FlowTrade
About FlowTrade

From a Sheung Wan office to the Swiss Alps.

Founded in Hong Kong, 2019 · Headquartered in Switzerland, 2024 →

FlowTrade was founded in Hong Kong in 2019, originally as an institutional digital-asset custody desk built by a small team of market makers, cryptographers and engineers. The first product distributed signing keys across three vaults and routed orders to four venues.

In 2024 the company relocated its headquarters to Switzerland and is today based in Zug, with engineering in New York and an Asia markets desk that remains in Hong Kong. The product evolved alongside the move: from a pure custody service into a full all-rounder trading platform — pro charting tools, watchlists, and a self-serve algorithm and strategy lab.

Everything we ship is open source under Apache 2.0; the audit trail is the product.

Zug
Headquarters
est. 2024
Hong Kong
Markets · APAC
est. 2019
New York
Engineering
est. 2022

What we believe

  • · Traders should be able to read the code that prices their orders.
  • · Custody and execution belong in the same auditable repository.
  • · A strategy you can't reproduce is a strategy you don't own.
Open the trading environment
Timeline

Seven years, two cities, one environment.

  1. ●
    2019
    Founded in Hong Kong

    Three engineers and a market maker rent a small office in Sheung Wan. The first product is an institutional digital-asset custody desk.

  2. ●
    2020
    First custody release

    Signing keys are distributed across three vaults; orders route to four venues. Internal tools become the seed of the environment.

  3. ●
    2022
    Berlin engineering office

    A small CET-time engineering team opens in Berlin to push the front-end and backtest engine.

  4. ●
    2023
    Environment prototype

    Internal trading tools are opened up: charts, watchlist, a tiny rule DSL. The product gets a name.

  5. ●
    2024
    Headquarters move to Switzerland

    HQ is moved to Zug. The product is rebuilt as an open-source trading platform under Apache-2.0.

  6. ●
    2026
    Trade Hub & marketplace

    Strategies, backtests and a community marketplace ship publicly. The environment becomes a full all-rounder.

Mission & values

Build the environment we wanted to read.

Readable over magic

If you can't read the rule that fires, it's not a strategy — it's a guess.

Honest before flashy

Backtests are sketches, not forecasts. We label live numbers clearly, every time.

Small, well-built

We'd rather ship a small Trade Hub that's solid than a giant terminal that's fragile.

Open by default

Apache-2.0 — fork it, audit it, run it locally with your own database.

Team

A small group, across three cities.

Roles, not faces — we'll add the people when they're comfortable being named publicly.

·
Founder · Markets
Hong Kong → Zug
·
Co-founder · Engineering
Berlin
·
Quant Research Lead
Zug
·
Front-end Lead
Berlin · Remote
·
APAC Markets
Hong Kong
·
Design
Remote (CET)

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