History and Facts
- Optiver has more than 600 employees worldwide in Trading, IT and Business Operations.
- Optiver was the first company on the Dutch Options Exchange to use a mathematical test as part of its Trader selection process. We continue to use a mathematical test for candidate selection across the globe.
- Johann Kaemingk, company Chairman, was Optiver's first floor trader, and continued trading for the first four years of the company's existence.
- In the 1980's, the Dutch trading house's positions were very limited. In some cases, position size was limited to no more than 500 total open options per day across all series. Today, that number reaches into the tens of thousands of different series alone.
