Michael Bigger, CFA

Managing Partner and Founder of Bigger Capital

Michael Bigger is an investor and a trader ... more

Michael Bigger, CFA

Managing Partner and Founder of Bigger Capital

Michael Bigger is an investor and a trader who has been involved with trading technologies for more than twenty years. In 1992, Michael joined Citibank as head trader of U.S. single-stock derivatives, where he managed a $5 billion portfolio of equity derivatives. In 1998, he joined D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. to trade the U.S. equity derivatives portfolio.

In 2000, he started the listed equity options business by establishing KBC Financial Products as one of the three initial market-makers of the International Securities Exchange. He built that business into the primary market-maker for listed equity options on over 120 companies, with fifteen traders executing fifty thousand trades per day. In December 2001, Michael left KBC to start Bigger Capital, a hedge fund that incorporates new technologies in its investment strategy. The company just completed a software application to extract investment information from soci