The popularity of the movie “Wolf of Wall Street,” which highlights a fraudulent “penny” stock sales operation, might have rubbed someone at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) the wrong way.
SEC: Unearthing penny stock schemes
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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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