Quantitative Trader - Equity Options

Quantitative Trader - Equity Options

Candor Alpha is currently looking to hire a Quantitative Trader for their expanding team dedicated to single equity options trading. This role entails engaging in diverse projects within the international trading domain, encompassing the design, construction, and supervision of lucrative trading strategies, as well as overseeing risk management for Equity Option trading.

Join Candor Alpha, a systematic trading firm, as a Quantitative Trader in their thriving Equity Options trading team. If you are motivated and ambitious, regardless of your background in any asset class, and have experience in a quantitative/systematic environment, this exciting opportunity is for you. As a Quantitative Trader, you will enjoy substantial flexibility and autonomy to generate profit and loss (PnL), allowing you to take charge of your own success.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design of monitors / signals / limits
• Research, develop and implement systematic trading strategies
• Build and develop a diversified systematic Equity Options portfolio
• Help develop risk management framework
• Manage risk, and ensure optimal execution of trading strategies

Experience Required:

• Experience working in a hedge fund, prop trading firm, investment bank or trading on own account
• Trading/ Research experience in any asset class where quant/systematic techniques are used
• Very comfortable using Python
• B.S./M.S. from a leading university in a quantitative discipline such as math, physics, statistics, computer science, engineering, or economics
• Quantitative background
• A background in equities or options is desirable but not strictly necessary