Zacks Resource People- Stock Screening

Kevin Matras, Executive Vice President

Research Wizard Division

The Research Wizard is a stock-picking and backtesting program designed to help investors outperform the market. Matras authors the popular Screen of the Week articles and can be read and seen in Know Your Options articles and videos. In addition, he is the Chief Editor of the Zacks Confidential service and Profit from the Pros newsletter. He also runs Zacks Options Trader service, which applies his stock-picking techniques through the use of options. His professional experience includes more than 20 years in the market and he is the author of the book Finding #1 Stocks: Screening, Backtesting and Time-Proven Strategies, published by Wiley & Sons, Inc. Matras has been on television and quoted in magazines, and his stock-picking articles can be found on various financial sites.

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