Amber Hestla

Amber Hestla is Lead Investment Strategist behind Profitable Trading's Income Trader, Profit Amplifier and Maximum Income. She specializes in generating income using options strategies that minimize risk by applying skills she learned on military deployments and intelligence training to the markets.

While deployed overseas with the military, Amber learned the importance of analyzing data to forecast what is likely to happen in the future, a skill she now applies to financial markets. Prior to that, Amber studied risk management working undercover. While risk management is no longer a matter of life and death, she believes it is the most important factor in long-term trading success.

And although she makes her living in the markets, she continues to study the markets and trading daily. Her writing has been featured in trading magazines including the Market Technicians Association newsletter, Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities and Stocks, Futures and Options in the United States, and Shares, a weekly trading magazine published in the United Kingdom.

Analyst Articles

The Energy Rebound Has Just Begun — Here’s How I’m Going To Profit…

Nathan Slaughter
December 10, 2021

Do you remember what it was like before March 2020? It feels like a lifetime, but we’re not even two years removed from when the Covid pandemic came around. We all know the rest of the story. Global lockdowns. Deserted streets and highways. Empty parking lots. Vacant airport terminals. It was also one of the wildest times to ever be an investor in the energy sector. With just about all non-essential travel shut down, oil consumption nose-dived, and storage tanks quickly filled to capacity. Predictably, prices fell into the abyss. At one point, crude oil futures contracts dipped into negative… Read More

Do you remember what it was like before March 2020? It feels like a lifetime, but we’re not even two years removed from when the Covid pandemic came around. We all know the rest of the story. Global lockdowns. Deserted streets and highways. Empty parking lots. Vacant airport terminals. It was also one of the wildest times to ever be an investor in the energy sector. With just about all non-essential travel shut down, oil consumption nose-dived, and storage tanks quickly filled to capacity. Predictably, prices fell into the abyss. At one point, crude oil futures contracts dipped into negative territory. That’s right. Sellers literally had to pay buyers to take the stuff off their hands. Midstream movers and shakers suffered as well. It was an unprecedented collapse for the energy sector. Of course, the pandemic affected us all in one way or another. Some suffered more than others. But for people in oil-rich boomtowns like Midland, Texas, the effects of the energy downturn were looking downright catastrophic. Pundits were quick to declare that shale era was over. Oil and gas seemed to be down for the count, and activity in once humming supply basins from Colorado to Pennsylvania ground… Read More