Quantitative analysis · CTA/Short-term

You design computer trading strategies in futures, currencies and government bonds that hold each position for hours or days. This is a senior research seat in the team Squarepoint Capital calls CTA/Short-Term. CTA stands for commodity trading adviser, the industry's old name for funds that trade futures by fixed rules.

As a quant researcher, short for quantitative researcher, you look for trading ideas in liquid markets outside shares, meaning markets where large amounts can be bought and sold easily. The ideas come from intraday price data, the record of how prices move within a single day. Ideas that pass testing go into the firm's automated trading framework, which then trades them without a person placing each order.