Our Team of Writers
Everyone who writes for The Tycoon Report is a battle-tested professional investor. Each of them has fully committed themselves to our mission of leveling the playing field between big institutional investors and individuals like you.
Their track records are stellar, their egos are small, and their desire to help you become a better investor is reflected in everything they write.
Dylan Jovine
CEO, Tycoon Publishing
Contributing Editor,
The Tycoon Report
During a successful career as a Wall Street analyst — and later as owner of his own brokerage firm — when Dylan Jovine made recommendations, the big money paid attention.
But now, he’s the ultimate Wall Street whistleblower. He got sick and tired of seeing institutional investors get richer while average investors watched their nest eggs fall victim to the rampant conflicts of interest in the major brokerage firms.
Dylan left the cushy corner office behind and set out on a mission: To make institutional quality stock research available to individuals at prices anybody could afford.
Tycoon Publishing is the culmination of this mission, and The Tycoon Report is its cornerstone.
Christopher Rowe
CIO, The Trend Rider
Creator, Chris Rowe's Internal Strength System
An internationally respected authority on options, and co-founder of Tycoon Publishing, Chris Rowe has been spinning off profitable trades for his Trend Rider members since launching the service in 2005.
While most professionals consider an options trader who is right on 3 of 10 trades to be very good, Chris has been right on 9 out of every 10. That’s why The Trend Rider filled up so quickly we had to close the service to new members.
But investors can still enjoy access to Chris through his weekly Tycoon Report articles, where he focuses on making even the most complex trading strategies easy for even the greenest investor to understand and profit from.
Teeka Tiwari
CIO, Point & Profit
Creator, ETF Master Trader System
Creator, Sector Hunter
At eighteen years of age, Teeka became the youngest employee at Lehman Brothers. Two years later he shattered convention once again by becoming the youngest Vice President in the history of the company. By the time he was 23, he had made and lost a million dollars. At 27, he was a millionaire several times over.
Today, Teeka is among the top few professional investors worldwide, and manages a top-performing foreign hedge-fund which is closed to new investors.
In June of 2006, Teeka officially joined Tycoon Publishing as Chief Investment Officer of the trading service Point and Profit, making his wealth-building acumen available to the average individual investor for the first time.
Ethan Roberts
Contributing Editor
The Tycoon Report
Ethan Roberts has been reading The Tycoon Report since its infancy, and represents the kind of success story that we hope many others will achieve: After submitting dozens of member articles and receiving high marks from our readers and our experts, Ethan was invited to join our team of staff writers. In addition to sharing our passion for investing, Ethan is also passionate about educating others, and teaches classes on Investing in Residential Real Estate, and on Building Wealth for Retirement.
Barbara Cohen
Contributing Editor
The Tycoon Report
A professional trading educator specializing in the futures markets, Barbara first became involved in the world of Wall Street as a computer programmer working for financial institutions. It was this experience that taught her early on how the markets operate from the "insiders" out.
Her philosophy toward trading is simple: Without having an understanding of just how insiders actually control the market, traders can never be consistently profitable ... and consistency differentiates amateur investors from pro traders.
Like many pro traders, Barbara exclusively daytrades the futures markets. And using the information she learned early on, she now teaches students how to apply insider trading techniques to make consistent profits.
A Sneak Peek at The Tycoon Report
Your free subscription includes …
- 3 essential bonus reports — more than 100 printed pages worth of the best investment advice you’ll ever read — instantly!
- Daily issues, Monday thru Friday;
- Market commentary, stock picks, and analysis from our battle-tested team of investing professionals;
- A first-rate investing education: Everything you’d ever want to know about stocks, options, commodities, bonds, and more;
At the end of the day, if reading The Tycoon Report makes you a better investor, we feel like we've done our job. Leveling the playing field for the individual investor means arming you with the tools and the wisdom to beat Wall Street at its own game.
This is NOT, in other words, a stock picking newsletter … it’s a newsletter that will help you pick great stocks for years to come.
That being said, our writers can't always resist sharing trade recommendations with Tycoon Report readers.
