General Background:
Hamish Raw Options Consultant, Trader/Market-maker, Financial Engineer, Software Developer, Author, Trainer, Innovator.
Chronological Background:
- 1979-81: Brokered Gilts on the LSE floor for W.Greenwell & Co..
- 1981-84: A stint in Qatar, and then Jeddah, Saudi Arabia involving implementing waste management.
- 1984-85: Awarded MBA from Cass Business School. (GMAT Score: 96%)
- 1985-1999: Successful self-financed options market-maker on LIFFE. Also traded on LTOM, SFE & CBOT. (Long gamma during the ’87 crash, the ’89 Berlin Wall fall, Sterling being ejected from the EMS.)
- 1986: Created options pricing and risk management system incorporating the first ever stochastic, sliding volatility skew and VaR-style risk analysis.
- 1988: Established London Derivatives Options Software which sold stand-alone options trading software to nearly all the banks and brokers on LIFFE (including JP Morgan).
- 1989: Self-financed options market-maker on the Sydney Futures Exchange for 6-7 months.
- 1990: After a cursory look at the Amsterdam Options Exchange (EOE) returned to LIFFE to trade Bund options and futures as a self-financed local.
- 1998: Founder of FFastFill Plc, a DMA software builder, listed on AIM at £54.5m in Nov. 2000. The company offered the most advanced options risk analysis and management package on the market. Subsequently sold to the Ion Group for £106m.
- 2002-2003: Options market-maker on the CBoT.
- 2003-2004: Founder of The Gaming Bourse, an innovative betting exchange that included financials, commodities, sport, weather & TV ‘social reality’ contests.
- 2004-2007: Screen trader out of Spain, Gibraltar and the UK.
- 2008: Author of ‘Binary Options: Fixed Odds Financial Bets
- 2008-09: Parachuted in to a trading arcade to turn a haemorrhaging options book round. Subsequently became head of the desk.
- 2017: Creator of ‘Raw Relativity’ – an innovative procedure for establishing the path dependent historic volatility of financial assets.
- 2018-Present: Working on a new vertical Virtual Financials. This new and exciting form of virtual trading enables the speculator to take short-term positions on fictitious assets where prices are created every second by a random number generator. Trading on a RAndom Walk. https://raw.games
- 2022-Present: Formed a business based on creating a new genre for online trading. https://trading.games
- 2022-Present: Writing new book ’20 Essential Traded Options Strategies’.
- 2025-Launch of BullnBear.io, BitcoinOptions.com and CryptoSpoof.io imminent.
Concise and eloquent, both in speech and the written word.
Hamish Raw – Derivatives Consultant (specialising in options) serving Europe, Asia and Australasia (currently unavailable).