Brown: Following big footsteps

摘要

Brooks Brown grew up in the heart of the cotton trading industry in Memphis, Tenn. but did not plan on trading cotton or anything else until he saw a trading video his senior year at Southern Methodist University.rnThe video featured Paul Tudor Jones and was inspirational for Brown not only for its content, but because Brown discovered he had a lot in common with the futures trading legend.rn"Something clicked there when I realized that he was also from Memphis and he went to the same high school as me. I started learning more about the commodity world and moved to Chicago in 1996," Brown says. "That gave me a spark and maybe flipped a switch. I thought this was something to get into."