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Senior Quantitative Trader – Futures

A senior trader who owns the P&L of systematic delta-one futures strategies inside a fixed-income, currencies and commodities options business. The strategies run alongside, and hedge, the firm's options book.

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 and scale systematic futures strategies across rates, FX, commodities and equities
Build signals and hedging methods that support the options portfolio
Manage live exposure, volatility and liquidity risk
Backtest and attribute performance, then iterate on the models
Work with developers to improve execution

What they ask for

Required

7+ years in systematic trading, ideally futures and listed derivatives
Direct P&L ownership in a quant-driven setting
Derivatives pricing, volatility and risk modelling
Signal research and statistical modelling
Python and large datasets
Market microstructure and execution

Preferred

Global futures trading experience
Options inside systematic futures frameworks
Portfolio construction and risk budgeting
Advanced degree in a quantitative field

Education: Advanced degree in maths, statistics, physics, engineering or computer science preferred
Experience: 7+ years in systematic trading with P&L ownership
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: futures, options, fixed-income, fx, commodities, equities

How to prepare

Build and document a futures strategy with a full risk and attribution report
Study how delta hedging interacts with volatility exposure
Learn execution cost and market impact modelling for futures
Practise explaining a trading decision and its risk to a desk

What to study

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