Equity/ ETF high frequency trading — London/ New York recruitment

A global high frequency prop shop is actively looking to hire high frequency/ intraday trading strategist with over 3 years experience in cash equity or ETF market. This role is based in London or New York . Highly competitive payout (up to £500,000).

 Requirements:

• At least 3 years experience in researching or trading high frequency strategies in European or US market

• Cash equities or ETF focus is highly desirable

• Must have experience in researching buy side high frequency strategies

• Familiar with electronic trading environment

• Hands on designing trading strategies with sharp ratio over 2.5

• Strong statistics and mathematics skills

• MSc or more advance degree in quantitative subjects from tier one university

• Experience in designing successful trading models in other liquid market is welcome

• Proficient in python, matlab or R

• Good exposure in object oriented languages coding  

My client is a well funded high frequency prop shop with dynamic team working environment. High frequency trader and strategist receive strong technical support from a group of dedicated C++ developer to design high frequency / intraday trading strategies. It is a research focus environment, quants will spend most of the time investigating the trading opportunities rather than working as a developer.

To apply this position, please email a copy of your up to date cv toalexa.chen@njfsearch.com