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
Traders sometimes overreact to bad news. One of the most common occurrences of this is when a company reports lower-than-expected earnings or guidance, which causes the stock to sell off sharply. If the earnings miss is isolated to that quarter, the sell-off… Read More
Politics may not be something traders want to be concerned with, but it is a factor they should be aware of. Political pundits expect this to be a close election, perhaps similar to the nail-biter we saw in 2000. That year, the… Read More
For some, choosing the right stock is an art and a science. It’s important to weigh in factors from the economy and the stock’s growth prospects in relation to its past performance in order to make a sensible… Read More
It’s the first thing I look for when I buy a stock. You won’t find it often, because it’s extremely rare. But when you do, you have the chance to make a significant amount of money in a short period of time. Let me explain… If you’re a regular Investor… Read More
Have you ever noticed how the market can stop and turn on a dime just when the majority of investors are sure it’s going to keep moving in the other direction? It’s a phenomenon also observed at the sector level and… Read More
This market is surely a head-scratcher. Stocks have trended higher for more than three years, even as the United States remains in an economic funk and corporate profits are slowing. The market seems to be ignoring the possibility that if the U.S. Read More
Among the biggest losers in Thursday’s early trading are Pluristem (Nasdaq: PLSTM) and FirstMerit (Nasdaq: FMER). There’s a very good reason why biotech investors are implored to monitor “cash-burn rates.” Many of these companies chew through their funds at a rapid pace, so they need to keep reloading the… Read More
Among the biggest winners in Thursday’s early trading are K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN) and Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX). A controversial business model — with robust growth metrics Anyone involved in public education has surely been hearing about K12 Inc. This company has developed… Read More
Wall Street is infamous for investment scams and shady deals. The market got a big taste of that in 2008, after Bernie Madoff was busted for running a $50 billion… Read More
Small-cap stocks, especially microcap stocks with market caps of less than $300 million, offer traders the largest potential gains and come with the greatest potential risk. But there are several ways traders can… Read More
