Description

One of the fastest growing High Frequency Trading firm funded by a large conglomerate is looking for a Quantitative Trader to build and start a trading. If you are building and executing consistent profitable trading strategies and meet the following criteria, then we would like to you to become part of our team:

Responsibilities

Drive and passion to lead a team and to work in an open, creative and collaborative start-up environment.

The profile of the person is one who would be on the trading desk with experience trading in any markets across the world.

Building strategies that are consistently profitable and have a proven track record (not just back tested results); we are open to all market and all asset classes

Risk Management and Hedging

Analysis of market volatility

Excellent Return on Capital

Experience at a top Trading firm or HFT based firm

Excellent leadership qualities

Analysis of trading performance and development of new logic to improve trading performance

Evaluation of performance of existing and new trading strategies

Optimization of the performance of strategies

Requirements

Expertise in statistical techniques, experience conducting research on large datasets

Programming proficiency in either C/C++, Java, Python, R, Matlab etc.

Ability to work independently or as a part of a team, and to lead a research project from whiteboard to code implementation 

Prior experience with algorithmic trading or familiarity with high-frequency financial data is a

Minimum 2-4 years of experience in the financial markets

B.Tech/B.E. from a top tier engineering college school