Cutler Group, LLC seeks a Quantitative Analyst, Trading in its San Francisco, California location.  Price and trade equity derivatives to fulfill market-making responsibilities, using Stochastic, Multi-Heston complex mathematical models. Identify trading opportunities, and take action to capture them. Make split second trading decisions. Allocate capital within risk limit to achieve optimal trading outcome. Develop profitable trading strategies for each financial instrument. Analyze trading and financial market using data-driven approach. Use expiration parameters to price options continuously and constantly change these parameters to account for changing market risks/conditions. Improve software systems for trading and analysis. Interact with brokers to place trades through the electronic system. Cross stock on stock exchanges. Use Options Tracker and Settings managers to make decisions about trading portfolio globally. Quantitatively analyze trade and market data using machine learning, statistics, data analytics techniques to identify patterns and search for trading opportunities. Manage, process, transform and visualize data sets utilizing Python, R, SQL, and data analytics applications such as Tableau. Generate and test hypotheses to create or improve trading strategies. Develop simulation frameworks for trading hypotheses back-testing. Assess the implication of news/events on financial derivative pricing. Analyze company financial statements and reports. Perform financial and valuation analysis by generating DCF models and comparable company analysis to form informed opinions on companies’ finance and risk, improving pricing and trading decision-making. Form informed opinions on dividends through understanding of industry development and company financial status and use the opinion to trade defensively or identify trading opportunities. Research company earnings dates and make educated bets on when volatility is miss-priced to make money trading for the firm.

Cutler Group is an electronic market maker for most of the equity derivatives traded in the United States. We develop and operate a proprietary trading system, which manages millions of live quotes continuously throughout the trading day. We are a rapidly growing mid-sized company. As market hours in San Francisco are from 6:30 AM to 1 PM (PST), work hours are on the early side – 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM.