Who are the Lords of Trading ?
The Lord of Trading is an online Community of traders and speculators who share their opinions and their ideas on different financial markets and the economic events that move them. "The Fellowship of the Trading and the Speculation", as we call our Community in reference to Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring, is open to anyone sharing the same interests as us, whether you spent the last 50 years of your life managing a billion of assets (Hi George!) or you are the novice trader who has just started looking at the financial markets.
While we have chosen to deal with serious matters in a relaxed and humoristic way, all the materials you will find here (for informational purposes only, see the disclaimer) are believed to be reliable and most of our Contributors are commited markets professionals with years of experience in trading and dealing with consequent financial exposures.
As of today, our Fellows have more than 71 years in aggregate of professional experience in the Financial Markets.
Just let us your e-mail address (we'll preserve your privacy) and Join them now!
The Senior Fellows
The Senior Members, with at least 5 years of market experience and the main contributors of the Fellowship of the Trading and of the Speculation are :
Sauros
Goldum
Hannibal
Gantalf
The Gold and Oil Guy
Buffalo T-Bill
Candide
Selected Fellows
ElFront
Snapman the White
Batman, the Dark Trader
Aragold
Arwen EveningStar
Please note that the e-mails sent to the Members using the links below are centralized and forwarded directly to the Member(s) by us. Should you want to contact one, several or all the Members for a job proposal or any advertising or communication, please liaise with Diane HeadHuntress
Sauros, the Bear Lord
Market professional with 11 years of experience in various trading, structuring & portfolio management roles in different Investment Banks, Equity Derivatives then in the Structured Credit (incl. the toxic CDO!) markets. In addition to my current position as a portfolio manager, I have been managing for 1 year a kind of proprietary boutique, a hedge fund with only one client : MYSELF.
The structure of the fund, which could be defined as global macro, is as under :
On the one hand, as I am not allowed to take single name exposure (for compliance reason) I have an asset manager manager (that's not a typo) i.e. some guys who pick for me asset managers who themselves pick some stocks. I have a preference for granny asset managers who have managed the same funds for decades.
On the other hand, I use the leverage granted by the financial spread betting and the Forex to time and macro-hedge the systemic risk of the guys above. This means mainly positions on Equity indices, treasuries, Forex and commodities My trading style is between the swing and the long term positioning, mainly based on discretionary analysis of the macroeconomic events and of the markets psychology, strengthened by chart and technical analysis and money management algorithms.
Here, more details on my trading strategy
Being involved in "The Lord of Trading" and blogging in the "Eye Of Sauros" allows me to clarify my trading ideas, my views (and to avoid the back trading!) but most of all, the idea is to improve my trading skills, particularly in the Forex and Commodities markets where my experience is still limited with the clear objective to trade my way out of the Rat race in the next few years and trade for a living.
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Goldum, the Quest of the Unlikely Events
I am a professional quantitative analyst (5 years in Equity Derivatives, 2.5 in Credit) working in major European Investment banks.
In my trading, I seek for the unlikely events which pay a good premium, then I build (one shot or split) a pay-off using options to take an exposure to the corresponding risk.
I use a double approach :
- a vertical macro approach (mainly US and China). I look at political decisions (tax, tensions,...), macro economic data (interest rates, gdp, unemployment,...) and sensitive data (real estate price, building, QE,...)
- a horizontal micro approach (5 major UK stocks) : I focus on the FTSE 100, sector by sector. Fundamental : weight, various ratios, historical : historical volatility
I trade in the option markets and I look at :
- volatility, skew, forward vol, implicit variance
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price, historical, probability
My passion : to understand
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Hannibal, The Voice of the Middle East and North Africa
Professional with 9 years of experience in Fixed Income markets, Hannibal started his career in a major French Banking Group in Bond Origination covering French Corporates. He was then sent to London to assume and to develop commercial relationships with Northern European Corporates and Financial Institutions (UK, Ireland, scandinavia and Benelux). He was mandated for a number of Public transactions bullets, private placement arrows, both vanilla and Structured (Credit, Interest Rates, FX, Equity and Hybrids).
Hannibal joined in 2005 the Hybrid Capital Structuring team (two people who set up the desk and developped the activity. He structured Hybrid Capital Securities according to balance sheet constraints, equity treatment under IFRS, regulatory barriers and tax issues. In 2007, he worked closely with the Cash CDO team to structure European TrupS. He naturally moved to CDO team where he focused on Exotic CDOs (non ABS CDOs, non CLO CDOs). This covers TrupS, CFOs (Fund of hedge funds CDO & Private Equity CDO) and Project Finance CDOs.
In 2008, he took responsibility over North Africa and Levant Countries distribution for Interest Rates Derivatives and Hybrids. He structured and sold investment products and hedging solutions (IRD, Credit, Commodities) to corporates, Financial Institutions and sovereigns in the region. More and more attracted by emerging markets and fast growing markets and after 7 years in London, Hannibal was appointed Head of Sales in the Moroccan branch of a major French Banking Group in charge of implementing the Forex, interest rates and derivatives distribution/placement. His best allies: Curves, Volatility, Spread, Skew and others one must not mention loud. Whatever the price you get, you should consider it as too expensive and market it as if it is the cheapest.
