Sports Trader — Take or Make

Melbourne (South Yarra) | Full time | $125,000 incl. super plus discretionary performance bonus

About Take or Make

Take or Make is a global market maker in sports markets, with our largest office in Melbourne. We trade our own capital on betting exchanges and prediction markets. We're a small team, which means the person in this seat matters to the results in a way that isn't true at a big shop.

About the role

There's no big overround to hide behind here. Our edge is speed, and the trades you make have a direct and visible impact on the profitability of the game you're trading. The desk trades American football and basketball, with coverage of a few other sports through our market making.

What you'll do
Trade live games (moneylines, spreads, totals).
Reprice game states as they happen, in the moments before the rest of the market catches up
Help us meet our market making obligations, including quote uptime and spread requirements
Be able to justify every trade. We review trades on the price you got relative to where the market settled shortly after, not on whether they won.




Feed ideas back into our automated pricing and quoting systems

What we're looking for
Very quick with numbers, comfortable thinking in prices and probabilities
You watch and understand American football and/or basketball
Comfortable making quick decisions with incomplete information, and comfortable doing nothing when there's no edge
Level headed, rational decision makers
Available for US game windows, which means 4am to 5am Melbourne starts through the football season. Being upfront: this is the hard part of the job
Most games fall on weekends, so weekend shifts are part of the role, with a day off during the week in lieu

What we offer
$125,000 including super, plus performance related bonuses.
You trade with our capital, feed, tech and limits, and you'll learn to trade professionally sitting next to the people who built the systems
Based in our South Yarra office. Game windows are worked in the office, especially while you're learning

We hire on ability — anyone who can price a game rapid is welcome here, whatever their background.

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🏢 Take or Make
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