Have a look at some of our past recommendations, and ask yourself if you've gotten the same kind of performance from some of the services you pay good money for:
| Date | Investment | Closing Price on Recommendation Date | Subsequent High* | % Return |
| 8/5/2005 | Gold | $444/oz | $1008.80/oz | +126% |
| 11/1/2005 | Suncor (SU) | $53.72 | $89.19 | +102% |
| 11/1/2005 | Phelps Dodge (PD) | $56.24 | $96.90 | +118% |
| 11/11/2005 | Jun 160 OSX Calls | $32.00 | $42.70 | +33% |
| 11/22/2005 | 2 Sep 200 OSX Calls | $20.00 | $38.90 | +143%%** |
| 12/6/2005 | Research In Motion (RIMM) | $61.95 | $126.95 | +105% |
| 1/4/2006 | China Mobile (CHL) | $24.50 | $101.14 | +63% |
| 1/17/2006 | PALM, Inc. (PALM) | $17.48 | $24.00 | +37% |
| 3/14/2006 | China I-Shares (FXI) | $71.80 | $209.32 | +192% |
| 3/14/2006 | Salesforce.com (CRM) - Short Position | $39.78 | $64.40 (subsequent low) | +62% |
| 4/28/2006 | NBTY, Inc. (NTY) | $22.65 | $52.96 | +134% |
| * Data for “subsequent highs” calculated through date of this writing (4/18/08). ** Combined June 160 OSX and 2 September OSX call trades. | ||||
When you sign up for The Tycoon Report, we’ll send you an email right away with links to three HUGE bonus reports that you can enjoy right away.
We guarantee that these reports will immediately make you a better investor … even before you receive your first Tycoon Report issue.
Free Bonus #1: The Best Investment Lessons For 2008
In his spare time — when he’s not busy in his roles as CEO of Tycoon Publishing — Dylan has managed to delight Tycoon Report readers with some of the most useful, educational, and sometimes hilarious investment commentary we’ve ever seen.
Included in this incredible collection of his very best works, you’ll read about …
- Dylan’s most painful investing lesson, and how you can avoid making the same mistake;
How Warren Buffett and Shaquille O’Neal have used the exact same strategy to become dominant in their professions;- The four questions that you should ask before buying any stock;
- How Wall Street plays individual investors for suckers, and how to identify and avoid the top hustles.
- An indepth analysis of Warren Buffet's largest stock purchase in years.
Free Bonus #2: The Ultimate Investing Test for 2008
Chris Rowe puts it all together — from options to technical analysis to easy-to-use risk management techniques — in some of his very best Tycoon Report articles.
You might be tempted to fire your broker after reading this gem of a report … because you’ll probably know more than he does.
Here’s just a small taste of the things you’ll learn …
- The basics of trading options, in language you can understand;
The five rules that you can follow to make money in any kind of market;- Learn the 3 Rules on How to spot and avoid "wolf" stocks in "sheeps" clothing.
- One easy-to-find and even easier-to-read market indicator that will give you the confidence to trade in even the most nervous of markets;
- Why picking stocks that go up isn’t the hard part … it’s how to know when to sell, and Chris will give you a rule of thumb that you can take to the bank;
- Why trying to predict the direction of the economy is a fool’s errand … and why Wall Street is so eager to keep you doing it;
Free Bonus #3: A Hedge Fund Manager's Best Advice for 2008
When Teeka Tiwari — hedge fund manager for the moneyed class — agreed to write in The Tycoon Report, individual investors suddenly had unprecedented access to one of the best professional investors in the world.
The contract with his hedge fund clients stipulated that he could only share his “second best” ideas with our readers.
How did he respond to the challenge? 11 trade recommendations, 11 winners. We’d say he passed the test.
This report is a collection of his very best articles, covering a broad range of investing topics, including …
- How to buy the right ETF and find out the best places to position your portfolio, sit back, and watch it grow;
A rule of thumb for deciding the size of your positions that will allow you to make money even when you’re wrong;- How to think like a professional money manager (Hint: It’s all about removing your ego);
- An indepth analysis of the next Enron, and how to avoid it;
- The one commodity that could create incredible wealth over the next 5-10 years but — unbelievably — nobody’s talking about;
- Why 99% of the experts have the interest rate story completely wrong, and how you should position your investments accordingly;
- The one Wall Street Scam guaranteed to cripple your portfolio and how to avoid it.
