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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – After a strong season opener at the Tribe Invitational two weeks ago, the Bulldogs will travel to Princeton for the two-day Sam Howell Invitational this weekend. Friday's portion of the meet will also host the Friday Night Races, featuring distance runners who have met the meet standards to compete. The track at Weaver Stadium will also be the site of IC4A Championships on May 13-15. While rain and snow showers are on the weather forecast for Friday, the Bulldogs are ready to take on the adverse weather.
Despite the potential bad weather, David Shoehalter, the Mark T. Young '68 Director of Cross Country and Track and Field, said the Bulldogs are prepared for anything.
"Our middle distance and distance group has been toughing it out on the outdoor track … We've had to move back into Coxe Cage for many of our speed workouts. When it comes down to it, it's outdoor track and field, and we'll need to move out eventually," Shoehalter said.
At the Friday Night Races, the distance runners have a special chance to compete with among the best this weekend. Seniors Matt Bogdan and junior Nathan Richards, both scorers at last year's Heptagonals and Bogdan an NCAA Regional qualifier, will run their first race in the 3,000-meter steeplechase this season. After moving up to the 3,000-meter run last weekend, junior Julian Sheinbaum, who ran the mile at indoor Heptagonals and IC4As, returns to the 1,500-meter run and will be the Bulldogs' lone competitor in that event on Friday. The Bulldogs bring in a host of runners in the 5,000-meter run, including senior Max Walden, junior Samuel Lynch, sophomores Demetri Goutos and Sam Kirtner and freshman Ryan Laemel. Sophomore Matthew Thwaites will also compete in the 10,000-meter run to wrap up Friday's competition.
In the middle distances, freshman James Shirvell will have his first outdoor collegiate race in the 800-meter run after an impressive indoor season in which he took second in the 1,000-meter run at Heptagonals. Sophomore Christopher Ramsey and Sheinbaum should also give strong performances in the 800-meter run.
Senior captain Marty Evans and junior Matthew Bieszard could bring huge performances in the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes. Evans won both events at the opening outdoor meet, while Bieszard ran a personal best in the 200-meter dash. In the 100-meter dash, senior Nathan Molina, who competed at outdoor Heptagonals last year, will have his first race, along with freshman Daniel Jones, the Bulldogs' fastest sprinter in the 60-meter dash during indoor season. Both the 4x400 and 4x100 relays also look solid after taking wins at the opening meet.
In the throws, sophomore Mike Levine looks strong after a win in the discus at the opening meet. Senior David Smith will also have a busy weekend, competing in all three throwing events. Senior Samba Binagi will aim for a strong start to his last outdoor season in the triple jump, along with sophomore Tommy Winger. Winger and freshman Dana Lindberg will also compete in the long jump, both competitors in the event at indoor Heptagonals.
Friday's competition will start with the hammer throw at 4 p.m. and. Saturday's competition begins at 11:00 a.m. with the women's hammer throw and ends with the men's 4x400-meter relay at 5:15 p.m. A complete schedule can be found here. Results will be posted at GoPrincetonTigers.com and Yalebulldogs.com after the meet.
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I love thrift stores. How can you not? There's no place like them. So many inalienable characteristics. For any thrift store regulars, this list should be almost boringly recognizable. In a thrift store...
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- Someone, somewhere, is coughing. No, like, "Are they okay?" coughing.
- One of the aisles smells like urine. And the items in the aisle are completely irrelevant. Sometimes it's the books and puzzles and snowcone maker aisle, and sometimes it's the plates and bowls and broken-electronic-dartboard-with-candy-bar-gunk-in-it aisle. Doesn't matter what. Smells like pee.
- In the corner, a guy is staring at a car stereo with a tape deck. He's debating. Yeah, it's in really good condition considering how old it is. Looks vintage. On the other hand... dude, do you even have tapes? Yeah, you probably do...
- Something is spilled on the floor. It's either tomato soup or blood. Neither of which should be in a thrift store. But you're not surprised.
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- There's a year-round Christmas/Holiday section of records. The same ones from last year. If people are so up in arms about people not saying "Merry Christmas," start buying those fucking Christmas records. Maybe people think you don't want to hear "Merry Christmas." That's certainly what the record section tells me.
- Hovering around the employees who are pretending to listen is a crazy guy who is always in the store. He doesn't buy anything. Ever. You've never seen him arrive, or leave. He just... is.
- Oh wow, what a great t-shirt... if only the previous owner didn't have a neck the size of a waist.
- Okay, the maximum time you can be in a thrift store before feeling like you've swallowed a dirt cake with a dust bunny frosting has passed. Oh well, that's fine, I need some time to think about whether or not to purchase that ketchup stained strobe light.
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EAST GREENBUSH >> With a unanimous vote of 5-0, the East Greenbush Town Board voted in favor of a site-specific resolution for a $300 million casino on Thompson Hill.
The special meeting town board held on Thursday afternoon to conduct the vote attracted upwards of 300 people, who packed a smaller meeting space than usual for a town board meeting, since the date also fell on a court night for the town. Due to this, the nearby hallway overflowed with those in favor and opposed to the resolution.
Prior to the vote, the town board held a public comment portion which had nearly 30 speakers. Of those, about 75 percent were against the proposal, which is estimated to bring about 3,000 jobs to the area through construction of the facility and permanent positions.
While the majority of speakers were against a casino in the town, some residents said that that there actually was a "silent majority" of people who were afraid to speak in favor of the proposal for fear of being heckled or laughed at. Multiple people brought this up during public comment and residents also voiced frustration that the vote was held during a special meeting, since the large group in the hallway could not hear all of the public comments.
"There are a hundred people standing in the hallway," said Jim Connell, who has lived in East Greenbush for more than 60 years. "This is unsafe, undemocratic and unsanitary."
Prior meetings had also been held for public comment, including a hearing at an elementary school last week and an informational meeting organized by the Save East Greenbush organization, a grassroots group opposed to the casino.
As with the prior meetings, the public comments against the casino included those about crime, its proximity to the Girl Scout camp and an elementary school, increased traffic and the overall effect it will have on the community.
"I am shocked and surprised by how the town board has handled this issue," said Carolyn Mattische, who has lived in the town for more than 20 years. "I'm questioning my decision to raise a family here."
Meanwhile, those in favor of the casino touted the economic benefits of more jobs and tens of millions of dollars in additional revenue for the town, school district, and nearby communities.
"We need this," said Bill Daniels, a long-time town resident.
"What I see here is appalling," said Frank DiMartino at the meeting, talking to the anti-casino crowd. "How dare you deny someone even a job sweeping the parking lot."
