About Us

Thirty Years. One Belief.

Stipelis Global Trading was built on a simple belief:

Investment decisions should be driven by research, discipline, and risk management, not by the need to sell products.

That belief wasn’t developed overnight. It was shaped by decades of experience, setbacks, lessons learned, and a long journey through the financial industry.

I didn’t start out trying to build a company. I started out trying to understand markets.

Like many people entering the industry, I didn’t begin at the top. My first stop was a penny stock firm. It didn’t take long for me to realize it wasn’t the kind of business I wanted to be part of, so I left almost immediately.

After that, I spent months cold-calling at Shearson-Lehman Brothers, learning one of the first important lessons of my career: how to deal with rejection. Hearing “no” over and over again taught me discipline, persistence, and the importance of continuing to do the work even when results don’t come easily.

My Wall Street career then began at a firm that would go through several mergers and name changes over the years. The logo on the business card changed, but I remained in the same place, learning the business during a period when Wall Street itself was rapidly changing.

As the years passed, I gained experience in research, portfolio construction, market analysis, risk management, and client service. Along the way, I also witnessed situations that left a lasting impression on me. I learned that there can be a difference between what is best for investors and what is being sold to investors.

Those experiences reinforced a principle that guides me to this day: investment decisions should be based on research, discipline, and risk management rather than marketing, sales targets, or investment fads.

That realization played a major role in my decision to eventually build an independent firm.

Later, I found my way to proprietary trading firms, where life on the trading desk taught me several important lessons.

The first was how to trade: how to enter and exit positions, manage risk, and understand both the power and the dangers of leverage.

The second was that markets don’t care who you are, where you work, or who you know. Markets are one of the great equalizers. At the end of the day, they care only about whether you are right or wrong.

Those years sharpened my understanding of risk, position management, and the emotional discipline required to survive in the markets over the long term.

But the path wasn’t always smooth.

There were periods when nothing was certain.

There was a year without a job.

There were years spent trading my own account with no firm’s name behind me.

There were several years working nights answering calls for hospitals, clinics, and crisis lines. It wasn’t part of the plan. It wasn’t where I expected to be. But it paid the bills, provided health insurance, and gave me the runway I needed to continue building toward a goal that still existed only in my mind.

Many people see a business after it has been built.

Few see the years spent trying to build it.

That unseen period is where Stipelis Global Trading was born.

The road took longer than I expected. It involved setbacks, detours, uncertainty, and more than a few moments when the easier choice would have been to move on to something else.

I didn’t.

More than a decade passed before Stipelis Global Trading and I finally arrived where we had set out to be: registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a Member of the National Futures Association (NFA), and serving clients on our own terms.

I share this story not because the resume is impressive.

Resumes only tell part of the story.

The most important parts are usually hidden between the lines: the setbacks, the uncertainty, the night shifts, the false starts, the disappointments, and the stubborn refusal to quit.

Careers are rarely straight lines.

Mine certainly wasn’t.

What matters is whether you continue showing up for the same belief, year after year, even when nobody is watching and nothing is guaranteed.

That belief helped build this firm.

Stipelis Global Trading exists because I didn’t stop.

And that is the story behind the firm.