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Systematic Credit Trading – FICC ETF Trader

A trading role on JPMorgan's FICC ETF desk that blends market making, quantitative research and tooling. You run automated and manual ETF strategies for institutional clients.

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.

Price and quote ETFs across FICC products for institutional accounts
Review P&L and pricing decisions to find patterns and revenue ideas
Improve risk models and real-time risk workflows on the desk
Extend trading and monitoring tools with the quant and strategy teams
Execute automated and secondary or primary ETF trades

What they ask for

Required

Degree in a quantitative subject
Strong statistics and machine learning
Analytical, quantitative problem solving
Clear communication in a distributed team
Comfort in a fast-paced trading setting

Preferred

Fixed income trading experience

Education: Degree in computer science, maths, physics, engineering or another quantitative field
Experience: 3+ years in a similar role, or a Master's plus 1+ year
Markets: fixed-income, credit

How to prepare

Learn how ETF creation and redemption ties ETF prices to the underlying basket
Build a simple ETF fair-value and premium/discount model on public data
Study bond market making and inventory risk
Practise analysing trade P&L to separate spread capture from market moves

What to study

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