Floor Trader – Options
An open-outcry and voice-assisted options market-making role on exchange trading floors. You would use the firm's pricing models and technology to provide liquidity in single-stock 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.
- Provide liquidity in assigned options products on the floor
- Execute floor, voice-assisted or hybrid trades
- Use pricing models and volatility analysis to manage positions
- Watch order flow and quotes and give feedback to tech and quant teams
- Coordinate with brokers and counterparties
What they ask for
Required
- 2+ years options market making at a prop firm or similar
- Floor trading experience (Cboe, AMEX, MIAX or similar)
- Options pricing, volatility and microstructure
- Quantitative reasoning
- Decisions under pressure
Preferred
- Single-stock equity volatility expertise
- Experience with large, complex orders
- Education
- Not stated
- Experience
- 2+ years options market making with floor experience
- Markets
- options, equities
How to prepare
- Learn how complex and large options orders are priced and negotiated on the floor
- Study single-stock volatility, earnings effects and skew
- Practise quick mental pricing and hedge calculations
- Understand how open outcry and electronic liquidity interact
What to study
- Derivatives Pricing and Computational Finance
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Quantitative Risk Management
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Belvedere Trading and doesn’t handle applications.