CQG offers hosted access to some 50 exchanges worldwide and market data for dozens more. For the last year or so, CQG has worked to establish a foothold in China. In this video, CQG President Ryan Moroney and CQG SVP of Client Relations Pat...
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What’s Up With the Next Gen of Traders?
The old way to learn the trading ropes - via open outcry pits - is nearly nonexistent. So where is the next generation of traders going to come from? What is going to attract interest and enable these newbies to enter the markets? In...
Trust and Transitions – Pat Kenny
“You never know who you might be sitting next to right now. It might be someone you run into 20 or 35 years from now and that might be the person that gives you the break you need.” In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in Chicago, Pat...
A Most Interesting Charity Challenge Without Cold Water
I have a challenge for the readers of the John Lothian Newsletter that does not involve cold water, but does include a donation to the Futures For Kids charity. The week before the FIA Boca Raton International Conference news broke...
Bürgenstock Revisited, Again
The SFOA Conference is in Survival Mode, But Has HopeThe SFOA’s Bürgenstock conference concluded Thursday without fanfare and without its CEO present. A sparsely attended lunch was the last event on the docket. SFOA CEO Daniel Day-Robinson was reportedly in the...
Boca Bits & Pieces, Wednesday, March 11, 2015
This is the 40th anniversary of the FIA Boca conference, and befitting such a nice round number, it was also the most highly attended ever, with somewhere around 1130 attendees. This year, pins were given out to those participants who had been attending the conference...
A Reflection on a Life, Its Influences and the Trading Floor
I learned recently a life-long friend was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. My friend and former Wisconsin neighbor is older than me. In fact, at one time he was my babysitter. As I learned yesterday the CME would shut down most of its futures trading pits, his...
Pat Kenny, vice president of client relations, CQG – Transition from the floor to electronic trading, where are the opportunities?
"Build those relationships because those relationships last forever." Dubbed "The Most Interesting Man in the World," Pat Kenny, vice president of client relations at CQG, discusses his transition as a trader to his current role. After working as a water skiing...
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Compilation from John Lothian News
When John Lothian was nominated by colleague Doug Ashburn to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, he graciously accepted, then issued his challenge to the readership of the John Lothian Newsletter. Here is an assortment of the videos we have received.
CQG's Pat Kenny Takes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge; Most Interesing Man in the Futures Industry Responds to Challenge
CQG Vice President of Client Relations Pat Kenny, who I wrote was "The Most Interesting Man in the World," or at least the futures industry, has taken the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. He was challenged by his friend and mine David Setters, who suffers from the disease. ...
John Lothian Newsletter: Exchange-Traded Funds Targeted in EU Shadow-Bank Clampdown; Swaps squad to oversee $300tn US market; Global Exchange Body Weighs New Structure
ETFs may face tougher regulation as the EU goes after "shadow banks". The CFTC reveals the creation of two regulatory squads, one to monitor the growing swaps market, and one to look into manipulative market practices (no mention was made whether dated polyester suits...
The Most Interesting Man in the World
Traveling to Budapest for the Association of Futures Markets 15th annual conference was a fun experience for several reasons. On the top of the list was spending time with the most interesting man in the world. During the conference, on Thursday night, there was a...
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