The Obama Recovery Has Finally Succeeded... If You Are A High Frequency Trader

A headhunter firm is either helping GETCO build the 21st century equivalent to the atom bomb, clustering every single HFT trader under one roof for the most destructive group of momo lemmings ever assembled, or the Obama recovery is truly working... for those who know nothing but how to frontrun what remaining traders are left.

From a job search posting on LinkedIn:

We are looking for people with the follow [sic]:

New York:
*High Frequency Trader (FX) - Bank
*High Frequency Trader (ETF) - Bank
*High Frequency Trader (FX) – Hedge Fund
*High Frequency Trader (FX) – Prop Trading Firm
*High frequency trader (Cash Equities) - Bank
*High Frequency Trader (Futures) - Bank
*High Frequency Trader (Futures) – Hedge Fund
*Mid Frequency (Stat-Arb) - Bank
*High Frequency Developer (C++/Unix/KDB)
*High Frequency Developer (C++/Unix/KDB) – Hedge Fund
*Senior CTA Quant Trader - Bank
*Quant Analyst – AMM (Credit) Hedge-Fund
*Quant Researcher – Stat Arb Hedge-fund

Connecticut:
*Head of CTA Research – Hedge-Fund
*PhD Macro Quant Researchers - Hedge fund
*Quant Researcher – FX Trade Strategy / TCA – Boston

Chicago
*High Frequency Developer (C++ &C#) Prop Firm
*High frequency trader (Cash Equities) Prop Firm
*High frequency trader (Energy Trader) Prop Firm
*FPGA Engineer Prop Firm High frequency trader - Prop Firm
*High Frequency Trader (CME Eurodollars, CME 5 yr/10 yr/30 yr Treasury Notes and Bond, Currency) Prop Firm
*Quant Analyst (High Frequency Rates) – Prop Firm
*Quant Analyst (Rates / Micro-structure analyst) – Prop Firm

Hong Kong:
*Mid Frequency – Stat-Arb Asian Equity Trader – Hedge fund
*Mid Frequency – Stat-Arb FX/Futures – Hedge fund

London:
*High Frequency Trader (FX)
*High Frequency Trader (Futures)
*Head of High Frequency Volatility Trading Europe
*Quant Researcher – High Frequency Group – (Oxford)
*Quant Researcher – High Frequency Group – (Cambridge)
*Quant Analyst – AMM (Credit)
*High Frequency Developer (C++/Unix) – Oxford
*High Frequency Developer (Java)
*Junior Quant Analyst (PhD)
*Global Macro / Economics Quant Strategy
*Bayesian Statistics - Quant – Hedge-fund

Europe:
*Quant Researcher (Stat-Arb) – Austria
*Quant Researcher (Stat-Arb) – Cyprus
*Quant Researcher (CTA) – Austria
*Quant Researcher (CTA) – Cyprus
*High Frequency Trader (Futures) - Switzerland
*High Frequency Trader (FX) - Switzerland

We will not provide the link to the original post. If our HFT readers are actually looking for a job, they are doing something very wrong. Such as being ethical.

H/T DEW

Comments

[rmsnickers]

Such as being ethical, lol. 

[hedgeless_horseman]

We will not provide the link to the original post. If our HFT readers are actually looking for a job, they are doing something very wrong. Such as being ethical.

Ethics...shmethics:  http://cn.linkedin.com/in/chinahand

[101 years and c...]

"Former Wal Mart greeters, hair stylists, robo signers are welcome to apply"

[NOTW777]

LOL - obama economy; burn down the us and blame Bush for everything

[Alcoholic Nativ...]

but but but but the Internet troll business is booming!

[gramps]

Please go away. You are not wanted here anymore.

[idea_hamster]

He is drawing all evil to him, my precious.

But seriously folks, where are all the Oslo-based positions?

[TradingJoe]

Hehehe, everyone seems to believe this HFT crap is going to last for ever and they are really thinking to expand! My oh My! 

[Dagny Taggart]

Maybe they can give Waddell & Reed jobs?

[williambanzai7]

Shhhhh, don't say the W word. You might cause a Flash event.

[Caviar Emptor]

My bot is better than your bot

[prophet]

The recovery is scheduled to start after the election.  The scheduled pause in ARRA disbursements ends soon.  The new team will be effective, unlike the legacy team that got carried in as baggage.  Choking on hope, its a joke.

[williambanzai7]

[Cruel Aid]

Rapid access file:RAF/Camden, NJ

Good stuff!

[Alcoholic Nativ...]

I set my macro on "Auto profit"

[His Dudeness]

The first 100 high-frequency words in order

1. the

2. and

3. a

4. to

5. said

6. in

7. he

8. I

9. of

10. it

11. was

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68. children

69. him

70. Mr

71. get

72. just

73. now

74. came

75. oh

76. about

77. got

78. their

79. people

80. your

81. put

82. could

83. house

84. old

85. too

86. by

87. day

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90. I’m

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92. help

93. Mrs

94. called

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96. off

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100. an

[Duuude]

++++

[aldousd]

Are you interviewing for the job?

