Equity Options Trader

Equity Options Trader

Responsibilities:

- Risk Management and Hedging.

- Analysis of market volatility.

- Evaluation of performance of existing and new trading strategies.

- Optimization of performance of existing strategies.

- Improvement of new strategies.

- Working closely with team members in order to implement the above.

Qualifications:

- A degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Computer Science.

- Prior experience in Equity Options Market Making.

- Good understanding of Risk Management (both vanilla and stress situations) and Hedging.

- An ability to perform P&L attribution and fine tune strategies as required.

- A familiarity with Volatility Dynamics.

- Good knowledge of Mathematics, Statistics and Data Mining preferred.

- Proficiency in R, Matlab.

- Good problem solving skills.

- An ability to collaborate extensively with team members.

Hard working, self motivated and a willingness to see a task through to the end are some of the characteristics of the candidate we are looking to hire. Thinking out of the box is highly encouraged and an open environment to work/experiment is provided to those who are out there to learn and grow.

Compensation offered is better than the market standard.