Financial Quantitative Options Trader Resume Chicago, IL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

A Confidential licensed securities broker with a combined 7 years investment management experience in options on futures, equities, and a myriad of derivatives; collaborating with others to unlock potential through different perspectives.
Thorough knowledge of ROA, Institutional ownership, P/C, P/E ratios, as well as technical analysis in executing proper hedges before a spike in beta has allowed adaptability in any market condition.
Generating superior risk - adjusted returns through research utilizing Gamma, Delta, Vega, Theta in options pricing.
Experienced reading financial statements, price to book ratios, to analyzing various sectors according to their EBITDA, as well as other fundamentals.
Expertise in trading conversions, calendar spreads, strangles, volatility arbitrage, gamma scalping, butterflies, ratio back-spreads, to a plethora of synthetics.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

LIVE VOL, Takion, TWS, CTS T4, C++, C#, Java and Python; Fluent in Spanish

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Financial Quantitative Options Trader

Responsibilities:

Self-capitalized trader with over 7 years of experience specializing in Confidential crude oil, futures indices, and options on equities.
Experience including but not limited to strips, straps, strangles, straddles, iron condors and calendar spreads.
Unbiased, adaptable trader in high/low volume, volatile, and “choppy” markets.
Experienced in volatility trading, analyzing historic volatility in both "contango" and "backwardation" markets. Strategic implementation via volume, open interest, and theta skews.
Sell premium spreads, using logarithmic calculations, exploiting standard deviation levels as well as other fundamental and technical analysis to minimize risk and raise profit potential from options on equities intraday, pre-market, post-market, and throughout earnings.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Trade Desk Representative

Responsibilities:

Provided retail clients with support related trades including but not limited to margin requirements, execution of multi-leg option trades, clearing house records, account related support, and platform troubleshooting.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Adviser

Responsibilities:

Spearheaded the proprietary trading section of firm in education, sales, and funding traders up to $250K.
Educated novice to professional level brokers, retail clients and fiduciary advisers in the markets.
Assisted traders in learning technical, software and fundamentals by finding the appropriate product to revolutionize their trading experience.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Proprietary Equity Trader

Responsibilities:

Managed a leveraged account utilizing quantitative analysis, proper risk management, speculation, and execution of equity trades.
Worked in a high-volume environment using proprietary market making software, Takion.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Marketing and Sales Specialist

Responsibilities:

Utilized communication skills to resolve issues for a variety of end users company-wide by representing and selling for world leading conglomerates.
Trained managers and employees at highest selling franchises in the technology sector.
Took initiative training top sales representatives in the nation who sold six figures monthly to grow their sales exponentially.
Employed strong interpersonal skills and built solid working relationships with clients and coworkers, resulting in regional managers offering higher positions within their business.