How I got here
I first walked onto a trading floor in London as a nervous 17-year-old with a big appetite to learn. A year later, I was a qualified derivatives broker, and by 21 I'd found my calling as a market-maker in commodity futures and options.
Over the years, I've worked at Société Générale, Marex and Natixis, ABN Amro, and on the open-outcry floor of the London Metal Exchange, and founded one of the busiest LME options market making desks. I learned to price risk, hedge dealer books, run proprietary books, and advised multi-billion-dollar funds and family offices.
In time, I learned how markets really work, and the biggest lesson was that they are far simpler than most people think. When you strip away the noise, what's left is positions and flows: who's holding what, who has to trade, and what forces their hand. Once you understand that, everything changes.