3: From Pit to Screen - John Hoagland Talks Key Trading Psychology & Strategy Changes

After the realization that the life of an artist wasn’t really going pay the bills, John Hoagland did a 180 and took a job as a runner working on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). There he made his way up the ranks moving to phone clerk and then deck holder.

It was during 1989 when he started trading at the Chicago Board of Trade where his father also worked. Then in 1990, he went back to CME to work as the head of a propriety trading firm trading the S&P’s.

In 2011 he decided to step out of the pit and started trading independently.