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: TrueCar Inc (TRUE)

By Ken Trester

With my proprietary indicators and the technical picture both pointing to the downside, I am now in the bearish camp and I suggest being much more defensive with your portfolios at this time.

Trade of the Day: Waste Connections, Inc (WCN)

By Ken Trester

While the S&P 500 has declined in four of the last five sessions, the market’s internals look much stronger than the major indices are showing on the surface.

Trade of the Day: Time Warner Inc (TWX)

By Ken Trester

Time Warner has a lot of assets that I think are becoming a lot more valuable because of these takeover situations.

Trade of the Day: General Electric Company (GE)

By Ken Trester

Everybody hates the stock, it’s dropped dramatically, they’re ready to hang the former CEO…and the problem has been that GE just was not generating enough cash. But now, my indications are that it is.

Trade of the Day: Newell Brands Inc (NWL)

By Ken Trester

Carl Icahn saw a “short squeeze” going on in Herbalife, got in, and pressed the stock price way up, to the level it’s still at today. Now he’s aiming for a repeat performance with classic consumer-goods stock Newell Brands.

Trade of the Day: iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (ETF) (EEM)

By Ken Trester

The stocks in the EEM have a P/E ratio of about 16:1 while the stocks in the U.S. market are much higher. So, basically, the EEM stocks are a better bargain, which leads me to consider EEM as a possible alternative to American stocks.

Trade of the Day: Apache Corporation (APA)

By Ken Trester

I’m still leaning towards the bearish camp, as there seems to have been a fundamental change in the atmosphere of the market.

Trade of the Day: Logitech International SA (USA) (LOGI)

By Ken Trester

The sharp rebound rally we've seen seems to me to be more than just an ordinary "dead-cat bounce.”

Trade of the Day: Tenet Healthcare (THC)

By Ken Trester

Tenet Healthcare (THC) shares are currently trading at $18.72, and the renewed bullishness in the market could potentially push the stock back up to its recent highs around $19.50.

Trade of the Day: Kraft Heinz Co (KHC)

By Ken Trester

All it took was a minor change in interest rates to really push investors towards a risk-off stance.

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