Friday, February 17, 2012

HTML5 & Javascript Developers(AT LEAST 3 - VERY Hot Spots) - Top Financial NYC

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Candidates MUST HAVE green card, US CITIZENSHIP, or valid current h1b with AT LEAST 3 YEARS LEFT.

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Email resume onto QuantRec @gmail.com & Quant at QuantRec dot com.
Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term (this week & or next week).

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.

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PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary history (2011 base/bonus combined & 2010 base/bonus combined), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term (this week & or next week).

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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HTML5 & Javascript Developers(AT LEAST 3 - VERY Hot Spots)

Financial Company/NYC

Contract / Rate Open/ Term expected to be 1yr

(Financial Experience Not Required)

Position is in the Fixed Income Trading Technology Team responsible

for developing the core technologies which enable Bond Traders to

manage trades and positions, calculate P&L, and determine risk during

the entire trading life-cycle.

There are 3 open positions for web developers who have strong

expertise in HTML5 and/or Javascript to develop a dashboard (UI) to a

reporting system which reports pricing, hedging and other financial

data to senior members of the Fixed Income Trading business. The is a

new team for new application which is being built from scratch. This

Dashboard Application will be built for deployment on web and mobile

(Blackberry, iOS). Financial industry experience is not required. We

are looking for UI developers who have strong coding skills, strong

computer science fundamentals with desire to build state of the art

technology.

First version of this application will be built for deployment on

desktop browser. The second will be developed for deployment on

Blackberry.

Blackberry has its own browser extensions/api's which has its own CSS

Style Sheets. Developers must be able to write HTML/ Javascript code

to interface with these Blackberry CSS Style Sheets for browser based

deployment on Blackberry.

Tech Skills:

- Strong web fundamentals (HTTP, HTML, Javascript, CSS)

- Proficient with modern Javascript libraries (ExtJS, jQuery)

- Comfortable with XML

- Comfortable working with Web Service/REST interfaces

- Comfortable with cross-browser compatibility and interface unit testing

- Experience with HTML5 including targeting Blackberry, iOS devices.

- Experience with modern Java templating frameworks (FreeMarker, Velocity)

- Experience developing CXF based Web/REST services

- Java web framework experience (Spring MVC)

- Capable SQL skills (Queries, sps, views, join, etc.; Sybase preferred)

Monday, February 13, 2012

Greece Will Have `Hard Default,' Gallo Says (VIDEO)

Greece Will Have `Hard Default,' Gallo Says

Alberto Gallo, head of European credit strategy at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, talks about the outlook for resolution of Greece's debt crisis and the credit market in Europe. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness With Margaret Brennan." (Source: Bloomberg)

Monday, February 6, 2012

We're Hiring: Senior Options Trader (Top Financial, London)

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We're looking for a senior options trader who has experience trading Euro Markets, eg: London stock 50.

Will work AOMM (automated options market making) business of a Top Tier Bank in London.

Looking for senior person who can run his/her own desk with self sufficiency.

Friday, January 13, 2012

The MBA's Value? Debatable

The MBA's Value? Debatable
"The P&Q story is about the latest research from the Graduate Management Admission Council, which surveyed 4,135 business school alumni who received their degrees since 2000. The GMAC report paints a rosy picture of the MBA’s value, more or less what you’d expect from the publisher of the GMAT exam, which gives the organization a vested interest in drumming up b-school applications."

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Hedge Funds Hit With Losses In 2011: Only Human?

"Excuses, excuses, and more excuses.

Some of the best-known hedge fund managers have offered lots of excuses for underperforming the major stock market indexes last year, with many large funds posting double-digit losses.

In letters to investors, managers pointed to things like Europe's debt crisis, a slower-than-expected economic recovery in the United States, and unforeseen events like Japan's nuclear disaster all coming together to create a tricky trading environment that was characterized by big and often unpredictable swings in stock prices."

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

We're Hiring: Equity Options Quant/Strategist Prop Trading Firm/ NYC

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PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary history (2011 base/bonus combined & 2010 base/bonus combined), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie).
Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left
on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term (this week & or next week).

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Successful Prop firm in NYC is looking to hire an experienced Equity Options Quant with experience in HFT and AMM. Person should have strategy experience from a mature shop.

Company has all the tools and resources necessary to run successful desk - fast trading/market-making platform, direct exchange connectivity with co-location and competent quants and developers to support trading needs. Company offers exceptionally good work environment with good leadership, good work atmosphere.

We're Hiring: FICC Trader Prop Trading Firm / NYC

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PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary history (2011 base/bonus combined & 2010 base/bonus combined), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie).
Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left
on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term (this week & or next week).

