Jim Pearce

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

This month’s trouncing of Democrats by Republicans at the polls has already set off a legislative domino chain that ultimately should result in net neutrality becoming the law of the land. In short, the first thing the GOP did after winning a majority in both houses is send the Keystone… Read More

This month’s trouncing of Democrats by Republicans at the polls has already set off a legislative domino chain that ultimately should result in net neutrality becoming the law of the land. In short, the first thing the GOP did after winning a majority in both houses is send the Keystone… Read More

As our much anticipated “two-tier” stock market begins to take shape, we are excited to see so many of our portfolio stocks already benefiting from the increased interest in companies with sustainable profit models.Case in point is the company we named as “The One Tech Stock to Own in 2014”… Read More

As our much anticipated “two-tier” stock market begins to take shape, we are excited to see so many of our portfolio stocks already benefiting from the increased interest in companies with sustainable profit models.Case in point is the company we named as “The One Tech Stock to Own in 2014”… Read More

While everyone else was donning masks to celebrate Halloween last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook proved that no disguise is the best costume of all. Read More

While everyone else was donning masks to celebrate Halloween last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook proved that no disguise is the best costume of all. Read More

Given recent price action in Kongzhong Corp. (NSDQ: KZ), we are moving it from our Next Wave portfolio to Equity Trades as we feel it is now oversold and represents an attractive speculative play on the online gaming market. Two weeks ago the company paid a special cash dividend of… Read More

Given recent price action in Kongzhong Corp. (NSDQ: KZ), we are moving it from our Next Wave portfolio to Equity Trades as we feel it is now oversold and represents an attractive speculative play on the online gaming market. Two weeks ago the company paid a special cash dividend of… Read More

Depending on which companies you look at, an argument can be made that it was tech stocks that led the market lower earlier this month (i.e., Netflix, IBM), and it was tech stocks that led the market back up during the past week (e.g., Apple, Microsoft). The chart below illustrates… Read More