About the Role
DRW is looking for an early-career Trader to join its Equities & Derivatives team. You'll help identify, evaluate and execute trading opportunities, manage risk and develop ideas across equities and derivatives, with the precise remit reflecting your strengths and evolving as you build experience.
- Analysing market moves, positioning and catalysts to generate trading ideas.
- Executing trades and managing positions within agreed risk limits.
- Monitoring exposures, performance and changing market conditions.
- Developing tools and research to improve trading decisions.
- Working closely with the team to learn new products and strategies.
We're open to a broad range of trading backgrounds, and place more weight on judgement, analytical ability and curiosity than on experience in a particular market.
Responsibilities
- Analysing market moves, positioning and catalysts to generate trading ideas
- Executing trades and managing positions within agreed risk limits
- Monitoring exposures, performance and changing market conditions
- Developing tools and research to improve trading decisions
- Working closely with the team to learn new products and strategies
- Helping identify, evaluate and execute trading opportunities, manage risk and develop ideas across equities and derivatives
Requirements
- Currently in a trading role
- Fewer than five years' professional experience
- Relevant background in one or more of: single-stock volatility; Delta One or dividend trading; index volatility; exotic derivatives; dispersion strategies; event-driven or special situations strategies; index rebalancing
- Currently working at a bank, market maker or buy-side firm, including within specialist trading pods
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Sound risk judgement and a disciplined approach to trading
- Curiosity about markets and a willingness to learn beyond your current specialism
- The ability to make clear decisions under pressure
- Ownership of your work and an ability to collaborate effectively