Edward Nicoll

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8358

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Professional Experience:

DC Trading Partners, LLC

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Trader

> Equity options volatility trader

> Options market maker in over 20 equity options

> Managed volatility curves in 50 equity options for all traders in the

firm on the Actant market making system

> Analyzed volatility using implied versus historical comparisons on

Bloomberg and Optigraph

Steinberg Asset Management, LLC

2006-2007

Trader

> Traded Small, Mid, and All cap strategies for a firm with over $2.5

billion assets under management

> Structured daily Equity Block orders

> Traded Equities in local markets in Canada, Norway, London and

Singapore

> Responsible for investing and rebalancing accounts according to the

firm's models

> Executed and optimized long / short and option positions for hedge fund

product

> Interfaced with portfolio managers on headline and market risk to funds'

positions

> Proficient on Advent Moxy, Advent Portfolio Exchange and Bloomberg

Osprey Partners Investment Management, LLC

1998-2006

Execution Trader

> Managed all executions for a fund with over $3 Billion assets under

management

> Oversaw all Equity Block trading and day to day individual trading

> Traded Fixed Income products for asset classes including Treasuries,

Agencies and Investment Grade Bonds

> Executed orders with traditional domestic and international sales-traders

and on various Electronic Communications Networks including Instinet,

Archipelago, ITG, Liquidnet and Market Axess

> Implemented all trading strategies for the portfolio management team

> Provided market insight and trading advice to portfolio managers and

analysts

> Reflected research and news events and their market impact to managers

> Monitored SEC and exchange regulations and their implications on trading

and compliance matters

> Maintained spreadsheets for tracking all soft dollar and client directed

business

> Analyzed trading desk efficiency and executions with various Transaction

Cost Analysis tools to optimize performance

Salomon Brothers

1993-1998

Trade Assistant

Government Desk Trading Liaison

> Accounted for U.S. Treasury trades done between all other Fixed Income

trading desks and the general sales force

> Executed all odd-lot trades for the desk

> Monitored all overnight trading activity for London and Tokyo offices and

executed Odd Lot trades

> Acted as a liaison identifying and solving operations problems for

Auctions, Securities, Inter-firm Accounts and general sales and trading

inquiries

Financial Futures Liaison

> Processed all customer account information for the Chicago Board of Trade

and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange salespeople

Education:

Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

BA Economics, December 1993

Interests:

Active in The Pennsylvania State University Alumni Association, Montclair

Junior League Lacrosse Coach, golfing, skiing, running and surfing

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