Danny Riley is founder and CEO of MrTopStep. He has worked in the futures and options industry for 33 years, beginning in 1979 as a runner in the Chicago Board of Trade grain room. He then moved into the CBOT’s bond room, where he worked for several traders in Market Wizards No.1. Riley then moved to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s S&P 500 pit; where he went on to build the single largest volume desk in the index. For nearly 10 years Danny did all the UBS program trading business, and is considered an expert in the field of program and algorithm trading.
I never knew where my first job on the trading floor was going to lead me. It started as a runner in the grain room at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) making $70 bucks a week. It then took me into the bonds where I got to know Tom Bladwin who turned $15,000 into […]