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GanTALF, the Market Wizard
11 years of Market experience as a Fixed Income Structurer in France.
Head of Diversification proposing Exotic (Forex, Credit and Fixed Income) investment products to traditional Equity markets investors.
Formerly Head of an Exotic products pricing unit offering a fast and efficient pricing service to the worlwide salesforce (more than 50 people)
and Interest Rate Structurer :
- Vanilla Products: Inflation, Collar, CMS swap, Quanto …
- Liability management products: CUO, CUI, Digicap, Dual currency, Ratchet…
- Investment products: ZC, Callable, Snowball, RA, CRA, TARN, CRF, CMS…
Started in 1998 in the ALM department of a French Investment Bank and had an experience as a start up entrepreneur (co-founder of a server appliance start up)
Member of the IAF (Institute of French Actuary) with a strong mathematics and statistics background.
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The Gold And Oil Guy
Since 2001 the Gold and Oil guy has been a leader in teaching others to skillfully trade in gold, oil, and silver in both bull and bear markets using his highly successful, low-risk trading method. Subscribers to his services depend on his uniquely consistent investment opportunities that carry exceptionally low risk and high return.
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Buffalo T-Bill
With 8 years of experience in designing trading systems in Structured Credit Derivatives, Buffalo T-Bill has been working at major Investment Banks.
He has a good knowledge of IT and business and is
experienced in building feed systems and providing quality data reports.
Skill Sets - Java, C++, C#, .NET, VBA, MS-SQL, Sybase.
Business - Synthetic and Cash CDOs
Buffalo T-Bill heads an offshore Software House providing service to financial sector.
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Candide
MD with 15 years of experience who prefers to stay in the Shadow.
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Elfront
I am a junior trader with 2Y of experience in structured credit assets portfolio management first with a CDO asset manager then currently with a major French investment bank. I have strong technical (statistics, stochastic calculus) and economics (macroeconomics, finance, financial markets) backgrounds. I'm particularly interested in the correlation between different markets (Forex, equity, Credit, Commodities) and CPPI asset allocation models. I am trading for my own account the Forex markets and the equity indices via spread betting
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Snapman the White
I am co-founder and Managing Partner of Analyze Capital LLC. Analyze Capital is a new york based
Alternative Investment Fund with a boutique philosophy that specializes mainly in
currencies, energy, and equity index trading.
My beginnings in the financial markets started back in Summer of 2006
as an incoming freshmen to university. I worked for a small long/short
equity - global macro oriented hedge fund as a tech equity analyst.
The next year I gained some exposure in emerging banks in Asia and
worked for HSBC Vietnam in Corporate banking for 4 months in the summer
of 2007.
The following summer in 2008, I worked for a think tank in Washington DC
which allowed me to grasp a wider economic and political perspective. My
division was Capital markets and Emerging Markets at the International Institute of Finance.
My current endeavor (aside from my final year of school) is devoting
all my time to developing Analyze Capital into a successful fund.
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Batman, the Dark Trader
As a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Analyze Capital LLC, I've been
intimately involved with crafting the boutique philosophy of our
alternative investment fund. Based in New York, we specialize mainly
is currencies, energy, and equity index trading.
Throughout my life, I've had a passion for business and innovation. Beginning in
high school, when I used my after school job as a platform to gain
valuable experience in the marketplace and rose up the ranks to become
the Sales Team Leader of the largest district on the East Coast, I have
worked diligently to hone my skills and business instincts. In 2006, I
successfully founded Concord Enterprises, an athletic-lifestyle company
with a primarily internet-based marketplace. Combined with my
entrepreneurial spirit, I have also been rigorously trained in Economic
theory, holding the position of Wealth Management Research Analyst for
Wachovia Securities, and certification from the Investment Banking
Institute.
As a business undergraduate student at Fordham University, I was actively engaged in the market,
trading stocks daily and using my net profits to endow Analyze Capital.
During my final semesters, I devoted most of my time to founding and
managing Analyze Capital LLC. In between working on the Fund, studying
effective business models and strategy, and staying abreast of the
latest economic trends, I enjoy following sports and releasing my
competitive energy on the court in the games of squash and basketball.
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AraGold
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Arwen EveningStar, the Designer Elfin
The financial markets are too quiet for me and trading definitely lacks of action... I'm a Mum at home taking care of our Lovely Baby girl. In the Lord of Trading, I am taking care mainly of the Forest of Arwen EveningStar the T-shirt and others accessories Boutique. In addition, I'm helping in the design of this website as well (it owes me its Logo notably !). I used to work for the Polish TV, fashion magazines and for the movie, for international publishers' marketing , as an interior designer and in design consulting.
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