Kennedy Mitchell is a currency trader and published writer, his works include "Single Stock Futures; An Investor's Guide" John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...

, Inc., Copyright 2003. Mitchell is credited with developing several new trading strategies that were previously not available prior to the introduction of single stock futures  in the United States.

He also introduced new option (finance)

Option (finance)

In finance, an option is a derivative financial instrument that specifies a contract between two parties for a future transaction on an asset at a reference price. The buyer of the option gains the right, but not the obligation, to engage in that transaction, while the seller incurs the...

 trading strategies based on the VIX

VIX

VIX is the ticker symbol for the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, a popular measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options. Often referred to as the fear index or the fear gauge, it represents one measure of the market's expectation of stock market volatility over...

 Volatility Index, published by the Chicago Board Options Exchange

Chicago Board Options Exchange

The Chicago Board Options Exchange , located at 400 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, is the largest U.S. options exchange with annual trading volume that hovered around one billion contracts at the end of 2007...

 (CBOE), that were featured in numerous Barron's Magazine

Barron's Magazine

Barron's is an American weekly newspaper covering U.S. financial information, market developments, and relevant statistics. Each issue provides a wrap-up of the previous week's market activity, news reports, and an informative outlook on the week to come....

 articles. These articles popularized his trading approach and resulted in the index value being published in every subsequent version of the magazine.

Kennedy Mitchell is the great-grandson of former Connecticut Senator and Congressman William Kennedy (Connecticut)

William Kennedy (Connecticut)

William Kennedy was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, Kennedy attended the public schools, and later studied law....

, and the son of Kennedy Mitchell Sr. for whom the Kennedy Mitchell Hall of Records

Kennedy Mitchell Hall of Records

The Kennedy Mitchell Hall of Records is located in New Haven, Connecticut and houses many of the City of New Haven's governmental functions, including finance, vital statistics, offices of the town clerk, and public hearing rooms where city policy is debated....

, located in New Haven, Connecticut is named.

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