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-Start-up Commodity trading fund.

• One of the largest floor brokerage and trading operations with client base consisting of retail, institutional, and proprietary clients in major exchange traded commodity futures and options markets: Equity Index Futures (S&P 500, Russell Indices, and NYSE Composite Index (NYFE)), Dollar Index, Cross-rate Currencies, CRB Index, Cotton, FCOJ, Sugar, Coffee, and Cocoa.• Maintained and built client relationships to expand business operations into other commodity market products and resulted in a 60% increase in annual revenue.• Responsible for the execution of futures, options, option hedges, and spreads for clients in an accurate and timely manner, while successfully adhering to a zero error mandate policy.• Responsible for the fundamental and technical analysis across all commodity products for the company and client base.• Supervised and trained over 20 staff members on the complete front to back processes involved with operations including: trade input, trade matching, allocation, trade error reconciliation, report confirmation, position maintenance, and generating PnL. • Assisted in the technology transition from open outcry market environment to electronic trading platforms on the floor of the NYBOT/ICE.• Proprietary trading with consistent positive annual returns spanning 12 years with a strict disciplined approach to risk and money management.• Discretionary trading in most major commodity and derivative markets including: Equity Index Futures(S&P 500, Russell Indices, and NYSE Composite Index), Dollar Index, Cross-rate Currencies, CCI(CRB), Cotton, Sugar, Coffee, FCOJ, Cocoa, Crude Oil, and Gold.

-A founding member that was instrumental in the creation of FINEX Europe, the financial futures trading exchange in Dublin, Ireland.-Liason between the New York Board of Trade and the FINEX.-Responsible for daily execution and transfer of order books between NY and Dublin exchanges.

• Lead broker in execution of NYSE Composite Index (NYFE), S&P 500 Index, CRB Index, Cotton, FCOJ and options on the underlying futures.• Efficiently supervised company staff to build and expand business into other markets. • Fostered and maintained strong customer relationships. • Supervised staff through the entire front to back brokerage process including execution, reporting trade confirmations, trade input, trade matching, trade allocation, trade error reconciliation, position maintenance, and generating traders PnL.• Knowledge of equity options execution and brokerage process on the NYSE Options Exchange.