Geneva Trading USA LLC

Who We Are
Geneva Trading was founded in 1999 by traders H. Arthur Brereton and Thomas S. Freytag, who both began their careers on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. The two moved to Europe in the early 1990s to trade on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) and several years later created Geneva Trading in Dublin, Ireland.

Since then, Geneva has grown into a global proprietary trading firm, opening our headquarters in Chicago in 2000 and a Cork, Ireland office in 2008. The firm now has more than 100 traders and staff worldwide and is a top volume player in more than 13 markets we trade globally.

Experience
Geneva is supported and guided by a management and trading team with unparalleled experience in the derivatives industry. Our principals began trading in the late 1970s when financial futures were introduced and all have first-hand trading experience in Chicago, London, Paris and Sydney in fixed income, stock indices, commodities and currencies.

We've traded during market crashes, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, political embargoes, wars and invasions as well as periods of negligible volatility and flat markets. We know how to take advantage of volatile market opportunities and maintain capital when markets are slow and less turbulent.

Our management team has worked on both the buy side and the sell side of the market and held senior positions at the leading exchanges. Together, we have worked and operated in over 10 countries on four continents. It is this breadth of experience that we integrate into Geneva's business and pass onto our traders.

The Difference
Geneva's sole focus is on proprietary trading. Since establishing the firm, our philosophy and goals have been straight forward and identical with our traders. We only make money when our traders make money.

Geneva has no incentive for our traders to overtrade or generate large commissions. We have no client business nor any customer brokerage activities. Our mandate is finding the best trading opportunities and developing the tools and methodologies to effectively trade them with acceptable risk. Our research team evaluates fundamental and technical opportunities as well as the macro- and micro-impact of market events.

All markets have volatile and flat cycles. At Geneva, we constantly work with our traders to be nimble, to move into markets where the best opportunities lie and utilize our extensive market experience as well as innovative ideas that separate Geneva from all others in the market.

Geneva is committed to using the most cutting edge technology in the industry to ensure our traders have the fastest, most reliable access to securities and derivatives markets.