Timothy Mcmahon Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Sole architect and director of 100% algorithmic trading strategies that seek to profit from short term price discrepancies which hold a statistical edge within liquid futures and equity products. These programs systematically identify price, volume, and other technical behaviors that signal statistically advantageous entry points in the markets and autonomously takes positions when the implied odds are significantly higher over the capital risked. With holding periods ranging from 30 minutes (intraday system) up to 10 days (max holding period for short term system), the algorithms are designed to quickly profit from market inefficiencies while avoiding capital and timing risk. By quickly compiling individual investment returns, strategies have proven to drastically outperform all benchmarks while minimizing exposure.

Greater Chicago Area

- Electronically executed market making trading strategies in the CME Eurodollar Options/Futures in conjunction with 3 pit traders.- Managed and hedged all Greek risks (Delta/Gamma, Vega, and Theta), associated with the groups consolidated option portfolio. - Provided real-time in-depth market intelligence to the pit traders regarding electronic or brokers order flow, spread option activity, implied and historical volatility analysis, futures spread movements, Bloomberg chats, and relative news. - Maintained accurate trading pricing models and VAR, applying the cumulative knowledge of team members members understanding of options theory and external influences.- Responsible for the legitimacy of all information passed through the private network architecture. This included ensuring all trades executed via open outcry were correctly entered into the OMS on the traders tables, and the traders are receiving the correct real-time information.- Maximized competitive edge by nurturing positive relationships with several pit brokers while maintaining direct open lines with 5+competing brokers and 3 pit traders.- Acted as primary liaison to any matter that needs attention outside of pit market making.

Greater Denver Area

McMahon Trading LLC is a 100% algorithmic trading company that seeks to profit from short term price discrepancies throughout the financial and commodity futures markets. By exercising several back-tested diversified multi-market trading systems, McMahon Trading LLC consistently outperforms major performance benchmarks while minimizing capital and timing risks. Simply put, we only execute trades that have historically presented a significant return to the capital risked in a short time frame. By limiting the time invested in a trade, we are able to quickly free up the capital and re-invest it in the next market that is presenting a numerical edge.

Greater Denver Area

- Managed trade execution for a $300 Million dollar portfolio consisting of 30+ accounts. - Solely monitored, traded, and hedged positions in over 60 domestic and international markets including; FX, Equities, Agricultures, Energies, Fixed-Income, and other asset classes. - Analyzed market trends, conditions, and developments to formulate effective and profitable execution strategies that have lowered Northfields execution costs by over $1 Million annually.- Achieved optimal broker trade execution by establishing strong relationships with several brokers; facilitated the flow of information to and from the brokers by maintaining open lines of communication with all personnel.- Reconciled trade and commission discrepancies with necessary brokers and FCMs.- Developed and implemented hedging strategies to limit risk when unforeseen market conditions materialized.- Created and maintained trade desk operations analysis and directed a monthly meeting aimed at bettering trade desk performance and upcoming months expectations.

Greater Chicago Area

- As a member of the CME, developed and executed many trading strategies in many different markets including; Grains, Meats, Energies, Fixed Income, Equities, Currencies, Precious Metals, and several others. - Carried out trend and product analyses, utilized short-term trading strategies to increase profitability.- Directed a 30+ year experienced and extremely well respected Agriculture Floor Trader in shifting a multi-million dollar portfolio from floor trading to screen based trading while increasing profits during the transition.- Co-traded with that employer to take advantage of several arbitrage opportunities within the agriculture markets.- Developed and maintained strong relationships with many brokerage firms and trading personel to secure the best lines of correct market information and ensure the best “fills”. - Compiled and analyzed daily research, news events, and industry trends from sources such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Dow Jones news-wire, and others. Prepared data summaries to use in designing trading strategies.- Monitored cash markets to better assess fair value of futures and acted accordingly to hedge our risk.- Programmed many real-time tools to better assess trading performance and risk.

Greater Chicago Area

- Provided trade support and reconciliation as well as performed confirmations and settlements on all trades.- Used several trading systems and turret phone system to help traders with Live Cattle, Feeder Cattle, Lean Hogs, Pork Bellies, Lumber, S&P500, NASDAQ, and all currencies.- Monitored margin requirements of clients and performed P&L transactions.- Settled trade discrepencies and reconciled price inconsistencies.- Assisted desk manager in supervising runners as Lead Runner.