Summary
Bronson Plocus is a seasoned derivatives and volatility specialist with nine years of formal experience and a two-decade career footprint across trading, market-making, and risk leadership. He has run discretionary and systematic volatility arbitrage strategies, managed prime brokerage and enterprise risk at Marex, and led market risk teams at the OCC overseeing US-listed options and futures clearing. Known for bridging quantitative research with practical execution, he has built proprietary pricing models, portfolio risk metrics, and broker algo workflows that improved execution reliability and diversified risk concentrations. His background spans equities, indexes, ETFs, commodities, and Treasuries, with hands-on experience negotiating trading costs and scaling institutional client businesses. Unusually for a trader, he pairs engineering-minded training (BS in Civil Engineering and BS in Finance from Lehigh) with masters-level financial mathematics studies, enabling rigorous modeling and business-focused implementation. Based in Bethlehem, PA, he approaches problems with a pragmatic "let's find a solution" mindset that shows up in both trading innovation and client-facing strategy.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters-Level Coursework Financial Mathematics, Masters-Level Coursework Financial Mathematics at New York University
BS Civil Engineering, BS Civil Engineering at Lehigh University
BS Finance, BS Finance at Lehigh University College of Business
English