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Options Trader – Asia Hours

A live options market-making seat covering Asian hours at Chicago Trading Company, working mostly electronically. It combines trading, portfolio management and close work with technologists.

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.

Run the overnight trading shift on index and metals options
Adjust system controls in real time as conditions change
Manage portfolio risk and hand over positions and issues between shifts
Use daytime hours for execution improvements and strategy projects

What they ask for

Required

2+ years of options market-making trading
1+ year of market-making portfolio management
Judgement under pressure with limited shift support
Operational skills to work with technologists on outages
Clear communication across shifts

Preferred

Experience with S&P, metals, Nasdaq, Russell or VIX options
Basic Python

Education: Not stated
Experience: 2+ years in options market making, plus 1+ year in portfolio management
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: options

How to prepare

Learn options Greeks, hedging and how market makers manage delta and vega
Study index and volatility products such as SPX and VIX options
Practise making decisions quickly with incomplete information, for example in trading simulations
Learn basic Python for post-trade analysis

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