Jimmy Butts is the Chief Investment Strategist for Maximum Profit and Capital Wealth Letter, and a regular contributor to StreetAuthority Insider. Prior to joining StreetAuthority, Jimmy came from the financial services and banking industry where he worked as a Financial Advisor. There he specialized in providing customized retirement solutions for individuals. Jimmy graduated from Boise State University with a degree in business administration and finance. He also spent multiple years studying language, international business and finance in both Germany and Buenos Aires, Argentina. At one point he held his series 6, 63, 65 and 26 securities licenses. When he's not combing through financial statements or reading about finance, Jimmy enjoys being outdoors.

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Money and health… As the calendar flips over to a new year, these two areas of our lives tend to become a focal point for improvement. On the money side of things, we assess our financial house and set goals (read resolutions) to pay down debt, save more, increase income, and reevaluate our retirement strategy. —Recommended Link— How To Play The Government Shutdown For Maximum Portfolio Gain Since the government has shut its doors, the market has already soared 10%. Here’s the best trade to profit from it over the next week. Read More

Money and health… As the calendar flips over to a new year, these two areas of our lives tend to become a focal point for improvement. On the money side of things, we assess our financial house and set goals (read resolutions) to pay down debt, save more, increase income, and reevaluate our retirement strategy. —Recommended Link— How To Play The Government Shutdown For Maximum Portfolio Gain Since the government has shut its doors, the market has already soared 10%. Here’s the best trade to profit from it over the next week. Click here. On the health side of the equation, we want to lose weight, eat healthier, and build muscle. Gym memberships typically skyrocket this time of year, diet books are sold out, and health-monitoring devices fly off the shelves.  It’s no surprise that these are the two areas that receive the most attention. After all, household debt totaled $13.5 trillion at the end of last year’s third quarter — an all-time high. When looking only at credit card debt, student, auto, and personal loans, that figure stood at nearly $4 trillion, surpassing the previous high-water mark set in the… Read More

The nine-year streak has ended. 2018 marks the first time since 2008 that the S&P 500 closed in the red. The index lost 6.3%, not including dividends. With dividends accounted for, the loss was 4.4%. —Recommended Link— Make Money Every Time You Trade Over the past year, I placed 49 trades… and had 49 winners. Here’s my secret… “This is the first time I have had a ‘strategy’ and a system to generate consistent and regular income,” says subscriber, Dennis J. Keep reading… December alone saw its worst performance since… Read More

The nine-year streak has ended. 2018 marks the first time since 2008 that the S&P 500 closed in the red. The index lost 6.3%, not including dividends. With dividends accounted for, the loss was 4.4%. —Recommended Link— Make Money Every Time You Trade Over the past year, I placed 49 trades… and had 49 winners. Here’s my secret… “This is the first time I have had a ‘strategy’ and a system to generate consistent and regular income,” says subscriber, Dennis J. Keep reading… December alone saw its worst performance since the Great Depression — the S&P 500 ended with a 9.2% loss. And while the major blue-chip indexes — S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average — have yet to enter official bear-market territory, the same can’t be true for other indexes. The Wilshire 5000 dropped below the 20% bear-market threshold in December, as did the Nasdaq, Russell 2000, and the Dow Jones Transportation Average. Now the question on everybody’s mind is… are we going into a recession? The Important Thing To Remember About Recessions… Here’s the thing about recessions, we don’t know when recessions start, or… Read More

Below you’ll find the Maximum Profit scores for the stocks you requested in response to my invitation last week. Once again, I would just like to say thank you to each of you who participated. Now, before we get into the details, let me… Read More

Let’s kick off the New Year with a fresh look at how your favorite stocks score according to the Maximum Profit system. There’s been plenty of turmoil in the last few months, and the system has helped us avoid much of it by… Read More

This year’s top-performing asset class isn’t stocks, bonds, commodities, or real estate. —Recommended Link— The Top 10 ‘Must-Own’ Stocks For 2019 Your Definitive Guide To Beating This Market (Stock Names and Ticker Symbols Revealed). Stock #1 has doubled its dividend over the past 6 years… dishing out more than $8.9 Billion to shareholders in 2018. It has one of the widest moats you’ll ever see, and continues to grow in virtually every market around the world. Details here. And no, it’s not crypto-currency either.  It is cash.  That’s right. Cash is the top performing asset class year-to-date. Beating out… Read More

This year’s top-performing asset class isn’t stocks, bonds, commodities, or real estate. —Recommended Link— The Top 10 ‘Must-Own’ Stocks For 2019 Your Definitive Guide To Beating This Market (Stock Names and Ticker Symbols Revealed). Stock #1 has doubled its dividend over the past 6 years… dishing out more than $8.9 Billion to shareholders in 2018. It has one of the widest moats you’ll ever see, and continues to grow in virtually every market around the world. Details here. And no, it’s not crypto-currency either.  It is cash.  That’s right. Cash is the top performing asset class year-to-date. Beating out U.S. stocks, global stocks, investment grade bonds, junk bonds, commodities, real estate, you name it… Cash is king. Cash is underrated by most investors. Yet it’s the easiest way to reduce risk in your portfolio. It can cushion your portfolio during a market crash, as well as deliver unlimited upside in the form of opportunities that have yet to come.  But I’ve noticed a common problem when investors are holding cash… they don’t know what to do with it.  And to be honest, there are so many options out there between savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit (CD),… Read More

As the turbulence jostled the plane, you could hear the laughter of children in the back enjoying the ride as if they were on a roller coaster. Meanwhile, the rest of us clung to our armrests, heads pressed firmly back, eyes forward and tense. —Recommended Link— Good News: Crash Insurance For Just $167 Smart people usually don’t take crazy risks. There’s only a tiny 0.03% chance that your house will burn down this year. That’s just one in 3,000. But you still pay for insurance, just in case. Now here’s what we don’t get: there’s… Read More

As the turbulence jostled the plane, you could hear the laughter of children in the back enjoying the ride as if they were on a roller coaster. Meanwhile, the rest of us clung to our armrests, heads pressed firmly back, eyes forward and tense. —Recommended Link— Good News: Crash Insurance For Just $167 Smart people usually don’t take crazy risks. There’s only a tiny 0.03% chance that your house will burn down this year. That’s just one in 3,000. But you still pay for insurance, just in case. Now here’s what we don’t get: there’s a 41% chance our president is going to be impeached… maybe even booted out of office… and millions of investors are facing that risk head-on. History shows that could cut your entire portfolio by 48%. Good news though: you can hedge against that possibility for just $167. Get all the details here… Holding our breath waiting for it to end. This wasn’t the occasional jolt of turbulence that you often feel on a flight. This was a prolonged rattling that made you second-guess airplanes as a legitimate mode of transportation. It was the worst bout of… Read More