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Mark Shlaes

Mark Schlaes is the Managing Director of Trading at HTG Capital Partners in New York, NY. 
 
== Background ==
Prior to joining HTG Capital Partners, LLC (“HTG”), Shlaes was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade for 29 years. He was a floor trader in the grain and financial markets for 28 of those years, trading in most of the grain pits until the early 1980s. He then focused his trading in the financial room, trading 30-year bonds, 10-year notes, and 5-year notes. Mark's focus during his trading career was on spreading and arbitrage.
While at the Chicago Board of Trade, Shales served as a Director and Second Vice-Chairman, as well as serving on over 20 committees, including: Executive, Technology, New Product Development, Executive Compensation, Strategic Planning, New Building Oversight, Trading Pit, Floor, Business Conduct, Membership, and Financial Instruments. 
In addition, Shales chaired the Strategic Planning, New Product Development, Marketing Development and Executive Compensation committees. In his roles as Director and Second Vice-Chairman, Mark promoted the Chicago Board of Trade to exchanges and various other financial institutions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong, Japan, France, Great Britain, Singapore, Malaysia, Tokyo, and Taiwan.
Shales left the trading floor to take a job with Goldenberg, Hehmeyer & Company to establish and manage a proprietary trading group in New York in January 2001. From 2003 until 2005, he became Managing Director of proprietary trading for the firm globally. Shales was charged with overseeing the trading of 200 traders in the firm’s London, Chicago, and New York offices as well as the recruitment and training of new traders for the firm. 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Proprietary Trading Firm Executives
Category:HTG Capital Partners
Mark Shore

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Mark Shore is a derivatives industry educator who is an economist and director of the CME Group. 
Shore previously served as the executive director of the Arditti Center for Risk Management at DePaul University, where is also lectured. He is also the founder, president and chief investment officer at Shore Capital Management LLC, which he launched in 2008.
He serves as a member of the editorial board of Commodity Insights Digest and as an advisory board member of Coinifide. 
Previously, Shore served as the director of educational research at Coquest Advisors LLC. He has more than 20 years of investment, research and futures experience and also serves as adjunct professor at DePaul University where he began teaching the school's first course on managed futures on March 30, 2011. 
== Background ==
Before founding Shore Capital, he was head of risk for Octane Research Inc in NYC from 2007 to 2008, where he was responsible for quantitative risk management analysis. He chaired the risk management committee and was a voting member of the investment committee. Prior to joining Octane, he was at VK Capital Inc. from 1997 to 2006, a wholly owned Commodity Trading Advisor subsidiary of Morgan Stanley. As chief operating officer, Shore provided research and risk management expertise on portfolio issues, product development and business strategy. Before becoming chief operating officer, he was a senior research analyst at VK Capital where he developed systematic trading systems and a due diligence platform to test trading strategies.
Shore also served as a senior research associate at the University of Chicago, Center for Research in Security Prices from 1994 to 1996. He began his career at E.F. Hutton on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade.
He writes an economics and finance column for Examiner.com and has been published several times including contributing a chapter to the new Wiley & Sons commodity book The Handbook of Commodity Investing released in 2008. He is a former president and current board member of the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business NY Alumni Club.
== Education ==
He graduated from DePaul University with a degree in finance. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago with concentrations in finance, behavioral science and econometrics.
== References ==	
Category:Bio - Executives
Category:Commodity Trading Advisor
Category:Professors
Mark Spanbroek

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Mark Spanbroek is the chairman of the board for CME Europe and chairman of the FIA European Principal Traders Association (EPTA). Spanbroek was previously vice-chairman of the EPTA before assuming the role of acting chairman upon the departure of Remco Lenterman in August of 2015, but upon Lenterman's return to the role of chairman in Sept. 2016, Spanbroek returned to his role as vice chairman. In June of 2018, Spanbroek was elected as EPTA chair, replacing Lenterman.
== Background ==
Spanbroek worked for market liquidity provider GETCO as a director for nine years before leaving in 2011.
 
