Mary Ellen McGonagle

Mary Ellen Mcgonagle (MEM) is the Senior Managing Director of Stocks here at Simpler Trading. She started her career at the ripe age of 21 when she went to work on Wall Street right out of college as an assistant on the Fixed Income trading desk at Goldman Sachs. After Goldman she took a position at Equitable Life, a large insurance firm highly regarded on Wall Street. She was soon promoted to portfolio manager, with eight accounts worth over $2 billion. It was there that Mary Ellen honed her asset management skills as her accounts were ranked number one in their category two years in a row.

After eight years of peak performance for her clients, Mary Ellen left New York City for Los Angeles to take a position with the famed William O’Neil + Co, the founder of Investor’s Business Daily. Mary Ellen’s work involved analyzing hundreds of data points on thousands of stocks to determine which were poised to take off. She’s been "in the trenches" through many market cycles… the tech bubble, the 2002 recovery, the 2008 Banking Crash, and the 2009 Recovery not to mention the 2020 pandemic bear market.

After advising top portfolio, hedge and mutual fund managers for 20 years, you can now follow her latest analysis in the bi-weekly MEM Edge Report newsletter and in the Options Gold room.