Multiple residents also commented that the topic has divided the town and pitted neighbor against neighbor.
Prior to the finalized vote, board member Sue Mangold told the crowd that she felt this was the best economic option for the town with no other viable options available.
"I probably will not get re-elected," said Mangold, who has been a member of the town board for four years and was a member of the planning board for 10 years. "If we get half of the income that the casino company is promising, it will be a lot."
Town board member Deborah DiMartino said that while she voted against the statewide referendum in November, she felt the casino plan would be a "revenue-driving force".
Officials following the meeting emphasized that this would be the start of the process since the plan still needs to go through SEQRA and receive state approval. Outside town hall after the unanimous board vote, a small group of residents wearing their "CasinNO" stickers chanted "vote them out".
The $300 million project is being proposed by the Saratoga Casino and Raceway.
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Managing Editor Paul Curcio joined TheStreet's Premium Services desk in 2011 after serving as a financial news writer and editor at the Associated Press and Dow Jones Newswires, respectively. He earned his master's degree in business journalism from Baruch College/CUNY, and he is an alumnus of Fordham University.
Kevin Curran is a reporter for Real Money.
Prior to joining RealMoney he was a Senior Reporter in the FT Specialist division of The Financial Times where he specialized in covering institutional investors.
Kevin is a graduate of Fordham University where he studied International Political Economy and English.
James "Rev Shark" DePorre is the author of Invest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy With No Job and Limited Capital Made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market. He is founder and CEO of Shark Asset Management, an investment management firm, and he also operates sharkinvesting.com, an interactive online community that serves and educates active investors.
DePorre holds business and law degrees from the University of Michigan, is a member of the Michigan Bar Association and a former attorney and CPA. He lives in Anna Maria Island, Fla., and Conover, N.C., with his wife and three children. Under no circumstances does the information in this column represent a recommendation to buy or sell stocks.
Dan Dicker has been a floor trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange with more than 25 years of oil trading experience. He is a licensed commodities trade adviser.
Dan is currently President of MercBloc LLC, a wealth management firm and is the author of "Oil's Endless Bid", published in March of 2011 by John Wiley and Sons.
Dan Dicker has appeared as an energy analyst since 2002 with all the major financial news networks. He has lent his expertise in hundreds of live radio and television broadcasts on CNBC, Bloomberg US and UK and CNNfn.
Dan obtained a bachelor of arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982.
Gary Dvorchak is a managing member of Channel Island Partners LLC, a Los Angeles-based hedge fund that manages large cap growth and growth-and-income funds. Dvorchak holds a master's degree in business administration from Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Iowa.
Jonas Elmerraji, CMT, is a senior market analyst at Agora Financial in Baltimore and a contributor to TheStreet. Before that, he managed a portfolio of stocks for an investment advisory returned 15% in 2008. He has been featured in Forbes, Investor's Business Daily and on CNBC.com. Jonas holds a degree in financial economics from UMBC and the Chartered Market Technician designation. Follow Jonas on Twitter @JonasElmerraji.
Carleton English and James Passeri are featured writers and analysts for Real Money. Passeri started at TheStreet covering the financial industry and General Electric, while English covered banking and Wall Street before prior to joining Premium Services.
English is an experienced wealth manager, and was a producer at CNBC before joining TheStreet in 2015. Passeri came to TheStreet at the same time as a seasoned reporter covering leveraged finance for Debtwire.
Ezra Marbach is a fund manager focused on Chinese stocks traded on U.S. exchanges. He also runs his own blog: Finance 2.0 and advises in the financial content space.
Before joining TheStreet in March 2001, Feuerstein covered business software for Upside.com. Prior to that he covered a variety of business beats, including technology and commercial real estate, at the San Francisco Business Times.
Feuerstein graduated from Emory University with a bachelor's degree in political science.
Zev Fima joined the Action Alert PLUS team in February 2017 as a research analyst for Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust. After graduating with BA in Economics from the University of Rochester in 2012, Zev enlisted in the Israeli military. Upon returning home at the end of 2014, he worked for a time at an expert network, recruiting industry professionals for consultations with buy and sell-side equity analysts, and for a tech recruiting firm where he specialized in the placement of DevOps professionals and gained exposure to the field of open source programming and public clouds.
Dan Fitzpatrick is the publisher of The Stock Market Mentor, an advisory newsletter and educational forum dedicated to teaching effective risk management and trading methodologies to aspiring traders and investors. He is a former hedge fund manager and a member of the Market Technicians Association, and he now trades from his home in San Diego, Calif. While Fitzpatrick holds various securities licenses, he does not give recommendations to buy or sell stocks.
Fitzpatrick graduated from the McGeorge School of Law. He was a fellow at Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit public interest firm specializing in constitutional law, and he also practiced law in the private sector before pursuing trading as a full-time career. Before growing up and getting a real job, he was a professional musician, studio singer and songwriter in Los Angeles.
Sham Gad is the managing partner of Gad Capital Management, a value-focused investment firm based in Athens, Ga. Gad has written extensively for The Motley Fool and was a securities analyst for UAS Asset Management, a small value investment fund in New York City, in 2007. From 2002-2005, Gad managed assets for the Gad Investment Group.
Additionally, Gad has just released a new book, The Business of Value Investing: Six Essential Elements to Buying Companies Like Warren Buffett. He earned his BBA and MBA at the University of Georgia. Gad appreciates your feedback.
Henry Gambell is director of operations and financial analyst at Trade the Markets. He has studied under John Carter and Trade the Markets co-founder Hubert Senters for 4 years and currently manages two company accounts.
Gambell is a contributor on Trade the Markets and Simpler Options and is currently in the process of contributing to the rewrite of Mastering the Trade.
Carley Garner is an experienced futures and options broker with DeCarley Trading, a division of Zaner Group, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is also the author of Higher Probability Commodity Trading; A Trader's First Book on Commodities (two editions); Currency Trading in the Forex and Futures Markets; and Commodity Options. Her e-newsletters, The DeCarley Perspective and The Financial Futures Report, have garnered a loyal following; she is also proactive in providing free trading education at www.DeCarleyTrading.com.
Garner is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, from which she earned dual bachelor's degrees in finance and accounting. Her commodity market analysis is often referenced on Jim Cramer's Mad Money on CNBC and she is a regular contributor to TheStreet.com and its Real Money Pro service.
Carley authors a monthly column in Stocks & Commodities magazine and has been featured in the likes of Futures, Active Trader, Option Trader magazines, and many more. She has been quoted by Investor's Business Daily and The Wall Street Journal and has also been known to participate in radio interviews. She can be found on the speaking circuit.
