
Lucas Downey
https://mapsignals.com/about-us/
Growing up in a small town in Louisiana with a passion for what made some stocks great and others not so great, Luke Downey performed his first investing exercise as a teenager. With the desire for financial knowledge, he moved to New York City directly after graduation. After a brief stint at a day-trading firm, he landed a job on an institutional trading desk handling large orders of stock and derivatives. The rest was history. Luke served as head of ETF sales at Cantor Fitzgerald. While in this seat, he began to notice the importance that institutional trading activity had on the movements and direction of stocks. He spent years observing these activities and in his free time, with a partner, began designing quantitative models to look for unusual trading activity. He later moved to Jefferies LLC as an SVP of derivatives. There he published stock research based around the unusual activity signals he was developing. He later left Wall Street to work on this research full time at www.mapsignals.com. As a former institutional sales trader on Wall Street, Luke understands the importance that large institutional trades play in uncovering the leading stocks of tomorrow. The best stocks, the outliers, will always be found by the brightest minds on Wall Street. Recently, Luke created two options courses with Investopedia Academy. He believes that trading options doesn't have to be complicated. These courses focus on the practical uses of options in an easy to understand format.
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Just Like Birds, Stocks Head South in Groups… Here’s Why
- By Lucas Downey
- . March 12, 2021
When the weather cools, birds migrate for winter. Look up and you’ll see them flying south. I love that flying-V overhead. We don’t really know

This Stock Rally Is Almost Out of Steam… And These 3 Charts Prove It
- By Lucas Downey
- . July 7, 2020
An important market shift is taking place under the surface right now… For the past month, the markets have gone nowhere. Indices aren’t giving us

With Sentiment Switching From Greed to Fear, Stock Prices Will Fall
- By Lucas Downey
- . June 24, 2020
“Will this market ever pull back again?” I’ve fielded a hundred different forms of this question recently. The answer is: Of course it will. There’s no

There’s One Force That Ultimately Determines the Market’s Direction
- By Lucas Downey
- . June 17, 2020
The official start date for the Atlantic hurricane season was June 1, 2020. Anyone who’s lived through a hurricane knows how devastating they can be.

If You Want to Find Great Stocks, Look for Three Key Traits
- By Lucas Downey
- . May 21, 2020
Some stocks can make you rich… While others will make you average. As an investor, my goal is finding tomorrow’s best stocks… today’s outliers positioned to take

This Trusted Market Indicator Says We Should Hit the Pause Button
- By Lucas Downey
- . May 6, 2020
The 2020 COVID-19 crash came like a thief in the night. And when prices start to cascade lower, big-time investors quickly face hard decisions… Many

The Biggest Lesson I Learned From the 2008-09 Crash
- By Lucas Downey
- . April 29, 2020
When you first start out, it’s a lot of fun to invest. There’s so much excitement… so much promise… so much to learn from the

The Data Says Now Is the Time to Start Buying Quality Stocks
- By Lucas Downey
- . April 15, 2020
On March 10, I told you about the rare market signal I was watching… and how I was preparing to buy big once it flashed green.

The Last Three Times This Occurred, Stocks Jumped More Than 20%
- By Lucas Downey
- . April 8, 2020
Markets ebb and flow. That’s what they do. But as I’ll show you today, rarely do we see selling in stocks like we’ve seen recently.