Trader

• Oversee and manage all aspects of the company’s foreign exchange trading systems and operations.
  • Creating and managing all aspects of Risk Management and Loss management and protecting the capital.
  • Active trading on financial markets
  • Hiring Staff to build and optimise the trading systems. (Including programming and data science).
  • Day to Day management and responsibility of all open FX positions
  • Oversee continuous development of all existing trading systems.
  • Find (or build), test and implement new trading systems.
  • Responsible for the profit of the funds invested.
  • Detailed reporting of Daily, Weekly and Monthly statistic of the systems/accounts and performance of the business
  • Reporting on optimisations and changes made to the systems and provide the data to show the results
  • Allocate funds across accounts and strategies based on data of returns of each account/strategy
  • Ability to visualise and implement required systems and processes to make the operations of the trading business easier to run / report / visualise
  • Monitoring changes in the market, economics and major financial announcements
  • Deciding on Broker allocation, negotiating rates and checking their quotes and offers compared to the other brokers

About the Candidate

• Ability to find and manage great staff and work as a team
• Create an environment that retains staff long term
• Understanding of financial markets and data
• Operate in a stressful environment and maintain clear thinking
• High level of communication skills
• Excellent English or ability to intensively learn English (company sponsored)
• Analytical thinking and the ability to make decisions under pressure
• Self-motivated, curious and data driven
• Possess an ability to turn data into strategy and strategy into trading
• Some level of technical knowledge i.e. ability to understand what needs to be tested or programmed and explain it to a programmer or data scientist
• Previous management experience within a small team and demonstrated ability to create and maintain a good culture
• Previous experience in trading (can be stocks, crypto or ideally currencies) can be for employment or for their personal account
• Understanding of trading strategies and technical analysis
• Knowledge of FX trading systems and process (an advantage) e.g. MetaTrader 4
• Knowledge of algorithmic trading systems and technical analysis (an advantage)
• This job should be the most exciting thing they have come across because what we do is exciting