Stephen Guilfoyle is the Chief Economist at sarge986.com.  He is a former senior NYSE floor trader, and until recently, the U.S. Economist at Meridian Equity Partners.  Stephen, known widely within the industry as Sarge, had been continuously employed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange since being hired by Pershing as a trading assistant in July 1987 until the last day of 2012.  Stephen has also spent time with  Wertheim Schroder, Credit Suisse (First Boston), and Equitex, primarily involved in block trading and investment banking.
       Stephen has made a career of creating his trading levels by recording trends and patterns by hand in many years' worth of marble notebooks, and by bringing a certain street sense to economic data.  Stephen is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg TV and Radio, CNBC, NYFP,  TheStreet.com, Sina Finance Channel, China Business News, Sinovision, Sky News Australia, and Desde Wall Street, as well as many other international media outlets.

 There are not recommendations of any type on these pages.  This is not an offer to sell you anything, or to make any kind of investment.  All investments involve risk, including the
possible loss of principal.  Any opinion expressed on these pages is  just what I am thinking.  Your investment decisions are yours, and yours alone. -Sarge

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