The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Tracy Shuchart is a commodities strategist and former futures broker who posts market commentary on oil, gas, metals and geopolitics as @chigrl on X, an account she started anonymously in 2009 and which now shows roughly 360,000 followers. She began her career in 2005 at the Chicago Board of Trade, rising from broker to managing a trading desk at a futures, options and energy OTC (CME ClearPort) brokerage whose clients included Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Point72 and D.E. Shaw, and later managed a commodities portfolio for a family office. She is the founder, CEO and chief market strategist of Hilltower Resource Advisors, a boutique research firm covering global energy and metals markets, serves as a senior economist for NinjaTrader's live market programming, hosts the MicDropMarkets podcast and X Spaces, and writes the Renegade Resources Substack (8.8K+ subscribers per Substack). She is a regular commentator on energy markets for Fox Business, Bloomberg, BNN, CNBC and Asharq News.
