Quantitative Trader - New York, United States - Anson McCade

    Anson McCade
    Anson McCade New York, United States

    1 week ago

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    Quantitative Trader

    My client is a proprietary trading firm specialising in cross-asset high frequency futures trading. They are looking for highly skilled and experienced traders to join a research effort focused on generating high frequency trading alphas in the futures markets. This opportunity will enable the right candidate to play a key role in strategy development and make use of my client's excellent proprietary technology stack and infrastructure.

    About the role

     Designing, implementing, and deploying high-frequency trading algorithms focused on cross-asset Futures

     Coming-up with new, cutting-edge trading ideas

     Creating tools for data analysis of patterns

     Supporting the trading by contributing to the development of analytical computation libraries

    About you

     3+ years of quantitative trading experience in high-frequency trading of one or more Futures.

     A MSc/PhD from a top-tier university

     High confidence in their ability to create new strategies both independently and with team collaboration

     A strong background in mathematics and statistics, with good knowledge of statistical models and signal generation

     Proficiency in back-testing, simulation, and statistical techniques

     Data-mining skills paired up with data analysis skills. Previous experience operating with a large amount of tick/data would be beneficial

     Strong programming skills in Python or C++