Before joining GETCO in 2002, Spanbroek spent 15 years at Van der Moolen, a Dutch market making firm, where he was a director responsible for all operations and trading. He began his career as at AMRO Bank.
Spanbroek also serves as a non-executive director at Aquis Exchange, a pan-European alternative trading system, based in London, which launched as a trading platform in November 2013. 
==MarketsWiki Education Video, October 2015==
Mark Spanbroek, European Principal Traders Association – Financial Markets 2.0
"What trading is really about is finding an algorithmic, or systematic way, to analyze the market. And this is done with data."
Mark Spanbroek's trading career spanned the transition from the old world of trading pits to the new world of algorithms. He now serves as acting chairman of the FIA European Principal Traders Association (EPTA).
In this MarketsWiki Education presentation, Spanbroek showcases both worlds - Financial Markets 1.0 and 2.0 - from the pit trader in the multi-colored trading jacket to today's trader, which he says is not a trader, but rather an engineer, and today's trading strategy is more of a team effort than an individual effort.
== References ==	
Category:Aquis Exchange
Category:GETCO - Former Employees
Category:Van der Moolen - Former Employees
Mark T. Uyeda

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Mark T. Uyeda is an American lawyer and government official who currently serves as the acting chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He was nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate in 2022. He was designated as acting chairman by his fellow commissioners in anticipation of Trump Administration nominee Paul Atkins being confirmed for the role.
Commissioner Uyeda has served on the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, (SEC) since 2006, including as senior advisor to Chairman Jay Clayton, senior advisor to Acting Chairman Michael S. Piwowar, counsel to Commissioner Paul S. Atkins, and in various staff positions in the Division of Investment Management. He most recently served on detail from the SEC to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs as a securities counsel to the committee's minority staff. 
He is the first Asian Pacific American to serve as a commissioner at the SEC.
== Background ==
Before joining the SEC, Uyeda served as chief advisor to the California Corporations Commissioner, the state’s securities regulator. He also worked as an attorney at the law firms of K&L Gates in Washington, D.C., and O’Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles.
He has more than 25 years of experience in corporate and securities law, including 18 years of public service working in federal and state government.
== Education ==
He earned his bachelor's degree in business administration at Georgetown University and his law degree with honors at the Duke University School of Law. He is a past president of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Washington, D.C. Area.
== References ==	
Category:Lawyers
Category:Government Officials
Category:Regulators
Mark Thornberry

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Mark Thornberry was a derivatives markets professional and ultra-runner who died at the age of 59 of liver cancer in June of 2020.
He was a sales specialist in financial services and technology. He last worked for TIBCO Software, Inc.
==Background==
Thornberry held a number of senior roles within the ISV space. He was responsible for managing RTS Realtime Systems Group operations in the UK, while working closely with the firm's global sales, marketing and business development departments. He also worked for Streambase as EMEA director of sales, as managing director at Orc Software, and was one of the early managing directors for Trading Technologies' European operations.
In May 2017, Thornberry was diagnosed with liver cancer and was told in June it was terminal. After visiting with others with liver cancer at London's King College Hospital (KCH), Thornberry realized the lack of funds for research of the particular cancer and the need for action. In order to raise money for KCH, Thornberry decided to run 145 miles in three days starting on September 2.
== Education ==
Thornberry held a Bachelor of Arts degree (Hons) and received his Masters of Business Administration from the London Business School.
== References ==	
Category:RTS Realtime Systems - Former Employees
Category:Trading Technologies - Former Employees
Category:Streambase - Former Employees
Category:Deceased
Mark W. Bennett

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Mark W. Bennett is the director of software engineering for CME Group. He is responsible for leading the company's front-end development, including more than 18 different customer-facing technology applications. 
== Background ==
Before joining the company in 2001, Bennett held technology positions with Sapient and Science Applications International Corporation and served 10 years in the United States Air Force (USAF) as a non-commissioned officer.
== Education ==
He is a graduate of the USAF advanced electronics and computer systems engineering program. 
== References ==
Category:CME Group
Category:CME Group
Mark W. Fischer

Mark W. Fischer was a financial industry professional who specialized in technology and intellectual property. He passed away in August of 2012.
Fischer was employed as the vice president of product management for independent software vendor CQG at the time of his death. He had joined CQG in September 2008, taking the vice president post three years later.
== Background ==
Fischer was previously a consultant and business manager for R2 Consulting. He worked for law firm Faegre & Benson LLP as an intellectual property litigation attorney from 2001 to 2007. He also worked in intellectual property litigation for Chrisman Bynum & Johnson PC for nearly 10 years. Fischer was a managing partner there.
He joined CQG in 2008 as the director of marketing. After two years, Fischer became director for the Asia Pacific region, later taking over the special projects division where he studied product usage and pricing. In September 2011, Fischer was appointed as vice president of product management.
== Education ==
*JD, University of Colorado School of Law (1988 – 1991)
*BA, Theater, Grinnell College (1974 – 1978)
== References ==
Category:CQG - Executives
Category:Deceased
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Mark Wator

