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.
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We’re still a bit underwater on this trade, but that’s okay since we put a six-month shelf life on it to give it time to work out. Not helping is the inherently complex nature of what Myriad Genetics (MYGN) does, which is manufacturing and marketing predictive medical tests to determine… Read More
With the stock market becoming increasingly intolerant of companies that miss earnings or revenue expectations by even a little bit, this may be a particularly good time to look at our Smart Tech 50 portfolio table to identify attractive short sell candidates. To do that, I filtered that table by… Read More
Delphi Automotive PLC, based in the United Kingdom, manufacturers vehicle components and provides electrical, powertrain, and safety technology solutions to the automotive and commercial vehicle markets worldwide. DLPH earns a perfect score of 10 from our IDEAL Stock Rating System, which rates every stock in the S&P 500 according to... Read More
Last week optionMonster reported that someone sold 9,150 January call options on Ziopharm Oncology (ZIOP) on Thursday with a strike price of $10, while 7,000 January call options with a strike price of $7 were purchased the same day. Presumably this spread contract was executed by the same buyer(s),… Read More
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You can make money from the tech industry’s revolutions. Read More
Valero Energy Corporation, through Valero Energy Partners LP (VLP), owns, operates, develops and acquires crude oil and refined petroleum products pipelines, terminals, and other transportation and logistics assets. Our Rapid Profits Matrix issued this alert based primarily on Valero’s very favorable “PEG ratio” of 0.37, which compares its ... Read More
A couple of months ago I recommended buying a put option on Autodesk (“Autodesk on the Brink”), based on the premise the company had become overvalued and was likely to pull back from what I felt was an unsustainable price. I still feel that way, but since that article… Read More
So while our Rapid Profits Matrix identified Cal-Maine as a strong company, it was unable to anticipate a macroeconomic event of this magnitude when determining a fair value for the stock. Read More
We are closing out our position in Franklin Financial Network. We issued this alert on August 29th at an entry price of $34.42 and a target return of 6.9% which we achieved after being stopped out at $36.75 earlier this week. Read More
Over the past three months shares of Best Buy (BBY) gained 25% while the S&P 500 Index declined by nearly 2%. The biggest part of that jump occurred on Aug. 23, the day after Best Buy announced better-than-expected quarterly earnings. And over the past three days it has tacked on… Read More