Steve Gelsi has covered Wall Street, private equity and the media business for Reuters, MarketWatch, Forbes, Adweek and other organizations. Gelsi is also author of the 2002 book How America Made a Fortune and Lost Its Shirt, which chronicles the 1990s dot-com boom. Additionally, Gelsi has written about the cannabis business since the 1990s.
James Gentile is a veteran equity investor with 17 years experience. Gentile's passion is deep research and disciplined trading in U.S. stocks. Most recently, he was a Co-Founder and Director of Research of Greenhouse Funds LP, a Baltimore-based investment management firm.
Prior, he was an analyst on both the buy and sell side at T. Rowe Price, Sidoti & Company, BB&T Capital Markets and Newland Capital Management. Gentile graduated from Boston College where he studied Philosophy and Finance. Residing in Westchester County, he is the proud father of three children.
Andrew Giovinazzi, is the COO at OptionPit.com and was a member of both the Pacific Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange where he made markets in both equity and index option classes. During that period he never had a down year. In 1991, Andrew started and ran the Designated Primary Market Maker post for Group One, ltd in Chicago. He was instrumental in creating and managing a training program that allowed Group One, ltd. to significantly grow the company. He left Group One, ltd. to co-found Henry Capital Management in 2001. He became Chief Options Strategist of Option Pit Mentoring in the Fall of 2011. Andrew has a Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Economics.
Ken Goldberg is a registered investment adviser, a member of the Market Technicians Association and chief market strategist at DSEtrading.com, as well as at TradeWithWaves.com.
Over the past 30 years, Goldberg has developed and released three video courses, trained thousands of active investors and day-traders, appeared on CNBC's "Power Lunch," and, in third-quarter 2007, used his system to win the E-mini Index Trading contest at the World Cup Advisors Trading Championship, with +121% net performance.
Ken received his degree in psychology in 1985 from the University of Washington, where his honors thesis focused on manipulating eyewitness memory (sparking his interest in crowd behavior).
Ophir Gottlieb is the CEO and co-founder of Capital market Laboratories. He is the author of the most widely read independent options trading blog in the world (Risk Laboratory).
His background includes working as an option market maker on the NYSE ARCA exchange floor (CBOE remotely), machine learning, stochastic differential equations, measure theory, trade structuring, algorithmic trading software development, research and client support for such firms as Countrywide Financial, The Cutler Group, Livevol/Livevol Securities, Audit Integrity and GMI Ratings (now part of MSCI). He holds an M.S. in Financial Mathematics from Stanford University and an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business.
Tom Graff is a fixed income strategist for Brown Advisory, an independent investment advisory firm in Baltimore, Md. Graff is also the manager of the Brown Advisory Tactical Bond Fund (BATBX), a long/short fixed income fund.
Prior to joining Brown, Graff was a managing director and taxable fixed-income trader for Cavanaugh Capital Management in Baltimore. Graff earned a CFA charter in 2002.
The opinions expressed here are Graff's own and in no way the statements of Brown Advisory, and may or may not reflect the strategies being pursued for clients of Brown Advisory.
Graff welcomes your questions and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Louis Grasso is an independent commodity trader and broker. Grasso has been a frequent guest commentator on CNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg Business and BNN
He holds a B.S. in business administration from Rollins College and attended St. John's Law School.
Keith Griffith is a reporter for Real Money. He previously reported on fintech and digital security for Business Insider, and his work has appeared in The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Reader, and elsewhere. Griffith earned an M.A. in business reporting from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and a B.A. in Ancient Greek from Oberlin College.
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Stephen "Sarge" Guilfoyle is the founder and President of Sarge986 LLC, a family run trading operation. An NYSE floor trader for over 30 years, Guilfoyle has served as the Chief Market Economist for Stuart Frankel & Co., the U.S. Economist for Meridian Equity Partners, and as a Vice President in Block Trading and Investment Banking with Credit Suisse over the years. Guilfoyle earned his nickname serving as an actual sergeant in reserve components of the US Marine Corps, and US Army while simultaneously working on Wall Street.
Mark Haefele is the Global Head of Investment of UBS Wealth Management.
In this capacity he and his team monitor, assess and interpret global markets to formulate the UBS WM House View.
Before joining UBS, Mark was the co-founder and co-fund manager at Sonic Capital. He also served as a Managing Director at Matrix Capital Management.
A former lecturer and dean at Harvard University, Mark is a frequent contributor to CNBC, Bloomberg and other global media networks, commenting on market developments and portfolio management.
Toni Hansen is president and co-founder of Trading From Main Street. With more than 15 years of trading experience, Toni has become a leader in trading education, working in conjunction with some of the world's top financial exchanges, such as the International Securities Exchange and CME Group.
Hansen is a popular speaker for The Money Show and other major industry conferences and is the author of several books, including the award-winning "Simple Steps to Trading Discipline: Increasing Profits with Habits You Already Have." Her style of technical analysis is based upon what she has dubbed her "Building Blocks of Price Development." Learn more about Toni Hansen and the trading and educational services she provides through here.
Lenore Elle Hawkins, co-manager of the Growth Seeker portfolio, is a founding partner at the investment advisory firm Meritas Advisors and author of the blog, EllesEconomy.com. She is her firm's chief investment strategist, with a focus on macroeconomic influences while minimizing portfolio volatility and authors her firm's monthly newsletter.
Hawkins previously served as the vice president of corporate development for Centara Capital Management Group. Before that, she served as the vice president of strategic planning and corporate development for National Mobile Television. She holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Claremont McKenna College, an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and is on the Board of Directors for the Dreyfuss Initiative, founded by Richard Dreyfuss.
Jonathan Heller, CFA, is president of KEJ Financial Advisors, his fee-only financial planning company. Jon spent 17 years at Bloomberg Financial Markets in various roles, from 1989 until 2005.
He ran Bloomberg's Equity Fundamental Research Department from 1994 until 1998, when he assumed responsibility for Bloomberg's Equity Data Research Department. In 2001, he joined Bloomberg's Publishing group as senior markets editor and writer for Bloomberg Personal Finance Magazine, and an associate editor and contributor for Bloomberg Markets Magazine. In 2005, he joined SEI Investments as director of investment communications within SEI's Investment Management Unit.
Jon is also the founder of the Cheap Stocks website, a site dedicated to deep-value investing. He has an undergraduate degree from Grove City College and an MBA from Rider University, where he has also served on the adjunct faculty; he is also a CFA charter holder.
Tim Hesselsweet is a numerate investor whose foundational approach is that statistical analysis must be grounded in financial and economic intuition. His interest in capital markets ranges from startups and venture capital to pattern recognition and quantitative trading across multiple asset classes.
