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Feb 23, 2022 · Through perseverance, Peterffy was able to earn a job as a draftsman in a highway design firm before learning how to program computers.
Dec 22, 2023 · Finance whiz Thomas Peterffy made his fortune trading options and building a brokerage. Now he’s sharing his investment wisdom—including why he relies on his own research when placing risky bets.
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Mar 17, 2022 · Chairman and Founder of Interactive Brokers Group Thomas Peterffy sits down with Yahoo Finance Editor-at-Large Brian Sozzi to discuss IBKR’s new GlobalTrader app, the state of the stock market,...
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Sep 30, 2021 · In 1977, Hungarian-born Thomas Peterffy purchased a seat on the American Stock Exchange. A decade later, he developed a fully automated market-making system for stocks, options, and futures, an innovation that forever changed the trading floor and fast-tracked his career success.
Sep 15, 2023 · Thomas Peterffy’s focus is on his customers’ needs, not making his job easier as IBKR. He could have told me that “Switzerland is in Europe in his point of view, and that’s life”… but no, on the contrary, his aim is to “certainly try to provide our customers with what they want”!
Apr 23, 2015 · KESTENBAUM: Peterffy eventually makes his way to the United States where he meets his first computer - a big, boxy calculator of a thing, and he falls in love; stays up all night programming it....
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3 days ago · In high school in Hungary, Peterffy sold contraband Juicy Fruit gum to classmates at a 500% markup. After immigrating to America, Peterffy saved up $200,000 working as an engineer to buy a...