Irage - Quantitative Analyst

Junior Quantitative Analyst

We at iRage 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