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Henry Jarecki

Disciplines:
quantitative finance/arbitrage
investing/precious metals
quantitative finance/options
investing/commodities

Summary

German-born American commodities trader who built Mocatta and Goldsmid into one of the largest precious metals trading firms in the world — through silver and gold arbitrage — and who was one of the first systematic options traders.

Core Contribution

Built one of the most sophisticated precious metals trading operations in history — understanding arbitrage opportunities between physical and paper gold markets — and pioneered systematic options trading techniques that predated the Black-Scholes formula.

Historical Influences

Precious metals markets Options trading tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Germany Columbia University MedicinePrecious metals self-education

Contemporaries & Peers

Thomas Peterffy Hunt Brothers

Minds Influenced

Precious metals trading industry Options market making

Intellectual Posterity

Mocatta and Goldsmid controlSunshine MiningFilm production investments

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