{"id":4798,"date":"2025-05-28T12:29:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suedkupfer.de\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:42:38","slug":"from-the-stock-exchange-to-the-copper-business-my-start-at-suedkupfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suedkupfer.de\/en\/from-the-stock-exchange-to-the-copper-business-my-start-at-suedkupfer\/","title":{"rendered":"From the stock exchange to the copper business &#8211; my start at S\u00dcDKUPFER"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624539431749{background-color: #d6d6d6 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who am I? My name is J\u00f6rn Sch\u00e4fer, I am 30 years old, originally from around Kassel, where I studied Industrial Engineering. After graduating, I joined the Stuttgart Stock Exchange, where I worked as a trader for funds and stocks for around three years. The world of financial markets has always been fascinating to me &#8211; quick decisions, exciting developments, figures, data and facts.<\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Then, I wanted more &#8211; something even closer to real economy.&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:center&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I came across the job advertised by S\u00dcDKUPFER on LinkedIn, I was immediately intrigued: The combination of exchange trading and physical business sounded like exactly the mix I had been looking for. Perhaps that was partly due to my family\u2019s background in agriculture, as commodities are often hedged via stock exchange transactions in the agricultural sector too. So, the topic of hedging was not entirely foreign to me \u2013 but it was completely new in this dimension.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>And how did it start?<\/strong> Long story short: intensive, exciting and instructive. I was introduced step by step to the various systems and processes of our day-to-day business. In the beginning, of course, I was hardly confronted with a lot of new information. But over time, everything fell into place like a jigsaw puzzle and the processes have become more transparent and tangible.<\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;4790&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;My job at S\u00dcDKUPFER&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:center&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My job at S\u00dcDKUPFER is to handle the hedging of our customers&#8217; copper purchases via our trading partners (brokers and banks). It works like this: a customer contacts us and places an order &#8211; in most cases this is done by phone, sometimes also by e-mail. For customers who prefer a more digital approach: orders can also be placed directly online via our innovative customer portal &#8211; quickly, easily and 24\/7.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once we receive an order via these options, we immediately hedge the price of this (physical) transaction at the London Metal Exchange (LME) by buying forwards. We are in permanent contact with our trading partners via special chat channels, by phone as well as on trading platforms. The price of these forwards is based on the current copper price at different dates. In this manner the pricing risk of our customer is perfectly managed.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the beginning it was not easy to keep track on the wide range of hedging positions &#8211; but day by day it became more confident and faster.<\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;4794&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;4792&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Then, the \u2018Trump moment\u2019 happened- and my personal baptism of fire took place.&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:center&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the beginning of April, Donald Trump announced his so-called \u2018Liberation Day\u2019, which led to a dramatic drop in the price of copper &#8211; within a few days, the price fell by a whopping \u20ac1,600 per ton. For many of our customers, this was the perfect opportunity to stock up at a favorable price. For us at S\u00dcDKUPFER, that caused continuous stress.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The phone rang permanently. We took order for order, put the numbers into the system, secured prices &#8211; non-stop. For several days, there was a level of activity that I had never experienced before. The figures at the end of the week were record-breaking: we traded more copper in April than ever before in the history of S\u00dcDKUPFER. Shortly after my colleagues said with a smile: <em>\u2018Welcome to the team &#8211; that was your baptism of fire.\u2019<\/em> I could barely agree with them. 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