Jason Meshnick, CMT

Jason Meshnick, CMT, is the CEO of TheStreet Pro, where he manages a team of market professionals, including analysts, hedge fund managers, and traders who provide their money-making ideas and market analyses to investors.

Jason has over 30 years of industry experience across Wall Street, Fintech, university-level teaching, and financial journalism.

20 Years in Fintech

Before joining TheStreet Pro, Jason spent nearly 20 years in FinTech, developing dynamically generated AI investment analyses. His work was available on nearly every major online broker in the US and Canada. However, his real passion arose when he was asked to write a weekly educational investing newsletter for his coworkers. Topics included why vampires are so rich and what car racing can teach you about investing. These have been republished in TheStreet Pro’s Filthy Rich Animal series. Learning about investing should be fun!

Jason also created the Fear & Greed Index for CNN Business. Although he jokes that it’s his claim to “no fame” (it’s famous, he’s not), the model for understanding investor behavior has become incredibly popular and is used by everyone from hedge funds to individual investors.

Lecturing at the University Level

Teaching his coworkers led to a role at CU Boulder, where Jason taught classes in Investments and Corporate Finance. He’s no longer teaching full-semester classes but continues to lecture on technical analysis and other investing topics.

10 Years of Wall Street Trading Experience

Jason also spent a decade working on Wall Street as a trader and market maker, where he learned all about market microstructure and investor psychology. During his first five years on Wall Street, he traded mostly closed-end funds and utility stocks. Later, as a market maker, he managed large-cap stocks such as ExxonMobil, Texas Instruments, Disney, American Express, and Wells Fargo.

When Not Thinking About Markets

Jason lives in Colorado and enjoys trail running, often with his wife and two daughters.

Jason’s other passion is cars. He races everything from Miatas to single-seater open-wheeled formula cars, and has podiumed at the prestigious Lime Rock Park Historic Festival. Jason knows a little too much about vintage racing cars and is always energized by a drive in his classic Porsche 911.