CONTRIBUTORS
4 June 2005 • OPTIONS TRADER
CONTRIBUTORS
James Bittman is the author of Options for
the Stock Investor (McGraw-Hill, 1996) and
Trading Index Options (McGraw-Hill, 1998). He
teaches courses for public and institutional
investors and has presented several custom
courses throughout the U.S., Europe, South
America, and Southeast Asia. In 1980 Bittman
began his trading career as an equity options
market maker at the Chicago Board Options
Exchange. From 1983 to 1993 he was a commodity
options member of the Chicago Board of Trade where he traded
options on financial and agricultural futures.
Boris Schlossberg is a senior currency
strategist at Forex Capital Markets in New York,
the largest retail forex market maker in the
world. He is also a guest lecturer at
www.fxstreet.com, covering proper risk management,
trader psychology, and true market
structure. Schlossberg is a frequent commentator
for Reuters and Dow Jones/CBS Marketwatch
currency and bond market sections. Schlossberg
has been an independent trader since 1999, trading
a variety of instruments including, stocks, options, futures, and
currencies.
Don Fishback is president of Lexington,
Ky.-based Fishback Management & Research
Inc. (www.donfishback.com), an advisory firm
that offers services and software products for
option traders. Before starting his own company,
he was head of research at Schaeffer Investment
Research Institute.
Thomas Stridsman is a systems
researcher and designer. Formerly a technical analyst and systemstrading
expert for both Active Trader and Futures magazines,
Stridsman is the author of Trading Systems that Work (McGraw-Hill,
2000) and Trading Systems and Money Management (McGraw-Hill,
2003).
William McClean is a managing partner for EMAC Trading,
where he has implemented technology and trading strategies
while overseeing the design, development, and deployment of
trading and risk management systems. He is the principal of the
F100 Tool Company, a trading-software and consulting firm that
provides trading strategies and tools for proprietary trading companies
and hedge funds. McLean was formerly a member of the
Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Steve Lentz is executive vice president of OptionVue
Research and is the chief trader for the company’s CTA managed
futures program called the Swing 500.
Jim Graham is the product manager for OptionVue Systems
and a Registered Investment Advisor for OptionVue Research.
Jim Kharouf is a business writer and editor with more than
10 years of experience covering stocks, futures, and options worldwide.
He has written extensively on equities, indices, commodities,
currencies, and bonds in the U.S., Europe, and Asia