Mark Ritchie (trader)
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Mark Andrew Ritchie is an American stock trader active in Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange commodities trading. 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), which was once the largest options firm in the industry. He and his brother, Joe, are members of Jack Schwager's elite group known as "Market Wizards." He is also the author of five books, God in the Pits[1] and Spirit of the Rainforest.[2]
Education
[edit]- B.A. Trinity International University, 1973
- M-Div Trinity International University, 1980
Early life and career
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Mark grew up in the poverty of Afghanistan, the Jim Crow South (Texas, before during and after Rosa Parks), and an Oregon coast logging town.{God in the Pits}
Mark was at one point a theology student (M-Div, 1980, TEDS) and also worked as a night-shift prison guard before he became one of the founding members of C.R.T.
He was featured by BusinessWeek in a November 3, 1986 article titled These Traders Made All-Star By Hitting Singles.[citation needed]
Mark is a contributor to Zondervan's "Men's Devotional Bible," alongside figures such as Tom Landry, Billy Graham, Charles Colson, and others.
Personal
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Mark Ritchie has 5 children[3] and 13 grandchildren.
Philanthropy
[edit]Mark is a member of Board of Directors of Warm Blankets Orphan Care International and Southern Evangelical Seminary and Bible College. He is a former board member of the Christian Action Council (Care Net) and World Vision.
Mark has traveled extensively throughout the third world as an amateur anthropologist with a special interest in the poor. [citation needed]
Published works
[edit]- Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2005). God In the Pits: The Enron-Jihad Edition. VMI Publishing. ISBN 0-9747190-8-0.
- Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2000). Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story. Island Lake Press. ISBN 0-9646952-3-5.
- Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2014). My trading Bible: Lose your shirt. Save your life. Keep trading. Island Lake Press. ISBN 978-0-9646952-0-7.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "God in the Pits: Confessions of a Commodities Trader". Goodreads. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
- ↑ Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2000). Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story. Island Lake Press. ISBN 978-0-9646952-3-8. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
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- "Member of Board of Directors of Warm Blankets Orphan Care International". Who's Who. 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - "Advisory Board". Boards. 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-09-07. Retrieved 2006-09-15.
- Bass, Thomas A. (2000). The Predictors. Owl books. pp. 220, 221. ISBN 0-8050-5757-9.
- Lyons, Julie (March 27, 2003). "Paradise Lost. Letting the Yanomamö speak for themselves". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 2006-09-15.
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- Salovaara, Jonn (June 1999). "The Flip Side of the Rainforest". Conscious Choice magazine. Archived from the original on 2006-10-09. Retrieved 2006-09-15.
- James, Preston (1998). "Book Review: Spirit of the Rainforest". Domestic Church. Retrieved 2006-09-15.
Further reading
[edit]- Schwager, Jack D. (1995). The New Market Wizards. Wiley; New Ed edition. ISBN 0-471-13236-5.
- Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2005). God In the Pits: The Enron-Jihad Edition. VMI Publishing. ISBN 0-9747190-8-0.
- Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2000). Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story. Island Lake Press. ISBN 0-9646952-3-5.
- Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2014). My trading Bible: Lose your shirt. Save your life. Keep trading. Island Lake Press. ISBN 978-0-9646952-0-7.
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