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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FICC Trader

Prop Firm / NYC

Successful prop firm in NYC is looking to hire a FICC Trader. Must be primarily a market maker not a big risk taker. Can trade any type of FICC product, either oil, gas, gold, silver or euro dollars etc. Must have experience with Options. Must be able to run a desk with minimal supervision. Company culture is uncommonly good - quality people, good leadership, friendly and collegial work atmosphere. For a successful trader who has it all except the right boss, colleagues or work environment this could be the solution you're looking for.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

We're Hiring Senior UX / IA Architect at Team/Project Lead Level Financial Company/NYC

(Open to Full Time OR Consulting, client prefers FULL TIME)

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PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary history (2011 base/bonus - or hourly rate & 2010 hourly rate or base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie).
Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left
on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term (this week & or next week).

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Summary of role: The core UI team in the firm which is responsible for the firm's best UI work (Information Architecture, Useability Engineering, Graphics Design and UI Development) is looking to find an industry leading IA/UX Architect to take a hands on, lead role in an organization of 34 people. Person will initially be responsible for team of 5-7 people and this number is expected to grow steadily. Position will have responsibility for meeting with business users and business stake holders for requirements gathering as well as project planning, team leadership. Person must have successful track record of developing high-fidelity wireframes for large, complex, user & customer facing applications. This position will be responsible for the whole product, not just IA. Thus, person will be responsible for for leading all involved in developing a finished UI Product, including Information Architects, Visual Designers and UI Developers. In total, person must be excellent hands-on Information Architect with experience developing wireframes for large, robust, interactive front-ends while also being a competent team and project leader while also being able to effectively interface with end-users and business stake holders, not just for business requirements but for business development to expand the services being delivered by your team and your larger organization.

Senior User Experience Designer / Information Architect

In New York City

Join a team of 34 user experience analysts in an internal consultancy, working on highly interactive applications for a leading Financial Services company.

Role Description

The User Experience Analyst / Information Architect (IA) will research, plan, design and document user interfaces for web-based, hand-held, and desktop applications.

The ideal candidate

- Is detail-oriented

- Has excellent communication, presentation, and client management skills

- Is comfortable with the User Centered Design process and looks for ways to improve it

- Understands and has opinions about current industry best practices

- Is experienced with designing transactional user interfaces

- Balances an academic interest in best practices with tactical solutions

- Desires to define innovative solutions and publish in industry forums

- Wants to develop a design pattern library

- Manages client expectations and own time efficiently

- Enjoys collaborating with product owners and business analysts to design solutions

The IA will be responsible for

- User research

- Personas

- Feature maps & prioritization

- Sitemaps

- Wireframes

- Functional specifications (or annotated wireframes)

- User testing

Required Qualities

Minimum 5 years of experience working as an user experience professional

Desired Qualities

Experience with Web application design (AJAX / FLEX technologies)

Experience with interactive agency

Good writing skills

Financial Services industry experience

A portfolio and sample work must be reviewed before an interview will be scheduled

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Why Latin American Stocks Could Get Hot

"There's an emerging group to watch in emerging-market hotspot Latin America: a swelling middle class.

This population shift is an important development for investors, especially those with a longer-term horizon. No longer will the economies of Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and their neighbors have to rely primarily on strong global demand for commodities grown and mined in the region. Now, theinvestment story is shifting toward the improved income of a relatively young population. These days, many emerging countries have relatively low levels of unemployment and a better fiscal position compared with their developed counterparts."

Friday, December 23, 2011

QuantRec:Math meets the markets in derivatives trading

Math meets the markets in derivatives trading

" Dozens of books with titles such as "Meltdown," "Busted," and Scott Patterson's "The Quants" have chronicled the financial debacle of 2008. ("Quants" are money managers who use computer-driven, quantitative trading strategies.) Patterson's book describes a Sept. 18 meeting between Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and several U.S. senators. The credit markets were frozen, Bernanke said. "We could have a depression if we don't act quickly and decisively."

Many investors believe the crisis was precipitated by the highly leveraged, rapid-fire trading of Ph.D. quants working in banks and hedge funds. In "Pricing the Future," George Szpiro recounts the history of quantitative investing. The well-told story reveals how quants came to dominate financial markets, and explains why they may endanger your 401K.

The tale centers on derivatives, contracts that give the purchaser the right to buy or sell something at a given price for a given period. Common derivatives such as stock options are not new. Futures contracts were being traded in Paris 200 years ago. Back then, options trading was wildly speculative because nobody could figure out the relationship between the price of a stock and its option."

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Which CEO got paid $3M to fly in his own private jet? @AlyceLomax

Friday, December 16, 2011

World's OLDEST Stockbroker trading STRONG at 105

".........

The participants' similar genetic makeup has made it possible for Barzilai's team to isolate a supergene called "CETP." The gene appears to have helped centenarians like Irving Kahn stay healthy longer.

