About Brian Ferdinand Liquid Holdings
A cofounder of Liquid Holdings Group, LLC, Brian Ferdinand currently serves as the firm’s President. He began his career in proprietary trading as Partner and Managing Director of ECHOtrade, LLC, a proprietary trading firm that he developed from the ground up, expanding it from a single employee to more than 400 traders working in the main New York office alone, and another 400 traders working elsewhere in the United States and abroad. While with ECHOtrade, Brian Ferdinand engineered its direct market access on the New York Stock Exchange. The firm became the first Merrill Lynch client to accomplish this feat.
Throughout his career, Brian Ferdinand has consistently earned praise for his dedication to innovation and his unique automated trading strategies, which led to new models at ECHOtrade that generated trading profits of more than $100 million. He exited the firm in 2009 when he first began to establish the Liquid Platform.
Dedicated to being the definitive technology solution for the asset management industry, Ferdinand’s current firm provides institutions and portfolio managers with a proprietary trading, accounting, and risk management system. Liquid Holdings also offers a number of prime brokerage services with a commitment to providing greater market access and cost-effective trading solutions, and it maintains a distinguished staff of Wall Street veterans to provide the highest level of support for its products and clients.
Brian Ferdinand studied psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University and political science and government at the University of Kansas. Before launching ECHOtrade, he served as a Portfolio Manager at Sharp Capital, LP, where he fine-tuned his portfolio management techniques.
Throughout his career, Brian Ferdinand has consistently earned praise for his dedication to innovation and his unique automated trading strategies, which led to new models at ECHOtrade that generated trading profits of more than $100 million. He exited the firm in 2009 when he first began to establish the Liquid Platform.
Dedicated to being the definitive technology solution for the asset management industry, Ferdinand’s current firm provides institutions and portfolio managers with a proprietary trading, accounting, and risk management system. Liquid Holdings also offers a number of prime brokerage services with a commitment to providing greater market access and cost-effective trading solutions, and it maintains a distinguished staff of Wall Street veterans to provide the highest level of support for its products and clients.
Brian Ferdinand studied psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University and political science and government at the University of Kansas. Before launching ECHOtrade, he served as a Portfolio Manager at Sharp Capital, LP, where he fine-tuned his portfolio management techniques.