Stephen

I usually arrive at the office around 6:45am. My daily responsibilities include touching base with my clients to provide insight from our global futures desks. This usually involves a description of market action during the Asia and Europe overnight sessions and insight from our previous day’s activity. I also speak on our internal derivative morning call to provide a similar recap to colleagues and address housekeeping issues. When the market opens I am usually glued to my seat trading for clients and discussing the markets with them.

One of the most interesting aspects of my day is having access to and interacting with very successful and proven asset managers. It is always very interesting to compare different portfolio manager’s perspectives.

I especially enjoy creating and implementing successful trading strategies for our clients. Our market opinion is typically based on a combination of technical and fundamental analysis with a dash of gut feel. The trades that we execute can have a very high notional value and providing accurate market timing can have a real economic impact for our clients.