Steven M. Sears

Senior Editor & Columnist @Barron\'s

New York, NY, US

Author of widely followed Striking Price column that provides investors with actionable ideas and forward guidance to better navigate the market. Demonstrable record communicating and explaining financial issues and markets, ranging from basic stock selection and analysis to complicated trading strategies and products and portfolio management issues, to everyone from individual investors to sophisticated practitioners. Frequent speaker at domestic and international conferences and events sponsored by banks, brokerage firms, exchanges and industry groups. Credited by Cboe for naming VIX the fear gauge and contributing to creation and growth of global volatility market, and acceptance of volatility as asset class like stocks and bonds. Major scoops: US ending Cuban Embargo (great backstory); CIA briefing SEC on terrorism financing in markets; among first to recognize social media\'s role in investing and markets, and many columns that redefined investor perceptions of companies and sectors. July 2017 column, Dangerous Game: Shorting the VIX, predicted and described historic February 2018 correction, since called Volmaggedon, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and VIX surged in opposite directions, moving more in one day than any other time in history.

The University of Georgia

Bachelor's, Journalism