History of Jane Street: 2020 Case Study - One of the Most Successful Proprietary Trading Firms in the World Today

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Sep 28, 2020, 12:00 ET

DUBLIN, Sept. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Case Study: History of Jane Street" company profile has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Among the global roster of proprietary trading and non-bank market making firms, the publisher has identified twelve that epitomize the successful navigation of the contemporary gauntlet required to achieve scale.

For now, the point is to remain focused on the objectives - the DNA - of a successful scaling strategy under conditions of finite alpha capacity and WTA competitive dynamics: The inventory of suitable products. The liquidity spectrum of those suitable products. A favorable disposition to a myriad of fleeting information asymmetries. And, a favorable disposition to volatility [which has little in common with information asymmetries given our post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) era of aggressive interventionism].

The only aspect of these objectives that can be controlled in service of growth is one's response to them. Like a stem cell, processing - a maniacal sensitivity to detail - is the source of all responses; and thus - in this game - all competitive advantages. Among the upper echelon of firms in this space, the publisher ranks Jane Street among the top three.

Scope of Jane Street

What originally appears to have started out as Henry Capital in August 1999, has become one of the most successful proprietary trading firms in the world today. It's a very short list of those who have forged success across regions, product and asset classes, strategies - and time.

Not much is known about the origins of Jane Street - officially or unofficially among the mythologies that tend to travel the backchannels of trading lore - other than occasional media reports about its prowess as one of the largest ETF market makers. Though some mythologies - as if fossilized in amber - have been suspended in time due acquisitions, those that remain can be roughly bifurcated between those where the founders contributed, wittingly or unwittingly, to the mythology and those who did not.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Introduction

Top Proprietary Firms
Scope Of Jane Street
Data Sample
Research Mission
Glossary

2. Table Of Contents

3. Table Of Exhibits

4. Landscape

Alpha Capacity Elasticity
Historical Perspective
Key Landscape Drivers

5. Storyboard

European Risk
US Risk
US Equity Strategies
US Option Strategies
Select Competitor Analysis
Revenue Estimation Model

6. Conclusion

Making Market History Market Making
Next Steps

7. Vignettes

Speed: Implied Strategy Turnover Frequency
Position Concentration Risk
Cryptocurrency Trading
Focus On GFC
OTC Derivatives
Global Balance Sheet
Enterprise Value

8. Supplemental Exhibits

European Entities: Operations
US Entities: Trading And Operations

Companies Mentioned

Jane Street Group, LLC
Jane Street Capital, LLC
Jane Street Options, LLC
Jane Street Global Trading, LLC
Jane Street Execution Services, LLC
Jane Street Europe Ltd
Jane Street Financial Ltd
Jane Street International Trading Ltd
Citadel Securities, LLC
Citadel Securities (Europe) Ltd
Susquehanna International Group, LLP
Susquehanna Securities, LLC
Susquehanna International Securities Ltd
G1 Execution Services, LLC
Two Sigma Investments, LP
Two Sigma Securities, LLC
Two Sigma Securities UK Ltd
Virtu Financial, Inc.
Virtu Americas, LLC
Virtu Financial BD, LLC
Virtu Financial Ireland Ltd
Flow Traders BV
Flow Traders US, LLC
Hudson River Trading, LLC
HRT Financial, LLC
Hudson River Trading Europe Ltd
Tower Research Capital, LLC
Latour Trading, LLC
Tower Research Capital Europe BV
Optiver BV
Optiver US, LLC
Optiver UK Ltd
IMC Trading BV
IMC-Chicago, LLC
DRW Securities, LLC
DRW Europe Derivatives BV
DRW Holdings, LLC
DRW Investment (UK) Ltd
Gair Loch Enterprises Ltd.
Jump Trading, LLC
Jump Trading Europe BV

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