The basic partner fund employs a directional strategy. The directional approach involves the systematic use of proprietary algorithms and artificial intelligence to analyse market data, identify opportunities, and make trading decisions in the options market.

Risk management procedures employed in this program include but are not limited to position limits, liquidity requirements, systematic processes, scenario analysis, stress testing, dynamic position sizing, active management, proprietary risk systems, regulatory oversight/compliance and no held overnight positions.

SDI's founding partners graduated from Oxford, UCL and MIT with degrees in computer science and mathematics and founded SDI in 2022. Armed with programming skills and sharp quantitative minds, they hypothesized that by harnessing the emerging powers of AI, they could outperform the markets. Very quickly their algorithms saw success in the markets and SDI today has grown into a large investment manager catering to investors around the globe.

David is the head of trading at SDI Partners and focuses on the firm's growth into new markets and asset classes. His sector focus includes options trading and market making trading.

He started his career at Man Group in the City of London and before founding SDI Partners, David held senior level roles in top financial institutions in London.

David graduated with a MCompSci in computer science from Oxford University.