About Bottarelli Research

Whether it’s selling the Star Wars figures he collected as a little boy for 50 times their value or using $125 of grass-cutting money to buy a Michael Jordan rookie card that today is worth $1,500, Bryan Bottarelli has always been a born trader — possessing the unique ability to leverage his investments.

Bryan’s first job out of college was trading stock options on the floor of the CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange). On the CBOE, Bryan was mentored by the country’s top floor traders. That’s where he learned how to execute the most powerful trading secrets...secrets that rarely make their way to individual traders.

As a so-called “play tactician,” Bryan uses his hands-on knowledge of floor trading to shape opportunities and chart formations into elegant, powerful and profitable recommendations. And by using the same hedging techniques taught by professional floor traders, Bryan is able to offer these remarkable gains while strictly limiting risk.

• Bryan’s top pick was Taser International (TASR – NASDAQ), which he recommended at $4.00 a share and sold for $63.00 a share...an amazing 1,400% winner.
• Bryan orchestrated a wining streak in 2002 that nailed 28 winning picks out of 38 tries for an accuracy rate of OVER 73%...at one point hitting 16 winners in a row. Between December 2002 and February 2003, he took consecutive gains of 173%, 12%, 31%, 26%, 11%, and 46% all in a row — all without a single losing pick.
• In 2004, his proprietary group of “All Star” stocks produced winners on 26 out of 32 plays — an 81% accuracy rate — with average gains of 87%.
• And if you add up every single play Bryan’s made from 2000 through September 2005, you’ll come up with 5,125% gains. That’s calculated by simply adding up the winning plays and subtracting the losing plays. What’s even more remarkable is that Bryan racked up 31 triple-digit winners in that five-year existence. That’s literally a 100% winner every two months...for the last FIVE YEARS!

It’s this stunning track record that has caught the eye of CBSMarketwatch, Forbes, PR Newswire, and YahooFinance...who have all published Bryan’s unique options strategies. Bryan has also been the guest on financial shows like The Morning Show, Let’s Talk Money, and Money Matters.

Every trading day, you can find Bryan spending long hours in his Chicago-based command center, honing his trading system down to a razor’s edge, constantly scanning for only the very best profit opportunities — and sharing these winning trades with his small group of loyal followers.

During non-trading hours, you’ll find Bryan spending time with his wife, 2-year old daughter, and English bulldog named Oliver. Every Sunday morning, you can find Bryan at the local Starbucks with his nose buried in Barron’s or the The Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition preparing for the upcoming week of trading.

To fully understand and appreciate the value of my research, it’s important that you know my three core beliefs.

• Belief #1: The CBOE is the greatest money-making creation in the world. I’ve seen truck drivers with no more than a high school education step onto the CBOE floor, learn how to trade, and make themselves millions in trading profits. The problem is, trading is an art that many think they can do...but little do very well. If you can learn the art of successful trading, you’ll possess a lifelong wealth building skill. I’m here to help you achieve this goal.
• Belief #2: To be the best, you must learn from the best. No matter what anyone says, you simply cannot learn how to trade successfully through any textbook, how-to manual, or DVD training series. The only way to truly capture the essence of trading is to find the best trader on the floor...and stand beside him for one whole year. The patterns you’ll see, the trades you’ll witness, and the mentality you’ll learn equates to literally years and years of classroom theory. This is the path I’ve taken...and today I’m willing to share these secrets with you.
• Belief #3: Everyone wants a good deal. No matter if you’re buying a car or buying a candy bar, finding a good deal is critical to every purchase you’ll ever make. That’s why I’m offering my subscribers what I call the “Hit for Cycle Guarantee.” If you give me one year, I’ll give you a 10% Winner, 20% Winner, 30% Winner, 40% Winner, 50% Winner, 60% Winner, 70% Winner, 80% Winner, 90% Winner, and 100% Winner. That’s how confident I am in these trading secrets. Not only that, but if you’re willing to speculate alongside me, you’ll also get a 200% Winner, a 300% Winner, and a 400% Winner. Nowhere else will you ever get a performance guarantee quite like this.

