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US Stocks · Options · Futures

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Lumley Trading is created by William Lumley, a derivatives trader with institutional experience and current exposure as a family office trader. With hands-on experience across US equity options, futures, and portfolio management, his work is rooted in execution, risk, and market structure, focusing on how trades are actually built, managed, and adjusted in real time.

William Lumley
6+
Years in markets
2yr
Institutional experience
1st
Class honours · Financial trading & investment mgmt
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MACD

Measure momentum through moving average relationships and identify trend acceleration or exhaustion.

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Bollinger Bands

Identify volatility regimes, trend strength, and structural turning points using dynamic bands.

Concept

Fibonacci Retracement

Map pullback zones where liquidity concentrates — a confluence tool for trend continuation entries.

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Ichimoku Cloud

A complete multi-timeframe framework for trend, momentum, and equilibrium mapping.

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Average True Range

Quantify volatility and expected movement — the foundation of institutional stop placement and sizing.

Library

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Indicators, strategies, and market concepts — institutional-grade education for serious traders.

About

William Lumley is a derivatives trader and investment professional based in Dubai, UAE. Since May 2026, he has been trading at a Family Office, a role he stepped into at 24, managing capital across global markets with a focus on options, futures, and risk-controlled execution.

Prior to this, William served in Global Dealing at Skybound Wealth, where he was an active Investment Committee member contributing to strategic asset allocation and multi-asset model portfolio governance across 6,000+ international client portfolios. He also holds $175,000 in funded proprietary capital, trading systematic options and futures strategies independently.

William holds a First-Class Honours degree in Financial Trading & Investment Management from Sheffield Hallam University, where he was awarded the Andrew E. Law Prize for highest overall academic performance. He holds a VTCT Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Financial Trading and a Bloomberg Market Concepts certification.

UAE ResidentUK CitizenUS Green Card
Experience
Family OfficeMay 2026 – Present
Trader
Dubai, UAE
Skybound WealthApr 2025 – May 2026
Global Dealing
Dubai, UAE
Prop Trading FirmsMay 2023 – Present
Funded Futures & Options Trader
Remote
Zishi Cornerstone / OSTCSep 2022 – Nov 2022
Futures Trading Internship
London, UK
J.P. Morgan2014 – 2015
Rotational Internship
New York, USA
Sheffield Hallam University2021 – 2024
BSc Financial Trading & Investment Mgmt — 1st Class
Sheffield, UK
VTCT Level 5Bloomberg Certified