Hesselsweet's quant skills were honed studying math at the University of Texas and statistics at Columbia University and further refined in portfolio and risk management positions at several hedge funds. He resides with his family in Darien, CT and is embarking on a new journey this year as a Cub Scout den leader.
Matt Horween is a certified public accountant and served as a commissioned U.S. foreign service officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development from March 1981 to March 1998. He served in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Egypt, Honduras and Barbados, spending about 15 years overseas.
He ended his career stationed in Washington, D.C. as the financial controller for the bureau that controlled the foreign aid program for Europe, including all of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and its former satellite countries. Horween also worked as an auditor for Price Waterhouse & Company in New York City and held various financial management positions for several publically listed corporations. Early in his career, he served as a radio intercept analyst for the U.S. Air Force Security Service.
Eric Jackson is a technology and media investor.
Previously with SpringOwl Management, Jackson was founder and Managing Member of Ironfire Capital and the general partner and investment manager of Ironfire Capital US Fund LP and Ironfire Capital International Fund, Ltd. In January 2007, Jackson started the world's first Internet-based campaign to increase shareholder value at Yahoo!, leading to a change in CEOs in 2007. He also spoke out in favor of Yahoo!'s accepting Microsoft's buyout offer in 2008. Global Proxy Watch named Jackson as one of its 10 "Stars" who positively influenced international corporate governance and shareowner value in 2007.
Jackson completed his Ph.D. in Strategy and Management at the Columbia University Business School in New York.
Currently the editor of "The Biotech Forum," Bret Jensen was chief investment strategist for Simplified Asset Management (S.A.M.), a small long/short hedge fund based in Miami, from 2008-2011. The fund was in the top 5% of long/short hedge funds for total return in its first full year (2009), as ranked by Hedgeco fund database (more than 450 funds in category). Prior to this, he spent a decade as technology director of a Fortune 100 firm.
Jensen has been a top-5%-ranked financial analyst and blogger since 2013, according to TipRanks. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Arizona State University.
Follow Bret on Twitter: @Bret_Jensen.
Eric Jhonsa covers tech stocks for TheStreet. He previously handled Seeking Alpha's tech news coverage, and before that was a writer for The Motley Fool. His coverage areas within tech include mobile, Internet, enterprise, chip, and telecom equipment stocks, among others. He can be reached at email@example.com.
Bruce Kamich is TheStreet's in-house technical analyst with a 40-year career with a number of bulge bracket firms, accumulating knowledge along the way on commodities, interest rates, equities and ETFs.
Kamich was one of the earliest Chartered Market Technicians, or CMTs, a designation similar to the CFA title. He has authored two books on charting -- "Chart Patterns" and "How Technical Analysis Works." He is a two-time past president of the Market Technicians Association, the professional organization for chartists worldwide.
Jaewon Kang is a reporter covering auctions in the technology, media and telecommunication sectors. Prior to joining The Deal, Jaewon wrote for CNBC and Forbes.
Doug Kass is the president of Seabreeze Partners Management Inc.
Until 1996, he was senior portfolio manager at Omega Advisors, a $6 billion investment partnership. Before that he was executive senior vice president and director of institutional equities of First Albany Corporation and JW Charles/CSG. He also was a General Partner of Glickenhaus & Co., and held various positions with Putnam Management and Kidder, Peabody. Kass received his bachelor's from Alfred University, and received a master's of business administration in finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1972. He co-authored "Citibank: The Ralph Nader Report" with Nader and the Center for the Study of Responsive Law and currently serves as a guest host on CNBC's "Squawk Box."
David Katz is the president and chief investment officer of Matrix Asset Advisors, which he co-founded in 1986. Prior to co-founding Matrix, he worked at Management Asset Corp. in the research and portfolio management areas. At Matrix, Katz chairs the Investment Policy Committee.
Katz is a CFA charterholder who appears frequently as a guest on CNBC, Bloomberg Television and Radio and WCBS-AM in New York. He graduated summa cum laude from Union College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. He received a Master of Business Administration degree, with a concentration in finance, from New York University Graduate School of Business in 1987, graduating with distinction. His numerous works on value investing earned him various awards and distinctions at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dawn Kawamoto is an award-winning journalist who has written or edited technology business stories for such publications as CNET's News.com, AOL's DailyFinance and The Motley Fool. More recently, she served as associate editor for technology careers site Dice.com.
Andrew Keene has been an independent equity options trader on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange for the past 10 years. He spent most of that time as a market maker in over 125 stocks, including Apple, GE, Sears Holdings, and Goldman Sachs.
Currently, Keene is actively trading futures, equity options, currency pairs, and commodities. He has become one of the CBOE's most recognized faces in the media, making regular
appearances on Bloomberg TV's "Street Smart," CNBC's "Squawk on the Street," "First Business" and CBOETV's "In The Money" with Angela Miles. Keene received a B.S. in finance from the University of Illinois.
Kamal Khan is the executive editor of Premium Services at TheStreet. Prior to joining the company as deputy managing editor, Kamal Khan worked as a news editor at CNBC in London. Before CNBC, Khan worked at MSN Money and CNNMoney.com. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Michael C. Khouw is a 20 year veteran of the financial services industry with broad experience as a strategist, trader, analyst and portfolio manager in a variety of asset classes including equities, commodities and equity and index derivatives.
Mike is the co-author of The Options Edge, a comprehensive guide to understanding the value of options, optionality, volatility and strategy for both retail and institutional investors that includes practical real-life examples of do's and don'ts for everyone from options novices to seasoned practitioners.
Alan Knuckman is the chief options strategist at Barchart Bulls-Eye Options, a worldwide leader in investment education. He brings over 20 years of trading experience that began in the pits of the Chicago Board of Trade as a runner and progressed to a Treasury Bond speculator for himself. Alan was a division partner for major commodities and stock brokerage firms.
Jeremy LaKosh received a bachelor's degree in history/political science from Eureka College and an MBA from Kent State University. He is currently the Chief Financial Officer at a CCRC in Central Illinois. LaKosh built and manages a database of approximately 70 financial statistics on each of the S&P 500 companies.
Having started investing at the age of 16, LaKosh has shared his insights through a wide variety of venues, most recently being with his YouTube channel Stock Array and website www.stockarray.com.
Bob Lang is a private trader in equity and option markets at his company Aztec Capital LLC. Through Explosive Options, Lang acts as an options trading mentor, providing trade ideas based on what he's doing for his own clients.
