Chris Kacher

Chris Kacher is a stock investor and strategist with a background in the nuclear sciences. He is a co-founder of a stock advisory service VirtueOfSelfishInvesting.com.

Chris Kacher is a protégé of William O'Neil.^[1] He is known for achieving a total return of 18,241% during the period of 1996 to 2002^[2][3] which he describes in his book Trade Like an O'Neil Disciple: How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market co-authored with Gil Morales.^[4]

In his book Chris Kacher developed a concept of Pocket Pivot, an early base breakout indicator,^[5] which is successfully applied by individual investors.^[6]

Prior to his career as a stock trader, Dr. Chris Kacher pursued an education in the nuclear sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He won a Charles D. Coryell Award ^[7] while being undergraduate. As a graduate student he contributed to the confirmation of the existence of Seaborgium^[8] and a synthesis of an atom of Darmstadtium.^[9] He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1995.^[10]

In 2009, Chris Kacher released a debut album of his piano compositions Teardrop Rain under a stage name of Christian Casher.^[11] He is a certified practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming and hypnosis.^[12]

Dr. Chris Kacher appeared in major business media including CNBC,^[13] Reuters^[14] and Bloomberg.^[15] He (in co-authorship with Gil Morales) is a regular contributor to MarketWatch.^[16]

Further reading

• Marder, Kevin N. & Dupée, Marc, 2000. The Best: TradingMarkets.com Conversations With Top Traders, 332 pages, ISBN 978-1893756083
• Morales, Gil & Kacher, Chris, 2010. Trade Like an O'Neil Disciple: How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market, 384 pages, ISBN 978-0470616536

• Pocket Pivots at MyPivots.com

References

1. ^ "Chris Kacher: About the Expert", MoneyShow, Retrieved on 2011-4-12.
2. ^ "Independent Accountants` Report on Historical Trading Performance", Retrieved on 2011-4-11.
3. ^ Kacher, Chris. "How I Made +18,241.2% in the Stock Market Over 7 Years", The Gilmo Report, Retrieved on 2011-4-11.
4. ^ Power, Ben. "Amazing Returns", YourTradingEdge Magazine, Nov/Dec 2010 issue, Retrieved on 2011-4-30.
5. ^ Masonson, Leslie N. "Trade Like an O’Neil Disciple: How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market", Futures magazine, Retrieved on 2011-4-14.
6. ^ Sherman, Jonathan. "How Individuals Can Beat Institutional Investors", Forbes, Retrieved on 2011-4-14.
7. ^ "Coryell Award in Nuclear Chemistry", College of Charleston, Retrieved on 2011-4-11.
8. ^ Goldhaber, Judith. "LBL researchers confirm existence of element 106", Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Retrieved on 2011-4-11.
9. ^ Ghiorso, A.; Lee, D. (1995). "Evidence for the possible synthesis of element 110 produced by the ⁵⁹Co+²⁰⁹Bi reaction". Physical Review C 51: R2293. Bibcode 1995PhRvC..51.2293G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.51.R2293. 
10. ^ Kacher, C.D. "Chemical and nuclear properties of Rutherfordium (Element 104)", Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Retrieved on 2011-4-11.
11. ^ "Teardrop Rain" at Amazon.com, Retrieved on 2011-4-11.
12. ^ Ward, John. "Interview With Dr. Christian Kacher", Seeking Alpha, Retrieved on 2011-4-18.
13. ^ Drury, Amanda. "September Stocks to Remember?", CNBC, Retrieved on 2011-4-18.
14. ^ Kozey, John. [1], Reuters Insider, Retrieved on 2011-4-18.
15. ^ "Chris Kacher Search Results" Bloomberg, Retrieved on 2011-4-19.
16. ^ "Chris Kacher Search Results" MarketWatch, Retrieved on 2011-4-19.

External links

• VirtueOfSelfishInvesting.com

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