The Hoffman Brothers

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Only days after the S&P 500 crashed to the depths of hell at 666, the Hoffman brothers launched Wall St. Cheat Sheet: one of the fastest growing financial media sites on the web.* Like a samurai, our mission is to cut through the bull and bear shit with extraordinary insights, a fresh voice, and razor-sharp wit. We provide the highest quality education and information for active investors and financial professionals. We are official contributors to Yahoo! Finance, MSN Money, CNNMoney, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Minyanville, SeekingAlpha, and Zero Hedge. Our work has been cited in top finance and trading outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Financial Times, USA Today, The Big Picture, Real Clear Markets, The Atlantic, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Infectious Greed, DealBreaker, CBS MoneyWatch, Kiplinger, Investment Postcards, ZeroHedge, Business Pundit, TraderFeed, The Kirk Report, AbnormalReturns, and more.

Damien Hoffman

Damien Hoffman, Esq. decided to launch a financial website and exclusive subscription-based newsletter after achieving a 63% return versus a -48% return for the S&P over a nearly two year time frame as a co-founder of popular stock blog SmartGuyStocks (member of the Forbes Business and Finance Blog Network, and certified by Seeking Alpha). Mr Hoffman is currently Editor-in-Chief of Wall St. Cheat Sheet and trades full-time. After graduating early with honors from Duke University, he raised private equity with friends during the late Nineties to launch a successful start-up. Mr. Hoffman went on to work for boutique sports investment bank Inner Circle LLP where he worked on the sale of the NBA franchise New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn real estate development firm Forest City Ratner Companies (NYSE: FCE-A). Mr. Hoffman also graduated with honors from the University of Miami School of Law as a Dean’s Merit Scholar. He clerked at the Florida Supreme Court for the Honorable Justice Kenneth Bell and Central Staff. In 2006 at Harvard Law School he gave a guest lecture entitled, “Business and Law in the New Independent Music Industry.”

Derek Hoffman

Derek Hoffman joined efforts with his brother to launch Wall St. Cheat Sheet after a decade of investing experience and outperforming the S&P 500 over the past 5 years. Mr. Hoffman is currently the CEO of Wall St. Cheat Sheet and trades full-time. He is a regular contributor to CNNMoney. His long-term investments and short-term trades have yielded extraordinarily successful results: double digit annual returns.

Mr. Hoffman has handled media investment and tactical strategy planning for Procter & Gamble and Gillette’s national asset portfolio. He has also worked in private wealth management for Morgan Stanley. Mr. Hoffman graduated early from the University of Michigan’s world class economics department.

Elliot Turner

Elliot Turner is a proprietary trader on Wall Street whose first experience with the stock market dates back to the fourth grade when his class participated in the Newsday Stock Market Game. He remained an active market participant through the dot.com bust and continues to search for disruptive technologies to invest in. His investment strategy is a combination of both important fundamental developments and professional technical analysis. This blended strategy has generated consistently profitable results with minimal draw-downs over time.

Elliot is a true student of the markets and consistently remains attuned to the dynamic economic climate.  He is particularly interested in macroeconomic policy as well as trends in technology and innovation.  He has been writing about macroeconomics and equities for the past year and his articles have been published on Yahoo! Finance and Seeking Alpha. Elliot is the Director of Wall St. Cheat Sheet Research and a staff writer at the Wall St. Cheat Sheet. Mr. Turner graduated from Brooklyn Law School and is admitted to practice law in New York. He earned a dual degree in Political Science and Philosophy from Emory University.

Please check out Elliot’s articles at his Author Page here >

Carolyn Austin

Carolyn Austin recently escaped from the corporate world of high tech to write about investing and finance for Wall St. Cheat Sheet, where she publishes articles about ‘Washington and Wall Street’ as well as company earnings. Her writing focus includes current and controversial issues in finance with the goal of informing, entertaining, and enlightening, often with humor, the subject matter at hand.

Carolyn has an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA degree in English/Journalism. Her deep research and analytical skills add fresh insights to the repetitious and tired commentary published elsewhere. Her work has been picked up by Seeking Alpha, Minyanville, and Real Clear Markets. A recent piece about investing in BP was rated the number one, most popular article on Seeking Alpha.

Please check out Carolyn’s articles at her Author Page here >

Our Mission is a three pronged approach to financial media:

1. Profile the brightest minds who are better at who they are than what they do (Hat Tip: Minyanville);
2. Cover important issues which require deeper analysis and better evidence than that in the public focus; and,
3. Provide investing and trading education from successful pros who practice what they preach.

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* Source: Alexa