Welcome to the TradeKing All-Star Trade Report, the place to read color commentary and market insights from leading names in the industry. Our All-Star roster includes TradeKing’s director of education Nicole Wachs, as well as leading authorities in equities, options, ETFs, bonds, fundamental analysis and technical analysis.
We also profile actual traders from our Trader Network, explaining their winning strategies on real-world trades, as they happen. Check back often to see who’s pulling ahead on the TradeKing Leaderboard and learn what strategies they’re using now to succeed in the markets. Who knows, maybe you'll even see your name up in lights!
Check out our latest roster:
Alan Brochstein is a portfolio manager and equity analyst with 20+ years’ experience in security analysis, trading, portfolio construction and performance attribution. As founder of AB Analytical Services, he provides research services to several institutional money managers as well as the Invest By Model service, geared to individual investors. Invest By Model sends subscribers real-time buy and sell signals to follow Alan’s model portfolio; subscribers also receive a constant stream of research on current holdings.
Alan has been in the securities business since 1986 and earned his CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) designation in 1997. Prior to forming his own company in 2007, he served as an analyst and portfolio manager at an investment firm focused on mid-cap stocks for seven years. He blogs frequently at Seeking Alpha and has been interviewed for his stock expertise by Crain’s New York Business and CFA Magazine among others.
Alan Brochstein / Invest By Model maintains a cross-marketing relationship with TradeKing. 
Veteran trader Jeff Clark is author of Growth Stock Wire, a daily read providing investors with a pre-market briefing on what he believes are profitable opportunities in the global stock, currency, and commodity markets. Jeff is the former president and chief executive officer of an independent, San Francisco-based brokerage house, and the founder of an investor education firm. He has served as a consultant to one of the country's largest options market-making firms, and he has also developed the curricula for an international Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program. Jeff is also author of two investment advisories, The S&A Short Report, which helps investors develop a diversified options portfolio, and Advanced Income, a service focused on providing a steady stream of high-income payments.
Jeff Clark / Stansberry Research maintains a cross-marketing relationship with TradeKing.
Packed with actionable market commentary, leading online financial magazine and online community PinnacleDigest.com offers investors some of the brightest analysts, professional traders and market gurus in the business. Managing Director of Pinnacle Digest Aaron Hoddinott and the rest of the Pinnacle team will offer commentary on emerging sectors and featured companies of interest, current market trends and economic developments impacting markets.
PinnacleDigest.com maintains a cross-marketing relationship with TradeKing.
Like many traders Doc Maher started out as something else. Educationally he has a PhD in Engineering and an MBA from the number one ranked program for technology management. He worked in High-Tech for over 20 years holding many high level managerial positions in development and marketing. Doc first started trading options back in 1984 while working on his PhD. In 2004 he founded DocMaher Trading LLC, an investment education company working with traders one on one. Since that time he has taught hundreds of people options strategies. Doc's specialty is the more conservative "income strategies" which capitalize on time and volatility. These include Iron Condors, Calendars, and hybrid strategies. Although not guaranteed, income strategies are intended to be higher probability trades because they can profit over a wide range of stock movement.
DocMaher Trading LLC is monetarily compensated for providing content to the TradeKing Trader Network.
Steve Nison is one of the foremost technical analysts in the world and the fellow responsible for introducing Japanese Candlestick charting to Westerners, Steve has truly earned his nickname “The Father of Candlesticks”. He’s authored three acclaimed books including Japanese Candlestick Charting Technique, a veritable bible on its subject translated into nine languages with over 100,000 copies sold. With a client list including J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, NYSE and NASDAQ market makers, hedge funds and money managers, and frequent appearances in The Wall Street Journal, Worth Magazine, Institutional Investor, Barron’s and CNBC, Steve is clearly a go-to guy for both candlesticks and Western technical analysis alike. Steve was among the first to receive the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation from the Market Technicians Association (MTA), as well as an MBA in Finance and Investments. He is the founder of Candlecharts.com.
Candlecharts.com maintains a cross-marketing relationship with TradeKing.
Author and options educator Dan Passarelli is the founder of Market Taker Mentoring LLC. Dan has more than 15 years experience in the options industry and has worked as both a floor trader and an options instructor. He began his option trading career as a market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), trading equity options. Through his work with the Options Institute at CBOE and the Options Industry Council (OIC), Danhas educated thousands of options traders about options fundamentals and the trading techniques and market strategies available to option traders. He is the author of Trading Option Greeks and provides ongoing option education and market insights on his blog, which can be found at tradingoptiongreeks.blogspot.com.
