Hudson River Trading
US quantitative trading firm providing liquidity across global financial markets.
Hudson River Trading uses mathematical research and automated trading systems to provide liquidity across financial markets. Founded in 2002, it grew from US equities into trading across multiple asset classes and regions.
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Hudson River Trading is a quantitative trading firm whose researchers and engineers build automated systems for financial markets. Its work combines mathematics, statistics and computing to decide how to trade and provide liquidity. The Firm employs specialists from computer Science, physics and engineering alongside mathematicians. Research and software development form part of the same trading operation. [Company profile](https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/about/)
Founded in 2002 by graduates with backgrounds in mathematics and computer Science, HRT initially concentrated on US equities. It subsequently expanded across markets and asset classes. Its identity rests on developing trading algorithms and the technology that runs them, with liquidity provision as a central business activity.
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