Ken Trester

Ken Trester

Ken Trester isn’t just another “options educator.” He’s a pro who has been trading options since the first exchanges opened in 1973.

Ken is widely quoted in publications such as Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities and Barron’s. He has earned considerable respect as a financial analyst and a highly sought lecturer at investment seminars throughout the United States.

Ken has an MBA and has also worked as a stockbroker, an investment manager and as a computer science professor at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, California, where he taught a wildly popular course on stock options trading.

Recent Articles

Trade of the Day: Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLI)

By Ken Trester

XLI is at a point with a lot of overhead resistance, and has been making a down-slanting trend, with tops lower than the previous tops.

Trade of the Day: Exelixis, Inc. (EXEL)

By Ken Trester

My indicators are giving bullish-to-neutral readings this week, a mild downgrade from bullish readings last week. The ratio of advancing issues to declining issues is not as strong as I would like to see.

Trade of the Day: Goldcorp Inc. (USA) (GG)

By Ken Trester

Geopolitics will likely drive commodity prices higher in the short term. The U.S. dollar has been on a tremendous rally for a while now, but I think it will pull back eventually. When it does, that should also help to drive the value of oil, as well as gold and silver, higher.

Trade of the Day: Kraft Heinz Co (KHC)

By Ken Trester

I’m expecting the company to be pretty stable. And it looked like the shares were close to a bottom, which makes KHC attractive for one of my favorite bullish strategies.

Trade of the Day: Macy’s Inc (M)

By Ken Trester

It looks like cutting taxes to the government and putting that capital back into the hands of consumers is having a large positive effect on the economy.

Trade of the Day: NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG)

By Ken Trester

With WTI crude oil trading close to $70 per barrel for the first time since 2014, energy stocks that have been laying low for a while are starting to perk up again, and one of those stocks is NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG).

Trade of the Day: Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd (KL)

By Ken Trester

The threat of conflict in Syria has been keeping oil prices up. Gold has also been rising recently, and I think it will continue to be strong as long as tensions remain high.

Trade of the Day: iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index (ETF) (FXI)

By Ken Trester

Even in a volatile market, I'm always looking to find bargains. And traders looking for value in this market should keep in mind that the recent declines in the Japanese and Chinese markets have been much more severe than what we have seen in the U.S.

Trade of the Day: DSW Inc. (DSW)

By Ken Trester

The final reading for fourth-quarter GDP in the United States came in at 2.9% on Wednesday, which was above expectations for a reading of 2.7%. Consumer spending posted the largest gain in three years, and that is showing up in the market as well.

Trade of the Day: Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (MMP)

By Ken Trester

As Treasury yields come down, interest-rate sensitive issues like REITs, utilities and other dividend-paying stocks are probably going to see a little rally. Within that group, pipeline MLPs are particularly attractive for a contrarian bullish play.

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