Tim Melvin
Tim Melvin is a 30 year plus veteran of financial markets. He uses rigorous quantitative analysis based on the principles used in deep value and private equity styles of investing to help investors compound their wealth using strategies designed to maximize profits and minimize risk. He uses in-depth research efforts to uncover special situation opportunities that can profit regardless of market direction.
He has also developed models for building alternative income portfolio that can help individual investors uses income producing portfolios previously available only to individuals. Tim believes that individuals have powerful advantages over institutions but are not taught how to use them. He wants to be the one who help individual investors stop taking entirely too much risk for too little return. Tim is the editor of The 20% Letter and Underground Income.
Tim Melvin's Latest Posts
Climate Change Or Not, Here’s How To Profit In Energy
Is climate change real? I do not know, but not because I have ignored it or refused to examine the evidence. In fact, I have meticulously absorbed tons of evidence, engaged in conversations with actual scientists on both sides of the debate, endured demagoguery from advocates of both sides of the question, and painstakingly sorted […]
This Brazilian Stock Is A Once-In-A-Lifetime Profit Opportunity
Imagine it: it’s 1974. Inflation is running wild in the economy. Gerald Ford, one of the truly “good guy” politicians, is the lamest of lame duck Presidents. By year’s end, he will have been bested and replaced by the likable and sincere governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter. The aftermaths of Watergate and Vietnam linger in […]
Do This To Stay On The Fed’s Good Side
“Don’t fight the Fed.” Famed fund manager Marty Zweig came up with that one in 1970 and repeated it religiously until he passed away in 2013. The Federal Reserve has been raising rates since March of 2022, and Fed funds rates have gone from 0.25% to more than 5%. Three-month Treasury yields have risen from […]
I’ve Never Lost Money In This Dividend-Paying Sector Using This Simple Trick
In my decades of investing and researching the markets, I’ve never lost money in one of the most interesting dividend-paying sectors… As long as I used a simple trick. It’s an investing strategy that’s easy to learn, easy to stick with, and it beats the market over the years, too. The trick is getting in […]
New Billionaire-Backed Dividend Value Play
I read SEC filings like my daughter watches bad television. That is to say, I read them often and enjoy doing so, even if no one else understands why I take so much pleasure in them. Insider buying and selling have proven to be a great indication of what the people running a company think […]
Beat The Market With These 5 “Stock Cannibals”
In 2016, renowned value investor Monish Pabrai developed a simple concept called “Uber Cannibals.” He suggested that buying a five-stock portfolio of companies that were buying back large amounts of their own stock, that were cheap based on undefined valuation multiples, and that fit his definition of quality, would outperform the market. I have discussed […]
