Q&A: From Engineering Masters to Physical Commodities & Hedge Fund

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  • Trader with experience trading physical commodities and their derivatives from a supply, market-making and proprietary perspective
  • Masters in Engineering in 2010
  • Started out in operations and ultimately became lead trader at a tradehouse and then transitioned to hedge-fund world. Now trading family office money.
  • Expertise in agricultural and energy products

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WSO Podcast:

Member @blender shares his story to help give insight for those listeners interested in a career in physical trading. He helps give us an understanding of how to break into a career as a scheduler or assistant trader at various trading houses, a typical career progression as well as how much professional traders in the commodity space can expect to make. He also shares the one skill and one trait that have allowed him to continually climb the ranks.

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Thanks for the podcast!

You put an emphasis in the podcast on not fucking up. Obviously, the main thing you need to achieve this is to stay focused and pay attention to detail. Do you feel like this is something you have become better at during your career? Or has it always been in you?

 

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