About this role
IMC Trading has a vacancy for the role of Senior Equity Options Volatility Trader in Chicago, United States. The listing was posted on Sep 10, 2024. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
From the employer's listing (short excerpt)
Our US Equity Options business has become one of the leading liquidity-providers in the marketplace. We’ve already created partnerships and business models to facilitate our expansion and we continue to improve our options pricing, particularly in the volatility space. IMC is highly collaborative between traders, quants, and developers so the scope of responsibility involves working with others to identify and describe mispricings, interact with the market, and push forward visibility improvements
Your Core Responsibilities:
Maximize revenue by both finding, and then capitalizing on short term mispricing, as well as managing larger positions
Work closely with our best-in-class research and quant teams to analyze your results and improve your approach
Take lots of responsibility and ownership early to drive strategies forward and be successful
Your Skills and Experience:
Experienced equity options trader with at least 2 years’ experience
Entrepreneurial mindset with a healthy risk appetite, are competitive by nature, and are a fast decision maker
Ability to identify patterns and describe them analytically.