Trader - Hedge fund

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dagenDallas (TX)

Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation

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About the role

The firm is seeking a Trading Associate to support the head trader across all day-to-day responsibilities of a multi-portfolio long/short equity platform focused on TMT and Healthcare. The role spans execution, PM coverage, market color, risk and factor analytics, and desk technology. This is a hands-on seat supporting an experienced head trader, with direct exposure to portfolio managers and a clear path to greater responsibility. This seat is for a trader who wants breadth. You will sit at the intersection of the investment teams and the market — implementing ideas efficiently, keeping PMs informed, watching risk in real time, and building the tools that make the desk faster and smarter. Execution & Trading Execute equity, ETF, options, and futures orders across multiple portfolios, selecting venues and algorithms appropriate to order size, urgency, and liquidity conditions Identify and evaluate actionable syndicate events — IPOs, secondaries, lock-up expiries, and distributions — as sources of incremental alpha Cultivate sell-side and prime broker relationships to source differentiated color, natural liquidity, and opportunistic blocks Serve as a daily point of contact for Portfolio Managers on execution strategy, positioning, and market structure — helping translate investment decisions into well‑executed trades Synthesize and distribute market color to investment teams: macro and single-stock catalysts, institutional positioning and flows, factor and cross-asset trends, and their portfolio implications Contribute to idea generation and ad-hoc analytical projects alongside PMs and the investment team Monitor factor exposures and market risk intraday across multiple risk models (e.g., Barra, Arcana), partnering with PMs to address outsized or unintended positioning Own recurring transaction cost analysis (TCA), working with PMs and brokers to measure execution quality and refine algo and broker selection Desk Technology & Automation Build and maintain desk tooling — automated reporting, execution analytics, and monitoring — in Python and SQL Incorporate LLM-based workflows (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) for research synthesis, market color generation, and process automation

Requirements: 3–5 years of trading or execution experience at a buy‑side firm or sell‑side desk, with working knowledge of cash equities, options, and futures Demonstrated execution judgment across varying liquidity conditions — algo selection, order pacing, and impact management Proficiency working with AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) to build and automate — comfortable using them for coding, analysis, and process automation, not just Q&A Advanced Excel skills Strong written and verbal communication; able to distill fast-moving information into concise, decision‑ready color for PMs Detail‑oriented and composed under pressure, with the judgment to elevate and the initiative to own problems end‑to‑end

Preferred Qualifications: Listed options trading experience (strongly preferred)

Hands‑on Python and SQL experience Familiarity with factor risk models and long/short portfolio construction concepts

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