Nathan Slaughter, Chief Investment Strategist of The Daily Paycheck and High-Yield Investing, has developed a long and successful track record over the years by finding profitable investments no matter where they hide. Nathan's previous experience includes a long tenure at AXA/Equitable Advisors, one of the world's largest financial planning firms. He also honed his research skills at Morgan Keegan, where he managed millions in portfolio assets and performed consultative retirement planning services. To reach more investors, Nathan switched gears in 2004 and began writing full-time. He has since published hundreds of articles for a variety of prominent online and print publications. Nathan has interviewed industry insiders like Paul Weisbruch and CEOs like Tom Evans of Bankrate.com, and has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times for his expertise on economic moats. Nathan's educational background includes NASD Series 6, 7, 63, & 65 certifications, as well as a degree in Finance/Investment Management from Sam M. Walton School of Business, where he received a full academic scholarship. When not following the market, Nathan enjoys watching his favorite baseball team, the Cubs, and camping and fishing with his family.
Analyst Articles
With all the changes to the United States’ energy landscape recently, it’s easy to overlook one of the country’s most important petroleum-producing regions: the Gulf of Mexico. For energy investors, drilling in the Gulf is hardly a new story. U.S. oil companies have been… Read More
When nobody expects much from a company, it’s usually pretty easy to please the audience. And there aren’t many sectors that have such low expectations as commercial airlines. In this bleak industry, it’s often a struggle just to avoid bankruptcy — let alone generate any real profits… Read More
Hedge-fund managers and other institutional commodities traders are usually pretty skilled at making broad economic forecasts. But there’s one variable they just can’t seem to predict — the weather. Mother Nature often creates havoc on agricultural production, which can be good or bad, depending on your view. Read More
I’m a big fan of Las Vegas. I try to visit at least once a year to try my luck at the tables (I leave the club-hopping to the socialites). I’m also an advocate of gaming stocks. In fact, I spent over a year writing a regular monthly feature… Read More
Despite what any financial academic or index fund advocate tells you, the market isn’t perfectly rational. If it were, then it would be impossible to identify a stock that is meaningfully undervalued. There would literally… Read More
The smoke has finally cleared, and the final numbers are now in. Last year saw a frenzy of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, especially in the oil and gas sector. Between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, oil and gas companies signed a total of 191 deals… Read More
When gold was first discovered at Sutter’s Mill in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains in 1848, thousands of people dropped everything and headed west with dreams of striking it rich. Within a year, San Francisco was transformed from a sleepy outpost with a few dozen… Read More
On Jan. 26, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a report showing the United States had about 482 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of recoverable natural gas reserves in shale formations (not counting conventional basins). That’s a big number by any measure — enough to fuel U.S. Read More
The past decade has been great to gold investors… At $1,640 an ounce, gold is trading roughly 460% higher than its spot price just 10 years ago. The incredible run makes gold the best-performing… Read More
I’ve received quite a few emails recently from my Scarcity & Real Wealth subscribers regarding hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. It’s clear that many of them have been reading up on the subject. And they should. Because even with stricter regulatory burdens on the horizon, this could well… Read More
