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Quantitative Volatility Trader

A trading role in the electronic options market-making team, growing the business in Hong Kong. You watch and improve an automated platform while working with researchers and engineers.

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.

Make and review real-time pricing and risk decisions on the options book
Monitor the automated market maker in live trading and step in on unusual events
Analyse hedging, execution and inventory outcomes to find improvements
Help calibrate and improve pricing and risk models
Work with researchers and engineers to test and release new trading logic

What they ask for

Required

Options market making or electronic trading experience
Options pricing, volatility and risk across a multi-instrument book
Systematic thinking
Professional coding experience
Data analysis of trading outcomes
Communication

Preferred

Automated market-making systems
Market microstructure and hedging workflows
Improving trading models, signals or execution
Listed options in Asian markets

Education: Not stated
Experience: 6+ years in options market making, electronic or quantitative trading
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Markets: options

How to prepare

Build a toy options market maker that quotes around a model price and manages inventory
Practise vega, gamma and skew risk management on a multi-strike book
Analyse a trade log to attribute P&L to spread, hedge and inventory
Learn how listed options trade on Asian exchanges

What to study

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