Contributors
Stephen Mauzy is a research analyst at the High Yield Wealth newsletter published by Wyatt Investment Research. Mr. Maurzy is also a CFA charter holder and a financial and economics writer with over 20 years of investing experience. He has provided commentary on CNBC, and his work has appeared in Wealth Manager, CFA Magazine, Institutional Investor News, Barron’s, Registered Rep. and other publications. Mr. Mauzy is editor-in-chief for two financial trade magazines, and he served as editor for a Forbes-recognized financial Web site.
John McCamant joined the Medical Technology Stock Letter as Associate Editor in 1987 and was named Editor of this leading investment newsletter in August 2000. Mr. McCamant has spent twenty five years on the front lines of biotechnology investing. As an equities analyst for the American Healthcare Fund, he uncovered investment opportunities and guided investment strategy. At Burrill & Company, a San Francisco-based private merchant bank, he was a lead in raising $75 million for a venture capital fund. Mr. McCamant has established an extensive network that includes contacts throughout the investment banking and venture capital communities. His expertise in biotechnology investments is a subject of media interest. He is frequently consulted and quoted by The Washington Post, Business Week, Reuters, Bloomberg, CBS Marketwatch.
Tom McClellan has been the editor of The McClellan Market Report newsletter since 1995, and works with his father Sherman McClellan who created the McClellan Oscillator and Summation Index. Tom has been recognized by Timer Digest as a consistently high-ranking market timer, earning the designation of Long Term Timer of the Year for both 2011 and 2012. As of Timer Digest’s Aug. 24, 2015 issue, Tom is their #1 gold timer for the prior 12 months. Tom is a 1982 graduate of West Point, and served for 11 years as an Army officer and helicopter pilot before starting his career in market analysis. Tom also publishes a separate Daily Edition every trading day, plus a free weekly Chart In Focus article that anyone can sign up to receive. Tom got some notoriety recently by being featured in a MarketWatch.com article detailing how he has been seeing the 2015 market top coming for almost a year ahead of time.
Greg McCoach is an entrepreneur, who has successfully started and run several businesses in the past 22 years. For the last 9 of these years, he has been involved with the precious metals industry as a bullion dealer, investor and newsletter writer. Mr. McCoach’s years of business experience and extensive personal contacts in the mining industry provide unique insights that have generated an impressive track record for The Mining Speculator since its inception in 2001. In 2008, he launched the highly successful precious metals service known as Greg McCoach’s Insider Alert. He also shares his vast knowledge of the precious metals markets in a weekly column for Wealth Daily.
Stephen L. McKee is the President of Investment Selections & Timing, Inc. He is also the Managing Partner of Watercourse Way Holdings, LLC. He writes and devises the strategies for the top performing No-Load Mutual Fund Selections & Timing Newsletter. He has been recognized in Forbes, Barron’s and on various radio and TV stations nationwide as an investment expert. Prior to starting this company, he worked for a national brokerage firm. In the investment business for more than 20 years, he also provides research and trading strategies for stocks and the markets. He received a BA in Philosophy from Southern Methodist University in 1978 and has taken advanced courses in accounting and financial planning.
Patrick McKeough is one of Canada’s top safe-money advisors. A professional investment analyst for more than 25 years, he has developed a stock-selection technique that has proven reliable in both bull and bear markets. His proprietary ValuVesting System™ focuses on stocks that provide exceptional quality at relatively low prices. As early as 1980, Mr. McKeough was recognized as #1 in the world of published investment advice by the Washington, DC-based Newsletter Publishers Association. According to The Hulbert Financial Digest, Mr. McKeough’s Successful Investor newsletter outperformed all other Canadian newsletters over five years, and ranked fifth among all 140 newsletters that Hulbert tracks.
Larry G. McMillan is the President of McMillan Analysis Corporation. He authors Daily Volume Alerts, a unique daily fax service, which selects short-term stock trades by looking for unusual increases in equity option volume. He also edits and publishes The Option Strategist, a derivative products newsletter covering equity, index, and futures options. Mr. McMillan has authored two best selling books on options, including Options as a Strategic Investment, recognized as essential resource for any serious option trader’s library. McMillan is a highly regarded speaker on options strategies at many seminars and conferences in the U.S., Canada and Europe. In addition, he trades his own account actively in the options markets. He was formerly Senior Vice President in charge of the Equity Arbitrage Department at Thomson McKinnon Securities, Inc. As a Traders’ Library Traders’ Hall of Fame Award recipient, he is recognized as an options trading industry expert and serious investors have relied on his insights, observations and recommendations for years.
