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Michael Varner is listed as President at Guardian Concierge Services at Guardian Concierge, a with 8 employees, based in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at guardianconcierge.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for Michael Varner.
Michael Varner previously worked as Manager of Transportation at Guardian Concierge and analyst/strategist at Varner Brothers. Michael Varner holds B.B.A., Banking/Finance from University Of Mississippi - School Of Business Administration.
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After graduating from the University of Mississippi, I began a career of trading, analyzing, and researching various agricultural markets with a particular emphasis in the cotton industry. I spent many years in NYC as a member of the NY Cotton Exchange where I built one of the largest floor brokerage operations there, with transaction volume regularly in the top 3 companies in business. I was involved in executing customer business, staffing my operation, researching the market, trading methodology, and writing a daily newsletter on the market called The Cotton Row Journal. Following a successful period of time there, I came to Memphis to start another side of the research and analysis business to help clients in the industry manage their price risk exposure. I actively created trading strategies using futures and options contracts based on our observations and thoughts on what future price trends would be. Also, I created a daily newsletter for our business, The Cotton Row Journal, that became one of the most widely read daily newsletters in the world for our particular market's information and editorials and price opinions. Using the skills I developed in managing employees, scheduling staff, budgeting, writing, and business trend analysis, I sensed a need in my local market for the quickly growing hospitality and tourism business, particularly in the needs of transportation and parking management for downtown Memphis. I began a new company to serve those needs and have been the driver from the ground up in all aspects, including creating the vision, procuring vehicles, negotiating contracts with hotels, restaurants, nonprofits and corporations, scheduling and managing employees, and handling operations of the business. Growth has been steady around a 10% rate per month for the past four years.
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Memphis Metropolitan Area, Mississippi, United States
Scheduled small fleet of drivers for transportation needs throughout the Memphis and Mid South area. Planned schedules, routes, shifts, handled sales and liaised with clients both before and afterwards. Handled events for small groups all the way up to hundreds of people for conventions and large corporate clients, and coordinated their transportation needs. Handled payroll, repairs and maintenance, and hiring.
Memphis, Tn
Dealt with commercial cotton merchant's, cooperative's, and commodity fund's accounts with their risk exposure, trading methods, and strategies for either hedging or speculative purposes; help create strategies for a successful hedge or position in both futures and options. Assemble, analyze research in the cotton business, write a portion of, and publish a daily newsletter, The Cotton Row Journal, one of the most widely read daily newsletters in the industry on where prices are going, what events are shaping those prices, and ideas about how to manage exposure to a market, or develop a strategy to simply profit from a potential move in values. Our success primarily coming from our daily contact with clients, and selling attributes which included email solicitation, daily phone chats, and my daily market wrap up commentary, which proved to be a successful sales tool. Structured derivative hedge/trading strategies. Provided senior-level leadership with responsibility for daily risk management decisions, reports and analysis. Built customer relationships and developed business through on-site visits to overseas and nationwide locations. Collaborate directly with company presidents and risk managers to develop/manage futures and options trading strategy by monitoring markets, sales and government export subsidies. Led trading desk in managing merchandising risk managment, derivative/FX trading, and strategy development.Became one of the dominant futures brokerage offices that specialized in cotton market trading and research ideas.
4646 Poplar Ave., Suite 203, Memphis, Tn 38117
Driving and shuttle services, valet parking teams at special events, hotels, restaurants and clubs
New York, New York, United States
Traded in the cotton futures and options pit on the NY Cotton Exchange; handled mostly cotton merchant, mill, and cooperative accounts. Placed hedges during trading hours via the open outcry method; developed strategies for customers and also traded my own proprietary account. I developed a trading strategy based on averages and time spent within certain ranges to determine buying and selling decisions that was very reliable. My company consisted of myself, and three "clerks" who handled the phone bank, took orders, and wrote up trades while I stayed in the pit and reported market action. I wrote a daily wrap up of events that transpired each session which was widely read at the time. Directly responsible for sales, and selling of my brokerage business and trading skills; used direct sales methods as well as referrals for new business.Became on the of the largest floor traders in the cotton pit by 1989 by representing the largest merchants and co-ops; developed a commodity fund following as well with my daily newsletter about market events and traded their positions while maintaining constant contact with clients regarding action and opinions about where prices were headed. In 1990, was selected to oversee and trade out of the positions of what was then the largest cotton operator in the business, and I liquidated the firm's futures and options positions over a period of 5 days. Wrote a daily piece, "From the Floor" that detailed what went on during the sessions, who was trading, and what my opinion was where values were going; it became a popular part of our family's newsletter, The Cotton Row Journal, which is still published today. I also traded very actively for my own account and was successful at developing a proprietary system of handling cotton prices from a purely technical viewpoint, whereby I steadfastly stuck to rules I had established about initiating positions, managing risk on the position, and liquidating them either at a profit or a loss.
New York, Ny
cotton futures and options pit trader, represented merchant, mill, grower, and fund clients with hedging and trading
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Handled customers commodities and stock trading accounts; my book was mostly speculative and trade accounts in the agricultural business.Became one of the highest producing account executives in the Memphis office within my first year. Success directly related to sales endeavors.
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Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma, University of MS Jazz Band [keyboards and vocals]Majored in Banking and Finance; studied all.
Activities and Societies: first year tennis team; various musical bands and groups, piano and keyboards; officer in fraternityMajored.
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Michael Varner holds B.B.A., Banking/Finance from University Of Mississippi - School Of Business Administration.
Michael Varner is listed with skills including Hedging, Risk Management, Sales Management, Financial Analysis, Trading, Derivatives, Microsoft Excel, and Commodity.
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