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
It’s rare to see an extremely clear chart pattern develop. Usually, there are multiple interpretations of price action, so traders often pick the one that fits their bias. That is a recipe for trading disasters… Read More
I have a prediction for you. Well, actually it’s not much of a prediction as much of a forecast. You see, rather than go out on a limb and make a bold statement like some market pundits seem to enjoy so… Read More
It’s the biggest question for income investors today: How long can Treasury yields stay low? The answer? A long, long time… Right now, Treasury yields are hovering near record lows. In fact, the yield on the 10-year… Read More
Broad commodity index ETFs have gained more than 20% in less than two months… the definition of a… Read More
When I went bargain shopping last October looking for a few new outfits, I not only found a great discount on clothes, I also found a winning investment idea that has been producing averaging monthly gains north of 3%. In fact, this stock is up over 82% since I bought… Read More
Among the biggest losers in Wednesday’s early trading are Dycom (NYSE: DY) and Frontline (NYSE: FRO). It’s often profitable to find stocks that continually exceed profit forecasts. Yet once such a pattern is established, a company is unwise to break the… Read More
Among the biggest winners in Wednesday’s early trading are Jos. A Bank (Nasdaq: JOSB), The Fresh Market (NYSE: TFM), Sealed Air (NYSE: SEE) and WellPoint (NYSE: WLP) While many traders are away from their desk during this last week of August, they’re missing… Read More
One of my favorite places to search for undiscovered income stocks is in the small-cap sector. Most small-cap stocks have few analyst followers and little institutional ownership, because their limited liquidity makes big positions more difficult to unwind. As a result, many good… Read More
The metrics in the housing sector are slowly but surely improving, and while the numbers are still light years away from where they were during the height of the housing boom, the trend is nevertheless higher. We received the latest data point on housing from the National Association of Realtors… Read More
As traders, we can take advantage of the late summer doldrums in the market and open a trade that is virtually a guaranteed winner. Volume has all but disappeared from the stock market — it seems… Read More
