Chris Hehmeyer and I first started talking about crypto over a year ago, so I thought it would be a great time to catch up with him and hear more about how his firm has progressed from having new initiatives focused on crypto markets to more mature products and offerings. I also wanted to let Chris explain the why behind the reasoning for his firm, Hehmeyer Trading + Investments (HTI), to “go big” in this space and how they became crypto and blockchain believers!
While the name Chris Hehmeyer is probably familiar to anybody close to futures trading in the U.S., this is the Crypto Corner, so I’ll touch the tip of the iceberg on the background of the guy I have admired mostly from afar during my 20+ years in the business. I’ll also mention that Chris was on a crypto panel at the recent FIA Expo 2018 in Chicago, and had a great Will Rogers-esque quip that got a great laugh in the room. In fact, one of my co-workers said after that panel, “I could listen to Hehmeyer talk all day.”
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Tags: Crypto
Larry Benedict recently launched Opportunistic Trader, an interactive community to help traders become more informed and more consistent. We talked with him about getting started in trading. In addition, Larry is an expert in options, so with the strong rise in options trading across the futures industry and the big move that we at Trading Technologies have made into options trading over the past year, we asked him about the options space.
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Tags: 5 Questions / Interviews
Last night in Singapore, TT Score was named “Best New Product: Market Surveillance” at the FOW and Global Investor Asia Capital Market Awards. As TT Score marks Trading Technologies’ first market surveillance product, it’s a thrill for us at TT to be recognized at this prestigious annual event.
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Tags: Surveillance
I’d like to announce a new initiative for TT’s cryptocurrency business. We’re starting a new series here on Trade Talk, just for crypto, that we’re calling Crypto Corner. It will be akin to our “5 Questions with…” series which features interviews with traders and other thought leaders in our industry.
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Tags: Crypto
We’re happy to feature a long-time user of Trading Technologies software in this edition of our “5 Questions with…” blog series. Kevin Muir has used TT on three fronts: as an institutional sell-side broker, as a prop trader managing his own account and now as a fund manager.
Kevin is the author of The MacroTourist blog. His tagline is “all I bring to the party is 25 years of mistakes,” and he offers a different take on financial newsletter writing by presenting it in a fun and unique style.
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Tags: 5 Questions / Interviews
