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Quantitative Trader – Equities (Live Trading)

A trading role close to production, running and monitoring live high to mid-frequency delta-one equity strategies in APAC. It focuses on execution quality and quick feedback between trading, research and engineering.

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.

Monitor live strategies for performance, risk and anomalies
Analyse fills, slippage, adverse selection and market impact
Translate research ideas into robust live behaviour
Work with engineers to diagnose production issues
Run post-trade analysis and performance attribution

What they ask for

Required

Degree in a quantitative field
3+ years in systematic equity trading with live exposure
Market microstructure and order book understanding in APAC
Execution quality and market impact analysis
Python or C++ and data analysis
Decision-making under pressure

Education: Degree in maths, physics, CS, engineering, economics or similar
Experience: 3+ years in systematic equity trading
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Build a transaction cost analysis report from fills and quotes
Study market impact models such as square-root impact
Learn APAC market structure, auctions and lot sizes
Practise triaging a production incident from logs and PnL

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 IMC Trading and doesn’t handle applications.