About Us

Tradable Patterns was founded to demonstrate that the patterns recurring in liquid futures and spot FX markets can be analyzed to enhance trading performance. Tradable Patterns publishes:

  1. Week's Top 3 Trades

  2. Coffee Daily

  3. Cocoa Daily

  4. Sugar Daily

Tradable Patterns registered as a CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor) and IB (Introducing Broker) with the NFA (National Futures Association) - a US futures regulator. NFA ID: 0489256

Member of NFA

All analysis provided by Tradable Patterns is meant to be educational and is not a recommendation to buy/sell nor to be interpreted as advice. Please always do your own due diligence.

Darren Chu, CFA

Darren Chu, CFA (Founder)
Darren Chu, CFA (Founder)

Before the launch of Tradable Patterns, Darren Chu served as NYSE Liffe's country manager for Australia, India, and the UAE between July 2010 and January 2014, expanding his role to look after Liffe business development in APAC ex-Japan/Korea for Intercontinental Exchange (which acquired NYSE Liffe) until his departure mid April 2014.  His primary remit was developing relationships with Liffe clients, prospects and partners in the buyside (traditional and alternative asset managers), proprietary trading (high frequency algo as well as manual, point and click traders), bank, broker (institutional and retail), commodity trader and ISV community.  Key futures and options promoted included European/London rate benchmarks such as the Euribor, Short Sterling, Gilts, London/European index futures including the FTSE and CAC, London soft commodities (Robusta Coffee, Cocoa, White Sugar), Paris (MATIF) markets (Milling Wheat, Rapeseed), and NYSE Liffe US markets with the MSCI EM, MSCI EAFE, gold/silver, Eurodollar, US Treasury and GCF Repo futures being the focus.

Previously, Darren was with the TMX Group | Montreal Exchange for 4 years, marketing Canadian futures and options across North America, London, Singapore and Hong Kong.  Darren also launched and managed CMC Markets Canada's Chinese marketing and sales team, along with educational offering. On the academic trail, Darren has been a frequent guest speaker at Canadian universities as well as an author of content for 3 derivatives courses offered by Canadian Securities Institute and mandatory for licensing of Canadian derivatives industry professionals.