Trading Chicago Style: Insights and Strategies of Today's Top Traders

For knowledgeable traders around the world, Chicago-style trading means the jostle of crowded trading floors, the organized chaos of hand signals and shouting, and the excitement of fortunes being won and lost on every tick of the market. But more than that, it's a free-market style of commodities trading that dates back to before the Civil War. Chicago-style trading is characterized by liquid markets, market makers prepared to make a fair trade in every kind of volatile market condition, and traders looking to strike it rich by staying one step ahead of the competition.

Neal Weintraub has years of experience as a floor trader, Commodity Trading Advisor, and instructor at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.