Trading & hedging
Vyyper's proprietary trading desk was established in 2004, bringing together some of the best traders and technology specialists to form an independently owned and operated trading house. We operate in multiple markets across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. Vyyper continues to grow and seek new opportunities capitalizing on its market knowledge and the experience of its people. Across the business, the secret to Vyyper’s success is the relentless pursuit of the best people and the best technology, given the freedom to excel and the support to reach their full potential.
Our success is founded on 5 main principles:
Discovering Opportunities
Vyyper's proprietary trading activities focus on active trading strategies applied primarily to electronically-traded, liquid equity securities and futures products. The company's investment activities emphasize allocation to quantitative statistical arbitrage and active quantitative trading strategies in liquid asset classes.
Trading requires a belief and a passion that demands a certain mindset. At Vyyper we come to work everyday to exercise this mindset and to perfect the art of trading. A trading desk requires commitment, precision, and acute awareness to succeed in the daily battle of trading global markets. The mindset of a member of Vyyper follows this path regardless of whether they are involved in the front, middle or back office of the firm, it is about the pursuit of excellence and the understanding of one philosophy. Trading is a privilege.
Vision
Our success is founded on 5 main principles:
- We are dynamic and driven to be the best.
- We aim to be the leaders in our field.
- Collaboration and teamwork across the board.
- No egos – respect for all employees and ideas.
- Sharing the rewards - the more Vyyper makes, the more our employees earn.
Discovering Opportunities
Vyyper's proprietary trading activities focus on active trading strategies applied primarily to electronically-traded, liquid equity securities and futures products. The company's investment activities emphasize allocation to quantitative statistical arbitrage and active quantitative trading strategies in liquid asset classes.
Trading requires a belief and a passion that demands a certain mindset. At Vyyper we come to work everyday to exercise this mindset and to perfect the art of trading. A trading desk requires commitment, precision, and acute awareness to succeed in the daily battle of trading global markets. The mindset of a member of Vyyper follows this path regardless of whether they are involved in the front, middle or back office of the firm, it is about the pursuit of excellence and the understanding of one philosophy. Trading is a privilege.
Vision
- Call it smart synergy: Traders have ideas about markets--concepts that require validation. Financial engineers understand the economic and mathematical functions that prove those ideas. Developers create the tools for the financial engineers to retrieve data and create models to validate the decisions and ideas that traders make. It’s teamwork built for speed.
ALLOCATIONS
Statistical Arbitrage & Active Quantitative Trading
Vyyper recognizes the significant potential of quantitatively-driven investment strategies, and has made substantial capital allocations in the space. As part of its commitment, Vyyper is committed to allocating capital to external Quantitative traders in the Statistical Arbitrage and Active Quantitative Trading areas with proven records of success.
Vyyper’s Quant Manager Initiative was created to afford such managers a unique opportunity to:
Managers who utilize quantitative, statistically-driven strategies that focus on active quantitative trading are encouraged to contact us to explore this exceptional opportunity.
Vyyper recognizes the significant potential of quantitatively-driven investment strategies, and has made substantial capital allocations in the space. As part of its commitment, Vyyper is committed to allocating capital to external Quantitative traders in the Statistical Arbitrage and Active Quantitative Trading areas with proven records of success.
Vyyper’s Quant Manager Initiative was created to afford such managers a unique opportunity to:
- Maximize their earnings potential
- Satisfy their need for substantial, scalable, risk tolerant capital
- Maintain their autonomy
- Retain their intellectual property rights
- Create a portable track record
- Integrate into a customizable, state-of-the-art low, latency technology environment
Managers who utilize quantitative, statistically-driven strategies that focus on active quantitative trading are encouraged to contact us to explore this exceptional opportunity.
TECHNOLOGY
The backbone of Vyyper’ success is its technology infrastructure. Vyyper has invested heavily in its technology resources over the years. The result is an infrastructure second to none when it comes to facilitating and servicing the needs of Vyyper’s trader community. Some highlights include:
* Customized integration of an end-to-end technology solution to meet the specific needs of each trader.
* Two levels of co-location services providing extremely low-latency, near-instantaneous order-entry.
* Direct connections to venues for market data and order entry (not via an aggregator).
* Redundant data center facilities providing reliable, stable and scalable systematic infrastructure.
Technology plays a critical role in the success of Vyyper’s business. As a result, Vyyper maintains a robust investment program with respect to its infrastructure, trading technologies and resources, keeping it at the forefront of active trading innovation. The firm relentlessly pursues the development of proprietary software tools and algorithms for its traders to identify and assess opportunities in the marketplace, enabling them to execute their trades with a maximum opportunity for success.
