Bob Bogda is the Managing Editor of StreetAuthority. Bob began his journalism career covering the commodity markets in Chicago for The Wall Street Journal, and spent most of his career thereafter as an editor for the former Knight-Ridder Financial News and its offspring, BridgeNews, where he played a lead role in developing a real-time equities news service. More recently, Bob served as Editor-in-Chief at Business Financial Publishing, where he specialized in developing newsletters and websites covering small-cap stocks.

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AuEx Ventures, a Reno, Nev.-based enterprise with fewer than 10 employees, went public in mid-2005 at $0.50 a share. The company’s mission? To find new precious metals deposits in Nevada. Thanks to the use of high technology, combined with detailed knowledge of the local… Read More

A couple months ago, I asked some people I didn’t know if I could take over their house for a day. I had no idea whether the people living there would jump at the chance to pick up a few bucks, or call the cops. I was betting on the former, with good reason… You see, the house is located just off the campus of one of the largest universities in the Midwest. And better yet, it sits just a few blocks from the football stadium. You know the mantra: location, location, location.#-ad_banner-# To… Read More

A couple months ago, I asked some people I didn’t know if I could take over their house for a day. I had no idea whether the people living there would jump at the chance to pick up a few bucks, or call the cops. I was betting on the former, with good reason… You see, the house is located just off the campus of one of the largest universities in the Midwest. And better yet, it sits just a few blocks from the football stadium. You know the mantra: location, location, location.#-ad_banner-# To mark the 40th anniversary of some of the best pre- and postgame house parties in the history of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my former roommates and I intend to relive the magic. During homecoming weekend this October, we’re inviting a few dozen of our closest college friends for a homecoming of our own. That is, if we can get the house. One of the current occupants, a student, told me I’d have to get in touch with the new tenants, who were moving into the house the day after he and his four roommates were moving out. So it goes… Read More

A couple months ago, I asked some people I didn’t know if I could take over their house for a day. I had no idea whether the people living there would jump at the chance to pick up a few bucks, or call the cops. I was betting on the former, with good reason… You see, the house is located just off the campus of one of the largest universities in the Midwest. And better yet, it sits just a few blocks from the football stadium. You know the mantra: location, location, location.#-ad_banner-# To… Read More

A couple months ago, I asked some people I didn’t know if I could take over their house for a day. I had no idea whether the people living there would jump at the chance to pick up a few bucks, or call the cops. I was betting on the former, with good reason… You see, the house is located just off the campus of one of the largest universities in the Midwest. And better yet, it sits just a few blocks from the football stadium. You know the mantra: location, location, location.#-ad_banner-# To mark the 40th anniversary of some of the best pre- and postgame house parties in the history of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my former roommates and I intend to relive the magic. During homecoming weekend this October, we’re inviting a few dozen of our closest college friends for a homecoming of our own. That is, if we can get the house. One of the current occupants, a student, told me I’d have to get in touch with the new tenants, who were moving into the house the day after he and his four roommates were moving out. So it goes… Read More

There has been a lot of talk here lately at StreetAuthority about selling options. And with good reason. When it’s done right, options can be one of the best ways to make money in the market we’ve ever seen. It’s no easy feat to generate “Instant Income” selling options, and there are no guarantees. But our trading expert Amber Hestla, a former military intelligence analyst, has an amazing track record (52 out of 52 winners so far) — raking in thousands of dollars for her subscribers. #-ad_banner-#Recently, readers of Amber’s Income Trader, Profitable Trading’s… Read More

There has been a lot of talk here lately at StreetAuthority about selling options. And with good reason. When it’s done right, options can be one of the best ways to make money in the market we’ve ever seen. It’s no easy feat to generate “Instant Income” selling options, and there are no guarantees. But our trading expert Amber Hestla, a former military intelligence analyst, has an amazing track record (52 out of 52 winners so far) — raking in thousands of dollars for her subscribers. #-ad_banner-#Recently, readers of Amber’s Income Trader, Profitable Trading’s premium newsletter dedicated to generating income by safely selling options, made $63 in “Instant Income” from a $720 “down payment” on United Continental Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: UAL). That’s a quick return of 8.8% in 65 days, or 49.1% a year. And back in May, subscribers collected $85 in “Instant Income” from Deckers Outdoor Corp. (NYSE: DECK) — a company that doesn’t even pay dividends — for every $1,250 they set aside. That’s an 6.4% return in 78 days, or 31.8% a year. Remember, this is how much we made per contract. You can scale up as much as… Read More

