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Rick’s Picks features daily actionable, easy-to-digest projections for stocks, options, mini-indexes, and gold and silver futures. Subscribers get exclusive access to Rick’s list of “Picks” published each trading day. The picks cover a basket of rotating stocks, futures, indexes, and other hot issues. In recent weeks Rick has covered: AAPL, ABX, BBY, C, DJIA, DXY, ES, Euro, GDX, GOOG, GS, Gold, HUI, IBM, NEM, NQ, Oil, QQQQ, Silver, TBT, and YM. All picks are hand-selected by Rick using his proprietary and Hidden Pivot Method of technical analysis. These picks are very specific - no need to guess what Rick is thinking - and include actionable trading advice and specific price targets.
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Coverage of stocks, options, mini-indexes, gold, and silver |
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Chat room where top traders gather 24×7 |
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Updates Round the clock |
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Timely links to the world’s top financial analysts and advisors |
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Your first week is free. Cancel at any time |
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Who is Rick Ackerman? Rick's work has been featured in :
Barron‘s once labeled him an ‘intrepid trader’ in a headline that alluded to his key role in solving a notorious pill-tampering case. He received a $200,000 reward when a conviction resulted, and the story was retold on TV’s FBI: The Untold Story. But to the gang at CNBC‚ he’s been a pariah for the last ten years – a shoot-from-the-hip kinda guy whose irreverent style got him banned from the show after an interview on Squawk Box was alleged to have gone awry.
His professional background includes 12 years as a market maker on the floor of the Pacific Coast Exchange, three as an investigator with renowned San Francisco private eye Hal Lipset, seven as a reporter and newspaper editor, three as a columnist for the Sunday San Francisco Examiner, and two decades as a contributor to publications ranging from Barron’s to The Antiquarian Bookman to Fleet Street Letter and Utne Reader. His detailed strategies for stocks, options, and indexes have appeared since the early 1990s in Black Box Forecasts, a newsletter he founded that originally was geared to professional option traders.
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What is a Hidden Pivot?
When the price of a stock fluctuates, it is acting to rebalance ceaseless changes in the yin/yang energy of supply and demand. Stock “inhale” and “exhale” as they fluctuate through time, and it therefore follows that, if there is a zig on a chart, there is a precisely corresponding zag somewhere else. Hidden pivots are at the exact middle and end points of these zigs and zags, and determining where they lie can tell us with remarkable precision the prices at which a stock is most likely to change direction. Rick calls them “hidden” pivots because they cannot be detected using such conventional technical tools as trendlines, support and resistance lines, Fibonacci levels, Gann angles, momentum oscillators or stochastic indicators.
All of Rick's forecasts are generated using The Hidden Pivot Method.
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What Subscribers are Saying
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| I quote Ackerman so often to my customers on market direction and trends that quite often in a discussion they want to know what Ackerman has to say. I quote his information on a subject knowing that he is right a great percentage of the time." The hidden pivot concept still amazes me. |
Roger Lafky,
Stockbroker and Rick’s Picks subscriber |
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FYI, I'm one of your early subscribers. While I let my subscription lapse for a while, I'm back. And - crucially - while perusing some of your posts chronologically from months back, I'm truly struck by the remarkable prescience of many of your fearless calls. The results are uncannily accurate.
Thanks again for this opportunity to profit from your usually directionally correct analyses. The subscription is worth every penny - and then some. |
Colin L. MacVeagh,
Rick’s Picks subscriber |
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| I have subscribed to many market forecasters and, to be blunt, am down tens of thousands of dollars due to their advice. Then you came along with clear advice, tight stops and price forecasts that were accurate to within ticks. I have tracked you to ensure that your claim of 80% winners is real, and it is. There is also your great sense of humor, which, blended with the recommendations, helps me achieve the confidence level I need to trade successfully. |
P. Coombs
At-home trader |
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| As a retired CTA I have never seen anything as prescient as your Black Box Forecasts. It’s like having a crystal ball. On my very first trade with you (September 14), the long bond had closed at 112.28. You advised that they would sink to “exactly 112.16.” Your instructions were to bid 112.17, risk just eight ticks, and then to hold to a 113.17 objective. I entered the entire trade before the open, and like magic the low was hit shortly after the open at exactly 112.16, and, incredibly, the market rallied through 113..17 for a clean $1,000 profit per contract! Black Box Forecasts is simply black magic, and I particularly admire your patience and discipline to only offer trades whose projected profits are four times greater than the money risked. With odds like that you provide a money management, risk/reward discipline that is unrivaled. . |
Scott Reeves
Retired Technical Analyst |
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| Rick, you are a genius. Gold had one of its biggest swings today in 20 years, and you nailed both the exact high and low by within a total of less than one point. |
Stan R.
