Thornton Academy Postscripts Alumni Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 5

went from the halls of Thornton Academy to
expose “rigged” high-frequency trading
’36—playing on a 1934 league
psychology, then my friends and I
championship football team. I
moved to New York.” Jenny started
played field hockey, track, and
her career at Forbes, as an assistant
tennis. I rang the same Victory
news editor for the online division.
Bell that my grandfather rang (see
Then, she shadowed a trader over
bell story p. 24). My dad’s football
the summer in 2005. “I hadn’t taken
team [he is one of the coaches for
much Economics. I accepted a very
this year’s state champions] rang
entry level job, helping to analyze
the same Victory Bell this year
markets. Five years later, I joined
With a title like Global Head of Market the market structure team and now
that my grandfather rang. I played
Structure, Hadiaris is no stranger to the I run it globally. The most valuable
field hockey, track, and tennis on
question, “what
the same fields my
do you do again?” “What’s needed is the excitement to learn new things, grandfather, aunts
Jenny explained
and uncles, cousins
to be able to figure something out...TA offered me
her job this way,
and brother played
breadth...there were unique opportunities to challenge on. Family has always
“you know how
myself to do something new all of the time.”
people call their
been incredibly
broker and buy,
important to me and
let’s say, some shares of Apple? Well,
I try to think every day about what
thing was my willingness to learn.
we offer the same broker service, but
would make them proud. Having
There isn’t a class to prepare you for
for large firms that are selling 100,000 a trading desk. Even those people
strong roots always comes into play
or a million shares. Our clients are
when making tough decisions and
who trained on simulated trading
pension funds or retirement funds
Thornton Academy is part of those
desks said it didn’t prepare them for
who own shares on behalf of hundreds the real thing. What’s needed is the
roots.”
of thousands of people. It’s tougher to excitement to learn new things, to be
buy shares in that volume because it
Staying close to family, Jennifer
able to figure something out.”
can affect the market and change price.
returns to Saco as often as she can,
Essentially, I work on an institutional “At TA it was wonderful to take a
not only to vist her new nephew,
trading desk.”
son of brother, Joshua “JD” ‘98 and
new class, something totally new
sister-in-law Ari, but also to burn
to me. TA offered me breadth —
“We map out how exchanges are
in addition to standard classes,
up some pavement with her father
connected and how the trades work.
I could be in a pottery class or a
in half marathons. Give this Rising
There’s a market microstructure
drawing class. These were unique
Star a cheer as she goes by.
opportunities to challenge myself
- how an exchange (buy and sell
to do something new all of the
order) works. I research how an
exchange matches a buyer and seller.
time. Not many high schools offer
that. Even though I was a math and
It’s a computer logic with rules in
science person at TA, I didn’t pursue
the matching engine. The rules may
advantage or disadvantage participants. that in college. I tend to gravitat