Third Street AG Investments, LLC was formed in 2012 by Robert E. Otter and Chad R. Burlet to team together two successful grain and soybean traders to form a Commodity Trading Advisor. The principals of the firm are two old friends who grew up in the grain business. One, a Minnesota boy who began his career with Cargill and then, Goldman Sachs. The
other was a Chicago kid who found his way to the Board of Trade while still in high school, and not long after was in the soybean pit for the next 35 years. We began working together in the early ‘80’s and became business partners in 2012. Why the name Third Street? We both lived on it in Hinsdale, Illinois for many years, and it’s still where one of us resides.
We have brought our collective 70 years of successful commodity trading into our Managed Futures firm. Managed in a much more conservative manner than what most people imagine when they think of commodity trading, we offer exposure to the agricultural markets in a thoughtful and balanced manner. We achieve this by applying our knowledge, experience and analytical skills to the markets that we know well, and by using less leverage. Often we hedge ourselves by buying what we think is undervalued and selling what we think is expensive. In short, our trading philosophy is value based.
