Markus Amstutz is an Associate Partner at blacalp. He is the owner and CEO of Future Trade AG and head of portfolio management. Future Trade AG is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor with the CFTC and develops quantitative and discretionary trading systems primarily specialized for trading commodity interest and financial futures contracts. Furthermore, it advises institutional and private investors on all issues relating to commodity exposure to derivatives markets to provide clients with easy access to these specialist markets. The company trade futures on precious and industrial metals, agricultural products as well as mineral resources and also “hedge” business for commercial clients in all commodity markets.
He is the developer of the multiple awarded “Thales Swing Trading Programme” with more than 13 years successful track record. With more than 33 years of experience in the commodity industry in several companies, Markus has been responsible for the following activities: development of quantitative and discretionary commodity-futures-trading-models, implementation of different trading strategies with commodity futures and placing of all trading orders, trading and management of managed futures accounts and structured products, advising and support of qualified Investors like high net worth individuals, institutionals and private investors regarding investment and trading in Commodities and Financial Futures, advising / implementation of price hedges for commercial market participants in Crude Oil, Sugar, Cotton, Natural Gas, Wheat and Gold. Markus is an associated member of the NFA (Series 3) and is certified master and practicioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming of the Society of NLP / USA. He is specialized in advising and implementation of all commodity business cases for trading and hedging, managed accounts, money management, risk analysis, charting, spread-trading, quantitative odelling & analysis as well as fundamental & technical research.
Part of his success is attributed to the following skills he commands as good team player: confort in dealing with figures, cross-linked thinking, goal-oriented, working precisely and thinking analytically, quick comprehension, assertiveness. Based on covering the asset class “commodities” in a modern investment portfolio / asset-allocation, Markus represents Swiss merits and is specialized to cover the asset class commodities – nothing else. He aims to support businesses in defining and implementing their growth strategy with a focus on portfolio diversification in trading commodities as own asset class.
Markus Amstutz is a Swiss citizen living in Bremgarten (AG), Switzerland. He speaks German as mother tongue, English and Spanish.