A big part of my job as managing editor of StreetAuthority involves talking with our premium newsletter experts to get a sense of what they like in the market, where they think it’s headed and how they plan to help their followers profit. That means I get paid to hear from some of the top investing minds in the country on a regular basis. What could be better? I want to share some of that… Read More

A big part of my job as managing editor of StreetAuthority involves talking with our premium newsletter experts to get a sense of what they like in the market, where they think it’s headed and how they plan to help their followers profit. That means I get paid to hear from some of the top investing minds in the country on a regular basis. What could be better? I want to share some of that wisdom. I’m featuring insights and top picks from each of our experts over the next couple of weeks as a way of saying thanks for being a StreetAuthority.com reader.             Amy Calistri   Today’s pick comes courtesy of Amy Calistri. Out of 45 closed trades in the four-year history of Amy Calistri’s… Read More

A big part of my job as managing editor of StreetAuthority involves talking with our premium newsletter experts to get a sense of what they like in the market, where they think it’s headed and how they plan to help their followers profit. That means I get paid to hear from some of the top investing minds in the country on a regular basis. What could be better? I want to share some of that… Read More

A big part of my job as managing editor of StreetAuthority involves talking with our premium newsletter experts to get a sense of what they like in the market, where they think it’s headed and how they plan to help their followers profit. That means I get paid to hear from some of the top investing minds in the country on a regular basis. What could be better? I want to share some of that wisdom. I’m featuring insights and top picks from each of our experts over the next couple of weeks as a way of saying thanks for being a StreetAuthority.com reader. Today’s pick comes courtesy of Amber Hestla.             Amber Hestla   As a former U.S. military intelligence… Read More

A big part of my job as managing editor of StreetAuthority involves talking with our premium newsletter experts to get a sense of what they like in the market, where they think it’s headed and how they plan to help their followers profit. That means I get paid to hear from some of the top investing minds in the country on a regular basis. What could be better? I want to share some of that… Read More

A big part of my job as managing editor of StreetAuthority involves talking with our premium newsletter experts to get a sense of what they like in the market, where they think it’s headed and how they plan to help their followers profit. That means I get paid to hear from some of the top investing minds in the country on a regular basis. What could be better? I want to share some of that wisdom. I’m featuring insights and top picks from each of our experts over the next couple of weeks as a way of saying thanks for being a StreetAuthority.com reader.             Elliott Gue   Today’s pick comes courtesy of Elliott Gue. The real-money portfolio in StreetAuthority’s Top 10… Read More

A big part of my job as managing editor of StreetAuthority involves talking with our premium newsletter experts to get a sense of what they like in the market, where they think it’s headed and how they plan to help their followers profit. That means I get paid to hear from some of the top investing minds in the country on a regular basis. What could be better? I… Read More

A big part of my job as managing editor of StreetAuthority involves talking with our premium newsletter experts to get a sense of what they like in the market, where they think it’s headed and how they plan to help their followers profit. That means I get paid to hear from some of the top investing minds in the country on a regular basis. What could be better? I want to share some of that wisdom. I’m featuring insights and top picks from each of our experts over the next couple of weeks as a way of saying thanks for being a StreetAuthority.com reader. Today’s pick comes courtesy of Michael J. Carr.             Michael J. Carr   Michael… Read More

A big part of my job as managing editor of StreetAuthority involves talking with our premium newsletter experts to get a sense of what they like in the market, where they think it’s headed and how they plan to help their followers profit.#-ad_banner-#     That means I get paid to hear from some of the top investing minds in the country on a regular basis. What could be better? I… Read More

A big part of my job as managing editor of StreetAuthority involves talking with our premium newsletter experts to get a sense of what they like in the market, where they think it’s headed and how they plan to help their followers profit.#-ad_banner-#     That means I get paid to hear from some of the top investing minds in the country on a regular basis. What could be better? I want to share some of that wisdom. I’m featuring insights and top picks from each of our experts over the next couple of weeks as a way of saying thanks for being a StreetAuthority.com reader. Today’s pick comes courtesy of Dave Forest. A trained geologist, Dave Forest has worked in the mining and oil and gas sectors for more than a decade, traveling as far as Russia, Myanmar and Madagascar to inspect natural resource projects. Starting this month, Dave takes over as Chief Stock… Read More