1175: A Day in the Life: What's It Really Like to Be a Commodity and Equity Trader?

Tony Greer founded T.G. Macro in 2016, an independent market analysis company, where he could combine 25 years in trading and 15 years of writing a daily newsletter into one analytical platform. He provides fundamental, technical, and behavioral analysis of global markets to nearly 1,000 individuals in his institutional client and personal subscriber base. After graduating from Cornell University in 1990, Tony traded currencies and precious metals in the Treasury Departments of Sumitomo Bank and the Union Bank of Switzerland, followed by six years at Goldman Sachs running the Goldman Sachs Commodities Index and spot gold trading. Tony then began a career as an equity sales trader, educating his clients in the natural resources space, until he started T.G. Macro and introduced the Morning Navigator newsletter. "Goldman Sachs was one of my big clients and I always tried to give them the most competitive price that I could in the FX markets. Through the broker market, I wound up meeting at a dinner the trader who was on the other end of the phone at Goldman Sachs. He was grateful that I quoted him such competitive prices and wanted to say thanks. He asked if I was interested in speaking to some people on their desk. It was the kind of thing that can happen in a career where you get to know the people that work at a competitor and wind up getting a job offer from them because they liked your style and thought that you could help their operation."