Manager Professional Experience

Steven C. Rizzo

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Palos Heights, IL 60463

708-***-**** Cell/Text: 708-***-****

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Professional Profile:

Financial/Agricultural Commodities Markets Professional. Successful sole management of proprietary account, trading in multiple categories of derivatives on the trading floor, and on station, as a twenty-year member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Highly motivated, results-driven, confident self-starter, skilled at achieving financial goals in this highly competitive, high-pressure setting. Irreproachable record of compliance to CME and CFTC rules/regulations. Respected for exemplary record of professionalism.

Professional Experience:

Keystone Trading Corporation, Chicago, IL Since 1992 …

Member/Trader. Specialist in Interest Rate and Agricultural Commodities products.

Positions Manager/On-Station Trader, Proprietary Trading Platform, 2010-2014.

Agricultural Commodities, Floor Trader, 2006-2010

Interest-Rate Derivatives, Floor Trader, 1994-2006

NFA Trader and Broker registered. Directed/mentored clerks, managed personal business expenses, personally managed/satisfied all quarterly/annual IRS 1099 requirements.

Desk Manager. Managed retail trading desk on floor of Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Supervised submission of buy/sell orders from retail customers to CME, CBOT and NYMEX markets.

Back Office Balancing Manager. Managed firm’s customer and proprietary trades through CME, CBOT, continually rebalancing accounts for members and customers. Administered clearing and settlement services, confirming holdings and equity positions on a marked-to-market basis.

Strengths:

-Exceptional ability to process highly detailed financial/statistical information quickly and accurately, under duress, where instant decision-making is critical to success.

-Excellent situational perspective and critical thinking skills.

-Extensive experience and expertise in market research.

-Skilled in use of industry-standard CQG data and trading platform software.

-Voracious reader of multiple daily print/electronic publications, resulting in …

-Keen understanding of a highly diversified range of national/worldwide events and the political/financial/social implications impacting top-level decision-making and resultant market direction.

-Organizational and time management skills

Education:

Bachelor of Business: Finance/Economics Cum Laude 1991

Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL

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