Commodities Systematic Trader

Commodities Systematic Trader

Full-Time No working from home possible
Selby Jennings

A team at a leading $5Bn hedge fund in London and Paris is looking for a Quantitative Trader to support their trading.

The right candidate will be developing systematic strategies for commodities. They should have experience running capital, with end-to-end oversight of the entire trading process. The team is open to candidates with strategies focused on power, energy, softs, and cross-commodity.

The hedge fund provides high quality data and infrastructure for trading, ensuring strategies can be developed and begin running quickly.

Responsibilities

  • Leading the build-out of a systematic commodity book, running live strategies.
  • Leveraging models to identify and optimise trading strategies in market data.
  • Supporting the trade of large market flows over longer time horizons.
  • Contributing to the research and trading pipeline, including Risk and Factor Modelling.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or Engineering.
  • Demonstrated experience in systematic commodities, with a preference for candidates with exposure to power, energy, softs, or cross-commodity strategies.
  • Strong Sharpe ratio on live strategies.
  • Strong fundamental understanding of the commodity market.
  • Capacity to excel in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong coding skills in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, R, Matlab and/or C++, C#.

If interested, please apply via the link.

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Selby Jennings

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