Rock Trading Advisors is a commodity trade advisory (CTA) focused on commercial firms in the metals and mining space. RTA provides price risk management for not only ferrous products, but also base metals, energy and interest rates. RTA trains customer’s sales staff and creates the infrastructure necessary for the firm to offer their customers long-term fixed pricing on physical sales.

Managed the underlying futures position for delta neutral commodities portfolio.

Execution of proprietary intraday trading algorithm in equity index, energy, metals, interest rate and currency futures markets listed on the CBOT and CME.

Implementing various proprietary trading strategies using equities and equity options with personal capital and funds raised from private investors. Identified excessive risk taking in the sub-prime mortgage industry in 1/2007. Pursued aggressive put purchases and short selling of wholesale mortgage lenders.

Started a proprietary trading firm emulating techniques learned at the Chicago Stock Exchange with the goal of providing innovative platforms, cutting edge technology and excellent training as incentives to attract top trading talent. Learned significant lessons about the challenges of running a profitable business, the importance of a well designed business strategy and how to communicate, manage and persevere through a challenging period.

Responsible for the management of an average of 1.5 million shares of daily order-flow and the trading of up to thirty NYSE listed equities dual-listed on the Chicago Stock Exchange varying in market capitalization, sector, liquidity, etc. Led the second largest firm on the Chicago Stock Exchange in net profits from 2002 until June 2004 by generating more than $2 million in gross revenue and focusing on minimizing trading expenses.Created momentum based proprietary strategy used in addition to order flow management techniques.ADDITIONAL Developed and tested intra-day futures trading algorithm and intermediate equity market timing strategy.Extensive use of Microsoft Office, especially excel for use with financial data and building regression models. Moderate use of E-Views7 statistical software, including the development of GARCH, AR1 and ARMA models.