By Josh Schubkegel and Lauren Rauch, Co-CEOs, CTC
Today, Chicago Trading Company launches a refreshed brand and a new website. The new look is a more modern expression of CTC, with a clearer structure and a stronger focus on the people and culture behind the business. The first line you’ll see on the homepage is “Options Trading, Evolved,” and we think that captures our company about as well as three words can.
Why now? Our public presence was understating the case. Ask around the industry and you’ll get a fair description of us: an options trading and market making firm, at it since 1995, good at pricing and risk. All true. But our old website said little about the people, technology, and research behind that work, and our edge in each of those areas matters more every year.
Options markets have changed a lot in the last few years. Volume has moved sharply toward the front of the curve, participation keeps broadening, and execution keeps getting faster and more automated. For a firm built around expertise in pricing, risk, and providing liquidity, those changes open up a wide set of opportunities, and we intend to take them.
So that’s what we’re building toward. Trading options across more products, more venues, and more time horizons. Scaling our volatility research across the business so more of our teams can act on it. Systematizing and automating more of our trading to drive speed, scale, and measurable improvement. And embedding AI in research, trading, and engineering workflows wherever it creates real edge.
The combination we’re after is hard-won trading intuition on top of a world-class research and technology platform. Our traders spent careers building that judgment; everything above is about letting them apply it faster, in more places, and at greater size. When markets dislocate and others back down, we still want to be the firm that trades with conviction, with its own view of what things are worth and a constant willingness to quote accordingly.
All of this comes back to our people. We keep investing in a place where talented people can do their best work, surrounded by teammates who make them better, with ideas moving freely across desks and disciplines and real room to take ownership. We’re hiring across trading, quantitative research, technology, and operations, and the work ahead is the most ambitious we’ve taken on.
The new site makes the case better than we can here. It’s full of our traders, engineers, and researchers talking about what the work looks like, what makes CTC different, and why they chose to build their careers here.
Take a look. If anything there gets you thinking about what’s next in your career, see our open roles and get in touch. We’ve got plenty to keep you busy – and plenty of opportunity for people who want to take it.