Pascal van Alten

Co-Founder

Amsterdam, Netherlands24 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded a financial technology firm in Hong Kong.
  • Expert in high-frequency trading and market making.
  • Led teams in developing proprietary trading systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert specializing in high-frequency trading and market making.

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Skills

Core Skills

Market MakingHigh Frequency TradingTrading SystemsDerivativesOptions

Other Skills

ArbitrageBloombergElectronic TradingEquitiesFinancial MarketsLow LatencyTrading StrategiesVolatilityVolatility Arbitrage

Experience

Lighthouse financial technologies

Co-Founder and Director

Jul 2014Present · 11 yrs 8 mos · Hong Kong

Market MakingHigh Frequency TradingTrading Systems

Alphagrep hk

Director / Senior Trader

Jul 2014Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hong Kong

  • Co-Head of Hong Kong Office
  • Cross team setup of Japanese Trading setup for Vanilla Nikkei 225 derivatives
  • Product side prioritization of complete trading system build out high frequency trading strategies, futures and options momentum and arbitrage strategies.
High Frequency TradingTrading SystemsArbitrageOptions

Prm trading

Derivatives Trader / Head of Options Trading

Jan 2013Apr 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hong Kong

  • Responsible for building a new proprietary HF option trading platform
  • Designed the option trading systems, logic and algorithms:
  • volatility and pricing models,
  • trade logging and risk management systems,
  • automated execution logic and algorithms.
  • Trading Nikkei 225 Index derivatives on OSE, SGX and CME
  • Started trading on new option trading platform in Oct13.
DerivativesOptionsTrading Systems

Imc financial markets

3 roles

Head of Nikkei desk

Promoted

Apr 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Head of Nikkei desk, responsible for a team of 4 traders
  • Trading Nikkei index derivatives on OSE and SGX
  • HF trading, market making in electronic market and IDB market
  • Trading maturities from 1m to 4y out
Market MakingHigh Frequency Trading

Senior Trader

Feb 2010Apr 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Trading DAX and ESX index derivatives on Eurex
  • HF trading, market making in electronic market and IDB market
  • Started new desk, rolling out a new automated trading platform
Market MakingHigh Frequency Trading

Trader

Mar 2007Feb 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • HF trading, market making in electronic market and IDB market.
  • Trading DAX index derivatives on Eurex
  • Trading Dutch and German equity derivatives on Eurex and Euronext. Traded funds: ING, FOR, AGN, MUV, DBK, CBK, RDSA, EON, RWE, BAY, SAP, BAY, BASF
Market MakingHigh Frequency Trading

Omniworld basketball

Professional Basketball Player

Jan 2002May 2005 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Player of the first division team

Nac breda basketball

Professional Basketball Player

Sep 2001Jan 2002 · 4 mos · Breda

  • Player of the first division team

Amsterdam basketball

(Semi-) Professional Basketball Player

Aug 1999Sep 2001 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Player of the talent team and of the first division team of Amsterdam Basketball

Education

University of Amsterdam

Master of Business Studies

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Johan Cruyff University

Bachelor of Business Studies — Commercial Economics and Sport Marketing

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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