Hamish Raw: Consultant in the Derivatives (options specialist) and Gambling, Trader/Market-maker, Financial Engineer, Software Developer, Author, Innovator.

General Background:

• • 1998: Founder of FFastFill Plc, a DMA software builder, listed on AIM at £54.5m in Nov. 2000.
  • 2003-2007: Screen trader out of Spain, Gibraltar and the UK.
  • 2008: Author of ‘Binary Options: Fixed Odds Financial Bets‘
  • 2008: Parachuted in to a trading arcade to turn a haemorrhaging options book round. Subsequently became head of the desk.
  • 2018-2021: Working on a new betting vertical  Virtual Financials. This new and exciting form of betting enables the punter to have bets on fictitious assets where prices are created every second by a random number generator combined with a volatility input.
  • 2022:
    • Ongoing – Consultancy with major trading software provider covering options provision;
    • Ongoing – Completion of trading options manual: ’22 ESSENTIAL OPTIONS STRATEGIES: Speculating for the Adventurous Trader’. Well in excess of 200 A4 pages taking the reader through the impact of time to expiry and changes in volatility on twenty-two different options strategies. Those structured strategies with two or more options, e.g. call spread, 2×3 put spread, etc., also provide an analysis of how the spread between the different strike prices affect the value of the strategy.
    • Founder of Unique Platforms Limited, an SaaS business focussed on trading software.

Qualifications:    MBA from Cass Business School. (GMAT Score: 96%)

Innovations:

• • • Created options pricing and risk management system incorporating the first ever sliding volatility skew and VaR-style risk analysis.
    • Established a means of calculating path dependent historic volatility, a practical measurement required for all barrier options and gamma trading.
    • Create virtual financials betting (https://bullnbear.io) involving betting on the future fictitious price of a fictitious asset.
    • Created a new form of ‘crash’ bets (‘Barnstormer’) for the gambling market.

Interests:              Hiking, cycling, historical fiction, watching rugby & soccer (a ‘Seagull’), Mediterranean culture, Ancient Greek and Roman history.