Samir Varma became a registered, sole-proprietor CTA in 1995 to trade his first strategy—an absolute return strategy for the S&P 500 futures contract. In 1997, he co-founded Chaos Systems, LLC to create, develop and trade strategies for stock index futures and individual stocks. In 1997, Chaos Systems, LLC was the fifth ranked CTA in the country according to Barron’s. In 2001, he founded VS Asset Management, LLC to commercialize strategies for the US Equities markets. Samir holds US Patent 6,349,291 that deals with the risk analysis of volatile, unpredictable and illiquid markets in a rigorous way. He has additional patents in finance and traffic engineering, as well as patent applications in medicine and software. He has a Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics from the University of Texas at Austin, where his dissertation committee included a Nobel Laureate, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University where he was inducted into the National Engineering Honor Society (Tau Beta Pi). Samir has extensive experience trading in equities, futures and options, and in all time frames ranging from nanoseconds to years.

Rob Harrington has over 25 years experience in building and managing advanced systems for trading and portfolio management as well as innovative software and data products. Rob has built and traded quantitative strategies for equities, futures and currency markets utilizing pattern recognition and machine learning. He also worked with Samir in the development of proprietary portfolio and risk management tools. Together they spent four years doing proprietary trading for Fox River Financial Resources. Prior to this, he was Founder and CEO of Instanton, a software company providing high-performance distribution of digital assets, and Director of New Business & Product Management at Qwest Communications International. He holds a software patent for high-performance digital delivery. Rob has a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has a BS in Mechanical/Nuclear Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

Rob Carr is a senior financial services sales and trading executive with over 30 years of experience working with asset managers, insurance companies, retail, HNW, ETF, Stat-Arb/Quants, and hedge fund clients. He has cultivated and built productive relationships with multiple level decision makers at firms of all sizes, building new business and counterparty partnerships. Most recently, Rob was with Penserra growing their equity trading, ETF, and transition management clients. Prior to that, he was at Fox River Execution, where he helped build out a startup algorithmic trading product that approached trading, risk, and market structure differently, focusing on quantitative equity and ETF solutions. Rob remained with Fox River Execution through its successful acquisition by Sungard. Previously, Rob spent 14 years at Fidelity Capital Markets where he became VP of listed block trading and helped establish Fidelity’s portfolio trading desk. Rob and his team were ultimately recruited to Weeden & Co, where they quickly reproduced the prior success they had while at Fidelity. Rob has a B.A. in Economics from Clark University. He holds Series 7, 24, 55, 63, and 66 licenses.

Service Providers

We work with the following service providers. All have been reliable, courteous, and very mindful of budget. They have been a pleasure to work with.

Administrator: Formidium Fund Services

Auditor: Michael Coglianese, CPA, PC