His focus is on building strong, long-term relationships with his subscribers and making options trading for income more accessible. Using his technical expertise and a direct, hands-on approach, Lang provides time-sensitive trading information in real-time. Lang serves as one of Jim Cramer's go-to technical experts on Mad Money and regularly contributes to TheStreet.com.
Previously, Lang managed a $300 million pension and 401(k) plan for a Southern California cooperative. In early 2000, he launched Aztec Partners, a hedge fund for private and institutional clients, which was a top-performing fund that year relative to its peer group. In 2002, Lang worked with floor traders in the active bond-trading group of Countrywide Capital Markets, and in 2011, he launched Explosive Options.
Leon Lazaroff has been with TheStreet since March 2013 as an editor, media industry reporter and political writer. Prior to joining TheStreet, Leon was a reporter at Bloomberg News on its media and emerging markets teams, a national correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and through much of the 1990s a foreign correspondent reporting from Mexico and Spain with the Associated Press and other outlets.
Leon completed the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University in 2002, earning a masters degree in journalism, and a bachelor of arts in history from the University of Wisconsin long before its basketball team was any good.
Armie Margaret Lee is a reporter covering private equity. Previously, she was at InvestmentWires, an online media company that focuses on the mutual fund and 401(k) industries. She has also covered real estate and banking for Miami Today and technology for Manila Times in the Philippines.
Stephanie Link led all investment, research, and contributor recruitment activities at TheStreet.
Jill Malandrino is an options expert whose work is featured regularly on Yahoo! Finance, Fidelity, NASDAQ, CBOE and various financial blogs. She was previously the product development manager of TheStreet's Options Profits.
Prior to that, Malandrino was the Market Intelligence Manager for The Fly on the Wall and headed the institutional product marketing effort for the Prudential Equity Group. Over her 15-year career on Wall Street, she has held various positions in institutional sales and marketing after starting out in retail branch compliance.
Marco Mazzocco, CFA, has been working on Wall Street since first interning with Merrill Lynch in the summer of 1996. Since then, he has worked for several firms including SG Cowen and Deutsche Bank in roles ranging from operations to sales and trading.
Mazzocco uses his varied experience in equities and fixed income coupled with his technical training acquired in the CFA program to bring a common sense approach to analyzing capital markets. He focuses on global macro situations with a concentration on the U.S. economy.
Marco Mazzocco, CFA, has been working on Wall Street since first interning with Merrill Lynch in the summer of 1996. Since then, he has worked for several firms including SG Cowen and Deutsche Bank in roles ranging from operations to sales and trading.
Mazzocco uses his varied experience in equities and fixed income coupled with his technical training acquired in the CFA program to bring a common sense approach to analyzing capital markets. He focuses on global macro situations with a concentration on the U.S. economy.
Nick McCullum is president at Sure Dividend LLC.
Phil McDonnell has professionally traded options for decades. He has developed extensive proprietary software for options analysis and probability calculations. He was founder and software developer for Dollar/Soft, which sold options analysis software. Since then he has devoted himself to full-time options trading.
McDonnell is a frequent contributor to Daily Speculations. He has also authored a book titled Optimal Portfolio Modeling, which was published by Wiley Trading in 2008.
Travis McGhee is Vice President of Media for OptionMONSTER.com. His professional experience ranges from trading S&P 500 options and interest rate products on the floor of the CME to managing high net worth and institutional accounts for a Chicago-based investment bank. Additionally, Travis was a key member of the brokerage start-up TradeMONSTER, serving as their director of Business Development and playing an integral role in growing the firm to the industry leader it is today.
He has a B.A. from Lake Forest College and an M.S. in Management and Systems from New York University.
Alex Frew McMillan has spent more than two decades as a business reporter, feature writer and editor. McMillan has worked for CNN, as a business reporter, and Reuters, as the Asia real-estate correspondent. As a freelancer, he has written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Forbes and CNBC.
He lives in Hong Kong and reports on the Asia Pacific region, from India east to Japan and south to Australia.
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Tim Melvin is a writer from Windermere, Fla. In addition to writing about the markets, he manages accounts for family and friends. He has written serveral articles and collaborated on several investment books. Prior to striking out on his own he spent 20 years a stockbroker, the last 15 as a Vice President of Investments with a regional firm in the Mid Atlantic area. He specializes in deep value investing as well as special situations and activist stocks, and is the author of the Junior Chamber Course on Value Investing, as well as numerous articles in various publications on the subject of value investing, the stock market and the world around us.
MoneyShow is a global financial-media company that operates the world's leading investment and trading conferences. Each show brings together thousands of investors to attend workshops, presentations and seminars given by the nation's top financial experts. The company also offers exclusive seminars-at-sea, with the investment industry's leading partners. In addition, MoneyShow operates the award-winning multimedia online community MoneyShow.com and publishes free investing and trading newsletters, which provide individual investors and active traders with exclusive ongoing access to the latest investment and trading ideas from the nation's most respected and trusted financial experts.
Robert Moreno is a former member of the New York Cotton Exchange and the New York Board of Trade and authored a daily technical analysis brief popular with traders in the pits. He has managed for his own account for more than 25 years, is the publisher of Rightviewtrading.com and a member of the Market Technicians Association.
Gary Morrow is president of Yosemite Asset Management, LLC, a registered investment advisory firm in San Luis Obispo, Calif. He manages individual accounts through Charles Schwab and runs a long/short hedge fund. Prior to forming Yosemite, Morrow spent 12 years on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading foreign currency and interest rate futures. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Ripon College.
Mark Newton is Managing Member/Owner of Newton Advisors, LLC. He has more than 20 years of buy-side and sell-side experience in the financial services industry. His expertise is primarily in using advanced methods of technical analysis to identify stocks, commodities, and currencies with above-average risk/reward characteristics that can maximize returns and minimize risk. Newton formerly worked with Diamondback Capital Management, where he served as a technical analyst and portfolio manager, and prior to that, with Morgan Stanley as its technical strategist. He also traded equity options as a market maker/floor trader at the CBOE.
Newton is a member of the Market Technicians Association, and former member of the CBOE, CBOT, and PHLX. He graduated with a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech in 1991 and obtained his Chartered Market Technician designation in 2002. He appears frequently on CNBC, Fox Business and BNN.
Kevin Nichols, CFA, is presently the chief product officer at Livevol and a former lead market maker with 18 years of option trading experience. While a market maker at Timber Hill, he ran their San Francisco training program.
As a member of the Pacific Exchange he served on the Listing, Technology and Nominating Committees. Kevin holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Business Administration from Sterling College.
