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

HandleStats Founder,
Richard Miller

About Me

I began my journey on the CME trading floor in 1982, where I clerked and charted market data, gaining hands-on experience in the fast-paced world of trading. My career started in the cattle options pit before I transitioned to the S&P Options pit at the CME. In 1995, with the rise of electronic trading, I saw an opportunity to dive into the future of markets with the Globex trading platform. This new technology sparked my curiosity, and I quickly learned how to trade, teach, and market it.

As the markets heated up, I installed a trading terminal at home for overnight trading and began trading NQ futures and options on the floor during the day. When the E-mini S&P was introduced in September 1997, I was among the very first traders to trade this groundbreaking product on the floor.

In 2005, after more than two decades on the CME floor, I relocated to Colorado with my wife and two daughters. Here, I continued my passion for trading while embracing an active lifestyle of skiing, biking, and hiking.

Over the years, I shifted from the trading floor to screen trading, but I wanted deeper insights and more quantitative measures of market behavior. This desire led me to learn programming, which became a game changer. With decades of experience and a deep understanding of the markets, I began building powerful databases and testing innovative market strategies.

HandelStats was born from this vision. Because I handle the programming myself, it’s a dynamic service that is constantly evolving, with new, distinctive features regularly being added. My goal is to give traders the edge they need with accurate, insightful, and cutting-edge market data and analysis.

 

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 of any one ship. This “Handeling”, trading led to the first publicly traded shares in the world in Amsterdam. The shares of the Dutch East India Company founded in 1602, was 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, 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 sugg

 

         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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