Capital‑Backed US Equities Trader — Tech‑Driven, Profit‑Share

Kershner Trading Group

Austin (TX)

On-site

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Kershner Trading Group in Austin, Texas is seeking experienced US equities traders with strong analytical skills and an entrepreneurial spirit. Ideal candidates will have at least two years of active trading experience and a proven income of $500K+. Traders will be fully backed by firm capital and will earn a share of their profits.

The company fosters a supportive environment with a high-performance team and cutting-edge technology in a casual atmosphere. Join us if you are ready to empower your trading career!

Qualifications

  • At least two years of active trading with a proven track record.
  • Verifiable income of $500K+.
  • No FINRA or other regulatory issues.

Responsibilities

  • Trade stocks for the firm using leading-edge technologies.
  • Demonstrate discipline and calm competitiveness.
  • Earn a share of profits based on performance.

Skills

Sound decision-making
Strong analytical skills
Comfort with technology

Job description

Kershner Trading Group, LLC is looking for experienced US Equities Traders and is seeking individuals with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, exceptional work ethic and strong analytical skills to trade stocks for the firm. Ideal candidates have the ability to make sound decisions quickly and confidently and can demonstrate skills as a disciplined, calm competitor with a solid track record of results. A high comfort level with technology and computer usage is necessary to use leading edge technologies and real-time executions of trades. Candidates are expected to be experienced traders, wanting to trade fully backed with 100% firm capital in Austin, Texas. Must have $500K in verifiable 1099/K1 income and no FINRA or other regulatory issues. If you do not have two years of experience with a good track record we will not reply to your inquiry.

Kershner Trading Group is a leading proprietary trading and technology firm, headquartered in Austin, Texas with a second office in midtown Manhattan, NY. Our proprietary trading firm provides capital and infrastructure to in-house traders, who actively trade stock instruments in financial markets on behalf of the firm. The traders share the profits arising from their trading activity with the firm. Traders buy and sell in the U.S. equity markets. Each trader sets their own style and strategy. All trading roles are performance based earning, there is no base salary associated with this opportunity. Please review our website to learn even more about our culture and environment; no phone calls.

Kershner Trading Group, LLC provides unique opportunities to talented, energetic people, rooted in the philosophy that everyone can do more than they realize, if they try. KTG empowers independent thinkers who have the discipline to set long-term goals, the adaptability to “shift gears” but still stay on course, and are open to being both a student and teacher in a learning organization.

Kershner offers the chance to join a high-performance team of experienced traders trading more every day and adapting to new market opportunities, talented technology professionals developing leading edge trading and market analytics systems, quantitative/ business analysts providing tools and insights to fuel business growth and top-notch support staff keeping it all humming in an environment where every day brings new challenges yet maintains the cool, casual “Austin” atmosphere.

What are you capable of?? KTG is currently seeking candidates who are excited at the prospect of pushing their own professional limits. Think you can do more??

At Kershner Trading Group we are democratizing the science of quantitative trading. Please check out our cloud-based research platform at cloudquant.com. Cloudquant is a free trading and research tool for ordinary people with extraordinary ideas. You create it, we fund it, we profit together! There is no need to wait, take cloudquant.com for a test drive now while we review your application.

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