Trader Development Programme

Title: Trading & Supply Sophie Tao

Duration: 2:50 minutes

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Sophie Tao talks about her job on the Trader Development Programme on the crude trading desk, based in London.

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Sophie Tao

Trader Development Programme (TDP)

Sophie Tao

My name is Sophie. I’m on the Trader Development Programme on the crude trading desk, based in London. So the Trader Development Programme is a structured programme helping to develop the junior traders to get the experience they need to become a trader. The management team in trading, they are very supportive as well, so I normally have a regular catch-up with a mentor or with my line manager. They provide the support and they give me advice where I need to go next in order for me to become a trader in the future.

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Sophie Tao

I think the [unclear] main factor is why I want to join trading. First of all I think trading is a very fast paced environment, working in trading can have a direct impact on the bottom line. And secondly, I think Shell trading has an advantage over other financial institutions or the trading house because Shell has such large physical assets across all the regions. So, last year I think crude oil market is a very dynamic market and it’s integrated. Basically for me to look at, for example, the supply and demand of [unclear] and I need to talk to the colleagues in other offices to get an idea of what’s going on in other markets. So, in that sense, Shell is actually a very good place for me to get exposure to different markets, and I think that’s not an experience I probably can get in any other company.

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Sophie Tao

Most people may have the impression that trading is a place that people sit in front of their computers dealing with the numbers all day – it’s not entirely true because managing the relationship and communication is just as important. Our traders, they normally visit their counterparties or refineries, from junior analyst level we also work closely with colleagues from parts of the organisation just to get the information flow and the information flow in this place is very important. 

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Sophie Tao

I think that there are a few attributes that helped me to get here. First of all I think the strong analytical skills have definitely helped me. On a daily basis we do all the analysis work to help the team to form trading decisions. And lastly, I think people skills, be comfortable working with different stakeholders and getting information from them, I think it’s a key aspect of the job.

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Sophie Tao

I think it’s a great place to work because the market is very dynamic and every day the headline news can have a direct impact on P & L and working with probably the best people from the organisation is really a privilege.

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Title:  Trading & Supply John Lo

Duration: 1:44 minutes

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John Lo talks about his role and responsibilities in the Trading & Supply operations business, Asia,

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John Lo

GM Trading & Supply Ops & LNG East

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John Lo

I look after three parts of the Trading & Supply operations business. Terminal operations, pipeline company operations as well as logistics coordination in Asia.

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John Lo

The business is very exciting because we have new challenges and new opportunities almost every day and we have to react very quickly to capture those opportunities. We’re talking in hours rather than days in trading and supply. And being able to capture those values immediately is very rewarding for both myself and my operators. Leaders in my team must have the following: high level of integrity, being able to handle stress during difficult situations as well as having the commercial mindset which will help us to monetarise different optionalities [?] into that.

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John Lo

For somebody to aspire to be in my role, he or she needs to be able to identify your aspirations early in your career, work on those gaps as well as having the broadening assignments early on in your career will help you to achieve your aspirations. I enjoy my job because I’m excited every day coming to work, there’s always challenges ahead which we need to handle as well as there’s exciting new opportunities that is being discovered every day. And having the ability to monetarise those opportunities really excites me and feel very rewarding, not only to me, but also to my team.

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Title: Trading & Supply Christine Sullivan

Duration: 2:22 minutes

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A conversation with Shell senior trader, Christine Sullivan

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Christine Sullivan

Senior Trader

Christine Sullivan

I was a mechanical engineer by degree. I went to work as an engineer at the Shell Deer Park Refinery and then went on to an operations role in the natural gas liquids trading group, became a trader in that group, and then moved onto the crude trading group from there.

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Christine Sullivan

Having an experience out in the various sites, whether it’s a refinery, a chemical plant, really helps you when you come into trading because you’ve seen first-hand how the sites make their decisions, what are their economics, what are their drivers, where they get their value from and you’re able to then use that to help you optimise things for them, but also make money for trading as well.

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Christine Sullivan

I think a lot of people can feel intimated coming into trading and feeling like they don’t know things about the trading business, so being willing to ask the questions, being willing to come out and say what you don’t know and ask somebody because there are resources literally everywhere, people with all kinds of different experience. And I find, because it still happens to me after all my years in the business, there are things that I’m learning still and people are very willing to share their knowledge.

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Christine Sullivan

One myth that I’ve heard about the trading business is that it’s hard for a female to come and succeed in this group. Work life balance is cited often. I’ve had three children during my time here and I have a very busy family life and, you know, it’s worked out fine for me. 

