Stephen Hoad Email & Phone Number

Sandwich, Gb

Canterbury, Kent, Gb

THE STOP HUNTER runs its own FCA regulated Managed Trading Fund and also provides trading, FinTech, consultancy and e-learning education & training services.I am a co-founder of the company and have overall responsibility for running the business.Prior Dec'18: Overall responsibility for running the business, trading a private fund, consultancy work and projects and our bespoke training and education.- Trade proprietary account / fund on Commodities, Equities and Forex, using systematic / algorithmic strategies based on technical analysis, behavioural science, quantitative analysis.- Chief technical analyst, providing real time information, news and analysis on Twitter and other social media platforms.- Produce weekly market and technical analysis reports for external clients.- FinTech: Design, model, develop innovative trading solutions and risk management tools built on Python and Ruby on Rails.- Develop and deliver our e-learning and classroom based content: Core Trader Training Programme, financial markets seminars and short courses.- Develop ongoing client relationships by providing mentoring, One2One support and technical help to our clients.- Teach on the STA (Society of Technical Analysts) Diploma course at LSE and QMUL, Kings College.- Member of the STA core course lecturers panel. (www.sta-uk.org/education/lecturers/)- Provide editorial and media commentary on the Global Financial markets.- Guest speaker and presenter.- Work with Canterbury Christ Church University on community outreach projects, developing and delivering Bloomberg/Financial Markets seminars to schools and colleges.- Ad hoc financial markets lecturing, consultancy and advisory work for financial institutions and organisations, tech companies, universities. - Author of the book: #TradingThought, Mind Medicine for Traders.

Canterbury, Kent, Gb

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Multi asset systematic futures trader - Commodities, Indices, FX.Trading high Sharpe, own proprietary designed, built system / strategies.

London, Gb

Marex Spectron is the world's leading independent broker of Agricultural and Environmental Products, Energy, Freight and Metals. Also offering broking services for financial futures and options, foreign exchange, fixed income and equity securities.A new role within risk. It encompassed three main areas: Enterprise Wide Risk Management (EWRM), Quantitative risk, Regulatory risk. - Responsible for the review and validation of any quantitative trading tool, electronic trading programmes, system, product, risk model. Set up and built an Operational Risk Model (Advanced Measurement Approach), an Integrated Stress Test model and Firm wide stress risk model.- Responsible for quantifying and modelling all the risks the firm faces and making sure they remained within the Board set risk appetite limits. - Business areas managed: Commodities: Metals/ Softs / Energy/ FX in the following locations: London, New York and Hong Kong.- Created a Risk Optimisation department within Market Risk.- The role was business management focused and I was often utilised by senior management and various trading / broking desks.  - Other general duties – Algorithmic trading / High Frequency Trading (HFT) development, market risk / Technical Analysis.

- I ran my own proprietary trading book.- Traded commodities: metals, energy products, US equities, FX- Strategies based on Technical and Behavioural Analysis.

Wichita, Kansas, Us

Koch Supply & Trading are part of Koch Industries, the largest private company in the world. Koch are leaders in a range of markets worldwide and their capabilities are rooted in energy products. Koch Metals and Derivatives Trading groups have also expanded beyond trading, logistics and operations to pioneer the use of risk-management tools. Koch companies have a presence in about 60 countries and employ more than 100,000 people worldwide. - Traded Base and Precious Metal Options and Futures on the LME and NYMEX on both a proprietary and market making basis.  - Created new option trading strategies for the desk.  - Built and ran a discretionary technical futures trading book.  - Provided risk / optimization / technical analysis for the desk.

Wichita, Kansas, Us

I ran the Risk Optimisation group (Front Office Market Risk Management) outside of the USA (London, Geneva and Singapore), covering the Metals, Oils, Gases & Energies businesses. My objective was to utilize risk and profit information, to improve trading strategies and decisions at the individual trade level and across the portfolio of trades, so as to improve profitability and return on capital.  - Challenged trades/traders as appropriate to ensure consistency with defined strategies and provide objective insights to improve profitability.  - Monitored trades from entry to exit. - Provided insights/ info that was useful to the traders in managing the trades. - Recommended trade sizing based on portfolio optimization analysis.  - Helped traders/market analysts define the distribution of trade outcomes for each trade to improve decision making and portfolio optimization.  - Provided useful info to the decision makers on how specific trades fitted into the portfolio, and provided guidance on trade sizing to maximize profit and return on risk.- Provided look-back analysis to identify relative performance of strategies and help allocate risk capital. - Applied stop-loss risk management techniques where appropriate to improve overall profit/risk results.  - Helped analyse and communicate new trade strategies.  - Created measures as needed and used statistical analysis to help traders and trading leaders better understand the profit/risk potential for trades.  - Improved the effectiveness of the overall Risk Optimization capability.  - Interface to FSA for Metals Trading. - CF30 Approved/registered with FSA.- Helped develop and maintained the Systematic commodity trading books/strategies/ performance.- Developed options, exotic options and technical based trading strategies for various groups.  - --- Provided Technical Analysis training/support/subjective market analysis to help improve trading strategies/mental models/money management.

Us

German state-owned lender and global investment bank. I worked in the Global Financial Markets division, managing the Gold Metals Energy and Commodities risk team. - Produced, coordinated & distributed daily risk reports and fortnightly ‘board’ reports. - Coordinated /managed the ‘new product approval process’. - Involved in Risk, Audit, I.T. and ‘business management’ related projects. - Risk Managed the Power desk.  - Also worked on other areas of the business from various Derivatives functions to Money Markets, Bond Trading, Equities.

Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Jp

Originally Sanwa International PLC, now part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG). It is one of the world's largest and most diversified financial groups with total assets of JPY258.1 trillion as of March 2014. MUFG's services include commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, leasing and many more fields of financial services.I carried out Market and Regulatory Risk control and reporting functions within the Risk team. - Provided cover for Credit Risk function.- Responsible for the redevelopment, maintenance and application of Sanwa’s Regulatory reporting function using STB software and source systems. - Built a ‘Capital by Book’ system that runs daily for the bank. - Attended courses: Quantitative Finance (run by Paul Wilmott) and Value at Risk.

New York, Ny, Us

One of the largest and most successful US Investment Banks. Now part of BAML Group: Bank of America Merrill Lynch.I worked within Debt Business Finance - Fixed Income (High Grade Credit and Money Markets).