Who are the Lords of Trading ?
The Lord of Trading is an online community of traders and speculators on various markets as forex, equity indices, commodities, metals, bonds,... who share their opinions and ideas on the financial markets and the economic events that move them. "The Fellowship of Trading", as we call our Community in reference to Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring, is open to You if you are strongly committed to trading & financial speculation, whether you have spent the last 50 years managing zillions of assets or you are a novice padawan trader who has just started to look at the financial markets.
While we have chosen to deal with serious matters in a relaxed and humoristic way, most of our Fellow Traders are committed financial markets professionals with years of experience in trading who have developed the discipline to deal with consequent financial exposures.
As of today, our Fellow Traders have more than 80 years in aggregate of professional experience in the Financial Markets.
Join them: let us your e-mail address (we'll preserve your privacy) and Trade with the Lord of Trading now!
The Fellow Traders
The main contributors of the Fellowship of Trading are :
Sauros, the Bear Lord
Goldum
Hannibal
Gantalf, the Markets Wizard
Snapman the White
Batman, the Dark Trader
The Gold and Oil Guy
Buffalo T-Bill
Candide
ElFront
Arwen EveningStar
Please note that the emails sent to the Lord Traders using the links below are centralized and forwarded directly to the Fellow Trader(s) by us. Should you want to contact one, several or all the Fellow Traders for a financial job proposal or any advertising or communication, please liaise with Diane HeadHuntress
Sauros, the Bear Lord
After I had served as a Grunt in various trading and structuring positions with different Investment Banks for 12 years in the Equity Derivatives then in the Structured Credit (incl. the toxic CDO!) markets, I decided it was high time I left the Orc Race and devoted my time trading for my own account. I have been managing for more than 2 years 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, for my long term investment core positions I rely on 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 and have a long track record of Alpha.
On the other hand, for my shorter term trading, 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 macro-economic events and of the markets psychology, strengthened by chart and technical analysis, statistics and money management algorithms.
Being involved in "The Lord of Trading" and blogging in the "Eye Of Sauros" allows me to clarify my trading ideas and views put under public scrutiny, to keep the daily discipline the trading requires and to kill the boredom spending hours watching the markets inevitably brings. Most of all, the idea is to improve more and more my trading skills over the years to ultimately master the game.
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Goldum, the Quest of the Unlikely Events
I am a professional quantitative analyst (5 years in Equity Derivatives, 4 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 10 years of experience in Capital markets, Hannibal started his career in a major French Investment Bank 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, Forex
, Equity and Hybrids).
Hannibal joined in 2005 the Hybrid Capital Structuring team. 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 (Interest Rates Derivatives, 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 experience in Capital Markets as a Fixed Income Structurer.
Head of Diversification proposing Exotic (Forex, Credit and Fixed Income) investment products and derivatives to traditional Equity markets investors.
Formerly Head of an Exotic derivatives products pricing unit offering a fast and efficient pricing service to the worlwide salesforce (more than 50 people) and Interest Rate Structurer :
- Vanilla derivatives 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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Snapman the White
I am co-founder and Managing Partner of Analyze Capital LLC a New York based
Alternative Investment Fund with a boutique philosophy that specializes mainly in
forex, 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 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
in forex, 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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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 9 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 16 years of experience in the Capital Markets 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 economic (macro-economic, 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 on the Forex markets and the equity indices via financial spread betting
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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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