Pat Arbor

Ray Carmichael – The History of Financial Futures – Part 2

by John Lothian | Jan 13, 2021

Ray Carmichael was in the thick of the new markets, the early days of electronic trading and huge change in the futures industry globally as the head of corporate communications for the Chicago Board of Trade.

Pat Arbor: Open Outcry Traders History Project

by John Lothian | Mar 30, 2020

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.

Traders embracing Nifty weekly options; NYSE sues SEC; Market maker perceptions

by Spencer Doar | Feb 15, 2019

Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Observations & InsightT.G.I.F. NotesSpencer Doar - JLNCheck this out, via MLex: "The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission would get a 7.6 percent funding increase [up to $268 million],...

NYSE goes to court to halt SEC plan; Japan Exchange Group, TOCOM to merge this year – sources

by Spencer Doar | Feb 15, 2019

Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffIt is a big day for news. Former CBOT Chairman Pat Arbor was released from jail on Valentine's Day, in an ironic twist to his divorce money battle. The NYSE...

Ex-CBOT chairman Pat Arbor – ‘I’m kind of doomed,’; Ex-wife on Arbor – ‘behavior replicates the devil’

by Spencer Doar | Dec 17, 2018

Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffChicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown has two big stories in JLN today. First is a piece that ran Friday in which Pat Arbor says he is doomed. Second is an...