Chris Nolter is a senior writer focusing on telecom, media and technology. Nolter's coverage ranges from profiles of key bankers and dealmakers to the inner workings of complex deals, and he is often the first in the industry to report on M&A activity and private equity. Prior to joining The Deal, Nolter published stories with FinanacialTimes.com, RollingStone.com, the New York Times Magazine and the Columbia Journalism Review. He also worked at the Museum of the Moving Image, where he edited the Moving Image Quarterly, the museum website and other publications, and he has produced live news broadcasts for CNN Financial Network.
Mike Norman is currency trader and economist who is a proponent of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). He writes a blog at www.mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com.
Bob O'Brien is a senior writer at The Deal, covering private equity and writing both breaking news and feature articles. Previously, O'Brien spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal and was featured as an on-air reporter on CNBC television, as part of the WSJ's licensing agreement with NBC Universal. He also wrote feature stories for Barron's magazine as well as an investment blog for Barrons online.
Eric Oberg spent nearly 17 years in the Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities Division of Goldman Sachs before retiring as a managing director in 2005. At Goldman, he worked in various sales, trading, capital markets and management capacities. Oberg is a 1988 graduate of Brown University, with a dual concentration in political science and economics.
Antonia Oprita is a freelance editor and writer for TheStreet Premium Services and a financial journalist based in London, with more than 15 years experience. She has worked for Reuters, CNBC, BusinessWeek and the BBC and writes for various European business magazines like The Banker and Euromoney. She also blogs about the economy, emerging markets and finance at www.marketmoving.info.
Ronald Orol leads The Deal's coverage of activist hedge fund managers, a high-profile group of corporate investors who press for blockbuster deals and were the subject of his book "Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers are Taking on the World." Orol also specializes in reporting on bank and securities regulation in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Orol's reporting covers a wide range of Washington issues critical to dealmaking, including financial reform, Securities and Exchange Commission rules impacting IPOs and mergers and federal oversight of bank transactions. Orol is an occasional commentator on TheStreet TV, BBC World Television and National Public Radio.
Guy Ortmann is Senior Technical Analyst and Director of Research at Scarsdale Equities, a boutique investment banking firm in New York. He is a Chartered Market Technician as well as a registered fundamental research analyst (series 86, 87, 7, 63, 24) with almost 30 years of experience on Wall Street.
His technical research involves general markets, sector specifics and individual equities, that have been noted in Forbes, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswire among other publications.
Tony Owusu is a digital journalist with TheStreet.
Eliecer is the Managing Partner of PetroRock Energy LLC, an oil & gas dedicated investment advisory firm focused on private debt and equity financings to companies in the sector. He has served as a non-executive Director on the Board of EnerGulf Resources Inc, a publicly traded West Africa-focused exploration & production company. Eliecer has advised public and private companies and institutional investors on acquisitions and divestitures of oil & gas assets, international subsidiaries as well as venture and growth capital.
Prior to founding PetroRock Energy, he was the Energy Strategist with Maxim Group in New York, an investment advisory firm, where he focused on investments in the oil and gas space across the capital structure. He managed a proprietary portfolio of equity and equity derivatives in oil & gas companies. Prior to Maxim Group, he was the energy analyst with Carrelton Asset Management, a natural resources-focused long/short equity hedge fund, where he invested in mid & small cap exploration & production, refining, offshore drilling and services companies. Prior to Carrelton, he traded crude oil, refined products and natural gas for Citigroup Energy, Citigroup's commodity derivatives trading unit based in Houston. Prior to Carrelton, he covered refining companies for a +$1 billion long/short equity energy/utilities hedge fund at Tribeca Global Management.
He received an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University and a BA in Economics from Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico.
James Passeri started at TheStreet in April 2015 as a reporter covering the financial industry and General Electric prior to joining Premium Service as a writer and analyst in December of the same year.
Previously, Passeri was a leveraged finance reporter at Debtwire. Before that, he was an award-winning editor and reporter for Hersam Acorn Newspapers, a publisher of local newspapers across Connecticut and New York. Passeri earned recognition from the New England Newspaper & Press Association (NENPA) for his coverage of the development and construction of the Fairifeld Metro train station in 2011. He was also named NENPA's 2012 "Rookie of the Year."
He earned a BA in economics from Fordham University and a MA in business reporting from Columbia Journalism School.
Mike Paulenoff is a technical strategist and founder of MPTrader.com, a live trading room using a combination of macro and technical analysis to identify trending sectors and asset classes.
Mike is 30-plus-year Wall Street veteran, previously at Smith Barney, Harris Upham, Drexel Burnham Lambert and Republic National Bank and also co-author of "The Business-One Irwin Guide to the Futures Markets" (with Stanley Kroll).
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Ed Ponsi, author of Technical Analysis and Chart Interpretations, is the managing director of Barchetta Capital Management, an NFA-registered commodity trading advisory. In addition to managing client funds, Ponsi advises a variety of hedge funds and institutional traders. He also provides a variety of trading education services through edponsi.com.
Ponsi has appeared on CNBC more than 100 times and has been profiled in magazines such as "Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities" and "The Traders Journal." He is the author of Forex Patterns and Probabilities. a top-selling book on currency trading that has been translated into five languages, and The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook, which is endorsed by Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins.
Robert Powell is longtime financial journalist and a regular contributor to TheStreet and USA Today. He also serves as editor of the Retirement Management Journal, a peer-reviewed professional journal and program/curriculum director of the online Retirement Management Analyst program at Salem State University. Previously, he served as editor of Retirement Weekly; managing director of Dalbar, a mutual fund research and publishing concern; and managing director of Acadient, an online financial education company. He has written about personal finance, investments, and retirement since 1986 and is currently enrolled in the Boston University Program for Financial Planners, a CFP Board-registered program.
Paul Price has worked for Merrill Lynch, A.G. Edwards, Wachovia Securities and Ferris Baker Watts during his Wall Street years. He was among the most successful retail brokers and equity option traders at each of those firms.
Price has been a featured speaker at The New York City Money Show and the Las Vegas edition of the Traders' Expo. Before joining the Premium Services team, he was one of the most followed authors on both Seeking Alpha and GuruFocus.com.
Sarah Pringle is a senior reporter focused on M&A, private equity and auctions in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining The Deal, Pringle reported on U.S. and Canadian equity markets at Bloomberg News in New York and MarketWatch in San Francisco.
Just Pulitzer is a proprietary trader, blending technicals, fundamentals and macro. An NYU Stern Business alum, you can follow him on Twitter @justinpulitzer.