At-home trader |
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| I had $24,500.00 in my IRA and I now have about $34,500.00 ! What can I say? I’m amazed by your uncanny ability to see stock moves. To put it simply, ‘Boy, I’m glad you’re on my side’! |
Mike Boschma
At-home trader |
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| I have found Rick’s technical analysis to be extremely reliable. His dedication to subscribers is unsurpassed by any other charting service. Furthermore, he writers in a concise, unwavering manner that cannot be misconstrued. His commentary is a must for any macro investor. |
Al Grigoletto
Professional trader |
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| One aspect which separates Rick from other market timers is his method of defining precise objectives for stocks as opposed to target ranges. His long-term call on the Japanese Yen bear market was particularly accurate. The discipline that Rick applies to his approach allows him to set aside biases and focus on what his numbers are telling him. As a result, he tends to catch trends early, before they are recognized by the broader public. I give Rick Ackerman a high recommendation as a writer and a technical market analysis. |
Sean Lamb, Associate
Porter Capital Management |
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| Rick, you are a genius. Gold had one of its biggest swings today in 20 years, and you nailed both the exact high and low by within a total of less than one point. |
Stan R.
At-home trader |
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| I had $24,500.00 in my IRA and I now have about $34,500.00 ! What can I say? I’m amazed by your uncanny ability to see stock moves. To put it simply, ‘Boy, I’m glad you’re on my side’! |
Mike Boschma
At-home trader |
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| I have found Rick’s technical analysis to be extremely reliable. His dedication to subscribers is unsurpassed by any other charting service. Furthermore, he writers in a concise, unwavering manner that cannot be misconstrued. His commentary is a must for any macro investor. |
Al Grigoletto
Professional trader |
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| One aspect which separates Rick from other market timers is his method of defining precise objectives for stocks as opposed to target ranges. His long-term call on the Japanese Yen bear market was particularly accurate. The discipline that Rick applies to his approach allows him to set aside biases and focus on what his numbers are telling him. As a result, he tends to catch trends early, before they are recognized by the broader public. I give Rick Ackerman a high recommendation as a writer and a technical market analysis. |
Sean Lamb, Associate
Porter Capital Management |
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| Your projection of a 30-cent target for Ivanhoe Energy saved my neck. At the time, IVAN was around $3. Now I am exiting a rather very large block of BGO.Whatever happens, at least I made my sell on something more than luck! So thank you for your opinions. They are of great aide when I make buy/sell choices! |
| Joseph Mangano |
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I picked up two contracts on your April Gold tout and made two grand in two hours. Not a bad day at work!
You are really good. |
| "Surfer Mark" |
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Also wanted to say thanks Rick for this forum. Over the last two days I have made the money I owed for taxes that I had to put off paying because of a terrible 1st quarter. Having this chat site has immeasurably improved my trading -- from huge losses to big gains (atleast so far, touch wood). |
| Ranganathan |
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| Rick I am impressed. I stuck my neck out and played gold and gold stocks like you called them. Just for fun I put $10K on your advice and let it run on its own, buying and selling on your targets. Those were my most worry-free investments these last few weeks. I made good money too. Three near-perfect calls. You have earned my respect in spades. And it was all free advice so far too. Guess it is time I paid for the membership. Thanks for everything, the subscription fee is on its way. |
| Cameron Fitzgerald |
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| I've been a subscriber for a week now. I just used your $886 gold target this morning. I live in Maui, so when I woke up gold was at $888. I bought at $890 and sold twenty minutes later for $924. I guess I should have held onto it longer. I Already made enough money to pay for the seminar. Unfortunately I will be in Oahu on business that weekend but if you have a recorded seminar, please let me know. |
| Dominic C |
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| I only have great things to say about Rick's Picks. Since I started following the service, I've gotten back some of my money from Wall Street. Admittedly I have a long way to go. Don't mean to brown-nose you, but you are a phenomenon. In my 56 years of trading. I've never seen anything like it. |
| Bernard Kleinert |
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| I am new to investing in gold. I have been following many websites regarding gold. Hours before the gold price went south on this Monday, your website was the first and only one which boldly and correctly stated that there was unusual event about gold. That day, after the Fed’s declaration to buy Treasuries, something was not right with the price movement of gold. Bravo on your excellent call and observations. |
| Walter Peck |
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| The cost of the seminar and subscription are easily covered by a couple of the no-brainer trades Rick posts. |
| Mark |
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| The first trade Rick suggested after I joined was puts on MGM. I don't trade options, so I just shorted it. It was at $66 at the time. I covered around $38. |
| Steve Frewin |
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| Thanks for addressing the Crude short this morning. At first I considered the chat room to be just chatter. Now I see that there's some good info there if you look for it. It was good to hit 72.15 within 3 cents for my first trade. |
| David Smith |
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| I bought three E-minis below 1010 with a stop below your C-point before going to bed. Got up this morning and saw we'd bounced just a hair over 1022, so I sold 2 at 1018+. Not a bad return on sleeping. Given the low risk, seems I should have bought more. |
| Phil Dorsey |
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| Just closed a gold trade for a $50,000 profit! That is huge for me -- I made half my annual salary in six weeks. |
| Tanner Odom
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| I read just about everything I can find online and at various times have given my subscription to plenty of sites. You won't find anywhere else that combines Rick's savvy with the additional bonus of a community of users happy to share their knowledge. I'm a rank amateur, but as long as your question isn't a stupid one you will pretty much always find someone with the patience to answer it. |
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