Dinozavrik Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Jon "DRJ" Najarian is a professional investor, noted media analyst and speaker, and cofounder of optionMONSTER.com, a leading news and information site for investors in derivatives markets. Jon launched his financial career at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in 1981, trading in the pits for some 25 years. In 1989 he founded Mercury Trading, running the company for 15 years until 2004, when he sold to Citadel, one of the world's largest hedge funds. More recently, Doctor J—after his CBOE floor call letters "DRJ"—has developed and patented numerous trading applications used to identify unusual activity in stock, options, and futures markets. As one example, Jon's Heat SeekerTM program uncovers extraordinary buying patterns from among the 120,000 quotes per second that stream from America's stock, options, and futures exchanges. Jon's research and analysis, based on the Heat Seeker and complementary programs, is widely cited by leading financial media including the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, FOX News Channel, CBS Radio, and CNBC. He appears daily on First Business Television, a business news magazine that airs on CBS, NBC, FOX, UPN, and ABC affiliates, commanding a daily audience of some 1.8 million viewers in over 200 cities across the country. He also hosts the CBS Radio show "Taking Care of Business with Doctor J," and webcasts twice daily on CBOE-TV, available at www.cboe.com/cboetv. Also on the Internet, optionMONSTER (www.optionmonster.com) is a fast-growing site delivering news and information for retail investors in the options market. Watch Doctor J's exclusive CBOE-TV programs now! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dinozavrik Posted October 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 After a very brief stint with the Chicago Bears in 1981, Jon Najarian came to the trading pits of Chicago to make his fortune. After 23 years, he's still here, in an industry where the average career is measured in months, not years! Doctor J's success in the pit led him to found Mercury Trading in 1989, a proprietary trading firm that makes markets in more than 100 high-tech and biotech stocks and single stock futures at the CBOE, trading between 25,000 - 40,000 options and up to 3 million shares of stock per day! He uses three primary catalysts for his trades: Unusual activity in the call and put options, pending earnings announcements and industry events. Jon has minor ownership stakes in a number of online brokerages and is a principal and co-founder of www.PTISecurities.com and a partner in www.divinecapital.com, an empowered woman-owned securities and futures brokerage. Since 1994, Doctor J has been a business correspondent for FOX television and appears three times daily on FOX TV's "FOX News in the Morning". Doctor J is also the host of the CBS radio show, "Taking Care of Business with Doctor J", which is carried in Chicago and reaches 38 states. His market observations are broadcast to 180 markets daily on www.firstbusiness.us, a business news magazine that airs on CBS, NBC, FOX and ABC affiliates across the country. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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