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

Cisco Options – Using Puts to Buy Cisco Under $25

By Jon Ogg

If you missed the chance to get in on <strong>Cisco Systems Inc. </strong>(NASDAQ: CSCO) when the stock fell last week, it may not be too late.

BIDU Options to Play Baidu Inc Stock Split

By Jon Ogg

These speculative calls will benefit if Baidu, Inc. ADS (NASDAQ: BIDU) pops after analysts adjust their targets following Wednesday's 10-for-1 stock split.

Sirius Earnings Trade – A Sirius Hail Mary Option Trade

By Jon Ogg

Check out Sirius (<strong>SIRI</strong>) May call options for a low-risk/high-return way to play the company's earnings report.

Palm Options – 2 Cheap Palm Buyout Trades

By Jon Ogg

Betting on additional buyout offers for Palm (<strong>PALM</strong>) may be a long shot, but these options are so cheap they are hard to pass up.

AIG Options Expensive for Long-Term Bets

By Jon Ogg

Any option trader making a long-term bet on AIG's failure or success needs extreme conviction, because they'll be putting up a lot of money.

USG Corp-USG Options Active

By Jon Ogg

USG Corp. (<strong>USG</strong>) is up on strong volume and very unusual options trading volume.

5 High Yield Dividend ETFs – BND, JNK, SDY, VIG, AMJ

By Jon Ogg

2010 is becoming the year of the dividend as a common theme for investors. And the mover toward exchange-traded funds, ETFs and ETNs, has been a growing trend for years. So what about marrying the ETF world to the dividend world? The Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND), SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK), SPDR S and P Dividend ETF (SDY), Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG) and JPMorgan Alerian MLP Index ETN (AMJ) do exactly that.

Straddle Apple-AAPL to Profit from the Stock’s Wild Ride

By Jon Ogg

Apple (<strong>AAPL,</strong>) seems to set a new 52-week high every few days. A straddle play gives you the opportunity to cash in if the ride continues or win big if the bottom falls out under AAPL shares.

Option Alert – The Best Way to Play Goldman Sachs (GS) Now

By Jon Ogg

If you're looking for an outlier trade on Goldman Sachs (<strong>GS</strong>), these puts offer a blend of the highest reward versus premiums paid.

Dendreon-DNDN Straddle Expensive Into FDA Decision fo Provenge

By Jon Ogg

With an FDA decision on Dendreon's (DNDN) Provenge expected soon, if you want to trade a straddle, you're going to have to pay up.

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