Junior Quantitative Analyst

We are an agile, young bunch. You will get to solve some extremely challenging engineering problems and shape the future of the fast paced Algo-Trading industry while working alongside other exceptional programmers, quants and traders.

Role Summary – Junior Quantitative Analyst

As a Junior Quantitative Analyst at iRage you will be involved in analysing market behaviour from both micro and macro perspective by:

• Analyse the data from the exchanges to build trading strategies
• Analyse activities of market participants at the microsecond time frame to ascertain micro behavioural patterns that can be traded successfully.
• At the same time, analyses information across a much longer time frame (and from other financial instruments, fundamental data) to build macro trading strategies.
• Aim to automate all the trading strategies built above
• Evaluate the profitability of various trading signals on various financial assets across various time horizons.
• Work with senior traders in the firm in performing analytical functions (profitability analytics, market trend analytics, etc) and prepare reports accordingly.

Required Skillset:

• Basic awareness of financial markets and fundamentals
• Strong logical & quantitative aptitude
• Strong educational background with a focus on finance
• Drive of working with big data analytical tools like R, etc. is preferred
• Good programming in Python (C++ is desirable)
• NISM certificate mandatory

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