Market professional with 11 years of experience in various trading, structuring & portfolio management roles in different Investment Banks, Equity Derivatives then in the Structured Credit (incl. the toxic CDO!) markets. In addition to my current position as a portfolio manager, I have been managing for 1 year a hedge fund with only one client : MYSELF.

The structure of the fund, which could be defined as global macro, is as under :

On the one hand, as I am not allowed to take single name exposure (for compliance reason) I have an asset manager manager (that's not a typo) i.e. some guys who pick for me asset managers who themselves pick some stocks. I have a preference for granny asset managers who have managed the same funds for decades.

On the other hand, I use the leverage granted by the financial spread betting and the Forex to time and macro-hedge the systemic risk of the guys above. This means mainly positions on Equity indices, treasuries, Forex and commodities My trading style is between the swing and the long term positioning, mainly based on discretionary analysis of the macroeconomic events and of the markets psychology, strengthened by chart and technical analysis and money management algorithms.

Being involved in "The Lord of Trading" and blogging in the "Eye Of Sauros" allows me to clarify my trading ideas, my views (and to avoid the back trading!) but most of all, the idea is to improve my trading skills, particularly in the Forex and Commodities markets where my experience is still limited with the clear objective to trade my way out of the Rat race in the next few years.