David Sterman has worked as an investment analyst for nearly two decades. He started his Wall Street career in equity research at Smith Barney, culminating in a position as Senior Analyst covering European banks. While at Smith Barney, he learned of all the tricks used by Wall Street to steer the best advice to their top clients and their own trading desk.
David has also served as Managing Editor at TheStreet.com and Director of Research at Individual Investor. In addition, David worked as Director of Research for Jesup & Lamont Securities. David has made numerous media appearances over the years, primarily on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, and has a master's degree in management from Georgia Tech.
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Analyst Articles
Wall Street analysts tend to provide an updated look at the companies they follow every month or two, ignoring short-term issues and trends on a week-to-week… Read More
If you’re a baby boomer, then supplementing your retirement earnings with rising dividend income is likely at the top of your wish list. A great way to accomplish this is… Read More
A complete trading system can be defined with detailed buy and sell rules. That’s all you need to have a system. Rules let traders know what they should do in advance. Disciplined traders follow their rules and avoid making emotional decisions in fast-moving markets. Two simple ideas — trading rules… Read More
America will become the largest oil producer in the world by the end of the decade and is currently neck and neck with Russia in natural gas production. I am sure you’ve already heard all that, but if you haven’t, let it sink… Read More
Major global stock markets have confounded the skeptics and are off to a strong start in 2013, shrugging off such headline risks as U.S. tax hikes, government spending cuts and a dead-locked general election in Italy, the eurozone’s third-largest… Read More
When Warren Buffett left college in 1951, he had $9,800. After 62 years of investment success, his net worth is now estimated at… Read More
The Dow Jones Industrial Average recently exceeded the previous record of 14,164 reached in October 2007. Of course, a number of components in the index returned to their peak much sooner and are now handily above levels seen in 2007. The best… Read More
Fighting trends in the market without solid reasoning is a good way to go broke quickly. But the contrarian strategy of buying at the bottom and selling at the top has earned huge sums of… Read More
Gold has made a series of higher lows during the past few weeks after a visit to key support at $1,550 per ounce. A move above $1,620 could confirm a bottom and resume the overall bull trend. Gold, as measured by the… Read More