Rod Casilli

Rod Casilli is the founder and lead trader at the tradersdevGROUP (TDG among friends). He has been an active futures trader and automated strategy designer for over 20 years. Mr. Casilli began his career at Merrill Lynch during the tech speculation craze, spent time trading millions of shares of stock as a SOES bandit, and then transitioned to the futures markets in the fall of 1997, corresponding with the release of the S&P Emini contract. Most recently, he was the head of product management at Collective2, the worlds largest automated trading marketplace. Mr. Casilli has a BA in English from the University of California, Los Angeles.