Lavender Trading Solutions is an options analytics platform built for options and volatility traders built for traders who want tools historically only available to banks, hedge-funds and market makers.

It provides institutional-grade modeling, risk analytics, and visualizations through two products:

• Lavender Montage — a high-performance desktop platform for deep risk work and real-time market navigation

• Lavender Discord — fast, command-driven analytics delivered through Discord for daily decision-making

Lavender integrates into your existing trading workflow.

Lavender Trading Solutions was founded by Jonathan K. Weedon, a distributed systems architect with over 20 years of experience designing and building institutional options trading, risk, and volatility platforms.

Jonathan previously founded Derivix, an institutional options platform later acquired by FlexTrade, and spent more than a decade at one of the top volatility trading firms in the world, where he built the firm’s trading, real-time risk, and execution infrastructure.

Lavender is built for:

• options and volatility traders seeking professional-grade systems traditionally available only to hedge funds and banks

• portfolio managers

• risk managers

It is especially useful for traders who care about:

• accurate Greeks

• early exercise modeling

• dividend effects

• volatility surface behavior

• real hedging behavior, not textbook assumptions

Most retail platforms rely on simplified models and smooth assumptions.

Lavender uses institutional-grade models designed for American options, discrete dividends, and real-world market behavior. Greeks are calculated across hundreds of thousands of option contracts in real time, so traders see risk as it actually evolves.

Instead of hiding complexity, Lavender makes it visible, intuitive, and actionable — without unnecessary noise.

Lavender will never be a broker.

Lavender is an analytics and decision-support system, designed to work alongside your existing brokers and execution relationships. Today, it helps traders understand risk more clearly, validate model assumptions, and see structural differences other platforms smooth over.

The Lavender Montage desktop platform is being built as an execution system, allowing traders to compose orders within the montage and route them directly to supported brokers. Release is anticipated in Q2—stay tuned for updates as this capability becomes available. If you have a specific execution or workflow need, contact us to start the conversation.

Lavender uses high-quality market data and explicitly models:

• American-style option behavior

• early exercise conditions

• discrete dividends

• forward pricing dynamics

Where assumptions are made, they are intentional and transparent.

Discord allows Lavender to deliver instant, visual analytics with zero setup and minimal friction.

Lavender Discord behaves more like a terminal interface than a chat room:

• command-driven

• low noise

• designed for fast insight, not discussion hype

The desktop Lavender Montage is available for deeper, more immersive work.

Yes.

Lavender is built by someone who has spent decades building systems used by volatility desks.

It is designed with institutional thinking, but without institutional barriers.

No.

Lavender does not provide trade signals or investment advice.

It provides analytics, models, and visual tools so traders can make better-informed decisions themselves.

Lavender is launching in phases.

The beta phase is currently live on Discord, where early users can explore Lavender’s analytics, workflows, and visual tools as they are refined in real market conditions.

The Lavender Montage desktop platform is coming next, with additional capabilities and details to be announced as development progresses.

If you’d like to be among the first to know about new releases or access updates, you can email us or join Lavender Discord.

Updates and access information are shared through:

• the Lavender website

• Lavender Discord

• official announcements