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| Spot Trading LLC |
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Profile:
Located in the heart of Chicago’s financial district, Spot Trading is a technology-focused, proprietary option trading firm specializing in listed derivatives. We understand option pricing and analytics, but also have the experience and infrastructure to maintain a fundamental understanding of the equity markets. Spot excels at both the art—the fundamental analysis—and the science—the quantitative analysis—of trading. We push ourselves to excel, and judge our efforts on the innovation of our trading models, the speed and reliability of our systems, and the effectiveness of our collaborative culture.
Integrated trading strategy rooted in collaboration across a variety of disciplines
Culture of risk management
Focus on long term stability, building enterprise value
Technology leader with state of the art infrastructure
Spot’s future is bright. By moving into other derivative markets, expanding our expertise in risk management, and advancing our technology capabilities, we are creating more opportunities for our people and business partners to impact the firm’s success than ever before. |
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Overview:
Spot Trading is a smart, technology-focused option trading firm that believes success is more than looking for opportunities. It's about creating them. We understand option pricing and analytics, but also have the experience and infrastructure to maintain a fundamental understanding of the equity markets. We excel at both the art—the fundamental analysis—and the science—the quantitative analysis—of trading.
Spot Trading's success stems from an integrated approach to trading, development, and equity research. This approach is the model on which we were founded, and one that continues as the basis for our operations today and for tomorrow. Spot's vision is to use this methodology and approach to trading in our unique specialty—equity options—and scale it to other areas of the market where we feel our model can drive superior returns.
Through the collaboration of our teams, Spot has developed proprietary technology and processes that enable the firm's traders to make volatility-based pricing decisions and exploit inefficiencies in the equity options markets. To maximize the firm's risk-adjusted return, Spot implements a proprietary trading model that is innovative in its use of automation, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and sound risk management principles. |
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History:
Founded in 1999 by Robert Merrilees, Spot began as a five member team focused on the off-floor trading of equity options. Since that time, Spot has expanded in reach, accomplishment, and size to become one of the leading proprietary trading firms in the industry. In recognition, Spot was named to the 2011 list of “Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For.”
Over the years, we have built the ability to attract, train, and deploy talented individuals as valuable contributors to our team. Spot has continued to grow and leverage an increasingly wide variety of disciplines, including trading, financial engineering, equity research, software development, and IT infrastructure. We have followed a formula of thoughtful, long term and sustainable growth that has led to success throughout a variety of challenging markets. This approach has led us into new business opportunities such as market making, and a variety of new derivative products that continue to leverage the skills of our people. |
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