From Event-Driven To Macro
Rick Bandazian Jr. is a discretionary event-driven and macro trader with more than two decades of professional experience across proprietary trading firms, international banking desks, and family-office portfolios. His work spans equities, rates, foreign exchange, and commodities, with a focus on identifying asymmetric opportunities driven by positioning extremes, regime shifts, and volatility-adjusted risk.
He has been selected as one of the featured traders in Market Wizards The Next Generation by Jack Schwager and George Coyle, recognizing his event-driven trading approach and professional track record. Rick has also been featured in Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets and podcasts.
He is the founder of Offsides Macro, a research platform built around the Offsides Positioning Index (OPI) and a disciplined framework for identifying positioning extremes, inflection points, and market reflexivity. His approach emphasizes consistency, repeatability, and risk control rather than prediction, relying on objective, proprietary positioning data and structured execution to navigate changing market regimes.
