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) which was 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.

Education

B.A. Trinity International University, 1973
M-Div Trinity International University, 1980

Career

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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.

Personal

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Mark Ritchie has 5 children and 11 grandchildren.

Philanthropy

Mark is a member of Board of Directors of Warm Blankets Orphan Care International and Southern Evangelical Seminary and Bible College.

Published works

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.
Ritchie, Mark Andrew (2014). My trading Bible: Lose your shirt. Save your life. Keep trading. Island Lake Press. ISBN 978-0-9646952-0-7.

References

"God in the Pits: Confessions of a Commodities Trader". Goodreads. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
"Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story". Goodreads. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
^ "Mark Andrew Ritchie". markritchie.me. Retrieved 2024-07-18.

"Member of Board of Directors of Warm Blankets Orphan Care International". Who's Who. 2006. Archived from the original on 2002-12-03. Retrieved 2006-09-15.
"Advisory Board". Boards. 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-09-07. Retrieved 2006-09-15.
Bass, Thomas A. (2000). The Predictors. Owl books. pp. 220, 221. ISBN 0-8050-5757-9.
Lyons, Julie (March 27, 2003). "Paradise Lost. Letting the Yanomamö speak for themselves". Dallas Observer. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved 2006-09-15.

Salovaara, Jonn (June 1999). "The Flip Side of the Rainforest". Conscious Choice magazine. Archived from the original on 2006-10-09. Retrieved 2006-09-15.
James, Preston (1998). "Book Review: Spirit of the Rainforest". Domestic Church. Retrieved 2006-09-15.

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