About
Hi, My name’s Ben, I’m an Australian Mechanical Engineer and interested in financial markets. Sometimes I have something worth saying publically.
My engineering experience is largely in Offshore oilfield engineering, specifically completions & well workovers for a major E&P. I spent 7 years working across 4 installations in the North Sea (Subsea & Platform). Following my North Sea experience I moved back to Australia and got a job in the mining sector for a major Australian mining company.
I have no formal financial background, but have been active in markets as long as I can remember.
I am analytical, highly pro cheap energy and fairly unforgiving. I have significant (to me) holdings in the basic building blocks of our society. Oil & Gas, Thermal & Met Coal, LNG, Iron Ore & Copper, Steel Blast Furnaces and Defence.
My personal interests are markets, finance, energy, mining, coding, music, (formerly travel) and fitness.
I keep a fairly psueudo anonymous name/profile for privacy reasons, there are many on here who know me in real life. Focus on the message, not the messenger.
“Your Name is dumb”
My handle “Ironic Capital” is fleeting. It’s a dumb name. It was originally created in around ~2020 as a private Twitter/X account name, mocking the 0% interest rate environment, negative oil price, fake online currencies and zombie companies getting squeezed on commentary from influencers.
General Disclosures
I live in Australia, I may have an irrational interest in things happening on an island far away from the rest of the world.
I have no interest in selling subscriptions and I have nothing to sell.
I’m not a writer, have not interest in writing and will not write often. I won’t use AI to write for me.
I don’t write about companies I am directly associated with.
Contact
If by some reason you want to write to me privately, you can email me at hi@ironiccapital.co or DM me on Twitter/X.