by MWEdAdmin | Apr 15, 2021 | electronic trading
FORMER IMC TRADER AND EXECUTIVE OPENS UP ABOUT TRADING ON THE FLOOR, OFF THE FLOOR AND BUILDING THE GOAT TRADING SYSTEM AT IMC Scott Knudsen found his way to the world of trading by mistake on the online portal at the career center at the Northwestern University where...
by MWEdAdmin | Jan 27, 2021 | JL Profiles
Neal Kottke, chairman of Kottke Associates in Chicago, is one of those industry veterans who has done it all in his career, from the commercial side to clearing, to starting his own clearing firm to proprietary trading. His contributions to the futures industry also...
by MWEdAdmin | Jan 27, 2021 | JL Profiles
Lee Stern has seen it all in his career – the highs of great markets and the lows of market scandal. After completing his military service in 1947, Stern enrolled in Roosevelt College and then found his way to the Chicago Board of Trade after answering an ad for a...
by MWEdAdmin | Jan 27, 2021 | JL Profiles
It’s not every day you hear one of the most successful traders and businessmen in the industry say he got his start as a card counter in blackjack. “My brother-in-law told me that he made money in Lake Tahoe, enough money to pay for his vacations,” he said. “I said...
by MWEdAdmin | Jan 27, 2021 | JL Profiles
Toledo, Ohio-born Mike Forrester has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade for more than 50 years. He started out at the CBOT as a runner for the old Uhlman Grain Company in 1963 at age 22. He got interested in the markets and started trading job lots on his...
