Senior High Frequency Algorithmic Trader Tier 1 Investment Bank London
Company:
Orgtel Ltd
Location:
UK-London
Compensation:
Negotiable
Position Type:
Employee
Employment type:
Full time
Updated:
20 Aug 2008
eFC Ref no:
456197
The Global Head of Equity Model Driven Trading at a Major US House is looking to expand his High Frequency Trading team.
At present the team operates on a basis of trading on average 20,000 trades a day across a range of markets including equity indices, stocks, futures and bonds. They have exceptional infrastructure in place allowing for extremely low latency market connectivity. The algorithmic execution platform is cutting edge and a major contributing factor to this groups massive success.
The hire will be responsible for researching and developing successful high frequency algorithmic trading strategies. Close co-ordination with technology as well as the execution team will also be intricate in the development of these black box algorithmic trading strategies. The hire will report directly to the Global Head and will have a large degree of autonomy over not only what is traded at present but what the direction this high frequency algorithmic trading business is going.
A suitable hire will have a history of successful algorithmic trading at a high frequency level in the thousands of trades per day. A successful candidate will have generated in excess of $10mm YTD and will have had positive PnL for the last few years at least. The candidate will ideally have come from a research background and will have moved into running a book as a Quantitative Algorithmic Trader. A PhD level of education is ideal along with strong programming ability.
If this role is of interest and you would like to find out more please contact Adam Tercan at Orgtel on +44 207 337 2323. For immediate consideration please submit your profile and I will contact you to go through your details.(Orgtel Ltd acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business)
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