Kirk (born 27 April 1971) is a retired independent trader and investor who splits his residence between the island of Kauai in the State of Hawaii and North Scottsdale, Arizona.
Since the late 1990s he has published newsletters and websites offering investment advice.
In 2015, his subscription-only newsletter, The Kirk Report, had over 7,000 members (subscribers); its website started in September 2003.
Following his retirement from full-time trading in 2014 and, in addition to publishing The Kirk Report, he now privately mentors individual investors and traders as well as serves as an independent consultant to several financial firms and hedge funds.