20-Year Pro Trader Reveals His "MoneyLine"
Ditch your indicators and use the "MoneyLine". A simple line tells you when to buy and sell without the guesswork. It’s a line on a chart that’s helped Nic Chahine win 83% of his options buys. Here's how he does it.
Some investors put their financial livelihoods in the hands of analysts researching their relevant stocks. Upgrades and downgrades determine how they play their portfolios — when to sell, when to buy, when to hold.
Some analysts have better foresight than others do, though, and their assessments carry a bit more weight.
TipRanks is a service that "lets you see the track record and measured performance of any analyst or blogger you come across."
Here are the top 11 analysts on TipRanks, the stocks they cover and their accuracy in judging future performance.
1. Gerard Cassidy, RBC Capital
Sector: Financial
Stocks: Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (NASDAQ:HBAN), Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB), Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC), Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), American Express Company (NYSE:AXP), among others.
Success rate: 224 out of 264, 85 percent
Average return: 30.2 percent
2. Mark Miller, Benchmark Co.
Sector: Technology
Stocks: Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ:NANO), Energy Focus Inc (NASDAQ:EFOI), Intevac, Inc. (NASDAQ:IVAC), Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC), Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ:VECO), IPG Photonics Corporation (NASDAQ:IPGP), Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ:COHR), Ultratech, Inc. (NASDAQ:UTEK), Amtech Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASYS), among others.
Success rate: 176 out of 206, 85 percent
Average return: 33.6 percent
3. Ross MacMillan, RBC Capital
Sector: Technology
Stocks: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU), Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM), Nutanix Inc (NASDAQ:NTNX), Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC), Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE), ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANSS), HubSpot Inc (NYSE:HUBS), among others.
Success rate: 192 out of 224, 86 percent
Average return: 22.7 percent
4. Richard Davis, Canaccord Genuity
Sector: Technology
Stocks: Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, salesforce.com, Splunk Inc (NASDAQ:SPLK), Twilio Inc (NYSE:TWLO), Okta Inc (NASDAQ:OKTA), Shopify Inc (US) (NYSE:SHOP), Atlassian Corporation PLC (NASDAQ:TEAM), among others.
Success rate: 280 out of 373, 75 percent
Average return: 22.3 percent
5. Glenn Greene, Oppenheimer
Sector: Technology
Stocks: Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA), Fleetcor Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:FLT), Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL), Visa Inc (NYSE:V), The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), Vantiv Inc (NYSE:VNTV), Infosys Ltd ADR (NYSE:INFY), WEX Inc (NYSE:WEX), Fidelity National Information Servcs Inc (NYSE:FIS), among others.
Success rate: 230 out of 279, 82 percent
Average return: 17.8 percent
6. Jonathan Atkin, RBC Capital
Sector: Technology
Stocks: Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA), AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHTR), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), T-Mobile US Inc (NASDAQ:TMUS), Frontier Communications Corp (NASDAQ:FTR), DISH Network Corp (NASDAQ:DISH), Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX), SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:SBAC), among others.
Success rate: 244 out of 295, 83 percent
Average return: 14.8 percent
7. Robert Wetenhall, RBC Capital
Sector: Industrial Goods
Stocks: Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE:WHR), Mohawk Industries, Inc. (NYSE:MHK), Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE:VMC), Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc (NYSE:FBHS), Masonite International Corp (NYSE:DOOR), Owens Corning (NYSE:OC), Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN), CalAtlantic Group Inc (NYSE:CAA), Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. (NASDAQ:BECN), among others.
Success rate: 254 out of 313, 81 percent
Average return: 15.2 percent
8. Ross Seymore, Deutsche Bank
Sector: Technology
Stocks: Ambarella Inc (NASDAQ:AMBA), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), Match Group Inc (NASDAQ:MTCH), Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN), NXP Semiconductors NV (NASDAQ:NXPI), Broadcom Ltd (NASDAQ:AVGO), among others.
Success rate: 135 out of 157, 86 percent
Average return: 30.1 percent
9. Brian Schwartz, Oppenheimer
Sector: Technology
Stocks: Adobe, salesforce.com, Oracle, Paycom Software Inc (NYSE:PAYC), Ellie Mae Inc (NYSE:ELLI), SAP SE (ADR) (NYSE:SAP), Workday Inc (NYSE:WDAY), 2U Inc (NASDAQ:TWOU), Carbonite Inc (NASDAQ:CARB), among others.
Success rate: 233 out of 309, 75 percent
Average return: 21.4 percent
10. Ken Usdin, Jefferies
Sector: Financial
Stocks: Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Fifth Third Bancorp, Citigroup, PNC Financial Services Group Inc (NYSE:PNC), JPMorgan Chase & Co., Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (NASDAQ:HBAN), Western Alliance Bancorporation (NYSE:WAL), M&T Bank Corporation (NYSE:MTB), among others.
Success rate: 193 out of 240, 80 percent
Average return: 21.9 percent
11. Matthew Hedberg, RBC Capital
Sector: Technology
Stocks: Splunk Inc, Nutanix, HubSpot, Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit, Adobe, salesforce.com, Symantec, among others.
Success rate: 221 out of 292, 76 percent
Average return: 20.9 percent
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20-Year Pro Trader Reveals His "MoneyLine"
Ditch your indicators and use the "MoneyLine". A simple line tells you when to buy and sell without the guesswork. It’s a line on a chart that’s helped Nic Chahine win 83% of his options buys. Here's how he does it.
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