Option One International History
With over 100 years experience between the management team, it became
clear to us that the financial services industry had reached a
critical moment in its evolution: Investors like you wanted more
control over you finances and personal affairs. You wanted advisors to
be honest and advise you on how to call your own shots, enter and
execute the orders for you, and manage your own account. You'd become
extremely value-conscious and were no longer willing to pay the
exorbitant trading commissions charged by inefficient brokerage
companies. And as you became increasingly familiar and comfortable
with technology, you were looking to use it in ways which would give
you increased convenience, control, and cost-savings. We realized that
the Internet, could serve as the foundation of a totally electronic
offshore marketplace and that we could revolutionize the way the
options are traded by delivering tools and information never available
before directly to your home and office. Achieving these goals,
however, would require the creation of a trading model and the launch
of a completely new company - it just wouldn't be possible to convert
a conventional firm, with legacy systems and outdated attitudes, into
our vision of the future.
Where We Stand Today
Today, we serve offshore commodity investors all over the world, and
we've opened ample number of options accounts since we began
operations. We offer live trading in more than 29 top trading
commodities. In order to deliver the best service, we're staffed
around the clock during the trading week. We've grown to become one of
the largest international offshore trading firms in the world, but
we'll always remain quick, nimble, entrepreneurial, innovative, and
customer-oriented. That's what's made us successful, and we see no
reason to change. As an Option One International client, you'll have a
complete team of experienced professionals standing behind you. And
in these markets, you want to have every possible advantage in your
favor. The financial integrity of the industry is of paramount
importance. The entire industry knows that without adequate
protections, you won't trade in markets.
Investment Philosophy
Option Ones Investment philosophy is to meet investors' exact risk and
reward targets through portfolios of technically-based trading
systems, professional commodity trading advisors, and managed Forex
programs. We work with each client to construct portfolios using a
multidimensional diversification strategy which allots capital to
different markets, trading strategies, and time frames.
We are not content to merely provide clients with a "menu" to choose
from, and wish to have some "skin" in the game by actually
recommending specific systems and CTAs. The selection of our
recommended trading systems and advisors follows a rigorous
quantitative analysis that considers the past performance, liquidity
and volatility of markets traded, types of strategies employed, trade
duration, risk of loss, and probability of achieving performance
objectives.
Option One International has put this quantitative analysis to use in
researching close to one thousand different trading systems and
advisors to insure the much smaller portfolio of systems, CTAs, and
Forex programs we do recommend give our clients the best chance for
success.
The portfolios resulting from our exhaustive testing and
multi-dimensional approach give Option One International clients the
ability to profit (or suffer losses) in virtually any environment, be
it rising or falling markets, quick or long term moves, or trending
versus oscillating markets.
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