Jump Trading is a proprietary trading firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in Chicago. The company specializes in algorithmic and high-frequency quantitative trading across equities, futures, options, and cryptocurrencies. Its founders, Bill DiSomma and Paul Gurinas, were formerly floor traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
The firm operates globally and maintains research, engineering, and trading teams drawing talent from mathematics, physics, and computer science. Its core technical capabilities centre on low-latency trading infrastructure, advanced machine learning applications, and quantitative research and modelling. These capabilities span all asset classes and multiple time horizons, supported by continuous investment in custom tools and systems engineering.
Jump Trading positions itself as a destination for professionals interested in algorithmic and high-frequency trading as a technical discipline. The company emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and intellectual honesty as organisational principles, with a focus on building and evolving its research infrastructure and analytical capabilities over its quarter-century of operation.