Ilan Levy-Mayer
Senior Executive
Broker, Tech, Entrepreneur
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Ilan Levy-Mayer is the Vice President and Senior Broker of Cannon Trading Company, Inc.
Ilan Levy-Mayer is and has been an Associated Person (“AP”) with the Introducing Broker (“IB”) Cannon Trading Company located in Beverly Hills, California since February of 1998.
Before joining “Cannon” Ilan graduated from Fort Hays State University (Hays, KS) in May 1992. Ilan started out his career as a professional basketball player over-seas where he played until he suffered a major knee injury (June 1992-March 1997). Ilan could no longer play Basketball at his full potential and decided to expand his education. He received his MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in October 1997. While studying for his MBA, and after receiving it, Ilan worked as an Institutional Account Executive in a start-up internet company called “Internet Zahav Ltd.” which translates to “Gold Internet” between December 1996 to December 1997. In January of 1998, Ilan moved to Los Angeles, California where he soon began his career in the Futures Industry.
The experience Ilan gained from working for a start up Internet Company helped him establish the online trading division at Cannon Trading Co, Inc. better known as “E-Futures.com”, which was one of the first online futures trading companies in the industry.
As an AP of Cannon Trading Co., Ilan wrote several articles about trading and trading psychology as well as being quoted a number of times in different publications in magazines such as: “SFO magazine”, “Futures magazine” and “Bloomberg news” just to name a few.
In July of 2004, Ilan was a guest speaker in a webinar held by the Chicago Board of trade, titled: “Successful Insight Into Day-Trading mini-sized Dow Futures”: Ilan Levy-Mayer of Cannon Trading Company shares set ups, indicators, and a broker’s observation of who succeeds in trading futures.
Ilan Levy-Mayer has been in the futures business since 1998, and in this time he has made a name for himself as well as Cannon Trading Co., and both are well respected in the industry.
On February 13th 2008 Ilan was listed as a principal of Cannon Trading Co., where some of his duties include communications with FCM’s, online marketing, risk management, software evaluation and general office management.
On March 13th 2007 Ilan listed as Principal of LEVEX Capital Management Inc. and on March 21st 2007 he registered as Associated Person of LEVEX Capital Management Inc., CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor) firm..
Ilan Levy-Mayer is also featured on our premiere Features Page, and you can read his podcast interview transcript.
