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Fane Lozman is an American inventor and futures and options trader known for his long-running legal battles with the city of Riviera Beach, Florida. His litigation against the city has reached the U. Supreme Court twice: a case about whether a floating home is a vessel and a case about retaliatory arrest for protected speech. The court ruled in his favor in both cases.

Prior to moving to Riviera Beach, Lozman lived in North Bay Village, Florida, where his investigative efforts resulted in the arrests of corrupt government officials. For his activism in Riviera Beach and North Bay Village, Lozman has been described as a "persistent gadfly" and a "relentless opponent of public corruption". Born in Miami, Florida, Lozman received a B.

He then joined the United States Marine Corps, where he served a tour of duty as a Marine attack pilot. After returning to civilian life, Lozman moved to Chicago and invented a new market trading screen interface, which he named Scanshift. The interface was "modeled on the cockpit displays of the planes he used to fly", along with the technology that is used to land fighter planes on aircraft carriers.

Scanshift employs a visually ergonomic layout incorporating a hub and spoke display that uses "a variety of rectangles, lines, and arrows to indicate which kinds of securities were moving and what that movement signaled". Lozman filed a patent application for his Scanshift interface in , and the patent was issued on November 18, After several years of futures trading and options trading, he became a "self-made millionaire".

Fane Lozman is an American inventor and futures and options trader known for his long-running legal battles with the city of Riviera Beach, Florida.

As of [update] , Lozman had become involved in real estate development with an overwater stilt home community called Renegade on a 25 acres 10 ha parcel of submerged lands. This property, with 1, feet m of private beach, was located on the northwest side of Singer Island, Florida, adjacent to the intracoastal waterway. In , Lozman moved back to South Florida to escape the Chicago winters.