When it comes to financial information you’ve got basically two varieties: news and information or specific investing advice. The market is rich with these offerings. But when it comes to high quality education offered for free, without conflict or bias, for both novice and experienced investors alike, we felt the market was due for a change.

Learning Markets, LLC was founded by four online publishing veterans. You know the saying: “decades of combined experience.” Well I suppose that’s true for us as well. But “decades of strong opinions” is probably more like it. Now it’s time to put our money where our mouths have been. We believe in the opportunity to create a “decent voice” in the world of online financial publishing; a voice that is both transparent and forthright. It has always been a passion of ours to create best-in-class financial education for active investors. We also love living on the cutting-edge of the online publishing world, exploring new ways to get valuable information into the hands of active investors.

LearningMarkets.com is, we believe, our greatest effort to-date and a culmination of all that we have learned in our past attempts to teach active investors. We hope you find LearningMarkets.com valuable and we encourage you to share your ideas with us. In fact, it is your ongoing participation that makes LearningMarkets.com great. The site is not static. We want your feedback and ideas and will incorporate your feedback into our daily content releases. We like to hear from our readers and we encourage you to comment on our articles and lessons, ask questions and to challenge us and each other.

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Finally, here is our pledge to you: easy access to high quality educational information about stock, option and forex investing. Learn how to make reasonable and realistic profits and keep your risks in check. Learn what you want on your time and without cost. Honestly, we teach basic investing concepts that everyone should know but – for whatever reason – few really understand. And we’re not trying to sell you memberships, subscription plans or even brokerage accounts. But we do love our advertisers and if one of them makes an offer that interests you we encourage you to check it out.

Additionally, we have partnered with best-in-class web publishers to distribute our content and widen the reach of our free education. See our partners and press here.

John Jagerson has worked in the capital markets and private equity for most of his career—including investing, writing, education and money management. Most recently he was a vice president for thinkorswim Group, Inc. (SWIM) and is currently a co-founder of PFX Global and Learning Markets.

John has a B.S. in Business Administration from Utah Valley University and completed the PLD at Harvard Business School in 2006. He is actively involved in managing his own stock, options, futures, and forex portfolio and is a managing principal of Ouroboros Capital Management, LLC, an NFA member firm.

John is the coauthor of the book Profiting with Forex published in 2006 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’s commentary and educational articles are regularly featured across the web and at www.learningmarkets.com.

Dan Olson began his career in financial services while still an undergraduate student; first at Drexel Burnham Lambert and then at PaineWebber in Beverly Hills, California. After a trek to Louisiana for graduate school he was hired on as Director of Corporate Communications at Great Western Financial Securities in Northridge, California (now part of Washington Mutual).

Lured to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1996, Dan was hired by Investools, Inc. as their ninth employee after the company had just received second-round financing from Mohr Davidow Ventures and Softbank Capital. Dan was with Investools, Inc., now known as thinkorswim Group, Inc. (SWIM), for more than ten years; most recently as their Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development.

Dan has a B.A. in English from the University of Southern California and an MFA from Louisiana State University. He is currently a co-founder of Learning Markets, LLC.

S. Wade Hansen has been involved in investor education for his entire career. Most recently, he co-founded Learning Markets and PFX Global (Profiting with Forex) to help individual investors learn to take control of their investment portfolios. He has also created investment courses in stock, options, futures and forex trading for Yahoo! Finance, Saxo Bank and the thinkorswim Group.

Wade has an MBA from the University of Utah and a B.A. in Communications from Brigham Young University. He is actively involved in managing his own stock, options and forex portfolio and is a managing principal of Ouroboros Capital Management, LLC, an NFA member firm.

Wade is the coauthor of the book Profiting with Forex, published in 2006 by McGraw Hill. He has also written articles for Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, Stocks & Commodities Magazine and NASDAQ.com. Wade’s investment commentary and educational articles are regularly featured across the web and at www.learningmarkets.com.

Ryan Teeples has worked in the financial services and education industry for most of his career. His expertise is in media and distribution with significant experience in print and online journalism as well as offline and online marketing and advertising. Most recently he was Director of Student Investor Marketing for thinkorswim Group, Inc. (SWIM) and is currently a co-founder of PFX Global and Learning Markets, LLC.

Ryan attended Brigham Young University, and holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Utah Valley University. He is an amateur investor with experience trading and writing economic commentary and analysis for the stocks, options and currency markets.

He writes a regular blog at IWearMySocksInsideOut.com and his commentary and educational articles are regularly featured across the web and at www.learningmarkets.com.