's Bio:
J. Christoph Amberger looks back on a 20-plus year career in publishing.

Growing up in Cold-War West Berlin, he studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Georgia Augusta Göttingen (then West Germany), spent the winter of 1984/85 as a DAAD Anglistenprogramm scholar at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1991, he graduated with an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College Graduate Institute.

Amberger emigrated to the United States in 1989, when he joined up with Bill Bonner’s Agora, Inc. — at a time when the company was a small niche publisher in the shadow of the Baltimore City Shot Tower.

Starting in the editorial research department of Taipan — founded in 1988 by legendary newsletter editor Bob Czeschin — he rose through the ranks to become Executive Publisher of the Taipan Group, which under his direction grew into a $25-million-a-year business employing 40 and publishing over a dozen financial newsletters and trading services.

For more than 10 years, he wrote a daily e-letter dealing with international politics and finance, first for the Taipan Group, and most recently for TodaysFinancialNews.com.

In 2005, Amberger published "Hot Trading Secrets: How to Get In and Out of the Market with Huge Gains in Any Climate" for New York-based John Wiley.

From 2007-10, he turned his attention to create Agora Inc.’s first internet video platform, TodaysFinancialNews.com. His weekly political show, "Amberger’s Smackdown", was a favorite of his up to 200,000 readers of his daily e-letters. Amberger retired from Agora Inc. in January of 2010.

An avid competitive fencer and collector of fencing-related art and literature, he is considered one of the foremost authorities on Western swordplay. From 1994-2000, he published the trailblazing "Hammerterz Forum"… a journal devoted to the exploration of historical western swordplay. His 1998 book, "The Secret History of the Sword", continues to be one of the perennial bestsellers of Western martial arts historiography.

In 2009, Amberger made his debut as a novelist with his conspiracy thriller "The Lazarus Smile".

After 22 years in corporate financial publishing, he’s now striking out on his own: Since February 2010, Amberger is heading Secret Archives Press LLC.

Amberger has written four books and literally thousands of articles on investing, technology, travel, politics, and martial arts. He’s been a frequent speaker on investment conferences.