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Equity Options Volatility Trader

IMCSydney, New South Wales, Australia · Posted May 1, 2025
Full-time
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Description

IMC is a global market maker, using advanced technology and sophisticated strategies to trade across major financial markets. With offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, and Sydney, we combine deep market expertise with cutting-edge systems to provide liquidity around the clock.

Our Equity Options desk is a fast-growing part of the business, trading a wide range of single stocks across the APAC region. We combine best-in-class execution, proprietary models, and high-quality market data to capture opportunities in both high-frequency and directional trading strategies. As we continue to expand this area, we’re looking for an experienced Equity Options Trader to help drive performance and innovation.

Your Core Responsibilities:

  • Run and develop equity options trading strategies across key APAC single stocks, using both your own insights and the broader team's research and tools.
  • Collaborate closely with quant researchers, software engineers, and execution specialists to optimize pricing, hedging, and risk management.
  • Make real-time trading decisions based on market dynamics, volatility, and flow.
  • Contribute to the evolution of our equity options trading desk, from strategy refinement to new market expansion.
  • Mentor junior traders and share your expertise to strengthen the team as a whole.

Your Skills and Experience:

  • 5+ years of experience managing an equity options book focused on the Hong Kong market at a trading firm, bank, or market maker
  • Strong track record of profitability in directional or volatility-based strategies.
  • Deep understanding of options Greeks, volatility surfaces, and market microstructure.
  • Confident, fast decision-maker with a solid risk framework and entrepreneurial mindset.

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

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