Jon ‘DRJ’ Najarian was linebacker for the Chicago Bears before he turned to another kind of a contact sport – trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He became a member of the CBOE, NYSE, CME and CBOT and worked as a floor trader for some 25 years. In 1990 he founded Mercury Trading, a market-making firm at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), which he sold in 2004 to Citadel, one of the world’s largest hedge funds. In 2005 Jon co founded optionMONSTER and tradeMONSTER, sold a majority stake to private equity firm General Atlantic Partners in 2014 & two years later sold the firm to E*Trade for $750M. Today, he is co-founder of Market Rebellion, LLC (a leading options education and trading platform), a professional
investor, money manager, market strategist and venture evangelist. Jon is also a co-host and co-founder of proprietary programming including the popular “Rebels’ Edge” streaming.

Jon is also chairman of a technology SPAC, an investor and senior advisor to IDI Group, LLC (a multi-family office) and co-founder of Moneta Advisory Partners, LLC, a “venture evangelism” platform that raises awareness of a portfolio of growing public companies.

He is one of the most recognizable financial news personalities in the business, having appeared on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on a daily basis for over 15 years. Today, Jon is a regular contributor to Fox Business’ “Claman Countdown”, “Making Money with Charles Payne”, “The Big Money Show” and “The Kudlow Report”. Jon also appears regularly on Fox, Newsmax, NewsNation, Schwab Network, Sirius XM Radio, Bloomberg, and Fox News