CTA Introduction
The objective of the Advisor’s strategies are to achieve capital appreciation through the speculative trading of futures contracts and options on futures contracts. TCAM examines the commodity markets on a continuous basis through technical and fundamental analysis. The Advisor may trade
commodity futures and option contracts on any United States or foreign exchange.
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Principle Biographies:
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Anthony M. Demma is a Managing Member and trading principal of Third Coast Asset
Management, LLC and has been listed as a principal and Associated Person of the Advisor since Oct. 11 and Oct. 30, 2012, respectively and has been an associate member of the National Futures Association since Nov. 6, 2012.<br><br>
Mr. Demma is also registered as a floor broker since July 2003. In July 2003 Anthony became a member of the CBOT and began trading equity index products. In January 2005 he founded his own
proprietary trading firm, Windy City Asset Management (WCAM). In the preceding years he has grown the company to a successful, diversified, 24 hour trading firm across multiple product lines and asset classes. Currently WCAM employs 7 traders. In 2006 WCAM became a member of the CME. During this time Anthony began trading in equity index futures with an emphasis on spread trading and developed and implemented various mean reversion strategies. In 2006, in anticipation of agricultural products moving to an electronic platform, Anthony positioned WCAM to apply the same concepts to the
agricultural markets. He has been and continues to focus on adapting his strategies to ever more markets.
In July 2009 Mr. Demma also cofounded Pondrose Holdings which owns farmland as an investment. Working in close conjunction with established traders that he has known for years Anthony became a
founding member of Process Trading and Third Coast Asset Management. Process Trading was started in June of 2012 as a holding company for intellectual property. In January 2012 Anthony also cofounded Green Grease Environmental which collects used vegetable and sells it to be blended into biodiesel.
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Jaimin C. Patel is a Managing Member and trading principal of Third Coast Asset Management,LLC and has been listed as a principal and Associated Person of the Advisor since Oct. 11 and Oct. 30,
2012, respectively and has been an associate member of the National Futures Association since Nov. 6,
2012.
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Mr. Patel is also registered as a floor broker and floor trader since June 2011. He is a derivatives trader with over eight years of experience in financial and commodity derivative markets. He graduated with a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2004. At Northwestern, Jaimin
focused on research in the biomechanics field. It was there that he nsuspectingly honed his skills in data analytics which would benefit his trading career greatly. His first job out of college was working as an interest rate trader for Gambit Trading in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Gambit Trading was a proprietary
trading firm focused on fixed income futures. At Gambit Trading, from July 2004 to July 2007, Jaimin traded the treasury complex using short term pattern recognition and fundamental analysis to take advantage of inefficient markets. As a proprietary trader, Jaimin was responsible for risk management,
execution, and strategy development. Starting in July 2007, Jaimin became an independent trader and branched out into various futures markets. With an emphasis on spreading correlated and fundamentally
related markets, he has been able to work independently while learning about many domestic and foreign markets. Jaimin first became a member of the CBOT in 2005 and current holds a seat on that exchange. Along with Mr. Demma, Jaimin co-founded Process Trading in June 2012, which is a holding company for intellectual property, and Third Coast Asset Management in August 2012.