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Amsterdam houses a number of Trading houses, including IMC one of Optiver's main competitors. Most IB trading houses have offices out of London, so does Liquid capital.

If you don't pass, work harder prepare your self and try for IMC, liquid capital, Susquehana or Timberhill.

A lot of market makers lean on options orders to trade stock, e.g. if an order for say 100 delta 80 calls was bid in the market and was close to being traded, an market maker will buy the stock and bid more in the market to get enough deltas for the hedge, and if the hedge doesn't come they make...