"(Irving Kahn) has a gene that controls the good cholesterol," Barzilai said. "This is the HDL cholesterol. And we found that people who have this mutation in the gene have higher good cholesterol, but also they are protected from heart disease and from cognitive decline and Alzheimer's."

Researchers are currently developing a pill which they hope will mimic the supergene's anti-aging effects that have allowed people like Irving Kahn to drink from the fountain of youth."

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

We're Hiring: Senior Automated Market Making (or High Frequency) Quant Strategist/Researcher/Developer (Prop Trading Firm, NYC) Base/Multiple PNL Bonuses

Friday, December 9, 2011

We're Hiring: Senior Front End Developer - Flex (Top Financial Firm) NYC

Term is open ended, with expecation that it will be long-term for right person and eligible for conversion to full-time.

Join an internal user experience consultancy, working on highly interactive applications for a leading Financial Services company.

The ideal candidate

- Is detail-oriented

- Is experienced with designing transactional user interfaces

- Has excellent communication, presentation, and client management skills

- Is comfortable with the User Centered Design process and looks for ways to improve it

- Balances an academic interest in best practices with tactical solutions

- Wants to develop a design pattern library

- Manages client expectations and own time efficiently

- Enjoys collaborating with product owners and business analysts to design solutions

Required Skills

Passion about good design

Experience with complex application design

Top notch Flex skills: AS3 / Flex 4, Lightstreamer, etc

Minimum 5 years of experience working as a front end developer

Code & designs to show us

Advise clients on technology strategy

Collaboratively design the application

Develop AJAX, FLEX, and Windows Presentation framework interfaces

Maintain a UI component library

Would be great if you had…

Experience with interactive agency

Financial Services industry experience

Good documentation skills

Thursday, December 8, 2011

In Europe, Traders in Bonds FEAR LAYOFF

Thursday, November 24, 2011

We're Hiring: Midlevel C++ Quant Developer (Prop Trading Firm, NYC) Base/Multiple PNL Bonuses

Very well funded prop trading firm is currently seeking additional quant developers for their research team.

High Base/Multiple PNL Bonuses

Candidates will work concurrently on strategies and new trading systems in an experienced team with an outstanding track record.

Candidates should hold a degree in Computer Science or other quantitative field and have a strong background in C++ programming.

In addition, candidates should have either outstanding internship experience or 1-2 years of experience working on trading systems or systematic trading strategies.

Candidates can be junior or midlevel or senior, ranging from 1-10+ years experience.

Should have significant quant finance/development experience.

Particular interest in candidates with FX, Fixed Income or Commodities experience.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

We're HIRING: Server Side Java Developer (Web Environment) Financial Company/ NYC

Skills Required

. Extensive Object Oriented design and Java development experience (JAVA, JSP)
. Experience with web based technologies and protocols (HTML, Javascript, XML, XSLT, SOAP)
. Experience with designing a large-scale, real-time, business critical systems
. Solid system architecture skills (especially 3/N-Tier applications)
. Experience in Database design and database programming (Sybase / DB2 ideally)
. Strong written and oral communication skills. Ability to express their thoughts effectively
. Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and work with them to meet business requirements
. Strong team working ability in local and global teams

Skills Desired

. UI Development(ExtJS experience is prefered)
. Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
. UNIX/Linux scripting
. Experience building financial systems
. Experience gathering & managing requirements

We're HIRING: Front End Developers (Flex/HTML) X3 - Montreal

We're HIRING: Visual Designers X2 - Montreal (Top Financial)

We're HIRING: Front End Developers (Flex/HTML) X3 & Visual Designers X2 - Montreal

Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted.

Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are
applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential...

If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume onto QuantRec @gmail.com & Quant at QuantRec dot com.

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it! you can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary history (2011 base/bonus - or hourly rate & 2010 hourly rate or base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term (this week & or next week).

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Front End Developer (Flex/HTML) & Visual Designers - Montreal
Contract - Daily Rate

Top Tier Financial Firm is seeking to expand it's Montreal UI team consisting of Web Developers and Visual Designers.    This is a firmwide team which covers all businesses within the company providing diversity of work for UI Developers. The team operates like an internal consultancy working on many different projects providing a constant flow of new projects so developers and designers are constantly challenged with new work.

We're currently looking to hire 5 additional people: 3 Front End Developers and 2 Visual Designers.

For development roles we're seeking two Flex developers proficient in Flex (version 4 at minimum) and ideally 4.5.1 for mobile development.   Approximately 25% of development will be on mobile platforms including iPhone, iPad and Android.    Though not required, experience with other front-end technologies are desirable, including Javascript, EXTJS, HTML, CSS.