Raymond Merriman is President of Merriman Market Analyst, Inc. and the editor of The MMA Cycles Report, an advisory newsletter issued monthly and used by banks, financial institutions, investors and traders throughout the world since 1982. Between 1982-1986 Mr. Merriman was a frequent guest contributor on the Financial News Network. He served as an Investment Executive with Prudential Securities and Shearson Lehman Hutton, before becoming an Accounts Vice-President of Retail Commodity Futures with Paine Webber. He has passed both the Series 3 and 7 exams for Commodities, Financial Futures, Securities and Investments, and is registered as a Commodities Trading Advisor through the National Futures Association. Mr. Merriman is also the author of several books on financial market timing.
Jacob Mintz is a professional options trader and editor of Cabot Options Trader. Using his proprietary options scans, Jacob creates and manages positions in equities based on unusual option activity and risk/reward.
Richard Moroney, CFA, is the Editor and Vice President of the Dow Theory Forecasts and Upside investment newsletters. He holds a BS in journalism and economics from Northwestern University, and an MBA in finance/accounting from University of Chicago. He joined the company in 1989 and received the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1992.
Louis Navellier is one of Wall Street’s renowned growth investors. Investing for nearly 30 years, he has earned a national reputation as a savvy stock picker and portfolio manager. Over his investing career, Louis Navellier has established one of the most exceptional long-term track records of any financial newsletter editor in America. Mr. Navellier is the editor of four publications: Emerging Growth, Blue Chip Growth, Global Growth and Quantum Growth. Quantum Growth hones in on the market’s top 0.5% of stocks about to be hit with a massive growth surge, while Global Growth targets the best international plays traded here on the U.S. exchange. He also publishes a free weekly newsletter, What’s Working on Wall Street Now, and is the author of The Little Book That Makes You Rich, named one of the Top 10 Investing Books of 2007 by SFO Magazine. The New York Times called Mr. Navellier “an icon among growth stock investors.”
Ms. Nelson began her career as a “market-maker” in municipal bonds at Granger & Company and other brokerage houses in NYC. She was a founder, editor, and publisher of Westchester magazine, the first regional magazine in the Eastern US. A graduate of Boston University, she is currently editor and publisher of Moneypaper’s Guide to Direct Investment Plans, Chairman of the Board of Temper of the Times Investor Services (a DRIP enrollment service), co-manager of the MP 63 Fund (DRIPX), and responsible for the contents of www.directinvesting.com.
John Nyaradi is publisher of Wall Street Sector Selector and senior vice president of Private Client Services for ProfitScore Capital Management. Mr. Nyaradi writes a weekly column for Investor’s Alley, a widely read internet site and his investment articles have appeared in many online publications including Dow Jones Market Watch, Yahoo Finance, Trading Markets.com, StraightStocks.com, SeekingAlpha, iStock Analyst, Benzinga, Forex Hound, ETF Daily News and many others. He has also appeared as a guest on National Business Talk Radio and is the author of a book in the John Wiley and Sons Trading Series, “Super Sectors: How to Outsmart the Market Using Sector Rotation and ETFs.”
Jim Oberweis is President of Oberweis Asset Management and Oberweis Securities, Inc., Portfolio Manager of The Oberweis Funds, and Editor of The Oberweis Report, which is rated among the top three investment advisory letters for 15-year performance according to Hulbert Financial Digest. Mr. Oberweis earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been a featured guest on CNBC and CNNfn and has authored a monthly growth stock column for Bloomberg. He has also provided market commentary for Investor’s Business Daily, Reuters News and Smart Money Magazine.
Gordon Pape is a well-known Canadian author who specializes in personal finance and investing. He is a frequent guest on national television and radio phone-in shows, and is often quoted in the media. He is Editor and Publisher of two newsletters: the Internet Wealth Builder, a weekly e-mail investment advisory, and The Income Investor, a bi-monthly report on income securities. Mr. Pape is a regular contributor to Zoomer magazine, the Toronto Star, and GlobeinvestorGold.com. In the investing field, Gordon Pape has written and co-authored more than 50 books, with total sales in Canada and the U.S. exceeding one million copies. His newest book, published in January 2014, is titled RRSPs: The Ultimate Wealth Builder. All of the books are published by Penguin Canada.
