The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Joe Kunkle is an American options trader and financial educator who founded OptionsHawk.com in 2010, a subscription research and alert service centered on tracking unusual options activity and options order flow to infer institutional "smart money" positioning. A former equity analyst at Thomson Reuters (on the Thomson Squawk-Box venture), he holds a finance degree from Bentley University and a master's in investment management from Boston University, and teaches a hybrid approach that layers options-flow reads on top of fundamental and technical analysis. He also serves as head research analyst at Relativity Capital, has written widely syndicated market commentary, and has discussed his options-flow-driven process on outlets including CMC Markets' Opto Sessions podcast; specific performance figures he has publicized for OptionsHawk's model portfolio (such as double-digit annual returns) are the firm's own reported claims, not independently audited results.
