RTI Researcher (US Timezone)

Our client is 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.

What You Will Do

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.

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.

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 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.

What You Will Need

Experience & Knowledge:

Prior experience working in trading firms, hedge funds, market intelligence, or financial news organizations: experience in identifying and generating alpha from news.

Deep understanding of real-time information flows and their impact in the price formation process.

Familiarity with news dissemination, tracking high-impact sources, individuals, and topics in real-time.

Familiarity with precision/recall scoring methods for optimizing alert systems.

Technical & Analytical Skills:

• Experience using social media aggregation platforms such as X Pro (TweetDeck).
• Experience working with unstructured data, text analytics.
• Experience with market data, financial data charting, analytics.
• Proficiency in scripting, query languages, e.g., Python, Rust, SQL.

Operational & Communication Skills:

• High attention to detail with the ability to keep track of various market themes simultaneously.
• Ability to make quick, informed decisions in high-pressure situations, including analyzing and reacting to critical market-moving events accurately.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate key insights and findings to traders and researchers.
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