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Experienced Discretionary Futures Trader
A seat for an established intraday futures trader at a proprietary trading firm, trading your own account on in-house technology. Developers help tailor the platform to your approach.
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 an existing intraday futures strategy on the proprietary platform
- Look for new opportunities using the firm's data tools
- Work with developers on execution and visualisation features
- Refine and scale strategies with a data-driven process
What they ask for
Required
- 3 to 5 years trading discretionary intraday futures at a prop firm
- Seven-figure net annual PnL, or a clear path to it
- A refined, consistently profitable strategy
- Risk discipline and emotional control
- Office-based working
Preferred
- Focus on CME, ICE or Eurex markets
- Education
- No degree level stated
- Experience
- 3-5 years trading intraday futures at a proprietary firm with a strong PnL record
- Markets
- futures
How to prepare
- Keep a data-backed trade journal with risk statistics
- Study futures microstructure on CME, ICE and Eurex products
- Measure the edge in your strategy and how it decays
- Practise position sizing and loss-limit rules
What to study
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Probability, Statistics and Financial Data
- Quantitative Risk Management
Apply
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Geneva Trading and doesn’t handle applications.
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