Who We Are
WH Trading is a global proprietary derivatives trading firm. We provide liquidity to a wide range of global futures and options markets including Interest Rate, Foreign Exchange, Agricultural Commodity and Energy products. As a proprietary trading firm, our revenue comes from trading profits generated on physical open outcry exchange floors in Chicago and electronic markets globally. We do not serve customers and our risk capital is provided exclusively by the firm’s partners.
WH Trading is a member of all major global derivatives exchanges including CME, CBOT, NYMEX and ICE. We maintain direct electronic connections to all major global derivatives exchanges.
WH Trading has its roots in the open outcry markets of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Will Hobert founded the firm in 1994 in a small office above the CME trading floor. Since that time, WH Trading has grown and developed to keep pace with the markets we trade. Today the firm has over 70 employees including trading, technology and administrative staff. All are based in our office on Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop.
Who We Are
WH Trading is a global proprietary derivatives trading firm. We provide liquidity to a wide range of global futures and options markets including Interest Rate, Foreign Exchange, Agricultural Commodity and Energy products. As a proprietary trading firm, our revenue comes from trading profits generated on physical open outcry exchange floors in Chicago and electronic markets globally. We do not serve customers and our risk capital is provided exclusively by the firm’s partners.
WH Trading is a member of all major global derivatives exchanges including CME, CBOT, NYMEX and ICE. We maintain direct electronic connections to all major global derivatives exchanges.
WH Trading has its roots in the open outcry markets of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Will Hobert founded the firm in 1994 in a small office above the CME trading floor. Since that time, WH Trading has grown and developed to keep pace with the markets we trade. Today the firm has over 70 employees including trading, technology and administrative staff. All are based in our office on Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop.
Leadership
Will Hobert founded WH Trading LLC in 1994 and is the firm’s Managing Member. He began his career at Cooper Neff and Associates in 1988 as an options clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and shortly grew into an FX floor and OTC FX options trader in all USD FX and FX cross rates products.
As Managing Member of WH Trading, Will is active in all aspects of our business. However, he also focuses much of his time on creating new growth opportunities for WH Trading. These include recruiting raw trading talent and experienced trading groups, expansion of our trading into new products and markets, and evaluating potential strategic partnerships with organizations that have complementary related businesses..
In 2015 Will was elected to the Board of Directors of CME Group, Inc. Will grew up in Minnesota and is a graduate of Wesleyan University.
Alvin Dodek came to WH Trading from a background in Intellectual Property law. He joined WH Trading as the firm’s second employee in 1994 and is a Member in the firm.
Today Alvin continues to be an active electronic market maker in commodity futures options and provides risk management oversight to the firm’s trading activity. He is also a key contributor to WH’s technology development and new business initiatives.
Alvin is a native of the Washington D.C. area. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1990.
Leadership
Will Hobert founded WH Trading LLC in 1994 and is the firm’s Managing Member. He began his career at Cooper Neff and Associates in 1988 as an options clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and shortly grew into an FX floor and OTC FX options trader in all USD FX and FX cross rates products.
As Managing Member of WH Trading, Will is active in all aspects of our business. However, he also focuses much of his time on creating new growth opportunities for WH Trading. These include recruiting raw trading talent and experienced trading groups, expansion of our trading into new products and markets, and evaluating potential strategic partnerships with organizations that have complementary related businesses..
In 2015 Will was elected to the Board of Directors of CME Group, Inc. Will grew up in Minnesota and is a graduate of Wesleyan University.
Alvin Dodek came to WH Trading from a background in Intellectual Property law. He joined WH Trading as the firm’s second employee in 1994 and is a Member in the firm.
Today Alvin continues to be an active electronic market maker in commodity futures options and provides risk management oversight to the firm’s trading activity. He is also a key contributor to WH’s technology development and new business initiatives.
Alvin is a native of the Washington D.C. area. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1990.