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What We Do
Trading
The trade team exemplifies our fusion of micro and macro perspectives. We use high-frequency quantitative models in combination with deep domain-specific knowledge and understanding of global events, trends, and geopolitical shifts.
We deploy a range of strategies across the team including event-based, momentum, volatility arbitrage, and relative value.
Our high-performance, low-latency trading systems are specifically engineered for digital asset exchanges, ensuring swift execution in fast-moving markets. Our traders collaborate closely with quantitative researchers and technology experts to improve and monitor our strategies.
Research
The Research team sits at the nexus of mathematics, statistics and data science, driving the discovery and development of novel trading signals and models that power A1X’s quantitative trading.
Our research team stays up to date with the latest in academic, industry and alternative research and tailors the most promising approaches to the unique dynamics of our markets.
We prototype and validate hypotheses against market data, balancing a 'fail fast, learn faster' ethos with exhaustive backtesting to ensure model robustness. Our collaborative culture and scientific approach sharpens every concept, while close alignment with our trading and engineering teams accelerates the path from proof-of-concept to low-latency deployment.
Technology
As A1X's engine room, we strive to ensure unbeatable performance, bullet-proof security, high-availability and computational force. We handle a diverse, evolving stack and ever-increasing data volumes, naturally providing space for professional development.
Our technologists collaborate to achieve performance, stability and observability only accessible by leveraging the latest and greatest advances. There is edge at every level of the stack.
We invest in a culture of precision, exploration and long-term thinking to create state-of-the-art execution, intelligence and observability infrastructure for our organisation. Our team of intrinsically-motivated individuals are rewarded for ingenuity and collaboration and are driven by their passion to tackle tough problems.
Risk
Risk management is central to our firm: all portfolios are monitored in real-time with hard limits in place to safeguard capital.
Our years of experience in the industry have shaped a disciplined and proactive approach to risk management. We focus on liquid markets and large exchanges only, and control risk through:
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Regular stress testing of portfolios
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Liquidity analysis
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Counterparty credit analysis
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Pricing and Risk systems redundancy
Where the Unconventional Excel
We are always looking for exceptional people to join our team
At A1X, each team member is selected for their intelligence, domain knowledge and drive, but our greatest achievements come when we collaborate. Together, we foster a unique, innovative and research-driven environment that rewards performance and drives growth for our firm.
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