Skip Raschke has been with Options Profits since its inception 3+ years ago. He is a graduate of Gonzaga University. Prior to his Wall Street career in 1971, he was drafted by the New York Yankees as a pitcher. After a career-ending elbow injury he began his career on Wall Street in 1975 as a registered stock/options broker with Paine Webber. In 1982 he bought a seat on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange where for 10 years he was a registered options trader (a trading pit market maker).
He later served as a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (C.T.A.), brokering a hedge fund. In addition he was a proprietary stock/options trader for Van Der Moolen. He can be found daily on OP, and, he can be reached at his website: The Stock and Options Trader's Daily (SOTDaily.com), an interactive website dedicated to intra-day stock market analysis as well as teaching the skills of trading the markets. His email address is: firstname.lastname@example.com
John P. Reese is founder and CEO of Validea.com, an investment research firm, and Validea Capital Management, an asset management firm serving affluent investors and companies. He is also co-author of two investing books, including The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies (Wiley).
Before Validea, Reese was vice president of information technology for GE Capital ITS, president and CEO of Micro Networks of America, a networking firm, and marketing manager of electronics at Coleco.
Reese holds a master's of business administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Adam Sarhan is Founder and CEO of 50 Park Investments, providing information and actionable ideas to help investors make better investment decisions in real-time. Adam is also a Registered Investment Advisor, founder and CEO of 50 Park Capital.
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Henry Schwartz is the president of Trade Alert, a provider of real-time options analysis tools to leading Wall Street firms. His systems analyze hundreds of thousands of transactions per second to help professionals identify and interpret market activity in real time, supporting informed trading decisions and intelligent idea generation.
Schwartz has held institutional trading and management roles with Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Salomon Brothers and the Hull Group, and made markets on the CBOE and AMEX floors in the U.S., and EUREX and MONEP overseas. Prior to founding Trade Alert, he led the electronic market-making group at Bank of America coincident with the launch of the International Securities Exchange.
Henry Schwartz is the president of Trade Alert LLC, a provider of real-time options analysis tools to leading Wall Street firms. His systems analyze hundreds of thousands of transactions per second to help professionals identify and interpret market activity in real time, supporting informed trading decisions and intelligent idea generation.
He has held institutional trading and management roles with Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Salomon Brothers and the Hull Group, and made markets on the CBOE and AMEX floors in the US, and EUREX and MONEP overseas. Prior to founding Trade Alert, he led the electronic market-making group at Bank of America coincident with the launch of the International Securities Exchange.
Adam B. Scott is a co-founder of Argyle Capital Partners. A veteran of Morgan Stanley and UBS Wealth Management in Beverly Hills, Adam uses his extensive market knowledge and macro-level analysis to implement customized solutions for high net worth private clients.
Scott is a graduate of Tufts University in Boston where he studied mechanical engineering and finance.
Mark Sebastian is a former member of both the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. He is the founder of OptionPit.com, a Chicago-based option education firm, and author of The Option Trader's Hedge Fund. Sebastian is also the managing editor for Expiring Monthly: The Option Traders Journal an all digital, all options magazine. He has a Bachelor's in Science from Villanova University.
You can learn more about Sebastian, read his daily blog and learn about Option Pit's mentoring programs by Visiting http://www.OptionPit.com.
Nicole Sherrod is responsible for the growth of the transactional trading business at TD Ameritrade. She oversees product development for the thinkorswim, Trade Architect, and TD Ameritrade Mobile Trader platforms.
With more than 15 years of experience in the financial services industry, Sherrod is a leading advocate for young investors and women, and is frequently called upon to be the expert voice for retail sentiment and technology trends in top business news outlets. Sherrod was recently named one of Benzinga's top 20 financial pundits on Twitter.
An experienced commentator in the financial markets, Ken Shreve got his start with Investor's Business Daily in 1995, where he worked under the tutelage of one of the great growth investors, IBD Chairman and Founder William J. O'Neil. Over the years, Ken has taught several high-level workshops with William O'Neil & Co. Portfolio Managers. In recent years, his daily market wrap video was one of the most-visited areas of Investors.com. Ken continues to provide market commentary on national radio and has appeared numerous times on CNBC.
Sebastian Silva is a stock analyst for TheStreet's premium services. He joined TheStreet in 2014 as a digital journalist from EcoPrensa where he worked as an editor.
Howard L. Simons is president of Rosewood Trading (AKA Simons Research), a trading consultant and the author of The Dynamic Option Selection System.
Simons received a master's degree in business administration, concentrating in finance and econometrics, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He received a master's degree in international economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins.
A portfolio manager with Milestone Wealth Strategies, Smith specializes in running separate managed accounts through the use of technical analysis, via option and equities strategies.
She is co-portfolio manager of MAPS rated 5* by Morningstar and co-founder of Explosive Options.net and a trading mentor.
Daria Solovieva Is Executive Editor of Real Money.
Jay Somaney is the founder and fund manager with TSG Capital Partners, a hedge fund holding/family office investment company based in Plano, Texas and Bombay, India and is also the founder of several websites that focus on technology and Indian stocks (including ADRs), providing information, news and chatter. (jaysomaney.com) Previously, Somaney worked at TSG Tech Fund, a hedge fund focused on the shares of companies involved in the Internet and related technology.
Prior to that, Somaney worked on the sell side as a tech and telecom analyst. Before that, he was a fund manager and partner with SMS International, a hedge fund specializing in tech investments in the Far East (non-Japan). Somaney holds a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Texas.
Brian Sozzi is a Special Features Correspondent for TheStreet, responsible for hosting executive interviews with Fortune 500 companies and developing feature pieces. Sozzi was previously the CEO and chief equities strategist of Belus Capital Advisors, where he was responsible for providing independent investment research to both institutional and retail investors.
Sozzi was recognized by StarMine as a top-ranked equity research analyst for stocks under coverage in such categories as "EPS Estimate Accuracy" and "Industry Excess Return." Sozzi was then awarded the 2011 FT | StarMine Analyst Award for No. 3 Earnings Estimator in the Textiles Apparel & Luxury Goods Industry.
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Kate Stalter is a Series 65-licensed investment advisor and the founder of Better Money Decisions. (www.bettermoneydecisions.com) Her focus is on helping people enjoy a happy and secure retirement. She was previously a market writer and CAN SLIM investing instructor with Investor's Business Daily, and has been a featured columnist for Morningstar, Forbes and Moneyshow. She also hosted the "Small Cap Roundup" for the TFNN radio network.
Kate is a graduate of Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, and holds an MBA from the Kelllogg School at Northwestern University. Follow on Twitter: @KateStalter
Michael Stapleton is a Prop Trader for Avatar Securities, specializing in technical analysis and options across multiple asset classes. Prior to that, Stapleton held Prop Trading positions and was a Financial Services Manager at Pershing. Stapleton is a graduate of Rutgers University with a B.A. in Political Science and History and can be followed on Twitter @DonaldKey.