Vyyper’s team of expert technologists work tirelessly to support and enhance the edge that its proprietary infrastructure and software tools provide. Technologists engaged by Vyyper will find the environment both challenging and rewarding as they work to facilitate some of the most sophisticated strategies and empower the most talented traders in the industry.
* Customized integration of an end-to-end technology solution to meet the specific needs of each trader.
* Two levels of co-location services providing extremely low-latency, near-instantaneous order-entry.
* Direct connections to venues for market data and order entry (not via an aggregator).
* Redundant data center facilities providing reliable, stable and scalable systematic infrastructure.
Technology plays a critical role in the success of Vyyper’s business. As a result, Vyyper maintains a robust investment program with respect to its infrastructure, trading technologies and resources, keeping it at the forefront of active trading innovation. The firm relentlessly pursues the development of proprietary software tools and algorithms for its traders to identify and assess opportunities in the marketplace, enabling them to execute their trades with a maximum opportunity for success.
Vyyper’s team of expert technologists work tirelessly to support and enhance the edge that its proprietary infrastructure and software tools provide. Technologists engaged by Vyyper will find the environment both challenging and rewarding as they work to facilitate some of the most sophisticated strategies and empower the most talented traders in the industry.
METHODOLOGY
The firm currently currently allocates capital to its team of discretional “manual” traders, equipping them with sophisticated proprietary technology, including order entry platforms, trading tools and techniques to meet the unique needs of their active trading styles.
Vyyper’s trading talent consists of both experienced traders from a variety of firms to home-grown-talent who are the product of Vyyper’s unique training program. Training at Vyyper is designed to instill in traders disciplined and methodical techniques for successful active trading and risk management.
Vyyper’s discretionary traders share directly in the profits they generate trading the firm’s capital. Successful traders earn larger capital allocations, expanding the income potential for themselves and the firm.
As every microsecond counts in the active trading world, Vyyper has assembled state-of-the-art, low-latency infrastructure, smart routing technologies, software and execution algorithms, to facilitate effective execution of the traders’ order flow.
Black Box Systematic Trading
Vyyper has distinguished itself in the world of systematic (non-manual) trading. Systematic trading and model-driven trading strategies have been developed based on the acumen of the founders in concert with Vyyper’s “black box” team of R&D team. In large part, management’s vision has been realized - the firm has successfully brought together its financial market expertise, advanced technology and academic-based strategies to drive systematic trading revenue and profits.
The firm’s creation of the systematic group allowed Vyyper’s team of senior traders to formalize and refine trading R&D efforts, which resulted in identifying and developing strategies that exploit short-term market inefficiencies. Inspiration for new systematic trading strategies come from many sources, including academic research, market observation and interaction with the firm’s traders and management.
Vyyper’s state-of-the-art low-latency infrastructure, proprietary data centre facilities, co-location facilities and proprietary routing and execution algorithms provide its systematic strategies with the speed and efficiency essential in a marketplace where every microsecond counts.
Vyyper’s trading talent consists of both experienced traders from a variety of firms to home-grown-talent who are the product of Vyyper’s unique training program. Training at Vyyper is designed to instill in traders disciplined and methodical techniques for successful active trading and risk management.
Vyyper’s discretionary traders share directly in the profits they generate trading the firm’s capital. Successful traders earn larger capital allocations, expanding the income potential for themselves and the firm.
As every microsecond counts in the active trading world, Vyyper has assembled state-of-the-art, low-latency infrastructure, smart routing technologies, software and execution algorithms, to facilitate effective execution of the traders’ order flow.
Black Box Systematic Trading
Vyyper has distinguished itself in the world of systematic (non-manual) trading. Systematic trading and model-driven trading strategies have been developed based on the acumen of the founders in concert with Vyyper’s “black box” team of R&D team. In large part, management’s vision has been realized - the firm has successfully brought together its financial market expertise, advanced technology and academic-based strategies to drive systematic trading revenue and profits.
The firm’s creation of the systematic group allowed Vyyper’s team of senior traders to formalize and refine trading R&D efforts, which resulted in identifying and developing strategies that exploit short-term market inefficiencies. Inspiration for new systematic trading strategies come from many sources, including academic research, market observation and interaction with the firm’s traders and management.
Vyyper’s state-of-the-art low-latency infrastructure, proprietary data centre facilities, co-location facilities and proprietary routing and execution algorithms provide its systematic strategies with the speed and efficiency essential in a marketplace where every microsecond counts.