RTI Researcher (US Timezone)

nahc.io; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company is looking for researchers to join their real-time information flows team. The successful candidate will work closely with traders to identify news-driven trading opportunities and maintain a detailed calendar of material events. Strong analytical and communication skills are essential for success in this role, along with a deep understanding of market data and experience with scripting languages. This position is vital in ensuring that traders receive timely alerts and insights into market movements.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in trading firms or financial news organizations.
• Understanding market data and its impact on price formation.
• Ability to track high-impact news sources in real-time.

Responsibilities

• Work with traders to identify trading opportunities from news.
• Maintain a calendar of material events affecting markets.
• Monitor and alert on real-time content flows.

Skills

Identifying news-driven trading opportunities

Deep understanding of real-time information flows

Analyzing critical market-moving events

Excellent communication skills

Use of social media aggregation platforms

Tools

Python

Rust

SQL

Job description

Our client is seeking researchers for our real-time information flows team. We believe there is an unexploited opportunity in crypto markets reacting to real-time market moving news.

What You Will Do

• Work with traders and researchers to identify potential news-driven trading opportunities.
• Maintain core themes updated by communicating material information.
• Maintain a detailed calendar of material events.
• Identify key sources of breaking news for all tracked themes.
• Work with developers to streamline the ingestion of key sources.
• Monitor content flows in real-time and alert traders, researchers to potential trading opportunities.
• Build high precision, recall automated alerts for themes of interest. Prioritize, enable, disable, and update alerts as market conditions change.
• Constantly review alerts to ensure they are relevant, robust, and resilient
• Direct product development of our real-time event monitoring and alerting system
• QA/UAT and test all releases of alerts and product to ensure they meet the firm’s high standards of quality.

What You Will Need

• Experience & Knowledge:
• Prior experience working in trading firms, hedge funds, market intelligence, or financial news organizations: experience in identifying and generating alpha from news.
• Deep understanding of real-time information flows and their impact in the price formation process.
• Familiarity with news dissemination, tracking high-impact sources, individuals, and topics in real-time.
• Familiarity with precision/recall scoring methods for optimizing alert systems.
• Technical & Analytical Skills:
• Experience using social media aggregation platforms such as X Pro (TweetDeck).
• Experience working with unstructured data, text analytics.
• Experience with market data, financial data charting, analytics.
• Proficiency in scripting, query languages, e.g., Python, Rust, SQL.
• Operational & Communication Skills:
• High attention to detail with the ability to keep track of various market themes simultaneously.
• Ability to make quick, informed decisions in high-pressure situations, including analyzing and reacting to critical market-moving events accurately.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate key insights and findings to traders and researchers.