Institution
Carnegie Mellon University
Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
00 · IDENT
Voscenmere Finance Institute
Ronan
Ugiagbe
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Carnegie Mellon dual graduate. Senior volatility trader in Chicago. Offshore crypto quant partner. Now translating institutional strategy into tools ordinary investors can actually use.
- EDU
- CMU · Comp. Finance & CS
- FOCUS
- Volatility, not direction
- SINCE
- 2024 · Voscenmere
- 01 Education
- 02 Chicago HFT
- 03 Crypto quant
- 04 Voscenmere
01 · EDUCATION
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Education
Carnegie Mellon University — dual bachelor’s degrees
Degree A
Computational Finance
Bachelor’s degree in Computational Finance.
Degree B
Computer Science
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science — completed as a dual degree alongside Computational Finance.
02 · CAREER
02
2016 — 2019
Chicago high-frequency options market maker
The crucible of traditional derivatives
Context
Rejecting Silicon Valley — entering Chicago
After graduation, Ronan declined invitations from Silicon Valley technology giants and went straight into a top proprietary trading firm in Chicago — the global center of options trading.
Role
Senior volatility trader
At the firm he served as a senior volatility trader inside a high-frequency options market-making environment — traditional derivatives taken to their limit.
Stress event
February 2018 — Volmageddon
During the famous February 2018 “VIX spike” event (Volmageddon), countless traditional funds blew up shorting volatility.
Ronan used the dynamic hedging algorithms he had written to capture extreme pricing dislocations and generate remarkable absolute returns for the desk.
Outcome
Absolute returns under extreme dislocation
By capturing those pricing dislocations, he delivered remarkable absolute returns for the team when short-volatility strategies were failing across traditional funds.
Doctrine
That experience cemented his trading philosophy: do not bet on direction — trade volatility.
03 · CAREER
03
2020 — 2023
Offshore crypto quantitative fund
Dimensional edge — and surviving the crypto winter
Context
DeFi eruption — early-Wall-Street arbitrage
In 2020, as DeFi (decentralized finance) erupted, Ronan recognized that crypto markets held vast arbitrage opportunities reminiscent of early Wall Street.
Role
Partner — Cayman Islands offshore quant fund
He left his high-paying Chicago role and joined an offshore crypto quantitative fund in the Cayman Islands as a partner.
Stress event
2022 crypto winter — Luna & FTX
Through the epic crypto winter of 2022 — the Luna collapse and the FTX failure — the broader market was in ruins.
Execution
Delta-neutral & options straddle arbitrage
Ronan strictly executed delta-neutral and options straddle arbitrage strategies through the drawdown.
Outcome
Avoided systemic downside — profited from panic
He not only avoided the systemic risk of one-sided drawdowns, but used extreme market panic (elevated implied volatility) to profit against the tide.
Doctrine
He showed the industry that in crypto markets, mathematics and discipline are far more reliable than blind faith.
04 · MENTORSHIP
04
2024 — Present
Joining Voscenmere Finance Institute
Compressing institutional strategy — and teaching it
Context
Emerging markets being harvested
After being forged in both traditional finance and crypto markets, Ronan saw that ordinary investors in emerging markets — especially in his home country of Nigeria — were being harvested by low-quality “signal groups” and lagging technical indicators.
Call
Armand Ogbebor’s vision
Drawn by founder Armand Ogbebor’s vision, Ronan formally joined Voscenmere Finance Institute in 2024 as an Elite Mentor.
Mission
Institutional playbook → executable toolbox
He compresses the institutional playbook he used for eight years in Chicago and at the quant fund into a systematized trading toolbox that ordinary investors can understand and execute.
05 · TOOLBOX
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Institutional toolbox
Strategies from the document — made scannable
Drawn from Ronan’s Chicago desk, offshore quant work, and Voscenmere mentorship — the same institutional methods named in his record, compressed for ordinary investors to understand and execute.
T01
Order-book depth analysis
Institutional method from his eight-year playbook — now part of the systematized toolbox at Voscenmere.
Source · Voscenmere mentorshipT02
Options volatility skew
Institutional method from his eight-year playbook — now part of the systematized toolbox at Voscenmere.
Source · Voscenmere mentorshipT03
Statistical arbitrage
Institutional method from his eight-year playbook — now part of the systematized toolbox at Voscenmere.
Source · Voscenmere mentorshipT04
Dynamic hedging algorithms
Written and used as a senior volatility trader to capture extreme pricing dislocations during Volmageddon.
Source · Chicago 2016–2019T05
Delta-neutral
Strictly executed through the 2022 crypto winter to avoid the systemic risk of one-sided drawdowns.
Source · Crypto fund 2020–2023T06
Options straddle arbitrage
Used with elevated implied volatility during market panic to profit against the tide in the crypto winter.
Source · Crypto fund 2020–2023
06 · CORE
Trading philosophy
From Chicago
Do not bet on direction.
Trade volatility.
From crypto
In crypto markets,
mathematics and discipline
are far more reliable than blind faith.
From Volmageddon to the crypto winter to the classroom — the same throughline holds.