Brief Bio: Jim Goodman, was a 20-year veteran (1977) securities broker (and 10-year Registered Investment Advisor) created, refined, taught, and applied his proprietary "PSYCLE sm" investing/trading concepts for all types of individuals, pension, retirement, and corporate accounts, while becoming "options/trading coordinator" at a Major Wall St. firm in New England, then, in So. Calif., and was an Asst. V.P. of Investments at a major regional brokerage firm on the West Coast, in the 1980's.
While he was creating his "PSYCLE sm" concepts, he was Also one of the first securities brokers in the industry to become a "specially-trained expert in Insurance areas" (1978), (and still is) Saving people significant amounts of money, becoming an "anti-low-return-Whole-Life" proponent, long before others caught on to the truth about Life Insurance industry gambits, while continuing to hone his equity-oriented trading skills.
In the mid-80's, he created and produced hundreds of live, daily T.V. shows called, "The Right Side of the Psycle sm", bringing his "PSYCLE sm" message to many thousands of investors, for several years, on the oldest regional financial station in the U.S., in L.A.
He helped both individual investors, and industry professionals, learn and utilize his special "PSYCLE sm" approach, to try to correctly predict probable future movements in individual stocks, commodities, interest rates, stock industry groups, bonds, real estate, and the most likely outcomes of all sorts of financial and other domestic and foreign news items and events, and, was also editor of "The Right Side of the PSYCLE sm", a highly regarded, tri-weekly Newsletter/Telephone Hotline service, establishing a significant track record, in print, in the late 80's/ early 90's. He has kept copious records of most every suggestion ever made, in advance, in print, as "proof" of his expertise and track record.....
Jim's special "PSYCLE"sm trading method combines,
Jim specializes, where suitable, in "semi-short-term" trading (2-5 mo.) individual stocks and longer-term, in-the-money stock Options, with NO "overnite/day/index trading"....Buying (long) in "depressed Basing chart pattern stages", and/or shorting (or buying in-money Puts Options on) extended overvalued toppy patterns, where his PSYCLE sees the highest reward/risk ratios, always Diversifying, with Preset upside targets, AND downside stop-loss levels, with good money mgmt. dictates....
A major benefit of his approach, is that it can be Molded to fit, any situational objective, from "safe" and/or "income"-needs, to more trading/ speculative desires....for short-term and/or long-term, both long and short positions, high- and low-priced issues, hedging, etc. He has also, at times had other brokers as HIS clients, and his output has been sought by other professionals & newsletter writers.
He was then associated with the largest, "independent" brokerage firm in the country, and the second largest clearing firm in the country, as a 10-year R.I.A., 20-year Broker, and an 11-year Registered Principal, and cleared trades through the largest independently-owned, full-service, NYSE firm in the west. He since, also became a rare, Registered Options Principal.
Responding to skeptical challenges from unenlightened people interested in his "PSYCLE sm" who had been "hurt" elsewhere (more often, being their own fault, unacknowledged by them), in Oct./Nov. 1990, Jim began a special, real, actual, honest, "PSYCLE sm" long "Options only", trading account, which, with NO future performance inferences made nor implied, was, as of Feb. 1998 (with 1 1/2 hiatus in middle with no trades at all) up + 731 % + having had 29 realized Gains, and 10 realized losses, in supposedly the "most risky" area (options), with a (so far) largest drawdown of 30-35%....again, with major caveats and warnings about any "track record", as each person's experience will vary, given many differing factors. (note: although many of his followers have done very well, his clients have never matched the performance of His own account, because, among other factors out of his control, he has NEVER had full "discretion" with any of his valued accounts, and few have "done" much of what he has suggested for their benefit, nor have many done "options"....oh, and, when he HAS often BT. many of the same issues, he has for his clients, he has always been the last one "in", and "out", at the worst prices, by law).
Jim has become expert in identifying, and taking advantage of, the normal, usual, historical signs, of probable bottoms/ tops, industry group rotation, learning to IGNORE the 95% of all "news/ "fundamentals/stories," and items which are of NO "directly applicable price-predictive value" (DAPPV), the Avoidance and elimination of all Emotion, overreactions, bias, and incorrect (mis)beliefs when making B/S/H decisions, and has done the "PSYCLE sm" research, going back many decades, which few others have done, or are even aware of....You will find him very honest, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, straight- forward, blunt, exciting, open, and giving about his concepts and potentials, which is a quite rare combination, in the Financial industry. He is also, at times, available for speaking, teaching, helping, etc.
For more, "account" info. P.O. Box 17596 Irvine, Ca. 92623 (949) 786-2577 or "(949) stocks 7"