Pete Najarian Net Worth 2024: Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Kids, Bio-Wiki

Pete Michael Najarian is a famous trader, and TV personality who is known for its remarkable trading strategies, and commentary. He, along with his brother, founded a market intelligence provider company named “option MONSTER” and an online brokerage and trade platform as “trade MONSTER” in 2008. This company is in direct competition with a few top-performing brokerage firms in the market. Pete has also been a contributor to “Fast Money” with Steve Grasso, Guy Adami, Tim Seymour, and Karen Finerman.

Maybe you know about Pete Najarian very well, but do you know how old and tall is he and what is his net worth in 2024? If you do not know, we have prepared this article about details of Pete Najarian’s short biography-wiki, career, professional life, personal life, today’s net worth, age, height, weight, and more facts. Well, if you’re ready, let’s start.

Early Life & Biography

Peter was raised in Minnesota. His father, John Najarian, is a transplant surgeon. He belongs to a decent family that has provided all the facilities that he needed in his life. Najarian attended the University of Minnesota. He was interested in sports since his childhood days. He used to play football at the university level.

He was awarded the Carl Eller’s award for being an outstanding defensive football player for three years from 1983 to 1985. In 1985, he had been the captain of his team in 1985. After he earned a degree from Minnesota University, he became a professional-level football player along with the Minnesota Vikings and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Jon Najarian, his younger brother, has been the motivation for Todd, who became an “options trader” in the year 1992.  Jon has worked for Mercury Trading. Najarian became the President of Mercury and remained at this post from 2000 to 2004. During his work tenure, he supervised the sale of the company to Citadel LLC.

Personal Life

Najarian got married to Lisa Najarian. She is a popular actress, and was featured in the show “Wall Street Wives.” They have four children that include one son, and three daughters.

Age, Height, and Weight

Being born on December 22 1963, Pete Najarian is 60 years old as of today’s date 26th July 2024. His height is 5 ft 8 inches tall, and his weight is 65 kg.

Career

Najarian began his journey as a commentator for ESPN’s football coverage in 2003. He has made a decent career in football, where he included various seasons with the Minnesota Vikings and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In 1992, he took up “options trading” when he associated with his younger brother, Jon Najarian, at Mercury Trading. It is a market-making company at the CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange). Later, after two years, he assumed accountability for Mercury’s arbitrage and risk. He then made his way into the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange).

He also ran Mercury’s joint undertaking with the support of M.J. Meehan that has been the third-largest expert firm listed on the NYSE. Between 2000 and 2004, he worked at the post of President in Mercury Trading. He assisted in making sales to Citadel that is considered to be the largest hedge fund throughout the world. Throughout this period, he has worked as the floor official for eight terms and presided at the post of the “Exemption Committee of the Chicago Board Options Exchange for three years.

Najarian is one of the members who has founded “One Chicago.” It is an electronic exchange that is committed to becoming the world’s global leader on stocks, Electronic Traded Funds, and Chicago Board Options Exchange. He has also been the co-creator of the Hedgehog stock and futures trading platform with his brother.

The duo has mutually formed the Heat Seeker and programs that aim at identifying any suspicious buying activity in options, futures, and stocks. Presently, Najarian shares his knowledge on the show “Fast Money Five” that is aired on the CNBC channel. He also contributes toward CBOE-TV that is an accessible webcast of the exchange.

In 2005, he, along with the support of his brother, jointly led the establishment of optionMONSTER. This platform is an education and options news firm. They also founded tradeMONSTER that is a leading e- brokerage organization that has been rated by Barron as the “Best for Options Traders.” These companies got acquired by private equity company “General Atlantic Partners” in 2014 and were sold to E-Trade in September 2016 for $750 million.

Awards & Achievements

Trader Monthly magazine has ranked Pete Najarian as one of the top hundred traders. Najarian has also co-founded a fiscal education and bulletin services provider firm, “MarketRebellion.com.” He has also been regarded as the best-selling author of “The 22 Rules of Investing”, and “How We Trade Options.”

Net Worth & Salary of Pete Najarian in 2024

Pete Najarian is a successful market analyst, options trader, and television personality. He has also been a co-founder of trade monster and optionMonster. He is a contributor to a popular personal business, and finance show” CNBC’s Fast Money.” His major sources of earnings are market analysis, television, and options trading. Looking at these income sources, his net worth is computed to be $30 million as of July 2024.

Najarian has been the first online broker to have deployed streaming, and desktop-based trading services in the web browser.  With his consistent and sustained efforts, he has become an established options trader, market specialist, and a TV personality who presently co-owns and operates several trading firms in his name.