Efstratios Tsalas is the sole Principle, Associated Person, and Trading Advisor of Strat Asset Management, LLC. He brings with him more than thirteen years of derivatives trading experience and invaluable knowledge about the derivative markets and the industry as a whole.
From October 1997 through March 2004, while with Future Commission Merchants Peregrine Financial Group, Inc. (January 1997 – June 1997), Professional Market Brokerage, Inc. (June 1997 – October 1997), LFG, LLC (October 1997 – April 2000), Refco, LLC (April 2000 – December 2002), ZAP Futures, LLC (November 2002 – March 2004), and RJ O’Brien Associates, LLC (March 2004 – April 2004), Efstratios Tsalas acted as an Associated Person of those firms and was responsible for executing as many as 1000 strategic trades per day in domestic and international markets, managed the daily logistics and trading activities of a number of publicly available and a few privately held trading methodologies, and regularly executed individual trades worth more than $500 million. While working for those firms, he started to understand how the different algorithms worked in relations to the different commodity markets and started developing algorithms of his own.
Efstratios Tsalas was one of the founding members, a Principle, and an Associated Person, of Madison, Monroe, & Whitaker Investment Services, LLC (MMW)(March 2004 – August 2009), a member of the National Futures Association and a Guaranteed introducing Broker with MF Global since April of 2004. MMW provides brokerage services to clients. He was instrumental in the business start-up and development of the company and was a Managing Member of the firm. He managed the daily logistics of an international trade desk, company finances, customer relations, and was the compliance officer of the firm.
Efstratios Tsalas was one of the founding partners, a Principle, and an Associated Person, of Meridian Strategic Asset Management, Inc (July 2004 – August 2009), a registered Commodity Trading Advisor, and a member of the National Futures Association from July of 2004 through October of 2009. Efstratios Tsalas was one of the founding Members, a Principle, and an Associated Person, of Meridian Fund Management Services, LLC (July 2007 – August 2009), a registered Commodity Trading Advisor, a registered Commodity Pool Operator, and a member of the National Futures Association since July of 2007. He was the chief strategist, trading methodology developer, and the director of trading operations for both companies.
In August of 2009, with years of research and a clear understanding of building successful programs, Efstratios Tsalas decided to start Strat Asset management, LLC (September 2009 – Current) a registered Commodity Trading Advisor and a member of the National Futures Association since September of 2009. Efstratios Tsalas was an Associated Person of Arc Capital Management (August 2009 – April 2010), an introducing broker, and NFA Member until May 2010. Efstratios Tsalas currently serves as an Associated Person at Coquest Inc. (January 2010 – Current), a Commodity Pool Operator, Commodity Trading Advisor, Introducing Broker, and NFA Member.
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