Strategic Capital Management was established by Andrew Gibbs and was licensed by the NZX (New Zealand Exchange) since August 2008 and by the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority since September 2011.
Andrew Gibbs has completed all accreditation requirement and hold a futures dealers and advisory license with the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority. He has a bachelor degree in Business Economics and Accounting and a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment. Andrew worked for New Zealand’s largest institutional broker prior to becoming an equities and derivatives advisor and after working in that role for a period of three years he founded Strategic Capital Management in May 2008.
Andrew is also a trading system developer with 10 years experience in building computerised trading systems for futures markets that automate the trading decision and trading process in these challenging markets. He is the developer of several highly rated mechanical trading systems. Several of Andrew trading systems have appeared as top 10 trading systems in Futurestruth and many of Andrew’s systems are indepedently traded by several broking firms for their clients worldwide.
Strategic Capital Management is regulated by the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority and clears its trades through the Interactive Brokers Online Platform. Our clients hold and fund their own account directly with Interactive Brokers with SCM acting as advisor.
Strategic Capital Management provides advice and implements trades based on the trading systems the client has agreed to trade. SCM and our advisor are only authorised to trade the signals provided by the trading system, no other discretion is permitted. Strategic Capital Management does not handle client funds directly acting only as advisor on a clients account with authority to place orders. The client controls deposits and withdrawals from their own accounts. Strategic Capital Management provides full live reporting of trades and account equity via the Interactive Brokers online reporting platform.
Our clearing firm, Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. is one of the largest on-line brokers in the world. It was founded over 32 years ago and it has since grown it has grown internally to become one of the premier securities firms with over US$5 billion in equity capital. Interactive Brokers conducts its broker/dealer and proprietary trading businesses in over 70 market destinations worldwide. In its broker dealer agency business, IB provides direct access (“on line”) trade execution and clearing services to institutional and professional traders for a wide variety of electronically traded products including stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds and funds worldwide.
Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates execute approximately 1,000,000 trades per day. Interactive Brokers’ headquarters are in Greenwich Connecticut, and it has about 650 employees in its offices in the USA, Switzerland, Canada, Hong Kong, UK, Australia, Hungary, Russia and Estonia. IB is regulated by the SEC, FINRA, NYSE, SFA, ASIC and other regulatory agencies around the world.
