by MWEdAdmin | Jul 21, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
James Gordon spent eight years working on the Cboe trading floor as a trader for Timber Hill. His experience, and how he was treated as a trader, was different from others’. He found his way to the exchange through a brother who was a clerk at the CME. Gordon was an...
by MWEdAdmin | Jul 21, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Maureen Obermeier started on the CBOE floor the summer after her freshman year of college and never left. She helped some friends get jobs that summer, and some, like her, stayed and built careers in the markets. She became a CBOE member when she turned 21 and filled...
by MWEdAdmin | Jul 21, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Chess Obermeier started working for his cousin, Charles Obermeier, at the Cboe, and was able to purchase his first membership by his 21st birthday. He eventually made his way to the CBOT in 1984, where he traded grain up until 2016. During his time on the floor, Chess...
by MWEdAdmin | Jul 21, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Jack Sandner is a former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and longtime board member of the CME Group. In part two of this interview with John Lothian News for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project he talks about how the S&P 500...
by MWEdAdmin | Jul 21, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
John F. (Jack) Sandner is a boxer, lawyer, trader and former CME chairman who served as a director of CME Group from July 2007 to February of 2018. Sandner sat for an interview with John Lothian News for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project....
by MWEdAdmin | Jul 21, 2020 | Open Outcry Traders History Project
Jeff Carter is a Chicago-based trader and venture capital executive and long time member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where he formerly served on their board of directors. He is currently a manager with West Loop Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund....
