Street Stories: Managed Futures
Mark D. Cook - Famous Trader Profile
Mark D. Cook first won fame as a trader in 1989 when he finished second in the US Investing Championship. By 1992, he had shifted to options and racked up large three-digit percentage returns en route to winning the championship. Since then, he's turned to the Standard & Poor's 500 index and Nasdaq for daytrading, while keeping the options and stocks for intermediate- and longer-term trading. Nowadays, he's in the market to pay for his Ohio farm and his company's operating expenses, not to mention room and board.














