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Life at Optiver, Recruitment at Optiver Optiver Internship: Ten weeks to discover your future of improving the market.
Imagine learning as much in 10 weeks as you might in 10 months of college and having a seriously good time doing it. That’s the Optiver Tech and Trading Summer Internship. It’s 10 action-packed weeks of immersive education, hands-on experience, and countless opportunities for professional and personal growth. The goal is that by the end […]
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Life at Optiver, Recruitment at Optiver Optiver training: turning world class thinkers into world class trading professionals
You supply the intelligence and drive. We’ll train you for the rest. At Optiver, we recruit technical problem solvers. Our employees come from a variety of fields—most with no previous trading industry experience—but they do have a few things in common: they are quantitative, entrepreneurial, and always looking to grow. Our traders and software engineers […]
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Life at Optiver Motorsports & Market Making: The Drive to Win
ot often you hear these industries mentioned together. After all, what similarities could race car drivers zooming down a circuit share with traders and engineers on a trading floor?
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Life at Optiver, Meet the team Growing from Intern to Software Developer
Brenda is originally from Sydney, but moved to Canberra in order to study a double degree in Advanced Computing (R&D) (Hon) and Actuarial Studies at ANU in 2016. After a semester, she found her passion in computing and was certain that she wanted to do Computer Science so dropped out of Actuarial Studies. From there, she […]
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News Optiver expands presence in Asia-Pacific
Leading market maker Optiver is expanding its footprint in Asia-Pacific (APAC) with the anticipated opening of an office in Singapore in 2021. It will be the eighth office that the firm operates from globally, since its launch in Amsterdam 35 years ago.
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Life at Optiver, Meet the team The internship journey to becoming a Trader
remy was propelled into the world of trading when he got into the Optiver trading internship in his final year of university at the University of Queensland. With a degree in Advanced Finance and Economics, he now works as a graduate trader at Optiver Sydney. On the weekends he enjoys trail running and football and recently on lunch breaks he has started playing table tennis.
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Life at Optiver Carl Cook on CppCast
Rob and Jason were joined by Optiver Software engineer Carl Cook on Cpp Cast where he shared his knowledge on C++ for trading systems and more. Watch in full below.
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Competition, Life at Optiver From Ready Trader One to Trader
We spoke to the 2020 winner of Ready Trader One – Jason Ruan about his experience of the challenge last year and what it has been like starting as a Graduate Trader at Optiver. What did you learn from RT1? My biggest take away is definitely understanding exactly how market making works in the financial […]
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Life at Optiver, Meet the team From Engineer to Trader: Yes, it can be done
If you thought you didn’t have the right academic background to make it as a trader, think again. In the digital age, finance is becoming increasingly technology- and data-driven. As the roles of traders, engineers and researchers converge, the trading floor is drawing in ambitious graduates from a wide range of subjects. But don’t take […]
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Meet the team Meet Gidon – Trader
Meet Gidon: one of Optiver’s finest traders. He joined Optiver 8 years ago after completing a Master’s degree in Computer science from the University of New South Wales. This 31-year-old Australian joined Optiver Sydney in 2013 and relocated to our Shanghai office in 2015. Gidon shares a bit about his career journey with us.
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