FICC - FX Options Trader - D/ED
A recruiter advertises an FX-options trading leadership role for an unnamed employer. The desk prices and hedges vanilla and exotic currency products while developing volatility and automation capabilities.
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 hedge currency options and structured payoffs.
- Manage volatility-surface, skew and correlation exposures.
- Improve pricing models and automate trading risk checks.
What they ask for
Required
- FX-options pricing and risk
- Senior trading experience
- Quantitative postgraduate training
- Mandarin and English communication
Preferred
- Python, VBA or SQL
- Education
- Master’s or higher in a quantitative field.
- Experience
- At least 10 years trading FX options.
- Markets
- fx, options
How to prepare
- Build and test a barrier-option pricing example.
- Explain skew and correlation hedges for an FX-options book.
- Design automated volatility-risk monitoring.
What to study
- Derivatives Pricing and Computational Finance
- Advanced Derivatives and Exotic Options
- Quantitative Risk Management
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Unicorn Advisor (HK) Limited and doesn’t handle applications.