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Experienced Commodities Options Trader

A market-making options trader role helping to grow a proprietary firm's commodity derivatives business. You would own strategy, pricing and risk for commodity options.

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.

Lead market making and execution across commodity options
Own strategy development, pricing and risk parameters
Find mispricings using data and supply-demand fundamentals
Build analytics and tools with quants and technologists
Monitor exposure in real time against the firm's risk limits

What they ask for

Required

3–7+ years trading commodity options
Track record of PnL and risk management
Options pricing and volatility
Commodity market structure and drivers
Python, R or SQL with large datasets
Bachelor's in a technical or finance field

Education: Bachelor's or above in finance, engineering, physics, maths, economics, CS or similar
Experience: 3–7+ years trading commodity options
Languages and tools: Python
R
SQL
Markets: commodities, options

How to prepare

Build a commodity option pricing and Greeks tool for futures options (Black-76)
Study volatility term structure and seasonality in energy or agriculture
Read about supply-demand drivers for one commodity and how they move implied vol
Practise explaining a trade's edge and hedge plan

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