Quantitative Research Intern
Akuna Capital
Quantitative Research Intern
Akuna Capital
Makes markets in options with its own capital
About Akuna:
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models.
Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai and London.
What you’ll do as a Quantitative Research Intern at Akuna:
Akuna’s Quantitative Trading and Research team is looking to add Quantitative Research Interns to a team of mathematicians, statisticians and technologists for our 10 week internship Akunacademy in our Chicago office. This team creates trading strategies scientifically by combining its quantitative expertise with sophisticated understanding of derivatives and financial markets.
We are looking for talented researchers who can apply and develop machine learning algorithms to contribute to Akuna’s strategy portfolio. In this role you will:
Qualities that make great candidates:
Please note: If you apply to multiple roles, you may be asked to complete multiple coding challenges and interviews.
**Resumes must be submitted in PDF format.
Makes markets in options with its own capital
Akuna Capital makes markets in options and futures with its own money, and it builds its trading software, pricing models, and strategies in-house. Its traders cover products from stock indexes and interest rates to commodities and cryptocurrencies, and besides its automated systems it keeps floor traders in Cboe's S&P 500 options pit. As a market maker, Akuna constantly quotes prices at which it will buy and sell, so other traders always find someone to trade with, and it profits from the small gap between those prices while hedging its risk. Australian traders first planned the firm in Sydney and opened its Chicago headquarters, in the center of US options trading, in 2011; its name is an Aboriginal word for flowing water.
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