Donald Wilson, DRW Trading Group - Reminiscences (and Prognostications) of a Futures Operator

Описание: Titan of Wall Street: on November 10, 2024, Don Wilson was welcomed by The Financial Times into its New Titan of Wall Street series with this headline: "Is Chicago’s Don Wilson the smartest man in trading? From cleaning up after Lehman Brothers to early bets on Bitcoin, DRW has become an industry colossus."
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Here's a look ten years back in a talk Don Wilson gave for college students for JLN"s MarketsWiki Education series. He said: "My focus was on combining the disciplines of trading and risk management with quantitative research and computer science."

Donald Wilson, CEO of DRW Trading Group, gives his story of how he found his way into the financial industry, starting with his realization that he enjoyed mathematics and then discovering how to connect it with trading currency futures. Having no connections to the financial industry, Wilson was persistent in sending his resume out to firms until finally landing a job where he started by observing traders on the trading floor. Wilson also discusses DRW Trading Group, giving a brief history of the firm and its growth throughout the years, as well as giving insight on what he thinks the future holds for the financial industry. While regulatory change may seem to have created a burden on the industry, Wilson believes that there are still plenty of opportunities that can be created from new rule changes.