About Ilan Levy-Mayer
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 June 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 in March 1997. Ilan could no longer play Basketball at his full potential and decided to expand on his education. He received his MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in October 1997. While studying and receiving his MBA, Ilan worked as an Institutional Account Executive in a startup internet company called “Internet Zahav Ltd.” which translates to “Gold Internet” between December 1996 to December 1997. Ilan gained a lot of experience from working for the startup Internet company which helped him develop Cannon Trading to where it is to this day.In January of 1998, Ilan moved to Los Angeles, California where he soon began his career in the Futures Industry. With the knowledge he had previously gained he laid the foundation of the online trading division at Cannon Trading Co, Inc. better known as “E-Futures.com”, which was recognized as one of the first online futures trading companies throughout the commodities 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. 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 just to name a few.Ilan is married and father of 3. In his free time Ilan enjoys spending time with his family, watching and coaching basketball, being outdoors as well as trying new restaurants.