility. The increase in volatility is at least partly caused by the lower prices. As prices fall in a bear market, investors become worried that prices will continue falling. These worries will lead many investors to sell, and this adds to the downward… Read More
Bear markets bring lower prices and increased volatility. The increase in volatility is at least partly caused by the lower prices. As prices fall in a bear market, investors become worried that prices will continue falling. These worries will lead many investors to sell, and this adds to the downward… Read More
About a year ago, I set out to find a winning income strategy — a strategy that can generate “Instant Income” in any market environment. From July 2012 to January 2013, I put my strategy through a rigorous test to prove my system worked in real-life trading scenarios. The results… Read More
About a year ago, I set out to find a winning income strategy — a strategy that can generate “Instant Income” in any market environment. From July 2012 to January 2013, I put my strategy through a rigorous test to prove my system worked in real-life trading scenarios. The results… Read More
Crop growing seasons are dictated by the weather. Farmers generally plant in the spring and harvest in the fall. Some countries, like Brazil, in the Southern Hemisphere are able to do the opposite because of their weather, but farmers and traders know in advance when crops should be planted and… Read More
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) recently announced that May was the best month for its truck sales in six years. Truck sales offer some insight into the state of the economy. Increased truck sales confirm higher consumer confidence. Trucks are gas guzzlers, and many consumers will only buy them and… Read More
It is fairly easy to determine what a stock should be worth. For example, in the stock market, we can find what the fair value of a stock is based on its price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio and earnings growth rate, a measurement known as the PEG ratio. Read More
When looking at stock market history, one of the best investment decisions possible would have been to buy Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) in 1965. One problem with this is that many of us were not investing back then. Even if we were, the stock of a New England textile manufacturer… Read More