When traders look at a price chart, they are trying to spot a pattern that might be similar to one they’ve seen in the past. They believe that history tends to be repeated. While history never repeats itself exactly, it is often close enough to deliver profitable trading signals, and… 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
Retirement planners usually advise investors to hold a combination of stock market and fixed income investments in their portfolio. Investments could include mutual funds, ETFs, or individual securities. Ten-year Treasury notes offer a yield of 1.85%, which means an investor using traditional planning tools would earn about $185 on a… Read More
It’s usually good news when a company delivers quarterly results that beat analysts’ expectations, especially when they beat on both earnings and revenue. That’s exactly what Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) did on Friday, but the stock sold off and that sell-off continued into Monday. Buried in the report was a… Read More
It’s usually good news when a company delivers quarterly results that beat analysts’ expectations, especially when they beat on both earnings and revenue. That’s exactly what Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) did on Friday, but the stock sold off and that sell-off continued into Monday. Buried in the report was a… Read More
Although it doesn’t make for a very interesting story, providing replacement parts for consumers can be just as profitable as unlocking the creative innovation that launches a new industry. Case in point: Cooper Tire & Rubber (NYSE: CTB). This company makes replacement tires for cars and trucks. It is the… Read More
My colleague at StreetAuthority, Paul Tracy, has been finding low-risk and profitable investments for over a decade. Lately, he has become concerned about the risks of the stock market over the long term and believes “dividends will account for ALL of the market’s return for the next decade.” If he… Read More
Bond yields are at record lows, which has caused many income-seeking investors to turn to high-yield stocks, while others have supplemented dividend payments with income from covered calls. Income investors can write (i.e., sell) call options on stocks that they currently own to increase portfolio income. Writing covered calls takes… Read More
More than 20 years ago, a book detailed an investment strategy that was known as the Dogs of the Dow. The idea was to buy the 10 highest yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and rebalance the portfolio once a year. It’s based on the belief that high… Read More
My colleague at StreetAuthority, Paul Tracy, has been finding low-risk and profitable investments for many years. Lately, he has become concerned about the risks of the stock market over the long term and believes “dividends will account for ALL of the market’s return for the next decade.” If he is… Read More
Successful trading is as much about volatility as it is price trends. Many traders focus on prices and try to identify whether they are going up or down. If they are right they capture profits, but directional trades are actually only one way to make money in trading. Short-term traders… Read More
Greece is the most fundamentally undervalued stock market in the world right now. Analysts at Citigroup (NYSE: C) report that the 10-year, cyclically-adjusted price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, or CAPE, for the Greek stock market is 2.3. CAPE is a P/E ratio calculated based on earnings averaged over 10 years, a full… Read More