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Junior Market Analyst
Ig Group
Chicago, IL, United States
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Role Responsibilities:
• Technical and/or fundamentals analysis of financial and capital markets with an emphasis on currencies, global indices and commodities;
• Contribute frequent, quick analysis updates to proprietary news feed (real time news feed);
• Write a minimum of one well-researched and actionable article per day;
• Conduct at least two webinars pertaining to market concepts, forecasts, strategy or some related topic per week;
• Produce a minimum of one fully-established trading idea per week via the “analyst picks” section;
• Support the brand name development of DailyFX.com;
• Manage the social media of DailyFX
• Collaborate with other strategists/analysts on larger research projects; and
• Work with SEO, development, marketing, sales, client services, and other departments where necessary to improve the overall business
Person Specification:
Ability / Expertise
Essential:
1. Strong expository writing ability in English;
2. Basic knowledge of SEO;
3. Proficient use of Microsoft Office;
4. Ability to take projects from theory to fully functional product independently;
5. Ability to effectively manage multiple project deadlines simultaneously.
Desirable:
Trading experience in equities, forex, cryptocurrencies, options, or commodities a plus
Qualifications
• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Investments, Finance or analogous field with 3.0 GPA;
• Sound and proven previous experience in capital markets, either in trading or research;
• Understanding of technical aspects of the financial markets (foreign exchange in particular);
• Personal interest in markets and/or trading;
• Self-motivated with an ability to effectively multitask;
• Ability to take projects from theory to fully functional product independently;
• Ability to effectively manage multiple project deadlines simultaneously;
• Solid work ethic;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Exceptional project management skills; and
• Driven to provide, learn and apply new ideas.
Preferred:
• MBA, CFA, CMT, CAIA
• Three-plus years in financial markets and/or investment analysis
Personal Attributes
• Personal interest in markets;
• Self-motivated and ability to effectively multitask;
• Solid work ethic;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Detail oriented – notices when things are out of line or out of place;
• Exceptional project management skills; and
• Driven to provide, learn and apply new ideas.
This will be a busy role in a team so the successful candidate’s behaviours will need to strongly aligned to our values:
• Champion the client: customer service is a passion, cultivates trust, has clarity and communicates well, works with pace and momentum
• Lead the way: innovative and resilient, strong learning agility and curiosity
• Love what we do: Conscientiousness - has high self-discipline, carefulness, thoroughness and organisation, Flexible and adaptable