Lessons From The Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Shows Executives How to Thrive in a Competitive Environment

Joe Leininger gained entrance to the trading floor as an entry-level clerk, and in only a few years moved up into the Eurodollar Options market. There, he was consistently among the top 5% of Merc traders, earning annual profits of over a million dollars. In all of his years as a trader, he never had a losing month. And yet that's not the true success story of his life.