David Skarica (West Palm Beach, FL) is the founder and editor of Addicted to Profits, a popular newsletter known for its stellar performance in both up and down markets. In 2008, at the depths of the financial panic, Addicted to Profits published a letter stock picks were up 100 to 200%.

Skarica entered the financial markets at a very young age and, at the age of eighteen, became the youngest person on record to pass the Canadian Securities Course. In 1999, at 21, Skarica’s first book, Stock Market Panic! How to Prosper in the Coming Bear Market, made important predictions that came to fruition after publishing, such as a calculation that U.S. stocks were peaking and would be in a bear market for years to come, and that the real estate market bubble would burst.

 He is a regular speaker at trade and investment conferences in Canada and is a regular guest on the Business News Network (BNN), Canada's flagship business broadcasting network. His work has appeared in publications such as the Bull and Bear Financial Report, Barron's, Investor's Digest of Canada, and Canadian MoneySaver. Skarica also writes Gold Stock Adviser, an investment newsletter for the conservative media outlet, Newsmax.