Tracy (@chigrl)

Futures and Options. Energy/Indices/Currency

Record Date: 3/22/17

Rick Lane, CEO Trading Technologies: (1:40)

Tim McCourt, Managing Director and Global Head, Equity Products: (9:45)

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Christopher Giancarlo

Acting Chairman of CFTC

Record Date: 3/16/17 

Today I spoke to a man who was born in Jersey City, attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Government Department Honors. He practiced law for 16 years in New York, then joined a wall st software firm in the swaps technology business where he and the cofounder brought the company public.  He was asked by President Obama to sit on the commission at the CFTC and is currently the acting chairman of the CFTC and President Trumps nominee to be Chairman.  His name is Christopher Giancarlo.   (more…)

Kiana Danial

CEO of InvestDiva

Record Date: 3/2/17 

Today I spoke with a woman that was born in Iran, moved to Japan when she was 18 to study electrical engineering, then moved to NYC to work on Wall St.  While in Japan she started doing a conversion between currencies, and at that point she fell in love with the opportunity in trading the markets.  She is now the founder and CEO of Invest Diva, and teaches thousands of people about investing and managing wealth. Her name is Kiana Danial. (more…)

Rachel Shasha

Option/Stock Trader

Record Date: 3/8/17

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Walt Lukken

President and CEO of Futures Industry Association (FIA)

Record Date: 3/6/17 

Today I spoke to a man who grew up in the mid-west rural farm country, and went to law school. When he was back in Chicago taking the bar exam, he got a call from an Indiana Senator to help him with financial policy.  He took the opportunity and has since become the resident expert on derivatives trading, served as CFTC commissioner under the Bush administration, worked at the NYSE, and from there has moved on to becoming the President and CEO of the FIA. (more…)

Carolyn Boroden

Fibonacci Queen, Ex-Wall St and CME Trader/Analyst

Record Date: 2/22/17 

Today I spoke to a woman that quit high school early to get a job as a secretary for a government bond trading firm on Wall Street.  She then left NYC and moved to Chicago to start working on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the Eurodollar pit.  She is a master of Fibonacci lines and is known as (more…)

Mike Bellafiore

Managing Partner, SMB Capital

Record Date: 1/10/17

Today I had the chance to speak with a man who originally went to law school, and while there, he got introduced to trading & never looked back.  After 10 years of trading he noticed that a lot of new traders were struggling to learn how to trade. He saw an opportunity in the space to develop traders in a more structured way. Seizing this opportunity, he & his partner created SMB Capital.  His name is Mike Bellafiore. (more…)

Nicola Duke

Quantitative Trend Follower

Record Date: 2/22/17

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James Trouble “JediEconomist”

Professional Trader Based in UK

Record Date: 2/14/17

Today I spoke to a man who was originally a DJ and Club promoter, but changed course when he met a friend working at a trading arcade. That friend invited him to watch traders in live action, and he immediately fell in love with the markets.  His love for the movie Star Wars has impacted the way that he trades markets; his name is James Trouble, a professional trader known on twitter as Yoda @jedieconomist. (more…)