by MWEdAdmin | Apr 15, 2021 | history
Richard Sandor is known as the “father of financial futures,” a name given to him by the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Board of Trade for his work in helping to create 30-Year Treasury bond futures and many other financial contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade...
by MWEdAdmin | Apr 15, 2021 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Mike Cavanaugh found his way to the trading industry despite his degree in political science because he had a brother-in-law in the wheat pit at the CBOT. He did a summer internship working for “one of the more prolific wheat traders” and soon fell in love with the...
by MWEdAdmin | Apr 15, 2021 | electronic trading
Veteran Exchange Employee Shares His Firsthand Experience of Open Outcry and Electronic Trading at CME and CBOT John Van Der Bleek got his start in the markets after working for a hospital part time with someone later hired at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as an...
by MWEdAdmin | Apr 15, 2021 | electronic trading
BARCHART EXECUTIVE REFLECTS ON THE CHANGES IN QUOTE TECHNOLOGY THAT FUELED THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONIC TRADING Electronic trading changed the way quotes are generated, archived and delivered to traders, brokers and their clients over the internet. Barchart was a...
by MWEdAdmin | Apr 15, 2021 | electronic trading
A SWEDISH PERSPECTIVE FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF ELECTRONIC TRADING Peter Fredriksson was with OM in Sweden when they offered the first electronic trading platform. He later worked for Cinnober, which was one of many firms to be spun out of OM over the years, along with...
