Frank Barbera CMT

Frank Barbera, CMT is currently the editor of the Gold Stock Technician (GST) Newsletter which originally entered publication in 1993. As editor of the GST Letter, Mr. Barbera employs a technical indicators to bring market timing to bear on the highly volatile gold stocks. Included in last year's widely popular book, Master Traders: Strategies for Superior Returns from Today's Top Traders, the tools employed by The Gold Stock Technician have been tested going back many years.In addition to writing the Gold Stock Technician Newsletter, Mr. Barbera has also managed private equity capital for a number of years, most notably for the Los Angeles-based Caruso Fund where we earned in excess of 25% to 30% returns during the last bear market. In his role as a hedge fund manager, Frank sought to regularly trade precious metals, energy, currencies along with the broad stock market indices. Frank began his career in the early 1980s working with Financial News Network in Los Angeles and later, as the "on air" analyst for KWHY TV. Frank's technical work on Gold and Gold Stocks is considered among the best in the industry and he has spoken at a number of investment conferences and been quoted widely in the Financial Press. Readers interested in subscribing to The Gold Stock Technician can contact Mr. Barbera via FrankBGST@aol[dot]com[at]email[dot]com (subject: Interested%20in%20Subscription%20to%20Gold%20Stock%20Technician) (e-mail).

The Gold Stock Technician newsletter covers Gold and Gold Stocks along with Precious Metals and other global markets. The letter operates on a "flexible" publishing schedule, which means we write when we believe we have the most to say, but is invariably a "weekly letter" that normally comes out on Monday or Tuesday nights. A one-year subscription includes special flash updates that are issued when markets are moving rapidly and/or whenever there are particular buy or sell points on individual securities.

The Gold Stock Technician newsletter seeks to reduce the volatility inherent in owning high beta mining stocks by using market timing to avoid the bulk of extended market declines. We track several real money portfolios of our mining stock picks in order to help the individual investor get solid ideas on which companies will perform the best. We also issue regular advice on Gold ETFs including the GLD and GDX for those investors who like the index qualities found in exchange traded funds. The regular price for GST is $340 per year with checks or US Dollar money orders made out to The Gold Stock Technician.