by MWEdAdmin | Aug 4, 2021 | electronic trading
VETERAN TRADER AND SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR SHARES TASTYTRADE AND THINKORSWIM ORIGIN STORIES Tom Sosnoff is a serial entrepreneur whose endeavors are transforming how people trade and understand the markets. Expanding on his success as an open outcry options trader on...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 4, 2021 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Currency Trader Yra Harris Says Early Days of the CME Offered Near-Boundless Opportunity, Taught Him Market is Always Right In the early days of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, economic opportunity was phenomenal, said CME currency trader Yra Harris. ”I used to say...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 4, 2021 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Veteran Currency Trader Yra Harris Found His Way Onto the Floor, Later Embraced Electronic Trading Yra Harris was on a career track to become a college professor in the 1970s, earning a master’s degree in economics. But when he came home from school his parents gave...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 4, 2021 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Larry Abrams’ career started with a chance encounter on a ski lift which was prompted by a good deed. He and some friends helped to push a stranded car that was stuck during a blizzard in Park City, Utah. The next day on the lift line he was paired with the man whose...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 4, 2021 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
In the second of a two-part interview with John Lothian for the Open Outcry Traders History Project, Chicago attorney Sheldon Cohen reminisced about his long tenure on the trading floor and in exchange management, beginning in the 1970s.In law school they teach you...