Company Profile

John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. (“JJLCO”) is an Illinois, United States-based corporation registered with the National Futures Association and Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a Commodity Trading Advisor. As a CTA, it serves individual and institutional clients with a range of managed futures programs.

JJLCO also publishes the John Lothian Newsletter and the Environmental Markets Newsletter. Additionally, JJLCO owns MarketsWiki.com, an online open source encyclopedia, or wiki, powered by contributions from the paid subscribers of both newsletters.

JJLCO managed futures programs deal in a limited number of futures and options markets while allowing investors a choice of programs with minimum investment requirements as low as $15,000.

JJLCO was established in 2003 and became registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a Commodity Trading Advisor and a member of the National Futures Association in February of 2004. JJLCO began trading client assets as of December 1, 2004.

JJLCO in November 2004 acquired rights to the managed futures programs of Defender Capital Management, Inc. (Defender), which began managing client assets in June of 1998. In 2006, JJLCO acquired the exclusive intellectual property rights for the trading strategies Defender trading programs. The Defender managed futures programs acquired by JJLCO are named “Maple Sugar” and “Big ED.”

In March of 2008, JJLCO hired Jon Matte, founder of Defender, as chief operating officer. At the same time, JJLCO hired Jim Kharouf as editor in chief and Jeffrey Bergstrom as chief information officer.

JJLCO’s Maple Sugar program trades No. 11 World Sugar futures and options on the ICE US, formerly the New York Board of Trade, and Canadian Dollar futures and options on the International Monetary Market of the Chicago Mercantile Group. JJLCO’s Big ED program trades Eurodollar futures and options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

The two programs employ a directional trading methodology developed to generate trade signals, and incorporate risk management techniques to provide insurance against a shifting market.

JJLCO websites include www.johnlothiannewsletter.com, www.johnlothian.com, www.marketswiki.com and www.environmentalmarketsnewsletter.com.