John lothian biography

Advantage (Adv): Please briefly describe your background and how you entered the futures industry.

John Lothian (JL):I started as a 17 year-old driving a soybean pit trader and broker from Wisconsin to Chicago every day in the summer.

Tom Cashman has been a mentor to me since.

He is a graduate of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in General Management/Finance and a Bachelor of.

John J. Lothian is the founder and co-owner of MarketsWiki, MarketsWiki Education and MarketsReformWiki and the publisher of John Lothian News.

John Lothian is an.

He was born in Edinburgh on the 12th September and baptised at St. Cuthbert's a week later – the son of Andrew Lothian and his wife.

John J. Lothian is a Chicago-based financial media executive and entrepreneur.

Working for Tom, I fell in love with the markets, journalism and how the markets consumed information. I went on to earn degrees in journalism and finance from Purdue University. My first job was a reporter with Knight Ridder’s Commodity News Service.

I figured one way to learn the markets was to ask people questions as a journalist, so that is what I did.

Adv: Can you share the evolution of your firm from the first newsletter to today?

JL: Prior to 2000, I did a lot of trading and markets related writing on various trader web sites and email lists.

I wanted to know my audience better, so I tried a viral marketing experiment and created a daily newsletter aggregating al