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About the Authors
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Julia Spina
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is member of the research team and podcast co‐host at tastytrade where she works as a financial educator and options strategist. Drawing from her background in physics and experience with signal processing and data analysis, Julia introduces viewers to topics in quantitative finance and their applications in options strategy development. Prior to transitioning into finance, Julia worked as a regenerative medicine research scientist before attending the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign in 2015. At the University of Illinois, she earned bachelor's degrees in engineering physics (2017) and applied mathematics (2017) and a master's in physics (2018). Her research focus throughout her graduate and undergraduate studies was experimental quantum optics, and her primary projects included investigating the effects of measurement in optical quantum systems and using single‐photon sources to determine the lower limits of human vision and perception.
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Anton Kulikov
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is a member of the research team and podcast co‐host at tastytrade and a columnist for the financial lifestyle magazine,
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Luckbox
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. With a background in finance, data science, and education, he has spent the last four years developing innovative strategies for the retail options market and educating traders in
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fundamental economic theory on the show. Anton attended the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign where he earned bachelor's degrees in finance (2018) and economics (2018) and worked at the Margolis Market Information Lab. During his time at the University of Illinois, Anton developed coursework on derivatives and capital markets, and taught classes and workshops on financial software at the Gies College of Business.
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Tom Sosnoff
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is an online brokerage innovator, financial educator, and the founder and co‐CEO of tastytrade. Tom is a serial entrepreneur who cofounded thinkorswim in 1999, tastytrade in 2011, tastyworks in 2017, helped to launch the award‐winning
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Luckbox
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magazine in 2019, and in 2020 created the first new futures exchange in 20 years, The Small Exchange. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience as a CBOE market maker, Tom is driven by the passion to educate self‐directed investors. After his years on the trading floor, he saw the need to build and design superior software platforms and brokerage firms that specialized in complex financial strategies. His efforts ultimately changed the way options and futures are traded and how digital financial media is produced and consumed. Currently, Tom hosts
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tastytrade LIVE
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and continues to drive innovation and know‐how for the do‐it‐yourself investor. Tom has been named to
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Techweek
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's Tech 100 list,
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Crain's Chicago Business
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's Tech 50, and has spoken at more than 500 events across the globe. Tom received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and has been featured by prominent publications such as the
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The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Chicago Tribune, Crain's Chicago Business, Traders Magazine
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, and
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Barron's
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