Sy Harding published investment research on a financial website, Street Smart Report. His firm provided investment research to institutions and serious investors for 26 years. He was frequently ranked in the ‘Top Ten Market Timers in the U.S.’ by Timer Digest.

Sy passed away at the age of 80 on April 21, 2015. Until a sudden illness, Sy lived a vigorous life and continued to publish his highly respected market insights until a few weeks before his death. Sy was a great friend of Core Compass and we will miss him. We gained a lot of wisdom in our discussions with him far beyond his financial insights alone.

Sy’s previous experience was in engineering, when he owned and built two high-tech manufacturing businesses. He believes it was natural from that background that his investment research would involve technical analysis and charting as well as the fundamentals that affect markets and stocks.

In 1997, he stopped managing money for others to focus on converting the firm’s newsletter into a comprehensive financial website advisory service to take advantage of the Internet and its potential to become an important method of providing financial research information in greater quantity and detail than could be incorporated into a newsletter.

Sy wrote two books. The first was 'Riding the Bear – How to Prosper in the Coming Bear Market'. It was published in 1999, and warned why the stock market was in a bubble that was due to burst, and would result in the worst bear market since the 1929 crash. The stock market topped out into the severe 2000-2002 bear market just nine months later. The S&P 500 lost 50% of its value, and the Nasdaq 76% of its value, in that bear market.

His second book, written in 2007, is 'Beat the Market the Easy Way – Surprising Seasonal Patterns That Double the Market’s Performance'. In it, he discusses why most investors lose money in the stock market over the long-term, and how they can quite easily reverse that outcome. He was about to release a third.