JLN Profiles
Jeff Carter – Open Outcry Traders History Project
Jeff Carter is a Chicago-based trader and venture capital executive and long time member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where he formerly served on their board of directors.
Pat Arbor: Open Outcry Traders History Project
Pat Arbor answered a blind ad in the Chicago Tribune for a grain trader at Uhlmann Grain at the CBOT in 1962, and the rest was history – quite a bit of history.
Ed Ryan – Open Outcry Traders History Project
“You walked into the old grain room and it was literally a pit.”
The WILD Growth of Cathey Curley – Part One
Cathey Curley is the president of Women in Listed Derivatives (WILD). She sat down for an interview with John Lothian News to talk about the explosive growth WILD is experiencing and what they are doing with that success.
Tom Zagara – Part 2 – Open Outcry Traders History Project
Tom Zagara has lots of great stories to tell from his time as a trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. There were so many, we broke his interview into two parts. Here is part 2.
Tom Zagara – Open Outcry Traders History Project – Part 1
Tom Zagara has lots of great stories to tell from his time as a trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He was a broker, trader, marketmaker and more down on the CBOE trading floor starting in the 1970s. His best day trading was the stock market crash of 1987....
Eileen Flaherty’s Perilous Road to Success
Eileen T. Flaherty is a longtime legal and compliance professional who is currently managing director of The Global Capital Group Ltd., a legal and regulatory consulting firm. She is also the author of a forthcoming novel entitled The Perilous Step.
Lee Tenzer – Open Outcry Traders History Project
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...
Marc Nagel – Open Outcry Traders History Project
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.
Jim Downs – Open Outcry Traders History Project
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.
Changing Paradigms : Chris Hehmeyer of Hehmeyer Trading + Investments
Low volatility, regulatory uncertainty, lack of transparency – there is no shortage of challenges for those trading in the digital asset market. Chris Hehmeyer joined JLN at FIA Expo 2019 to discuss how his firm, Hehmeyer Trading + Investments, is meeting these challenges.
Dan Stern – Open Outcry Traders History Project
Here Dan Stern tells his story in an interview for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project.
Alan Palmer – Open Outcry Traders History Project
In this MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project interviews, Palmer tells the story of his days on the trading floor.
Tony Saliba – Open Outcry Traders History Project
MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project Tony Saliba was interviewed by John Lothian News for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project. Saliba is a trader, exchange member and financial industry technology and education executive...
Donnie Roberts – Open Outcry Traders History Project
MarketsWiki Education's Open Outcry Traders History ProjectDonnie Roberts came to Chicago after graduating from graduate school with a love of futures and options trading. He chose Chicago over New York and London. He came to the visitor center of the...
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VIX clues show how stock investors underpriced the risk of the coronavirus pandemic; The Booming Short-Volatility Bet That Lost 46% in a Single Month
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