Since the end of 2019, the number of Commodity Pool Operators, or CPOs, registered with the National Futures Association has dropped by almost 6% and the number of Commodity Trading Advisors, or CTAs, has dropped 5% during the same time frame.
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Jennifer Just – MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity
Curiosity and Passion: How I Built A Career In Fintech Jennifer Just is a co-founder of the Chicago trading firm Peak6. She started at O’Connor & Associates after graduating from the University of Michigan and not even knowing what an option was. But she soon...
David Greenberg – MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project
David Greenberg started his career in Chicago as a runner making $3.75 an hour. HIs father was a COMEX trader who later served as chairman of COMEX. So Greenberg took his Chicago experience to New York and started working for his father's company on COMEX. But he...
Tom Chippas atTACks Bitcoin Volatility
ErisX CEO Tom Chippas is a member of the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee (“TAC”) and its cryptocurrency subcommittee.
Joyce Selander – MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project
Joyce Selander is a former open outcry trader and one of the few women who found a home in a trading pit of men much bigger and stronger than her. But she found a niche and had friends in the trading pit who would help protect her from the organized chaos that was pit...
The D-Limit Order Type of IEX Has My Support
Most of you know I prefer markets that are listed. You also know I prefer markets that are not dark. I also prefer markets that have many and a multitude of participants, in numbers and size. These are all features of a proposal from IEX before the SEC for its D-Limit...
MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity 2020 Virtual Event Announced
Sponsored by The OCC and Barchart John Lothian News is pleased to announce a 2020 virtual event for the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series. The one-day event will be held on Wednesday, July 22 from 1:30 to 3:30 PM CDT. The online only event is FREE to...
Russell Indexes Ready For Big Reconstitution Day
FTSE Russell’s Sean Smith Explains the Russell Reconstitution
Lessons Learned in Real Time
At the end of the IDX-V session on the lessons learned Wednesday, just after Chris Smith from LME mentioned the importance of infrastructure for working from home, my internet failed. FIA’s Don Byron, who moderated the panel, had mentioned how when the movie Frozen II...
Chris Hehmeyer: An Endorsement of the Crypto World Like None It’s Ever Seen
The crypto world received a large and powerful endorsement yesterday from a pillar of the futures world. Chris Hehmeyer, in a blog post where he announced the reasoning for rebranding his firm from Hehmeyer Trading + Investments to just Hehmeyer, gave the crypto world...
Remembering Mark Thornberry
Mark Thornberry passed away at the age of 59 from liver cancer. Mark was a longtime industry derivatives technology sales professional and ultra-runner who responded to his diagnosis of liver cancer by continuing to do what he loved - running - and used the experience...
Walt Lukken Invites you to Attend FIA IDX-V
FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken invites you to attend IDX-V on June 23 to 25 in this video shot in his home and edited by John Lothian News.
THIS IS JOHN LOTHIAN: Making The Trade
I am a bull. I like to buy. I like to be long. I long to see the market go up and my profits roll in. Marked to the markets, my gut churns up and down with the market. Rising markets and Tums make my stomach feel better. I like being right. I like when the market goes...
JLN Bachelier Options Model Virtual Panel Podcast
John Lothian News is presenting the May 14 Bachelier Options Model virtual panel as a podcast.
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