Our client, a rapidly growing crypto hedge fund and proprietary trading firm with consistent 200%+ annualized returns generated with a 4+ Sharpe ratio, are seeking researchers for their real-time information flows team. This role aims to capitalize on the opportunity to react to market-moving events.
- Experience: Background in extracting alpha from market-moving events.
- Insight: Familiarity with valuable sources, individuals, and topics to track.
Responsibilities
- Brainstorming and Creating Alerts:
- Source Identification: Constantly brainstorm additional sources for our real-time information (RTI) system.
- Alert Optimization: Optimize alerts based on precision/recall scores.
- Event Calendar Maintenance: Maintain a detailed calendar of material events.
- Monitoring and Quality Assurance:
- Alert Management: Enable, disable, and update alerts as market conditions change.
- Review Process: Review alerts to ensure they remain relevant and resilient.
- Event Analysis: Analyze and alert the firm to market-moving events.
- Working with Technical Team:
- Product Development: Direct product development of our real-time event detection and alerting system.
- QA/UAT Testing: Conduct QA/UAT and test all alerts and products to meet trading and research needs.
Requirements
Experience & Knowledge:
- Industry Background: Prior experience in trading firms, hedge funds, market intelligence, or financial news organizations.
- Market Understanding: Deep understanding of real-time information flows and market dynamics.
- Source Tracking: Familiarity with tracking high-impact sources and topics.
- Scoring Knowledge: Knowledge of precision/recall scoring methods for alert optimization.
Technical & Analytical Skills:
- Source Integration: Ability to identify and integrate new news sources into our RTI system.
- Analytical Refinement: Strong analytical skills to refine alerts based on market conditions.
- Tool Experience: Experience with alerting and monitoring tools, including setup and troubleshooting.
- Collaboration Skills: Collaboration with technical teams on product development.
Operational & Communication Skills:
- Detail Orientation: High attention to detail for maintaining an accurate tabulation of market events.
- Decision Making: Ability to make quick decisions in high-pressure situations.
- Communication Excellence: Excellent communication skills to convey insights to traders and researchers.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Scripting Proficiency: Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, SQL) for data analysis and automation.
- Network Familiarity: Strong network within the ecosystem and familiarity with key influencers and information channels.
Get in touch with Sarah – sarah.fan@ashford-benjamin.com / +852 2315 9512
To apply for this job email your details to sarah.fan@ashford-benjamin.com