Optilic Trading Group (OTG) was founded in Sydney in 2026 around one habit: trusting nothing that hasn't survived the data. Everything else about the firm, the desks we run, the people we hire, the way we review each other's work, follows from taking that habit seriously.
We started with the hardest version of the promise: clinical software. Our research arm is building ambient clinical documentation for dentistry, engineered so the recording never leaves the room it was made in. In that setting, a privacy failure isn't a bug ticket; it's a breach of trust with a patient in the chair. Constraints have to be architecture, not policy, and they have to be proven by tests, not promised in documents.
The trading desk grew from the same instinct. Markets are the most honest scoreboard there is: every model, every assumption and every line of code gets marked to market daily. A firm that can hold that standard on a trading desk can hold it anywhere, which is exactly the point of having both frontiers under one roof.
What we are, and what we're not
- We trade our own capital only. No outside money, no clients, no investment products. That keeps our incentives simple and our risk our own.
- We are in research on the clinical side. Nothing ships to a clinic until it has survived the same gauntlet a trading strategy does.
- We are small and young, deliberately. There is no legacy system, no committee between a good idea and a live result, and no seat far from the decisions.
Being new is usually spun as something to hide. We think it's the offer. The people who join now don't inherit a firm, they build the one the next decade inherits, and everything they build gets measured honestly, because that's the only way we know how to work.
Want the longer version? We wrote up how the firm actually works, from pricing to risk to the path every strategy walks.
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