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, Environmental Markets Newsletter, JLN Metals Edition, JLN Managed Futures Edition, JLN Interest Rates Blog & JLN Options Blog. JJLCO is the sole owner of MarketsWiki.com.
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Managed Futures
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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, Environmental Markets Newsletter, JLN Metals Edition, JLN Managed Futures Edition, JLN Interest Rates Blog & JLN Options Blog. 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.
In June 2006, JJLCO partnered with financial journalist Jim Kharouf to publish the Environmental Markets Newsletter, a daily email intelligence briefing that includes news, information and commentary about global emissions and clean-tech markets.
In June 2009, JJLCO launched the JLN Metals Edition, which focuses on the futures markets for metals, as well as physical trade news.
In September 2009, JJLCO launched the JLN Interest Rates Blog, which focuses on news and commentary in the global bond and credit markets.
In November 2009, JJLCO launched the JLN Options Blog, which focuses on options and options-on-futures issues and news.
In January 2010, JJLCO launched the JLN Managed Futures Edition, a biweekly newsletter which focuses on news affecting the managed futures industry.
Registration Information
- John J. Lothian & Company Inc., NFA ID 0339209
- John James Lothian, NFA ID 0212478