Born in small town outside of Canton, Ohio, Mark was instilled from day one with the work ethic of those around him — steel and auto workers. He quickly learned the value of the dollar, and more importantly, he recognized the sweat it took to earn that money. Lured by the beautiful Virginia countryside, Mark decided to launched his own home building and real estate corporation, introducing him to the world of commodities speculation. What began in the early 70s as a hobby soon turned into an all-out passion. Soon enough, Mark was making more money trading than he was building homes. Using the belief that any stock chart will offer you everything you need to know about the next directional move, Mark began trading S&P futures and index options along with his commodity plays. But his true love is finding those “little gems” within the junior mining industry that are set to blast off in price. Pulling from his childhood work ethic, Mark now spends long hours reviewing mining reports, talking to corporate insiders, and studying charts to offer Bottarelli Research Blasters members the most explosive investment opportunities available today.

In the late 90s, Mark was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. After many surgeries, Mark had to give up his homebuilding company and choose a new career. While homebuilding was Mark’s love, his doctors said that maintaining the business was something his body could no longer handle. This brought him back to the world of research and investing on a full-time basis. Mark soon engulfed himself into the world of swing trading, chart formations, and moving averages. When Bryan launched his first newsletter (called X-Wave) in early 2001, Mark was one of his first subscribers. Soon, after a number of e-mails were exchanged, a friendship was formed that has now spanned over ten years. Sharing profitable investment tips, Bryan and Mark utilized each other’s unique talents to develop one of the most profitable investment teams in the world of financial publishing. In February of 2006, Bryan launched his own independent newsletter, and Mark was the first person he hired. As a staunch believer in the U.S. Constitution, Mark’s ingrained level of research and exhaustive due diligence has never before been more valuable than right now. You see, Mark now follows the investments of the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, and other major commercial banking institutions (a group he calls “The Manipulators”) to formulate strategies that make you money as the markets get manipulated. This unique methodology is only available in our Blasters service, and it offers you the ability to level the playing field in today’s heavily manipulated market environment. In short, Mark has perfected a system at beating the bankers at their own game.

Those who have been involved with Bottarelli Research have stood witness to some of the most powerful trading tactics ever used in the world of financial publishing, and Mark’s research is the driving force. When he’s not uncovering explosive investment opportunities, you can find Mark enjoying the Virginia countryside with his love for fishing and hunting.

Educated at Carleton University in Ottawa, Don possesses the unique (and highly sought-after) ability to combine his BA in psychology with 20 years of systems analyst experience to identify the key support and resistance levels that floor traders monitor on a minute-by-minute basis. As a stock, options, and bond trader for over 25 years, Don has long rejected dealing with the brokerage industry, which he describes as a “baptism of fire that translates the long-term investment methodology into an industry-wide excuse for account neglect.” By taking investment accountability into his own hands, Don believes that trading is all about people and their emotions. If you understand what investors are thinking, Don says, you can use it as a very lucrative trading tool. When asked, “but how do you understand what investors are thinking?” Don simply replies, “All the information you need is in each and every stock chart.”

Don first got involved with Bottarelli Research by signing up as one of our first charter members. As an active trader, he quickly began communicating with Bryan on a daily basis about the most ideal entry and exit points on certain trades. Using a methodology that Bryan had never seen before, Don is able to consistently identify the ideal entry and exit levels using a combination of 60-, 15-, and 3-minute chart intervals. When all of these time intervals give the same signal, that’s when Don knows it’s the most ideal time to enter (or exit) a particular trade. And in most cases, Don is able to bottom-tick his entry and top-tick his sell, thus locking in consistent trading profits day after day. As Bryan and Don became more connected, a winning symmetry emerged. Bryan came to Don with a handful of high-beta stocks that have handed him strong trading returns, and Don plugged these candidates into his system to identify the best entry and exit levels. As this profitable relationship grew, Bryan and Don decided to join forces and share their trading insights with the entire Bottarelli Research readership. And with that, Don became part of the Bottarelli Research team.

Don went to school with the most famous Ghostbuster and Blues Brother. They still keep in contact to this day.