Jon Ogg

Jon Ogg is co-founder and editor for 24/7 Wall St.

Jon has worked as a news analyst for nearly 10 years and also has experience as a broker, portfolio manager and investment adviser. He has been sourced for articles in CBS MarketWatch, E*Trade, TradeTheNews, FlyOnTheWall, Pristine, Evolution Trading, Knova Trading, Hammerstone, CNet.com, Seeking Alpha, Google Finance and other sites.

Prior to 24/7 Wall St., he formed News Contrast and was the founder of a service for active traders called TradeTheNews (which he sold in 2003) and built up a news desk that was merged into E*Trade. He also worked in Copenhagen, Denmark as a portfolio manager for European clients trading U.S. equities and ran the event-driven trading team there.

He has been a financial adviser and has advised start-up and emerging-stage companies, and started his career as a licensed broker selling fixed income to some of the largest investment managers in the United States. He received a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Houston (1992).

Jon does not hold any positions in any stocks he writes about.

Recent Articles

3PAR Bidding War Rages On

By Jon Ogg Aug 27, 2010

3PAR, Inc. (NYSE: PAR) options activity hints that the company will get a better offer.

5 Option Trades to Prove Tech Isn’t Dead

By Jon Ogg Aug 25, 2010

Tech stocks may not be as dead as people think.

SanDisk Options: Lock ‘n’ Roll

By Jon Ogg Aug 25, 2010

What happens when you have an exponential return in an option before your trade rationale has even played out? You lock in your gains and…

5 Cheap Option Trades on Education Stocks

By Jon Ogg Aug 20, 2010

If you're interested in cheap options trading picks with big upside, these five trades on education stocks are just what you're looking for.

New Mutual Fund with a 45 Year Outlook

By Jon Ogg Aug 19, 2010

There was an interesting launch this week from Vanguard in its new "target date" funds, which aims to entice investors to put in their funds into a single fund for a target retirement date. Vanguard's new target fund is for 45 years down the road via the Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Fund.