BRIAN ETTEN

**** *. ******* #* *******, IL *****

773-***-**** acwtw1@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Accomplished financial services professional with extensive experience in derivatives and equity trading, business development and equity research. Critical thinker with strong financial product knowledge and ability to assess opportunities and risks in rapidly changing market environments. Team player with proven ability to work with senior management to achieve strategic goals. EXPERIENCE

First New York Securities, LLC Chicago, IL

Trader/Portfolio Manager 2014 - Present

Co-manage a global macro, event driven portfolio utilizing US listed equities, ETFs and commodity futures and options.

Continually lead the idea generation process to identify daily trading opportunities on both position and portfolio level.

Responsible for managing intraday trading risk and overnight portfolio hedging.

Collaborate with developers to create query based logic platform utilized for trade generation, historical pattern recognition and performance in futures and equity markets.

CIH, LLC Chicago, IL

Account Executive, Trading Consultant 2013 - 2014

Effectively developed, communicated and implemented custom hedge programs for over 30 hog and diary producer clients focused on protecting forward profit margins.

Led weekly consulting calls educating clients on opportunities in cash, futures and options markets to minimize exposure to price movements in agricultural commodities; monitored and adjusted client derivative portfolios to reflect changing market dynamics.

Developed 10 new client relationships; instrumental in helping dairy margin team grow revenues over 100% in less than 12 months.

Vine Street Trading, LLC Chicago, IL

Senior Proprietary Trader 2010 - 2012

Global-macro proprietary trader actively engaged in trading a diverse portfolio across multiple asset classes in the FX, commodity, interest-rate and equity futures and options markets.

Created and owned multiple trade ideas and effectively managed risk producing consistently positive trading profits with limited capital drawdowns.

Employed macroeconomic research and technical analysis to execute multiple trading strategies in flat price and spread markets.

Collaborated with senior management to formulate new alpha strategies in emerging markets, products and exchanges. Traditum Group, LLC – Federal Trading Division Chicago, IL Head of Eurodollar Calendar Trading, Proprietary Trader 2007 - 2009 Recruited to build-out and lead firm’s Eurodollar calendar trading group.

Directly oversaw a group of ten traders; taught fundamental trading principles and provided trade ideas, market commentary and progress evaluation.

Managed firm’s Eurodollar calendar trading operation, including inventory and risk management while actively trading personal short term interest rate portfolio; ranked as group’s top performing trader. TransMarket Group, LLC Chicago, IL

Proprietary Trader 2005 - 2007

Successfully made markets and managed a large inventory simultaneously in financial instruments across the CME, CBOT and LIFFE exchanges.

Recruited, trained and led a three person, 24 hour trading team focused on relative value/statistical arbitrage trades in the Eurodollar, Euribor and US treasury curves across multiple time horizons.

Team generated over $1.5 million in net trading revenues over two year period. Decatur Jones Equity Partners, LLC Chicago, IL

Associate, Equity Research 2003 - 2005

First hire directly involved in the creation and development of an independent equity research firm focused on the open-source software sector.

Conducted detailed industry and company due diligence; authored and presented quarterly earnings analysis and industry white papers to institutional portfolio managers.

WR Hambrecht & Co San Francisco, CA

Associate, Equity Research 2000 - 2002

Integral member of top-ranked communications equipment equity research team.

Generated and presented actionable investment recommendations to sales team and buy side clients.

Provided advisory services for initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and venture funding.

Authored initiation of coverage reports, quarterly earnings notes and weekly industry updates. Merrill Lynch Chicago, IL

Private Client Sales 1998 - 1999

Successfully completed Merrill Lynch Financial Advisor training program.

Effectively marketed and sold a full suite of wealth management services to individuals and small businesses; consistently exceeded benchmarks for new accounts and assets under management. EDUCATION

University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN

Mendoza School of Business BBA, Finance, May 1998

Macquarie University, Sydney Australia study abroad program 1997 ADDITIONAL

Series 3 - Registered Commodities Broker

Trading Software: Bloomberg, CQG, Trading Technologies

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