In addition, we cover wholesale and retail refined products, including refined products trading, refined products futures trading, refined products marketing, the general refined products industry including jet fuel, motor gasoline, and natural gas liquids marketing and trading. This includes propane futures, LPG trading and marketing, and plant operations. The trading practice covers both physical traders, derivatives traders, futures traders, commodity trading advisors, and the area of trade controls. Trading software is a big issue for many trading companies because it enables commodity traders to be more productive. Options and derivatives markets have both grown and energy derivatives have been in real boom.
Swaps are another growth area.
Many people feel the swaps and derivatives markets have grown so much that the OTC market is now larger than the futures markets. Derivative traders are in great demand by headhunters and executive search firms. As headhunters we us the internet to help in international executive search, both in the contingency search and retained search assignments. Human resource professionals appreciate our reach into the London and Singapore markets, where the headhunter net is very important.