Professional Options Trading Masterclass (POTM) Online Video Series

Anton Kreil
Managing Partner

Anton is the Managing Partner of the Institute of Trading and Portfolio Management, an impartial world group of 425 Traders throughout 22 international locations. Anton manages and oversees the Institute Community, the Institute father or mother firm’s (Jakubstadt Holdings) world portfolio (as Managing Partner) by way of Corporate buying and selling accounts from Singapore and his personal long-term investments outdoors the Institute (Non- Disclosed Total Exposure).
Anton has had a distinguished profession as a Professional Trader within the Financial Markets. He opened his first buying and selling account when he was sixteen and traded profitably by way of the tech increase within the late nineteen nineties. He was the primary particular person out of 4 hundred college students in his Economics undergraduate diploma on the University of Manchester to obtain a proper job supply from an Investment Bank buying and selling desk. Goldman Sachs noticed his monitor document and employed him on an “unconditional offer”, that means Goldman Sachs contractually acknowledged that he might get any mark in his diploma and they’d nonetheless rent him as a Professional Trader. He accomplished the notorious Goldman Sachs Analyst Program (2000) and Associate Program (2002) in New York, which has been liable for coaching a disproportionately great amount of the world’s greatest Investment Bank and Hedge Fund Traders of the final thirty Years.

During his profession as a Professional Trader Anton carried out a twin operate as a Proprietary Trader and a Market Maker operating two separate books on Pan European Trading Desks out of London. His Proprietary Trading guide grew from $25mln within the 12 months 2000 to over $400mln by 2004 while at Goldman Sachs. He traded a number of Sectors while at Goldman Sachs together with, Tech, Media, Telecom, Banks, Insurance, Transports (inc Airlines), Industrials, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Chemicals. All sectors that he traded on the Pan European Trading Desk have been market share ranked one or two globally, that means he was at all times one of many largest merchants on the earth. This success was primarily right down to the dimensions of the proprietary buying and selling books he ran throughout his time there and his skill to revenue from large conditions like main Macroeconomic surprises and Earnings surprises. He actually grew to become identified across the market as one of many “big situation traders” at Goldman Sachs. Lehman Brothers then Headhunted Anton in 2004 after which JP Morgan headhunted him in 2006. At each these companies Anton ran the worldwide Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Chemicals franchises and achieved primary market share and profitability standing globally at each companies. Anton retired from the Investment Banking business in May 2007, simply earlier than the height of the market and the upcoming collapse attributable to the Global Financial Crisis.

In June 2008 Anton was chosen by the BBC to seem within the British TV sequence Million Dollar Traders which was aired in 2009. The present went world taking pictures Anton from relative obscurity into the limelight. In response to the 1000’s of messages Anton acquired from world wide asking him to show buying and selling, he determined to go on the highway and arrange the Institute of Trading and Portfolio Management in 2011. The Institute has now grown into the world’s main buying and selling schooling firm boasting a group of extremely skilled and educated Retail Traders that may commerce from anyplace on the earth. This has enabled Anton by way of the Institutes father or mother firm to deploy capital to most of the Institutes merchants, who now make a dwelling from buying and selling on the Institute.

Anton has at all times been identified within the business for his obsession with Financial Markets, his insane work ethic and for his skill to show up and coming new expertise within the Industry.

Raj Malhotra
Senior Trading Mentor

Raj loved a profitable 13 12 months profession as an expert Equity Options dealer. Raj graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics (BSE) from the Wharton School of Business on the University of Pennsylvania.  After graduating, he began his profession at BNP Securities in Philadelphia working for the BNP Cooper Neff Hedge Fund. After two years, Raj was requested by the agency to maneuver to New York to commerce the S&P 500 Index Options guide. S&P 500 choices on the time have been probably the most heavily-traded choices on the earth.
In 2002, he was employed away by Bank of America Securities, embarking on what was to change into a profitable quick monitor seven 12 months stint on the agency. In addition to buying and selling index choices, Raj was promoted to Head of Institutional Options Trading, buying and selling with and protecting the world’s largest and most profitable Hedge Funds. He was additionally promoted to Managing Director earlier than the age of 30.

In 2009, Raj left Bank of America Securities to affix Nomura Securities in an analogous function, serving to to spearhead Nomura Securities rollout of their US enterprise, till retirement on the finish of 2011.

Raj’s function on the Institute includes Mentoring Institute Traders on the official Institute Mentoring Programme after college students have graduated from finishing the Profess