Meet Our Team
Principal - Patrick Lafferty
Patrick Lafferty is a principal of Capital Trading Group (CTG). CTG is an investment
firm specializing in trade execution and account management for today's leading
Commodity Trading Advisors. Patrick has worked in the futures and options industry
for over 17 years. CTG works with the futures industry's top money General Partners
and newsletter writers.
Patrick is the author of the books Single Stock Futures, The Option Strategy Guide,
and Breaking Through to Success: The Commodity Investor's Guidebook. He also edits
the weekly TradeView commodity newsletter and the Easy Options Advantage newsletter.
Patrick has spoken at investment and trading conferences around the county and in
the U.K. Patrick has a degree in Economics from DePauw University.
Principal - Nell Sloane
Nell Sloane began her career over 26 years ago at the Chicago Futures Exchanges.
She initiated her introductory to the industry by working for a grain trader at the CBOT.
As she continued to handle the trade execution, reconciliation and Capital Raising she
moved on to becoming a featured contributor to Daily Metals Commentaries for 321 gold,
Kitco, Silver-Investor.com and FreeMarketNews.com and periodically for the Moore Research
Center. Nell eventually launched her own commodity newsletter providing fundamental and
technical analysis entitled, “The Opening Belle”. Later in her career she was listed by
a variety of financial publications as a broker to use. These publications included, Hume
Super Investors Files, TWMPMM trading course by Ken Roberts, Opportunities in Options by
David Caplan, McMaster On Line by R.E. McMaster and featured in “The Art of the Trade”
published by McGraw Hill. She spoke at numerous financial seminars and financial radio
shows.
One of the institutional clients Nell represented (over 200 million in assets) requested
the ability to allocate assets to numerous clearing houses. In order to do so Nell formed
Capital Trading Group LP with Patrick Lafferty to better serve her client.
Ms. Sloane previously was an Executive Member of Chicago Finance Committee and a community
representative for an international au pair agency matching host families with childcare.
She’s a mother of two teenage boys and spends most time outside of the financial world
attending their numerous sports events.