Researcher
Emma joined Proco in 2018 as the Lead Researcher in the Commodities Technology practise. She works across the market, with a number of key vendors, consultancies, trading firms, merchants, and utilities to place the best IT talent from around the world.
Emma holds a Masters in International Politics from Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK, as well as a Bachelors in Political Studies from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.
Much has been written about the ways in which proprietary quantitative and algorithmic trading strategies have the potential to increase trading performance across commodity, currency, debt and equity markets.
While the prospect of computers automating trading strategies and taking out the need for the physical intervention of a trader may sound like all-round bad news for commodities traders, the rise of the machines in commodities creates many opportunities for those with the right skills.