Prior to founding MDP Dennis was a Partner/Portfolio Manager at Harvest Volatility Management where he developed multiple option strategies. Total AUM in these strategies was over$950M in assets.
Dennis was the Head of Americas Equity Derivatives for Credit Suisse and Macquarie Bank where he had responsibility for all aspects of trading and risk management from proprietary trading, automated market making, exotics, corporate, LATAM, and flow trading (both index and single stock), a group encompassing over ten billion dollars of the bank’s capital. While at Credit Suisse, Dennis helped develop the firm’s structure on integrating all the above products under one common risk mandate.
The Credit Suisse Fear Barometer (CSFB) created by Dennis in 2008 is a way to measure put demand in the marketplace and thus a strong indicator of the desire for downside protection which can be interpreted as fear of a market correction. This tool is still an integral part of many derivative research pieces written today.
As an original member of Wolverine Trading in the SPX pit in Chicago, he learned the value of liquidity, and how to adapt to changing markets and innovate inside the old ones. Dennis has been a guest writer for the popular volatility column “Strike Price” in Barron's and has often been invited to provide market color and option commentary on television.
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