Recruitment!
At my firm I develop software that buys and sells millions of dollars worth of assets every day. We are a small team, 17 of us in all, with a large pot of other people’s money and all the technology you could throw a stick at. Our strategies are all systematic - so we spend our days thinking of cunning new algorithms to better model markets, then implementing them and then finding out how much money we have (or haven’t) made. The environment is very laid back, there’s no shouting and stressing, no flashing sirens and all the rest of the paraphernalia normally associated with working the markets.
The great thing about this company is that we are all in it together. There’s no basement full of programming monkeys and lofty towers of self righteous traders. We all code, we all have input into devising and selecting strategies, and we all trade; and when the fund makes money (which it is doing rather well at right now), I can buy a shiny new glider.
Not to mention we have table football, a piano, a Wii, and free food in Fridays (Fitzbillies is our favourite).
The great thing about this company is that we are all in it together. There’s no basement full of programming monkeys and lofty towers of self righteous traders. We all code, we all have input into devising and selecting strategies, and we all trade; and when the fund makes money (which it is doing rather well at right now), I can buy a shiny new glider.
Not to mention we have table football, a piano, a Wii, and free food in Fridays (Fitzbillies is our favourite).