Built in Hong Kong.
Played globally.
SigmaFi is a technology-driven quantitative trading firm. We started as a high-frequency market maker in crypto, where speed and discipline matter most. Today we apply the same loop to ETFs, equities, options, futures and prediction markets — anchored in Hong Kong, executed across the world.
§ 01 — Story
Four chapters, one continuous loop.
- 01 · Origin
Founders meet across Jane Street, Citadel, Getco and Google. The shared frustration: ideas are everywhere, the loop from idea to live order is broken.
- 02 · Phase I
Build CWS in private. Crypto market making becomes the laboratory — 24/7, light regulation, fast feedback. We prove the loop on our own capital.
- 03 · Phase II
Extend to ETFs, options, futures and rates. Open the Hong Kong office. Begin the SFC Type 9 (Asset Management) licence application.
- 04 · Phase III
Bring CWS to bear on prediction markets. Continue investing in research, infrastructure and the people who make both possible.
§ 02 — Principles
What we will not trade away.
- 01 / 04
Engineering before narrative
If a claim doesn't survive being engineered into code, it isn't a strategy — it's a story. We pay our researchers, but we ship our engineers' work.
- 02 / 04
Compound the substrate
Strategies decay. Substrates compound. The most valuable thing we build is the loop that produces the next strategy faster than the last.
- 03 / 04
Be honest about edge
Capacity, slippage, decay, regime — we measure them and we tell ourselves the truth. Honesty about your edge is the cheapest source of edge.
- 04 / 04
Discipline before scale
Risk isn't a tax we pay to grow. It's the precondition. We'd rather scale slower with a calmer book than chase headline AUM.
§ 03 — People
A team of practitioners.
Our founding team trained at the firms that wrote modern quant — Jane Street, Citadel, Getco, SIG, Two Sigma — with research roots at Princeton, Berkeley, Columbia and Tsinghua. The common denominator: shipping into real markets, on a real PnL, against counterparties who do not hand out points for elegance.
We pair that lineage with a willingness to throw out received wisdom — the moment the data says so.
- Jane Street
- Citadel
- Getco
- SIG
- Two Sigma
- DRW
- Princeton
- Berkeley
- Tsinghua
- Columbia
Hong Kong
Anchor · trading desk · research
New York
Listed-market liaison
Shenzhen
APAC engineering · ops
Affiliations of current and former team members. Listed firms are not investors in or partners of SigmaFi.
§ 04 — Vision
To be the
most engineered
multi-asset trading firm
out of Asia.
Reliable, transparent liquidity for our counterparties. Compounding research for ourselves. Engineering as the discipline that makes both possible.