Keith Schap has been a writer in the Market and Product Development of the Chicago Board of Trade since early 1993. Schap specializes in writing about the use of derivatives in financial risk management and also in uncovering and developing new ways of using exchange-traded derivatives for these purposes. Prior to his affiliation with the Board of Trade, he served as senior editor of Future's magazine, where he developed market outlooks in interest rate, equity, currency, energy, metals, and agricultural markets and also produced many of the magazine's overall economic outlooks. He also handled the risk management area of the magazine's coverage. During his dryer affiliation with these markets and the general area of risk management, he has contributed something over 300 articles to magazines and journals including Futures, Treasury and Risk Management, Derivative Strategies.
