Marc Nagel – Open Outcry Traders History Project

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Marc Nagel is a derivatives consultant, lawyer, CPA and expert witness. He also spent 26 years as a pit trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. He sat for an interview about his years on the trading floor with John Lothian News for the Open Outcry Traders History Project.

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Lee Tenzer – Open Outcry Traders History Project

by John Lothian

Lee Tenzer is one of the giants of the Chicago markets. He was an inaugural member of the Crowd of Fame from the Options Industry Council. Lee E. Tenzer is the founder of trading firm LETCO and brought two leading names from the industry into the markets. His first...

Ed Tilly – Open Outcry Traders History Project

by John Lothian

Ed Tilly is a former trader on the Cboe who turned his board leadership into a career as a Cboe executive and today is the chairman, president and CEO of Cboe Global Markets.

Jim Downs – Open Outcry Traders History Project

by John Lothian

Jim Downs learned about the CBOE from a personal finance class while an engineering student. He loved modeling the markets and found his way to the CBOE. After reading the Black-Scholes paper, he reverse engineered it in the Basic coding language on an Apple IIE.