David Skarica
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David Skarica is a Canadian economist. He was born in Toronto, Ontario on September 27, 1977. He grew up in Dundas, Ontario. His father Toni is a well-respected Crown Attorney in Hamilton, Ontario, along with a former member of parliament for the riding of Wentworth North.
At the age of 18 in 1996 he became the youngest person on record to pass the Canadian Securities Course.
In 1998, Dave began to write the investment newsletter Addicted to Profits, which specialized in technical analysis of the markets and stocks. In December 1998 his first book Stock Market Market Panic! How to Prosper in the Coming Bear Market was published. This book forsaw the stock market crash of the early 2000s along with the increasing gold, oil and resource prices of the time. However, it failed to predict the housing boom, actually predicted a housing bubble.
From 2001–2005, Dave appeared on many financial radio and television shows in Canada, which included The Michael Vaughn Show on Report on Business Television and The Vicki Gabereau Show. In 2004, he ended Addicted to Profits to start other ventures, which included the website stockchartoftheday.com. In 2005, he started another publication The Skarica Letter, which uses a unique star rating system to rank stocks. In January 2006, his second book The Contrarian Who Saved the World, a story which uses fiction to explain technical analysis of the stock market was due to be published.
