[Sukotto]

I find this sort of article extremely interesting. (I'm in the commodity trading space, mostly natural gas and electricity)

Beware the fallacy where you believe everyone around you has similar interests; likes; dislikes; pop-culture background; etc as yourself.

[haliax]

Off-topic, but how did you get into commodities? Do you trade independently, or for a large firm?

[Sukotto]

I don't trade. I help traders better understand the market conditions so they can make better trading decisions. Mostly through pulling together different types of publicly available (scraping) and purchased data (or, you could call me a programmer)

After about 5 years of being on the webmaster team of a technology megacorp I was offered a chance to join great energy trading company in a sort of developer/analyst/bridge/free-agent role. Since then, that company has traded hands a couple of times and currently belongs to a large European bank that wanted into the US power market.

Email's in my profile if you want to chat.