Originally published in our 2007 "Agents of Change" special issue, this piece chronicles Philip McBride Johnson's involvement in the regulatory structure of the futures industry and his role in bringing financial instruments to the futures markets.
Dekker created his Global Diversified Futures program by applying eight years of successful discretionary trading experience and systematizing it. The Incline Village, Nev.,-based program is up
Gone are the days when an aspiring trader could get a job as a runner on a trading floor to learn the business from the ground up. Most of those support jobs are gone along with the traders they
The United States Futures Exchange (USFE) has launched binary event futures (BEF) that allow traders to take a “yes” or “no” position on whether or not an event will take place on or by a specified
“If you’re earning 100% or more per year, they’re assuming correctly that you’re taking significant risks, which they may not want to pass on to their clients. In the long run, it’s better for us to
For Paul Kim, president and managing member of Chicago-based LaSalle Asset Management, it’s all about making the ideal trade. “It’s about seeing something early, calculating the risk, having the
During that time she became a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and took an interest in the futures markets in general and the S&P 500 in particular. She found the S&P trended well and was easy for
While CTAs are rare in Japan, especially successful ones, Masahito Kanamaru, president and principal of Chicago-based CTA Ascendia Capital Management, has looked for and created success in the
Forex options trading has been around in rudimentary forms, especially among banks, for many years; but it has not been prevalent in the retail sector. As retail traders become more familiar with
During our series on automated trading systems, we’ve compared and contrasted buying an off the shelf system with building and testing your own trading system. In this final part of the series, we’ll
