Jim Fink is chief investment strategist for Options for Income, Velocity Trader, and Jim Fink's Inner Circle. He has traded options for more than 30 years and generated personal profits of more than $5 million. Jim also serves as an investment analyst at Investing Daily’s flagship investing publication, Personal Finance.
Hopelessly overeducated, Jim holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University, a master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, a law degree from Columbia University, and an MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. For good measure, he has been a member of the Illinois and D.C. bars.
Prior to joining Investing Daily, and when not incurring student loans hiding out in academe, Jim practiced telecommunications regulatory law for nine years until he realized that he made more money trading stock options than writing briefs. After attending business school, Jim switched gears to the investment realm full-time, working for a university endowment, a private wealth management firm, an insurance and financial planning company, and as a Senior Analyst for an online investment newsletter service that encourages the wearing of funny hats.
A possible but unlikely descendant of legendary brawler and boatman Mike Fink, Jim defies his heritage, believing that investing success requires patience and analysis, not swashbuckling bravado. Besides his passion for analyzing and writing about stocks, Jim likes to hike in the desert Southwest, vacation in Las Vegas, play tennis, and feed his toddler son Cheerios.
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Over the long term, this integrated energy company stands to benefit from its distribution infrastructure in the Marcellus Shale region. But in the short term, low natural gas prices are crimping power generation profits. Read More
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This credit card company's shares have jumped over 47 percent year to date and now trade well above their buy target, which makes its stock the perfect candidate for a covered call. Read More
The housing market is set to lead the U.S. economy over the next two years, but homebuilder stocks have already had their run. Time for housing-related retailers? Read More
July expiration is upon us and rolling the covered call on this biotech stock to October at a lower call strike brings in a nice big credit. Read More
U.S. government bonds and the options volatility index (VIX) are pointing in different directions for the U.S. economy. Both can't be right. Read More
If you want to make money investing under Obamacare, think cheap, think basic, think bureaucracy, think . . . Medicaid Nation. Read More
Obamacare is now the constitutional law of the land. Get ready for tax increases, fewer jobs, and higher health insurance premiums. Read More
Duke Energy's ouster of Bill Johnson as CEO was the subject of a North Carolina regulatory hearing on Tuesday. Bad publicity could cause the stock to fall further. Read More
Today's poor June employment report has caused a severe stock-market decline, but Jim thinks this may be the last hurrah for the bears. Read More
When a stock unexpectedly continues to rise and rise, covered call positions are subject to more frequent rolling to avoid early exercise. Read More