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

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

Although we talk a lot about our concept of innogration, we are now seeing the companies that need to catch up engaging in "reverse innogration" as a means of stripping themselves down in order to grow back up. Read More

As a follow up to yesterday’s message from Investing Daily regarding our belief that the current stock market volatility represents an opportunity to buy stocks that were previously overpriced, we feel now is the time to take advantage of current price weakness by picking up quality stocks trading at a… Read More

As a follow up to yesterday’s message from Investing Daily regarding our belief that the current stock market volatility represents an opportunity to buy stocks that were previously overpriced, we feel now is the time to take advantage of current price weakness by picking up quality stocks trading at a… Read More

Seems like only last month that the NASDAQ Composite Index was inching towards 4,600 with expectations of it cruising through the 5,000 level. Oops, it was only last month that happened (September 2nd, to be precise).However, much of that optimism has been laid asunder over the past couple of weeks,… Read More

Seems like only last month that the NASDAQ Composite Index was inching towards 4,600 with expectations of it cruising through the 5,000 level. Oops, it was only last month that happened (September 2nd, to be precise).However, much of that optimism has been laid asunder over the past couple of weeks,… Read More