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Chris Johnson and Jon Lewis the co-editors of The Winning Edge, a weekly newsletter designed to help you make options profits around corporate earnings announcements all year long.
About Chris Johnson
Before starting Johnson Research Group LLC (JRG), Chris Johnson worked in the financial services industry as a broker for 11 years and eight years as Director of Quantitative Analysis and Market Strategist with a well-known newsletter publisher.
Through this work, Chris became an expert at quantifying and studying the behavior of investors and financial markets, market sectors, and indices. Along the way, Chris has developed numerous market analysis tools that harness the powerful combination of behavioral and technical analysis.
Chris is a frequent commentator on financial markets and is regularly seen in national print media, such as Barron's, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, USA Today, and the A.P. Newswire.
In addition to being a guest on several radio shows, Chris appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and the Fox News Channel as an expert in the field of sentiment and investor behavior as well as technical analysis.
About Jon Lewis
Jon Lewis has more than 20 years of writing and editing experience in various industries. Jon has spent the past 10 years in financial publishing, spending nine years as the managing editor of the nation's leading options newsletters.
In addition, he has served as senior editor for various education products and services, primarily dealing with stock and option trading. Before founding JRG with Chris Johnson, Jon was the executive director of a leading options and financial research Web site.
Jon has authored numerous articles for Bloomberg Personal Finance, Active Trader, CNBC.com, On Investing, Trader's Journal, Technically Speaking, and Stocks, Futures & Options.
In addition, he conducts numerous workshops at investor symposiums and for various investor groups. His expertise centers on option education and applying sentiment research to the analysis of stocks and sectors.
| Trade | Time Held |
Gain | |
| AMZN | Feb 50 Calls | 8 days | 135% |
| AVP | March 20 Puts | 19 days | 126% |
| BHI | Oct 37 Calls | 7 days | 150% |
| INTC | July 17 Calls | 1 day | 216% |
| MON | Oct 105 Puts | 4 days | 220% |
| XLF | Oct 22 Puts | 19 days | 195% |
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Meet Jon Lewis
Jon Lewis brings more than 20 years of writing and editing experience, in some of the nation's leading options newsletters, to the table in The Winning Edge, a weekly trading newsletter that helps members to profit with simple, easy-to-execute option plays designed to take advantage of earnings and other market events.
Profit from 2009's Earnings Shockers
While earnings expectations may feel as though they've been reined in, much of our quantified data on sectors and individual stocks suggests otherwise.
We've examined the trading landscape and developed an outlook for Q1 earnings and how we will profit from the coming earnings season. We'll send you the exact trades to make and the specific moves to take, but to see what's on our radar, read "Profit from 2009's Earnings Shockers" today!
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The 4 Stages of a Market Rally
We may be caught in one of the worst bear markets in history. But all bear markets, just like all bull markets, have one thing in common: They eventually come to an end.
So, when will the market rebound? Although no one can give us a specific time frame, there are four stages the market goes through before it can change course. Check our our four-part series on these stages:
