Equity Options Trader

Job details

Work model

On-site

Salary

Not listed by source

Location

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Job description

Our Europe & Brazil Equity Options market has traditionally focused on highly liquid stocks but has expanded in scope to many more symbols. As a result, we have a wide range of new and exciting problems to solve. We are looking for experienced Equity Options Trader to strengthen the group, help us tackle these new challenges and expand our fast-growing team to cover more symbols and regions, with a particular focus on positional trading strategies. Your core responsibilities: • You will maximize revenue by creating competitive edge trading strategies, using our existing signals suite and contributing to its improvement • You will have lots of responsibility and ownership early on to drive strategies forward and be successful • IMC is highly collaborative between traders, quants, and developers so the scope of responsibility is fairly fluid involving a mixture of operational trading and data-driven analysis • We’ve already created partnerships and business models to facilitate our expansion and we’re currently working to improve our options pricing; investigating new models and improving our existing framework Your skills and experience: • You are an experienced equity option trader with at least 2 years’ experience • You have relevant tertiary qualifications (graduate or post graduate), with strong academic results, preference in mathematics, science, financial engineering or computer science • You have proven ability to act and perform successfully in a fast moving and high pressured environment • You have a passion for learning; you are driven to succeed, you work well individually and in a team to get results • Experience in computer programming is a plus (Python, C/C++, Java, Matlab, SQL) • You will be highly analytical, constantly enhancing your strategies to improve the quality of trades, pinpoint missed opportunities, and identify new trading ideas and products About Us IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.

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