John J. Lothian & Company, Inc.

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John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. (“JJLCO”) is an Illinois, United States-based Commodity Trading Advisor owned solely by John J. Lothian serving individual and institutional clients with a range of managed futures programs. JJLCO also publishes the John Lothian Newsletter and the Environmental Markets Newsletter. JJLCO is the sole owner of Marketswiki.com.

1 Managed Futures
2 Publishing
3 Registration Information
4 External Links

Managed Futures

JJLCO managed futures programs deal in a limited number of futures and options markets while allowing investors a choice of programs with minimum investment requirements as low as $15,000.

JJLCO, an Illinois corporation, was established in 2003 and became registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a Commodity Trading Advisor and a member of the National Futures Association in February of 2004. JJLCO began trading client assets as of December 1, 2004.

JJLCO in November 2004 acquired rights to the managed futures programs of Defender Capital Management, Inc. (Defender), which began managing client assets in June of 1998. In 2006, JJLCO acquired the exclusive intellectual property rights for the trading strategies Defender trading programs. The Defender managed futures programs acquired by JJLCO are named “Maple Sugar” and “Big ED.” JJLCO has contracted with Jon Matte to receive Big ED and Maple Sugar trading signals, position sizing, and trade management and money management instructions.

JJLCO’s Maple Sugar program trades No. 11 World Sugar futures and options on ICE Futures US and Canadian Dollar futures and options on the International Monetary Market of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. JJLCO’s Big ED program trades Eurodollar futures and options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

The two programs employ a directional trading methodology developed to generate trade signals, and incorporate risk management techniques to provide insurance against a shifting market.

Publishing

JJLCO publishes the John Lothian Newsletter ("JLN") and Environmental Markets Newsletter. JLN was launched in August of 2000 as a viral marketing experiment by John Lothian. In 2003 John Lothian created JJLCO to own and operate the John Lothian Newsletter as a separate for-profit endeavor. The JLN was offered on a voluntary pay format with a suggested price of $75 per year during its first two years. In 2005 the price was raised to $95 per year per reader and in 2007 the price increased to $115 per year.

Both the John Lothian Newsletter and Environmental Markets Newsletter are also offered with an Enterprise Rate for firms with multiple readers.