Mark Ritchie (trader)
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Mark Andrew Ritchie is a Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange commodities trader. A twenty- year veteran of the financial industry, Mark is one of the original founding partners of Chicago Reasearch and Trading (CRT) once the largest options firm in the industry. He is also a renowned author of two books, God in the Pits and Spirit of the Rainforest. Mark has traveled extensively throughout the third world as an amateur anthropologist with a special interest in the poor. Mark is also profiled in the book The New Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager.
Mark grew up in the poverty of Afghanistan, the deep south of Texas, and an Oregon-coast logging town.
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[edit] Education
B.A. TIU (Trinity International University) '73
M-Div TIU, '80
[edit] Career
Mark worked as a night-shift prision guard and later is one of the founding members of CRT.
[edit] Personal
[edit] Phylantropy
Mark is a member of Board of Directors of Warm Blankets Orphan Care International and Southern Evangelical Seminary and Bible College.
[edit] Bibliography
Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2005). God In the Pits: The Enron-Jihad Edition. VMI Publishing. ISBN 0974719080.
Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2000). Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story. Island Lake Press. ISBN 0964695235.
[edit] See also
Joe Ritchie List of personalities associated with Wall Street
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
Member of Board of Directors of Warm Blankets Orphan Care International. Who's Who (2006). Retrieved on 2006-09-15.
Advisory Board. Boards (2006). Retrieved on 2006-09-15.
Bass, Thomas A. (2000). The Predictors. Owl books, 220,221. ISBN 0805057579.
Lyons, Julie. "Paradise Lost. Letting the Yanomamö speak for themselves", Dallas Observer, Mar 27, 2003. Retrieved on 2006-09-15.
Rumble, Tony. "Book Review: God in the Pits", Fairfax, 2001. Retrieved on 2006-09-15.
Salovaara, Jonn. "The Flip Side of the Rainforest", Conscious Choice magazine, June 1999. Retrieved on 2006-09-15.
James, Preston. "Book Review: Spirit of the Rainforest", Domestic Church, 1998. Retrieved on 2006-09-15.
[edit] Further reading
Schwager, Jack D. (1995). The New Market Wizards. 19 pages: Wiley; New Ed edition. ISBN 0471132365.
Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2005). God In the Pits: The Enron-Jihad Edition. VMI Publishing. ISBN 0974719080.
Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2000). Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story. Island Lake Press. ISBN 0964695235.
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