Mark Ritchie (trader)
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Mark Andrew Ritchie is a Chicago Board of Trade
and Chicago Mercantile Exchange
commodities trader
. A twenty-year veteran of the financial industry, Mark is one of the original founding partners of Chicago Research and Trading (CRT) (the other his brother Joe Ritchie
) once the largest options firm in the industry. He is also the author of two books, God in the Pits and Spirit of the Rainforest. Mark has traveled extensively throughout the third world
as an amateur anthropologist with a special interest in the poor. Featured by BusinessWeek
in a November 3, 1986 article titled These Traders Made All-Star By Hitting Singles
Mark grew up in the poverty of Afghanistan, the deep south of Texas, and an Oregon-coast logging town.
Ritchie’s latest achievement: By some unknown method, he found a way to reconstruct the scrapbook that Mary, the mother of Jesus, might have kept. He found authentic paper, hand-made from banana leaves and bark. Then he found Karen refugee children with the most beautiful handwriting and got them to script all the stories. The book looks as if it came out of an Egyptian museum.
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Chicago Board of Trade
The Chicago Board of Trade , established in 1848, is the world's oldest futures and options exchange. More than 50 different options and futures contracts are traded by over 3,600 CBOT members through open outcry and eTrading. Volumes at the exchange in 2003 were a record breaking 454 million...
and Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is an American financial and commodity derivative exchange based in Chicago. The CME was founded in 1898 as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board. Originally, the exchange was a non-profit organization...
commodities trader
Trader (finance)
A trader is someone in finance who buys and sells financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, commodities and derivatives. A broker who simply fills buy or sell orders is not a trader, as they are merely executing instructions given to them. According to the Wall Street Journal in 2004, a managing...
. A twenty-year veteran of the financial industry, Mark is one of the original founding partners of Chicago Research and Trading (CRT) (the other his brother Joe Ritchie
Joe Ritchie
Joseph Ritchie is a commodities and options trader, the founder of Chicago Research and Trading, whose capital went up from $200,000 to over $225 million in 11 years...
) once the largest options firm in the industry. He is also the author of two books, God in the Pits and Spirit of the Rainforest. Mark has traveled extensively throughout the third world
Third World
The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either capitalism and NATO , or communism and the Soviet Union...
as an amateur anthropologist with a special interest in the poor. Featured by BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek
Bloomberg Businessweek, commonly and formerly known as BusinessWeek, is a weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. It is currently headquartered in New York City.- History :...
in a November 3, 1986 article titled These Traders Made All-Star By Hitting Singles
Mark grew up in the poverty of Afghanistan, the deep south of Texas, and an Oregon-coast logging town.
Ritchie’s latest achievement: By some unknown method, he found a way to reconstruct the scrapbook that Mary, the mother of Jesus, might have kept. He found authentic paper, hand-made from banana leaves and bark. Then he found Karen refugee children with the most beautiful handwriting and got them to script all the stories. The book looks as if it came out of an Egyptian museum.
Career
Mark was at one point a theology student and also worked as a night-shift prison guard before he became one of the founding members of C.R.T.Personal
Mark Ritchie has 5 kids and is now a grandfather of 9.Philanthropy
Mark is a member of Board of Directors of Warm Blankets Orphan Care International and Southern Evangelical Seminary and Bible CollegeSouthern Evangelical Seminary
Southern Evangelical Seminary is a Christian college in Matthews, North Carolina near Charlotte. The seminary was established in 1992 by Dr. Norman Geisler, a Christian apologist and theologian, and Ross Rhoads, former pastor of Calvary Church and currently the chaplain of the Billy Graham...
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