Tibra was founded by traders leaving Optiver in Australia, while possibly taking some trading software source code with them. Both firms are spending millions on lawyer fees ever since. A few weeks ago the party moved to a California court – something to do with the disclosure of emails by Google. Read for yourself, it’sRead more
Short post, can’t do it much better than the Sydney Morning Herald today. Some mails surfaced from the period the Tibra founders were still working for Optiver. Finally, the password has been broken. “Ok Cats, We are 6 weeks out and under the pump. Here is the timeline we are working off.“ Source Optiver profit 256Read more
Great, it’s time for the annual play-off for market maker licenses. The auction for primary market maker (pmm) licenses was held two months ago. The contestants had a month for learning the tricks of the trade. From December 1st they will start for real. Tight markets in scores of option classes. The market maker withRead more
Tibra is always a little different from the other major market makers. First of all, they represent the only significant Australian market maker – and second they have another book year for their yearly report. Their trading year ends on the 30th of June, which makes it slightly difficult to compare them with their peers.Read more
Recently several comments and e-mails by fresh university graduates requested for more information on getting a job as a derivative trader in Amsterdam. As the visitors, Google and this site are close friends it would make sense to write a tiny how-to and where-to get a job in Amsterdam trading firms. Basically there are sevenRead more
