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Finance
Futures Trader and Vice President
Used relative value, mean reversion and breakout strategies to successfully trade a wide range of markets including: index, fixed income, commodity, energy, metal and currency futures
- Developed and implemented company's index trading model that reduced company's risk exposure and led to an increase in net income of 18% in 2009 and 14% in 2010
- Trading profit increased each year from 2008 to 2010, including a 245% return on margin in 2008 a 274% return on margin in 2009 and a 308% return on margin in 2010
- Performed standard deviation, regression, and correlation tests frequently, statistical analysis used to develop profitable trading strategies
- Responsible for teaching new employees how to trade, manage risk, technical analysis and market psychology
- Created Excel spreadsheets to track trading strategies profit and loss and risk exposure
- Strong understanding of market trends, risk/reward and technical analysis
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Proprietary Equity Futures Trader
Executed both buy and sell side trades as a market maker for proprietary account on the trading floor at the CME Group
- Generated profit every single month for over 25 years
- Mentored and trained over a dozen new floor traders
- Coached over 30 teams and 500 kids. Responsible for organizing daily itinerary for practice and game day strategy.
- Spearheaded equipment donation drive to outfit numerous under privileged programs
- Volunteered at schools, religious organizations and various community events
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English Language And Literature
Commodity Futures Trader
Delivered profitable trading results for four consecutive years
- Managed two trading accounts with a net asset value of $2,000,000 and compiled a 14% annualized return with a 3% drawdown
- Established discretionary trading strategies across 20 futures markets with short to medium term hold times
- Researched and developed new trading strategies on a quarterly basis to evolve with changing market conditions, using both technical and fundamental analysis
- Leveraged research and analytical skills to write a daily pre- and post-market strategy report to enable fast pivots across sectors and to manage trading positions 24 hours a day
- Conducted quarterly interviews for new hires and led teams of five traders through the internship and training programs, conducting morning strategy meetings and weekly trade optimization sessions
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Futures Trader
traded gold futures, making bids and offers to banks, commission houses of Wall Street, and privately traded funds.
- Created LTS Commodities discount brokerage firm, that executed orders on behalf of customers, and streamlined business processes for advisors to provide sound financial advice and services to clients.
- Managed all daily business such as payroll, customer billing, and health insurance for twenty employees.
- Maintained relationships and support for clients, as well as prospective clients. Outlined, and established goals for the sales team, while meeting individual goals.
- Met defined standards of sales practices and ethics, ensuring the quality of each presentation.
- Extensive knowledge of various commodity markets, and kept clients abreast of market situations to provide up to the minute recommendations.
- Prospected new clients, and developed new business.
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Finance
Finance & Economics
Co-founder / Futures Trader
Managed Futures style of trading, focused on short-term profit taking on momentum. Traded front month future contracts of S&P, Ten Year, Euro, Yen, Crude and Natural Gas.
- Actively managed risk, relating to size, diversification, and correlations. (MS Excel spreadsheet based)
- Executed trades via phone to CBOT, CME, & NYMEX pits. Executed electronic trades through Trading Technologies, X-Trader, depending on contract liquidity.
- Instituted risk measures on capital, based on Historical Volatility Data, Market Participation, Capital Quotas, and Daily Interpretation. (MS Excel spreadsheet based).
- Assets under management increased from $500k to $10 million.
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Bachelor of Arts
Futures Trader
Executed trades based on observed market trends and existing trading guidelines
- Participated in the training of new employees in the use of the Global Zen trading platform
- Led a team of 3 in carrying out market analysis and research to understand trading decisions
- Assisted in the management of the client's trading portfolio
- Gathered information and analyzed the market, carrying out detailed data analysis and valuation of trades.
- Identified issues affecting trading dynamics and developing client relationships and presenting ideas to the fund manager
- Reconciling profit and loss accounts on a daily basis.
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Finance
Futures Trader
Independently designed, built and tested complete trading plan using live market data
- Executed successful sales pitch to company CEO, demonstrated how trading plan increased company revenue
- Became the first and only trader in the firm to trade exclusively futures contracts
- Traded the E-Mini S&P 500 Futures contract electronically, using a scalping technique
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Information Systems
Futures Trader - E-mini S&p 500
- Achieved a portfolio return of 10.6% vs S&P500 -5.3% while maintaining no overnight risk
- Utilized volume analysis, statistical indicators and analysis, and knowledge of market behavior to determine exit and entry points
- Conducted continuous market analysis on broad US and international markets to determine daily market drivers
- Formulated and evaluated trading strategy hypothesis through statistical backtesting
- Maintained performance spreadsheets and trading journals to document, evaluate, and modify performance
- Researched new trends and techniques in strategies such as volume profiling and automated trading systems
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Psychology, Concentration
Futures Trader
Worked as an electronic proprietary trader entirely responsible for own profits and losses using various intra-day trading strategies.
- Traded multiple futures markets including precious metals, energy products, agriculture, stock indices, currencies, as well as various inter-commodity and calendar spreads based on both fundamental and technical analysis.
- Executed split-second decisions based on personal observation of chart patterns, order flow on the inside market, and momentum of price movement.
- Utilized CQG integrated Client software to locate and analyze support and resistance levels, up and down trends, and volatility chart patterns through different charting tools and studies.
- Implemented all trades using Trading Technologies X_Trader platform
- Created and customized analytical studies to better manage market understanding and trading signals.
- Compiled a detailed recording of daily, weekly, and monthly P&L progress.
- Mentored and trained new recruits.
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Economics
Futures Trader
Traded S&P 500 futures contact intra-day for a boutique ($25 million) hedge fund.
- Responsible for identifying potential trading opportunities and monitoring developments on global stock, bond and commodities futures markets.
- Provided daily technical analysis reports on world markets to firm principal.
- Programmed and monitored Tradestation software program to execute automated trading system.
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Political Studies
Semester Abroad
Futures Trader
- Researched trading systems for various commodities; back-tested and forward-tested systems to analyze their performance
- Generated a 61% overall return on investment after commissions
- Executed, monitored all trades; day traded using systems based on technical analysis
- Created a proprietary trading system, used risk management to curtail losses
- Performed continual analytics on data to optimize diverse components of the strategy
- Developed a tracking system for trade activity; created and maintained financial models of all trades for use in performance analyses
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Finance
Futures Trader
Executed, tracked, and reviewed over 2,000 trades based on multiple short term models.
- Designed, evaluated, and tested over 100 trading models, implementing five.
- Created risk evaluation metrics that measured system robustness and filtered new trades.
- Customized technical indicators to best suite trading style, system needs and increase overall edge.
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Business And Public Administration
NASDAQ Futures Trader
Promoted to Futures Trader within first 3-months of joining firm.
- Analyzed charts and graphs to execute calculated and precise trades in a fast paced environment.
- Developed trade strategies to make trades profitable.
- Budgeted and managed a monthly draw.
- Provided a vital link between traders to confirm order quantity and price of trades.
- Delivered executed trades to clearing house for final approval.
- Assisted in the management of a $5M dollar account.
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