Trading Assistant
Bluesky Capital is a global quantitative investment manager and market maker founded in New York in 2014. It provides systematic investment management, customized managed accounts, crypto asset management, and liquidity services to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, institutional investors, projects, and exchanges.
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About Bluesky Capital Advisors, LLC
Bluesky Capital Advisors, LLC manages investments globally using proprietary quantitative research, systematic strategies, automated execution, risk-management technology, and institutional-grade infrastructure. Its offerings include quantitative investment management across public asset classes, global macro strategies, systematic crypto and crypto market-neutral products, customized asset management, and market-making programs providing 24/7 liquidity to projects and exchanges. The firm serves high-net-worth individuals, family offices, institutional investors, cryptocurrency projects, and exchanges.
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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 will monitor proprietary trading algorithms and systems in production, manage positions through trading technology, and ensure risk limits are met. You will monitor market activity, share trading ideas, collaborate on issues with quantitative developers, and help improve trading technology when you have coding experience.
Requirements
- B.A. or M.S. in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, or a related area
- Ability to focus for multiple hours in a day
- Attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- Flexibility in working schedule
- Proactivity
- Ability to learn quickly
- Coding experience in Python, Matlab, or a similar scripting language
- Working knowledge of Linux
- Experience monitoring and managing risk in a trading or investment management environment
- Experience in trading
Responsibilities
- Monitor trading algorithms in production to ensure they work as expected
- Manage positions through trading technology and ensure risk limits are met
- Monitor market activity and provide trading ideas to improve algorithms and strategies
- Work with quantitative developers to resolve trading-technology issues
- Help develop and fix trading technology when you have coding experience
