Joel Anderson is a business writer who lives and works in Los Angeles. As a senior editor at Equities.com, he's responsible for writing and editing articles for the site. You can follow him on twitter @JoelAEquities.   Joel Anderson is not registered as an investment advisor. Ideas expressed within his work are the opinions of the writer, are for informational purposes, and are not to serve as the sole basis for any investment decision. References to specific securities should not be construed as particularized investment advice or as recommendations that you or any investors purchase or sell these securities on their own account. Readers are expected to assume full responsibility for conducting their own research pursuant to investment decisions in keeping with their tolerance for risk. Joel Anderson is invested in a total market index fund, the Guggenheim Solar ETF (TAN), the United States Oil Fun (USO), with much smaller holdings in AT&T (T), Wal-Mart (WMT), and Verizon (VZ).

Senior Editor at Equities.com. Dan Banas is a writer and editor and video editor at Equities.com. He also manages contributors. If you're interested in writing for the site, feel free to contact him!

Enzo has over 25 years of high-impact strategy, brand, financial communications and merger and acquisition experience. He has raised over $500 million to develop and build strategic companies and business lines that are innovative and sector leading. He recently became Managing Director of the Transform Group. Prior to Transform, he was CEO of Equities.com, the world’s largest middle-market and emerging growth company content publisher. Enzo was Managing Director for the NASDAQ stock exchange, where he co-founded NASDAQ Global Corporate Solutions Group, who recently acquired Marketwire and services more than18,000 corporate clients today. After spending six years at NASDAQ, he co-founded and became Chief Strategy Officer for the corporate communications investment fund SAGE Holdings, where he completed a $200 million strategic M&A roll-up of five Tier-1 communications firms, including DF King & Co. Enzo has spoken on financial communications, marketing and the capital markets across the world. He has lectured at Clarkson University and the State University of New York on Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Marketing. He holds an MBA from Cornell University.

Wanda Halpert is the Founder and President of Concord Business Plans. www.concordbusiness.com. She has researched and written over 1,000 business plans that have helped to raise more than $3.8 Billion in investment for her clients. Wanda Halpert's work helps to identify the strengths of a business model and portray it in a way that attracts investors. Wanda has over 20 years as a leader in business and is known to work in all industry sectors from tech, crypto currency, resources, real estate and others. Congratulations to our business plan client, BIG Blockchain Intelligence Group Inc. They just raised $17 million. Trading was good today as they are a new issuer and rose from $1.31 to close at $2.65.