A former floor trader and interbank foreign exchange trader, Kit Lowe is a mainstay in the Sydney trading community. He began his career on the money market desk at Natwest Sydney in the late 1980s, trading the bank’s asset and liability book. There he gained insights on the financial market plumbing, which still hold him in good stead today. Later he ran the bank’s forward FX book before moving to the trading floor as an interest rate trader. More recently, he was a portfolio manager at 70 Capital, and he is now a proprietary trader at Genesis Trading in Sydney. Kit has been using Trading Technologies platforms for nearly 15 years, so it was nice to get his view on the evolution of electronic trading tools. Kit has a nice following on Twitter, so you can catch him there at @kit_lowe.
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Josh Schuler started as a retail investor in 2009. He transitioned to full-time trading in 2012 and became a broker for a GIB of RJO’Brien, where he used TT technology to help cattle producers execute complex futures spreads for hedging. In 2017, he founded Trade With Profile, a skill development firm focused on helping self-directed traders become consistently profitable. You can find Josh on Twitter at @tradewithprof.
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Austin Damiani is an independent futures and options trader in agricultural commodity markets and a member of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Previously, he was an open outcry pit broker and worked for 12 years as a commodities broker and market analyst, providing speculative trade recommendations and risk management advice to financial and agribusiness clients. He also serves as the President of Croptomize, an app-based software company that helps farmers be more profitable through more effective timing of grain sales. In this “5 Questions” blog post, we chat with Austin about how he’s approaching trading during these extraordinary times, how access to trading anywhere is so easy on the TT® platform and much more. You can find Austin on Twitter at @austindamiani, and find the Cryptomize app here.
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IDEM, the Italian Derivatives Market of Borsa Italiana has long been available for trading through TT software. IDEM’s offerings include futures and options on the FTSE MIB Index, which tracks the performance of Italy’s 40 most-traded and liquid companies. In an effort to meet increased investor demand, the exchange recently extended the trading hours for both FTSE MIB futures and FTSE MIB mini-futures by opening at 7:45am and closing at 10pm CET, which coincides with the close of the U.S. markets. Massimo Giorgini, Head of Equity and Derivatives Markets Business Development at Borsa Italiana – London Stock Exchange Group, talked with us about this and other recent developments at IDEM.
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For this edition of our 5 Questions blog series, we talked with Todd Leigh, a former trader who has made a career out of developing algos with ADL, our visual programming interface for algo design. ADL, which is integrated in the TT® platform, allows traders to design, test and deploy trading algorithms without writing a single line of code.