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: Guggenheim CurrencyShares Australian Dollar ETF (FXA)

By Ken Trester

I think the U.S. dollar is going to fall from here, so I’m more interested in foreign currencies.

Trade of the Day: iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)

By Ken Trester

With a looming “debt bomb” around the world, I’m always looking for a chance to short interest-rate plays.

Trade of the Day: SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB)

By Ken Trester

The consumer stocks I've got my eye on now are homebuilders. They’ve been hit pretty hard, but I think we’re going to get a bounce-back in those. Despite the rate hikes, we’re in the initial stages of rates going up, and it’s not increasing the mortgages right now.

Trade of the Day: CME Group Inc (CME)

By Ken Trester

The Nasdaq and the Russell 2000 small-caps have made dramatic moves to the upside over the past few weeks and have set new all-time highs. I don't like to see the crowd all on one side of a trade — but I do think it's a good time for the trading exchanges themselves.

Trade of the Day: Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK)

By Ken Trester

The Nasdaq has made a new high, and there’s a lot of money flowing into tech — it’s been a popular place to be for a while.

Trade of the Day: Twenty-First Century Fox Inc Class B (FOX)

By Ken Trester

My indicators are giving pretty solid bullish readings this week, and from a technical perspective, the markets seem as though they are going to continue moving higher.

Trade of the Day: Ford Motor Company (F)

By Ken Trester

Auto companies are not doing well, and I think they’ll fare worse than expected.

Trade of the Day: Cars.com Inc (CARS)

By Ken Trester

When the worldwide "debt bomb" explodes, investors are going to demand much higher yields to hold Treasurys, and that’s going to weigh on the market heavily.

Trade of the Day: NIKE, Inc. (NKE)

By Ken Trester

While the ratio of advancing issues to declining issues is also not as strong as I would like to see, one stock that has really performed well this year and should continue to move higher is NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE).

Trade of the Day: Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (FOXA)

By Ken Trester

While the market isn’t giving the all-clear signal just yet, the bidding war between Disney (NYSE:DIS) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) for Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (NASDAQ:FOXA) puts the stock in a very strong position.

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