Stock Market Analyst Biographies

Jon Johnson is an honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Business and School of Law. While working in the oil patch and then practicing law, he began investing as do most novice investors: relying on brokers, tips, and relatives to make his market fortune. Frustrated with poor results, Jon determined to find a method that worked. Reading all he could find on the economy and investing, Jon set out to devise a plan that would take advantage of the major trends in the market and the economy and that could be applied again and again without the need of complicated and varying strategies. One such trend was investing in stock splits. His methodology was so successful that his brokers followed his trades and urged him to teach their clients how to invest using stock splits and other techniques Jon utilized. The response was so impressive that  Jon founded StockSplits.net, the premiere stock splits resource. Today Jon writes about and teaches economic trends, understanding market direction, and specific stock investment strategies to thousands of investors so they too can reach  Jon’s goal: the ability to do what you want, when you want. He has made numerous television appearances, including CNBC and Bloomberg Television, appears regularly on On24.com, is quoted in SmartMoney, Kiplinger, The Technology Investor, The Chicago Sun Times, and other business magazines and newspapers. Despite the busy schedule, Jon always takes time to enjoy the fruits of his investment techniques with his wife and two sons on their South Texas estate.

Jay Johnson is an experienced investor in stocks and options, concentrating in recent years on developing options, stock split and covered call strategies. After earning his Bachelor's Degree with Honors from the University of Texas Business School, Jay started investing while working in management with a national insurance carrier. After returning to school and getting his law degree, again at the University of Texas, he practiced law in Phoenix, Arizona for a major firm and then as in-house counsel to a leading healthcare company. During this time Jay's study of the stock market and the economy intensified. Understanding the potential of the market to change his life, but dissatisfied with the techniques espoused by his brokers, Jay focused his analysis on the universal elements that underlay market and stock movements, and the application of simple strategies to leverage returns. Finding the success to leave the practice of law behind in 2000, Jay resides in the desert of Scottsdale, Arizona, where he invests, is a Senior Strategist at StockSplits.net and contributor to ON24, and teaches market strategies.