Dan Passarelli / Market Taker maintains a cross-marketing relationship with TradeKing.
Frederic Ruffy is the Senior Options Strategist at Whatstrading.com, a site dedicated to helping traders make sense of the complex and fragmented nature of listed options trading. In addition to writing market commentary and trading-related books and articles, Fred has also worked as an instructor, educating investors on advanced topics like measuring volatility, the benefits and risks of sector rotation and the risks and potential profits from trading around earnings. An active trader himself with over 15 years securities industry experience, his market observations and analysis of the options market are featured regularly in the financial press including Barron’s, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Futures Magazine.
Fred Ruffy maintains a cross-marketing relationship with TradeKing.
Dan Sheridan is a 22-year veteran CBOE market maker who served as senior trader, trainer, and risk manager for one of the most successful option trading specialist firms on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Mercury Trading. Along with being one of the head traders, Dan was responsible for training and mentoring its traders, including current Mercury president and top Options Trader Pete Najarian. Since leaving the pit in 2004, he has mentored individual traders on the techniques and methods he used everyday to consistently profit in the options markets. Through his company, Sheridan Mentoring, he aims to provide retail investors with the knowledge they need to be successful traders. A dynamic presenter, Dan regularly teaches traders and retail investors on behalf of the CBOE's Options Institute. In addition to Mercury Trading, he has provided training and commentary to numerous organizations including First Options, the Mexican Stock Exchange, DePaul University, Jon Najarian's TCB Radio program, and WCIU TV 26 (Chicago).
Sheridan Mentoring maintains a cross-marketing relationship with TradeKing.
Margaret Smoller joins the TradeKing All-Star Trade Report to help investors confidently decode companies’ fundamental financial data and learn to unearth the diamonds the market has yet to recognize or unfairly undervalued. An Associate Professor of finance at Wayne State University in Detroit, Margaret has a B.A. from Queen’s University, Canada, an MBA from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. She specializes in corporate finance and investment topics, especially futures and options and is a noted researcher on market efficiency, derivatives pricings and use. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Futures Markets. Margaret is a recipient of the Wayne State University School of Business Administration Distinguished Teacher Award, and the University of Illinois at Chicago Silver Circle Award for excellence in teaching.
Margaret Smoller maintains a business relationship with TradeKing.
Mark Wolfinger is a former options market-maker at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and highly-regarded options educator. During his 23 years as an options trader, he observed too many retail investors adopting unprofitable strategies, which prompted him to switch career tracks and begin educating investors on how to use options effectively. Mark has authored three books and numerous magazine articles. As an educator, he teaches individual investors how to adopt risk-reducing, profit-enhancing option strategies, many of which are detailed in his newest book The Rookie’s Guide to Options. Mark earned a B.S. degree from Brooklyn College and a PhD in chemistry from Northwestern University.
Mark Wolfinger maintains a cross-marketing relationship with TradeKing.
Angelo Benedetto is Director of Fixed Income at TradeKing and a titan in the bonds and fixed income field. With over 50 years of trading experience, he’s held senior roles at leading securities trading firms, including VP of trading at Josephthal and Company and at US Clearing, as well as SVP of Institutional Trading at Aegis Capital Corp. He’s also served on the advisory boards of the American, Chicago, Boston and Pacific Coast stock exchanges, and on the Options Committees of the American and Philadelphia exchanges. Angelo’s posts explain bonds and fixed income from a practical, actionable perspective. He talks about common scenarios investors are facing these days and how fixed income can help address them. Every post is timely and responsive to current issues – but along the way, you get a solid general education in how bonds work, their pricing, and how to incorporate them into your long-term investing plan.
Nicole Wachs brings more than ten years of Wall Street experience to the TradeKing team with a background in trading and investor education. She is a former Option Specialist, Market Maker and Trainer for Goldman Sachs. As part of the SLK-Hull Derivatives division, Nicole traded options, equities and ETFs as a member of both the American Stock Exchange and the International Securities Exchange. During her time with Goldman Sachs, Nicole used two different trading styles: single stock/option position trading and dispersion theory/volatility arbitrage trading. As Director of Education for TradeKing, she organizes and hosts the weekly TradeKing All-Star Webinar Series and creates and manages content for the brand new TradeKing Learning Center. She also serves as both a contributor and technical editor of the All-Star Trade Report. She currently holds a Series 7 license and has formerly held the Series 3, 55 and 63 licenses. Nicole has been quoted in SmartMoney Magazine and Barron’s and appeared on CBOE.com and ONN.tv.
Roster current as of 10/23/09
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