Eric Bolling is a financial news television personality, formerly known as "The Admiral" on the CNBC business show Fast Money. Bolling left CNBC in August 2007 and moved to the new Fox Business Network as one of the network's financial analysts in March 2008. 

Bolling serves as an independent trader based out of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the world’s largest trading center for energy.  He specializes in trading a variety of commodities such as crude oil, gold and agricultural commodities.  Bolling also actively trades equities, options and derivatives and is a member of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the NYMEX and the Commodities Exchange of New York.  He served on the NYMEX’s Board of Directors for five years, and subsequently acted as a strategic advisor there. 

Prior to this, Bolling served as a CNBC contributor for two years, where he spent a year and a half as a panelist on Fast Money.  He also was the recipient of the Maybach Man of the Year award at the Trader Monthly Awards in January 2007. 

A graduate of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, Bolling was awarded a fellowship to Duke University’s School of Public Policy.