Ed O'Connor's Trader's Jacket

Object Details

Description: 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

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 cm; chest: 24 in; 60.96 cm

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

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Exhibition Location: National Museum of American History

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