Commodities Volatility Trader

imc· Trading
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📍 London, United Kingdom

About this role

We're building out a trading initiative in London, with a growing focus on listed commodities options. This expansion is supported by a mix of internal talent and experienced external hires. With a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, the team offers a unique opportunity to help shape and scale a new desk from an early stage.

The group combines deep expertise with broad trading experience and values innovation, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration. As the desk continues to grow, there will be increasing opportunities to take on broader responsibilities and contribute meaningfully to its success.

 Your Core Responsibilities

  • Maximize revenue by identifying and monetizing short- and long-term mispricing’s, as well as managing the resulting positions.
  • Be able to take lots of responsibility and ownership early in your time here to drive the strategy forward.
  • Managing risk and developing market making strategies
  • You will have lots of responsibility and ownership early on to drive strategies forward and be successful
  • IMC is highly collaborative between traders, quants, and developers so the scope of responsibility is fairly fluid involving a mixture of data-driven analysis, quantitative modelling and algorithm development

Your skills and experience:

  • 3+ years’ experience in Commodities markets
  • BS, MS, or PhD, preferably in STEM
  • You have a quantitative and strategic mindset and a healthy appetite for risk
  • Strong technical skills in Statistics and Python
  • You have a proven ability to act and make decisions in a fast-paced and competitive environment
  • You are analytical, passionate about reflecting on past trades, and always seeking to do better
  • Experience with managing risk and developing market making strategies
  • Product experience is preferred
  • Strong communication and teamwork abilities

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

 

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This Commodities Volatility Trader role at imc is based in London, United Kingdom. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
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This Commodities Volatility Trader position at imc was posted on Aug 20, 2025. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
Commodities Volatility Trader
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