[LoneStarHog]

Shouldn't that read:  We Are Looking For Computers? What do carbon-based lifeforms have to do with anything?

[StychoKiller]

At the turn of the 20th Century "Computer" was actually a job title for carbon-based lifeforms -- slide rules are still company property though.

[Leo Kolivakis]

A smart pension fund manager put it succintly: ''Best way to beat HFT is to take a longer-term view on asset moves''.

[homersimpson]

Load of crap. That's not a smart pension fund manager. That's just a pension fund manager that wants to manage more of your money (aka typical Fidelity-speak). The best way to beat HFT is to have the SEC enforce the damn rules and make it a level playing field for retail and institutional investors. If others are allowed to cheat constantly in the short term, it sure doesn't mean things will be better for those who play fairly in the long term.

[Kat]

It'll never happen.  Ever hear of regulatory capture?

Screwam all you want.  The SEC cares nothing for you.  Why should it?

[mule65]

// 2009-04-14 -- See Bernanke "MSM Slant" email
CString MarketWatch::GetHeadline() const
{
    return csprintf("U.S. Stocks %s", GetDXY() > GetDXY(-24)
        ? "Take a Breather"
        : "Climb on Investor Enthusiasm");
}

[TheMonetaryRed]

What's the matter, guys?

Don't you have the money and smarts to run a colocated server in Chicago, New York or London?

You're not all suggesting that capitalism is unfair, are you?

LOL

Gold to a highly-correlated, HFT-boosted $1700 (You buy that gold. That'll show 'em).

[MrTrader]

Fed's Bullard favors buying $100 billion in assets after November FOMC meeting. Says Fed is 'not here to ratify what the markets think.'

LOL !

[bullet]

a smart pension fund manager?

that does not compute...

[Astute Investor]

was smart pension fund manager a not so subtle euphemism for Leo?

[99er]

Chart: ES and ZB

Heckuva job, Ben.

http://99ercharts.blogspot.com/2010/10/es-zb.html

[Goldmund]

*FPGA Engineer Prop Firm High frequency trader - Prop Firm

They're designing their own hardware also it seems.

[Traveler-2]

Why is everyone so concerned with the US stock market??  This is now a banana republic, a large one, granted, but s----t going in the wrong direction.

I have just read a superb article in 321gold by Neeraj Chaudhary.  It details the current gdp of many nations, most of whom are currently well above 2.5% growth per year. 

Why are we angsting about the old USA?  There are many dollars to be made investing in and with foreign countries:  the old is gone, the new beckons.  Lately, I have found many superb canadian companies, available on the pink sheets, with fantastic potentials in emerging economies.

I have been depressed since early 2008.  For the first time in two years, Chaudhary's article and my discoveries have invigorated me. 

The US is a lost cause.  Why are we dwelling on this; who cares?  The whole world is out there with millions of opportunities.  Go forth, seek.

[nmewn]

We (I'll assume your not American) don't sweat the small stuff as much as you think.

I would wager if the current corporate tax rate (which get's passed on to the consumer via higher prices by the way) was cut from 35% to 5% along with a tax amnesty for American companies to repatriate their funds things would change a bit.

Of these wonderful "pink sheet" companies you have found, did you factor in their tax efficiencies for a US taxpayer to whom you are promoting them?

I'm going out on a limb here and saying no...LOL.

And no list of pinkies to peruse?

But I do congratulate you on not having one exclamation point in your post or not using all caps ;-)

[Traveler-2]

Well, dude, you have lost me.  I buy my stocks, I hold my stocks, I sell my stocks, I pay my taxes.  I have never seen any difference between my US stocks and the Canadian stocks when I sold.  Capital gains is the same on all.

If you want to hold on and wait for this corrupt country to get it all straightened out (Never, hello....) then fine.  I just suggest a way to move on, make money and have fun growing with emerging markets.

[nmewn]

Canada is an emerging market?...well that is exciting news...LOL.

[twittering as s...]

wall street. the u.s. markets.

if you cannot make money from wall street, what makes you think you can make money in foreign markets.

despite the fed, gs, rigged markets, market makers, tv financial touts, all the other excuses, ...

my trading buddy hi.five.oh.

a retail trader trading from a bedroom trading room started in 1993 with $50,000 went up to $6,000,000, down to $600,000, up to $10,000,000, now at $5,000,000.

the excuses are there are NO EXCUSES.

a trader trading a complete trading plan continuously makes more money than one loses.

a trader trades against oneself.

twittering as stocktradr

[Lao Tzu]

And I notice none of them are hiring junior quants ... sigh ...

[mark456]

Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic.
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