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Doctor J. Biography

Jon "Doctor J" Najarian, host of CBOETV's Before the Bell and the CBOE Options Report with Doctor J

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 CBOETV, 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.

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