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 Reasearch and Trading (CRT) (the other his brother Joe Ritchie) 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 an 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.
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[edit] Education
B.A. TIU (Trinity International University) '73
M-Div TIU, '80
[edit] Career
Mark worked as a night-shift prision guard and later became one of the founding members of C.R.T.
[edit] Personal
[edit] Philantropy
Mark is a member of Board of Directors of Warm Blankets Orphan Care International and Southern Evangelical Seminary and Bible College.
[edit] Bibliography
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.
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[edit] References
Member of Board of Directors of Warm Blankets Orphan Care International. Who's Who (2006). Retrieved on September 15, 2006.
Advisory Board. Boards (2006). Retrieved on September 15, 2006.
Bass, Thomas A. (2000). The Predictors. Owl books, 220,221. ISBN 0-8050-5757-9.
Lyons, Julie. "Paradise Lost. Letting the Yanomamö speak for themselves", Dallas Observer, Mar 27, 2003. Retrieved on September 15, 2006.
Rumble, Tony. "Book Review: God in the Pits", Fairfax, 2001. Retrieved on September 15, 2006.
Salovaara, Jonn. "The Flip Side of the Rainforest", Conscious Choice magazine, June 1999. Retrieved on September 15, 2006.
James, Preston. "Book Review: Spirit of the Rainforest", Domestic Church, 1998. Retrieved on September 15, 2006.
[edit] Further reading
Schwager, Jack D. (1995). The New Market Wizards. 19 pages: Wiley; New Ed edition. ISBN 0-471-13236-5.
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.
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