Our client, a rapidly growing crypto hedge fund and proprietary trading firm with consistent 200%+ annualized returns generated with a 4+ Sharpe ratio, are seeking researchers for their real-time information flows team. This role aims to capitalize on the opportunity to react to market-moving events.

• Experience: Background in extracting alpha from market-moving events.
• Insight: Familiarity with valuable sources, individuals, and topics to track.

Responsibilities

• Brainstorming and Creating Alerts:
• Source Identification: Constantly brainstorm additional sources for our real-time information (RTI) system.
• Alert Optimization: Optimize alerts based on precision/recall scores.
• Event Calendar Maintenance: Maintain a detailed calendar of material events.
• Monitoring and Quality Assurance:
• Alert Management: Enable, disable, and update alerts as market conditions change.
• Review Process: Review alerts to ensure they remain relevant and resilient.
• Event Analysis: Analyze and alert the firm to market-moving events.
• Working with Technical Team:
• Product Development: Direct product development of our real-time event detection and alerting system.
• QA/UAT Testing: Conduct QA/UAT and test all alerts and products to meet trading and research needs.

Requirements

Experience & Knowledge:

• Industry Background: Prior experience in trading firms, hedge funds, market intelligence, or financial news organizations.
• Market Understanding: Deep understanding of real-time information flows and market dynamics.
• Source Tracking: Familiarity with tracking high-impact sources and topics.
• Scoring Knowledge: Knowledge of precision/recall scoring methods for alert optimization.

Technical & Analytical Skills:

• Source Integration: Ability to identify and integrate new news sources into our RTI system.
• Analytical Refinement: Strong analytical skills to refine alerts based on market conditions.
• Tool Experience: Experience with alerting and monitoring tools, including setup and troubleshooting.
• Collaboration Skills: Collaboration with technical teams on product development.

Operational & Communication Skills:

• Detail Orientation: High attention to detail for maintaining an accurate tabulation of market events.
• Decision Making: Ability to make quick decisions in high-pressure situations.
• Communication Excellence: Excellent communication skills to convey insights to traders and researchers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Scripting Proficiency: Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, SQL) for data analysis and automation.
• Network Familiarity: Strong network within the ecosystem and familiarity with key influencers and information channels.

Get in touch with Sarah – sarah.fan@ashford-benjamin.com / +852 2315 9512 Experience: 3 years required