Peter Tuchman Net Worth

In March 2020, Tuchman contracted the novel coronavirus. Earlier, two people on the New York Stock Exchange tested positive for the virus.

His brother, Jeffrey Tuchman, was an award-winning documentary filmmaker. When his brother died in 2017 at the age of 62, he was working on a documentary Testimony about their father’s testimony at a war-crimes trial.

Through a patient of his father’s who ran a brokerage, Tuchman got a summer job starting on May 23, 1985 as a teletypist on the floor of the NYSE. He has been on the floor of the NYSE ever since. After spending most of the 1990s specializing in convertible arbitrage with Lee Securities, Tuchman became an independent broker and honed his trading expertise over the next decade. Tuchman joined Quattro Securities in 2011.

Peter Michael Tuchman (born 1957 or 1958) is a stock trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). He has been called the “most photographed trader on Wall Street”.

Tuchman grew up on the Upper West Side of New York City with his older brother Jeffrey Tuchman. He was born in 1957 or 1958 to a Jewish family. His mother, Shoshana Itzkovich, was born in Hungary. His father, Marcel Tuchman, was born in Poland in 1921. Tuchman’s parents were Holocaust survivors who met in a displaced persons camp after World War II. They immigrated to the United States in 1949.

Tuchman’s father was a doctor who practiced medicine from 1950 until 2018. After the war, he and thirty survivors applied to Heidelberg University medical school. He was part of the first group of Jewish students allowed into a German medical school in post-Nazi Germany. He stayed in Germany until 1949 to finish his degree then moved to the United States for residency and an internship at Bellevue Hospital.