Life Trading

Life Trading is an Australian proprietary trading company founded in 2016. The company says it was established to build a more ethical, transparent, and values-driven trading business. Its stated mission is to achieve and share trading success by harnessing technology and embracing its values, while its vision is to build a resilient, diversified portfolio of high-performing trading strategies.

The firm trades a range of financial products across different markets, combining in-house technology with trading expertise. Its trading teams focus on developing a diversified portfolio of strategies. Life Trading describes its approach as collaborative, with employees across trading, development, and operations expected to contribute and act with an owner’s mindset.

Technology is central to the company’s trading work. Life Trading says its technology teams work closely with traders to build systems supporting trading strategies. The company identifies software development, infrastructure, data, and rapid prototyping among its technology areas, and describes its technology stack as including custom-built software and low-latency infrastructure.

Life Trading’s operations team supports internal business functions and external relationships. The company lists human resources, finance, market access, risk, compliance, and legal among the team’s responsibilities. Its published description emphasizes cooperation between operations and trading, including support for risk and compliance processes.

The company’s stated values are “One Life, One Team, One Focus.” Life Trading describes these as enjoying work and maintaining work-life balance; communicating and collaborating as a team; and taking responsibility, acting on problems, and paying attention to detail. Its website also emphasizes fair, trustworthy, and respectful treatment.

Life Trading presents itself as a professional, values-driven workplace that expects accountability and excellence while aiming to treat people fairly. Its careers information describes a flat management structure, flexibility, and support for work-life balance, and lists benefits intended to support employee wellbeing. These statements reflect the company’s own description of its working culture.

The company lists offices in Sydney and Fremantle, Australia, and London, United Kingdom. Its website identifies Sydney as an office location, while its LinkedIn company profile describes the firm as operating from Sydney, Perth, and London. Life Trading publicly directs recruitment inquiries to recruitment@lifetrading.com.au.