About us

We are a Dutch proprietary trading firm based in Amsterdam.

Established in 1999, Market Wizards is engaged in proprietary trading, market making, high-frequency trading, and electronic trading infrastructure exclusively for its own account.

From its advanced dealing room in Amsterdam, Market Wizards provides its proprietary trading partners with market access, low-latency infrastructure, advanced technology, and direct exchange connectivity.

Market Wizards is a Dutch investment firm licensed under the Dutch Financial Supervision Act (Wet op het financieel toezicht, Wft). The firm is licensed and subject to conduct supervision by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) and to prudential supervision by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).

Market infrastructure and trading environment

Founding Vision

Our founding vision remains simple: traders should focus on trading, while we provide the framework.

Professional trading requires more than market knowledge. It requires robust infrastructure, reliable systems, exchange access, compliance processes, risk controls, clearing relationships and operational discipline.

Market Wizards brings these elements together in one framework.

Risk oversight

We provide independent monitoring, clear oversight and robust risk controls, helping traders operate within agreed risk parameters while maintaining full focus on trading.

Clearing coordination

We support the clearing and margin processes surrounding trading activity and coordinate communication with relevant clearing partners.

IT and infrastructure support

We maintain the technical trading environment, including systems, connectivity, server coordination and issue handling with infrastructure providers.

Market access and operations

We provide the operational, regulatory and technological framework that enables efficient market access, execution, reporting and back-office operations.

IT and infrastructure

We manage the technical environment behind trading activities, including systems, connectivity, server infrastructure and coordination with external providers.

Market access and operations

We support the structure needed for professional market access, electronic execution, reporting, compliance processes and back-office coordination.

We support the operational side of professional trading.

Market Wizards provides the framework around independent trading activity. That means practical support for risk, clearing, systems, infrastructure, reporting and daily operations, so traders can focus on their strategies while the surrounding structure is organised and monitored. So you do the trading, and we do the rest.

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