About Us
Who is behind Expiring Monthly?
Adam Warner
Adam is the author of Options Volatility Trading: Strategies for Profiting from Market Swings released in October 2009 from McGraw Hill. He co-wrote the options column on Street Insight from spring 2003 to spring 2005, and is currently Options Editor at Minyanville.com.
When not writing, Adam is a proprietary option trader with Addormar Co, Inc. He traded as a member of the American Stock Exchange from 1988-2001, and in several off-floor locations since then.
Adam Warner graduated Johns Hopkins University with a degree in Economics.
Bill Luby
Bill is a private investor whose research and trading interests focus on volatility, market sentiment, technical analysis, and ETFs. His work has been has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron’s and other publications. A contributor to Barron’s and Minyanville, Bill also authors the VIX and More blog and an investment newsletter from just north of San Francisco. He has been trading options since 1998.
His first book, Trading with the VIX, is scheduled to be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2010.
Prior to becoming a full-time investor, Bill was a business strategy consultant for two decades and advised clients across a broad range of industries on issues such as strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and metrics. When not trading or blogging, he can often be found running, hiking, and kayaking in Northern California.
Bill has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Jared Woodard
Jared is the principal of Condor Options. With over a decade of experience trading options, equities, and futures, he publishes the Condor Options newsletter (iron condors) and associated blog.
Jared has been quoted in various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Financial Times Alphaville, and The Chicago Sun-Times.
In 2008 he was profiled as a top options mentor in Stocks, Futures, and Options Magazine. He is also an associate member of the National Futures Association and registered principal of Clinamen Financial Group LLC, a commodity trading advisor.
Mark Sebastian
Mark is a professional option trader and option mentor. He graduated from Villanova University in 2001 with a degree in finance. He was hired into an option trader training program by Group 1 Trading. He spent two years in New York trading options on the American Stock Exchange before moving back to Chicago to trade SPX and DJX options . For the next five years, he traded a variety of option products successfully, both on and off the CBOE floor.
In December 2008 he started working as a mentor at Sheridan Option Mentoring. Mark writes a daily blog on all things option trading at Option911.com and works part time as risk manager for a hedge fund. In March Mark announced the launch of new education firm OptionPit.com
Mark Wolfinger
Mark grew up in Brooklyn and holds a BS degree from Brooklyn College and a PhD (chemistry) from Northwestern University. After working as a research chemist for Monsanto Company, in December 1976 he packed his belongings, left a career as a research chemist behind, and headed to Chicago to become a market maker on the trading floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
Over the next 23 years, he worked primarily as a market maker, and also held a variety of positions in the industry.
After leaving the CBOE (2000), he became an options educator and stresses conservative methods, as detailed in his newest book (The Rookie’s Guide to Options).
He currently resides in Evanston IL with his life-partner, Penny.
Each contributing editor publishes a blog. Links in the right column
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