Why pay full price when you can buy stocks on sale using stock options? Well, there is one reason, but it's not a dealbreaker. Read More
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.
Analyst Articles
Although three of the four June covered calls are likely to expire out of the money (OTM), it's often preferable to roll all of your covered calls rather than wait for the OTM ones to expire. Read More
Although there is plenty of bad economic news available to scare investors, the second half of presidential election years is historically positive for stocks. Read More
The European debt crisis continues to jeopardize the global economy. George Soros offers a solution, but it requires Germany to act quickly and do more than support the Euro. Read More
How low can U.S. Treasury yields go and for how long? As long as the European debt crisis continues, the answer is lower and for longer than you might think. Read More
Jim offers up stock names that appear to offer better profit potential than the largest U.S. IPO in history. Buying IPO hype -- especially a bloated $105 billion version of it -- rarely pays. Read More
If you're looking for some free Internet stock screeners, you've come to the right place. Read More
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US railroad stocks have surged as the result of greater utilization due to rising energy prices. In the near term, this freight railroad faces bearish seasonality, so it makes sense to earn additional income through a covered call trade. Read More
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This major copper producer is one of the rare mining companies that pays a generous and rising dividend. Our covered call play will further enhance its payout. Read More
U.S. natural gas prices hit a 10-year low on April 20th. So why are some very smart investors arguing that natural gas may be one of the best investments of the next decade? Read More