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Quantitative Sports Trader – European & Asian Markets
Location: Europe (working hours aligned with European and Asian sporting markets)
Experience: 2–8 years
Technology: Python and/or C#
Markets: Sports pricing, prediction markets, betting exchanges, in-play trading
Role description
Quantitative Sports Trader opportunity with a specialist sports pricing and trading business applying quantitative modelling, trading, and risk management techniques to sports markets.
The team is expanding its European and Asian market coverage, with a focus on pricing and trading sports events across pre-match and in-play markets. The successful candidate will combine statistical modelling, market analysis, and commercial decision-making to identify opportunities and manage risk.
The role sits between a sportsbook trader, quantitative researcher, and financial-market trader. The successful candidate will help price and trade European and Asian sporting markets, improve models, and develop the systems used to manage live exposure.
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Responsibilities
- Price pre-match and in-play sports markets using quantitative models and market information.
- Develop and improve probabilistic pricing models.
- Identify mispriced markets and trading opportunities across sportsbooks, exchanges, and prediction markets.
- Manage positions, limits, correlations, and event-level exposure.
- Monitor live events and react to new information.
- Analyse historical results, model performance, and calibration.
- Automate and improve repeatable parts of the pricing and trading process.
- Work closely with researchers and developers to improve data, execution, and risk systems.
- Provide trading coverage across European and Asian sporting hours.
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The strongest candidates will typically have:
- Experience within a sportsbook trading team, betting exchange, prediction market, or sports trading environment.
- Experience pricing or trading sports markets, either pre-match or in-play.
- Strong probability, statistical reasoning, and quantitative modelling skills.
- Understanding of odds, implied probability, and expected value.
- Experience managing exposure, limits, or commercial risk.
- Python, C#, or comparable programming experience.
- Ability to distinguish model accuracy from trading profitability.
- Interest in building and improving trading processes rather than simply operating existing systems.
Candidates from quantitative sportsbook teams, sports market-making businesses, prediction markets, sports-data providers, or quantitative trading environments with direct sports exposure may be highly relevant.
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