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July 26, 2026 | Stick It!

Rick Ackerman

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Rick Ackerman is the editor of Rick’s Picks, an online service geared to traders of stocks, options, index futures and commodities. His detailed trading strategies have appeared since the early 1990s in Black Box Forecasts, a newsletter he founded that originally was geared to professional option traders. Barron’s once labeled him an “intrepid trader” in a headline that alluded to his key role in solving a notorious pill-tampering case. He received a $200,000 reward when a conviction resulted, and the story was retold on TV’s FBI: The Untold Story. His professional background includes 12 years as a market maker in the pits of the Pacific Coast Exchange, three as an investigator with renowned San Francisco private eye Hal Lipset, seven as a reporter and newspaper editor, three as a columnist for the Sunday San Francisco Examiner, and two decades as a contributor to publications ranging from Barron’s to The Antiquarian Bookman to Fleet Street Letter and Utne Reader.

Although we featured pithy weekly commentaries in this space for many years, the time and effort spent crafting them is now devoted to making the Rick’s Picks Trading Room an unbeatable source of timely trading ideas for novices and professionals. You should check here weekly, since I will continue to post links to my latest interviews and to offer visual enticements designed to entertain, amuse and enlighten you. Much of it will come from YouTube, since their video catalog is endlessly fascinating. Submissions, including home videos, are welcome and should be sent to this address. To get things rolling, click here for an unbelievable drum solo that demonstrates why the late Buddy Rich would never have worried about being replaced by a synthesizer. The headline is the title of one of his many albums.

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The analytical ‘touts’ below, overhauled each Sunday and updated 24/7, will continue as always, as will their barbed emphasis on the similarities between Wall Street and sleazy carnival midways. The remarkable accuracy of our trend calls and price targets is a matter of daily record and must be observed up close to be believed. Sign up for a free trial with access to all site amenities by clicking here (no credit card needed). Then click here for my most recent interview with Howe Street’s Jim Goddard. We talk about the Information Age and whether there is enough value in manipulating data to keep America prosperous and to support grotesquely bloated asset prices.

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July 26th, 2026

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