Charles Reese, CMT
*** *. ***** **., *******, Il 60187●630-***-****●*********@*****.***
Career Summary
Experienced sales professional, financial futures and options broker. Reputation as results driven market
strategist. Provide bank and hedge fund clients with superior service from market analysis to trade
execution. Clients number one go to in chaotic market situations. High quality team member, independent
producer. Maintains long term client relationships, wins new business.
Experience
2000 to Present, TJM Institutional Services, LLC, Chicago, Illinois
Thriving global futures and option execution operation. Known throughout the industry for their expertise
in exchange traded products, providing institutional clients, both large and small, with professional
service. Strong reputation for outstanding attention to detail and transcending industry standards.
Senior Vice President, Institutional Sales
Responsible for all floor broker driven activities in the Eurodollar futures and options markets. Main focus
directed at client satisfaction in an increasingly technical and competitive market. Duties include analyzing
and executing directional market strategies, providing institutional clients with "value added" execution,
and providing up to the moment "what now" analysis. Deliver high value, intra day and end of day
technical analysis using skills and experience as a Chartered Market Technician.
■ Technical analyst identifying on the market actionable trading opportunities in Eurodollar, treasury, FX
and equity index futures and options. Focus on monthly to one minute time frames. Increase profits with
high probability forecasting preparedness. Market tested results. Thirteen years CQG and Bloomberg
experience
■ Strong use of inter market relationships and sector rotation
■ Highly transferable market knowledge. Constant drive to expand market knowledge. Used studies
required for Chartered Market Technician as launch pad for continued technical education
■ Experienced sales professional, dedicated history of client service working with top portfolio managers
from Chicago, New York, London and Tokyo.
■ Overcame death of founding partner and Eurodollar pioneer in 2002. Working independently,
maintaining profitable long term professional and personal relationships of demanding core client base,
obtains new clients
Charles Reese, CMT
519 N. Scott St., Wheaton, Il 60187●630-***-****●*********@*****.***
■ Strong multi tasking abilities communicating effectively with clients, pit groups and co workers through
chaotic market environments. Maintain constant focus on prices and the tape enabling extremely quick
response to unexpected market events helping protect clients and manage risk
■ Passion for volatile markets. Excels under high pressure large risk exposure market environments, and
low volatility markets resulting in superior client coverage
■ Problem solver, diagnoses errors, assesses responsibility, mitigates losses, exits positions, deals
professionally with pit groups, makes tough phone calls to clients, accepts responsibility
■ History of compliance focused business conduct ensuring regulatory integrity
1995 to 2000, Sakura Dellsher Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Vice President, Institutional Sales
■ Legged Eurodollar futures spreads, managed large risk exposure
■ Recaptured Sakura Bank business growing monthly production from roughly 2,000 contracts per month
to 40,000 contracts per month. Promoted to Vice President
1993 to 1995, Smith Barney, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Floor Broker
■ Supported two large producers in Eurodollar futures and options market. Gained knowledge and
responsibility from producers and clients
■ Established discipline, focus, and a strong ability to work with challenging personalities in volatile
market environment, increased essential detail skills needed to survive on the trading floor
1991 to 1993, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Phone Clerk/Floor Broker
■ IOM membership CME
■ Client service, price reporting, execution, trade processing, out trade reconciliation
Charles Reese, CMT
519 N. Scott St., Wheaton, Il 60187●630-***-****●*********@*****.***
1989 to 1991, Dean Witter, Chicago, Illinois
Retail Group Phone Clerk/Institutional Group Phone Clerk
■ Supported retail Eurodollar futures and options for Dean Witter brokers nation wide
■ Promoted to institutional Eurodollar options desk
■ Reconciled trades during evening out trade session
1988 to 1989, Index Futures Group, Chicago, Illinois
Runner/Phone Clerk
■ Delivered client trades from phone clerks to brokers in the pits on the Grain Floor of the CBOT during
the summer drought of 1988
■ Processed orders on the floor of the Mid America Exchange to financial futures and equity index pits
■ Provided phone support on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange learning arbitrage
between the JV250 contract and the S&P500 contract
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Economics, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois,
1988
Licenses/Certifications/Memberships
Member, National Futures Association 1993, NFA# 0242059, Series 3 License, 2013
Member, Market Technicians Association, New York, New York, 2009, Chartered Market Technician
Certification, 2012
Member, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Index and Option Market, 1993