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Trader: Fixed Income & Macro Rotational Trader – Intern (US)

A rotational internship with Citadel’s fixed-income and macro traders. Statistical analysis supports market views and trading decisions.

What you’d work on

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Research the behaviour of a market during a desk rotation
Apply statistical analysis to prospective trades
Evaluate changes to a trading approach with researchers and technologists

What they ask for

Required

Quantitative degree background
Interest in markets and investment opportunities
Statistical reasoning under uncertainty
Interest in technology for trading

Preferred

Programming, scripting or statistical-software experience

Education: Quantitative university studies at undergraduate, master’s or doctoral level
Experience: Internship; no minimum professional experience specified
Markets: fixed-income

How to prepare

Analyse a bond-market event using public yield data
Practise expressing a macro trade as a statistical hypothesis
Build a small analysis in a programming language you know

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