A mobile app which gamifies learning investing by making it fast and fun. Like a flight simulator, it simulates scenarios; it lets you go back in time to trade real historical stock market scenarios compressing years into minutes. e.g. you can play a 100 days of Apple in 2009 in 5 minutes of a train ride. You challenge your friends and climb up levels as you win.
The tool is valuable for financial institutions to train traders, brokerage houses for client education and acquisition as well as retail investors. The Trade A Minute team is composed of banking professionals with 15+ years of experience, world class MBAs and is supported by Thomson Reuters, Nanyang Business School Associate Dean, and renowned traders around the world. www.tradeaminute.com
Required Skills:
· Must have a passion for and to learn trading and investing
· Willing to experience a startup environment
· Data analytics, SQL and other programming knowledge a plus
· Open to University students as well as 1-3 years experienced professionals
Key Responsibilities:
1. Identify historical stock and forex price movement patterns that repeat themselves based on price and news
a. Requires a mix of machine learning (programming) and intelligent human checks for backtesting
b. Objective is to show the power of history and how it repeats or rhymes time and again
2. Create meaningful, interesting price movement scenarios from history that give valuable lessons to the user
3. Coordinate with developers and provide them clear requirements to build the app
4. Other daily BAUs and initiatives to manage the marketing, public relations and other aspects of the startup
5. Full end to end responsibility will be given if orientation to detail, commitment and sincerity is shown
Time Period of Internship: 3 Months. May be extended if candidate is able to display strong contribution
Office Location: Sims Avenue, Singapore with flexibility to work remotely
Start Date: 30 Jul 2015 / as soon as possible.
Salary: Negotiable based on experience and skills
Bonus: Discretionary amount + may get the opportunity to join the start-up full time with equity
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