Jimmy Butts is the Chief Investment Strategist for Maximum Profit and Capital Wealth Letter, and a regular contributor to StreetAuthority Insider. Prior to joining StreetAuthority, Jimmy came from the financial services and banking industry where he worked as a Financial Advisor. There he specialized in providing customized retirement solutions for individuals. Jimmy graduated from Boise State University with a degree in business administration and finance. He also spent multiple years studying language, international business and finance in both Germany and Buenos Aires, Argentina. At one point he held his series 6, 63, 65 and 26 securities licenses. When he's not combing through financial statements or reading about finance, Jimmy enjoys being outdoors.

Analyst Articles

A couple of our holdings closed below their 15% trailing stop-loss prices, as the market has continued to slide over much of the last three trading days. We will stay prudent and follow our secondary sell signal. Shares of cybersecurity firm Okta,… Read More

I have been pleasantly surprised with the stock market. Incredible does not seem like strong enough of a word to describe the nearly decade-long bull market we’re in.  Despite the roaring market, stocks never go up in a straight line. There are always pullbacks and sometimes severe plunges, even when everything looking super bullish. In fact, the worst plunges occur when investors are complacent and not expecting a selloff. —Recommended Link— How The Confidential ‘MP Score’ Could Deliver 83% Gains In 28 Days Beating the market 15 times over, our proprietary “MP Score” is the ONLY indicator that locates… Read More

I have been pleasantly surprised with the stock market. Incredible does not seem like strong enough of a word to describe the nearly decade-long bull market we’re in.  Despite the roaring market, stocks never go up in a straight line. There are always pullbacks and sometimes severe plunges, even when everything looking super bullish. In fact, the worst plunges occur when investors are complacent and not expecting a selloff. —Recommended Link— How The Confidential ‘MP Score’ Could Deliver 83% Gains In 28 Days Beating the market 15 times over, our proprietary “MP Score” is the ONLY indicator that locates under-the-radar blue chips poised to take off. Read more here. And if there ever were a time of investor complacency, it’s now.  Today is the perfect time to review your portfolio to make certain it is protected against the downside. If the move higher is any indication, the move back down could be brutal. How You Can Protect Your Portfolio 1. Buy Insurance Believe it or not, there are ways to insure your portfolio from losses. But these are far from traditional insurance plans. Options contracts can act as an insurance policy against downside in your portfolio. My favorite… Read More

I’ve been trading for a long time — since I was a teenager, in fact. By 1999, I became a member of the American Stock Exchange, and before the age of 25, I was recruited to be one of the original market makers trading Nasdaq 100 option. All this to say, I’ve developed a keen awareness for the market’s pulse over the years. To keep you abreast of overall market tone, I frequently update my Profit Amplifier subscribers, recapping the week’s action with predictions and any cautions for the upcoming trading week. Here’s a brief rundown of what I shared… Read More

I’ve been trading for a long time — since I was a teenager, in fact. By 1999, I became a member of the American Stock Exchange, and before the age of 25, I was recruited to be one of the original market makers trading Nasdaq 100 option. All this to say, I’ve developed a keen awareness for the market’s pulse over the years. To keep you abreast of overall market tone, I frequently update my Profit Amplifier subscribers, recapping the week’s action with predictions and any cautions for the upcoming trading week. Here’s a brief rundown of what I shared with them this week… NAFTA 2.0 Aside from the Kavanaugh confirmation soap opera occupying everyone’s time, the biggest news of last week was certainly trade. The past week’s market action continued as I predicted in my last note, melting higher with a pop on Monday as Canada joined NAFTA 2.0, now called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), at the 13th hour. Now our neighbors to the north and south have agreed to revamp the nearly 25-year-old agreement in another win for the Trump administration. Details on the deal will be released soon, but this is… Read More

Today I can fess up to a secret… Lou Betancourt, founder and president of StreetAuthority, contacted me. I was flattered when someone as highly respected as Lou asked for permission to publish some of our articles. —Recommended Link— Your Best Shot At Triple-Digit Winners In One Comprehensive Report If you ever want a shot at retiring with millions in your account, then you need BIG winners. That’s why THE LIST is our most anticipated report. It’s jam -packed with timely growth picks that likely have huge gains just on the horizon. Click here to see THE LIST now. StreetAuthority… Read More

Today I can fess up to a secret… Lou Betancourt, founder and president of StreetAuthority, contacted me. I was flattered when someone as highly respected as Lou asked for permission to publish some of our articles. —Recommended Link— Your Best Shot At Triple-Digit Winners In One Comprehensive Report If you ever want a shot at retiring with millions in your account, then you need BIG winners. That’s why THE LIST is our most anticipated report. It’s jam -packed with timely growth picks that likely have huge gains just on the horizon. Click here to see THE LIST now. StreetAuthority has several subscription investment publications and a mailing list 100+ times bigger than our little publication. I’d love to have them publish our material. The newsletter business is simple. If we had 25,000 readers, advertisers would pay to put ads in our publications and on our website. We have a long way to go to get there. Being distributed by big publications is an opportunity to grow our reader base. #-ad_banner-#The few “affiliates” who advertise with us, provide a small stipend for readers who actually order through our link. We discussed the idea of an “affiliate” relationship. I explained that… Read More

