TRADERS ON THE MOVE: Retail Brokerage Pulls Them In

Joe D’Amico joined Ameriprise Financial Services as a financial planner in Plano, Texas. He is also studying under the Certificate Program in Financial Planning at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. D’Amico was formerly a sales trader with Cantor Fitzgerald in Dallas.


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Veteran Chicago Board Options Exchange floor broker and market maker Mark Oakley joined TJM Investments on the CBOE floor as a strategist, trader and institutional account manager. Oakley has held similar positions on the CBOE floor at a number of small brokerages in the past four years. Prior to the financial crisis, he worked on the floor for Citi for three years and Fleet Securities for seven years. Before that he spent 23 years as an independent floor broker and market maker at the CBOE.

Bill Kavaler joined Olivetree USA as an analyst, trader and portfolio manager on the broker’s event desk in New York. Kavaler has held similar positions since the 1990s in New York and London at Commerzbank, Societe Generale, Oscar Gruss and an assortment of proprietary trading shops.

Tom Kane joined S.J. Levinson & Sons as a sales trader in Purchase, NY. Kane was previously a New York Stock Exchange floor broker at MND Partners. Before that, he spent 26 years as a sales trader on both the single stock and program desks at Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan.

Maxwell Weber joined independent broker-dealer LPL Financial in San Diego as a licensed trader and internal product consultant. Weber previously spent four-and-a-half years as an institutional trader with back office duties at Capstone Investments in San Diego.