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{{Cite web |title=God in the Pits: Confessions of a Commodities Trader |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2457639.God_in_the_Pits |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=Goodreads |language=en}} and Spirit of the Rainforest.{{Cite web |title=Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7292.Spirit_of_the_Rainforest |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}

Mark has traveled extensively throughout the third world as an amateur anthropologist with a special interest in the poor. {{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} Featured by BusinessWeek in a November 3, 1986 article titled These Traders Made All-Star By Hitting Singles.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

Mark grew up in the poverty of Afghanistan, the deep south of Texas, and an Oregon-coast logging town.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

Education

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

Career

Mark was at one point a theology student{{Cite web |title=Mark Andrew Ritchie |url=https://markritchie.me/ |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=markritchie.me}} and also worked as a night-shift prison guard before he became one of the founding members of C.R.T.

Personal

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

{{cite book | last = Ritchie | first = Mark Andrew | title = God In the Pits: The Enron-Jihad Edition | publisher = VMI Publishing | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-9747190-8-0 }}
{{cite book | last = Ritchie | first = Mark Andrew | title = Spirit of the Rainforest: A Yanomamo Shaman's Story | publisher = Island Lake Press | year = 2000 | 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

{{cite web | title = Member of Board of Directors of Warm Blankets Orphan Care International | work = Who's Who | year = 2006 | url = http://www.warmblankets.org/founders.asp | accessdate = 2006-09-15 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20021203020131/http://www.warmblankets.org/founders.asp | archive-date = 2002-12-03 | url-status = dead }}
{{cite web|title=Advisory Board |work=Boards |year=2006 |url=http://www.ses.edu/about_boards.htm |accessdate=2006-09-15 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907160442/http://www.ses.edu/about_boards.htm |archivedate=2006-09-07 |url-status=dead }}
{{cite book | last = Bass | first = Thomas A. | title = The Predictors | publisher = Owl books | year = 2000

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{{cite news | last = Lyons | first = Julie | title = Paradise Lost. Letting the Yanomamö speak for themselves | publisher = Dallas Observer | date = March 27, 2003 | url = http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2003-03-27/calendar/urbanexperience.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130121211207/http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2003-03-27/calendar/urbanexperience.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = January 21, 2013 | accessdate = 2006-09-15 }}

{{cite news | last = Salovaara | first = Jonn | title = The Flip Side of the Rainforest | publisher = Conscious Choice magazine | date = June 1999 | url = http://www.consciouschoice.com/1999/cc1206/rainforestflipside.html | accessdate = 2006-09-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061009131223/http://consciouschoice.com/1999/cc1206/rainforestflipside.html | archive-date = 2006-10-09 | url-status = dead }}
{{cite news | last = James | first = Preston | title = Book Review: Spirit of the Rainforest | publisher = Domestic Church | year = 1998 | url = http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19980301/VNDCTN/BOOKREV.HTM | accessdate = 2006-09-15 }}