Prediction Markets Trader (Nights & Weekends)
Skills
About the Role
You will monitor live prediction market positions across platforms such as Kalshi, Polymarket, Manifold, and PredictIt during night and weekend shifts. You will track event resolutions, liquidity, and price movements, execute trades within pre-defined risk parameters, and escalate risk concerns when needed. You will manage platform operations, ensure accurate trade capture, document market events, and provide clear written handoffs to the day shift team. You will also work closely with software engineers to enhance trading strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field preferred
- High degree of personal responsibility, reliability, and attention to detail
- Strong understanding of probability, expected value, and basic statistics
- Experience with basic scripting (Python, SQL) for monitoring or data analysis
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision during off-hours
- Excellent written communication skills for shift handoff notes and incident documentation
- Comfort operating across multiple software platforms simultaneously
- Demonstrated familiarity with prediction markets preferred
- Prior experience trading on Kalshi, Polymarket, or similar platforms preferred
- Background in market making, statistical arbitrage, or event-driven trading preferred
Responsibilities
- Monitor live prediction market positions across platforms during night and weekend shifts
- Track real-time event resolution, market liquidity, and price movements
- Flag anomalies or unexpected developments
- Maintain position awareness and escalate risk concerns to senior traders or risk management
- Execute straightforward trades and position adjustments within pre-defined risk parameters
- Monitor automated systems and alert on model or execution anomalies
- Manage platform-level operational tasks including instrument definitions and account maintenance across exchanges
- Ensure accurate trade capture and reporting
- Document market events, resolutions, and operational incidents during shift
- Coordinate handoffs with the day shift trading team with written summaries
- Assist in onboarding to new prediction market platforms