Sykesville, MD Office

The J.O. Johnson Group provides advisory services primarily to individual and high‑net‑worth clients and to pension and profit‑sharing plans. The firm offers ongoing portfolio management with an Investment Policy Statement for each client and provides financial planning through MoneyGuidePro for clients with assets under management, but does not offer standalone planning for clients without AUM.

The firm combines charting and technical analysis with fundamental, quantitative analysis and modern portfolio theory to construct portfolios across mutual funds, equities, ETFs (including precious‑metal ETFs), fixed income, REITs and Treasury‑inflation‑protected securities. TJOJGI generally manages accounts on a discretionary basis, employs options strategies (including covered, uncovered and spread positions), and requires clients to custody assets at Schwab Institutional, through which it may receive research and other institutional services.

Compared with many peers that focus on long‑only strategies, the firm’s explicit use of technical/charting methods and an active options program (including uncovered options) is a distinguishing practice and raises additional risk considerations. The brochure also discloses that the firm requires Schwab custody and may benefit from institutional services or soft‑dollar arrangements, and notes an unusual outside activity by a supervised person who works as a QA analyst for a proprietary trading firm approximately 64 hours per month (a role the brochure states does not involve placing trades).