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Topstep's funding process consists of three steps. The first step measures the trader's profitability, while the second step evaluates the trader's risk management.After passing these two steps, the trader earns a "Funded Account", in which they can trade futures backed by Topstep's proprietary capital.
Lux Capital was founded in 2000 by Peter Hébert, Robert Paull and Josh Wolfe. [5] In April 2011, former McKinsey Senior Partner Richard N. Foster and former CIA Director James Woolsey joined the organisation in senior management roles. [6] In August 2012, former Pfizer head Jeff Kindler joined the organisation in similar capacities. [7]
Global Trading Systems, which uses the trade name GTS, is an American proprietary trading and market making firm headquartered in New York. The firm accounts for 3 to 5 percent of the daily turnover of US equities and has handled over 250 IPO listings since 2013. GTS has additional offices in Chicago, Florida, London, Paris, Warsaw, and Israel.
The HFT firm Athena manipulated closing prices commonly used to track stock performance with "high-powered computers, complex algorithms and rapid-fire trades", the SEC said. The regulatory action is one of the first market manipulation cases against a firm engaged in high-frequency trading.
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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.
Hudson River Trading is a multi-asset class firm that trades across various time horizons. It differs from stereotypical high-frequency trading firms in several important ways: it holds about 25% of its trading capital overnight (unlike most high-frequency trading firms that hold almost nothing overnight), its average holding time is about five minutes as opposed to the sub-second times ...
trading, and arbitrage, a business of investment banks and brokers, often referred to as the sell side. portfolio management, a business of asset management companies and institutional investors, often referred to as the buy side. Brokers and investment banks set up their trading rooms first and large asset-management firms subsequently ...