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Christine Sullivan

Trading is a very über competitive environment, but people are willing to help. I mean, it behoves everyone for people to be successful. It’s very much a team effort. So even though people are obviously assessed as an individual, team work is a big part even of how an individual is assessed because if the team doesn’t work, the whole group doesn’t work.

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Christine Sullivan

What I like about trading is every day I can see the impact I’ve made to the bottom line. You see that moving up, hopefully, on a daily basis and it just makes you want to do more. 

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Title: Trading & Supply Lifei Liao

Duration: 2:08 minutes

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Lifei Liao talks about her job since joining the Trader Graduate Program at Shell.

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Lifei Liao

Trader (Mogas)

Lifei Liao

I joined Shell about six years ago as a Trader Graduate Program participant because I heard as a company that takes care of its employees very well in terms of development. Then I got interested in trading and supply because it’s a combination of the financial world and the industrial world. The program lasts about two and a half to three years and through the program I got enough re-training and resources provided by the company to become a trader.

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Lifei Liao

What I enjoy most about my work is the unpredictability of the future. Markets are moving all the time, it’s very volatile, I never know what’s going to happen next. Our job then is to link the information we have and form a view about what’s going to happen next. So this is a constant unknown situation, vast information for us to process, constant improvement and you will get to know about whether we are right or wrong immediately when you think the market is going to go up, you go long, and you will see whether we make a profit or not. So, it’s amazing, it’s fascinating.

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Lifei Liao

It’s true that over the history of oil trading there are a lot of men but over the past few years there are more and more female traders in the market as well. We’re equally capable, equally willing to learn and improve, equally strong to defend their positions and to negotiate and to conclude businesses. Applying is already 50% of the success, don’t be intimidated by a requirement itself, keep trying yourself and you will realise this is an organisation that embraces challenges and deliver. And what’s more important it’s really fun working here.

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Title: Trading & Supply Andrew Smith

Duration: 02:30 minutes

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Portfolio Development Manager Andrew Smith describes his job and offers advice for those looking to work in Trading & Supply.

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Andrew Smith

EVP Trading & Supply

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Trading & Supply is the part of Shell that makes sure that Shell gets best value for its upstream production and makes sure their marketing businesses have a cost-competitive supply. We trade around the flows that that gives us, adding value to Shell. We also take care of all the transportation activities for Shell, so whether that’s ships, trucks or terminal [?], we manage that globally.

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[Andrew Smith]

We trade a variety of products: We trade crude oils around the world; we trade finished products like gasoline and diesel and fuel oil and the components that we use to make those. We also trade gas, electricity and environmental products like CO2 permits.

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[Andrew Smith]

Trading & Supply is probably one of the most commercial parts of Shell so it suits people who have a real commercial bent, a real desire to make money for the company, but what’s important is that’s done in the right way. We’re a regulated firm and so compliance with the laws is really important; market conduct is really important. So a strong sense of business ethics is important to us.

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[Andrew Smith]

Our frontline traders come from a great variety of backgrounds: some are engineers; some are geologists; some are sales staff. They come in with all sorts of backgrounds. What they have in common is that commercial drive.

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[Andrew Smith]

They also have to be comfortable with taking risk; there are very few risk-free trades. Some days we make money; some days you’d lose money. You have to be comfortable with risk.

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[Andrew Smith]

The best traders are team players. Collaboration is incredibly important. We’re a very physical trading operation here. We manage a lot of physical oil. That makes it quite complicated, so you need to be able to work as a team.

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My advice to people thinking about joining Trading & Supply is to talk to some of the people here, find out what they really do and back yourself and give it a go. I love this business. Shell is one of the world’s largest commodity trading firms.

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[Andrew Smith]

We have built a tremendous business, adding enormous value. It’s a really exciting place to work, full of a great variety of people; every day is fun.

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Title: Trading & Supply Karrie Truath

Duration: 2:46 minutes

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A conversation with Karrie Truath.

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Karrie Truath

GM Shipping & Maritime Tech & Innovation

Karrie Truath

I joined Shell five years ago as an experienced hire. I worked in the shipbuilding industry for the US navy before joining Shell. So I spent a couple of years in Houston learning about Shell, learning about the oil and gas business, came here to London and now I lead our technology and innovation organisation, creating overall maritime solutions for group business.

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Karrie Truath

One of the things Shell’s very good about is identifying development plans, identifying what needs to be learned, creating the space and creating the network to do that. So early on I got a business mentor as well as a technical mentor to help me through that journey, and both my line manager and my colleagues and my HR business partner were fantastic about reducing, as well call it, my time to autonomy.

