- Manage your own trading book with a focus on FX products
- Collaborate across your trading desk to execute teams’ goals while ensuring core risk standards are met
- Analyze market trends, order flow, and technical patterns to identify trading opportunities
- Develop, test, and refine your trading strategies using historical data and real-time market conditions
- Continuously monitor macroeconomic events, central bank policy shifts, and geopolitical developments to identify opportunities
- Conduct research to develop new strategies and improve the performance of your existing strategies
- Monitor material changes in levels of risk and variance in PnL, especially focused around deviation from your plans, and proactively communicate those changes to leadership
- Grow your own business through mentorships
What we’d like to see
- 2 years or more of verified risk-adjusted profitability in FX markets
- Entrepreneurial mindset with competitive nature
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work autonomously and as a team player
- Proven self-starter with exceptional product knowledge, trading methodology, and market insight
- Ability to manage and communicate risk in accordance with the policies and limits set forth by the Firm
- Proficiency with trading platforms, execution algorithms, and market data analysis tools
- Openness to feedback and willingness to adapt your trading style with changes in market conditions
- Strong work ethic, and understanding that the more you put into your craft, the more you’ll get out of it
- Mentality of continuous improvement
The approximate annual base compensation range for this position in Chicago, IL is $72,000 to $120,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package plus benefits, will be determined by a number of factors which include but are not limited to the applicant’s experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities; geographic location; and internal equity. In addition to your salary, our total rewards package includes health benefits, a 401(k) plan, PTO, parental leave, professional development, tuition reimbursement and discretionary bonus, enhancing your overall total rewards package.