Eric Matsen
President

Eric has over 40 years of experience in trading, strategy, and portfolio risk management.

Starting in the early 80’s, Eric worked in trading, strategy, and research capacities for large Wall Street firms as well as floor trading on both futures and equity options exchanges in New York.

In the mid 1980’s he was a Stock Index Futures Strategist at Shearson Lehman Brothers.  Here he developed strategic option strategies to help clients improve their equity exposures to improve their overall portfolio risk/return profiles.

In the 1990’s he worked as a Senior Options Strategist for Merrill Lynch Futures Research.  It was during this time that he focused on physical commodities.  This work led him to serve as Senior Vice President / Portfolio Manager and advisor to the world’s foremost independent cotton merchant, Dunavant Enterprises Inc.

Since 2003 he has functioned as an independent Physical Commodity Derivative Risk Management Consultant working with large commercial entities.

In 2008 he registered Matsen Enterprises LLC as a Commodity Trading Advisor.  His expertise focuses on understanding market spread relationships and interim option pricing volatility skews.

Eric holds a Series 3 with the NFA (NFA ID: 000 9445)