Posts written by Patrick Lothian

JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK SCOTT KNUDSEN – THE PATH TO ELECTRONIC TRADING LED TO A BEST EXECUTION PLATFORM FOR BITCOIN John Lothian News interviewed Scott Knudsen, the founder of Cove Markets and a longtime former executive with IMC, for The Path to Electronic...

JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Robinhood and other 'low cost' brokers are still quietly screwing over their users The ongoing fiasco that grew out of online broker Robinhood's decision to limit customers' ability to buy "meme stocks" like GameStop in January has...

JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Billy Assimos (MarketsWiki) Billy Assimos is a Chicago-based former trader and retired restaurant manager who was the manager at Ceres Cafe in the Chicago Board of Trade Building for 26 years. He was a member of the Chicago Board of...

JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK The Beach Bum Who Beat Wall Street and Made Millions on GameStop Mike McCaskill spent years scouring the stock market and betting on long shots. Then he found the opportunity that changed his life—and helped spark the mother of all...

JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK FED’S STAR WITNESS IN SPOOFING TRIAL GETS TARNISHED UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATION Another day of methodical testimony unfolded in Judge John Tharp’s federal courtroom on Wednesday, the second day of testimony in the case of the Department of...

JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Trading Titan Don Wilson Has Advice for Yellen on Market Fixes As Janet Yellen takes over the Treasury and mulls whether to overhaul rules governing financial markets, one of the world’s biggest traders wants her to know that doing so...

JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK JOHN LOTHIAN: A FUTURES TRADER’S CONFESSION All the Ways I Have Traded Futures Over the Years I was brought up as a futures trader and the people I knew were futures traders. The people at my first industry-related job that I listened...

JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Reddit Crowd Bludgeons Melvin Capital in Warning to Industry The first sign of trouble for hedge fund wunderkind Gabe Plotkin came in late October: A poster on Reddit’s popular wallstreetbets forum was taking aim at his wildly...

JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK WHY DO YOU HIRE A SUPER SALESMAN TO RUN TRADING TECHNOLOGIES? Rick Lane is out at Trading Technologies as CEO and chairman, but still with the company in a non-titled supporting role for the time being, at a time when the company is...