Physical Commodities Trading Startup

Hello there fellow hominids!

It's been quite a long while since I came through here and a lot has happened since then.

Diving right in the story, last I was here, I was a banker working in a commercial bank in the middle east, running an international banking desk. I called it quits a couple of years back to start my own commodities firm trading mainly chemicals and metals (including scraps).

I spent the couple of years putting everything in place for the firm (paperworks, office space, etc..) and gathering up info on how to go on about the business. Thing is that the industry I am trying to get in to has a lot of intricacies (so does eveyrything else) but thing is that there are no ''Old Heads'' you can turn to where I am at. So this has been really hard for me especially on how to go on about the physical trading. Like in theory you understand everything till the actual deal hits the pipeline and everything is on the ground.

I would appreciate it if any one out there with experience on the workings of the physical trading world would lend a hand in the form of advice and info on how to go ahead with the day-to-day of the workings and any other additional info is also very much appreciated.

 

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