Thomas Cochrane has been an active and successful trader for 25 years. He is now retired and devoting his time to teaching and writing. His book, The Complete Trader: Mastering the Market Cycle, describes how to trade markets as a complete cycle (up and down) to maximize returns. He has also written Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes, which contains the stories of the people he taught and was written to emphasize the importance of listening and learning from others
Thomas is a former president of the Chicago Futures Exchange, director of trading at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and director of trading at the New York Stock Exchange. He has been interviewed on numerous radio and television shows: CNN's Moneyline, CNBC's Closing Bell, Fox Business News, WGN News, WGN Morning News, WLS-AM 890-AM, WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago, PBS's The Capital Gang Show with Jim Cramer. Thomas is a frequent speaker at conferences such as The Chicago Traders Club, The Chicago Futures Exchange, The New York Futures Industry Association, The St.
Louis Commodity Traders Association. Thomas is currently an instructor on live trading for Trading Central's Trading University.
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.Thomas Cochrane
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.Thomas Cochrane
