Trader Profiles

For as long as he can remember, South African trader Henk Grobler has been fascinated by markets...

When Dave Stone walked onto the floor of the New York exchange, he thrived on being "in the ring"...

Brooks Brown is a cotton trader in Memphis, but that is not where he thought he would be going into school...

When John Becker and RJ Mehnert worked together at Houston-based energy wholesaler Entergy Power Marketing Corporation, they mainly hedged the firm’s cash positions, but both dreamed of running their own trading advisory and planned for it. ...

A profile on Bob Kapp on trading the carbon markets....

Gold played a part in saving trader George Gero's life....

Global Advisors executes a completely systematic commodity-based program....

Covenant Capital Management has now traded their simple diversified long-term trend following program for more than a decade....

Michael Cuddehe was a major commodity trading advisor in the formative years for the industry. ...

Jeanne Wagoner’s entry into the futures world was fortuitous if not altogether unique....

“That’s when I heard about these things called futures and options,” he recalls. “I applied for a job on the floor of the International Petroleum Exchange, now ICE Europe, instead of going to...

Richard Scully first became interested in commodities trading growing up on his family’s corn and soybean farm in Central Illinois. That experience is what led him to take a position at Paine...

Fundamental Futures Inc. (FFI) was one of the more successful commodity trading advisors (CTA) throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The fundamental discretionary ag program averaged more than 15% in a...

Carey comes from a family of CBOT traders. His father traded grains at CBOT, mostly wheat, for about 30 years; his nephew is CBOT Chairman Charlie Carey; and three of his four children trade at CBOT...