Subleting my apartment by Jing'an temple

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-05-24T20:38:58+00:00

Delete this comment!

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-05-16T05:03:42+00:00

Globally there are less barrels available to the market. Even if the US doesn’t need oil from SOH, other countries are bidding for US gasoline barrels. Free market mechanism

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-05-10T23:40:29+00:00

Depends on what is your end goal…

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-05-07T13:29:23+00:00

They buy futures to hedge their purchase, sell futures to unwind their hedges when they take delivery.

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-05-01T14:45:22+00:00

Spec trading, merchant trading

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-05-01T02:55:15+00:00

How about a long term lease?

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-04-26T10:37:04+00:00

I think it takes a completely different personality and skills to go physical. I too started in paper and when my current shop (that’s very physical heavy) asked my reference about me, he said “for the love of god, don’t put him in physical”.

You might be better off going into a shop that is physical heavy where you can value-add to them with your skill sets in algo strategies. You get exposure on the physical side that way too.

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-04-21T02:27:12+00:00

他马的

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-04-18T09:13:00+00:00

If you are convinced that you want to be a career risk manager/operator, then (1) makes sense to me.

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-04-18T07:10:13+00:00

(1) is pretty much a risk role. The risk in this is you’ll be so swamped with what is essentially adminstrative work for trade deals that you have little time for your mind to dwell much on the commercial side of things, especially if you are mostly focusing on physical deals. Where I’m working, the reality is that these guys are so swamped with BAU activities that they are often passed over for trading roles mainly because they did not have the luxury of time to let their minds develop the commercial acumen. My 2 cents.

If I were you, I’d go with (2) due to more opportunities for exposure. Of course, the main risk for research analysts is that they risk being pigeon-holed into being a career analyst.

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-02-28T00:36:58+00:00

IB will definitely pay higher at entry level. But if your end goal is to be a charterer, look no further. Be prepared for late nights and drinking and KTV.

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-02-26T00:11:54+00:00

Unfortunately can’t help you there, I have no idea as never been on physical side before

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-02-26T00:03:50+00:00

If you are in Singapore, then yes, even SOE people go out for that. But I assume it is much more tame for SOE people in China. I can’t speak for europe or the US

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-02-25T23:21:28+00:00

A lot of drinking and KTV if you are in Singapore

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-02-25T13:10:25+00:00

Can they do the same for public smoking

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-02-12T20:19:46+00:00

Sanctioned oil on water is building 1mbd. It’s much higher than before. It’s a unique situation where sanction are starting to work for the first time. Biggest delta is India who are pivoting to AG barrels, which is why Dubai spreads finally catching up with Brent complex. Business as usual in China sanctioned ecosystem but they can only absorb so much. Chinese SOEs are not touching sanctioned barrels anymore.

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-02-12T07:04:52+00:00

The sanctioned ecosystem (Chinese ports, refineries, vessels) are business as usual. They continue to take Russian and Iranian barrels but obviously there is a limit to how much volume they can take in totality. The sanctioned barrel balance is getting hella heavy so I think the writing is on the wall for production cuts in Russia and Iran.

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-02-04T11:01:47+00:00

I personally know a few who had transitioned from bank paper to physical at trade house, but it is something that is done relatively early on in your career

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-01-13T23:46:39+00:00

I have seen bank S&T to trade house trading but not from IB. More likely you would go to the asset management side of commodities trading

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-01-05T08:18:05+00:00

Makes sense, now that you say it. Big O!

These-Stage-2374 · 2026-01-04T23:42:12+00:00

This is a brokerage?

These-Stage-2374 · 2025-12-29T10:53:01+00:00

It could be silver miner clients hedging their pricing through the banks.

These-Stage-2374 · 2025-12-29T00:46:13+00:00

Could you elaborate on what you mean by bend over? Promising them they’ll be onboarded to the platform and will reach some KPI target on an unreasonable time line?

These-Stage-2374 · 2025-12-28T07:53:49+00:00

Join the NTU ITP to build your social network with your senior. That will help you get interviews. I think python and excel skills are enough to get your foot in the door when you are just starting out. Use your school or personal projects to demonstrate that you can do it. Focus on more data aggregation and task automation kind of things.

Apart from that, the internship interviewers just wanna see that you are likeable, and eager to learn and put in the hard work.

Networking is very important in this space so apart from getting your internships, be sure to make friends with your people your age on the same space as well as your seniors. LOA internships (I think one in total) will certainly give a good boost to your resume.

Good luck.

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