Stephen Kalayjian Net Worth 2026: Trader, SK Trading Founder

No reputable publication has estimated Stephen Kalayjian's net worth, so this page does not give a number. The $9.8 million figure shown here before had no source and has been removed. What is documented is a trading career that began on the American Stock Exchange floor in 1983, two patents on trading software, a fintech company he co-founded in 2007, and a paid trading-education business he runs today under the SK Trading name.

What is Stephen Kalayjian's net worth?

Forbes, Bloomberg, Celebrity Net Worth and the business press have not published a figure. Kalayjian's companies are private, he has not disclosed his trading results publicly, and no sale price for any of his businesses has been reported. Any exact number found online should be treated as a guess.

His income and wealth come from four areas that can be confirmed:

• Trading. He has traded stocks, futures, options and currencies for more than four decades, starting as a floor broker.
• Trading software. He co-founded KnowVera, which patented a visual system for building trading strategies and later became Ticker Tocker.
• Education and subscriptions. His current business, SK Trading, sells live trading sessions and mentorship, and he hosts a daily market show.
• Executive roles. In 2024 he was named chief executive of MONITR, a fintech venture tied to Spectral Capital.

Stephen Kalayjian's yearly income

His income is not public. The yearly, monthly and daily figures on the old version of this page did not come from any source and have been deleted. His earnings today would combine his own trading, subscription fees from SK Trading members and any pay or equity from companies he leads, but none of these amounts has been reported. Trading income in particular swings from year to year and cannot be estimated from the outside.

What does Stephen Kalayjian do for a living?

Kalayjian is a professional trader, trading educator and fintech founder. The old description of him as a "capital investor" who ran a firm called Kalayjian Capital Management could not be confirmed and has been dropped. His public profiles describe him as a technical trader: he reads charts across several time frames and looks for trends, reversals, patterns and divergences, using indicators built into his own charting software.

Career timeline

From the exchange floor to screen trading

According to his MoneyShow speaker profile, Kalayjian began at the American Stock Exchange in 1983 and later worked in the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and at the Chicago Board of Trade. A CQG webinar biography adds that he was a floor broker on the New York Stock Exchange before moving to intraday trading, which he did for nearly a decade. The same biography says he traded with, advised and consulted for traders and hedge funds around the U.S., appeared on Fox Business, and was published in Forbes and U.S. News & World Report. At the time he wrote a daily newsletter, The Kalayjian Report, on U.S. stocks, crude oil and gold.

KnowVera and its patents

In 2007 Kalayjian co-founded a firm to build software that spots trends, reversals, patterns and divergences in any asset class, MoneyShow says. That company traded as KnowVera, LLC, where he was chief market strategist. Public patent records on Justia list him as a co-inventor on two U.S. patents assigned to KnowVera: No. 8,682,773, granted in March 2014, and No. 9,152,996, granted in October 2015. Both cover a method for designing trading alert strategies by dragging pre-built components on screen, checking them on a live chart and generating buy or sell alerts.

Ticker Tocker

KnowVera was later renamed Ticker Tocker. Traders Magazine reported in June 2018 that the platform, created by Kalayjian and Joseph Murphy, had opened a pilot program. It covered futures, forex and stocks, required trade leaders to have verified track records, and connected to brokers including CQG, Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE and Fidelity. In January 2020 a press release announced a merger with Eff Creative Group, a New York design and software agency that had worked on the platform since 2016. The release said the beta had launched in January 2019. No financial terms were given. Kalayjian also appeared as a guest on broker Tradier's OptionsBrew webinar series in 2020, where he walked through his multi-time-frame charting method.

Recent changes (2024-2026)

In July 2024, citybiz reported that Kalayjian had been appointed chief executive of MONITR, a financial technology venture whose appointment was welcomed by Sean Michael Brehm, chairman of Spectral Capital. The announcement described plans for an AI-driven trading advisory and education platform organized around eight investing categories, from technical indicators to risk management. No pay or equity terms were disclosed.

His main public business now is SK Trading, which sells live market calls, strategy lessons and mentorship led by Kalayjian. The site says he hosts The Bull, The Bear, and The Ugly, a market show, on weekdays at 6 p.m. Eastern. He also runs a YouTube channel with short daily market updates.

Age, height and personal life

Kalayjian's date of birth has not been published. The age, height and weight listed here before had no source and were removed. Since his career began in 1983, he has been active in markets for more than 43 years. He has not publicly discussed a spouse or children in any source reviewed for this page, so earlier claims about his marriage, family background and education have also been removed.

Net worth compared with other traders

Like most trading educators, Kalayjian does not disclose his account size, which makes comparisons hard. Other market-education profiles on this site include Matthew Thayer, a forex trader and educator, and Chris Haroun, who teaches business and finance online. See also Alfred Bonati Net Worth.

Why no estimate is given

Valuing Kalayjian's wealth would require his trading account balances, subscriber numbers and prices at SK Trading, and the value of his stakes in Ticker Tocker and MONITR. None of those is public. His long record in the industry, his patents and his paid education business show he has earned from markets for decades, but the size of that fortune has not been measured by any reliable outlet.