ETF Trader
talismanSpringfield (IL)
ETF Trader
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talismanSpringfield (IL)
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales AgentsPortfolio Management and Investment Advice
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
ETF Trader — Proprietary Trading We're partnering with an established proprietary trading firm on a search for an ETF Trader to run risk on their own capital. This is a risk-taking seat with full autonomy over your book. This is not execution or ETF operations. You need P&L in dollars from a book you traded, not benchmark-relative returns.
Responsibilities:
- Run your own book and your own risk across ETF markets
- Take directional and relative value positions across ETFs, baskets, futures and correlated products
- Identify and trade dislocations between products and across asset classes
- Manage risk in real time, including sizing, hedging and adjusting exposure through changing conditions
- Develop and scale your own strategies without a fixed house model
Requirements:
- 4+ years of profitable P&L in dollars from a book you traded
- Experience running your own risk rather than executing for others
- Deep understanding of ETF mechanics, including creations and redemptions, index construction and cross-asset relationships
- Experience across equity, fixed income or international ETFs. Index arbitrage and cross-asset backgrounds also of interest
- Comfort with data and execution tooling
- Track record of performing in a high pressure, results driven environment
- What's on offer
New York or Chicago. Competitive base plus a meaningful profit split on what you generate. No client business and no franchise flow.
Before you apply
Applying takes about a minute. These four things decide how fast it moves after that.
Your profile is current
It's what we read first. Occupations, seniority and locations matter more than a long history.
Two examples you can talk through
Not a portfolio — just two pieces of work where you can explain the decisions and what you'd change.
A number in mind
What you're on now and what would make you move. We negotiate better when we know both.
Your notice period
Employers plan around it, and it's the question that stalls offers most often.
Once you apply, someone reads it and calls you before anything reaches the employer — usually within two working days.