Part-Time AI / Algorithmic Options Trading
Consultant
We are looking for an experienced part-time consultant to help design, test, and implement an AI-assisted
automated trading program for a private investment account / private fund strategy.
The focus will be on disciplined options trading strategies, including covered calls, cash-secured puts,
collars, income strategies, and risk-managed equity/options trading. We will provide the capital. Once the
strategy is proven through backtesting, paper trading, and controlled live trading, capital allocation may
increase.
Responsibilities
Help design and evaluate automated trading strategies using AI, quantitative models, and rules-
based systems.
Build or recommend a trading platform/software stack for automated trading.
Set up backtesting, paper trading, and live trading workflows.
Develop covered-call and options-income strategies with clear risk controls.
Define entry, exit, position sizing, stop-loss, profit-taking, rolling, assignment, and risk-management
rules.
Integrate with broker platforms and APIs such as Interactive Brokers, TradeStation, QuantConnect,
Option Alpha, Alpaca, TradingView, or similar.
Monitor performance and improve strategies based on data.
Provide regular reporting on returns, drawdowns, Sharpe ratio, win/loss ratio, assignment risk, and
capital exposure.
Participate in ongoing strategy review and optimization.
Required Experience
Proven experience with algorithmic trading, automated trading bots, or systematic trading.
Strong understanding of options trading, especially covered calls and income strategies.
Experience with Python, APIs, backtesting, and broker integrations.
Familiarity with Interactive Brokers API, TradeStation, QuantConnect, Option Alpha, Alpaca,
TradingView, or similar platforms.
Ability to explain strategy logic clearly and document all trading rules.
Experience with risk management, portfolio exposure, volatility, drawdown control, and trade
monitoring.
Preferred Experience
Experience managing or advising private capital, family office capital, hedge fund strategies, or
proprietary trading strategies.
Experience with AI/ML models for market screening, signal generation, sentiment analysis, or risk
alerts.
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Experience with options analytics, implied volatility, Greeks, earnings-event risk, and rolling
strategies.
Experience building dashboards and automated reporting.
Compensation
This is a part-time hourly consulting role. Compensation will be hourly during setup, research, testing, and
implementation. We may also discuss a performance-based participation structure after the strategy is
proven, subject to legal, regulatory, and compliance review.
Important Notes
We are looking for a serious, disciplined consultant — not a get-rich-quick promoter. The right candidate
must be able to show prior experience, explain risk clearly, and work through a structured process:
Strategy design
Historical backtesting
Paper trading
Small live capital test
Risk review
Gradual capital increase
Please apply with examples of prior algorithmic trading, options trading, trading bots, backtests, broker/API
integrations, and risk-management systems you have built or managed.
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.