Open Outcry Traders History Project
John J. Lothian & Company, Inc., MarketsWiki Education and John Lothian Productions are pleased to announce plans for a large scale video project to collect the history of the open outcry era and traders’ personal stories.
Additionally, John Lothian Productions plans to develop video documentaries about specific themes and subjects emerging from the collected personal histories.
The project is modeled on the Veterans History Project signed into law by President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. In this case, rather than capturing the experiences of veterans of warfare and conflict, we are capturing the personal market experiences of those who participated in open outcry markets around the world. Traders from Chicago to London to Paris to Sydney to Singapore and beyond are welcome to submit videos.
Trader Videos
SHELDON COHEN – OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT – PART TWO
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...
SHELDON COHEN – OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT – PART ONE
Attorney Sheldon Cohen started out his trading career as a risk manager for Goldberg Brothers, a CBOT clearing firm that was later sold to LIT Holdings, and eventually began trading at the Midwest Stock Exchange. He bought his own seat at the Chicago Board Options...
PETER HARRIGAN – OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT – PART TWO
Peter Harrigan capped off his career as a floor trader on the CME and the Pacific Exchange in the middle of a bear market in 2002. Since then, he’s managed money, helped start up an AI company and traded cryptocurrencies, but he continues to speak fondly of his floor...
PETER HARRIGAN – OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT – PART ONE
Peter Harrigan is the co-founder and current CEO of Grey Swan Digital, a company that creates and trades customized derivatives. Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s he wanted to become an astronaut. His career path later rocketed in a different direction, taking him to...
BRADLEY ROTTER – OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT, PART TWO
Financial Futures Pioneer Continues as Early Adopter on the Right Side of Major Trends Bradley Rotter was on the financial floor of the Chicago Board of Trade when the Treasury bond market was working out its inefficiencies in its early days. Sparse institutional...
BRADLEY ROTTER – OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT, PART ONE
FINANCIAL FUTURES PIONEER CONTINUES AS EARLY ADOPTER ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF MAJOR TRENDS Bradley Rotter has been a pioneer in financial futures, hedge fund investing and cryptocurrencies. He was on the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade when financial futures...
TOM SOSNOFF – OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT
The CEO of tastytrade, Tom Sosnoff, was interviewed by John Lothian News for the Open Outcry Traders History Project. Sosnoff was a trader on the floor of the CBOE for 20 years after growing up in New York. He moved to Chicago at the behest of some co-workers at his...
TOM ASCHER – OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT – PART TWO
QUANTITATIVE BROKERS’ EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN TOM ASCHER RECALLS HIS DAYS TRADING ON FLOOR In Part Two of the JLN interview with Tom Ascher for the Open Outcry Traders History Project, Ascher talks about getting involved in exchange politics. He joined CBOE’s board and...
TOM ASCHER – OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT – PART ONE
QUANTITATIVE BROKERS’ EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN TOM ASCHER RECALLS HIS DAYS TRADING ON FLOOR Tom Ascher was interviewed by John Lothian News over Zoom for the Open Outcry Traders History Project. Ascher traded at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and after getting into...
MIKE CAVANAUGH – 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...
OLIVIER RAEVEL – MARKETSWIKI EDUCATION OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT
Olivier Raevel is the first trader from the International Petroleum Exchange, or IPE, to be interviewed for the JLN MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project. He made history as a founding member of ICE and recommended that ICE buy the IPE. He was...
ANDY TAN: OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT
Andy Tan is a former floor broker on SIMEX for Merrill Lynch. He was in the SIMEX trading pits with Merrill Lynch for almost 15 years. As SIMEX migrated to the screen, Tan made a successful transition upstairs with Merrill Lynch focusing on index arbitrage across...