John Jagerson

John Jagerson

John Jagerson has worked in the capital markets and private equity for most of his career — including investing, writing, education and money management. He was a vice president for thinkorswim Group, Inc. and is currently a co-founder of PFX Global and Learning Markets.

John has a B.S. in Business Administration from Utah Valley University and completed the PLD at Harvard Business School in 2006. He is actively involved in managing his own stock, options, futures and forex portfolio.

John is the co-author of the book Profiting with Forex published in 2006 by McGraw Hill. He has been the featured trader in BusinessWeek’s Stock Trader newsletter and has written for numerous online and offline financial publications. John’s commentary and educational articles are regularly featured across the web and at www.learningmarkets.com.

But John also has another skill set that is equally important to your trading success. He is both a natural-born teacher and coach, talents he also showcases at Strategic Trader, Learning Markets and PFX Global, which he co-founded with fellow Strategic Trader editor and strategist S. Wade Hansen.

John is co-editor of Strategic Trader where he combines two great passions in order to help investors gain more confidence and make bigger profits trading stocks, covered calls, short puts and both levered and unlevered exchange-traded funds. He lives and breathes investing — virtually every aspect of it, from stocks and options to futures and Forex. He has never “met a market” that failed to fascinate him.

Recent Articles

Selling Calls: A Closer Look at Shorting Calls

Learn how a short call gives you the ability to profit if the market falls, remains flat or even rises.

Options Pricing: Bid-Ask Spread

Every option has two prices at any time of the trading day: the bid and the ask price.

Options Expiration, Exercise and Assignment

Whether you are an options buyer or seller, you will want to make sure you understand how these three critical factors can affect your trades.

Selling Short Puts vs. Covered Calls

See how these two bullish option selling strategies compare from a risk and reward perspective.

Options Delta: Understanding Delta in Options

Find out how delta can help you to determine the probability that an option will expire in the money.

Portfolio Diversification – Building a Diversified Portfolio

Diversification is the only free lunch in the market. It comes with benefits and no disadvantages.

Selling Forex Options: Trading Where You Think Prices Won’t Go

Learn the basic ideas behind selling a forex option and how it can work to your advantage in a channeling market.

Options Broker Review: OptionsHouse

Learn the pros and cons of this relatively new options brokerage.

Profit From Inflation: 3 Ways to Short Bonds

Short bonds position can produce big profits during high inflationary periods. But what's the best way for individual investors to go about it?

5 Tips for Moving Your Brokerage Account

If you're unhappy with your broker, don't let the paperwork scare you out of making a switch. Learn how easy it is to move your brokerage account.