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A highly innovative Global Prop Trading Group is currently looking for a Head of High Frequency Algorithmic Trading who can manage and drive a high performing team to generate substantial returns.


Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the set up of an high frequency algorithmic trading team in London (including trading strategy development, recruitment of high performing team members, hardware infrastructure)

• Management and development of all team resources including Traders, Quants and Software Developers

• Generate trading strategies from concept to implementation

• Internal systems design where necessary in relation to strategy execution, risk management and backtesting framework

• Overall responsibility for the team’s P + L

• Focus on high frequency, risk averse market making, arbitrage and spread strategies

Experience and Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years experience managing a high performing, highly profitable team

• Minimum 5 years trading experience, at least 3 years of which would be focused on high frequency trading

• Substantial practical experience in designing an algorithmic trading framework

• Considerable practical experience in back testing and databases

• Significant practical experience in designing and developing fully automated low risk HFT strategies with average hold times from sub second to intra day.

• Experience developing market proven trading strategies with Sharpe ratios above 3

• Quantitative finance background preferred

• Experience in C++ and/or Matlab and/or R desirable

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