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Mark Wator is head of financial and media sales at Barchart. He was appointed to that role on Jan. 12, 2021. His team will support the expansion into new markets, both geographically and by asset class. The Financial business unit includes brokerage, wealth management, fintech, banking, trading, insurance and exchanges, while Media includes traditional providers as well as financial publishing. 
Wator joined Barchart in 2008 as a sales associate and has had increasing roles and responsibilities within Barchart’s sales teams over the past 12 years. 
== Background ==
== Education ==
== References ==
Mark Woolfenden

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Mark Woolfenden is the managing director of FOW TRADEdata.
== Background ==
Woolfenden has been with FOW since March of 2001.
Prior to joining FOW, he was head of information services for The Energy Information Center. He was also previously UK sales manager for Schlumberger Electricity Management.
== Education ==
The Open University
MBA, Business Administration
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:TRADEdata FOW
Mark Yallop

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Mark Yallop is U.K. group country chief executive officer at UBS AG, responsible for all of the firm’s operations in Britain. He was named to that newly created position in February 2013, reporting to COO Ulrich Koerner. He was appointed to the newly created role shortly after UBS was fined almost £1bn by regulators for rigging the LIBOR interest rate benchmark. His principal responsibilities have been to rebuild UBS's relationships with City of London regulators in the wake of the Libor penalty as well as the episode in which a "rogue trader", Kweku Adoboli, was jailed for making unauthorised trades that cost the bank $2.3bn.
On August 1, 2014 Sky News reported that Yallop would leave his position at UBS at the end of September. 
He was previously the chief operating officer with the British interdealer broker ICAP Plc. He was also chairman of ICAP's group risk committee, a board director and a member of its finance and treasury committees, and has also served as ICAP's interim financial director. 
== Background ==
Before joining ICAP in 2005, Yallop served for two years as chief operating officer for the Deutsche Bank Group after career spent in financial trading in the derivatives, cash and forex markets. He was also a director of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) from 1996 to 1998.
Yallop served as a non-executive director at BBA Libor Ltd., the company that manages the London interbank offered rate for the British Bankers’ Association, from May 2010 to Sept. 2011, according to filings at the U.K.’s Companies House.
== References ==	
Category:ICAP - Former Employees
Category:ICAP
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Mark de Souza

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Mark De Souza is the chief executive officer of Penrose TherapeuTx, a pharmaceutical company based in Plymouth, Michigan. He also served as CEO of Revolution Global, a cannabis producer. from October 2016 to October 2020. He was previously president and executive director of global business development of County Cork, LLC, a CTA.
== Background ==
De Souza joined County Cork in June of 2012. He has been in the field since 1985, when he joined as a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, specializing in institutional order execution in the interest rate quadrant. He became a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1992 and joined as a partner in International Futures and Options Associates. He also served on several CME internal governing committees, including the Broker Association Committee, the Business Conduct (Financial Division) Committee, and the Eurodollar Configuration Advisory Committee. In addition, de Souza was a member of the CME Political Action Committee and participated in the Congressional lobbying efforts on legislative and regulatory issues affecting the Futures industry.
He worked in the U.A.E in 2005 to establish capital relationships for various U.S. based fund managers. 
De Souza also served as a Principal (Series 3, 7, 24, 62, 63, 65 licenses) of Spike Financial Services, a NASD broker dealer and as a founding partner and COO of Titan Holdings, LLC.
== Education ==
De Souza was educated at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
== References ==	
Category:CBOT - Former Members
Category:CME - Former Members
Mark to market

