TRADER VIC

Victor Sperandeo was born in 1945, in the United States. He started his trading career in 1968 when he took up a position as an options trader dealing with over-the-counter securities at Filer Schmidt & Co., a well known dealer of stock options.

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In 1970 he left Filer Schmidt & Co and he joined U.S. Options. There he continued trading as a trustee for company clients and also a securities options trader for banking institutions. He continued working with Over-The–Counter securities.

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In 1970, Mr. Sperandeo found his own trading firm, Ragnar Option Corporation. Ragnar, which focused on Sperandeo’s speciality in over the counter futures, employed tailor made customer-centered strategies. This strategy worked very well and in six months it became the largest over-the–counter securities options dealer not only n the United sates but also around the world.

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Victor Sperandeo was Ragnar’s President  until February 1977 when it was merged with Weeden to form Weeden & Co. There he excelled again into the block trader in the glamour stocks and was appointed Vice President, a position he served until Weeden was liquidated.

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In 1979, Mr. Sperandeo launched Hugo Securities Co. Inc., where he put his teaching skills to practice. Willing to share his experience and skills as a trading guru, Sperandeo used his firm to teach other traders in the market on how to build a market maker business and how to be become a specialist in trading securities options. Hugo Securities eventually took hold of several trading seats on the NYSE, as well as on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Pacific Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

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In 1982, Sperandeo managed a short-term portfolio for the Quantum Fund owned by George Soros. While managing his own firm Hugo securities he worked as the principal and point person for trade advisors and commodity advisors. Mr. Sperandeo registered himself in February 1984, officially as a trading and commodity pool operator and served in that capacity until March 1987.

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He also handled the Victory Partners hedge fund trading Security indexes and options contracts from June 1983 to 1986. In 1988, he established the Rand Management Corporation. This firm was a key investment adviser registered with the SEC.

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In 1989, Victor Sperandeo decided to sell the Hugo Securities Co. Inc branches that deal with securities. He however flourished in the trade futures markets. He established himself as a registered commodity trading advisor between 1989 until 1993.

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He branded powerful trading tools such as the “1-2-3 Reversal”, “2B” Pattern, the “Diversified Trends Indicator®” an indicator still relevant in the commodity market.

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Since their formation between 2000 and 2001 Victor Sperandeo served as CEO and president of EAM Partners L.P. and Alpha Financial Technologies, LLC.

AFT is a respected financial engineering company specializing on futures-based indices research and development, focusing on indices that were created by Victor Sperandeo:

• The DTI or Diversified Trends Indicator—launched in 2004, the commodity index focuses on long/short financial futures.

• The FTI or Financial Trends Indicator—yet another DTI sub-index which is also a currency index and a long/short financial futures index.

• The CTI or Commodity Trends Indicator—a DTI sub-index launched in 2004.

• The GERI or the Global Equity Rotator Index—is a long-only global equity futures index that prioritizes the 5 most proficient indexes from 14 equity indices on a yearly basis.

• The FXTI or FX Trends Index—launched in 2010, the FTI is also a long/short currency futures index.

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The DTI, FTI and CTI indexes were Standard & Poor licensed from 2002 – 2009 and were later referred to as the S&P Diversified Trends Indicator, S&P Financial Trends Indicator S&P Commodity Trends Indicator. As of 2009, AFT began to directly license its indices via providers and product developers, as well as to providers who can build and sell investment products to retail investors and financial institutions.

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Apart from its financial systems, AFT patents were also of great value in the investment market. It has received 3 patents in the United States, 1 in Australia and 2 in the Bahamas. It also has a number of pending patents on financial products employing long/short indexes or indicators in concurrence with leverage. These aspects tend to add alpha at the same time reducing risk.

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AFT has compiled a group of product issuers that are associated to its indexes including: Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, HSBC, Nomura, Macquarie Bank, UBS, Guggenheim Investments, Wisdom-Tree among others.

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Under Victor Sperandeo’s watch, EAM has, and continues to, develop methodologies and principles that are readily available to the global financial community. In itself EAM itself does not offer portfolio management services; however, it serves as an advisory partner to subsidiaries, and in its place provides the required services for portfolio management for qualified financial institutions.

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In 2008 Victor was inducted into the Trader Hall of Fame by Trader Magazine and included on ZiadAdelnour’s list of top 100 Wall Streeters, one of the highest honours in the industry.