FX MANAGERS
Frederic Bettan CEO – Swing Capital
interviewed by JW Partners for FX Trader Magazine
Frederic Bettan talks about Swing Capital and their proprietary Swing Strategy, a hybrid - systematic signals / qualitative overlay
risk management INTERVIEW
- contrarian and relatively short
program, which aim is to catch intermediary swing points.
term FX program. A trend
exhaustion
FX
JW How long have you been trading
foreign exchange for and what first attracted you to this industry? Tell us about your career evolution?
FB Two of the three managing partners
at Swing Capital have a combined 40 years experience in FX trading (market making
and proprietary trading);
I am one of them. Te entiremulti- tasking treasury environment was very attractive in the nineties, on top of being an exciting and rich learning ground in trading and risk management.
JW What do you particularly like about
your job?
FB Being able to use my unique
expertise to manage a large pool of institutional assets and profit from it by capitalizing on market dysfunctions.
FB Although the FX spot market has
evolved to be very easily available and scalable to many types of participants which add to the overall liquidity of the market, and although this plain
Manager Strategy Location
Swing Capital
Swing Capital Swing FX Montreal
Assets Under Management 74M Type Style
Instruments Traded Currencies
SManaged accounts Hybrid contrarian FX spot Majors
JW In which way is trading
currencies different from trading other financial instruments?
vanilla instrument is used every day by individuals and corporations around the world, every one can trade it or use it differently. Its availability, the way it remains easily leveraged and accessible makes it a unique market where every participant look for something different.
JW When and how was the company
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