Amber Hestla is Lead Investment Strategist behind Profitable Trading's Income Trader, Profit Amplifier and Maximum Income. She specializes in generating income using options strategies that minimize risk by applying skills she learned on military deployments and intelligence training to the markets.
While deployed overseas with the military, Amber learned the importance of analyzing data to forecast what is likely to happen in the future, a skill she now applies to financial markets. Prior to that, Amber studied risk management working undercover. While risk management is no longer a matter of life and death, she believes it is the most important factor in long-term trading success.
And although she makes her living in the markets, she continues to study the markets and trading daily. Her writing has been featured in trading magazines including the Market Technicians Association newsletter, Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities and Stocks, Futures and Options in the United States, and Shares, a weekly trading magazine published in the United Kingdom.
Analyst Articles
Since the end of World War II, inflation has been relatively constrained. There have been just a few times when the year-over-year change of the consumer price index topped 5%. You can see this illustrated in the chart below. Source: Federal Reserve In the late 1940s, inflation roared after the government lifted price controls that had been imposed during World War II. In the 1950s, inflation rose as the government increased spending to fight the Korean War. The Vietnam War explains the rise in inflation in the 1960s. In the 1970s, wars indirectly drove… Read More
Since the end of World War II, inflation has been relatively constrained. There have been just a few times when the year-over-year change of the consumer price index topped 5%. You can see this illustrated in the chart below. Source: Federal Reserve In the late 1940s, inflation roared after the government lifted price controls that had been imposed during World War II. In the 1950s, inflation rose as the government increased spending to fight the Korean War. The Vietnam War explains the rise in inflation in the 1960s. In the 1970s, wars indirectly drove inflation. In the early 1970s, oil prices jumped after OPEC imposed an embargo on countries that had supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War. Late in the decade, the revolution in Iran lowered that country’s oil production and prices rose again. The inflationary spike in the early 1990s was again due to oil and war, this time the first Gulf War that ended quickly. The next time inflation spiked was in 2008. This time there wasn’t a war. China’s economic growth increased demand for raw materials, especially oil, and the spike in oil drove inflation higher. What We Can Learn… Read More
Just like analysts are missing their targets right now, the Fed doesn't really know how this will all pan out. But that's a long-term concern... Read More
Just like analysts are missing their targets right now, the Fed doesn't really know how this will all pan out. But that's a long-term concern... Read More
To limit risks, I'm sticking with trading safe income stocks like this one. And best of all, we repeat trades like this to triple our income (or more)... Read More
To limit risks, I'm sticking with trading safe income stocks like this one. And best of all, we repeat trades like this to triple our income (or more)... Read More
In the case of this stock, wall Street traders seem to be pleased by the very thing that worries Powell -- inflation. Here's why... Read More
In the case of this stock, wall Street traders seem to be pleased by the very thing that worries Powell -- inflation. Here's why... Read More
It feels like the market has been moving sharply recently. But how much of this is just media hype, and how much of it lies in reality? Read More
Trading strategies like this allow us to play the trend without getting overexposed and falling into the "enthusiasm" trap. Here's how... Read More
Trading strategies like this allow us to play the trend without getting overexposed and falling into the "enthusiasm" trap. Here's how... Read More
This indicator has given a signal ahead of almost every major market downturn since 1919. Here's why investors should follow it in the coming months... Read More
This indicator has given a signal ahead of almost every major market downturn since 1919. Here's why investors should follow it in the coming months... Read More
It's a dangerous economy right now, and that makes for a dangerous market. But there are some safer stocks that you and I can still trade... Read More
It's a dangerous economy right now, and that makes for a dangerous market. But there are some safer stocks that you and I can still trade... Read More
I generally take a cautious approach during the peak of earnings season -- but I'm taking extra care this time around. Here's why... Read More
I generally take a cautious approach during the peak of earnings season -- but I'm taking extra care this time around. Here's why... Read More
I saw an amazing chart this week. It shows just how big the disconnect is between expectations and reality for the average investor... Read More
I saw an amazing chart this week. It shows just how big the disconnect is between expectations and reality for the average investor... Read More
