Quant Trader, Statistical Arbitrage, Hedge Fund, China

Start up Hedge Fund seeking their latest Quant Trader to join and trade statistical arbitrage strategies for the Chinese Equities and Futures market. Location - Shanghai

This is an exciting opportunity for professionals with experience in Statistical Arbitrage trading to be part of a new start up hedge fund in Shanghai. You will be joining a team and working with some of the best minds who have graduated from Ivy League universities such as Harvard. The prospect comes with great career progression opportunities and a niche chance to tap into the growing Chinese market.

The team you will be joining is based in Shanghai, and the successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Developing statistical equity arbitrage strategies using data mining, signal processing and machine learning

- Trading equity cash and futures using statistical arbitrage strategies or high frequency strategies

- Analyzing financial time series based on various time-frequency representation spaces with pattern recognition

As such, the ideal candidate will come from a front office trading or quantitative desk on the sell side or buy side, who has experience devising statistical arbitrage strategies. On top of this, they will have:

- A minimum of a Masters, in a highly mathematical, quantitative or numerate domain (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or Quantitative Finance)

- A minimum of 3 years experience trading equities with a consistent PnL

- Capability of strategies automation and back testing

- Proficient in MATLAB or R and a good understanding of programming languages such as Excel (VBA), C++ or Java

-Strong communication skills with the right attitude and a nice personality

Should you be interested in applying for this role, or know of anyone who may be, please upload your CV and we will be in touch shortly.

Proud winner of Recruitment International Asia for Recruitment Company of the year 2014, in Banking & Financial Services.

Proud winner of Recruitment International Asia for Recruitment Company of the year 2014, in Banking & Financial Services.

Huxley, a trading division of SThree Pte Limited (Registration Number: 200720126E | SThree Pte Limited Licence Number 09C5506 | Huxley Licence Number 53132076J)

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