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
Europe is in the news again, although it seems like the continent’s financial turmoil is always in the news. European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi was quoted in The Wall Street Journal as saying, “It… Read More
Summer is just about over, and that means the lull in the markets we’ve seen over the past several weeks also is about to cease. Once traders return to work after the Labor Day holiday, there’s sure to be more action, more… Read More
It all started back in 2008. Oil and gas prices were soaring. Credit was getting tight, people were losing jobs and the Great Recession was in full force. As these trends took shape, auto sales plummeted. These historical changes forced consumers to… Read More
Jerome Peribere had a short honeymoon with investors — one day to be exact. When news broke on Wednesday, Aug. 29, that he would become president of Sealed Air (NYSE: SEE), investors cheered him with a quick 12% gain in the company’s stock. A day later, the stock was already… Read More
Among the biggest losers in Friday’s early trading are Zumiez (Nasdaq: ZUMZ) and Facebook (NYSE: FB). The retail sector can be a fertile area of growth for companies that strike a hot new image or manage to capture a burgeoning new niche. Sales can grow at a rapid pace,… Read More
Among the biggest winners in Friday’s early trading are SAIC Inc. (Nasdaq: SAIC), Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) and Omnivision (Nasdaq: OVTI). Breaking up is easy to do For the past few decades a number of academic studies found that building a far-flung empire of companies is a bad idea… Read More
If the thought of having a portion of your portfolio in foreign stocks makes your stomach turn, then you’re not alone. Conversations I’ve had with people in the industry confirm what I had expected because of the drawn-out euro crisis: Foreign stocks are extremely unpopular and many investors want nothing… Read More
The venerable TV investigative journalism program “60 Minutes” recently blew the lid off a story we’ve been tracking for months. And you absolutely won’t believe it when you hear about it. Congress was trading on insider information — and it was 100% legal. Read More
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan may be most remembered for the phrase “irrational exuberance.” In December 2006, he asked if stock prices were too high, saying, “But how do we know when irrational exuberance… Read More
The banking sector has remained out of the news as overall market volatility dropped, falling to five-year lows in late-mid-August. The decrease in fear is not only very bullish, but also makes a stock… Read More
