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Trader Nick Leeson took down Barings Bank with unauthorized proprietary positions. UBS trader Kweku Adoboli lost $2.3 billion of the bank's money and was convicted for his actions. [3] [4] Armin S, a German private trader, sued BNP Paribas for 152m EUR because they sold to him structured products for 108 EUR each which were worth 54 00 EUR. [5]
Steven Schonfeld founded Schonfeld as a proprietary trading firm in 1988 with $400,000 that he earned working as a stockbroker. [4] [5] [8] [9] [10]The firm made $200 million in 2000 at the peak of the Dot-com bubble but made losses following the Stock market downturn of 2002.
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.
Jane Street Capital is a global proprietary trading firm. [4] It employs more than 2,600 [5] people in six offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Chicago, and Singapore, and trades a broad range of asset classes on more than 200 venues in 45 countries.
According to Bloomberg News, Ubiquant has offered annual salaries of up to $300,000 to attract recent graduates from the fields of artificial intelligence and computer science. Ubiquant has offered more experienced candidates annual salaries of $1 million. Extra incentives are given such as one time bonuses or profit sharing from trading ...
Stock traders can trade on their own account, called proprietary trading or self-directed trading, or through an agent authorized to buy and sell on the owner's behalf. That agent is referred to as a stockbroker. Agents are paid a commission for performing the trade. Proprietary or self-directed traders who use online brokerages (e.g., Fidelity ...
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.
Flow Traders is a proprietary trading firm. [1] A market maker, it provides liquidity in the securities market by using high frequency and quantitative trading strategies. [2] Originally founded in Amsterdam, Flow Traders also has offices in New York, London, Milan, Paris, Cluj, Shanghai, Singapore, Chicago, and Hong Kong. [3] [4]