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About the Role
MA Capital US LLC is seeking an experienced Quantitative Trader to manage and grow our index options market-making business. This hands-on role involves managing live positions and risk, making real-time trading decisions, and collaborating with researchers and engineers to enhance trading performance.
Responsibilities
- Manage the day-to-day operation of the index options market-making system, including positions, P&L, inventory, Greeks, margin, and market exposure.
- Make real-time decisions around quoting, sizing, skew, edge, inventory, and hedging while managing delta, gamma, vega, term structure, and event risk.
- Analyze fills, markouts, spread capture, adverse selection, hedge costs, and P&L attribution to identify opportunities to improve trading performance.
- Partner with quantitative researchers to evaluate pricing models, signals, and strategy changes before deployment.
- Work closely with engineers to improve pricing, quoting, execution, monitoring, and automated risk controls.
- Develop and improve hedging strategies and identify opportunities to expand and enhance the market-making platform.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of professional options trading experience, with meaningful experience in index options market making.
- Direct experience trading SPX, VIX, ES options, or closely related index and volatility products.
- Experience operating an automated or semi-automated options market-making system.
- Strong understanding of options pricing, implied volatility, volatility surfaces, skew, term structure, and Greeks.
- Practical experience managing delta, gamma, vega, inventory, event risk, and hedging.
- Strong understanding of quoting, spread capture, adverse selection, execution, and hedging costs.
- Ability to analyze live trading P&L and make effective decisions using both data and real-time market information.
- Ability to work effectively with quantitative researchers and engineers to improve trading systems and performance.
- Experience at a leading proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, or market-making firm.
- Experience with 0DTE or short-dated index options, volatility surface and skew trading, or index volatility strategies.
- Experience with inventory-based quoting, electronic execution, and options market microstructure.
- Experience with futures and options hedging, automated trading controls, and risk management systems.
Skills
- Index options market making
- SPX, VIX, ES options trading
- Automated trading systems
- Options pricing
- Implied volatility
- Volatility surfaces
- Skew
- Term structure
- Greeks
- Delta hedging
- Gamma hedging
- Vega hedging
- Inventory management
- Event risk management
- Market microstructure
- Quoting
- Spread capture
- Adverse selection
- Execution
- Hedging costs
- P&L analysis
- Quantitative research collaboration
- Engineering collaboration
- Strategy development
- 0DTE options
- Short-dated index options
- Volatility surface trading
- Skew trading
- Index volatility strategies
- Futures hedging
- Options hedging
- Automated trading controls
- Risk management systems
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: Includes medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
About the Company
- MA Capital US LLC is a proprietary trading firm specializing in systematic and high-performing discretionary strategies across multiple asset classes.
- We leverage advanced technology, quantitative research, and sophisticated models to capitalize on opportunities in global markets.
- Our culture is built on innovation, efficiency, and transparency, with a strong focus on ownership, collaboration, and disciplined risk management.
- MA Capital employs individuals with a passion for innovation and solving hard problems.
- We are a growing proprietary trading firm with access to global markets, technology, and research capabilities.