Markets & Trading

Our traders use their experience and world-class systems to make complex trading decisions in real time, across Equities, Options, ETFs, Fixed Income, Commodities and Currencies.

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See market signals. Develop an insight. Take a view. Form a plan. Identify smart risks and execute complex trades at scale.

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Traders collaborate with quantitative researchers and engineers to generate original thinking. Together, they put great ideas to work, achieving better results.

About Our Markets & Trading Team
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Fundamental Analyst

Rely on advanced process, data and intuition. Predict how a security’s price will move in response to market events. Forecast price changes to generate actionable trade ideas.

Semi-Systematic Trader

Blend automated execution with intelligent decision-making. Adapt your strategy for selecting securities in response to changing risks, prices and market opportunities.

Systematic Trader

Manage our trading systems in real time. Help us develop and deploy new systems and trading technologies while monitoring and managing risk.

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Answers For Applicants

Traders from our team answer some of our candidates’ most frequently asked questions.

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What qualities make someone a successful trader?

What types of complex mathematical or statistical problems do you solve?

What Makes a Great Candidate

  • BS/MS in mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, economics or another quantitative field preferred
  • Passion for the financial markets and trading
  • Established capability for systematic problem solving
  • Technical skills: acute understanding of risk taking in uncertain conditions, programming languages, algorithm theory and statistics
  • Strategic decision-making skills: strong ability to take in new information and act quickly
  • Resilience: desire to take ownership, commitment to working with integrity and ability to overcome obstacles to achieve long-term goals
  • Intellectual curiosity and a motivation to learn
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