Peacock Trading and Its Futures Trading Team

Peacock Trading, Past and Present.

When Roger Show, President of Peacock Trading, Inc., founded the company in 1987, even he could not dream of where the journey would take us. The company had its beginning in commodities as a cash livestock broker and wholesaler, booking loads of pork for packers and processors. From this start in the agricultural business, Peacock Trading expanded into the growing futures and commodities markets, providing hedging and price risk reduction services to those packers and processors. As commodities began to enter the investment mainstream, Peacock Trading began offering these services to individual investors as well.

TRADING FUTURES AND OPTIONS INVOLVES SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF LOSS AND IS NOT SUITABLE FOR ALL INVESTORS. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.

Today, most of Peacock Trading’s business is in the speculative futures and commodities markets. Although we still handle the cash pork brokerage business, the company’s focus is now on services to individual investors– both those already experienced in futures trading and those who see futures trading as a potential opportunity for alternative investments and portfolio diversification. We are a full-service futures brokerage.

The Peacock Futures Trading Team

Roger Show, President

Roger Show, president and founder of Peacock Trading, Inc., has over 25 years experience in commodities, mainly in livestock. After graduating from the University of Illinois with a BA in Economics in 1982, he was accepted into an innovative management training program with Swift Independent Meat Packer. The intensive 18-month program taught business graduates every facet of operating the agricultural side of the business, from buying hogs to boning hams. After completing the program, Roger worked at Swift’s corporate headquarters in Chicago as product manager in charge of pricing all the company’s major cuts of meat.

Roger gained tremendous experience in futures by taking the helm of Swift’s first cross-basis hedging program. Under his leadership, the program refrigerated millions of pounds of pork products prior to hedging inventory in the futures markets. By employing historical pricing and industry-wide statistics, he achieved his intended goal – to profit when pork-cut pricing got out of line with the futures markets.

When Roger established Peacock Trading, Inc., in 1987, he relied on his valuable experience in futures at Swift and on what he learned through a 1985 to 1987 commodity trading position with a large global exporter of meat products. In 1989, Peacock Trading Inc. became registered as an IB, with Roger as an Associated Person and principal of Peacock Trading and LCTA.

Roger is the father of 2 children, Rose and Roger. When he's not trading in the commodities market, you'll find him enjoying the outdoors while fishing, boating, or golfing.

Craig Wenk, Vice President

When Craig joined Peacock Trading in January of 2000, his 20 years experience in the cash meat brokerage industry and his Bachelor's degree in Finance added important qualifications to our futures trading team. He worked for John E. Staren and Hess-Stephenson, Inc., before joining Peacock Trading. In June, 2000, Craig became a licensed futures broker and is a true futures trading fundamentalist. His specialty is mixing fundamental, seasonal, and technical aspects to futures trading in livestock. He is a student of spread trading and uses it often.

Craig is the father of 2 girls, enjoys working out and staying in shape, and is an avid health nut!

Deana Lanham, Treasurer

Deana joined Peacock Trading in January, 2001, with over 7 years of experience in office management and accounting. Before joining Peacock Trading, Deana worked as office manager and accounting supervisor for a software company. She joined Peacock as an administrative assistant and accounting manager, and then obtained her Series 3 Broker’s License and her Series 30 license required for a branch manager. As Treasurer of Peacock Trading Inc and Livestock CTA, she now handles functions from order entry and new account setup to finance and futures trading.

Peacock Trading in Its Community

Peacock Trading has sponsored a local little league team, and our futures trading team is actively involved in Rotary Club, local Chambers of Commerce, and community events. Our futures brokerage serves the community, too.

Peacock's Regulatory Compliance

Investor confidence is crucial to the success of the futures markets, and the best way to gain investor confidence is to ensure that the highest levels of integrity are demanded of all market participants and intermediaries. National Futures Association (NFA) is the industry-wide, self-regulatory organization for the U.S. futures industry. NFA strives every day to safeguard market integrity, protect investors and help their Members meet their regulatory responsibilities. Peacock Trading is an Introducing Broker, registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a member of the National Futures Association.

Using NFA's Background Affiliation Status Information Center (BASIC), you can check the registration status and disciplinary history of any firm or individual that conducts business on the U.S. futures exchanges on behalf of the investing public http://www.nfa.futures.org/basicnet/Details.aspx?entityid=Ql%2fdzcfsYGc%3d

Since 1989, Peacock Trading Inc has not had a single regulatory compliance complaint.

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About Vision

Peacock Trading is a Guaranteed Introducing Broker of Vision Financial Markets LLC “Vision”. Vision Financial Markets LLC (formerly Vision Limited Partnership) was formed in January 1988 and is a privately held company. Vision was registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) in 1990. Vision was formed with the goal of providing exceptional hands on marketing, sales, service and trading support to our Introducing Brokers worldwide. With approximately 200 Introducing Broker offices representing over 500 registered associated persons, Vision has grown and expanded over the past 20 years to become one of the largest providers of Introducing Broker services in America. Vision is a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and Commodity Exchange (COMEX), the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and the National Futures Association (NFA). Vision is a self-clearing member of all four CME Group exchanges and less than 40 organizations in the world have this distinction.

Learn more at www.visionfinancialmarkets.com.

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