James Cordier & Michael Gross

James Cordier is president and head trader of Liberty Trading Group in Tampa, Florida. With over 25 years of option trading experience, he is quoted regularly on the futures markets in several national and international publications and news services including the Wall Street Journal, Barrons, Bloomberg World News and the BBC.  James’ published articles on option writing have appeared in Futures Magazine (US), Energy Risk (UK), Your Trading Edge (Australia) and MoneyWorks Magazine (Dubai).

Mr. Cordier and his firm specialize in option writing and have developed a strategy of selling out of the money options on futures contracts that they share with clients of their brokerage. Cordier’s book, The Complete Guide to Option Selling (McGraw-Hill 2005) has inspired a generation of investors, was released in China in 2007 and is scheduled for re-release in a second edition later in 2009.

James' study of the commodities market began at age 14 when a silver coin collection sparked his interest in silver futures. He began his career at Heinold Commodities in Milwaukee as a broker in 1984. Several years of working with commercial business enabled him to not only build a solid knowledge base of market fundamentals but also establish of network of producers and end users that remains in place today.

In 1991 James began an eight year association with Allendale, Inc. in Chicago where he began publication of his newsletter, the Cordier Report. Success at Allendale eventually led to his own branch office in St. Petersburg, FL.

In 1999, having established a solid reputation and a certain level of notoriety within the industry, James founded Liberty Trading Group.

Despite giving market commentary to news outlets and financial websites and co-authoring The Complete Guide to Option Selling (Mcgraw Hill 2005), James still works directly with most client equity and never underestimates the importance of staying in close contact with his clientele’ on an individual basis.