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Proprietary trading. Proprietary trading (also known as prop trading) occurs when a trader trades stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, their derivatives, or other financial instruments with the firm's own money (instead of using depositors' money) to make a profit for itself. [1] Proprietary trading can create potential conflicts of interest ...
Jane Street Capital. Jane Street Capital is a global proprietary trading firm. [4] It employs more than 2600 [5] people in five offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, and Singapore, and trades a broad range of asset classes on more than 200 venues in 45 countries. [6]
Quantlab was founded on 1998 by Wilbur "Ed" Bosarge Jr. a former Rice University mathematics professor and Bruce Eames, a former Boston Consulting Group associate and businessman from Wisconsin. During the first few years, the firm hired several Math PhDs as employees. The team wrote algorithms to perform high-frequency trading and tailored the ...
Jump Trading LLC is a proprietary trading firm with a focus on algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies. The firm has over 700 employees in Chicago, New York, Austin, London, Tel Aviv, Singapore, Shanghai, Bristol, Gurgaon, Gandhinagar, Sydney, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Paris and is active in futures, options, cryptocurrency, and equities markets worldwide.
DRW Holdings, LLC, typically referred to as DRW, is a proprietary trading firm based in Chicago. The firm was founded in 1992 by Don Wilson, an options trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and was named after his initials: DRW. [1] The firm trades various financial instruments, including fixed income, options and derivatives, energy and ...
Super angel. High-frequency trading ( HFT) is a type of algorithmic trading in finance characterized by high speeds, high turnover rates, and high order-to-trade ratios that leverages high-frequency financial data and electronic trading tools. [1] [2] [3] While there is no single definition of HFT, among its key attributes are highly ...
optiver .com. Optiver Holding B.V. is a proprietary trading firm and market maker for various exchange-listed financial instruments. Its name derives from the Dutch optieverhandelaar, or " option trader ". [2] [3] The company is privately owned. Optiver trades listed derivatives, cash equities, exchange-traded funds, bonds, and foreign exchange.
TransMarket Group LLC (TMG) is a privately held quantitative proprietary trading firm based in Chicago with additional offices in Puerto Rico and Switzerland. Description [ edit ] TMG was founded in 1980 by Ray Cahnman, a former floor trader, and has roughly 150 employees including interns. [1]