I knew a “Chas,” or Charles, in high school who reminds me of "Chase" Coleman. Chas started out playing Stratego as a child, but it was too one dimensional a game. Next he upgraded to the board game Risk, but didn’t like the role luck played in how the dice landed. Then, perhaps like the thirty something hedge fund manager "Chase" Colmen, Chas began to master the game of chess.
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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