What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quantitative Trader position at Anson McCade?
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
Salary : $150,000 - $200,000
