141 W. Jackson Blvd
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Chicago, IL 60604
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Learn to Trade From Experienced Chicago Floor Traders
The Chicago School of Trading LLC is dedicated to teaching our students how to be successful options and futures traders in the Chicago Tradition. For generations, veteran traders have mentored new traders on a personal basis in the trading pits of Chicago's exchanges. Now that same one-on-one mentoring from successful veteran traders is available to you!

Before your mentoring sessions begin, you will be given an extensive course in the fundamentals of the options and/or futures market in video and text form. Your mentoring sessions will involve trading on a real-time simulated trading platform while your personal mentor evaluates your trading skills and strategy. Don't go it alone - Let us help you the way our mentors helped us when we started our trading careers.

The Chicago School of Trading offers:

Trading Options by Dan Keegan, a veteran 28 year options trader and a guest lecturer at Marquette University for Dr. David Krause’s finance class in the basics of options and for Dr.George Kutner’s derivative class in advanced options trading strategies. 

Trading Futures by Bill Gruzynski, CAIA, a veteran 35 year futures trader and a former lecturer and instructor in the Financial Markets and Trading Program at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business. 

Our programs include:
• An extensive online video course with accompanying text
• Simulated trading on real time virtual trading platforms
• 12 one-on-one mentoring sessions
• A Certificate of Completion 

We encourage you to read our biographies . Our experience and expertise speaks for itself. Make us work for you. Our instructors and mentors are experienced traders who have traded on some of the largest futures and options exchanges in the world: the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. You will have access to insight previously only available to those who spent years working and trading on the floor and working in the offices of major clearing firms. 

Whether you plan to become a full-time or part-time trader, it is essential that you have a thorough understanding of what futures and/or options are, how they are traded, and the forces at work in the markets that will affect your trading strategy. The professional has the advantage over the amateur, and the educated has the advantage over the uninformed. The Chicago School of Trading, owned and operated by The Chicago School of Trading LLC, can help you gain the advantage.
Before you risk your assets in actual trading, The Chicago School of Trading will instruct you in the fundamentals of a competitive marketplace, provide a virtual trading platform for you to practice what you have learned, and evaluate your strategies on a one-on-one basis in a series of mentoring sessions. You will use our skills, knowledge, and experience acquired by years of professional trading, to build your future.

Futures and Options trading can be risky, but can also be extremely profitable with the proper training and mentoring. We are dedicated to helping you build your future as a trader.

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The Daily Report

 July 4th Weekend, 2009

"Bonfires and Illuminations"

Fireworks in New York(top) and San Francisco

As we celebrate the 233rd birthday of the United States this weekend, we pause to remember the words of John Adams, one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence. After the Declaration was passed by the Continental Congress,  Adams wrote to his wife Abagail that succeeding generations of Americans  should celebrate the anniversary of the Declaration with "..Games, Sports, Guns, bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more". Adams died at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts`on July 4, 1826, as his fellow Americans were celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of their independence only a few hours after the other primary author of the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson, had died at his Monticello, Virginia estate.


Adams and Jefferson

So take a moment to think of these two great men and what they gave us as we enjoy the "Bonfires and Illuminations" this weekend.


July!



Happy July! July is named after Julius Caesar, a politician who was seduced by a foreign woman and then stabbed by a bunch of Senators. Things really haven't changed a whole lot in 2053 years, but have a Caesar salad and enjoy the summer.


Et Tu Bernie




Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years on Monday, which means with good behavior he might get out in 75 to 80 years. Several of Madoff's victims testified in his sentencing hearing. They told tales of bankrup and ruin. To avoid having to testify in a similar hearing someday, here are three helpful hints:
         
1.- Don't believe in geniuses who tell you they're right all the time - they do not exist.
2. - Diversify! Never put all of your assets into one stock, one sector, one broker, one fund, or one anything.
3. Learn how to trade and how to protect your own portfolio - be the master of your own fate and pay yourself to manage your assets.

If you want to know how to do that, just call us and we'll explain.


Summertime and the Trading is Easy
 

Well it is officially summer and historically the markets tend to slow down. Or is that just an old wive's tale? And what do old wives know about the markets anyway? And how can I stop asking rhetorical questions? Here is an article I found with some genuine historical research on the subject that I found interesting. Or did I? (sorry I'll stop with the questions already)

Cornerstone Investors Network
Webinar

Bill Gruzynski and Dan Keegan conducted a webinar for the cornerstone network last Thursday night. Dan also conducted a similar webinar for the Cornerstone Investors Network on June 4th and there is a recording on our CST in the Media page. If you were an atendee and you are looking for the seminar sign-up page, or if you weren't there but are interested, click here.

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Apple Picking
 

There was a lot of excitement a couple of weeks ago concerning Apple's World Wide Developers Conference. Steve Jobs didn't return, but there was a new iPhone. With all that activity and volatility, Apple stock made a high of 144.56 on June 9th, and that was good news for anyone who had seen the Chicago School of Trading's Options Director, Dan Keegan on ONN-tv's Street Smarts last month talking about strategies that traders could use to take advantage of a possible upward move. His strategy for Apple was spot on and garnered some press coverage: Read it here, and watch his appearance on our CST in the Media page.

Radio Waves

CST's Dan Keegan and Bill Gruzynski appeared last month on "The Rude Awakening Show" on WOCM with Bill's old friend and Chicago native Dave "Bulldog" Rothner. For those of you who heard about us from WOCM - welcome to the Chicago School of Trading. If You missed the show, there's a recording of it on the CST in the Media page.

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Past performance is not indicative of future results.