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Options Trader

A role for a proven options trader to run their own volatility and relative-value strategies using a proprietary firm's capital. It carries heavy ownership of risk and PnL.

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 and scale options strategies across volatility and related futures
Refine models, signals and execution to improve consistency
Analyse volatility dynamics and relative value opportunities
Own positioning, risk limits and PnL
Add new revenue streams as market conditions change

What they ask for

Required

2+ years trading options or related products professionally
Verifiable profitable track record
Options pricing and volatility knowledge
Strategy development and risk discipline
Self-directed ownership
Clean regulatory record

Preferred

Experience scaling larger allocations
Prop, bank or hedge fund background
Credit or rates volatility trading

Education: Not stated
Experience: 2+ years professionally trading options, equities, futures or similar
Markets: options, equities, futures

How to prepare

Be able to explain a volatility trade end to end: edge, Greeks, hedging and exit
Build a vol surface from listed option data and study skew moves
Review variance risk premium and relative value across underlyings
Practise articulating your edge and risk limits clearly

What to study

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