GOLD AND ENERGY OPTIONS TRADER, LLC
COCONUT CREEK, FLORIDA

QPI is responsible for the marketing and support both to institutions and individuals of Phil Erlanger Research and Jefferson Research who produce www.erlangersqueezeplay.com and www.torpedowatch.com along with a variety of other research firms. QPI also has worked with Superstock Investor to develop relationships with Whisper Number, The Madison Letter, Jim Patterson and Blue Hawk Research. Geoff is the editor of The Morning Briefing for Superstock Investor and the Market Strategist of The Buttonwood Club. Geoff and his team at Quantitative Partners have over 40 years of experience on Wall Street. Prior to the formation of QPI in 1995, Geoff worked for The Robinson Humphrey Company from 1990 to 1995. Before that he worked for Capital Institutional Services (CAPIS) as an institutional sales person covering accounts in New York from 1986 to 1990. In 2009, Geoff authored a chapter in James DiGeorgia’s latest book, The Trader’s Great Gold Rush. ©2018 Gold and Energy Options Trader, LLC Gold and Energy Options Trader , was a wunderkind, a self-made millionaire before he turned 21, turning a hobby of coin collecting he began at the age of seven into a multimillion dollar business while still a teenager. Remarkably, James launched his first rare coin business, Gem Coins, in Connecticut in 1976 in Danbury’s North Street shopping complex while he was still a junior in high school. “I rented offices by saying I was 16 and paying the rent a year ahead. Then I had to arrange my high school class schedule to end as early as possible so I could race down to my offices to meet customers who were either buying or selling precious metals, scrap bullion or rare coins. I ran classified ads in the local papers. You can’t imagine the incredible volume of business a little ad in those small papers generated. My mother was an RN and my father a professional musician. They had no clue what I was doing and how much money I was making. It was crazy, at the age of seventeen I was making more in a month or two than many of my teachers were being paid in a year. I saw in the local paper what my high school principal was making, and I was astounded to discover I made more that year than he made in the previous five. I had to laugh. The only time I ever talked to him is when a nurse sent me to his office for kissing a girl in the hallway between classes.” “I couldn’t linger in school. My parents’ health was fading fast and I needed to help provide for their support. My mother absolutely insisted on my getting a 4 year degree. She was a strong willed woman. When she insisted, I decided I would do it, BUT I raced to get the four year degree by attending as many as four Universities at the same time and gathered credits to accelerate my graduation. Those years were literally a blur. By the time I graduated, the bull market in gold and precious metals was over. So, I decided to accept work at the best firms to gain enough knowledge, and guild my business acumen.” “I loved the precious metals and rare coin business. It took me literally all over the world. I made friends in many of the top Swiss, Hong Kong and British Banks. I established business and banking connections in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Norway, China and Thailand, every step of the way deepening my understanding, not only about rare coins and precious metals, but the economics of the world’s financial markets.” James was instrumental in building a rare coin firm into a hundred million dollar yearly business. In 1992 he was approached by Weiss Research, Inc. to become the editor of the Silver & Gold Report, which at that time, was the single most prominent 100% unbiased and independent precious metals newsletter in the world. “I wrote the Silver & Gold Report and became a consumer advocate and precious metals stock analyst. I loved it. I exposed many multimillion dollar frauds and was featured in Barron’s. I was quoted frequently in newspapers and magazines around the world including the New York Times, NY Post, Chicago Tribune, LA Times and Changing Times, just to name a few of the dozens and dozens of media. In 1997, I was convinced the precious metals market was going to be dead for years. My horizons were broadening and maturing at Weiss Research, Inc. I started reading and researching about interest rates, the bond markets and break- through technologies being developed by emerging companies. I was convinced, barring some exogenous event, the stock market, particularly the NASDAQ, was going to go berserk. I persuaded my publisher to allow me to launch 21st Century Investor, a newsletter dedicated to hunting down high-tech and emerging technology companies. My publisher was gracious and kind. He let me leave his firm and made it possible to take 21st Century Investor with me. I will always be grateful. I traveled the world again setting up offices in Hong Kong and Manila. I even took an interest in the highly respected Oil & Energy Report as one of its publishers. Back then the world opened up to me. I was hunting down investing opportunities in, literally, the four corners of the planet, and it paid off tremendously. I caught the Internet, communications and technology boom that lasted through the sudden crash of the NASDAQ in 2000/2001. The crash in technology and communication stocks hurt, but we did call the recession in 2001 and turned the lemons the market was handing out into sweet lemonade by recommending many shorts. While many newsletters died, 21st Century Investor prospered. Subscribers recognized I wasn’t just a bull. I could generate profits both in a bear and bull market. In 2000, I launched 21st Century Alert. My vision was simple; develop a website that collected the sharpest news and financial analysts from around the world and present them in one place and at one low price.” James DiGeorgia is the Author of several best-selling books including,