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Quantitative Trader Intern
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Quantitative Trader Intern at BlackEdge Capital, a treasury options market maker in Chicago. The intern will learn option pricing theory, market making dynamics, and trading system operations, then deliver a data-driven project to improve trading team workflows.
About this role
If you are looking to join a small, dynamic, growing firm in the financial technology sector, you have come to the right place. BlackEdge has built a strong foundation of success as an industry leading market maker in the treasury options space. Now we need talented people like you to build on that foundation by further improving and leveraging our existing success to expand into new markets.
An internship at BlackEdge will give you a taste of life as a quantitative trader in the options market making space. The first half of your internship will focus on teaching you option pricing theory, market making dynamics, and trading system operations. The second half will provide you the opportunity to deliver a project that leverages our extensive internal data and tooling to help a BlackEdge trading team improve their daily activities.
Job Responsibilities:
- Build expertise in option pricing dynamics and trading strategy optimization.
- Participate in mock trading and other training sessions
- Work on and manage special projects and build trading tools to continuously improve trading operations.
We are looking for:
- Graduating in 2028 with at least a Bachelors' degree in a STEM field.
- Strong quantitative skills and logical reasoning.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Ability to maintain composure under pressure.
A final note about our culture: we are pursuing excellence in trading. We want to be the best market makers in each product we trade and are relentless in our pursuit of incremental improvement. Every day is an opportunity to get a little bit better. Everyone here takes deep pride and ownership in what they do. The buck doesn't get passed along, it stops with you.
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