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James Barrett Lind-Waldock

James Barrett is a Senior Market Strategist with Lind Plus, Lind-Waldock's broker-assisted division. He began his career in 1976 trading grains at the Mid America Commodity Exchange. In 1980, he moved to the CBOT, and started spread trading the then-new Treasury bond contract. He remained a local on the CBOT floor over the next 12 years, alternating between the soybean and bond pits. In the early 1990s he moved off the floor in order to build a brokerage business, and joined Lind-Waldock. Many of his earliest clients remain active traders, and to James, those longer-term relationships are the best aspect of the job.

James helps his clients assess markets with great price adjustment potential due to changing intermediate and long-term fundamentals. Once he hashes out what's driving a market and if the forces doing so have legs, his next step is to form a complete trading plan to capitalize on these fundamental forces, incorporating technical analysis and his futures and options knowledge. He can be reached at 866-419-7698 or via email at jbarrett@lind-waldock.com.

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