Type | Monthly Business magazine (in USA, a registered newspaper) |
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Format | Magazine |
Owner(s) | The Alpha Pages, LLC |
Editor-in-chief | Jeff Joseph[1] |
Editor | Daniel Collins[2] |
Founded | September 1972 |
Headquarters | Chicago, IL |
Circulation | 50,000 subscribers per month (2015)[3] |
ISSN | 2379-4674 |
Website | www.futuresmag.com |
Modern Trader is a U.S.-based monthly print investment magazine. The publication was established in 1972 under the name Commodities.[4] The name was changed to Futures in September 1983 and Modern Trader in 2015.[3]
The magazine is a standard source in futures and option trading, and its SourceBook site is a standard reference to US brokerage and related services.[5]
The Commodity channel index was first published in Commodities, before it was renamed to Futures.[6]
The magazine was founded in 1972 as Commodities, published by Leon Rose and Mort Baratz. It was bought in 1976 by Daniel Oster for Merrill.[4] It was bought again by Jeff Joseph's Alpha Pages from Summit Media in 2013.[7][8]