Jon Markman

Jon Markman

Editor, Trader's Advantage and CounterPoint Options

Jon Markman is the editor of Trader’s Advantage, a daily trading service that leverages his unique swing trading principles and aims to capture profits of 7% to 15% — and often much more with his options trades — in less than 90 days. By combining technical analysis with underlying fundamentals, Jon recommends beaten down stocks on the brink of reversal and powerful momentum stocks breaking out to new highs.

In CounterPoint Options Jon helps options traders lock in consistent profits from the volatility that rocks the market. At its heart is a proprietary trading system, Magnitude, that pinpoints indexes or sectors that have reached a critical inflection point — then translates that signal into profitable trades.

CounterPoint Options keeps volatility options trading very simple, focusing on the most popular, highly traded exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that are headed for a key reversal. Magnitude scans the market and allows subscribers to take advantage of these very liquid trading opportunities.

When CounterPoint Options first launched, it was focused solely on trading the VIX, commonly known as the “fear index.” When traders start buying up put options as “portfolio insurance,” the VIX spikes — a phenomenon that we’ll either trade directly, or use to inform our ETF trades on specific slices of the market. Our agile (and highly lucrative) strategy lets us turn volatility into profits… just like professional traders and hedge funds have been doing for years.

CounterPoint Options helps individual traders make steady, consistent profits from a very methodical approach to growing your portfolio in the midst of a turbulent market.

A pioneer in the development of stock-rating systems and screening software, Jon Markman is co-inventor on two Microsoft patents and author of the best-selling books Swing Trading and Online Investing. He was portfolio manager and senior investment strategist at a multi-strategy hedge fund from 2002 to 2005; managing editor and columnist at CNBC on MSN Money from 1997 to 2002; and an editor, investment columnist and investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times from 1984 to 1997.

Jon won a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism for his columns explaining market chicanery in 2002; Society of Professional Journalists awards for his 2001 reporting on Enron and the post-Sept. 11-investment environment; and was a news editor on the Los Angeles Times staff that won Pulitzer Prizes for spot-news reporting in 1992 and 1994.

A graduate of Duke University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Jon speaks frequently on investment topics at conferences nationwide, as well as on TV and radio.

Recent Articles

Triple-Digit Profits from Down and Dirty Drilling

By Jon Markman, Editor, Trader's Advantage and CounterPoint Options

<p>Oil service providers may not sound like a profitable opportunity to you, but with crude oil prices soaring past $86 a barrel, this little niche of the energy sector is producing capital gains hand over fist!</p> <p>The reason for their success is simple, really. Big energy companies are looking for more efficient and profitable ways to extract more oil from mature wells, and establish new wells. And that's exactly what oil field providers do.</p> <p>And this trend will continue as the tightening is due to the one-two punch of rising demand out of Asia and shrinking supply from broadening environmental restrictions and declining production from mature wells.</p> <p>A report by the U.S. National Petroleum Council (NPC) said that while global energy consumption will increase as much as 60% by 2030, and the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that an oil supply "crunch" could arrive as early as 2012. That's less than 5 years away.</p>

Get Rid of These 30 Stocks Before It’s Too Late

By Jon Markman, Editor, Trader's Advantage and CounterPoint Options

Now, I don't mean to scare you, but facts are facts. And I trade on facts—not smoke screens. I keep my eye on the indicators—the economic bellwethers of our economy—to tell me what stocks to buy and what clunkers to sell now before our profits go up in smoke!

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