Jim Pearce

Jim Pearce is the Chief Investment Strategist of Personal Finance, our flagship publication, and manages two trading services, PF Pro and Mayhem Trader. He began his career as a stockbroker in 1983 and over the years has managed client investment portfolios for major banks, brokerage firms, and investment advisors. Jim earned a BA from The College of William & Mary and the CFP designation from the College of Financial Planning.

Analyst Articles

[From the 8/10/2015 edition of Smart Tech 50 Weekly Movers]We added Teradata (NYSE: TDC) to the Next Wave Portfolio in May of 2014, when it was trading at $40. Since then it has traded as high as $47, but over the past two quarters it has gradually… Read More

[From the 8/10/2015 edition of Smart Tech 50 Weekly Movers]We added Teradata (NYSE: TDC) to the Next Wave Portfolio in May of 2014, when it was trading at $40. Since then it has traded as high as $47, but over the past two quarters it has gradually… Read More

We just scored a big gain in recently recommended Western Digital, and think we found another beaten up tech stock about to do the same thing. Read More

This morning’s quarterly earnings report from Silicon Motion Technology Corp. (SIMO) has pushed its share price up a bit, but it remains below our stop price of $29 so we are selling it out of the STI Next Wave portfolio. We still like the company from a long term perspective,… Read More

This morning’s quarterly earnings report from Silicon Motion Technology Corp. (SIMO) has pushed its share price up a bit, but it remains below our stop price of $29 so we are selling it out of the STI Next Wave portfolio. We still like the company from a long term perspective,… Read More