Finding Your Edge

Emil van Essen is the CEO & CIO of Emil van Essen, LLC, a registered commodity trading advisor (CTA). He has been a registered CTA since 1997 and has more than 30 years of experience in the futures industry in both Canada and the US. Mr. van Essen was previously an institutional futures specialist for Prudential Securities, director of quantitative futures analysis at REFCO Global Ltd. LLC, Chicago, and director of managed futures for the Bank of Montreal in Toronto, Canada.