About HandelStats

HandelStats will provide a trading education featuring unique charting techniques  and quantitative  tools to help identify higher probability trading opportunities.

HandleStats Founder,
Richard Miller

I worked on the CME trading floor 1982-2005. Clerked and charted. I started trading in the cattle options pit, then moved to the S&P Options pit at the CME. In 1995, with the advent of electronic trading, I was presented with an opportunity to learn about, teach and market the Globex trading platform. The markets started heating up in the second half of 1995, and I wanted to take advantage of what I had learned with the Globex platform. I had a terminal installed at home for overnight trading and began trading NQ futures and options on the floor during the day.  In Sept. 1997 the CME introduced a new product, the E-mini S&P. I was one of the 1st traders to trade E-mini S&P on the floor. I left the trading floor in 2005 and moved to Colorado with my wife and two daughters, where I continue to trade, ski, bike and hike.

After years of screen trading, I wanted a more quantitative measure of market behavior, so I learned to program. My years of experience have given me insight into the data that has enabled me to build the best databases and test unique market ideas. 

Because I do my own programing, HandelStats is the dynamic service that will always be improving and adding distinctive features.

 

         Inspiration for the name HandelStats

Handel means "to trade" in Dutch. Back in the 17th century Dutch traders were bringing ships full of spices from India and elsewhere in the far east through the Amsterdam harbor, the greatest in Europe at the time.

Some of those traders became very wealthy and could afford to lose a ship every once in a while, as for others a shipwreck would destroy them. So, these traders devised a system that allowed them to buy small shares in the cargos of multiple ships to spread the risk of loss from any one ship. This “Handeling”, trading, led to the first publicly traded shares in the world in Amsterdam. Shares of the Dutch East India Company, founded in 1602, made it the largest trading company in the world at the time, and was the first limited liability company with freely tradeable shares. 

The Dutch are also famous traders for another reason, the "Tulip Bubble" of 1636-1637. It is generally considered to be the first recorded speculative bubble in history. Hence the Tulip logo.

I was going to call it Handel Statistics, but a friend suggested shorting it to HandelStats.

Rich

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