Graduate Equity Analyst
Optiver is a global proprietary trading firm and market maker, including an active 24/7 Digital Assets desk.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
About Optiver
Optiver (optiver.com) is an Amsterdam-headquartered global proprietary trading firm and options market maker with an active digital-assets business (24/7 crypto options/spot market making, hiring crypto traders).
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You identify fundamentally driven trading opportunities, collaborate with traders to capture them, perform scenario analysis around events and catalysts, analyse time-sensitive company headlines, develop research processes, identify market inefficiencies, build industry networks, and use AI-enabled tools to analyse and validate market information.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM, Finance, Economics or business-related subject
- Available to start full-time work in August 2027
- Genuine interest in financial markets
- Willingness to learn new techniques and skills and teach others
- Ability to develop fundamental research-driven ideas independently
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Strong analytical, quantitative and problem-solving skills
- Time management, organizational and multitasking skills
- Computer programming experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Identify fundamentally driven trading opportunities
- Work with traders to capture trading opportunities
- Perform scenario analysis for upcoming events and catalysts
- Analyse time-sensitive company headlines
- Assess the impact of events on volatility and stock prices
- Develop research processes
- Identify areas of market inefficiency
- Build relevant industry networks
- Use AI-enabled tools to analyse news, events and company information
- Validate AI tool output and improve research tooling
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus structure
- 25 paid vacation days in the first year, increasing to 30 from the second year
- Discounts on health insurance
- Fully paid first-class commuting expenses
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- In-house physio and chair massages
- Organized sports and leisure activities
- Friday afternoon drinks
- Access to conferences and technology events
- Competitive relocation packages
- Visa sponsorship where necessary
