Location: Dubai
AP Capital is a Global Hedgefund and highly diversified trading across equities, commodities, FX, fixed income and innovative assets. We adopt market neutral strategies to minimize the impact of market turbulence and maximize investment potential. Furthermore, we aim to provide risk-adjusted returns while improving liquidity. Founded in 2012 and has grown to $500m USD AUM.
We have an opportunity for a Senior Portfolio Manager / Prop Trader to create and build a trading book to focus on Middle East Single Stock Long / Short, Pair trading with a market neutral, quantitative / systematic trading style.
Responsibilities
- Track and analyze markets, explore trading opportunities and develop long/short trading strategies / signals.
- Execute pair trading plans, making position market neutral and obtain stable returns.
- Complete other related transactions and research tasks.
- Manage position risk
Qualifications
- Master’s degree or above in Financial Engineering or similar.
- 5 years minimum Trading experience with a stable and positive PnL trackrecord.
- Middle East Equity Single Stock trading experience is required
- Strong quantitative skills, good at researching and innovation.
- Python or C++ technical skills to code research, models, strategies is preferred.
- Good at statistical analysis.