Ed O'Connor's Trader's Jacket

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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

Credit Line

Gift of Edmund O'Connor Family through Martin O'Connor

ID Number

2013.0271.01

accession number

2013.0271

catalog number

2013.0271.01

Object Name

jacket

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

place made

United States: Illinois, Chicago

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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Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing

Industry & Manufacturing

American Enterprise

Exhibition

American Enterprise

Exhibition Location

National Museum of American History

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