Oil/gas Trading Interview Questions

For the oil/gas traders - What do you look for when trying to hire a junior trader, aside from soft skills (hard work, communication etc)?

For those of you that have gone through the interview process, what kind of questions were you asked?

 
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Assuming you are an external candidate the traders interviewing you for a jr trade role are going to ask you about your understanding of S&D (production vs take-away capacity), market structure, derivatives (hedging), and inco terms. So I'd be ready to explain if you bought or sold X that you'd hedge by doing Y, understand that there are basis differentials and market structure (contango vs backwardation), and review inco terms.

 

This makes plenty of sense and i think i have a pretty good understanding of a lot of this, as well as the logistics that surround a specific trade.

As far as derivatives go - assuming they may go more in depth than just hedging/EFPs and discuss chart analysis? Support/resistance, VWAP, Fibbonacci retracements?

Also if any one has anything else to comment, please do.

 

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