We're also hiring for one HTML5 developer. At minimum person must know up to HTML4 with strong academic understanding of HTML5 and ready to hit the ground running in HTML5. Minimum of 5 years of professional experience.

For the Visual Designers (Graphic Designers) we're looking for experienced designers with a portfolio of work which demonstrates experience developing rich, robust, aesthetically appealing Front Ends. Person must have strong expertise with the Adobe Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash.   Minimum of 5 years of professional experience.

Monday, November 7, 2011

We're HIRING: Executive Technical Support Specialist (New York) - Top Financial

We're Hiring: IT/Enterprise: Helpdesk (Top Financial, NYC)

WE'RE Hiring: International HR Business Partner (based in Hong Kong)

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

We're HIRING: Business Analyst/User Experience Designer, Financial Firm / NYC - Contract - Open Ended - Expected to be 1 year +

Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted.

Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are
applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential...

If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume onto QuantRec @gmail.com & Quant at QuantRec dot com.

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it! you can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary history (2011 base/bonus - or hourly rate & 2010 hourly rate or base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie).
Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left
on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term (this week & or next week).

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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UX Designer to create wireframes for apps described below. It would be a plus if person has credated wireframes for front ends which utilize Flex or other RIA technology, but not required. Financial experience is not required. Person must also have some BA experience - even if just informal experience writing functional specifications.

Position Description:
The User Experience Designer will research, plan, design and document user interfaces for web-based applications. In addition, the candidate will be tasked with business analyst deliverables, such as process review/documentation, requirements documentation, and functional specification design.
- Is detail-oriented
- Has excellent communication, presentation, and client management skills
- Is comfortable with the User Centered Design process and looks for ways to improve it
- Understands and has opinions about current industry best practices
- Is experienced with designing transactional user interfaces
- Balances an academic interest in best practices with tactical solutions
- Desires to define innovative solutions and publish in industry forums
- Manages client expectations and own time efficiently
- Enjoys collaborating with product owners and business analysts to design solutions

The Designer will be responsible for
- Process review/documentation
- Requirements colleciton/documentation
- Visual Designs
- Functional Specifications

Experience with Web application design (AJAX / FLEX technologies)
Experience with interactive agency
Good writing skills
Financial Services industry experience

Vendor product - HP Project & Portfolio Management, which technology uses as the portfolio (projects, proposals, products) and budgeting system.

We have built extensions to this application in Flex - one of them is called the Resource Module where we tie people to work and estimate their staffing assignments. This application would be one of the areas where the consultant would focus - this module ultimately defines project costs for IT and then drives the budget.

It's used by a lot of people - PMOs, Delivery Managers, and Business Managers - and needs a major UI overhaul.

This is used by all levels of IT management to track and manage resource rosters and open positions.
This application has a very full roadmap of additional enhancements for role tracking and integrations with other applications to make the resource lifecycle more seamless. This is another Flex application that the consultant will design around.

We're HIRING: Equity Swaps IT Development Manager (Financial Company/Jersey City)

We're HIRING: Senior Front End Guru - Flex or HTML (2 Openings, Top Financial NYC)

Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted.

Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are
applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential...

If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume onto QuantRec @gmail.com & Quant at QuantRec dot com.

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it! you can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary history (2011 base/bonus - or hourly rate & 2010 hourly rate or base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie).
Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left
on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term (this week & or next week).

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Senior Front End Guru - Flex or HTML

Rate is open.

Term is open ended, with expecation that it will be long-term for right person and eligible for conversion to full-time.

Need to be able to design apps to make them pretty.

The right person will probably have experience with design tools and will have at least some involvement with UX Design for an application. They are looking for people to work on mobile applications, so Sencha Touch , EXT and Flex 4.5.1 are preferred. Mobile development on android and iPhone will make up roughly 25% of development time.

Person does NOT need to have finance experience but they do need to come out of a company that is doing high-end development, eg: yahoo.

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Join an internal user experience consultancy, working on highly interactive applications for a leading Financial Services company.

The ideal candidate
- Is detail-oriented
- Is experienced with designing transactional user interfaces
- Has excellent communication, presentation, and client management skills
- Is comfortable with the User Centered Design process and looks for ways to improve it
- Balances an academic interest in best practices with tactical solutions
- Wants to develop a design pattern library
- Manages client expectations and own time efficiently
- Enjoys collaborating with product owners and business analysts to design solutions

Required Skills
Passion about good design
Experience with complex application design
Top notch Flex skills: AS3 / Flex 4, Lightstreamer, etc
Minimum 5 years of experience working as a front end developer
Code & designs to show us
Advise clients on technology strategy
Collaboratively design the application
Develop AJAX, FLEX, and Windows Presentation framework interfaces
Maintain a UI component library

Would be great if you had…
Experience with interactive agency
Financial Services industry experience
Good documentation skills