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Karrie Truath

We talk about Shell’s leadership attributes of authenticity, collaboration, growth and performance. As you can see right now, I bring myself, my whole self to work every day, so authenticity has served me well throughout my whole career. But collaboration, particularly as an XP hire, as an experienced professional hire has been the most important because I needed to build relationships very quickly in Shell to understand the business, but also to make those key contributions.

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Karrie Truath

While there aren’t so very many women in the organisation, we have an incredibly inclusive culture and I felt welcome from day one. But then on a personal development perspective, the opportunity to grow in Shell, who are such a large company, there are so many different business lines, different areas where you can apply your skills, that to me is a huge selling point for Shell, a big employee value proposition, if you will.

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Karrie Truath

What I most enjoy about my job, it’s kind of a… it’s a tough one and I’m going to give you two answers to that. The first one is the people. It’s the people I work with, it’s the people who work for me and the people I work for. The energy, the professionalism, the drive, the knowledge, the capabilities we have, really second to none. And the second bit is my ability to contribute to the world. I really believe in cleaner energy. I really believe in the solutions that Shell is providing; lower CO2 footprint, bringing green solutions, and every one of us in Shell has the ability to impact that and really impact the world.

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Karrie Truath

The best piece of advice I’ve ever gotten in my career is never shy away from a challenge. If an opportunity looks too big, too daunting, something you’ve never done before, that’s the one you need to take. It’s right for you. Don’t turn down the challenge. Take it on.

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Title: Trading & Supply Mark Quartermain

Duration: 2:49 minutes

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A conversation with Shell VP of trading and supply products, Mark Quartermain.

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Mark Quartermain

VP Trading & Supply Products

Mark Quartermain

Well, I’ve been in trading for two-thirds of my entire career so I’ve had plenty of opportunity to experience both the highs and the lows, but the one continuous high is it’s real-time and there’s a real-time feedback between effort, performance and outcomes. You see those things right through and people get a real buzz out of that. I get a real buzz out of that. I also get a real buzz out of seeing people develop themselves. That’s a huge, huge upside for me in terms of this role. It’s very much a people business.

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Mark Quartermain

We put a huge emphasis on diversity, not just from a gender perspective, not just from the point of the colour of your skin, we’re also very interested in different skillsets and that’s particularly important as this market becomes more and more competitive. I think the sort of skills we’re looking for are people who are hungry, people who really want to make the very best of themselves, people who like being in the middle of things, like being in an environment which is real-time, which all, with all the excitement and the challenges that that brings, and people that can bring something from the rest of the RDS organisation. But particularly if you’re an external applicant coming into the T&S world, that’s really critical. Don’t underestimate how valuable that is to us. We have a number of recent examples of individuals who’ve come in and made a huge difference in changing our mind-sets because they came from a slightly different part of the business.

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Mark Quartermain

The myth to debunk is it’s all about people yelling and screaming and shouting. We’re in a trading room right now – can anyone… is anyone shouting? This is actually a pretty accommodative environment I would say. It is a place where we expect high performance from individuals, but it’s actually a [unclear] place which I think is quite accessible and quite accommodating to people of every different persuasion, of every different background and temperament.

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Mark Quartermain

I think for any aspiring leader, I think the first question you have to ask yourself is do you really care about people? You’re not just doing this because you want to supervise seven people; you’re doing this because you care about people’s development. And it’s not just about the mid-year review and the end-year review; it is an all-year-round responsibility that you are taking so that people care is a huge element and then of course can you set the strategy for an organisation? Can you have a vision? Can you think outside the tactical? I think those are the two critical qualities I’m looking for.

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Mark Quartermain

I think the barriers to entry into trading and supply are lower than they’ve ever been, not from a quality perspective but very much from the point of view of our acceptability of other people’s different skillsets. So as we broadened so other skillsets are much, become much more useful to us and we found great successes in people recently. So we’re asking people to be themselves, we’re asking people to, you know, to celebrate their experiences and come in and make a difference to our culture, to our understanding of how to work with the rest of RDS. But, quite frankly, it’s about being yourself and bringing new experience.

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Title: Trading & Supply Tahir Faruqui

Duration: 01:16 minutes

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President of Shell North America LNG Tahir Faruqui describes what he looks for in a candidate and why he enjoys his job.

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Tahir Faruqui

GM Origination North & Central America

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[Tahir Faruqui]

So I’m responsible for all the marketing and trading activity out of the North American region. What I’m looking to do is not only represent Shell’s interest from the production side and taking it to market but also looking at third parties that are looking to liquefy natural gas and buy competitively priced liquefied natural gas and take it to market.

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[Tahir Faruqui]

When I’m looking for leaders, I’m looking for people who are authentic, credible but inspirational. For me, it’s not just about getting another person on the team that has been successful in the past and now it’s time for them to be rewarded and moved up; I’m looking for somebody who’s always, constantly innovating, adapting and leading not only themselves to the change but also bringing the entire organisation along with them.

