Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a proprietary market making firm and is recognized internationally as a leading provider of pricing and liquidity on all U.S. derivatives exchanges. Founded by five former O’Connor and Associates traders, CTC has grown dramatically since its inception in 1995. We now trade both on-floor and electronically across three continents, 20 hours a day, six days a week.

Our success and rapid growth are due to our market experience, state of the art technology, risk management capabilities, and pricing expertise, which allow us to identify intra-product and cross product valuation discrepancies.

• Our reputation has been and continues to be made by our willingness and ability to make tight and deep markets in a variety of derivative products.
• By treating all of our positions as one large portfolio or book, we are able to spread our risk among multiple products.
• Accordingly, CTC has become known as a leading source for accurate pricing of complex derivatives and cross-index spreading.

As markets become more dependent on technology, spreads continue to tighten, and financial products become more interdependent worldwide, trading operations face continuous change. CTC recognizes that the most successful firms in the derivatives industry are those that most effectively evolve with and adapt to these industry changes.

• By committing to evolutionary growth, we have marshaled significant resources to avoid dependence on any one market place, product, or event.
• Combining our experience, technology, risk management capabilities, and pricing expertise, we continue to aggressively expand into new markets, following our trading philosophy of finding risk neutral statistical relative value opportunities throughout the derivatives universe.