Proprietary capital only
We trade our own balance sheet. No outside money, no investment products, no customers. Ever.
Proprietary Principal Trading
Know the odds.
Survive.
Systematic strategies across global markets, traded entirely with our own capital. Every idea has to earn its place with evidence, or it does not trade.
Ashburn · Chicago · London · Frankfurt · Singapore · Tokyo · Sydney
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not a representation of firm facilities.
- Proprietary capital
- 100%
- Asset classes
- 05
- Market coverage
- 24/7
- System uptime
- 99.9%
01 The Firm
Simple.
We do not overcomplicate things. Every strategy, model, and system we run is reduced to the fewest parts that still do the job. Each extra part is another way to be wrong, another thing that can break, and another decision to second-guess when it matters most.
Information gets the same treatment. There is no reason to study 24 one-hour bars when a single bar carries the same information we actually need. If the simpler view answers the question, the extra detail is not insight. It is noise with better graphics.
Simple does not mean easy. It means everything unnecessary has been removed, and what remains has earned its place.
Fail fast, learn always
We challenge ideas early and often. Every failed test gives us evidence to learn from, improve, and test again.
Risk before return
Limits are enforced in software, not by exception. No strategy outranks the controls that govern it.
02 Markets
Five asset classes. One standard.
We run systematic strategies across global markets.
Equities
Global single-name and index equities, traded across lit exchanges and dark pools.
Futures
Index, rate, and commodity futures traded over co-located connections to CME, ICE, and Eurex.
Options
Volatility and directional strategies executed as multi-leg structures with automated hedging.
Foreign Exchange
Institutional liquidity across major, minor, and emerging-market pairs, through every session.
Digital Assets
Spot and derivatives on the largest tokens: markets that never close, and infrastructure that doesn't either.
03 Technology
Built in-house, end to end
Our edge is engineered. Research, execution, risk: every system in the stack is proprietary and purpose-built.
Research platform
Designed, built, and maintained by our own engineers: market data, research tooling, high-fidelity simulation, and transaction-cost models.
Execution systems
Low-latency pipelines built and maintained in-house, connected directly to the venues we trade.
Risk engine
Real-time exposure monitoring, hard limits enforced in code, and automated kill switches at every layer.
04 Approach
Test early. Learn continuously.
Research
Quantitative researchers turn market observations into clear, testable hypotheses.
Fail fast
We pressure-test assumptions early with rigorous simulation, realistic costs, and strict out-of-sample testing.
Learn and improve
Every result, especially a failed test, becomes evidence we use to refine the idea or move on quickly.
Deploy with discipline
Only validated strategies reach production, with comprehensive monitoring, hard risk controls, and continuous review.
05 Careers
Work from anywhere. Compete everywhere.
Bars and Code is fully remote and deliberately small. We look for exceptional engineers, researchers, and traders who test boldly, learn openly, and improve quickly.
Introduce yourselfEngineering
Distributed systems, low-latency execution, market data infrastructure.
Quantitative Research
Statistical modeling, machine learning, strategy development.
Trading
Systematic execution, market microstructure, risk management.
06 Contact
Get in touch
We welcome serious inquiries from candidates and counterparties.
- info@barsandcode.com
- Location
- Fully remote, globally distributed
- Status
- Trading active