About Us

Starting with an extensive speculative and hedging trading background, Westline Capital Strategies was founded with highly strategic, results based ideology designed to blend traditional softwood lumber risk management strategies with speculative commodity fund based trading ideas.

Westline Capital Strategies principle and founder, Greg Kuta witnessed a firsthand need to understand the ever-evolving lumber futures market as influences like the sub-prime induced collapse of housing in 2007-2008, the 2020 induced pandemic, and the ever-growing presence of commodity fund trading in lumber futures changed the trading dynamics of how the lumber markets function. CME lumber futures was in the top 5% of commodity markets volatility for 2020, 2021 & 2022).

Westline Capital Strategies can give you a truly unique, one-of-a-kind perspective on the lumber futures market. Each risk management program is customizable to the wants, needs and risk profile of each client.

Definition of Our Clients

Traditional Softwood Lumber Participants

Lumber Producers
Lumber Wholesalers/ Distributors
Lumber Retailers
Lumber CO-OPS
Home Builders (single & multi-family)
CEO's, CFO's, Sales Managers within the lumber industry

Alternative Investors:

Commodity Funds (fund managers looking to gain exposure // correlation to the housing industry)
Industry Related Pension Plans
Individual Investors (looking for alternative investments diversification)
Private Equity Investors with Home Building Exposure

Greg Kuta, Founder, CEO, Managing Director

Mr. Kuta has over 25yrs of lumber and commodity futures trading experience. Prior to founding Westline Capital Strategies in 2009, Mr. Kuta spent eleven years as a trader/ vice president of Futures Technology Corp developing lumber risk management strategies for the softwood lumber industry. Mr. Kuta got his start working at and then managing a retail trading desk with Lind- Waldock Discount Brokers.

Mr. Kuta is a graduate of Ohio University in Athens, OH holding a bachelor of arts in Economics. Mr. Kuta recently completed his Masters in Financial Economics (MFE) at Ohio University which is a nationally ranked MFE program (ranked #9 nationally by the Financial Times for MFE programs in 2015) and is also an accredited program with the CFA Institute.

Westline Capital Strategies is registered as a Independent Introducing Broker (IIB) with the NFA & CFTC and Mr. Kuta is a licensed series 3 commodity broker with the NFA. WCS currently clears with the FCM StoneX (Fortune 100 company).

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