Mark Ritchie

Who is Mark Ritchie?

Mark Andrew Ritchie is a Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange commodities trader. A twenty-year veteran of the financial industry, Mark is one of the original founding partners of Chicago Research and Trading once the largest options firm in the industry. He is also the author of two books, God in the Pits and Spirit of the Rainforest. Mark has traveled extensively throughout the third world as an amateur anthropologist with a special interest in the poor. Featured by BusinessWeek in a November 3, 1986 article titled These Traders Made All-Star By Hitting Singles.

Mark grew up in the poverty of Afghanistan, the deep south of Texas, and an Oregon-coast logging town.