RTI Researcher - Americas Timezone

We are seeking researchers for our real-time information flows team. We believe there is an unexploited opportunity in crypto markets reacting to real-time market moving news.

• You have experience generating alpha from real-time events, either at an established proprietary trading firm or your own personal account.
• You have an intuitive sense where news is likely to originate and which sources/platforms will be the first to disseminate it.
• You enjoy being the first to read and react to breaking news and can accurately filter signal from noise.
• You are a crypto-native and preferably have also been exposed to TradFi.
• You have a sufficient technical background to prototype ideas prior to involving development resources.

This opening is for an RTI Researcher to cover the Americas timezone.

Responsibilities

1. Ideation
• Work with traders and researchers to identify potential news-driven trading opportunities.
• Maintain core themes updated by communicating material information.
• Maintain a detailed calendar of material events.
2. Sourcing, monitoring
• Identify key sources of breaking news for all tracked themes.
• Work with developers to streamline the ingestion of key sources.
• Monitor content flows in real-time and alert traders, researchers to potential trading opportunities.
3. Build and maintain high-quality alerts
• Build high precision, recall automated alerts for themes of interest. Prioritize, enable, disable, and update alerts as market conditions change.
• Constantly review alerts to ensure they are relevant, robust, and resilient
4. Working with our technical team
• Direct product development of our real-time event monitoring and alerting system
• QA/UAT and test all releases of alerts and product to ensure they meet the firm’s high standards of quality.