Joseph Parnes founded Technomart Investment Advisors in 1979. He is the president of the firm, and directs all research, analysis and corporate strategy. Technomart Investment Advisors is currently recognized as one of the top Investment Advisories in the United States (Bloomberg Wealth Manager July 2004-2010). Mr. Parnes is responsible for supplying the firm’s private and institutional clients with actionable investment advice. He has experience across a broad array of industries, with a special focus on growth companies, and on short selling strategies.
Donald Pearson is an Investment and Portfolio Analyst for Pearson Capital, Inc. His corporate background includes twenty-plus years of marketing and financial experience, while teaching 401k application and personal portfolio management. Today he conducts educational seminars on how to structure investments to include portfolio diversification and management, IRA’s (Roth, Traditional, College) SEP’s, KEOGH’s, CD’s, Bond’s, 401k (including before and after tax contributions, how, when and why to roll over, when to begin withdrawals), short-and long -ange goal setting, retirement planning, understanding risk versus reward, and asset growth versus inflation.
Stephen P. Percoco, editor and publisher of Income Builder, is a security analyst with more than 25 years of analytical experience. He was formally trained in credit analysis at a major commercial bank, worked on Wall Street as a high yield debt analyst and has evaluated equity securities for more than 20 years. He has published Income Builder for the past ten years. In 2004, Steve founded the Springfield, New Jersey Investor Education Group of the American Association of Individual Investors. He has served as a member of the FASB’s User Advisory Council. Mr. Percoco is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Harvard Business School.
Nate Pile started in the Electrical Engineering/Computer Science program at U.C. Berkeley, but wound up with a degree in Mathematics from Cal. While in school, he was lucky enough to meet and spend time working for legendary biotech analyst Jim McCamant, a life-changing experience that inspired Pile to eventually launch his own newsletter, Nate’s Notes, in 1995.
Tim is the lead investment research analyst for income and dividend investing at Investors Alley. He is the editor for The Dividend Hunter, an investment advisory delivering income investments with double digit growth in share price and dividend payments, 30 Day Dividends, and Automatic Income Machine.
Robert Prechter is founder and president of Elliott Wave International, the world’s largest independent financial forecasting firm. He has written 14 books on finance, beginning with Elliott Wave Principle in 1978, which forecast a 1920s-style stock market boom. His 2002 title, Conquer the Crash, forecast a multi-year debt crisis. Prechter’s primary interest is a new approach to social science, which he outlined in Socionomics—the Science of History and Social Prediction (1999-2003). Prechter has made presentations on socionomic theory to the London School of Economics, Cambridge University, MIT, Georgia Tech, SUNY and academic conferences.
Chris Preston is Cabot Wealth Network’s Vice President of Content and Chief Analyst of Cabot Stock of the Week and Cabot Value Investor .
A graduate of both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, George Putnam III first became involved with distressed securities as a lawyer in the late 1970s. Seeing the inefficient niche that bankruptcies and turnarounds presented when researched, he founded New Generation Research, Inc. and began publishing “The Turnaround Letter” in 1986. Since then, he has frequently been quoted in Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today and other financial publications. In 1990, he was named investment advisor of the year by USA Today. In addition to his responsibilities at New Generation Research, Mr. Putnam also serves as a trustee for The Putnam Companies, a mutual fund group with over $100 billion in assets.
Stephen Quickel is the publisher of US Investment Report. He joined Forbes as reporter in 1962, when the magazine was small and relatively unknown. Rising to Staff Writer, Associate Editor and Senior Editor, he wrote thousands of articles, including more than fifty cover stories, on all aspects of business and finance. His specialty was critiquing publicly traded companies and their managements. He started Forbes’ first bureau in 1967 in Los Angeles, oversaw the expansion its worldwide bureau network until 1977 and frequently served as the magazine’s interim Managing Editor from the late 1960s onward. In 1977, he became Managing Editor of Institutional Investor, then a new magazine for investment professionals that was undergoing rapid expansion, including the launch of its international edition. In 1980 he became Editor of Financial World, then the only magazine devoted exclusively to the needs of individual investors, tripling circulation and assisting in its sale to new owners. In 1984 he served as start-up Editor in Chief of New York City Business, an award-winning local business tabloid subsequently sold to Crain’s New York Business. Mr. Quickel earned an AB in English and economics from Dartmouth College in 1958 and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School 1959.