Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology. For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient. We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better. Are you excited by the opportunity to be part of a dynamic trading environment that values teamwork and collaboration? Do you thrive in an innovative atmosphere? If so, we encourage you to consider Chicago Trading Company! The Role The Quant Trading Associate (QTA) role is our entry-level position within our Trading and Quant organization and gives you broad exposure to the whole business as you work towards graduating from the Associate Program and assuming a role as a Quant Trader or Quant Researcher. As a QTA, you will work in a high-impact role as a member of a trading or quantitative team. You will play a vital part in identifying trading opportunities and impacting your team through dynamic problem solving — including trade execution, strategy formulation, back-testing, data analysis, and the modeling and pricing of traded financial derivatives — while communicating with traders, risk managers, software engineers, and quants throughout the trading day. You will learn all aspects of the trading and quant operation and work towards a role that generates trading revenue or drives strategy development for the team. In addition to the
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Role overview
Job description
The Trading team develops and operates quantitative trading strategies across prediction markets, equity markets, and crypto markets, including spot and derivatives.
We are looking for an experienced Systematic Trader to develop, operate, and continuously improve systematic strategies in fast-moving electronic markets.
Responsibilities:
Operate and manage systematic trading strategies and frameworks across prediction markets, equities, and crypto, including spot, perpetuals, futures, options, and other derivatives.
Monitor live trading, P&L, positions, risk, and execution performance.
Research, backtest, deploy, and improve systematic trading strategies.
Identify new trading opportunities across markets, products, exchanges, and venues.
Analyze strategy and execution performance, including fills, slippage, adverse selection, transaction costs, and latency.
Optimize strategy parameters, position sizing, execution, and risk controls.
Work closely with quantitative developers and researchers to implement new strategies and improve trading systems.
Participate in local trading coverage and rotating weekend coverage.
Requirements:
4+ years of experience in systematic, quantitative, electronic, proprietary, or market-making trading.
Demonstrated experience developing, operating, or improving profitable trading strategies.
Strong understanding of market microstructure, execution, and risk management.
Strong Python programming and quantitative data-analysis skills.
Experience working with large market and trading datasets; SQL experience is preferred.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to take ownership in fast-moving markets.
Master's or PhD degree in a quantitative discipline, or equivalent relevant quantitative experience.
Preferred:
Experience trading in one or more of prediction markets, equities, or crypto markets.
Experience with market making, statistical arbitrage, relative value, arbitrage, or other systematic strategies.
Experience with exchange APIs, order-book or tick-level data, automated execution, or real-time trading systems.
C++ experience is a plus.
What they are looking for
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Qualification
4+ years of experience in systematic, quantitative, electronic, proprietary, or market-making trading
Department · Trading
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