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

Trades of the Day: Valero Energy (VLO) and Ingersol Rand (IR)

By Ken Trester

The Nasdaq isn't strong and short-term stochastic readings for the Dow and S and P 500 are overbought and need to be worked out before stocks can head universally higher.

Trade of the Day: Honda Motors (HMC)

By Ken Trester

The Nasdaq has been the most consistent of the three major stock market indexes, so this slip bears watching.

Trade of the Day: Applied Materials (AMAT)

By Ken Trester

For today, to get some upside exposure to the stock market, we’ve got a chip maker: Applied Materials (AMAT).

Trade of the Day: McDermott (MDR)

By Ken Trester

With our indicators continuing to reside in bullish territory but weakening, traders should begin to add more puts, as it never hurts to have some insurance.

Trade of the Day: Gray Television (GTN)

By Ken Trester

While my system highlighted this options trading opportunity in Gray Television (GTN) because of the technical picture, it reports earnings on March 11.

Trade of the Day: Adobe Systems (ADBE)

By Ken Trester

Stocks continue to build on their recent strength, and the bullish trend in the stock market today should continue as we head into the first week of March.

Trade of the Day: Pitney Bowes (PBI)

By Ken Trester

The stock market built upon its recent strength over the past week, and signs point toward a continuation of that trend.

Trade of the Day: GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT)

By Ken Trester

With our stock market indicators showing improvement, options traders should begin to lean more toward bullish positions such as buying calls.

Trade of the Day: Citigroup (C)

By Ken Trester

Options traders should continue to buy puts as portfolio insurance, and also selectively buy calls to profit from a possible stock market bounce.

Trade of the Day: Ciena Corp. (CIEN)

By Ken Trester

While the longer-term stock market outlook remains bullish, a shorter-term spate of more selling cannot be ruled out.

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