Modern Trader

Modern Trader is a United States-based monthly print investment magazine. The publication was established in 1972 under the name Commodities.^[4] The name was changed to Futures in September 1983 and Modern Trader in 2015.^[3]

Modern Trader

Type	Monthly Business magazine (in USA, a registered newspaper)
Format	Magazine
Owner(s)	The Alpha Pages
Editor-in-chief	Jeff Joseph[1]
Editor	Daniel Collins[2]
Founded	September 1972
Headquarters	Chicago
Circulation	50,000 subscribers per month (2015)[3]
ISSN	2379-4674
Website	www.topstep.com

The magazine is a standard source in futures and option trading, and its SourceBook site is a standard reference to US brokerage and related services.^[5]

The Commodity channel index was first published in Commodities, before it was renamed to Futures.^[6]

History

The magazine was founded in 1972 as Commodities, published by Leon Rose and Mort Baratz. It was bought in 1976 by Daniel Oster for Merrill.^[4] It was bought again by Jeff Joseph's Alpha Pages from Summit Media in 2013.^[7][8]