2026 · Evidence audit

Jump Trading (institutional market maker) — institutional liquidity provider

Jump Trading, LLC is a proprietary trading firm based in Chicago. It holds a tier 1 SEC/FINRA broker-dealer license, but its founding year is not confirmed on official pages. The firm claims to address complex market problems, though these self-measured assertions lack independent verification.

Jump Trading, LLC; affiliates Jump Trading Futures LLC, Jump Trading Europe B.V., Jump Trading International Ltd. · Chicago, Illinois, USA · last re-checked 2026-09 · evidence score 73/100

Licence, read on the register

Regulator	Licence number	Jurisdiction	Tier	Source
SEC/FINRA (broker-dealer)	8-52989	United States	tier-1	open source ↗

Tier classification follows the same scale as the retail register: tier-1 = FCA/ASIC/CFTC-class supervision, tier-2 = CySEC/FSC-Mauritius/MFSA-class, tier-3 = offshore registration. A tier-2 licence is genuine supervision without an investor compensation scheme — never misread it as tier-1 protection.

What the firm commits to

Claims specific enough to be falsified — and the ones that remain the venue's own measurement.

Testable claims

Trading page lists Equities, Options, Credit, Commodities, Digital Assets, Futures as trading areas (jumptrading.com/trading)
Publishes an FX Global Code Liquidity Provider Disclosure Cover Sheet and Algo Due Diligence Template (jumptrading.com/disclosures)
States a copy of Jump Trading Europe B.V.'s Pillar III disclosure can be obtained via compliance@jumptrading.com (jumptrading.com/disclosures)
Operates Jump Crypto and Jump Capital as affiliated brands (jumptrading.com footer)

Claims we cannot verify from outside

Self-describes as solving 'the hardest market problems' via og:description — marketing
1999 founding year widely reported but not stated on fetched own pages

Perimeter and coverage

Asset classes	Venues	Connectivity	Clients accepted	Explicitly refused
Equities, Options, Futures, Credit, Commodities, Digital assets		FIX	Institutional counterparties (FX Global Code LP disclosure published)

A firm that publishes its own negative space — who it refuses, where it is not licensed — is materially easier to diligence than one that doesn't. The refusal list is treated here as a disclosure, not a defect.