Chicago
Trading Company (CTC) is a proprietary market making firm and is
recognized internationally as a leading provider of pricing and
liquidity on all U.S. derivatives exchanges. Founded by five former
O’Connor and Associates traders, CTC has grown dramatically since its
inception in 1995. We now trade both on-floor and electronically across
three continents, 20 hours a day, six days a week.
Our
success and rapid growth are due to our market experience, state of the
art technology, risk management capabilities, and pricing expertise,
which allow us to identify intra-product and cross product valuation
discrepancies.
- Our reputation has been
and continues to be made by our willingness and ability to make
tight and deep markets in a variety of derivative products.
- By treating all of our
positions as one large portfolio or book, we are able to spread
our risk among multiple products.
- Accordingly, CTC has
become known as a leading source for accurate pricing of complex
derivatives and cross-index spreading.
As
markets become more dependent on technology, spreads continue to
tighten, and financial products become more interdependent worldwide,
trading operations face continuous change. CTC recognizes that the most
successful firms in the derivatives industry are those that most
effectively evolve with and adapt to these industry changes.
- By committing to evolutionary
growth, we have marshaled significant resources to avoid
dependence on any one market place, product, or event.
- Combining our
experience, technology, risk management capabilities, and pricing
expertise, we continue to aggressively expand into new markets,
following our trading philosophy of finding risk neutral
statistical relative value opportunities throughout the
derivatives universe.
