Mission Statement

“The Protean Trader's mission is to facilitate the ability of traders to reach their critical mass, by providing cutting edge strategies, sophisticated technologies and proprietary market insight.”

About Us

John Netto is a professional trader and is the Founder and President of The Protean Trader. He is the author of "One Shot - One Kill Trading: Precision Trading through the Use of Technical Analysis" (McGraw-Hill, 2004). John has worked with buy-side firms, sell-side firms, and technology providers on more efficiently combining structure, strategy, and personnel to increase trading profits. John has presented on behalf of Eurex, The CME Group, The ICE, The ISE, Thomson Reuters, Interactive Brokers, Terrapin, and Profit-Loss Forex Conferences. John also appears on Bloomberg Television, CNBC, and Fox Business Channel, as well as being quoted by the Wall Street Journal and Dow-Jones Newswire.

John is featured in the book "The Speed Traders: An Insiders's Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World" (McGraw-Hill 2011). John has published numerous articles and lectured on topics ranging from "Dynamically Delta Hedging Your Option Portfolio", "Techniques and Methodologies for Equity Index Spread Trading", to the more qualitative issues as "The 10 Attributes of a Great Trader." Mr. Netto is a nine-year US Marine Corps veteran. While serving abroad he learned to speak, read, and write Japanese and Chinese, helping him articulate his vision of trading to an international audience.