Gigi Ravelli to marry Roger Hodenius
Finally, some entertainment news. It was about time for some juicy gossip. After all those serious posts. This is a scoop : Roger Hodenius will marry celebrity Gigi Ravelli. Hodenius is the big man behind Flow Traders.
Loving Ibiza
The wedding will take place on Ibiza on September 24th. The place won’t come as a big surprise. The couple owns a villa on the island. A chartered airplane will fly-in the guests on Saturday.
On Sunday the 25th, everybody will be flown back to Amsterdam. Only one planeload of guests. This means the wedding will be for close friends only. I’m not on the guest list (yet).
Roger Hodenius
Roger Hodenius (1972) is the co-founder of Flow Traders. After being responsible for ETF trading at Optiver, he quit and started his own trading outfit. With a lot of success. The shares of Flow Traders trade on Euronext Amsterdam. Hodenius still owns 14,27% of Flow Traders. His estimated net worth is more than €400 million. He drives an Aston Martin DBS Volante.
Hodenius has been married before. After he was thrown out of the house in 2013, he lived for a few months in the Conservatorium Hotel.
Gigi Ravelli
Gigi Ravelli (1982) is a celebrity in The Netherlands. She starred in the popular soap opera Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden. She acted in other television shows and movies (IMDB). Most recently she presented the tv program Campinglife. She won the “boobies of the year 2013” award.
Rumor has it she quit her acting career, because Roger Hodenius wants to stay low profile. And low profile doesn’t mix with television. Her instagram account hasn’t seen activity for three years (but is still worth checking). Roger and Gigi are together for three years.
The blonde on Ibiza
Gigi starred in the movie Loving Ibiza. See the trailer below, she’s the blonde girl. There’s some campinglife in the full movie.
Scoop? 12 juli 2016:
http://www.ditjesendatjes.com/index.php/2016/07/gigi-gaat-trouwen/
Eeuwig zonde dat einde van haar acteercarriere. Vooral bij de belspellen toonde ze veel talent.
Een Aston Martin DBS Volante is een goede keuze als je onopvallend door het leven wilt gaan. Beter dan zo’n aandacht trekkende Twingo.
Is it real love?
Anyway, is IMC really closing the Zug office? Are traders already fired?
Source Capital, which was originally staffed by ex-IMC’ers closed a couple of years ago, though Igor is still on the prowl.
So at this stage it wouldn’t be too surprising if the actually IMC Zug offices were to shutter too, most of the trading outfits that rode the wave of profitable volatility of the past several years are all going out of business these days.
^cough Tibra cough cough
Speaking of blonde wifes have gossip on Ivo and Bridget.
She is pregs and expecting a child. They are moving back to Amsterdam. IMC Chicago people are happy that he is moving back. Chicago people dont like him too much and without Robin he is all alone.
Their condo in the Trump towers is up for sale. Check out the pictures:
http://chicago.curbed.com/2016/6/22/12005334/401-n-wabash-ave-unit-68e#0
Source Capital did not close, in fact Itay Gross, born on December 1976 and resident in Israel, still works there as Director:
https://www.endole.co.uk/profile/8933517/itay-gross
They simply moved the company from Zug to Amsterdam and according to the records Itay moved from Amsterdam to Israel for an unknown reason.
The new name of the company is “Source Amsterdam B.V”, they love the word “Source”.
Rumors is that they are still surviving thanks to the IMC strategies which they are still running with a much smaller cost base. After all, salaries for 2 people cannot be that high… And IMC is this time copying Source by also moving the Zug strategies to Amsterdam and consequently reducing the cost base. Makes sense now.
The comments from 2013 can probably explain why he went back to Israel:
http://www.amsterdamtrader.com/2013/10/more-weekly-options.html#comment-18359
IMC in trouble?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/high-speed-trader-imc-under-china-stock-index-futures-probe
For all those asking about the remarkable Eddy Slijpen, famous among other things for the companions he brought to IMC parties:
http://www.balance4lifestyle.nl/151/testimonials/etp-slijpen-software-engineer-source-amsterdam-bv/
He joined the new Source Capital, aka Source Amsterdam B.V. They are finally going to print money!
I’m fond of Eddy Slijpen.
Wasn’t he also almost a professional football player?
Hum, I have another topic:
has anyone some updates about the job situation at Transtrend B.V.? It seems their performance last year was good and they are on track to hit another good year. At least, their Managed Futures strategy is up double digits this year, too!
I like to work at successful companies….
Then consider All Options. They made a killing this year. So I heard.
Maven is also doing very well again this year. Anyone knows about Optiver, getco, jump, imc and the like?
IMC and Virtu are both making the phat stackz.
Virtu is up 30% from the same time last year, looking on track to have the most profitable year since its inception.
@2:04. what?
virtu trading revenue 1st half was 220 million down from 255 million the year before.