Sam Collins

Sam Collins

InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

Sam Collins is  InvestorPlace.com’s Chief Technical Analyst. He has more than four decades of experience in Wall Street firms.

In addition to providing fundamental and technical analysis for InvestorPlace.com, he provides FREE daily market commentary each trading day via the Daily Trader’s Alert. The Daily Trader’s Alert contains his Daily Market Outlook PLUS a Trade of the Day.

Sam served as a regular army captain serving in West Germany during the Berlin Wall Crisis before joining Merrill Lynch as a futures broker. Since then, he has been a financial adviser, branch manager, regional manager and certified portfolio manager with national and regional securities firms. While he retired in October 2009, during his career, he received recognition and numerous awards.

Sam used technical analysis as a timing and selection technique with portfolios that he managed. He developed a specific technical analysis technique and timing system called the Collins Bollinger Reversal (CBR) that has received national recognition, and he has appeared on local and national TV as a financial commentator.

As an equity specialist and technician, he uses technical analysis as a selection technique along with fundamental analysis. As a value buyer, his goal is to find companies with outstanding management, unique products and strong financials that have not yet been driven to unreasonable prices. His CBR system helps him to screen vast amounts of data for stocks that meet those standards.

Sam is also a member of the NASD Board of Arbitrators.

Recent Articles

Stock Picks – Corning Inc-GLW

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

With a new pattern of heavy accumulation and a buy signal, Corning Inc. (<strong>GLW</strong>) looks capable of breaking through previous highs.

Market Analysis – Time to Let the Dogs Out

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

Traders should accumulate cash by selling those stocks that have failed to keep pace with the market into rallies.

Market Analysis – Ring the Register on Rallies

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

With internal and sentiment indicators telling us that the market is now dangerously overbought and the "Sell in May and Go Away" strategy has triggered a sell, it is time to go to cash on all rallies.

Market Analysis – Halloween Indicator Shows Market Likely to Get Spooked

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

The triggers on the Halloween Indicator have been fired, and those who follow it should be exiting stock positions and engaging in defensive strategies like call writing, put buying, etc.

Market Analysis – Indicators Show Market is Dangerously Overbought

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

With sentiment and internal indictors at extremely overbought levels, the small gains the market has taken weeks to achieve could be wiped out in just a day or two of heavy selling.

Market Analysis – How Much Higher Can the Market Go?

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

Traders must be alert to the possibility of a reversal as we enter time and price zones that have caused us trouble in the past.

Market Analysis – Markets Should Continue to Creep Higher

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

Stocks will most likely continue to plod higher as long as the high expectations for Q1 earnings continue to be met.

Market Analysis – Dow Closes Above 11,000! Now What?

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

After the earnings shocker from Alcoa (<strong>AA</strong>), it will be interesting to see if the market can hang onto its gains.

Top 6 Stocks for April

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

There's a good chance we'll see a mild correction in early April, but the bull market is intact, so investors should focus on the following stocks to commit cash.

Market Analysis – Get Long or Stay on the Sidelines?

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

In this overbought but rising market, traders will use options and leveraged ETFs to maximize potential gains, while more conservative investors will likely wait for a better opportunity. So who's got it right?

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