Spot Trading Shuts Doors

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180308/NEWS01/180309866/spot-trading-appears-to-have-shut-down-operations

Does anyone have insight into what happened at Spot? 2017 was obviously tough for trading firms across the board with low vol across asset classes (excepting btc), but it's a little strange that they closed down right after vol spikes in a meaningful way for the first time in a long time.

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They had already got rid of half or so their traders.

Not sure if there was specific loss.

Weren’t they option shop? So hft in a game getting expensive and consolidating.

 

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