Brian Hicks


Brian Hicks is the managing editor and chief investment analyst of the $20 Trillion Report, a weekly investment advisory that covers the energy sector. Since its inception in 2004, the $20 Trillion Report (TTR) portfolio has returned an average gain of 37% per annum.

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In addition to running the TTR, Brian also contributes to Wealth Daily and Energy & Capital, two investment dailies that are free to the public.

Prior to launching the $20 Trillion Report in 2004, Mr. Hicks worked for Agora Publishing for 10 years, an investment and fiercely free market publishing firm whose publications are translated in over 100 countries. A former member of the Market Technicians Association, Brian has managed several investment letters specializing in microcaps, biotechnology, high tech, and energy and trading.

Brian is also credited with creating the Volume Spike Indicator (VSI).

Brian's investment philosophy can be best described as the "Bruce Lee" approach. Whereas Bruce Lee successfully invented a new form of martial arts by combining the best elements of other combat systems, Brian believes that you can do the same in investing.

According to Brian...

"You don't have to pigeon-hole yourself to any one investment style. Market environments are constantly changing... and you have to be flexible enough to change when new assets classes turn bullish. In the 1990s it was Internets... between 2001 and 2006 it was real estate... today it's commodities, especially gold and energy. To make money in this global economy you have to be a gold bug, a growth investor, a Warren Buffett disciple, observe Dow Theory and at times, be a wild speculator."

Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Brian attended the University of Baltimore where he graduated in 1992 with honors in Political Science. He taught school for one year... and attended the University of Maryland and Loyola College studying Political Theory, Public Policy and Modern Studies.

In 1997 he was accepted into the Market Technicians Association where he studied stock market technical analysis.

Mr. Hicks has been a keynote speaker at countless national and international investment conferences as well as a guest commentator on the financial television networks CNBC, CNNfn, Fox News, Fox Business, and Bloomberg TV. Brian has also been quoted and profiled in many financial publications such as The Wall Street Journal... and recently published a book titled Profit from the Peak: The End of Oil and the Greatest Investment Opportunity of the Century.

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Recent Articles by Brian Hicks

This Is When Fortunes Are Made - 2008-09-25
How To Make Money in Good Times and Bad

Stock Market Meltdown - 2008-09-15
The Downward Spiral

The Best Time To Invest in Oil - 2008-08-13
80 is the new 20?!?

The Gingrich & Boone Pickens Energy Plans - 2008-07-16
Which Energy Plan Will Work?

The Real ID Act - 2008-05-02
Why It's Time to Buy iDcentrix Today

Anavex Biotech Stock - 2008-04-16
The Next Blockbuster in Biotech

Global Real Estate Investments - 2008-03-25
Three Ways to Play the Path of Progress Right Now

Oil Will Pay for the Iraq War? - 2008-03-14
Where $52 Billion Worth of Oil Is Disappearing Per Year

Wind Energy - 2008-02-28
Why Boone Pickens Says It's Bigger Than Oil

The Stock this Billionaire is Buying Now - 2008-02-13
Follow Him... and You Could Make 300%

Big Oil Profits - 2008-02-01
Big Oil is Now in a Race to Liquidate Itself: Here's How to Profit

Health Care Stocks - 2008-01-30
Anavex: The Recession Proof Drug Stock Under the Radar and Poised for a Major Move

Get Defensive with Healthcare - 2008-01-15
Why Biotechs are the Place to be Right Now

Gold Investing 2008 - 2008-01-12
Why Gold Is 2008's Best Investment

Oil Hits Record-High $100 a Barrel - 2008-01-02
Renewable Energy Poised To Be This Century's Most Significant Bull Market

Oil Prices Over $100 In 2008 - 2007-12-28
Give Me a Double-Shot of Whammy

Oil Crash - 2007-12-17
A Contrarian's POV Over Oil

After 66 Years, It's Still About Oil - 2007-12-08
In Search of Cheap Energy

Searching for the Next Amgen - 2007-11-30
Why Biotechs are Back

Big Oil Companies - 2007-11-11
Of Saints and Sinners, Big Oil Begins Its Confession