Quantitative Trader - Equity Options
IMC Trading
Chicago, IL
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Our US Equity Options team has traditionally focused on highly liquid stocks but has expanded in scope to many more symbols. As a result, we have a wide range of new and exciting problems to solve. We’ve already created partnerships and business models to facilitate our expansion and we’re currently working to improve our options pricing; investigating new models and improving our existing framework. IMC is highly collaborative between traders, quants, and developers so the scope of responsibility is fairly fluid involving a mixture of data-driven analysis, quantitative modelling and algorithm development.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Maximize revenue by creating competitive edge trading strategies
- Responsibility and ownership early on to drive strategies forward and be successful
Your Skills and Experience:
- Experienced equity option trader with at least 3 years’ experience
- Relevant tertiary qualifications (graduate or post graduate), with strong academic results, preference in mathematics, science, financial engineering or computer science
- Proven ability to act and perform successfully in a fast moving and high-pressured environment
- Passion for learning; you are driven to succeed, you work well individually and, in a team, to get results
- Computer programming is desirable (Python, C/C++, Java, Malab, SQL)
- Highly analytical, constantly enhancing your strategies to improve the quality of trades, pinpoint missed opportunities, and identify new trading ideas and products
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Research and Finance -
Industries
Financial Services
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