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 Research and Trading (CRT) (the other his brother Joe Ritchie) once the largest options firm in the industry. He is also the 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. Featured by BusinessWeek in a November 3, 1986 article titled These Traders Made All-Star By Hitting Singles

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 was at one point a theology student and also worked as a night-shift prison guard before he became one of the founding members of C.R.T.

[edit] Personal

[edit] Philantropy

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 0-9747190-8-0. 

Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2000). Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story. Island Lake Press. ISBN 0-9646952-3-5. 

[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 0-8050-5757-9. 

Lyons, Julie. "Paradise Lost. Letting the Yanomamö speak for themselves", Dallas Observer, March 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 0-471-13236-5. 

Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2005). God In the Pits: The Enron-Jihad Edition. VMI Publishing. ISBN 0-9747190-8-0. 

Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2000). Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story. Island Lake Press. ISBN 0-9646952-3-5. 

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