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[Tahir Faruqui]

What I enjoy most about my job is the ups and downs that we go through; it is a rollercoaster every single day.

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And you just don’t know. You can look at your schedule, you can plan your day but every time you show up, there’s something interesting happening and you always have to adapt; and that keeps it interesting, that keeps it motivating and that keeps it dynamic.

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Title: Trading & Supply Holly Mowbray

Duration: 02:46 minutes

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Portfolio Development Manager Holly Mowbray describes her job and what it takes to be successful in Trading & Supply.

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CAREER STORIES

Holly Mowbray

Portfolio Development Manager

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[Holly Mowbray]

I just recently started at Shell within the past year and a half. I was part of the BG acquisition.

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[Holly Mowbray]

My current role is Portfolio Development Manager and what I’m looking for is ways that we can come up with new products and expand our portfolio by looking at cross-commodity options.

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We sell power; we sell gas; we have LNG terminals and we’re looking to make sure that we’re working across teams to develop products and come up with ideas that extract the most value for Shell instead of acting as individual companies.

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To me, there’s many types of roles in trading. You can choose to be, like, a master of a specific market or a specific trading type or, I personally have chosen, I want to be a jack of many and a master of none.

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[Holly Mowbray]

So I want to understand trading at its most simplest level; like, if I trade gas and oil, I can trade widgets and corn, you know. It’s just a mentality; it’s about knowing what you’re selling, what products you’re providing, and being able to present it to the market.

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[Holly Mowbray]

The opportunities in Trading & Supply are endless. We have access to so many different commodities worldwide and so your opportunities to grow and learn and develop as a professional—the sky’s the limit.  

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I think, one of the most important things for being successful in the Trading & Supply organisation is building a network because the skill sets that are required across this chain are so vast and no one can know everything.

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[Holly Mowbray]

And so it’s important that you recognise your strengths and your weaknesses and you need to go and find people who help make you better.

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[Holly Mowbray]

And Trading & Supply is a perfect organisation where you can build that network, build your understanding and build better relationships that are going to help you be a better professional.

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When I was younger, I had perceptions about trading, that it was a man’s world and it was all about the dollars and you worked really hard and it was The Wolf of Wall Street. It’s not that at all; definitely, there’s a place for women and men and it’s a lot more collaborative and you’re working for the better good of a larger company.

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[Holly Mowbray]

I enjoy my job because every day I feel challenged. I feel like it’s constantly evolving and changing. The world changes so quickly; the markets change so quickly and so if you’re someone who needs to constantly be challenged and thirst for knowledge, like, you want to be in Trading & Supply.

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I would definitely tell people, you should give it a try. Ask 20 questions, be curious, be humble, be open and if you have the right skill sets and the drive, you will thrive in this space.

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Title: Trading & Supply Dong Yuan

Duration: 2:27 minutes

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A conversation with Shell regional team leader, Dong Yuan.

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Interview with Dong Yuan

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Career Stories

Dong Yuan

Regional Team Trader

Dong Yuan

I have an engineering background and I worked in a competitive company briefly for three years as an engineer before joining Shell ten years ago. I have 12 traders and analysts working with me in my team.

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Dong Yuan

I don’t see this role of leadership any different from any other leadership role in Shell and my understanding of the leader is we have to be truthful to the people who work with us and who work for us, and we have to take care of them and inspire them, create enough space for them to do their job properly. I enjoy the most about my job, it’s the flexibility of my job and the flexibility is something I define by the job scope I have.

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Dong Yuan

So in trading you have one main job scope which is to make the company more profitable and the rest of the detailed stuff, a lot of them are in your own hands, you define your own job scope. It is very liberating.

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Dong Yuan

Advices for someone to inspire to be in my role? I would give them two advice. One piece is to stay positive. It is easier said than done, but as a trader you tend to get stressed and to stay positive when you’re having a bad time or you’re having a bad position is really, really crucial in finding the best solution in the worst condition.

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Dong Yuan

And the second piece of advice I would give is that you need to balance your work and life. Don’t burn yourself out in trading, and trading is not about work hard for three months and rest for the nine. It’s about work hard and work consistent over a year, over two years, over a long period, so stay balanced is crucial to have a successful career in trading.

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Dong Yuan

If you are really interested in trading and about the trading business, do apply and in the selection process, if you are selected… in the selection process we are going to guide you through and see whether you are suitable for the job, and if you are selected and we will work together with you and in coaching you to, in training you to make sure that you can achieve your highest potential in trading.

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