Experienced Quantitative Researcher
Flow Traders is a global liquidity provider that delivers continuous liquidity in financial markets, with deep expertise in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). The firm lowers overall trading costs for market participants by providing higher execution quality across global exchanges and trading platforms.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders is a technology-driven liquidity provider operating in global financial markets, with a particular focus on Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). The company combines deep ETP expertise, cutting-edge technology, and strong risk management to increase transparency and efficiency across the financial ecosystem, serving market participants such as exchanges and trading platforms across Europe, the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. Beyond its core trading business, Flow Traders operates a dedicated strategic capital investment unit that partners with companies aligned to its mission of transparency and efficiency in financial markets, and it runs the Flow Traders Foundation, a philanthropic initiative focused on fighting poverty.
Skills
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