Adam Hamilton here, thank you for considering my private personal consulting services!  You may have read some of my research work on the Web via my essays or in our newsletters.  While we do publish a lot of analyses, they may not have addressed some important issues or questions to you personally that you have been pondering on the markets, investment, or speculation.
 
For these situations, I make myself available on a limited private consulting basis.  Via voice telephone or e-mail, I can give your particular questions or concerns my full and undivided attention.  If you have specific highly individual questions about the markets, your portfolio, a private project, or any area of research or analysis that I usually study, then I would be honored to help you out.
 
As you know, time is the most valuable commodity with which we are all blessed, and rich or poor alike we can never earn more than our allotted amount.  In order to consult for you directly I have to divert my attention away from other Zeal projects or precious family time, so my rates are expensive.  Unfortunately God only gave me 24 hours to spend each day as well, so my time is finite though demands on it are very high.  The only free-market solution to low supply and high demand is high prices, which effectively lower demand to a manageable level in line with available supply.
 
If you are simply interested in how I am personally trading or what I happen to think about the markets at any particular moment, you may wish to consider a subscription to Zeal Speculator rather than private consulting.  We specifically designed and launched this alerts service to be a far more efficient alternative to expensive private consulting.  It is vastly more cost effective for you and it enables me to serve many more people than I could if I were focused solely on working one-on-one.
 
If Zeal Speculator is insufficient, you may wish to know a little about me before you request a consultation.  I am a lifelong contrarian student of the markets and love to study them.  But I am no guru, as one could study the markets for ten lifetimes and never learn it all.  I founded Zeal LLC so I could study the markets full time and, Lord willing, help others to prosper with my research.  I am an entrepreneur and speculator by profession and a Biblical Christian by faith, and both focuses heavily color my worldview.
 
My father opened my first brokerage account for me when I was 12, when I started speculating decades ago.  I started my first business before high school and can’t imagine what a non-entrepreneurial life would be like.  I triple majored in Finance, Accounting, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and was blessed with 4.0 GPAs in all three majors and graduated Summa Cum Laude.
 
After college, I went to work for a Big Six public accounting firm as an auditor and earned my Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license.  After auditing, I consulted for a software company in the late 1990s.  Finally, in early 2000, I founded Zeal LLC.  This is my dream job and life and I praise God for this opportunity every morning when I wake up.  Can there be any greater blessing in life than the privilege of working on your passion?
 
Back to consulting, I am very flexible and informal.  Some clients want to talk about a particular trade for 15 minutes just to bounce some ideas off me.  For small engagements like these, please just drop me an e-mail and we can arrange a mutually acceptable time for a telephone call so you and I can discuss what’s on your mind.  I realize financial consulting is very time sensitive (not to mention highly confidential) so I try to move my other Zeal work around consulting so I can call as soon as possible to help you out.  No payment is necessary up front, we will just invoice you after our consultation is finished.
 
For longer engagements running more than a few hours, it is best that a formal contract is signed.  This contract protects both you and me by ensuring that we both fully understand the scope of our engagement.  Examples of larger projects include full portfolio analysis, fundamental and technical analysis of public companies, valuation analysis of private companies, and other things that need considerable time and research to be addressed rather than a simple phone call.  Drop me a note anytime and we can talk about the project you have in mind and see if the likely benefits will be high enough to justify the consulting expense.
 
As far as rates, here is my current personal private consulting rate.  While expressed in hourly terms, this is actually billed in 15-minute increments so you can take as little or as much time as you like.  I am not a big fan of business travel after doing it extensively in the past (over 75k miles per year), so I do not accept consulting jobs that require travel.  If you absolutely prefer face-to-face consulting and you are willing to travel to me, please write to me and perhaps we can arrange a meeting.
 
Adam Hamilton Private Consulting ... US$500 per hour
 
If you have any questions about consultation, please drop me an e-mail at adam@zealllc.com and I will get back to you as soon as possible.  Working with consulting clients is my highest priority after getting our publications published on time, so I strive to be very responsive to consulting inquiries.  Also there is no charge for pre-consulting discussions so please write me anytime.  If I don’t feel that I have the necessary knowledge base to adequately address your questions, I will let you know immediately.
 
Thank you for considering retaining my consulting services!  I am truly honored when folks seek my counsel and I give you my word of honor that I will do everything in my power to serve you and exceed your expectations. God bless you!

Adam Hamilton, Speculator and Student of the Markets