Kpler Financial Flows & Arbitrage Briefing | Houston
Synopsis
The Kpler Financial Flows and Arbitrage Briefing brings together the data, analysis, and expertise shaping how commodity traders understand systematic market behaviour.
Join Kpler's Financial Flows team as they explore how CTA models generate signals and build positions across futures markets, when those flows amplify trends or trigger reversals, and how systematic positioning can be viewed alongside fundamental data for deeper market insights.
Fred Asiedu and Michelle Brouhard will be running a live market briefing built around the Kpler Arbitrage tool, combining real-time pricing, freight and physical flows with expert insight on geopolitics, positioning and what may come next.
Held at Morton's The Steakhouse in Downtown Houston on May 19, the session includes an analyst-led briefing and a networking cocktail hour. Walk away with sharper insight into systematic flows and a preview of upcoming advancements in Kpler's Financial Flows coverage.
Event details:
Date: May 19, 2026
Location: Morton’s The Steakhouse (Downtown)
Address: 1001 McKinney St Suite A4, Houston, TX 77002
Time: 2:30pm - 5:30pm
Agenda
Registration
Stephen Roseme - Director, Financial Flows and Jack Nealon - Financial Flows Analyst
- How systematic CTA models generate signals, build positions and generate coordinated flows across futures markets
- When systematic flows can amplify markets moves and accelerate trends or trigger reversals
- Why monitoring systematic positioning has become critical for commodity traders
- How systematic positioning can be viewed alongside fundamental data to develop deeper market insights
- Upcoming advancements in Kpler’s Financial Flows coverage
Fred Asiedu - Senior Crude Trading Analyst and Michelle Brouhard - Head of Policy and Geopolitical Risk
- Volatility is back. Opportunity is uneven. See where moves in crude and freight are creating genuine arbitrage windows
- Global flows matter more than ever. Track where barrels are moving, where economics work, and what shifts next
- Beyond price screens. A live session designed to help physical and financial players act faster and smarter
Networking cocktail hour
Meet the speakers
Jack Nealon
Jack Nealon is a Senior Analyst for Financial Flows at Kpler Inc. Prior to joining Kpler, he spent six years at Bridgeton Research Group, where he played a key role in analysing and validating the firm’s systematic trading coverage across global energy, metals, and agricultural markets.
Stephen Roseme
Stephen Roseme is the Founder of Bridgeton Research Group and currently serves as Director of Research at Kpler. He has more than 30 years of experience developing and implementing systematic trading strategies across global futures markets, with a particular emphasis on commodities. He built Bridgeton’s research framework around the behaviour of quantitative trading programs, applying consistent risk and position-management logic to replicate, monitor, and anticipate CTA activity.
Michelle Brouhard
Michelle Brouhard is the Head of Policy and Geopolitical Risk at Kpler, with over 20 years of experience trading global oil, natural gas, and power markets. Her work sits at the intersection of policy and markets, where she has expressed geopolitical and sanctions risk directly through portfolio construction, positioning, and risk management. She recently completed a Master’s in Global Policy at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where her work focused on energy security, climate policy, and economic competitiveness within the Energy Trilemma framework.
Fred Asiedu
Fred is a Senior Crude Trading Analyst at Kpler with over a decade of experience in the oil and gas industry. He specializes in crude oil arbitrage economics and market analysis and is responsible for developing Kpler’s crude arbitrage product. His work delivers actionable insights on price dislocations, global crude flows, and supply-demand fundamentals. Fred holds an MSc in International Trade, Strategy & Operations.
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