What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buy Side/Prop Trader, PM position at ANONYMOUS FUND?
PM/Trader (Buy-Side) — We Don’t Care Where You Learned It. We Care If You Can Prove It.
Most job descriptions read like they were written by a committee. This isn’t one of them.
We’re looking for someone who sees patterns where others see noise. Someone who gets mildly annoyed when markets behave irrationally—but even more excited when they can exploit it.
We deploy capital across global markets. Equities, options, futures—if it trades and misprices, it’s fair game. Our edge comes from people who think independently, test aggressively, and aren’t afraid to discard their own ideas when the data disagrees.
You won’t be handed a playbook. You’ll help write it.
What You’ll Actually Do
- Turn messy, high-dimensional data into tradable signals
- Build, test, and kill strategies (yes, killing them is part of the job)
- Put real capital behind your ideas—and live with the results
- Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and other traders who will challenge your assumptions daily
- Continuously refine models in response to changing market behavior
- Decide what matters—and ignore what doesn’t
What We’re Looking For
- You have a track record of finding signal in noise (markets, data science, competitions, research—anything)
- You’re comfortable being wrong—and fast at correcting it
- You think in probabilities, not certainties
- You can code (Python is a must; anything else is a bonus)
- You understand risk—not just mathematically, but emotionally
- You ask better questions than most people ask answers
- You’ve built and traded your own strategies
- You’ve lost money and can explain exactly why
What You Get
- Direct impact on PnL from day one
- Freedom to pursue ideas without unnecessary bureaucracy
- Access to data, compute, and infrastructure that don’t bottleneck you
- A team that values sharp thinking over credentials
- Compensation that scales with performance (as it should)
Final Thought
We don’t expect you to know everything. We do expect you to figure things out.
If you’re the kind of person who can’t stop thinking about why something works—and how to make it work better—you’ll probably fit in here.