Bright Trading, After 20+ Years of Success, Appoints New President and COO. Promoting from Within.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--From running across Canada to delivering food and supplies to the schools throughout Haiti, Rob Friesen, with his inexhaustible energy and creativity, is turning his focus in 2013 to Bright Trading, LLC as President and Chief Operating Officer.

His entrepreneurial spirit, love of people and desire to provide value to stock traders and investors will give Trader/Members of Bright Trading, LLC a comfort that the opportunity to build their careers is being championed by a leader that has been in their shoes. Rob knows the business from the ground up and has always made the effort to help the advanced trader as well as the one just starting out.

Notable Achievements within Bright Trading:

Began educating traders on Risk Arbitrage trading during 2000 and added Pairs Trading in 2001.
2001 – 2002 started PairCo, LLC and launched an interactive website for the trading of equity pairs.
Recently developed the Single Stock Database for Relative Strength and Basket Traders. Rob is also developing some Multi-Strategy Automated Programs which will be rolled in the first quarter of 2013.

More on Rob: www.stocktrading.com/robfriesen.html

Bright Trading is well capitalized and allows use of the Firm’s capital for trading multiple strategies. Bright Trading has openings for traders of all types, from longer term investors to day traders, those with automated strategies, and those who want to manage a portfolio. The BT “Trader Match Program” (TMP) encourages traders to work together, to share ideas and to brainstorm market techniques with each other.

Bright Trading is one of the top professional proprietary trading firms in the U.S. and Canada. BT has traders worldwide through their remote trading platform. BT clears with Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing and uses the RediPlus trading platform. Bright Traders are all licensed professionals, and BT sponsors for licensing. BT offers training for new traders, and quality support for all traders. From basic trading strategies to complex, fully automated programs, BT allows use of their capital, and excellent market access.

Learn more at Bright Trading’s upcoming Educational Workshop, February 12^th. See www.stocktrading.com/events.html for this and other activities open to the public.