- Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?
He has 5+ years of experience in the FinTech industry, entirely focused on equity options trading across Hong Kong and APAC. He began his career as a Trading Analyst at XXXX, where his day-to-day work involved monitoring intraday options positions, running end-of-day PnL and Greeks reconciliation, and supporting the senior desk with volatility surface analysis and trade idea research across HSI and single-stock options. He then moved to XXXX as an Equity Options Trader, where he was given his own book, executing options strategies including covered calls, spreads, and volatility-based positions across Hong Kong and broader APAC listed markets, while managing daily position limits and delta/vega exposure against the desk’s risk parameters. Most recently, he has been working as a Senior Equity Options Trader at XXXX, where he runs a larger book with more autonomy over strategy selection, mentors junior traders on risk discipline, and works closely with the risk team on position sizing and drawdown controls. Across his time trading his own book, he has generated approximately 4M USD annually nearly 5M, through disciplined risk management and systematic trading strategies.
- What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?
His strongest skill is disciplined risk management combined with systematic trading strategy execution; he is comfortable defining position limits and sticking to them even when a trade idea looks attractive, which he credits as the main reason his PnL has stayed consistent year over year rather than being driven by a few large, high-variance bets. He also specializes in equity options strategy execution specifically, including volatility-based strategies and spread structures, across Hong Kong and Asia-Pacific listed markets, where he has to account for differences in liquidity and market microstructure between, for example, Hong Kong, Japan, and Australia-listed options. On tools, he is proficient with the Bloomberg Terminal for pricing, options analytics, and market data, and uses Python daily for quantitative strategy development, including backtesting volatility models and building scripts to automate position and risk monitoring across his book. He is also comfortable working with Excel-based risk models and internal position management systems to reconcile Greeks and exposure limits at the end of each trading day.
