Summary

Since 2011, Olivier MERLE traded world agricultural spreads with a focus on high returns*, low risk strategies. He holds a Msc in Econometrics from the London School of Economis and a Msc in statistics from ENSAI. Olivier founded Agritel's quantitative departement. Agritel is the leader in consulting for european agricultural cash traders. He is the author of Highlight of the week, a weekly letter on agricultural spreads and a speaker for the Paris Grain Day international conference. Olivier is passionate about advanced statistics, the agricultural world and talking with cash traders on cash markets. The BlackBird Alpha spread strategy was traded before August 2019 in the RCube Commodity Spread program. More information on: https://www.iasg.com/en-us/groups/group/rcube-asset-management/program/commodity-spread-program *There is a substantial risk of loss in trading futures.