Brad Briggs

Brad Briggs is the Editorial Director of StreetAuthority. A veteran of the financial publishing industry, Brad manages the team of writers and editors responsible for our premium newsletters, free newsletters, and website. He formerly co-wrote our Maximum Profit premium newsletter and manages our premium subscribers-only newsletter, StreetAuthority Insider. 

Brad bought his first stock in high school and has been hooked ever since. After graduating early from college, success in the market enabled him to pay off his student loans and buy his first house. And although he has experience in everything from momentum investing to options, one of his proudest investing accomplishments has been buying and holding on to Apple since 2014.

Brad believes that successful investing doesn't have to be complicated and that anyone can achieve financial independence regardless of background. As Editorial Director, Brad makes it his mission to demystify the world of investing for a wide audience. His writing has been featured in outlets like Yahoo Finance, Nasdaq.com, and MSN Money, among others. 

An experienced powerlifter, Brad spends his time renovating and working on his property in Texas and tending to cattle when not following the market.

Analyst Articles

If there’s anything we know for sure, it’s that there will be some great opportunities for savvy investors once we start to come through the other side of this. Dr. Leeb joins me to offer his insights... Read More

If there’s anything we know for sure, it’s that there will be some great opportunities for savvy investors once we start to come through the other side of this. Dr. Leeb joins me to offer his insights... Read More

In case you’ve been living under a rock, the market is reeling from coronavirus. And I’m going to offer a rare glance at what three of our expert analysts are telling their subscribers. Read More

In case you’ve been living under a rock, the market is reeling from coronavirus. And I’m going to offer a rare glance at what three of our expert analysts are telling their subscribers. Read More

You don't have to gamble on Tesla's stock to profit from the rise of electric vehicles and batteries. In fact, we're up nearly 40% on this lithium play in about four months... Read More

You don't have to gamble on Tesla's stock to profit from the rise of electric vehicles and batteries. In fact, we're up nearly 40% on this lithium play in about four months... Read More

Any good ship is only as powerful as its armaments. That's why we here at StreetAuthority have long advocated that our readers add new weapons to their trading arsenal. Read More

Any good ship is only as powerful as its armaments. That's why we here at StreetAuthority have long advocated that our readers add new weapons to their trading arsenal. Read More

Einstein called it “the most powerful force in the universe.” But you don’t need to be Einstein to understand why it’s has also been called an investor’s best friend — or to see how you can profit from it. The modern world’s most celebrated intellect was referring to the concept of compounding — the practice of earning money on what you have already earned. Fortunately, you don’t need to be an Einstein to understand why compounding has also been called an investor’s best friend — or to see how you can profit from it.  Stop me if you’ve heard this… Read More

Einstein called it “the most powerful force in the universe.” But you don’t need to be Einstein to understand why it’s has also been called an investor’s best friend — or to see how you can profit from it. The modern world’s most celebrated intellect was referring to the concept of compounding — the practice of earning money on what you have already earned. Fortunately, you don’t need to be an Einstein to understand why compounding has also been called an investor’s best friend — or to see how you can profit from it.  Stop me if you’ve heard this one: In ancient Greece there was a merchant — let’s call him Demetrios — who had a reputation as a savvy money-handler. An acquaintance brought over a wagon-load of drachmas (coins variously estimated to be worth about $0.19 apiece) and asked Demetrios to put the money in a trust and invest it for 2,000 years. Demetrios kept all of his acquaintance’s money as commission, save for a single 19-cent drachma, which he invested in an Athenian bond paying 3% annually. After 2,000 years of reinvesting the returns from the 3% payout, according to the math, that drachma would have grown… Read More

I hope everyone came back from Thanksgiving feeling fresh and ready to rock and roll. While it’s always good to take a break and catch up with family and friends, I usually find myself ready to get cracking after a few days. The market certainly seemed to feel that way, too. After a couple of volatile days, conflicting reports on a potential trade deal between the U.S. and China, and the ongoing impeachment battle in Washington, the market capped off the week with a blowout jobs number. According to the Labor Department, 266,000 jobs were added to nonfarm payrolls in… Read More

I hope everyone came back from Thanksgiving feeling fresh and ready to rock and roll. While it’s always good to take a break and catch up with family and friends, I usually find myself ready to get cracking after a few days. The market certainly seemed to feel that way, too. After a couple of volatile days, conflicting reports on a potential trade deal between the U.S. and China, and the ongoing impeachment battle in Washington, the market capped off the week with a blowout jobs number. According to the Labor Department, 266,000 jobs were added to nonfarm payrolls in November, smashing the estimate of 187,000. This brought the unemployment rate down to 3.5%, from 3.6%. Speaking of catching up, I recently found myself shooting the breeze with StreetAuthority’s expert analyst Jimmy Butts. When Jimmy lived close to StreetAuthority HQ a couple of years ago, he and I made a regular practice of going to the local watering hole around the corner after work to talk about life, the market, and everything in between. And while it’s always good to have beer and wings with a friend, it’s even better to have a level-headed sounding board. That’s especially true… Read More

Back in July of 2014, I shared an incredible story with StreetAuthority readers. I say “incredible,” but the truth is it’s all too familiar if you’ve paid attention to the stock market for longer than five minutes. In that article, I told the story of how an obscure company called had become all the rage among so-called penny stock investors. Touted as “the next big thing” in the social media startup world inside stock trading chatrooms and message boards, investors began buying up shares of the over-the-counter (OTC) stock — sending it up a mind-numbing 23,000% in a matter of weeks. Read More

Back in July of 2014, I shared an incredible story with StreetAuthority readers. I say “incredible,” but the truth is it’s all too familiar if you’ve paid attention to the stock market for longer than five minutes. In that article, I told the story of how an obscure company called had become all the rage among so-called penny stock investors. Touted as “the next big thing” in the social media startup world inside stock trading chatrooms and message boards, investors began buying up shares of the over-the-counter (OTC) stock — sending it up a mind-numbing 23,000% in a matter of weeks. Cynk Technology Corp was once a stock trading at six cents a share. It soon had a $6 billion market cap and was trading near $15 a share. Financial blogs and major news outlets began to take notice and did some digging… Turns out, Cynk had a grand total of one employee, no corporate website, no revenue from the past three years and $39 in assets. Naturally, the Securities and Exchange Commission thought this was a little odd. So they stepped in and halted trading of the stock. And just as soon as the foolish speculators (they don’t deserve the term… Read More