Jonathan Hoenig

Jonathan Hoenig is an American investor, author, contributor to Fox News Channel, WLS-AM radio, public speaker and founder of Capitalistpig.com.

Hoenig is a former floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and a vocal supporter of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism.

He is a frequent commentator in the financial press, and has written for: The Wall Street Journal Europe, Wired, Trader Monthly, Maxim, and Smartmoney.com.

He has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and was recently named one of The Chicago Sun-Times Thirty Under Thirty and Crain's Forty Under Forty.

In 2013 Hoenig's firm became the first hedge fund to advertise in the US since the 1930s. Existing limitations on hedge fund advertising were lifted as a result of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

Hoenig's books include Price is Primary, Greed is Good, The Pit, A New Textbook of Americanism along with Pit Trading 101, a documentary film about new traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange that was recognized at the Sunset International Film Festival, the Chagrin Film Festival and the International Film Awards Berlin in 2014.