Clinker and cement trading
Looking at the international trade flows of building materials from top players like Holcim and HeidelbergCement, is anyone in the forum cash trading these products?
I'd appreciate some insights into how the business is run and what a trading career in cement (Holcim/Heidelberg) would look like in terms of comp, progression / exit opportunities, etc.
Hi Junior Trader in S&T - Comm, the silence is deafening, sorry about that.... Any of the threads below helpful?
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I hope those threads give you a bit more insight.
Zurich or Istanbul?
APAC actually
There’s concrete everywhere and unless there is a real substitute material we can use for buildings, bridges, and mega structures then I’d say it sounds like a good product to be in.
I'm just not sure if there's enough sophistication there vs. other classes of commodities. Seems purely commercial with few to zero opportunities to exit to financial trading if that’s your goal?
Can’t comment on that the exit side of things but if you want to trade paper then why don’t you get into that instead of physical?
Not all physical traders exit into a financial trading position
Bumping for some more insights on clinker and cement because I may get the offer soon.
This would be a transition from dry bulk agri at an ABCD to construction materials. For a +45% base, is it worth considering? Can anyone comment on the career prospects / pay progression in cement / aggregrates / concrete trading?
Only caveat personally is the pure commercial focus in cement trading as I'd prefer to pivot from commodities to financial trading and running my own desk / hedge fund at the end of the day (10+ years in the future). ABCD agri just seems like a better place to achieve that vs cement, but comp is slow and perpetually a problem there.
One of our coal traders was a cement trader previously. Like this kind of niche commo, the exit seems naturally oriented to physical trading.
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