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 May 21, 2018

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 May 18, 2018

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 May 14, 2018

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 May 4, 2018

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 Apr 27, 2018

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.