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About Us: Over 30 Years of Option Trading experience

 

We publish two newsletters, The Complete Option Report and Ultimate Option Strategies, which as its name implies gives you the full range of profitable options opportunities. Ken Trester is managing editor and Jeff Carter, Senior Editor for both publications. 

Ken Trester

Jeff Carter

Ken Trester 

Ken started trading options 29 years ago when the first exchanges opened in 1973. 

As the nation's foremost professional options trader Ken is not just an "options educator."  He also actively trades his own account. 

Ken's Strategies

Ken's options success secret is startlingly simple. 

It's a strategy basic to all investing. Ken only recommends cheap, underpriced options. In other words he "buys low and sells high." 

It's a simple theory but hard to put to work unless you have a math genius and computer whiz like Ken Trester on your side. 

The trick is knowing how to find and buy underpriced options. Ken does this by using his computerized modeling system (based on 28 years of real time, real life trading) that tells Ken, and you, which options are underpriced. 

How Does Ken Trester Profit? 

It's a three-step process:

#1 Once a week Ken runs his proprietary computer program which plucks out the most active, volatile and potentially most profitable stocks for options trading. 

He then takes this small handful of stocks and once again runs them through two additional programs that tell him two critical factors: 

#2  Which options will most likely become profitable in the next three weeks. 

#3 Which options are cheap and underpriced. 

Ken's filtering system sizes up thousands of different options every week and identifies the ones that cost far less than their fair theoretical value. 

In Option Tactics he recommends 2 to 4 option investments every week.

These recommendations are the rare nuggets that he has mined from the complete options universe - the ones with the biggest and most certain profit potential. It's an investment technique that is tedious and often difficult but one that has never failed to profit since Ken began publishing his newsletter in 1982.

More About Ken Trester

Ken has written two books on options, The Complete Option Player, now in its third edition and perhaps the best selling book on stock options ever published, and The Advanced Options Player's Guidebook.  He has earned considerable respect as a financial advisor and is a popular lecturer at investment gatherings throughout the United States.

Ken has been a computer science professor at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, California, where he also taught a popular course on stock options trading.  Once a year Ken also teaches a limited number of individuals through his Intensive Options Seminars.  Former students have been very successful and expert in using his uniquely profitable strategies. 

Ken is also widely quoted in publications such as Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities and Barron's. He has an MBA and has worked as a stock broker and an investment manager. 

Ken has also developed an economical software program, Option Master,  for personal computers that allows small investors to easily determine an option's true theoretical value.

Jeff Carter

Jeff began as an investment advisor in 1986. He has worked side by side with Ken Trester for more than 10 years. His "safety first" outlook served him well through the Crash of 1987 and has been serving him well ever since.

Jeff’s Strategies

Jeff’s options investment success is a simple, three-pronged strategy.

First, he identifies stocks that are undervalued and have little downside risk. Then he uses timing indicators that tell him when the market is reawakening to the stock and the odds of a prolonged uptrend have increased.

Next, Jeff looks for LEAP options on the stocks that are undervalued according to Ken’s pricing models. He also looks for a fundamental undervaluation by comparing the LEAP’s breakeven price with future price estimates for the stock.

Finally, to reduce risk even more and magnify your return, Jeff recommends shorter-term "covered calls" to sell against the LEAP positions. In the past Jeff has been able to reduce a LEAP’s purchase price down to zero using this tactic.

In other words, you ended up getting what amounted to as a "free" investment.

More About Jeff Carter

Jeff has been a guest speaker at Ken Trester’s investment seminars as well as at investment conferences throughout the country. He has also edited several successful financial newsletters, and has a unique ability to whittle complex investment terminology found in the options market into simple English.

Jeff holds an economics degree from the University of California (Davis).