Physical Energy Trading (Utility) to Macro Hedge Fund

Hi everyone,

Been doing a physical energy trading job for a small utility company. Mostly creating a risk management strategy for purchasing energy based on a layered demand model I built to determine the company's energy demand, as well as monitoring national gas storage capacities and geopolitical developments on UK power curve and regulation changes in non-commodity costs in UK energy bills.

Job is alright and company is filled with very intelligent people, and I understand the UK job market is a complete shit show for junior talent right now. My ultimate goal is to break back into the macro hedge fund space in either inflation/rates trading, or thematic investing in tech startups based on long term geopolitical shifts.

To clarify on my previous experience, I spent 6 months working in thematic investing (mostly food security and renewable energy startups) as well as building backtested models to successfully forecasting US CPI. The previous experience went well however due to poor personal investments by the owner, me and a few others were made redundant 3 years ago and I have found it extremely difficult to break back into the space.

Am I able to break back into to a general macro trading position if I build up my physical energy trading experience (given overlaps in geopolitics, inflation etc), or is this a futile effort to break back into due to the UK's hatred of recruiting junior talent to actually start training people?

Any insight into this would be massively appreciated, although I should clarify based on my previous experience that I'm mainly looking for directional macro positions in London if possible.