Ralph A. Fogel has considerable experience as a securities professional, having developed, built, and sustaining trading operations in equities, commodities, and options markets. He has held memberships on the New York, American, and Philadelphia Stock Exchanges, in addition to the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Ralph began his career at Spear Leeds & Kellogg, where he worked for over 20 years as a General Partner and Managing Director. He pioneered and/or formulated the specialist and market making business for all U.S. options and commodities exchanges, the biggest being the American Stock Exchange. He was a launching partner of Fogel Group, an options specialist firm on the American Stock Exchange. He also worked as a portfolio manager at Chapin Hill Advisers and as a financial consultant with Wachovia Securities.
Mr. Fogel holds the FINRA Series 7, 24, 55, and 66 licenses. He has helped on different committees of securities and futures organizations, including the American Stock Exchange, the New York Futures Exchange, and the Securities Industries Association. He was the first non-technician to be invited into the Market Technicians Association based solely on his personal expertise in analytics.
Ralph accepted an award for excellence for spectacular service from Variety – the Children’s Charity. He loves hockey and opera, and holds season tickets for decades to the Metropolitan Opera. He is a decorated veteran of the Armed Forces having served his country in the Vietnam War as a Seabee, a division of the United States Navy.