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Ph.D. Search and Selection are experts at the discreet hiring of at the discreet hiring of quantitative analysts, Fixed Income, FX, Commodities or Credit Derivatives at AVP/Associate Director to Managing Director level.  

Regardless of grade only candidates who have experience at a major investment bank, market maker, broker asset manager or hedge fund will be considered.  In this section, you will find the necessary requirements that need to be fulfilled for each respective area:

Traders

We look for traders who have a demonstrable profitable 2+ year trading track record in either:

Equities

  • Cash Equities
  • Program Trading
  • High Frequency Trading
  • Volatility Trading
  • Equity Derivatives (Exchange linked or OTC)
  • Futures and Options
  • Statistical Arbitrage Trading
  • Stock Borrowing and Lending
  • Structured Products

FX

  • Cash FX
  • High Frequency Trading
  • Volatility Trading
  • FX Derivatives (Exchange linked or OTC)
  • Futures and Options
  • Statistical Arbitrage Trading
  • Structured Products


Fixed Income

  • Government Bonds
  • Corporate Bonds
  • Interest Rates
  • LIBOR
  • High Yield Debt

Commodities

  • Oil & Gas
  • Softs
  • Agricultural
  • Metals
  • Precious metals
  • OTC & Exchange futures and options
  • HFT (High frequency trading)

Credit Derivatives

  • Securitization
  • ABS (asset backed securities)
  • RMBS (retail mortgage backed securities)
  • CMBS (commercial mortgage backed securities)
  • CDO (Commercial debt obligation)
  • CMO (commercial mortgage obligation)
  • CLO (commercial loan obligation)
  • CFO (commercial fund obligation)
  • CDS (credit default swaps)

Candidates should have a strong view on the market and why their trading techniques have been and will remain to be profitable.  Our clients have a combination of payment structures varying from base + bonus to base + % of profit to pure %.  We work for both the buy side and sell side.

All applications are treated with utmost discretion and confidentiality, we have opportunities in UK, Europe, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and New York.

To apply for trading roles please contact: traders@phdit.com   


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