Jon Ogg

Jon Ogg is co-founder and editor for

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 ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Watch, 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

USG Corp-USG Options Active

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

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 ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ 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

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

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

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.