Hale Stewart is a tax attorney and investment adviser based in Houston, Texas. He is the author of The Lifetime Income and Security Solution.
Ben Stoto is director or research for CNBC's "Mad Money" program, a position he's held since April 2015. Previously, he served as a research analyst for Action Alerts PLUS, Jim Cramer's charitable trust portfolio. Ben began his career at JPMorgan Chase, where he was an associate with the bank's agent lending, equity trading team, initiating equity loans on behalf of institutional investor clients.
Originally from Washington, DC, Ben attended Georgetown University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting. While at Georgetown, Ben worked at the Georgetown University Alumni and Student Federal Credit Union, the largest student-run financial institution in the country, eventually serving as chief operating officer and chairman of the board of directors.
Peter Tchir started his career at Bankers Trust and later at Deutsche Bank, running high-yield derivatives. He has traded all manner of fixed-income products, both on the sell side as a market maker and as a portfolio manager at a fixed-income hedge fund. During the financial crisis he ran the U.S. CDS-index business (made famous by The Big Short) for RBS.
Peter received B.S. in mathematics and computer sciences from the University of Waterloo and an MBA with distinction from Vanderbilt University, where he also won the Matt Wiggington Leadership Award for outstanding performance in finance.
Tom Terrarosa covers the energy and industrial sectors for TheStreet and its institutional arm The Deal, focusing on M&A and private equity, as well as large-cap stocks.
Prior to joining The Deal, Tom was a regional digital producer with Gannett, where his primary responsibilities included editing and optimizing content for the company's six New Jersey newspapers and five affiliated websites. He also has worked as a local news reporter with The Dominion Post in Morgantown, W.Va.
Tom received a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from West Virginia University.
Boston-based journalist Scott Van Voorhis has over two decades of experience writing, analyzing and reporting on a wide range of sectors, including tech, gaming, real estate and financial services.
Christopher (Chris) Versace is the Chief Investment Officer at Tematica Research, which utilizes a thematic investing strategy leveraging changing economics, demographics, psychographics, technology and more to determine investment candidates, while also sidestepping companies vulnerable to thematic change. Versace also co-manages TheStreet's Trifecta Stocks as well as Stocks Under $10, co-hosts the Cocktail Investing Podcast and developed the NJCU New Jersey 50 Index at NJCU, where he is an Assistant Professor of Finance.
Chris Versace and Bob Lang are co-portfolio managers of Trifecta Stocks.
Christopher Versace is the Portfolio Manager of the Thematic Growth Portfolio at Fabian Wealth Strategies, as well as the editor of both the long-only "PowerTrend Profits" investment newsletter and "PowerTrader" trading service that utilizes strategies combining stocks, ETFs and options. Lenore Elle Hawkins is a founding partner at the investment advisory firm Meritas Advisors and author of the blog, EllesEconomy.com. She is her firm's chief investment strategist, with a focus on macroeconomic influences while minimizing portfolio volatility and authors her firm's monthly newsletter.
Wahlman currently writes on auto and tech. He was a sell-side equity research analyst covering the communications technology industries from 1996 to 2008 at UBS, Needham & Company and ThinkEquity.
Nelson Wang edits the technology and retail/consumer stocks coverage at TheStreet. Prior to TheStreet, he was the business and personal finance editor for Yahoo!'s home page, and he's also worked as an editor at Condé Nast Portfolio, CBS MoneyWatch, Internet World and aMedia. Nelson has a bachelor's degree in Social Studies from Harvard College.
Tom Ward is a 30-year Wall Street veteran with extensive buy- and sell-side experience. He began his career in institutional equity sales at Merrill Lynch, and then he was a partner at two substantial hedge funds. Later, he was a senior managing director at Bear Stearns and a senior hedge fund relationship manager. He also has extensive experience in private equity and in the energy sector.
He graduated with a B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead Scholar. He later earned a MBA degree with honors from the University of Texas at Austin.
Robert Weinstein is a full-time equity and options strategist with more than 20 years of experience. Weinstein maintains a sharp focus on risk mitigation and constant study of behavior finance. He believes making money in the markets is actually quite easy. The real skill needed is to understand when to walk away from non-performing positions that cause traders and investors to give back their gains.
Weinstein co-founded and contributes to the weekly "Options Investing Newsletter," a Paid2Trade investing newsletter.
Paul Whitfield is The Deal's international mining and energy correspondent based in Paris, where he also covers international M&A across Europe, Australia and Asia. Whitfield has written extensively on the oil sector as well as the nuclear industry and the rise of China as a driver of commodity deals. Prior to joining The Deal, Whitfield was a finance and investment writer for a number of British national newspapers including The Independent, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times, as well as BBC. He has also worked as a financial journalist for BBC's daily business show, "Working Lunch."
Stacey Widlitz is the president of SW Retail Advisors, a consulting firm with offices in London and New York. She advises institutional investors as well as retailers with a need for International expertise in the consumer sector. Stacey is also a CNBC Contributor.
After receiving an MBA from NYU, Widlitz started her career covering retail equities at PaineWebber (now UBS). She held senior analyst positions at UBS, SG Cowen, Fulcrum Partners and Pali Capital, where she covered an eclectic group from discounters to luxury. After 12 years of covering retail equities, she launched SW Retail Advisors in 2011. She publishes a monthly newsletter "What You Need to Know Across the Retail Pond."
Michael Wiggins De Oliveira is a London-based investment manager specializing in deep value stocks.
Cody Willard runs Trading With Cody, offering real-time trades and long-term investing ideas. Willard went from running a hedge fund to anchoring his own TV show on Fox Business.
A former technology venture capitalist, his stock-picking ideas and economic outlooks have been featured on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ABC's 20/20, CBS Evening News, CNBC's Kudlow & Company and Squawk Box, Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, as well as in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and many other outlets.
Williams is a principal at Strategic Gold, a Naples, Fla.-based firm that buys and stores physical gold for investors. Williams was an NYSE floor trader for 29 years for Richardson Greenshields, Glenwood Securities and other firms. He holds a B.S. in civil engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Jared is the senior equity derivatives analyst at BGC Partners, focusing on volatility trading and hedging strategies, quantitative fundamental and volatility-based portfolio screens, and macroeconomic and cross-asset themes. Previously, he was a portfolio manager at Clinamen Financial Group, a commodity trading advisor, and the principal at Condor Options, an independent derivatives research company.
Jared has been quoted in various media outlets including Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Reuters. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University.