In its broadest sense, mark-to-market is the process whereby the price or value of a security, futures contract, portfolio or account is revalued daily using current prices to determine profit/loss and, therefore, variation margin. 
Futures trading uses mark-to-market accounting, which requires assets to be valued at current market prices. At the end of the trading day, the exchange settles the current price for each contract, and the account is credited or debited based on that day's gains or losses. Trading losses are not allowed to accumulate from day to day. 
In the stock market, by contrast, price settlement can span three days, known as T+3.
Futures traders need to make an initial margin deposit with their broker. This is not a down payment, but a good-faith deposit to assure that the account has enough money to cover any losses incurred while trading. 
Minimum margins are based on a percentage of a contract’s underlying value, and are determined by the futures exchange and by the brokerage firm. Margins are a small fraction of the total value of the futures contract, typically between about 3 percent and 15 percent. The amount required for a futures margin differs by the product’s underlying value and also by the amount of current volatility in that market. The greater the volatility, normally the larger the initial margin required for deposit. This ensures that the margin will be adequate to cover the maximum loss that could be incurred in a single day. 
If a futures account drops to a certain level, the trader must add margin money to bring the account back up to the original margin amount -- this is known as a "maintenance margin." Until that maintenance margin is satisfied, the trader is not allowed to continue trading. Traders can take profits above the initial margin level but must always maintain the minimum margin required by the brokerage firm. 
Mark to market is an important feature of futures, as it is a daily accounting of profits and losses. A trader who makes a profit today will see the money deposited in his/her account before the next morning. If the trader loses money, the loss will be deducted from the account before trading begins that next morning.
In the wake of the financial meltdown that began in late 2007, business groups pleaded with the SEC and the Financial Accounting Standards Board to suspend or amend the mark to market rule so that banks would be able to account for their hard-to-value assets more favorably. Rumors circulated that the U.S. government might temporarily suspend the rule. In March 2009, however, Reuters reported that the SEC was not planning a suspension of mark to market. 
== References ==
Category:Definitions
Category:Trading Terms
Mark van Vugt

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Mark van Vugt is global head of sales at RTS Realtime Systems Group. He was promoted to that position on July 15, 2009. In that role he oversees all worldwide sales efforts and teams. 
On Jan. 6, 2010, he was appointed to the firm's executive board, which is responsible for strategic direction and day-to-day management of RTS.
== Background ==
He was previously managing director, Europe, responsible for sales in the UK, Continental Europe and the Middle East.
Van Vugt worked 14 years for Euronext where he held several positions from options trading floor to senior commercial management. Van Vugt set up the RTS Amsterdam office in 2001.
== References ==
Category:RTS Realtime Systems
Category:RTS Realtime Systems
Marked to market

A market position held on a futures exchange is marked to market - or marked to its present market value - at least at the end of every trading day, and sometimes more than once during a trading day. The purpose of the action is to calculate profits and losses or to confirm that margin requirements are being met. 
The marked to market practice was first developed among traders on futures exchanges in the 19th century. In the 1980s the practice also began to be utilized by big banks and corporations.
 
The term marked to market found its way into mainstream America in conjunction with the Enron scandel. Enron used so-called marked-to-market accounting for energy trading business.
Under marked-to-market rules, whenever companies have outstanding energy-related or other derivative contracts on their balance sheets at the end of a quarter, they must adjust them to fair market value, booking unrealized gains or losses to the income statement of the period. 
Problems arose with Enron because there are often no quoted prices upon which to base valuations for long-term derivatives contracts such as gas. The company was left to develop and use a discretionary valuation model based on its own assumptions and methods.
Category:Market Terms
MarketFactory

MarketFactory is a financial technology company that provides feed handlers to the forex market. The company aims to offer latency-reducing products for liquid, established markets characterized by high-frequency trading and algorithmic trading. It also offers quick-launch exchange platforms.
In November 2019, ION purchased MarketFactory.
== History ==
The company was founded in 2007 by three former executives at ICAP/EBS - James Sinclair, who was head of research and strategy for ICAP Electronic Broking, Darren Jer, who was its head of new business sales, and Ed Howorka, who was the original architect of the EBS system and later its chief technology officer.
== Products and Services ==
MarketFactory's FX Aggregator product is a single a single API that connects to all sources of liquidity in the foreign exchange market, including ECNs, banks, brokers and futures exchanges.
== Key People ==
*James Sinclair, Co-founder, CEO
*Ed Howorka, Co-founder, CTO
*Darren Jer, Co-founder, COO
== References ==
Category:Independent Software Vendors
Category:Technology Firms
Category:Algorithmic Trading
MarketForum

MarketForum is an Internet message board where posters offer their very latest opinions on futures and options trading. MarketForum operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Entrry to MarketForum is free and there are no registration requirements. 
Most participants of MarketForum post under an assumed name or alias, although there are notable exceptions. The Moderator of MarketForum is the owner of the site, Alex McCallum.
All posters on MarketForum must include an email address with their post. There is an easy to use search function on the site to locate entries by certain posters or by key word. Posters are not allowed to include email addresses, phone or fax numbers or street addresses in messages. Promotional messages are not allowed and will be removed by the Moderator.
Off topic messages are labled with NTR, which stands for Not Trading Related.
== External Links ==
Market Forums
Category:Market Related Resources