Before starting Johnson Research Group in 2006, Chris Johnson worked in the financial services industry as a broker for eleven years and 8 years as Director of Quantitative Analysis with a well-known equity/options research firm. Mr. Johnson now oversees a team of analysts providing extensive market, equity, ETF and options analysis and strategy for private and institutional clients.

Mr. Johnson and his team apply their expertise in quantifying and studying the behavior of investors and financial markets, market sectors and indices. Their findings and outlooks are published in the firm's Insightful Investor newsletter and are used in trading the firm’s various trading services. In addition, Mr. Johnson has developed numerous proprietary market analysis tools, which quantify and gauge the outlook for equities and the market by harnessing a powerful combination of behavioral and technical analysis.

Mr. Johnson is a frequent commentator on financial markets and has represented his various firms at national investment conferences. His comments are regularly seen in national print media, such as Barron's, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and on the AP Newswire. In addition to being a guest on several radio shows, Mr. Johnson 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.