Paid Research Engagement — Systematic Trading

Remote · Full-time / Part-time

Launched in 2022, we now manage $40M AUM. A systematic trading team with real results and a proven live-trading track record — see tradingfactory.pro

Markets: FX · Futures · Options.

No crypto, no HFT.

Paid trading-research assignments for external researchers — alongside your current job, with a possible path to joining the team.

Looking for a researcher, not a developer who implements a ready formula — someone who can take a partially defined trading problem, generate and prioritize hypotheses, design systematic logic (including position management and hedging), test it robustly, and tell a genuine trading effect from an optimization artefact.

The Research

• A real, self-contained quantitative research task — not an unpaid test and not routine production work.
• End-to-end: from hypothesis generation to robust backtesting and validation (statistical, mathematical or ML-based).
• Includes position-management and hedging logic, exposure and risk, with real execution in mind (Bid/Ask, costs, slippage).

How It Works

• Your time is paid regardless of the outcome — a well-supported negative result is a valid research outcome.
• An additional bonus for reaching the predefined target criteria.
• Scope ≈ up to 40 hours, at your own pace — we know you have a primary commitment.

What We Expect

• Independent generation and testing of trading hypotheses; strategy / signal research.
• Backtesting, walk-forward thinking, protection against overfitting / look-ahead bias.
• Position sizing, exposure and risk management; PnL and drawdown awareness.
• Statistics / time-series analysis; ability to run research independently.
• Python or MATLAB (or a comparable language by prior agreement). The final backtest code must be reproducible without dependence on any third-party trading platform.

Strong Signals (preferred, not mandatory)

• Personally originated trading ideas, or a material contribution to a strategy — able to distinguish your work from the team’s.
• Strategies / signals that reached live trading with real capital.
• FX / futures, tick data and Bid/Ask execution.
• Position-management or hedging design.
• Investigated live degradation or live-vs-backtest divergence.

Where It Can Lead

Strong work and mutual interest can open the path to an ongoing role in the research team — with transparent PnL sharing ( your alpha, your share; team-built strategies shared equally ).

Who We’re NOT Looking For

• Theorists with no real market experience or proven idea / contribution.
• Manual / discretionary traders.
• Infrastructure / execution / data-only profiles without research contribution.

We understand NDAs; no need to disclose proprietary details, just describe your research experience at a level you’re comfortable with.

Hiring entity: ООО «Рестадвайзер» · Project: Trading Factory Pro