Years ago, I studied stock analysis under Dr. Len Zacks, an MIT graduate who founded Zacks Investment Research. His Ph.D. thesis detailed what was discovered to be the most powerful influence on forward, near-term price movement: the upward revision of earnings estimates. —Recommended Link— The Single Best Group Of Stocks To Buy NOW Since 1926, one collection of stocks has accounted for HALF of the S&P’s return — through every market environment imaginable. If you don’t have this group in your own portfolio, you could be missing out on the single best place to put your money this year… Read More

Years ago, I studied stock analysis under Dr. Len Zacks, an MIT graduate who founded Zacks Investment Research. His Ph.D. thesis detailed what was discovered to be the most powerful influence on forward, near-term price movement: the upward revision of earnings estimates. —Recommended Link— The Single Best Group Of Stocks To Buy NOW Since 1926, one collection of stocks has accounted for HALF of the S&P’s return — through every market environment imaginable. If you don’t have this group in your own portfolio, you could be missing out on the single best place to put your money this year and next. Learn which stocks can… Sometimes the company itself makes these revisions, and sometimes analysts covering the company make them. Either way, more than anything else analysts use to evaluate share price — P/E ratios, sales growth, return on equity, etc. — earnings estimate revisions are the most impactful. #-ad_banner-#Zacks has made a science out of this discovery. In fact, he’s built an entire cottage industry around it. I’ll tell my Extreme Tech Profits subscribers more about this proprietary “Zacks Rank” system in future issues, because it is a key element in my stock-selection process. But for today, let’s… Read More

There’s an old Wall Street maxim: “You never go broke taking a profit.”  However, for most investors, especially those of us who are humans, that’s easier said than done. We’ve always got “buy” disciplines and criteria: prices, forward PE ratios, dividend yields, etc. Or, if you’re a technician (aka “wiggle reader”), you look at 200-day moving averages, reverse head and shoulders patterns, and other indicators. —Recommended Link— Stick It To The Costs Of Life With New Legacy Assets Portfolio In this climate of rising interest rates and looming trade wars… when raising a child costs a quarter-million dollars, attending… Read More

There’s an old Wall Street maxim: “You never go broke taking a profit.”  However, for most investors, especially those of us who are humans, that’s easier said than done. We’ve always got “buy” disciplines and criteria: prices, forward PE ratios, dividend yields, etc. Or, if you’re a technician (aka “wiggle reader”), you look at 200-day moving averages, reverse head and shoulders patterns, and other indicators. —Recommended Link— Stick It To The Costs Of Life With New Legacy Assets Portfolio In this climate of rising interest rates and looming trade wars… when raising a child costs a quarter-million dollars, attending college runs another quarter-million, and retirement expenses can exceed $1,000,000… when our Social Security and Medicare systems are rotting away from the inside… we knew we needed to do something to secure ourselves and our families. After spending 8 years and $1.5M of our own money on research, the result is here… Take the worry out of retirement and turn an ordinary portfolio into a multi-generational legacy. It’s time for a little peace of mind — click here to discover the impact Legacy Assets can make on your portfolio today. But, in my experience, one of the hardest things for… Read More

There’s nothing like cash to show how successful a company has been. When a fledgling enterprise first turns cash-flow positive — that is, when the money going in starts exceeding the money going out — it’s a sign the company is on its way to profitability. —Recommended Link— The Market’s Most SECRETIVE Indicator… Pioneered by a Texas investing firm, with a PROVEN million-dollar track record, the little-known “MP Score” is something outsiders rarely hear about-until now… Get started HERE. Growing companies need cash to invest in their businesses, and, until they turn profitable, will have to either borrow or… Read More

There’s nothing like cash to show how successful a company has been. When a fledgling enterprise first turns cash-flow positive — that is, when the money going in starts exceeding the money going out — it’s a sign the company is on its way to profitability. —Recommended Link— The Market’s Most SECRETIVE Indicator… Pioneered by a Texas investing firm, with a PROVEN million-dollar track record, the little-known “MP Score” is something outsiders rarely hear about-until now… Get started HERE. Growing companies need cash to invest in their businesses, and, until they turn profitable, will have to either borrow or issue new equity to supplement their cash positions. When a mature company is doing well, it may choose to borrow — but it often does not need to. Its business might already generate enough cash to cover all the ongoing expenses, pay for share buybacks and/or dividends and have some cash left over. #-ad_banner-#This is where mergers and acquisitions come into play. While cash is usually not the only reason a company gets taken over, having a large cash balance can well make a company an acquisition target. Let’s Run A Screen For Cash-Rich Healthcare Stocks To identify potential… Read More