by MWEdAdmin | Oct 28, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Chris Hehmeyer started out as a runner in the CBOT grain pits, but he really wanted to get into the financial room – which many of the grain traders sneered at. He did it, trading bonds and eventually becoming a phone clerk. From there, he moved up to starting his own...
by MWEdAdmin | Oct 28, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
David Johnson was trading OTC stocks and options for Pershing in 1970. He was in the right place at the right time when the CBOT decided to launch an options exchange. He came to Chicago in 1974 from New York and never left. He saw the immense growth of the CBOE and...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 24, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
David Greenberg started his career in Chicago as a runner making $3.75 an hour. HIs father was a COMEX trader who later served as chairman of COMEX. So Greenberg took his Chicago experience to New York and started working for his father’s company on COMEX. But he...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 24, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Art Margulis answered a job advertisement in the Chicago Tribune for a research analyst position at the Chicago Board Options Exchange after graduating from Princeton. That was his entry into the world of open outcry trading. At the CBOE, Margulis met Blair Hull, who...
by MWEdAdmin | Aug 24, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Tom Rinaudo was selling real estate when his mother heard about a job at the Chicago Board of Trade. He had no idea what the Board of Trade was all about, but he said yes and was hired by JK McKerr in a back office job. Rinaudo wishes he could have started 10 years...
by MWEdAdmin | Jul 21, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Joyce Selander is a former open outcry trader and one of the few women who found a home in a trading pit of men much bigger and stronger than her. But she found a niche and had friends in the trading pit who would help protect her from the organized chaos that was pit...
