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About Joe Cusick

Joe Cusick Joseph Cusick – Senior Vice President of Education and a Senior Market Analyst

Joe Cusick entered the option markets in the mid-1990s, working his way up through three different exchanges to become a market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange until 2001. Fresh from the rough and tumble Chicago trading floors, Joe took his experience and immersed himself in the brokerage side, managing his own book of business at upstart online broker optionsXpress. In 2005 Joe assumed the role of Senior Market Analyst and Senior Vice President of Education for optionsXpress, passing along his knowledge and analysis of the markets through his frequent contributions in the Wall St. Journal, Business week, Barron's CNBC, BNN, & Bloomberg. Joe's true passion of the option markets and dedication to investor education really shines in the 100's of educational seminars to customers and potential clients worldwide each year. Joe is a graduate of Marquette University and holds his Series 4, 7 and 63 registrations with the FINRA.

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