About

A small firm trading
its own capital.

Hidden Lattice Capital is a proprietary trading firm. We trade from London, through a company registered in Cyprus.

Founders

Who runs the firm

One founder came up in crypto, the other in traditional markets. Frontier assets need both.

Nick Evangelatos

Co-Founder

Nick traded digital assets on an institutional OTC desk, quoting blocks and providing liquidity to trading firms and other institutional counterparties. He has worked in crypto markets through several cycles.

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Brad Howell

Co-Founder

Brad has traded for more than a decade, starting in fixed-income derivatives and going on to run a London trading business. He brings the pricing discipline and risk framework of mature markets.

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Philosophy

Why "Hidden Lattice"

A market looks like a price. Underneath it is a lattice — venues, counterparties, contracts and collateral, connected in ways no single screen shows. In mature markets that structure is mapped and priced. In frontier markets it is still hidden.

Finding it is the work. We map how a market actually clears before it has screens, and we price what the map shows. The mark says the same thing: a lattice inside the ring, with the centre filled in.

Desks

Three desks on one balance sheet: digital assets, frontier assets, and futures and rates.

Capital

We trade the firm's own balance sheet. Every position is ours.

Risk

Risk comes first

We trade our own capital, so the downside is ours. Limits are set independently of the desks. Every strategy can be switched off quickly, and drawdown lines are agreed in advance.

Marked to market

Positions are marked daily and measured against the market, not against a narrative.

Small by design

Fewer people with real ownership. No layers between an idea and the person who approves it.

Honest post-mortems

Every loss is reviewed until we can explain it. An unexplained loss is the one that repeats.

Long games only

We do not take trades, hires or markets we would not want in ten years.

Structure

One company, three desks

Hidden Lattice Capital is the trading name of Avorex Ltd, a proprietary trading company registered in Cyprus, registration number HE 495389. The firm trades as principal for its own account. Three desks, one risk framework.

The best way to know us is to work here

Culture is hard to describe and easy to see. Candidates spend a day with the desk as part of the interview loop — come judge for yourself.