Trading Director

Frank C. Vella

Harrison, NY ***** 914-***-****

advwpt@r.postjobfree.com

Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Work Experience

Director Equity and Equity Derivative Trading

Bay Crest Partners - New York, NY

October 2013 to Present

Using my career experience trading equities to add value to our Institutional clients with trading ideas and/or market insights. Engage directly with portfolio managers and traders to identify opportunities that fit their particular strategies.

Executing Institutional equity order for hedge funds, banks, pension funds and endowments. Covering Institutional clients in equities and equity options, including ETFs and single stock options.

Managing Director

BMO Institutional Equity Trading Desk - New York, NY

June 1997 to March 2012

•Taking proprietary positions for the firm as well as facilitating client trades of US, Canadian and inter-listed equities with concentration of coverage in Industrial, Precious Metal, Pharma and Biotech sectors. Traded same sectors, but to a lesser extent in South Africa, Australia, and UK.

•Traded Canadian FX book for Firm.

•Contributed to the success of Position Trading team running a long/short book of $15-$20 million on average and realizing a profit for 12 out of 14 years of operation.

•Provided client base and trading team with Morning Trading Notes focused on Materials and Industrials - evaluating market trends, investment performance and providing actionable trading ideas.

•Consistently provided input in monitoring market moves and idea generation.

•Developed strong industry relationships by leveraging a large network of buy and sell side contacts on trading ideas, client order flow as well as order flow for our sales trading team.

•Marketed Research Analysts and firm's diversified services for purpose of cross-selling effort. • Provided a broad range of consultative services to all levels of firm regarding market opportunities and to facilitate institutional clients.

Education

MBA in Investments

Pace University

BS in Finance

Fordham University

Skills

•Bloomberg

•Reuters

•Fidessa OMS Corporate and Community

•Series 7,55,63

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