Hello and welcome.

I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members

to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

Let's get to it.

In this episode, Marcellus shares his path as a gas trader for over a decade, learn how he survived

graduating into the great financial crisis, how he got his first break, the setup at a large

energy company doing prop energy trading,

and how that was different from a trading house, as well as two key pieces of wisdom he shares

near the end on how to position yourself for a similar career. Enjoy.

Okay, Marcellus Wallace, welcome to the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, it's good to be here.

Thanks, Patrick.

So it'd be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Yeah, for sure.

So a bit about myself.

Basically, moved to the East Coast from the Middle East when I was younger, and then worked

out through the university, I ended up going to study computer science in university.

They completed internships in IT programming.

They didn't really enjoy it.

Switch to more of a business focus later on, did some internships at Fortune 50 companies, some trade desks, different products. I ended up doing it. One of those internships was on energy desk and I was in a natural gas group. And some interesting things happened. I graduated in that 2008, 2009, fun times. So basically ended up graduating jobless.

That's opportunity opened up on the desk probably four or five months after I graduated

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