Experienced Quantitative Researcher
Flow Traders is a global technology-enabled multi-asset liquidity provider and market maker.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders provides continuous on-exchange and off-exchange liquidity across exchange-traded products, fixed income, FX, commodities, and digital assets using proprietary trading technology. Its digital-assets business, active since 2017, includes crypto ETP market making, OTC trading, liquidity provision, and DeFi connectivity.
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About the Role
Join Flow Traders' growing trading team in Hong Kong and apply quantitative expertise to trading desks. The role focuses on researching market opportunities, generating and backtesting trading ideas, analyzing financial datasets, and designing complex quantitative models.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of industry experience, including prior experience with mid- to high-frequency trading strategies.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Econometrics, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science, or another relevant STEM field.
- Strong Python programming knowledge; experience with MATLAB, C++, Java, R, or similar scientific programming languages is beneficial.
- Strong analytical skills for manipulating large datasets.
- Ability to reason logically, deliver under pressure, and take ownership.
- Competitive, proactive, eager to learn, and able to work in a team.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex problems efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Create new trading strategies by identifying market opportunities through extensive research and analysis.
- Collaborate with Traders and Quantitative Researchers to build, test, and optimize trading models.
- Research and analyze large financial datasets to identify exploitable patterns.
- Design and implement complex quantitative models.