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

Trade of the Day: AT&T Calling All Traders

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

Recent analyst upgrades and its high dividend yield could result in higher prices for <strong>T</strong>.

Look to Play a Reflex Rally

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

Stocks finally signaled the near-term direction of the market -- and it's down. But look for a reflex rally following the worst day for stocks in more than two months.

Waiting on Word From the Market

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

At times like these, it's best to wait it out and let the market tell you which way it's headed next.

Aberdeen Asia-Pacific Income Fund (FAX) on the Move

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

After a breakout, profit-taking drove <strong>FAX</strong> to its 50-day moving average, which makes now a good time to jump on the closed-end fund.

Runaway Market Needed a Breather

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

The bull is not dead. What we're seeing now is a basic correction.

DBS – Silver ETF May Outshine Gold

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

Silver has outperformed gold this year, and many commodity specialists think that will continue, which makes <strong>DBS</strong> a good bet.

Bank Stocks – Know When to Fold ’em

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

It may be time to offload some of those bank stocks that have been so kind to investors since March.

BGZ – Risky Hedge, Big Payoff

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

The Direxion Large Cap Bear 3x is very speculative, but it could provide the leverage needed to offset a sharp pullback in stocks.

Get Prepared With UltraShort S&P 500 ProShares

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

With the strong possibility of a reversal in stocks, there is the opportunity in <strong>SDS</strong>.

Correction or New Bear Market?

By Sam Collins, InvestorPlace Chief Technical Analyst

Some are saying that the bull market is over, and that we are most certainly headed to a full test and even a break of the March lows.

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