Experienced Quantitative Researcher
Flow Traders provides continuous liquidity across global financial markets through technology-enabled market making and trading services.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders helps institutional clients and market participants access liquidity across multiple asset classes through continuous market making services. You can trade ETPs, digital assets, fixed income, commodities, and FX products with enhanced execution quality. Flow Traders reduces trading costs and increases market efficiency through proprietary technology and global presence.
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About the Role
You will join a growing trading team in Hong Kong, working alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry. You will apply your quantitative expertise to our trading desks, generating and backtesting new trading ideas with the ultimate goal of producing alpha and automated strategies. You will create new trading strategies by identifying opportunities in the market through extensive research and analysis, collaborate closely with Traders and Quantitative Researchers to build test and optimize trading models, research and analyze large financial datasets to find exploitable patterns, and design and implement complex quantitative models.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of work experience within the industry with prior experience working on mid to high frequency trading strategies
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Econometrics, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science or other relevant STEM fields
- Python programming knowledge is a must, experience with other scientific programming language (e.g. MATLAB, C++, JAVA, R or similar) is beneficial
- Strong analytical skills to easily manipulate large datasets
- Ability to reason logically, deliver under pressure and take ownership
- Competitive attitude, eager to learn, proactive and able to work in a team
- Excellent communication skills to be able to communicate complex problems in an efficient manner
Responsibilities
- Create new trading strategies by identifying opportunities in the market through extensive research and analysis
- Collaborate with Traders and Quantitative Researchers to build, test and optimize current trading models
- Research and analyze large financial datasets to find exploitable patterns
- Design and implement complex quantitative models