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Building on his track record of success with Hull Trading and Goldman Sachs, Art Margulis founded Cognitive with a vision to combine the culture, team work, and flexibility of a boutique firm with the expertise and sophistication of an expansive top-tier organization. Today, Cognitive is a leading developer of quantitative and automated trading strategies.

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Cognitive focuses primarily on US and international equity markets, leveraging mutually beneficial direct bilateral trading relationships.

20+

Year track record

>6k

Securities traded

100%

Present in all major ATS

We offer differentiated liquidity and execution.

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Unlike pure high-frequency trading firms, we analyze different data sources to identify and quantify opportunities to improve market pricing. We do this by combining creativity, discipline, and quantitative methods, together with our automated trading technologies.

Our culture is the foundation of our success. Our people share a natural curiosity and thirst for discovering opportunity. We invest considerably in their education and mentorship to help them realize both individual and collective potential.