Jim Woods
Jim Woods is a 25-year market veteran with varied experience as a broker, hedge fund trader, financial writer, author and newsletter editor. Jim also edited content for some of the investment industry’s biggest luminaries. Formerly a Wall Street client advisor and trader at a private hedge fund, he ranked as the world’s third-best stock picker, according to the independent ratings firm TipRanks, with a 72% success rate over 5 years delivered an average return of 15.3%. A self-described radical for capitalism, he was ranked the No. 1 financial blogger by TipRanks out of nearly 8,000. Today, Jim is the editor of the Successful Investing, Intelligence Report, Bullseye Stock Trader and Fast Money Alert advisory services, and the e-letter The Deep Woods.
- His articles have appeared on many leading financial websites, including InvestorPlace.com, Main Street Investor, MarketWatch, Street Authority, Human Events and many others.
- Jim Woods previously worked with Investor's Business Daily founder William J. O’Neil, where he co-authored the training courses in the CANSLIM stock-picking metholody.
- TipRanks ranked Jim the No. 4 financial blogger in the world from 2009 to 2014.
- He made 378 successful recommendations out of 506 total, earning a success rate of 75% and a +16.3% average return per recommendation.
- He is known in professional and personal circles as “The Renaissance Man,” for his expertise on composing and performing music, including Western horsemanship, combat marksmanship, martial arts, auto racing and bodybuilding.