Proprietary Trader

Location: London / Hong Kong / Singapore / New York

We are working with a prop trading firm looking to hire a Sports Betting Trader to join its growing trading team. The role will focus on identifying, modelling and exploiting pricing inefficiencies across global sports betting markets, with significant autonomy over research, strategy development and live trading.

• Research and develop systematic and data-driven sports betting strategies across major global markets.
• Build pricing, forecasting and probability models using historical and real-time sports data.
• Identify relative-value, arbitrage and market-making opportunities across bookmakers, betting exchanges and other venues.
• Manage live positions, execution, liquidity and portfolio-level risk.
• Analyse market microstructure, odds movements, liquidity and participant behaviour.
• Develop tools for automated execution, monitoring, data collection and strategy evaluation.
• Continuously evaluate strategy performance and adapt models as market conditions evolve.

• Demonstrable experience trading sports betting markets, either professionally or through a substantial personal track record.
• Strong quantitative and statistical background with an ability to translate research into profitable trading strategies.
• Experience with Python or another quantitative programming language.
• Strong understanding of probability, expected value, risk management and portfolio construction.
• Commercial mindset with a strong focus on P&L and risk-adjusted returns.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving, highly competitive trading environment.

Candidates may come from:

• Professional sports betting / sports market-making firms
• Quantitative hedge funds or proprietary trading firms
• Prediction markets
• Exchange market-making
• Systematic trading or statistical arbitrage

The firm is open to candidates across London, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York
, with seniority and mandate tailored to the individual's experience and track record.