Valkyrietrading

Valkyrietrading

Derivatives Trader (European Hours)

Chicago, IL

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1952 days ago

About the role

  • In this role, you will be responsible for all risk and inventory held by the trading team, and expected to leverage your experience and knowledge in making critical decisions in real-time.
  • You will look to effectuate systemic improvements to the overall trading strategy to ensure the long-term viability and competitiveness of the strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Derivatives Traders are expected to own, maintain, grow, and be responsible for key revenue streams for one or more products on our trading desks.
  • You will collaborate with team leads, senior traders, junior traders and risk managers to continually improve Valkyrie's trading systems and operations.
  • A strong ability to manage and assess risk in a derivatives portfolio
  • A desire to develop and innovate the strategies and models that drive our trading activities
  • We recognize that there are extraordinary opportunities to be had every day, and by exploring, collaborating, and building, we can accomplish remarkable results together.

Requirements

  • 1 year experience on an trading desk in options market making

Nice to have

  • Quantitative analysis skills are a plus

Compensation

  • Daily competition in the financial markets provides the ideal arena to push ourselves further as we are ever striving to grow, improve, and win.
  • We recognize that there are extraordinary opportunities to be had every day, and by exploring, collaborating, and building, we can accomplish remarkable results together.

Benefits

  • Valkyrie's vision is to be an organization where curious, driven, and innovative people are able to compete and win in the world's most competitive landscape - the financial markets.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit

Company info

  • Daily competition in the financial markets provides the ideal arena to push ourselves further as we are ever striving to grow, improve, and win.

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