About Us

Located in the heart of Chicago’s financial district, Spot Trading is a technology-focused, proprietary option trading firm specializing in listed derivatives. We understand option pricing and analytics, but also have the experience and infrastructure to maintain a fundamental understanding of the equity markets. Spot excels at both the art—the fundamental analysis—and the science—the quantitative analysis—of trading. We push ourselves to excel, and judge our efforts on the innovation of our trading models, the speed and reliability of our systems, and the effectiveness of our collaborative culture.

• Integrated trading strategy rooted in collaboration across a variety of disciplines
• Culture of risk management
• Focus on long term stability, building enterprise value
• Technology leader with state of the art infrastructure

Spot’s future is bright. By moving into other derivative markets, expanding our expertise in risk management, and advancing our technology capabilities, we are creating more opportunities for our people and business partners to impact the firm’s success than ever before.