Chris Sullivan & Haim Bodek, Principals at Hyperion Decimus in “Can We Decentralize Money Itself?”
Well happy Friday!
Based on the past several weeks and business decision-making, we’ve taken a huge shift in thinking and targets for business development. That has me extremely consumed to the point of not even being able to adequately write and get out previously recorded episodes in the queue.
So thank you for your patience!
In this episode Jonathan & I are joined by Chris Sullivan and Haim Bodek of Hyperion Decimus for a deep dive discussion into high-frequency trading, cryptocurrencies vs. central bank digital currencies, market structures and how assets will intersect with the emerging technology frameworks.
Chris and Haim have deep experience in capital market trading and now apply in their work in the digital asset space as the leading digital asset fund in the market today.
ABOUT HYPERION DECIMUS
Hyperion Decimus, LLC is a Digital Asset advisory company that approaches investing in the cryptocurrency space from a perspective of market structure and liquidity arbitrage. By taking a disciplined, tech driven, multi-strategy approach to the cryptocurrency universe, Hyperion Decimus, LLC seeks to generate alpha over short and long term time horizons. HDCX, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hyperion Decimus, LLC, provides execution services in the cryptocurrency space.
LEARN MORE AT: https://www.hyperiondecimus.com/
ABOUT CHRIS SULLIVAN
Mr. Sullivan is an Investment Advisor Representative of Hyperion Wealth Management and serves as the firm’s Portfolio Manager. Since 2015, Mr. Sullivan has been an Owner and Operator of Hyperion Wealth Management. He has concentrated experience in portfolio construction, risk management, equity, futures, and derivatives trading with experience in managed futures.
Mr. Sullivan previously worked as a Private Wealth Manager from 2007 to 2011 with Morgan Stanley and with Merrill Lynch. Mr. Sullivan holds Series 3, 4, 7, 24, 30, 31, 66, 215 securities licenses. Mr. Sullivan has earned the following designations: Accredited Wealth Management Advisor (AWMA) and Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC).
As of April, 2016 Mr. Sullivan completed the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) program. Mr. Sullivan has a B.A. from Emory University in History and English with a minor in Music and Micro-Economics.
ABOUT HAIM BODEK
Haim Bodek is a Managing Principal of Decimus Capital Markets, LLC, a tactical consulting and strategic advisory firm focused on high frequency trading and U.S. equities market structure. Mr. Bodek was formerly a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Trading Machines LLC, an independent high frequency options trading firm.
Prior to his tenure at Trading Machines, Mr. Bodek was a Managing Director and Joint Global Head of Electronic Volatility Trading at UBS. He is an electronic trading executive and algorithmic trading strategist with two decades of experience in the automated trading space. Mr. Bodek's career, experiences, and advocacy for regulatory reform of securities markets are described extensively in Dark Pools by Scott Patterson, a freelance writer and staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Bodek is also the author of two books on market structure, The Problem of HFT and The Market Structure Crisis, as well as the subject of the documentary film The Wall Street Code directed by Marije Meerman.
Mr. Bodek is known as a whistleblower who brought attention to several questionable practices of high-frequency traders and trading venues. He is generally credited with unleashing the so-called "order type controversy," which focuses on abusive practices relating to complex nontransparent order types.
Mr. Bodek's contributions have influenced the ongoing public policy debate and the rapidly changing landscape for regulatory, enforcement, and litigation issues, and he has actively assisted the SEC in several investigations that resulted in substantial monetary fines and significant changes in practices of certain trading venues, including admissions of inaccurate disclosure.
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Michael
P.S. If you haven’t listened to the Digital Dollar Episode #20 Bob Hockett, Edward Cornell Endowed Professor of Law at Cornell Law School “Visions of Future Money” — you really should hit it.
P.P.S. The next episode will look at some different aspects of all this technology — we’ll be talking with a friend and colleague, Attorney & NYU Professor, Drew Hinkes. We’ll be talking about the impact of digital currency on our civil rights.
Yeah yeah, dank meme