Our client is seeking researchers for our real-time information flows team. We believe there is an unexploited opportunity in crypto markets reacting to real-time market moving news.
What You Will Do
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Work with traders and researchers to identify potential news-driven trading opportunities.
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Maintain core themes updated by communicating material information.
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Maintain a detailed calendar of material events.
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Identify key sources of breaking news for all tracked themes.
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Work with developers to streamline the ingestion of key sources.
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Monitor content flows in real-time and alert traders, researchers to potential trading opportunities.
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Build high precision, recall automated alerts for themes of interest. Prioritize, enable, disable, and update alerts as market conditions change.
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Constantly review alerts to ensure they are relevant, robust, and resilient
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Direct product development of our real-time event monitoring and alerting system
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QA/UAT and test all releases of alerts and product to ensure they meet the firm’s high standards of quality.
What You Will Need
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Experience & Knowledge:
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Prior experience working in trading firms, hedge funds, market intelligence, or financial news organizations: experience in identifying and generating alpha from news.
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Deep understanding of real-time information flows and their impact in the price formation process.
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Familiarity with news dissemination, tracking high-impact sources, individuals, and topics in real-time.
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Familiarity with precision/recall scoring methods for optimizing alert systems.
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Technical & Analytical Skills:
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Experience using social media aggregation platforms such as X Pro (TweetDeck).
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Experience working with unstructured data, text analytics.
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Experience with market data, financial data charting, analytics.
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Proficiency in scripting, query languages, e.g., Python, Rust, SQL.
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Operational & Communication Skills:
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High attention to detail with the ability to keep track of various market themes simultaneously.
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Ability to make quick, informed decisions in high-pressure situations, including analyzing and reacting to critical market-moving events accurately.
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Excellent communication skills to articulate key insights and findings to traders and researchers.