Hey guys, Figured I'd do a Q&A because this site has helped me quite a bit in the past, and hopefully I have something to offer back. For a quick background, I graduated from a semi target as a math major, interned in IBD at a top bulge bracket, decided it wasn't for me, and now have been working as a derivatives trader at a top Chicago OMM firm for the past year or so. Feel free to ask anything, and I'll try to answer as best as I can. Apologies if it takes me a day or two to respond.
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Sure - I get in around 6:15, and start my day on the trading desk. I'm actually trading until about 3:30pm (this includes both manual trading and overseeing algorithmic systems, call it a 50/50 or so split). After that, most days I'm around until 5-5:30 or so, whether that means working with devs to improve our systems, actually running quantitative projects myself to try and find a better way to trade (mostly python, little R), or something else. Very rarely am I coding the actual algorithm myself, more often I'm analyzing data to find a potential opportunity. This may be more specific to my firm, I'm not sure.
Nahhh short VIX baby