Posts Tagged ‘IMC

The country turned orange this week with our new king. Not much too add, but reading the Economist today on the Dutch Fleet in electronic trading. Briefly mentioned the history of the Dutch exchange and the three most prominent Dutch trading firms. Not the latest edition, but from April 20. Here’s the link. For market [...]

Didn’t arrive as a surprise. Euronext Liffe sues The Order Machine (TOM) for trademark infringements with respect to the options introduced on the AEX index. Euronext is the owner of the AEX index, and doesn’t allow other exchanges to introduce derivatives with AEX as underlying value. As of January 2013 the index options on AEX [...]

TOM and the play offs

24 Oct 2012

A small victory for The Order Machine / TOM. Conform all expectations, NYSE Euronext is forced to allow TOM as a member on their derivative exchange. Even Euronext saw the rain coming, and agreed to accept TOM as a member of the exchange. Didn’t even bother to wait for the court. The expensive legal procedures [...]

Every once and a while mails arrive asking for advice for getting a job in the trading industry. Well, I’ve found the perfect job for getting a foot between the door at one of the major trading firms from Amsterdam, IMC. Hat tip to the comments, would have missed this golden opportunity. If it wasn’t [...]

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 256 [...]


  • London Gregoire: Meijer shouldn't shave until TOM overtakes Euronext in the dutch options [...]
  • TOM to expand in Europe - amsterdamtrader: [...] Euronext sues TOM on AEX Options [...] [...]
  • Aad: Same shit over here. And really, we have al the specs to be fast enough. [...]
  • ghostrider: truely tragic. condolences. [...]
  • vikr: Hats off to RoCo. [...]
  • VdM: Allmost on the same day another well known person from the trading community in Amsterdam passed awa [...]
  • NRC: Advertisements in newspaper NRC: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/uwbjka8dgg26exh/20130406_NH_selectie_2_12. [...]
  • anonymous: Agreed [...]
  • anonymous: let's go to IMC since they pay good bonuses there [...]
  • anonymous: Tibra is not doing well, and when the CFO, who knows everything about their finances, leaves this i [...]

Archive