commodity trading

yanglei

hi, all

i want to move to commodity trading after mba, does there any good program meet this  ?

now working in a leading bulk shipping company which is close related with commodity trading.

thanks in advance !

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shockhaoliu

Have you ever considered Booth? Chicago is the hub of commodity trading in north america, CBOT is the world largest and most historical commodity exchange

JonFrank

Hello there.  Yes, certain programs are more known for finance than others.  And to be sure, since so much commodity trading in the US happens in NYC, CBS and Stern are logical choices for you.  But.

In terms of selecting programs, there are countless considerations.  If I had to generalize though, I would say the following: GO TO THE BEST SCHOOL YOU CAN GET INTO.  You can drive yourself batty researching who has the best commodities program, who has the best X program, where Professor Y teaches etc--at the end of the day, go to the best school you can get into.  If you can get into Harvard, go there.  Stanford?  Go there.  Columbia?  Go there.  All schools have strong financial presences (especially Columbia and Wharton) but all that doesn't matter.  Go to the best school you can get into.  eriod.  Niiiice and simple for ya.  J  Make sense?  From the best school, you will have the best contacts to go…pretty much wherever you want.

Jon Frank

tianya111

回楼主，我觉得要看你想做什么了。MBA大多都是冲着投行咨询PE VC去的，很多毕业了的MBA都未必很了解这行。

我记得MIT和Wharton前两年都有去Glencore的。

我对commodity trading也很感兴趣，但不是特别了解这些公司业务拓展的情况。不知道你的目标公司是什么？BHP，Vitol，Cargill，Nobel or Glencore？大家一同交流下。

mopton

回楼主，我觉得要看你想做什么了。MBA大多都是冲着投行咨询PE VC去的，很多毕业了的MBA都未必很了解这行。

我记得MIT和Wharton前两年都有去Glencore的。

我对commodity trading也很感兴趣，但不是特别了解这些公司业务拓展的情况。不知道你的目标公司是什么？BHP，Vitol，Cargill，Nobel or Glencore？大家一同交流下。

-- by 会员 tianya111 (2011/5/30 14:37:46)

BHP, Cargill在北美一般去哪些学校找MBA？不知ls是否知道。

tianya111

我也不是很知道，commodity trading house应该不是很value MBA吧。前面说的MIT和Wharton大概也只是学生凭自己的人脉找到的。

公众公司如BHP应该还是好进的。Cargill貌似也有自己的program。但是不知道bulk commodity部门会不会对MBA感兴趣。另外，Glencore，vitol这样低调而神秘的大鳄，貌似CD上从没人讨论过。

大家都看着投行、咨询的gloabal pay，其实我是觉得能去那些低调私有的大宗商品公司，个人感觉比投行咨询好很多。

zbb88

如果想入的是现货贸易商，那MBA不是很有用。但楼主如果是在马士基之类的公司工作，可以考虑跳槽去现货贸易商从物流开始做起。至于能不能爬到贸易员就看你以后表现了。

一定要读书的话，首先是TOP MBA （HBS, 沃顿之类的），其次地点很重要。全球的商品交易中心是伦敦，然后是日内瓦，纽约，新加坡，芝加哥等, 能去这些地方读书最好。

zbb88

我也不是很知道，commodity trading house应该不是很value MBA吧。前面说的MIT和Wharton大概也只是学生凭自己的人脉找到的。

公众公司如BHP应该还是好进的。Cargill貌似也有自己的program。但是不知道bulk commodity部门会不会对MBA感兴趣。另外，Glencore，vitol这样低调而神秘的大鳄，貌似CD上从没人讨论过。

大家都看着投行、咨询的gloabal pay，其实我是觉得能去那些低调私有的大宗商品公司，比投行咨询应该好很多吧。

-- by 会员 tianya111 (2011/5/31 11:32:03)

商品贸易商很低调，且圈子小又封闭，不像投行咨询那样向大众开放。没人讨论是正常的。

shockhaoliu

Trafigura has got trainee program but not very openly recruited, and most trading houses are recruited on a referral approach, from insiders. If you are so much interested in commodity trading, why not try majors first, BP Shell Chevron, BP used to have an extraordinary 3 yrs Challenger Program which could lead you the way to trading or other aspects of physical and paper trading, ie. physical operator, blender; Shell have a similar one but not so much dedicated to trading, rather as a general graduate program and both are open to public, not so secretive as trading houses ones. Hope it helps