Ed O'Connor's Trader's Jacket

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Wearing his loudly patterned 44 long jacket Edmund O’Connor was easy to spot – an important trait for a commodity trader. O’Connor (1925–2011) was a commodity trading pioneer who helped computerize and change trading systems. He started out as a commodity speculator at the Chicago Board of Trade. Successful, he eventually led the market away from traditional commodities and into bigger and more volatile derivatives. He then moved the commodities markets away from the open outcry system to electronic trading. The digitization of the markets in the late 1990s opened the door for the use of mathematical-model decision-making and high-frequency trading

Place Made: United States: Illinois, Chicago

See more items in: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing, Industry & Manufacturing, American Enterprise

Exhibition: American Enterprise

Exhibition Location: National Museum of American History

Related Publication: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America

Credit Line: Gift of Edmund O'Connor Family through Martin O'Connor

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2013.0271.01Accession Number: 2013.0271Catalog Number: 2013.0271.01

Object Name: jacket

Physical Description: 65% polyester (fabric material)green (overall color)white (overall color)blue (overall color)red (overall color)35% cotton (fabric material)Measurements: overall: 34 1/2 in x 55 in x 1 in; 87.63 cm x 139.7 cm x 2.54 cmchest: 24 in; 60.96 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-f64d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1452955

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