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Contributor Biography

John Caiazzo

John Caiazzo
Acuvest
28581 Front Street, Suite 100, Temecula, CA 92590
909-693-9600
www.acuvest.com
mailto:futures@acuvest.com

John Caiazzo has over 40 years experience at major U.S. Brokerage firms as Manager and Director of various International Divisions and is the founder of his own trading and brokerage firms. Over the years John has gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in all aspects of investments and trading. He was also a floor trader at the Commodity Exchange in New York. John started his career in 1959 at the New York Stock Exchange but was soon recruited by Hayden, Stone & Co., a 100 year old stock and commodities firm. He worked his way up to Manager of their International division with 16 foreign branches and over 35 salesmen. He gained expertise in stocks, bonds, and commodities.

When the firm was merged into Shearson in 1969, John left and joined Shields & Co., another old line brokerage firm as a Vice-President in the International division managing the U.S. business of a Swiss Mutual Fund in securities. He later became the futures arbitrage trader at Commodity International and set up the arbitrage between Beirut, London, and New York in soft commodities. In 1982 he became a floor broker at the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange. He was offered an opportunity to create and manage an International Commodities Services Department at Loeb, Rhoades & Co. and was instrumental in bringing together the firms business with the newly acquired Hornblower firm and ran the combined futures operation until it was sold. He then joined Jesup & Lamont and created their Commodity Department as its Director. In 1985 he formed Omnivest International and developed a substantial business. John sold his New York business in 1994, transferred his salesmen and clients and moved to the West Coast where he started writing a Weekly Market Letter. Some of his former clients finally managed to convince him to start another brokerage firm and he formed Acuvest in 1999.

John offers his clients the benefits of his experience in the technical and strategic aspects of futures and options trading. Acuvest’s accounts are carried by a major futures clearing firm.

With his contacts worldwide John is developing Acuvest into an internationally recognized brokerage firm.

President/Trader
Phone: (951) 693-9600
Email: futures@acuvest.com

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Frank Benson

Frank Benson has over 13 years experience in the commodity industry working for large corporations in both the futures and forward physical markets.

Frank started trading commodities in a firm located in southern California in early 1991, one year after graduating college with a BA degree from Cal State University at Humboldt. It was here that he first trained in technical market analysis and execution of exchange traded contracts.

His career advanced on both the east and west coasts where he was involved in the marketing of forward physical commodity contracts. These contracts were hedged using futures and Frank quickly learned the commercial hedging side of the industry. His primary emphasis has been the energy sector, working for companies such as MG Refining & Marketing (with the renowned US oil industry trading and marketing innovator, Art Benson), Energy Merchant Corp., and BP (British Petroleum). He was also responsible for developing two futures trading profit/loss computer systems for corporate hedging transactions.

Frank joined Acuvest in 2003 and continues to be active as a consultant to various companies in physical markets.

Director of Risk Management
Phone: (951) 693-9600
Email: frank.benson@acuvest.com