Global Markets
At Core, we are dedicated to enhancing and preserving the value of the Patel Family’s financial markets portfolio through meticulously crafted strategies executed with precision. As global markets and technology evolve, our Trading Room advances ahead of the curve, expanding its capabilities to meet the immediate and long-term demands of our Group—spanning Execution, Risk Management, and Treasury.
Our state-of-the-art, 24-hour Trading Desk operates seamlessly across all time zones, underpinned by an unrivalled understanding of global markets and exclusive access to world-class research. This empowers us to deliver sophisticated, comprehensive solutions across every major asset class: Equities, Fixed Income (including Credit and Rates), Foreign Exchange, Commodities, and Precious Metals, enriched by deep insights into both developed and emerging markets.
Our Approach
We run a Multi-Strategy Trading Operation, with the cornerstone of our returns rooted in Global Macro Trading—operating with the agility and foresight of a premier Global Macro Hedge Fund. Our mission is to seize opportunities worldwide, leveraging active trading and rigorous risk management across asset classes, geographies, currencies, and thematic risks.
Complementing this, our systematic trading harnesses advanced, price-driven, and trend-following algorithms to construct portfolios and execute trades with precision, ensuring adaptability in dynamic market conditions.
Decoding Global Macro Strategy
A Global Macro Strategy drives our portfolio construction, anchoring investments – long and short – across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities, and futures, based on incisive macroeconomic and geopolitical analysis. For instance, anticipating a US recession, our traders might short US equity indices or long positions in US Treasury, conversely, spotting growth opportunities in Singapore tech sector, we’d take long positions in its assets. This top-down approach affords unparalleled flexibility, enabling our traders to navigate any market, anywhere, with confidence.
Our global macro framework thrives on anticipating large-scale economic shifts – be it country specific, regional, or global – executing opportunistic strategies to capitalise on these trends. Unconstrained by convention, our traders deploy a full spectrum of instruments, from futures and options to spot transactions, across liquid, 24/6 markets.
Precision Across Strategies
Currency Expertise: We exploit relative currency dynamics, tracking global economic and monetary policies to trade major pairs using various financial instruments – futures, forwards, options, and spot – with relentless precision.
Interest Rate Mastery: Our sovereign debt strategies balance directional bets with relative value trades, leveraging futures, OTC markets, and options for optimal positioning.
Equity & Commodity Agility: Country specific bets on stock, sector, and commodity indices – via futures, options, and ETFs – drive returns, with selective focus on emerging markets.
Adaptive Excellence
Whether positioning for a defined outcome or profiting from volatility in uncertain times, our traders blend currency, interest rate, and index strategies to maximise returns. At Core, we don’t just respond to the markets – we shape our success within them, delivering results with sophistication and foresight.
Characteristics of a Global Markets Trader
Our Global Market Traders at Core embody the qualities that define success in the fast-paced world of financial markets. Operating at the forefront of a cutting-edge, 24-hour Trading Operation, they thrive across all time zones, wielding an unrivalled command of global markets and leveraging privileged access to elite research.
These traders are not confined to a single discipline. They excel as systematic strategists, deploying price-driven and trend-following algorithms with precision, while mastering global macro trading – anticipating and capitalising on macroeconomic and geopolitical shifts. Versatility is their hallmark, as they navigate every major asset class – Equities, Fixed Income (Credit and Rates), Foreign Exchange, Commodities, and Precious Metals – using a full spectrum of instruments, from futures and options to spot trades, across developed and emerging markets.
Adaptability sets them apart. They balance the art of constructing long-term portfolios with the agility to run short-term trading books, seizing opportunities in real time. Whether positioning for a bold directional bet, exploiting relative value, or profiting from volatility in uncertain markets, their decisions are informed by acute market intelligence and a relentless focus on risk management.
Below, explore a selection of the markets and strategies where our traders shine. For deeper insights into their craft, visit our dedicated page via the links provided.
Early Risers
Roll With The Punches
Risk-Taker
Competitive
Early Risers
Global Market Traders at Core rise with the sun. Logically, this makes sense, since markets open at the start of the day.
Roll With The Punches
No matter how much you try, you can't win them all. We say to all our Traders at Core... losing money is inevitable.
Risk-Taker
One interesting, and slightly disturbing, study finds that the best traders have much more in common with...
Competitive
It goes hand-in-hand with being a risk-taker, but there's a difference between a good Trader and a great Trader.