Quantitative Trader
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. It provides liquidity across global financial markets using advanced technology, quantitative research, trading strategies, and automation.
About Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is a global proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in London, Sydney, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm provides liquidity as an options market maker across global financial markets, covering products including commodities, indexes, and cryptocurrencies. Akuna designs and develops its own low-latency trading systems, mathematical models, strategies, and infrastructure through its Technology, Trading, Quant, and Operations departments. It also offers an Options 101 course introducing industry fundamentals and options trading concepts.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You manage trading strategies, improve profitability by converting ideas into quantitative models, implement trading signals that influence automated trading, develop a deep understanding of derivatives theory and financial markets, and generate ideas on trading opportunities, product insights, risk management, and trading systems.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional work experience in options trading or a related field
- BS, MS, or PhD in a technical field such as engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, or physics
- Understanding of calculus, probability, linear algebra, statistics, and optimization
- Working knowledge of statistical analysis, numerical linear algebra, machine learning, or convex optimization
- Intermediate programming skills in Python
Responsibilities
- Manage trading strategies and improve profitability by converting ideas into quantitative models
- Implement trading signals that influence automated trading
- Develop a deep understanding of derivatives theory and financial markets
- Generate ideas on trading opportunities, product insights, risk management, and trading systems
