Yesterday’s abrupt firing of FBI director James Comey, which reportedly surprised even many top officials, sent political shockwaves across Washington. The official reason was Comey’s handling of the email controversy involving Hillary Clinton. Given the ongoing investigation into possible Russian involvement in the election and Moscow ties to the Trump… Read More
Scott Chan moved from China to the U.S. with family at the age of ten. He passed the rigorous entrance exam and attended the merit-based Stuyvesant High School, widely held to be best public school in New York City. He earned undergraduate degrees from New York University followed by an MBA degree from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College.
Shortly thereafter Scott partnered with Dr. Stephen Leeb on numerous financial publications. Today, he serves as the lead analyst for Real World Investing and The Complete Investor.
Mr. Chan is an avid baseball fan and enjoys outdoor activities in his spare time. A multicultural person, he reads Chinese and speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese.
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Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days After weak March hiring activity, the job market rebounded in April. The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that the U.S. economy added 211,000… Read More
Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days Stocks reacted very positively to the outcome of the French election last Sunday. Ex-investment banker and ex-economic minister Emmanuel Macron took first place with 24.0 percent of… Read More
Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days Just mere days after the murder of a policeman in Paris by an Islamic gunman, the French will cast their votes for their next president on Sunday. Read More
Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days Less than one week after ordering an airstrike in Syria in retaliation for Assad’s use of chemical weapons—the first direct U.S. attack against the Syrian government—President Trump… Read More
Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days This morning the Labor Department reported that the U.S. employment rate fell to 4.5 percent in March, the lowest it’s been since mid-2007, nearly ten years ago. Read More
Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days Read More
Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days It has been a while since potential Washington drama has negatively impacted markets and optimism has run high since the November election. However, this week’s health-care bill… Read More
Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days At the March Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting this week, the Fed raised the benchmark federal funds rate to a target range of 0.75 percent to… Read More
Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 17.9% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 15.5% Average Holding Period: 320 days Since reaching a peak last Thursday after President Trump’s first Congressional address, the S&P 500 has largely trod water—closing yesterday roughly 1 percent from its March 1… Read More