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Quant Researcher - Singapore

Aptitude Asia advertises a commodities-desk research and trading role for an unnamed employer. Work concentrates on microstructure, execution efficiency and strategies supported by live trading evidence.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Research order-book and liquidity behaviour
Develop strategies exploiting execution or market-structure effects
Backtest hypotheses and monitor live results
Manage inventory with traders and engineers

What they ask for

Required

Three to six years in a comparable setting
Market-microstructure knowledge
Execution-cost analysis
Backtesting
Research with demonstrated trading results

Education: No formal degree requirement is specified.
Experience: 3–6 years in comparable research/trading work, with realised trading impact.
Markets: commodities

How to prepare

Analyse adverse selection using quote and trade data
Build an inventory-aware strategy experiment
Explain the difference between a backtest and live execution performance

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Aptitude Asia and doesn’t handle applications.