Technical Options Trader
An experienced trader with a technical bent who builds and improves systematic or semi-systematic options strategies across Asia-Pacific. It sits within a market maker's options trading team, working with researchers and developers.
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.
- Improve the parameters and logic of existing APAC options strategies
- Analyse trade quality and risk to find strategy improvements
- Brief quants and developers on desk problems and review their fixes
- Help set the team's direction on strategy coverage
What they ask for
Required
- Track record improving systematic or semi-systematic trading
- Holistic understanding of options trading
- Responsible risk appetite
- Communication and collaboration
Preferred
- Market-making firm background
- Education
- No degree level stated.
- Experience
- Proven record improving a systematic or semi-systematic trading book, ideally at a top market maker
- Markets
- options
How to prepare
- Revise options pricing, Greeks and volatility surface dynamics
- Study how market makers manage inventory and hedging risk
- Practise post-trade analysis to attribute P&L
- Learn the structure of Asia-Pacific options markets
What to study
- Derivatives Pricing and Computational Finance
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Quantitative Risk Management
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
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