Russell Rhoads

Russell Rhoads, CFA, is Director of Education for the CBOE Options Institute having joined CBOE as an instructor in 2009. His career before CBOE included positions at a variety of firms including Highland Capital Management, Caldwell & Orkin Investment Counsel, Balyasny Asset Management, and Millennium Management. He is a financial author and editor having contributed to multiple magazines and edited several books for Wiley publishing. He is the author of five market related books including Trading VIX Derivatives, Option Spread Trading, and Trading Weekly Options. He is currently finishing up two books to be published in the summer of 2016, Volatility Trading Strategies and Options for Institutions and Advisors. Finally, he co-authored material to be included in Level II of the CFA program beginning in the spring of 2017. In addition to his duties for the CBOE, he is an adjunct instructor at Loyola University and the University of Illinois - Chicago.

He is a double graduate of the University of Memphis with a BBA ('92) and an MS ('94) in Finance and also received a Master's Certificate in Financial Engineering from the Illinois Tech in 2003. In addition to his duties for CBOE, he is currently pursuing a PhD from Oklahoma State University with an expected graduation date of December 2017.

Questions / comments / suggestions - please contact me at russellrhoads@gmail.com.