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Junior Quantitative Trader – Asian Market Hours

A trading seat on a proprietary firm's Chicago desk that covers Asian market hours overnight. You would sit in a small team that looks for mispriced securities and manages risk and execution across the firm's portfolios.

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.

Run the Asian-session book overnight, watching systems and live trading activity
Track execution quality and risk on complex portfolios, and flag problems early
Tune automated strategies so trades cost less to execute
Research new trading opportunities that the desk could run during Asian hours
Price derivatives and size risk as part of the daily trading routine

What they ask for

Required

Degree in a quantitative field
Python, C++, Java, VBA, R, Matlab or Ruby
About two years of trading experience
Experience with automated trading systems
Derivative pricing and risk management
Sound judgement under pressure
Willingness to work Sunday to Thursday overnight (US time)

Education: Degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, engineering or a hard science.
Experience: About 2 years of relevant trading experience
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Java
VBA
R
Matlab
Ruby
Markets: multi-asset, options

How to prepare

Practise pricing options and computing Greeks by hand and in code
Build a small automated strategy and measure its execution costs against a simple benchmark
Learn how a trading desk monitors positions, P&L and risk limits through a session
Get comfortable with the main exchanges and products traded in Asian hours (index futures and options)

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