Christopher Wood

• Responsible for position management/trading of UK wheat & barley books, which includes circa 1,000,000 tons physical per annum.
• Achieved £3 million net profit 2022 & £2 Million 2023
• Managing market exposure across multiple agricultural commodities using various hedging methods including futures, options, physical, premium and relative value strategies.
• Utilizing relative value arbitrage to increase profit.
• Member of Cefetra group proprietary trading team.

• Develop trading strategies for physical and derivative positions to achieve budget targets.
• Consistently hit profit targets.
• Trading relative value futures grain spreads based on supply and demand fundamentals.
• Position and risk management of oilseeds book
• Executing futures and options on Matif, Liffe and CBOT for company.
• Fundamental analysis of oilseeds market.
• Preparing market reports for clients, presenting market views to clients.
• Managing FX risk

Mar04 to Mar07 & Apr09 – Nov11

• Client services for fixed income products within the prime services team. Bonds/repos/futures/options.

• Executing/Pricing futures & options trades for internal & external clients, including discretionary and algorithmic orders.
• Creating hedging strategies for clients and increasing trade flow with trade ideas.

• Derivative trade support