ETF Trend Trader (Remote, Funded) — Nashville, TN

Nashville, TN:

Nashville has become one of the fastest-growing financial centers in the Southeast - HCA Healthcare is headquartered here, Alliance Bernstein relocated its headquarters from New York to Nashville in 2020, and a wave of asset managers have followed. Central Time alignment with US markets is clean, and Tennessee has no state income tax.

Liquid US-listed ETFs across broad market, sector, and thematic categories. Some traders extend into commodity ETFs (GLD, USO) and bond ETFs (TLT, IEF) for cross-asset trend exposure. We exclude leveraged and inverse ETFs from primary positions due to decay characteristics.

Trend-following has long, frustrating drawdowns followed by strong runs. Maverick traders in this role are sized so that a typical drawdown is survivable across a calendar year, and the firm's risk framework caps both per-position and portfolio-level loss limits. The strategy works on a 3-5 year timeline, not a 3-month one.

Trend-following is one of the most studied and best-documented edges in markets. The retail problem is rarely the strategy - it's the discipline to follow it through drawdowns. Maverick funds traders who have already done the psychological work, with firm capital that lets them size properly.

Traders who can sit through 6+ months of choppy, low-return conditions without abandoning the strategy People who think in expectancy and Sharpe, not in win rate Candidates who have backtested their own trend systems and understand what 'live' results look like Traders with patience - this is one of the slower-rhythm roles at the firm