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Electronic Trader Analyst

A hybrid trader and execution analyst on AQR's Global Trading Strategies group, which trades all of the firm's strategies. The focus is transaction cost analysis and electronic execution.

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.

Take part in daily execution of orders while measuring how well they were traded
Analyse transaction costs and liquidity across asset classes using large trading datasets
Build analytical tools that compare brokers, venues and algorithms
Turn findings into changes to algorithm choice, parameters and trading workflows

What they ask for

Required

Transaction cost analysis
Market structure and liquidity
Statistics and probability
Electronic execution and trading algorithms
Cash equity trading knowledge
Handling large datasets

Preferred

Other electronically traded asset classes
Systematic investing principles

Education: Bachelor's in a STEM, finance, economics or related quantitative field.
Experience: 1–3 years in trading, electronic execution or trading analytics
Markets: equities, multi-asset

How to prepare

Compute implementation shortfall and slippage versus VWAP on sample trade data
Study how algorithms such as VWAP, TWAP and POV differ and when each is used
Learn the structure of equity venues, dark pools and broker routing
Build a small notebook ranking brokers or venues by cost with confidence intervals

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