During the 1990's, Charles specialized in short-selling and tracking mutual funds developing into the only independent research service publishing daily coverage of US stock market liquidity during the peak of his reign at Trimtabs Investing.

from Brooklyn College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and has been interviewed regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg TV and is quoted frequently in the financial media, including Barron's Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Investor's Business Daily.

Soon there after, Charles became a general partner of several real estate limited partnerships starting in 1975, which owned and controlled over 1,000 apartments, office buildings in Dallas, Texas and Memphis, Tennessee and six strip shopping centers in Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee.

The TTFS ETF had earned a coveted five-star Morningstar rating by delivering annualized returns of 19.22% as of March 31, 2016.

[1] A year after launching TTAC produced more positive alpha than TTFS, while being more closely correlated to the Vanguard Russell 3000 ETF (Nasdaq: VTHR) benchmark.