Top-down macro, expressed through index options.
Zawadzki Capital is a personal trading and family wealth vehicle. It trades its own account in index options and equities, starting from the macro backdrop and working down to the position.
Macro comes first
Index options respond to the economic backdrop more than to any single company. So every idea starts with growth, inflation, central bank policy, liquidity and the dollar, and narrows from there.
Macro is the strongest focus of the desk, and it sets the order of the work: backdrop, then index, then structure, then size.
The specific models, levels and positions stay private. The order of the work does not.
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Global backdrop
Growth, inflation, central bank policy, liquidity and the dollar define the regime the market is in.
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Cross-asset confirmation
Rates, currencies, credit, commodities and volatility have to agree before a view carries weight.
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Index view
The regime becomes a view on the major indices: direction, timing and how much movement the market is pricing.
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Structure
Index options express the view, with the structure chosen for how volatility is priced against it.
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Risk and review
Size is set before entry. Each trade is logged and measured against the plan it came from.
Christopher M. Zawadzki
Founder and trader
I started trading at 18 and have worked in markets since: on the sales and trading side, in investment management, and running my own options book. Before finance I worked in manufacturing, handling sales, operations and international business development in London and across the European Economic Area.
Zawadzki Capital is where that experience comes together: a systematic, macro-led approach to index options and equities, traded with my own capital.
- Zawadzki CapitalFounder
Trades a personal and family account in index options and equities with a systematic, analytics-driven, macro-led process.
- NoCor FundOptions trader
Ran an options book as the sole trader responsible for it, with full profit and loss responsibility.
- ThinkEquityEquity sales and trading
Covered equity sales and trading.
- Prudential FinancialInvestment management
Worked in investment management as a registered representative.
- DEL HydraulicsInside sales and operations
Family business. Handled inside sales and operations, and international business development in London and the European Economic Area.
Series 7 licensed and SIE.
Major indices
Live index levels, supplied by TradingView. Nothing else about the desk's work is published on this site.
Contact
For introductions and professional inquiries, write to christopher@zawadzkicapital.com.