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Graduate Trader – Volatility

A graduate trader role at Da Vinci, a proprietary trading firm, with a formal in-house training programme. You work with researchers and engineers and trade volatility through position taking and market making.

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.

Trade volatility, taking positions and making markets
Manage portfolio risk
Refine the trading setup and infrastructure
Evaluate new markets and strategies
Complete the in-house trading training programme

What they ask for

Required

Technical degree in maths, physics, engineering, econometrics or quant finance
Strong interest in trading
Decision-making under pressure
Understanding of risk and reward
Comfort with numbers
Attention to detail and communication

Preferred

Real or simulated trading experience

Education: Technical degree in maths, physics, engineering, econometrics or quant finance
Experience: New graduates
Markets: options

How to prepare

Learn option basics: payoffs, Greeks and implied volatility
Practise mental maths, probability and betting-style decision games
Run a paper trading account and journal each decision and risk taken
Study market making: spreads, inventory and adverse selection
Review a volatility event (for example a market sell-off) and how option prices moved

What to study

The Volatility Quant roadmap sets out the stages for this kind of role, with free resources for each.

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Da Vinci Trading and doesn’t handle applications.