CTA Interview: Protec Energy Partners, LLC (2)

Protec Energy Parners, LLC is a Commodity Trading Advisor and Investment Management firm which seeks capital appreciation of client accounts through speculative trading in energy commodity futures and options. The firm’s flagship, ET1 Investment program utilizes both fundamental and technical investment strategies in an options intensive portfolio that includes crude oil, heating oil, gasoline and natural gas. Protec executes its strategy on the major exchanges in North America. The program targets superior risk adjusted returns, small drawdowns and low downside deviation through a strong emphasis on portfolio composition, option valuation and risk management.

Founded on September 9, 2009, Protec Energy Partners, LLC is a Florida limited liability company and is an affiliate fo Protec Energy Fuel Management, LLC, an energy marketing and trading company founded in February 1999. Protec Fuel Management’s principal, Andrew Greenberg and Todd G.Garner, conceived the Advisor business purpose as an investment manager and commodities traders, as an outgrowth of Protec Fuel Management’s main business. Protec Fuel Management markets and trades in physical and financial energy products, including fefined petroleum products, natural gas and ethanol, serving a braod client base throughout the United States, including petroluem refiners and wholesalers, industrial companies, transportation companies, jobbers, convenience store outlets, fleet operators, state, county and municipal governments and the U.S. Military.

“The rate of return shown in the Performance Capsule may vary materially among managed accounts due to multiple factors inherent in the ET1 program. This variance, however, is primarily due to longer-term trend following option positions that existing clients hold in which may take new clients several months to have comparable trading positions.”

Since its inception, the Protec Energy program has significantly outperformed a broad selection of benchmarks/indices in terms of both absolute and risk adjusted returns. The diligent application of Risk Management and successful selection of options strategies has produced a track record with a high ratio of upside to downside volatility allowing for the preservation of capital in adverse periods without sacrificing upside potential.


Disclamer: The risk of loss in trading can be substantial. You should therefore carefully consider whether such trading is suitable for you in light of your financial condition. The high degree of leverage that is often obtainable in commodity trading can work against you as well as for you. The use of leverage can lead to large losses as well aas gains. Managed commodity accounts are subjected to substantial charges for management and advisory fees. It may be necessary for those accounts that are subject to these charges to make substantial trading profits to avoid depletion or exhaustion of their assets. The disclosure document contains a complete description of the principal risk factors and each fee to be charged to your account by the commodity trading advisor (CTA).