An edge,
engineered.
Cypress Trading is a proprietary trading firm. We trade billions of dollars in notional value across futures, index options, equities, and Treasuries — pairing purpose-built technology and AI-driven research with thirty years of market intuition.
A trading firm built around a simple conviction: the edge is something you build.
Markets reward participants who see structure before it is obvious and act on it without friction. We pursue both sides of that equation — insight and execution — with the same intensity.
We trade our own capital, at institutional velocity, from a technology stack we designed, built, and run ourselves. Every fill, every position, and every dollar of P&L flows through systems we control end to end.
Real size, in real markets, every session.
Three things, compounding.
We build what we trade on
Cypress Terminal — our proprietary execution, analytics, and reconciliation stack — was engineered around how we actually trade. When the platform is yours, the platform is never the constraint.
AI in the research loop
We put modern AI to work across the firm — accelerating research, testing market-structure ideas, and building software at a pace a traditional desk can't match. Technology doesn't replace judgment here; it sharpens it.
Thirty years of tape
Pattern recognition earned across three decades of markets — bull, bear, crisis, and melt-up — and an operator's instinct honed building and scaling real businesses. Some things can't be downloaded.
From one trader's problem to a firm's foundation.
Cypress Trading began the way most durable firms do — with a problem nobody else had solved. Trading at a velocity most firms run with algorithms, our founder faced a choice the industry kept forcing: the safety of a major global institution without the tools, or capable tools at firms too small to trust with size.
The answer was to stop choosing. We built Cypress Terminal — a broker-agnostic control layer delivering professional execution, live risk, and institutional reporting — while capital stays in custody at top-tier institutions. It has run in live production ever since, on our own capital, in real markets.
What started as a platform became a philosophy. Today the firm applies the same approach to everything it does: if the edge doesn't exist, build it. Better execution. Deeper analytics. Faster research. Larger size, handled with more control, not less.
Where does it go from here? Bigger. That's the plan, and we're executing it the same way we execute everything — one decisive click at a time.
"When I want in, I'm in — and out just as fast. Everything we build serves that standard."
Jake Jacobsen — Founder, Cypress Trading
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