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About the Author
Dr. Joe Duarte is a widely read market analyst, writer, and an active trader. His daily Market IQ column is read by thousands of investors, futures and stock traders, information seekers, intelligence aficionados, and professionals around the world.
Dr. Duarte is well recognized as a geopolitical and financial market analyst combining a unique set of viewpoints into an original blend of solutions for his audience. His daily columns appear at www.joe-duarte.com and are syndicated worldwide by FinancialWire.
He is author of Successful Energy Sector Investing, Successful Biotech Investing, Futures and Options For Dummies, and coauthor of After-Hours Trading Made Easy.
He is a board certified anesthesiologist, a registered investment advisor, and President of River Willow Capital Management.
Dr. Duarte has appeared on CNBC and appears regularly on The Financial Sense Newshour with Jim Puplava radio show, where he comments on the energy markets and geopolitics. He has logged appearances on Biz Radio, Wall Street Radio, JagFn, WebFN, KNX radio in Los Angeles, and WOWO radio.
One of CNBC’s original Market Mavens, Dr. Duarte has been writing about the financial markets since 1990. An expert in health care and biotechnology stocks, the energy sector, as well as financial market sentiment, his daily syndicated stock columns have appeared on leading financial Web sites, including Reuter’s e-charts, afterhourtrades.com and MarketMavens.com.
His articles and commentary have appeared on Marketwatch.com. He has been quoted in Barron’s, U.S.A. Today, Smart Money, Medical Economics, Rigzone.com, and in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine.
Dedication
To my mother, whose long fight with cancer is remarkable and a sign of the human spirit’s ability to persevere in the toughest of circumstances.
Author’s Acknowledgments
A book is always more a product of circumstances than of the author’s wits and ability to research data and synthesize it. No author can create without the help of others. So here’s the list of important people for this one:
My family, my office staffs from my other life, and the Wiley editorial staff, especially Stacy and Tracy who worked with me despite the inevitable circumstances that arose in the production of this book.
Grace, “the wonder agent” and purveyor of recurrent gigs.
Frank, “the master of all things Web-related,” without whom there would be no Joe-Duarte.com.
To the inventor of audio books, because they keep me sane in my travels between the places that I must go to in my search for truth, justice, and bucks.
As always, coffee, tea, vitamins, sports drinks, nutrition bars, and the game of tennis also help.
Especially to those who read my books, subscribe to my Web site, and have kept this thing going for 18 years.
And also to two long-time friends, John and Greg, whose interactions with me always prove to be worthwhile and interesting, to say the least.
If I’ve forgotten to mention anyone, it wasn’t intentional — I’m not as young as I used to be.
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