At a price of $20, Xerox appears oversold and likely to rebound during the first half of this year. Read More
Jim Pearce is the Chief Investment Strategist of Personal Finance, our flagship publication, and manages two trading services, PF Pro and Mayhem Trader. He began his career as a stockbroker in 1983 and over the years has managed client investment portfolios for major banks, brokerage firms, and investment advisors. Jim earned a BA from The College of William & Mary and the CFP designation from the College of Financial Planning.
Analyst Articles
We closed out a modestly profitable position in a Xerox a year ago, and I think we can do considerably better this time. Read More
A year ago, I published My 5 Predictions for 2018. Now that we have the benefit of hindsight, let’s see how I did. The price of oil will rise above $70 a barrel. Most energy analysts are pegging $60 – $65/bbl as the likely range for oil prices next… Read More
If you’re following traditional retirement advice that made sense 50 years ago, you may be missing out on the most effective retirement strategy today. Financial Planners hate it. But there’s no denying that thousands of Americans are retiring decades early using a novel 6-step retirement approach. According to Money Magazine,… Read More
The Washington Post recently reported, “An early retirement is doable. Here’s how.” One 56-year-old Larry T., who took the challenge, claims, “I woke up one day and said that was it.” Thousands of Americans are taking The 1-Minute Retirement Challenge and discovering they can retire more than a decade early. Read More
December plunge changes the game plan for January expirations Read More
Shares of healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) plunged 10% on December 14 in response to an investigative news story by Reuters that accused the company of covering up the use of asbestos in its popular baby powder product: “From at least 1971 to the early 2000s,… Read More
I am going to take a nice profit on Abbot Laboratories by closing out that short put while it is still comfortably out-of-the-money. Read More
The stock market’s steep drop at the end of 2018 is good news for value investors. The list of candidates for best stocks under 20 dollars in 2019 just got longer as a result. Even still, just because a stock is cheap doesn’t mean it’s a bargain. Only 5% of… Read More
CenturyLink has fallen in tandem with the overall stock market, allowing us to write a put option at a strike price more than 5% below its current share price for a premium yield of better than 6% over the next four months. Read More