Ben Waters | Trader
Ben Waters, trader, has managed his own real money portfolio since 2012, investing in options and stocks. He deploys options strategies including the use of credit, debit and horizontal spreads and making outright calls and equities strategies incorporating fundamental analysis and multiples and DCF valuation. The trading profits derived from these activities funded Mr Waters university tuition and living costs during his time as a student at the London School of Economics and Policial Science. Mr Waters graduated in 2018 with a BSc in accounting and finance.
Career
Today, Mr Waters is an equity delta one trader in Global Indices/MSCI. In this position, which he has held since March 2019, he trades in Emerging Markets and Developed Markets (with a primary focus on Emerging Markets).
From June to August 2017, Mr Waters worked on Citi’s Trading Execution Desk as a summer analyst, dealing with markets and securities services. As an investment analyst at the University of Auckland Investment Club Inc from June 2014 to June 2015, Mr Waters managed a real money fund of £70,000, following the organisation’s intensive and thorough investment selection process that necessitated both fundamental analysis and DCF model valuation. Here, he was so successful in his activities that he received the Outstanding Performance by a UAIC Committee Member 2014 to 2015 award.
Personal Investment
Since 2012 Benjamin Waters, trader, has been investing his own funds in the financial markets, in particularly in the NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange. He primarily focuses on equity options and stocks, implementing bull spreads, outright calls, covered calls and calendar spreads. Mr Waters used the profits derived from these trading activities to fund his university living expenses and tuition.
Skills & Interests
Mr Waters cites some of his key technical skills as those related to index delta one, MSCI futures, total return swaps, equities, equity options, delta one index arbitrage, index options, options strategies, computer programming, Python, VBA, Matlab and Excel. He is also skilled in leading teams and has proven analytical and quantitative abilities regarding financial markets and products.
Outside of work, Mr Waters likes to travel and enjoys a range of sports including sailing, basketball and tennis.