About Us

About Us

We Develop Digital Content
Solutions For Investors

Over the last several years we’ve been lucky enough to partner with some of the higher-quality online publishers in the business, including Scottrade, InvestorPlace, Mint.com, AOL (BloggingStocks), Morningstar, NASDAQ and Alpari, to name a few. We have always felt strongly that each partnership is a reflection on our own brand, so we have been very pleased to be associated with such quality partners.

We developed LearningMarkets.com in 2008 to offer free education to investors. The site has recently evolved into a hub of premium investor education courses and advanced technical analysis reports.

We launched our Daily Market Commentary webinars and associated podcasts in 2011. While we are currently on hiatus we have plenty of fans who can't wait to have us back online. We're currently working on a new webinar partnership and will keep you posted.

In 2013 we were very pleased to launch Learning Markets Courses. While we have a lot of experience developing online courses for investors, we believe this our greatest effort to-date. It’s a culmination of all that we have learned in our past attempts to teach active investors.

In 2016 we launched our comprehensive Technical Analysis Reports. While most stock investing reports focus on fundamental criteria, and the vast majority are automated in some fashion, our reports are written by analysts who focus on the technical aspects of a stock’s chart and what it means for investors.

New in 2018 is our Fundamental Stock Screening tool. More than 100 custom filters and dozens of pre-built searches help investors find the right stocks. It's a completely new take on the stock screening tool.

When it comes down to it, here is our pledge to you: easy access to high quality, online educational resources about investing. We will help you learn how to make reasonable and realistic profits while keeping your risks in check. Honestly, we teach basic investing concepts that everyone should know but – for whatever reason – few really understand.

The Team

John Jagerson, CFA, CMT

Co-Founder

John Jagerson has worked in the capital markets and private equity for most of his career—including investing, writing, education and money management. John has a B.S. in Business Administration from Utah Valley University and completed the PLD at Harvard Business School. John holds charters as a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Chartered Market Technician. He is actively involved in managing his own stock, options, futures, and forex portfolio. John is the coauthor of the books Profiting with Forex published in 2006; All About Investing in Gold published in 2011; and All About Forex Trading also published in 2011 by McGraw Hill. He has been the featured trader in BusinessWeek’s Stock Trader newsletter and has written for numerous online and offline financial publications. John is responsible for developing and writing the courses as well as managing the team of instructors.

Wade Hansen, CMT

Co-Founder

S. Wade Hansen is an internationally recognized investing-education expert. He has created online training programs for some of the world’s largest stock, option and Forex brokers and has written for Yahoo! Finance, Forbes.com, Nasdaq.com, BloggingStocks.com and more. Wade is also the coauthor of All About Investing in Gold (McGraw-Hill, 2011), All About Forex Trading (McGraw-Hill, 2011) and Profiting with Forex (McGraw-Hill, 2006). Wade has a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the University of Utah. During his career, he has served as a principal for a commodity trading advisor (CTA) and as a registered representative for a large securities firm. Wade is responsible for course creation and development at Learning Markets.

Dan Olson

Co-Founder

Dan Olson began his career in financial services at Drexel Burnham Lambert and then PaineWebber in Beverly Hills, California. He also served as Director of Corporate Communications at the securities arm of Washington Mutual. Bitten by the start-up bug, Dan was lured to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1996 and hired by Investools, Inc. as their ninth employee. Dan was with Investools, now known as thinkorswim Group, Inc. (SWIM), for more than ten years as the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. Dan has a B.A. from the University of Southern California and an M.F.A. from Louisiana State University. Dan is responsible for strategy, course development and elearning technology for Learning Markets.