These three reports contain over 130 pages of research, analysis, investment education, stock picks, and advice that will make you a much better investor overnight.
We’ll send them to you as soon as you sign up for The Tycoon Report, and even if you decide to unsubscribe at any point in the future, we insist that you keep the reports as our gift.
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With The Tycoon Report, our goal is to level the playing field in favor of individual investors.
This isn’t just talk for us … we take what we do seriously.
Below are our founding principles. Some commentary has been added to each principle to further explain what it means to us.
1. We seek to create institutional quality research for individual investors.
Institutional investors (hedge funds, mutual funds etc) have access to better research than individual investors do. They are supported by teams of independent analysts, and the reports they read are the result of in-depth financial analysis.
By delivering in-depth and objective research to you, we seek to level the playing field.
2. We are a research firm only. Our goal is to provide you with research you can trust.
Please forgive the populist tone here, but the sheer audacity of what some brokerages pawned off as research in the 90’s was stunning. As a result, the New York State Attorney General forced many of them to fund separate independent stock research firms.
We here at Tycoon Publishing have no interest in the “conflict of interest” business (we’ve seen what it does to people). We do what we do because we enjoy it and we’re good at it. Therefore know that we will never accept any payment, in any form, to recommend the shares of any company. Period.
3. We will try to explain our investment decisions in a way that enables you to become both a better investor and a better businessperson.
In addition to the research we offer, we try to present our facts in a way that will help you understand the rationale behind our thinking.
It is our hope that during the course of our relationship you will gain a more sophisticated framework for making investment decisions both as an investor and as a businessperson. We believe that the more educated you become, the more likely it is that you will appreciate and recommend our work.
4. We will always admit our mistakes.
Only fools never admit and learn from their mistakes. Good investors are not born, they’re forged. It’s that simple.
5. Everybody we hire to give you investment advice will actually have real investment experience.
Need we say more? Well, we will. Why?
Because many of our “competitors” aren’t real investors — they’re marketers and journalists pretending to have the real world experience that separates the men from the boys.
All of our writers are battle tested traders first. The Tycoon Report is a powerful tool for a lot of individual investors out there … we’re not about to let somebody write to our audience until we’re absolutely convinced of their talent and professionalism.
6. We will always cherish your business, because if it wasn’t for you we wouldn’t be here.
It was Frank Sinatra who once said, “If you think customers are not important, try doing business without them for a while.”
Although he was referring to another singer who didn’t like to sign autographs, he could have been talking about any customer in any business.
In our offices we keep that quote posted on the wall just to remind us how fortunate we are to have you as part of our Tycoon Report family.
“What can we do to empower individual investors? How can we truly level the playing field? What kind of value can we give people in The Tycoon Report?”
We ask ourselves these questions every single day.
And we keep coming back to the same answer: Knowledge is power. And for too long, it's what individual investors have lacked.
So, one of the foremost goals of The Tycoon Report is to provide a world class investing education to our readers, with each and every issue.
Readers who've been with us since the beginning have learned a lot, including …
- A simple method for doing your own stock valuations;
- How high levels of corporate debt can predict fraud (i.e. simple steps you can take to avoid disasters like Enron and WorldCom);
- How to make more with your mutual funds;
- The proper way to use stop-losses;
- The basics on trading options … and more complex strategies such as “calendar spreads,” options straddles, and how to use options as “insurance” against your long stock holdings;
- When to short a stock vs. when you should use put options;
- How to remove emotion from your investing approach …
… we could go on forever.
Perhaps the best part of the education enjoyed by Tycoon Report readers is that, because none of our writers are ego players, all of them are perfectly willing to share their most painful investing mistakes with everybody. Their hope is that — by sharing some of their most embarrassing and devastating lessons — Tycoon Report readers can save themselves the pain of going through the same things.
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